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Press Pass | Press Taylor: "We just want to win at the end of the day." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of different things that
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  Speaker 1: go into a lot of those um you just kind
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  Speaker 1: of get a feel for how a back sees a
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  Speaker 1: certain things. All that. The cool part about that we
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  Speaker 1: ran it in practice and we just said, hey, just
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  Speaker 1: a reminder, you need one yard just craming in there,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, because from a score. So that was
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  Speaker 1: kind of the conversation. The headset was, all right, it's
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  Speaker 1: fourth and one, third and one whatever. Maybe we knew
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  Speaker 1: it was a short yardage play for us unbalanced formation.
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  Speaker 1: You can never guarantee how they're gonna line up to
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  Speaker 1: the unbalanced stuff. You hope you think you have it
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  Speaker 1: schemed up pretty well, but it kind of catches him
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  Speaker 1: off guard at times. And he did a great job
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  Speaker 1: hitting it, and then it opened up pretty well. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: adjusted pretty well, got it done and he was able
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  Speaker 1: to finish the in It was that first something you
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  Speaker 1: when you guys were deciding whether the sign of mind
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  Speaker 1: were obviously he hadn't and did you see that practice?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what you know? You expected that to him?
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  Speaker 1: It's online, yeah, certainly, and then you just see through
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  Speaker 1: practices he's grown and understanding our offense obviously got a
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  Speaker 1: late jump start kind of just starts by learning game
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  Speaker 1: plans week to week, not necessarily mastering the offense, and
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  Speaker 1: then now getting into week seven further along, he just
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  Speaker 1: gains more and more confidence from the players, thet half,
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  Speaker 1: everybody that he understands what's going on. He's done a
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  Speaker 1: good job and you know he's he's you know, I
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  Speaker 1: guess you'd say proven us to be right and trusting
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  Speaker 1: him that he can do more things well, and he's
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  Speaker 1: done a great job with it. Colts gave you on
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  Speaker 1: that play, did you think that it could that it
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  Speaker 1: could go because in most unbalanced line formations you're looking
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  Speaker 1: for two yards right right. They got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: out of whack with the adjustment when we motioned, and
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  Speaker 1: so you kind of thought this could be a positive play. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you never know if it's gonna hit like you hope
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  Speaker 1: it does for sixty like that, but uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: the way the way they kind of got off balance,
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  Speaker 1: and you felt good about it watching it, but it's
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  Speaker 1: still got to play out and be executed. Well, how
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  Speaker 1: much of an attraction is it. He's you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: such a risk taker that he's willing to trust in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fourth and two situations sometimes fourth And how
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  Speaker 1: much have an attraction is that for you to work
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  Speaker 1: for him? Well, I mean it's it's great. You know
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  Speaker 1: when you've got extra down sometimes to get a first down,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's third and two and you think, all right,
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  Speaker 1: if we just get half here or we try something,
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  Speaker 1: there's a good chance we got another down. So you
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  Speaker 1: can be aggressive in that mindset um in terms of
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  Speaker 1: scheme and things up, designing some plays um. But then
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  Speaker 1: you just know he's doing whatever it takes to win.
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to give us an opportunity to win the
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  Speaker 1: game at each situation. So that that's that's fun to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of. Talk a little bit about the
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  Speaker 1: creativity factor of the offense because it's it's it's so
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  Speaker 1: hard in the NFL, because you know, you put so
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  Speaker 1: many things on tape and you know, you know that
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  Speaker 1: the other side's working eighty hours a week to cover
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  Speaker 1: all their bases. How hard is it to be creative
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, like with the agnew reverse things like that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it is tough to be creative because again
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  Speaker 1: you're taking a risk, and that's something Doug is encouraged
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  Speaker 1: through the coaching staff of we need to be risk averse.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna push the envelope. We're gonna do what we
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  Speaker 1: need to do to win the game, create plays that
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  Speaker 1: win the game potentially. Now, the plays and things we
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  Speaker 1: come up usually that comes from somewhere. Very rarely are
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  Speaker 1: you inventing a new play that's a play we're able
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  Speaker 1: to show evidence of. We ran that in Philadelphia, Jim
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  Speaker 1: Babba drun that into Troy. A lot of people have
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  Speaker 1: run plays like that um in their past. So there's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot new that you're seeing today in football.
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  Speaker 1: But we're all kind of recycling ideas or sharing them.
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  Speaker 1: But you're always trying to look for situations where you
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  Speaker 1: have a feel for what the defense is going to
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  Speaker 1: be and this play aligns with that defense. Now, I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to tell you it hits all the time the
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  Speaker 1: way we hope it does, but that's not true. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the game is really a game of unscouted looks and
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  Speaker 1: and adjustments within the play. Even so, it's it's has
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  Speaker 1: and it always will be a player's game, and they're
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  Speaker 1: able to go out and execute at a high level,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what makes you feel good as a coach.
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  Speaker 1: So far, this year, the offense has had chances in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter to go down and have a game
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  Speaker 1: leading drive or game winning drive. Uh, Sunday, you got
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  Speaker 1: our last week. You guys were able to do that
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  Speaker 1: against the Colts late. It didn't obviously in the way
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  Speaker 1: you wanted it to, But can you use that as
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  Speaker 1: a building block for those clutch moments with the offense
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  Speaker 1: moving forward? Yeah, certainly. Anytime those guys answered the bell
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  Speaker 1: with the situation like we had where we needed a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: we're down to score now, you don't anticipate taking eight
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes off the clock. Whatever we did. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you still think in the back of your mind we
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  Speaker 1: got probably have two possessions here at least maybe three, um,
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  Speaker 1: but you end up eating a lot of the clock,
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  Speaker 1: and guys just kept pounding away. We kind of felt
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  Speaker 1: we were able to run the ball and they did
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  Speaker 1: a good job converting and then we had some huge
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  Speaker 1: third down conversions as well. But I do think that
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  Speaker 1: is a confidence builder. Now, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: as an offense, we understand we didn't score enough points
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  Speaker 1: to win the game. So it comes down to that
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  Speaker 1: our job is to always score more than the opponent.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever that means, and so we didn't get that done.
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  Speaker 1: So we're disappointed that aspect, but there's certainly um the
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  Speaker 1: feeling that when we need to, we can go down
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  Speaker 1: and execute. Now, we haven't done that every single time,
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  Speaker 1: but we feel like we're capable of that when we
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  Speaker 1: get out of our own way to get those drives
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  Speaker 1: even if the ending wasn't proper under their belt, like
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  Speaker 1: for Trevor Lawrence to be able to kind of engineer
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  Speaker 1: that down the field. Yeah, I think that just continues
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  Speaker 1: to build that belief that everybody has in him and
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  Speaker 1: in our unit as a whole, Like everybody just kind
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  Speaker 1: of believes when we need to, we can answer the
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  Speaker 1: challenge and execute. Now, it almost makes it more frustrating
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  Speaker 1: when you don't and those situa because we've seen ourselves
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  Speaker 1: do it, and you kind of go back to what
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  Speaker 1: led to this lack of execution, what led to what
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  Speaker 1: was wrong with this play design right here, So you
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  Speaker 1: kind of always go back to that. So it's there's
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  Speaker 1: a give and take with it. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, we just want to win. Whatever that means,
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  Speaker 1: if that means we have to pun every single down
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  Speaker 1: our defensive scorn, whatever that means we'll take it. We
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  Speaker 1: just want to win at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Was that last a little better certainly, and we stepped
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  Speaker 1: up when we needed to. Guys protected really well. There's
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  Speaker 1: a good pockets. They ran a great route on a
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  Speaker 1: very good player and Trevor put it exactly what it
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  Speaker 1: needed to be. It was great job by Isai to
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  Speaker 1: keep his feeding bounds and finish the play. But that
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  Speaker 1: that was the execution we needed in a critical moment
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  Speaker 1: right there. And what do you kind when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to you, Probably more than defense guys, but right you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's they're trying not necessarily creating sacks and creating hits,
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  Speaker 1: but it's there's a sense of pressure being added to you.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's really just fallen back on your techniques,
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  Speaker 1: your fundamentals, the way we've coached you, um, the way
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  Speaker 1: we've built the plan through the week, and executing our
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  Speaker 1: plan at the highest level. You know every week is
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  Speaker 1: gonna look different. We go into every week with a
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  Speaker 1: different plan of attack for that specific defense, but still
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  Speaker 1: trying to put our players in the best possible position.
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  Speaker 1: So it's on us to explain that to our players,
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  Speaker 1: saw them to understand why that's the coaching point for
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  Speaker 1: that week or what the particular plan is built for, UM.
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  Speaker 1: But so at the end of the day, it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to us executing the plan and adjusting if we
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  Speaker 1: need to. Yesterday, Um kind of opened up about the
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  Speaker 1: struggles of last year and how he learned to kind
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  Speaker 1: of let things go and move on after sort of
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  Speaker 1: you know, dwelling on bad games from last season. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously you guys are in the middle of a
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  Speaker 1: losing streak right now, hoping to break that. What have
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  Speaker 1: you seen in him in terms of that mindset? Have
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  Speaker 1: you noticed that in him? And what has he kind
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  Speaker 1: of taken away from as he sort of pulled us
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  Speaker 1: from last year? Again, I don't know necessarily last year.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's part of just Trevor's makeup. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's got He's very level headed, kind of stays in
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  Speaker 1: the moment and understands, you know, this is this is
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  Speaker 1: a short part of a long season, and so we
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  Speaker 1: just continue to stress with all our guy as and
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  Speaker 1: coaches as well, just to trust our process. We all
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  Speaker 1: believe in what we do here and the way we
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  Speaker 1: do things, and we believe we have the right people
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish what we want to accomplish. So for all
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  Speaker 1: of us, it's learned from what happened the day before,
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  Speaker 1: execute in the moment right now, and then we'll worry
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  Speaker 1: about it as we prepare for the next day. We'll
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  Speaker 1: continue to move forward on that. So Trevor has just
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  Speaker 1: done a great job of understanding that living his life
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  Speaker 1: that way. He kind of stays in the moment right here,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't dwell on the past, learns from the past, and
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  Speaker 1: uses it to be a better version of himself moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Probably more play than usual on Sunday that we're different,
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  Speaker 1: but they were coming out of the same look like
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  Speaker 1: you had to play fake to Uh to Travis and
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  Speaker 1: then the reverse too to Ague on the one play,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a third and six where Trevor just straight
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  Speaker 1: up took the ball, ran the right little How much
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  Speaker 1: of that is a function of playing an opponent you've
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  Speaker 1: seen before and you've got to try to come up
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  Speaker 1: with something different. Uh, yeah, I'd say that's a big
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  Speaker 1: part of it. I mean, you have an idea how
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  Speaker 1: the defense is can unfold. But at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, all those plays are kind of for us
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  Speaker 1: core plays for us. The presentation certainly different, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what you're going back to. But we're trying to find
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  Speaker 1: ways as coaches to scheme against what we anticipate the
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  Speaker 1: look being while putting our players in position to do
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  Speaker 1: things they've done for a long time or we've asked
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  Speaker 1: me for a long time. They have great understanding of
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  Speaker 1: So you know, the the old saying is plays or
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  Speaker 1: expensive formations are cheap. So we're gonna show a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of formations, motions, all that to try to execute things
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  Speaker 1: that we know really well. Um, And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: all just kind of a byproduct of all that. Now
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  Speaker 1: the game expresses itself differently. We have a lot more
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  Speaker 1: plays on our call sheet than we execute in the game.
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  Speaker 1: So there's always times where we have plans to compliment
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  Speaker 1: this play with that player that in the game just
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  Speaker 1: done unfold that way it doesn't get called. Maybe it
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  Speaker 1: carries over to three weeks from now. We show the
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  Speaker 1: play that compliments something we ran in this game, because
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  Speaker 1: we have to understand to what the opponent's studying as well.
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  Speaker 1: You've been with Evan Ingram for a little while now,
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  Speaker 1: do you see a little bit of extra focus from
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  Speaker 1: him this week? Getting ready to go from his against
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  Speaker 1: this old team. Um, you know, honestly, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that I do. Evans a guy that's from the day
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  Speaker 1: he's out here, been extremely focused. So he's always kind
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  Speaker 1: of been about his business and about his work. Puts
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  Speaker 1: an extra work, you know, as much as anybody else
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  Speaker 1: we have here. So I don't know if i'd say
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  Speaker 1: anything different. He hasn't acted any different to me. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't really brought anything up with him too, But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's always sort of that kind of proving
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  Speaker 1: step of you know, I'm not there anymore. I want
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  Speaker 1: to show you all this, But I don't worry about
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  Speaker 1: that with Evan really. Evans always been locked in and
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  Speaker 1: working as hard as he could to prepare himself ready
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  Speaker 1: to play on Sunday. Kind of adding on what you
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  Speaker 1: were talking about earlier to United Stefense, what have you
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  Speaker 1: seen on film from them in terms of what they
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  Speaker 1: do well and sort of where you guys need to
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  Speaker 1: win at on Sunday. Well, I think they have a
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  Speaker 1: really good interior defensive line. I think Dextra Lawrence and
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  Speaker 1: Leonard Williams were very very good players in this league
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  Speaker 1: and have been productive players since they've been in the league, um,
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  Speaker 1: and then structurally that they give you a lot of variety.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a variety of coverages, of a variety
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  Speaker 1: of presentations. So you're kind of again trusting that we've
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  Speaker 1: taught the standard operating procedure of all these plays to
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  Speaker 1: our guys really well and they can adjust because he's
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  Speaker 1: not a guy that you're gonna get the same look
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over. Like we've played some of
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  Speaker 1: these defenses in the past where they kind of stick
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  Speaker 1: to who they are and what they do and force
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  Speaker 1: you'd execute where um, you know, I think Coach Martin
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  Speaker 1: Dale and those guys that they give you a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different presentation. That makes it challenging to know when
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  Speaker 1: I call this play, what defense am I getting getting?
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  Speaker 1: Am I gonna get? Do the players know all the
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  Speaker 1: ins and outs of that verse each look? Uh? So
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  Speaker 1: that's certainly what makes it challenging the good players that
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  Speaker 1: are playing really really hard. How tough is that for
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  Speaker 1: the offensive staff when when when you guys call plays
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  Speaker 1: when there's different defenses down in and down are right,
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  Speaker 1: it's certainly a challenge. I mean, we'd love to be
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  Speaker 1: we know what they're gonna play and we're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: out and execute at a high level. Then when it
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  Speaker 1: becomes all this variety, you've got to cover your basis
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  Speaker 1: on a lot of different levels. You've got to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we're in great communication with the players that
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  Speaker 1: they understand everything inside. Now, if they don't, it's not
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  Speaker 1: worth it. We have a hundred good plays on that
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  Speaker 1: call sheet. We can afford to scratch plays, whether that's
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning, Saturday night, whatever that is. We're always looking
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  Speaker 1: to put our players in the best position. If they
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  Speaker 1: don't understand something, you know, to the front and back
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  Speaker 1: of it, it's not worth having in the game plan
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: question where I'm Kal and Kaylor with the Athletic Nice
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  Speaker 1: to meet you. So because of your experience cooking quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: and offense obviously, um, we're kind of story about how
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  Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks learning cadence and have to master it perfectly
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  Speaker 1: so they don't, you know, offset the omensive linefife to
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  Speaker 1: come in a game. I know when Dilly there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of backup movement going on and we were there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so how do you coach that with quarterbacks? Like are
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  Speaker 1: you recording it having them listen to it back? Like
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  Speaker 1: what are the techniques and tactics that use, so we
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  Speaker 1: definitely do that. We want we try to make everybody
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  Speaker 1: kind of make it sound like the starter, because that's
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  Speaker 1: who everybody's used to hearing the first offensive line. Now
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  Speaker 1: that's impossible to do. Everybody sounds different. C. J. Bethard
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  Speaker 1: sounds very different than Trevor Lawrence. That c just got
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  Speaker 1: that little twang in his voice that he's not going
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  Speaker 1: to make it sound that way. We have Logan Cook's
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  Speaker 1: our emergency quarterback. He sounds more country than anybody we have.
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  Speaker 1: It will not sound the same if he were ever
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  Speaker 1: in there, but we do. We We actually record when
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  Speaker 1: we go out early and do our quarterback center exchange
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  Speaker 1: every single day. We recorded with audio to so we
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  Speaker 1: get a variety of Trevor going through all our different
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  Speaker 1: cadence is what it sounds like. We have a library
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff, so any quarterback that comes in they're
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  Speaker 1: able to hear what that sounds like. We do everything
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  Speaker 1: we can to try to create that same rhythm that
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  Speaker 1: the starter would have, so everybody gets used to that,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, it just doesn't work out that way.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna sound a little different. You want the rhythm
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  Speaker 1: to be the same. You want the voice inflection to
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  Speaker 1: be the same, but you know their own what is
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  Speaker 1: it dialect? I guess yeah, you can't coach that now
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  Speaker 1: you You definitely can't coach the accident out of out
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  Speaker 1: of c J there. So that's just kind of something
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  Speaker 1: everybody deals with and everybody understands they're on high alert that. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: this can sound a little different as it goes. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw the Pengals ran the Philly special play.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was not this past week, but the
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  Speaker 1: one before, and it didn't work for them. And something
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  Speaker 1: you said earlier where you said, you know football, you
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  Speaker 1: know trick plays and and one place like that, like
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  Speaker 1: everyone's doing the same thing, like nothing's new. So I
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  Speaker 1: wonder what's the life cycle of a trick play like that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, is that one kind of dead? Now? Have
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  Speaker 1: defense has really figured that one out? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: It's just matter of the right time, the right situation.
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  Speaker 1: And there's certain things you'll see there was trick players
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  Speaker 1: were we always look at every single week what plays
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  Speaker 1: have been run against this defense going back to as
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  Speaker 1: long as we can with these guys to kind of
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  Speaker 1: see just evidence of have they seen it? Have they
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  Speaker 1: seen it? Recently? You'll see plays that their offense just rammed.
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  Speaker 1: So you're kind in the back of your mind like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're probably practicing as their defense. They have
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  Speaker 1: a feel for it, let's hold on it whatever that
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  Speaker 1: may be. But I think, you know, you could probably
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  Speaker 1: go back as far as twenty years and find a
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  Speaker 1: play similar to Philly Special and people have been running
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: it for a long time. It's just how you presented
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: the details of it, the situation you call it in
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: that that kind of dictates whether it is successful or not. Now,
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: I think the process of how you get to that
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: play and what makes that decision, that's that's a big
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: part of this whole deal. Thanks guys,