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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Travis Hunter, Injury Updates and Mindset for Week 11 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We shared yesterday on Travis's successful surgery. That and that
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  Speaker 1: he's out for the season. You know, yes, on the
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  Speaker 1: field for obvious reasons, he'll be missed, you know, he'll
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  Speaker 1: be missed, but also off the field, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: got that presence, that confidence that you know is infectious.
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  Speaker 1: Right Fortunately, we won't lose that. Our our team, our
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  Speaker 1: locker room will rally and continue to do so, and
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  Speaker 1: Travis will be right here in Jacksonville rehabbing with us
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  Speaker 1: for the remainder. He's already back in town and he'll
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  Speaker 1: be able to get with these guys uh in the
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  Speaker 1: meetings and learning, studying and really diving into that as
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  Speaker 1: he goes through this process. I understand there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of questions about if he'll remain a two way player
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  Speaker 1: and all those kind of things. Guys, you know, all
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  Speaker 1: of that is very premature, and at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, like every player on this roster, he'll be
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  Speaker 1: evaluated at the end of the season and we'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to give him his better three best and the
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  Speaker 1: things that we need to continue to improve upon and
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  Speaker 1: the things we need to build on. But right now,
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  Speaker 1: our complete focus is on the Chargers.
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  Speaker 2: And getting a much need to win on Sunday and
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  Speaker 2: William Travis, you saw seven teams in the experiment. How
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  Speaker 2: much of a benefit will that be going into the off.
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  Speaker 3: Season say hey, this is what we think worked, what
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  Speaker 3: we got to change.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then also looking out, okay, where are we
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  Speaker 1: where do we need the most right in more ways
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  Speaker 1: than others. So I definitely think that the whole the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing has been a learning, you know, experiment, and
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  Speaker 1: but getting to know the person has obviously been the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing.
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  Speaker 2: And the type of competitor, the.
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  Speaker 1: Way that he learns, the way that he competes, the
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  Speaker 1: way he practices. That's stuff that we've been able to
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  Speaker 1: gain valuable information on and be able to use moving
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  Speaker 1: forward and actually put in a continued practice. You still
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  Speaker 1: expect him to be your number one receiver, in your
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  Speaker 1: number one cornerback at some point down the road. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's all that's very premature to answer at this point.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have a lot of confidence in the
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  Speaker 1: makeup the person, the competitor, the athlete, the talent. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said to him, so many players have gone through
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  Speaker 1: minor setbacks for major comebacks, and that's been a complete
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  Speaker 1: message to him. She's yeah, it's always that initial you know,
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  Speaker 1: shock is I'm sure a challenge, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's very fortunate to have a strong support group around
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  Speaker 1: him and got a lot of guys, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that care about him. So I feel very confident
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  Speaker 1: that he will come through on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: this thing. Are you not getting or not getting enough
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  Speaker 1: of now from Trevor?
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  Speaker 3: Is there anything you're there that you feel like he's
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  Speaker 3: not giving me enough of this?
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  Speaker 1: No, Trevor and I had a good conversation yesterday in
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  Speaker 1: terms of just you know, hey, man, cut loose and
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  Speaker 1: let it rip. You know, when we do have some
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  Speaker 1: of those opportunities and a man, we yes, we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to turn the ball over, right, we want to
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  Speaker 1: turn it over on defense, and we want to keep
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  Speaker 1: it on offense. But we can't you know, be thinking
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  Speaker 1: about that or trying to play to not make a
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  Speaker 1: mistake at all. Right, and so the message for for
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  Speaker 1: trevn our conversation is to to just go cut it loose,
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  Speaker 1: let it rip, and see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Right. You don't need to be Jordan, you know, point.
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  Speaker 1: Guards, facilitators, distributors, you know, that's what we need, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what we talked about yesterday. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: screw the play, but just more like yeah, man, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not all going to be perfect or how
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  Speaker 1: it's designed to to maybe always hit against right, there's
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  Speaker 1: you know, looks that you want to try to attack.
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  Speaker 2: But it's more, hey, man, let's just attack this defense.
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  Speaker 1: And if there's windows that pop and present, man, let's
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  Speaker 1: feel the confidence to cut these things loose and play
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  Speaker 1: freely and continue to use your legs as a weapon.
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  Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the day, he did
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  Speaker 1: put us in a position to potentially kick a game
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  Speaker 1: winning field goal at the end of that thing when
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  Speaker 1: the ball got down to the forty two yard line
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  Speaker 1: and we had the penalty. And so I know Travis
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  Speaker 1: Hunter said to me before after Vegas, he said, in
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  Speaker 1: the training room, when we get in two minute mode,
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  Speaker 1: and he was obviously watching right, because when we get
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  Speaker 1: in two minute mode, I believe we're gonna go.
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  Speaker 2: Do something with it. He's like, I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: And so there is belief that we can go down
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  Speaker 1: and get ourselves into a position to go score, and
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  Speaker 1: we did, but obviously had the penalty there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, look, at the Chargers on third down. They're
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  Speaker 3: excellent on both sides of the ball. Yeah, third down wise,
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  Speaker 3: what stands out when you watch LA in terms of
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  Speaker 3: why they're so successful on those downs?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you look, first of all, on offense, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Keenan Allen's the most targeted receiver in the National Football
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  Speaker 1: League on third down. He can still wiggle and win
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  Speaker 1: and separate, strong hands, smart football player, understands how to
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  Speaker 1: use leverage and and get open in zones.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And then obviously so does lad in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: ways where they both have a great feel for zone
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  Speaker 1: and winning versus man and having a field versus zone.
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  Speaker 1: They've done a nice job of mixing ball out plays
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  Speaker 1: with also the ability to run the ball on some
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  Speaker 1: third downs to be successful, whether it's with the backs
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  Speaker 1: or the quarterback, whether it's designed or extending plays. We
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  Speaker 1: know when we do get our opportunities that justin we
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  Speaker 1: have to take advantage of him and get him.
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  Speaker 2: To the ground.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big dude that can, you know, make some
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  Speaker 1: plays off schedule. So, and then defensively, I think they're
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  Speaker 1: extremely sticks aware from their second to third level of
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  Speaker 1: their defense. The rush has obviously done a nice job
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  Speaker 1: getting some pressure and being able to affect the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: But they're you know, I think Jesse Minta does a
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  Speaker 1: great job. I got a lot of respect for him
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  Speaker 1: and the zone coverages. They're very aware and they do
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  Speaker 1: a nice job of pattern matching.
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  Speaker 3: Athlete is justin Herbert in that position.
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  Speaker 1: Very talented man. You know, he's he can make every
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  Speaker 1: throw and it seems to be with ease. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's he's big, strong athletic. You know, I think they're
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  Speaker 1: playing to his strengths and they've continued to try to
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  Speaker 1: put good skill and players around him to allow him
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  Speaker 1: to take advantage of his skill sets. And yeah, I've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of respect for him.
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  Speaker 3: Just how much has that sort of killed any momentum,
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  Speaker 3: especially when it's the early down to you know, you
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  Speaker 3: get all start.
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  Speaker 2: Second down or hold or a first down. How much
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  Speaker 2: does that change how you guys play?
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  Speaker 1: It's not fun, right, It's not a fun place to
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  Speaker 1: live as a players, as a coach, you know. So
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  Speaker 1: you know the continued messages that we are we're in
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  Speaker 1: this thing together, and that you know, there's there's things
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  Speaker 1: that are controlled and there's things that aren't, and are
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  Speaker 1: we able to control the controls we've had this time.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about this and so.
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  Speaker 1: Talking and putting it into practice in critical moments or
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  Speaker 1: in tighter games and in the fourth quarter, the first quarter,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. You know, that's where it has to
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  Speaker 1: come out. That's where it ultimately means the most the
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  Speaker 1: course of the year that the.
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  Speaker 2: Team hasn't played four quarters in their best football.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, at this point in the season, is
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  Speaker 1: that's frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: How do you fix that? I mean, I think there's
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  Speaker 2: you would watch the Monday night game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that was four quarters of those two
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  Speaker 1: teams best football either, you know. So that's just the reality.
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  Speaker 1: It's football, man, I ain't going to play perfect. That
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  Speaker 1: we've played near in a lot of ways. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: even not playing I guess you could say our best
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  Speaker 1: football through those three quarters. The other day you were
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  Speaker 1: winning through three you won three quarters of the game,
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  Speaker 1: you lost the quarter and you lost the game. So
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  Speaker 1: how do you execute in critical moments? How do we
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  Speaker 1: go and take a deep breath in critical moments to
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  Speaker 1: reset and not chase plays and go just execute the call. Man,
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  Speaker 1: Let's just go execute and play. So that's what we're
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  Speaker 1: focused on. We're focused on fundamentals, going back to basics.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you go through a tough l all I've been
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  Speaker 1: taught is to dive back into the details and the
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals and the players. You're more interested in the mindset
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  Speaker 1: of your team this week than any other week set? Again,
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  Speaker 1: are you more interested this week in the mindset of
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  Speaker 1: your team coming out of Houston than any other week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, I think.
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  Speaker 1: The post la you know, buy sting was probably a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good one to get judged on in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ways in terms of the way that we.
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  Speaker 2: Responded throughout the week, because it wasn't just.
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  Speaker 1: Like this all great gravy positive practices the whole you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was a grind. We were competing, it was working
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  Speaker 1: through things, and the way that we played showed it
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  Speaker 1: at the end and we yes, there was a guy open,
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  Speaker 1: but we strained, We did write longer and won and
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  Speaker 1: came out on the positive side of it. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: do need to respond. It is part of us. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, we talked a lot about today that the
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  Speaker 1: soul of sport is team, the soul of sport. Why
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  Speaker 1: do we want our kids to play sport because of
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  Speaker 1: the lessons that it does and provides you as people,
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  Speaker 1: as teammates, as men, and that connection is what's going
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  Speaker 1: to get us over the hump in those moments and
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  Speaker 1: then a tough time like coming off a loss like Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Remember where you were? Were you watching the Jags playoff
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  Speaker 3: way come back over the Chargers back?
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the hell that was?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember watching it. I don't recall where I was.
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  Speaker 1: I do recall watching it though, and seeing that whole
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  Speaker 1: thing happen, right, And so you're you know, you're you've
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  Speaker 1: been on the right side of it before, right, and
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  Speaker 1: to be on the we haven't been guys right in
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  Speaker 1: too many games this year, aside from Carolina leading by
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  Speaker 1: that much, right, And you know, my message to the
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  Speaker 1: team was part of part of learning and growing together
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  Speaker 1: as a team as an organization, is we've got to
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  Speaker 1: learn from this.
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  Speaker 2: We have to learn from this.
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  Speaker 1: If we don't learn from this, well what good is
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  Speaker 1: it at the end of the day, And we don't
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  Speaker 1: In life, we learn from hard times, right, Like you
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  Speaker 1: actually have to look and say, Okay, what do I
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  Speaker 1: need to confront so make sure that that doesn't happen again.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of what we've been talking about is
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  Speaker 1: you know, you'll learn and you grow through hard times.
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  Speaker 2: What's your expectation for Britain streams this week and what
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  Speaker 2: will you do when he finally gets.
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  Speaker 1: Back out there day to day and just see what
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  Speaker 1: it looks like every day. You know, we obviously have
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  Speaker 1: miss brenton the blocking, the run game contribution, the past
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  Speaker 1: game contribution, the toughness and mentality. It's more going to
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  Speaker 1: be just seeing how he looks out there, what he's
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  Speaker 1: comfortable doing. How much can we put on his plate
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  Speaker 1: and what that's going to feel like, especially after getting
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  Speaker 1: out on the grass and utilizing it and doing things
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  Speaker 1: and seeing what.
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  Speaker 2: That response is day after day throughout this work week. Yeah, why,
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously getting him back into it coming off the the
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  Speaker 1: you know, injuries there is trying to get him to
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  Speaker 1: feel like he's coming off the rock like he was
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  Speaker 1: more so in training camp and having the confidence to
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  Speaker 1: be able to move, you know, powerfully at the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage and at the second level adjustments and being
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  Speaker 1: able to move and feel confident in those movements. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's practicing his tail off. I never questioned at all
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  Speaker 1: the competitor, the guy that wants to be really good
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  Speaker 1: and is doing everything that he's being asked of, and
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  Speaker 1: I just need to see him take that next step
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  Speaker 1: of man, it's all the movements are looking pain free
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  Speaker 1: asency to let it rip? Did that show up on
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  Speaker 1: tape or in conversation or both?
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  Speaker 2: Now, just a couple of plays, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Like he made some really good throws too in that game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and also made some critical plays with his legs.
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  Speaker 2: There was just a few plays that.
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  Speaker 1: Ultimately, you know, you want back and what Okay, what's
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  Speaker 1: causing this to not be executed is really just what
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to. And you know, you always want
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  Speaker 1: your players to man like, who cares if it's in come,
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  Speaker 1: it's incomplete, you know, I mean cares, dude, just cut
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  Speaker 1: of loose, let a rip, And that's why you play,
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  Speaker 1: you know, That's why you play.
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  Speaker 2: So that's more what you What the conversation was.
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  Speaker 3: Sash five more times than three the last four games.
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  Speaker 3: How much of a concern for you and how much
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  Speaker 3: is that eliminate the offense for getting them?
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  Speaker 1: We're going, Yeah, I think it definitely puts you off
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  Speaker 1: schedule for sure. I Mean we knew going into that
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  Speaker 1: game that there was going to be some pressure right
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  Speaker 1: like that we weren't going to have a ton more
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  Speaker 1: than a hitch or two right in the game. And
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  Speaker 1: then we had to look at the route depth. Are
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  Speaker 1: okay we again we hold on the ball too long?
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  Speaker 1: Or man, are we not executing this block to the
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  Speaker 1: best of our ability?
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  Speaker 2: Right? Like, how can we as a group execute protection better?
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  Speaker 1: Right? And you know against a good unit, like that's
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  Speaker 1: a challenge, that's a challenge that we have also stepped
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  Speaker 1: up to in the past as well. And so you know,
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  Speaker 1: they got after us a little bit upfront in some ways,
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  Speaker 1: they also we held onto it, maybe got a little
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  Speaker 1: deep a few times like that stuff happens. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I do expect us to respond this week, and we
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  Speaker 1: also have to continue to have a good plan for
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  Speaker 1: these guys to make sure that we're helping them out
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  Speaker 1: and putting them in a position to be successful.
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  Speaker 2: As of late, How do.
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  Speaker 1: You evaluate why it's struggling and how you can get
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  Speaker 1: a villain who's att Yeah, look, I think we are.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely we're seeing a lot of drop back pass I
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  Speaker 1: think more than anybody else on first and second down. Right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's some of that stuff is quick game.
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  Speaker 1: Some of it's drop back. But it's like that combination
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  Speaker 1: of when the ball's coming out like under three seconds,
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  Speaker 1: it's like that two five to seven range. It's not
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  Speaker 1: quite quick game, it's not quite drop back and the
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  Speaker 1: ball is able to spit.
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  Speaker 2: It's a combination of, Okay, we.
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  Speaker 1: Got to be a little bit stick more sticks and
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  Speaker 1: conscious that, you know, the second and third level of
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  Speaker 1: our coverages and zone, and be a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: stickier and just patient instead of getting out of there.
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  Speaker 1: And then also, you know those guys up front, you know,
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  Speaker 1: these are opportunities. If we're getting that much dropped back,
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  Speaker 1: we got to go take advantage of it. And when
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  Speaker 1: we do have them in our hands, we got to
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  Speaker 1: get them down. And that's just that's football, right, that's
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  Speaker 1: past rush. It's not that complicated. You know, we got
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  Speaker 1: to cover in the in the front. They usually go
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  Speaker 1: hand in hand. And when both groups are doing their
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  Speaker 1: job to the best of their ability and that's all
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  Speaker 1: they're focusing on, usually good things happen.