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Mike Macdonald: "I'm Proud Of Our Guys' Fight" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, yeah, just man, I'd say disappointed with the
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  Speaker 1: lack of being able to take advantage of the opportunities
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  Speaker 1: we had to win this football game. I will say
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  Speaker 1: this that may are I just want to I want
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  Speaker 1: to plead with our with I just want to first
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  Speaker 1: of all, say thanks to our fans for showing up,
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  Speaker 1: being a loud places electric when we when we started
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  Speaker 1: to make some plays at the end of the half,
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  Speaker 1: end of the fourth quarter taking it to overtime. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they were right there with us the whole way. And
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  Speaker 1: just promise you like we're we're doing everything in our
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  Speaker 1: power and then some to you know, create a nightmare
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  Speaker 1: at home, and right now we're not doing it.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to go to work.
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  Speaker 1: So the bye week is going to be it's a
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  Speaker 1: big week for us to get better, to take a
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  Speaker 1: look at you know, what's what's like right now. We
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  Speaker 1: have an idea of the symptoms, but what's going on underneath,
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  Speaker 1: process wise on why and while we're not playing complimentary
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  Speaker 1: football in sixty minutes. So that's what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be attacking this week and and then we'll come back
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  Speaker 1: to work and uh and move forward.
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  Speaker 2: But I am proud of our guys fight.
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  Speaker 1: They played there, they played their their tails off, They
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  Speaker 1: played hard last of the final second, you know, after
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  Speaker 1: facing all the adversity that we either faced or created
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  Speaker 1: for ourselves. And so I just felt like we didn't
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  Speaker 1: flinch and just and battled. So we got the right guys.
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  Speaker 1: We just have to make it come to life. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, but we're our backs against the walls, and
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  Speaker 1: we got to go.
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  Speaker 2: The decision, no time to go for our work down
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  Speaker 2: and then the play call there can you I guess
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  Speaker 2: well again with me, is that was our That was
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  Speaker 2: a play all we liked. We like to look. We
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  Speaker 2: got to be able to get a half yard in
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  Speaker 2: two shots.
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  Speaker 1: You know, great football teams convert third and fourth and
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  Speaker 1: short and right now we're not doing that. So if
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  Speaker 1: you know there's math, mean if you you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you if you if you kick the field over there
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  Speaker 1: and four downs all the way to field goal range.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like we had a great opportunity to go
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  Speaker 1: win it with a touchdown right there, so we went forward.
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  Speaker 3: Similar there might be offensive line. You had a number
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  Speaker 3: of penalties up front of snap issues today and not
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  Speaker 3: being able to get that that half the yardist and
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  Speaker 3: mentioned how do you kind of see upfront and what
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  Speaker 3: happened there today and where you guys are at with
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  Speaker 3: that right now?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're not there yet for by any stretch of
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  Speaker 1: the imagination. And again I thought, the guy's played hard.
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  Speaker 2: We've been playing hard up front.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that that's gonna be part of what
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  Speaker 1: we're what we're looking at over the next week. And
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  Speaker 1: I just say it's fair to say, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: all three phases, it's kind of all on the table
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  Speaker 1: right now of adjustments. Things we need to move and
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  Speaker 1: shake and and uh really be in evaluating everything.
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  Speaker 2: So that'll be that'll be a big part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Would you make a ginas they seems like a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of ties and lows, Well, it made some big
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  Speaker 1: time plays for us. It's not not easy. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of time back there. I had a
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  Speaker 1: good they had a good rush plan. We gotta protect
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  Speaker 1: him better, and uh, I'm sure he's gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna tell you that he's gonna take ownership of
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  Speaker 1: you know, the three picks. We're gonna make smarter decisions
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  Speaker 1: in that way. But you know, we got to finish
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  Speaker 1: drive and we gonna take care of the football.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys see it, We see it.
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  Speaker 2: We have to be better if we're gonna win. What
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  Speaker 2: did you see on the third one?
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  Speaker 3: In particular, it looked like AJ got held up as
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  Speaker 3: it was crossing the formation.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I'd have to honestly, I gotta watch it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't can't give you a good answer on that one.
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  Speaker 3: In the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Similar to what I've told you guys is we got
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  Speaker 1: guys that fought and h but we have to we
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  Speaker 1: have to go to work and make this right because
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  Speaker 1: right now we're doing too many things that are are
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  Speaker 1: not It's not winning football, it's not complimentary. And we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go and just just the same mentality we've had
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  Speaker 1: every week.
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  Speaker 2: We got to keep that.
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  Speaker 1: Going and we're gonna find the solution at some point.
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  Speaker 1: So right now, we just don't. We don't have this.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the solution right now, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna go to work and we're gonna figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: So you have the break, not that you don't, But
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  Speaker 2: what about them?
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  Speaker 3: How you convinced you have.
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  Speaker 2: The right guys?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you guys had to have felt
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  Speaker 1: it today just the fight from our football team. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just I felt like I felt like we, you know,
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  Speaker 1: coming off the last week on how we felt going
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  Speaker 1: back to work, the practices we stacked, all the all
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  Speaker 1: the all the meetings and the and the conversations that
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  Speaker 1: we've had.
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  Speaker 2: It's all everybody's bought.
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  Speaker 1: In and they're committed to becoming a good football team.
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  Speaker 2: So I really believe that.
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  Speaker 1: The defense seemed to really come up to kind of
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  Speaker 1: time it again though, to get you guys the ball
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  Speaker 1: back in the second half and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Just what do you feel about how the defense played? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I thought I thought they played extremely hard. I thought
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  Speaker 1: we played physical. I felt we tackled a lot better. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the tackling, it's everything so like there's lack of space.
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  Speaker 2: We communicated really well.
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  Speaker 1: I just felt like it showed some of the progress
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  Speaker 1: we've been making kind of off the field, and we
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  Speaker 1: brought it. We brought up to the game today with
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  Speaker 1: goods in good energy. So proud of those guys. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of plays away from forcing a really long
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  Speaker 1: field goal, maybe getting the ball back.
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  Speaker 3: Was it any schematic adjustments defensively or was it just
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  Speaker 3: kind of executing and doing things you need to you hadn't.
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  Speaker 1: Been both both, you know, tighten up the plan.
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  Speaker 2: Just like we said last week, I think we're getting at.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've had some consistency and who's going out
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  Speaker 1: there for us, so understanding who's doing what.
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  Speaker 2: You know, having a.
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  Speaker 1: Full week with with the EJ and T dot at
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  Speaker 1: linebacker and our secondaries from the same crew has been
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  Speaker 1: out there up front with having the same guys go
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  Speaker 1: out there, so you're able to stack some of those
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  Speaker 1: that progress from.
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  Speaker 2: Week to week. I think that that had something to
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  Speaker 2: do with it too.
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  Speaker 1: But again it's it's it's it's one game, let's go back,
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  Speaker 1: let's look at it. I think we can take you know,
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  Speaker 1: we can keep taking it to the next level. If
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  Speaker 1: it felt like we had some opportunities where the balls
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  Speaker 1: alive tonight and we didn't uh, we didn't convert on
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  Speaker 1: those things. There are some penalties, some critical penalties.
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  Speaker 2: We'll look at and see it.
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  Speaker 1: If there were things that we could do different technique
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  Speaker 1: wise or just uh how we're you know what we're
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  Speaker 1: how we're handling those things. So because you know in
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  Speaker 1: the touchdown drives, we we gave up a couple, uh,
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  Speaker 1: there were penalties involved.
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  Speaker 2: So I wanna look at that. What would you make
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  Speaker 2: a Jackson's dad, Jackson Smith and JUVEI guy played great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're in dark s, you know, we were
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  Speaker 1: in the death zone right there at the end.
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  Speaker 2: Guy made a hell of a play, sim Lily.
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  Speaker 3: What what can you say about the Cody White impact
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  Speaker 3: in this game where obviously he kind of emerged and
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  Speaker 3: had an opportunity to do what he did today?
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  Speaker 1: Love Cody, man, He's this guy does it every day
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  Speaker 1: at practice, and I'm glad that he had an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to show what.
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  Speaker 2: He had to do. Guys were fired up for him.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I just think so it shows the depth we have
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  Speaker 1: in our football teams. Like I said, we had the
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  Speaker 1: right guy, I mean just having an opportunity. This guy
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  Speaker 1: plays extremely hard, you know. So we love Cody. Happy
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  Speaker 1: for him, which we would have won the game.
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  Speaker 2: What what happened at George Fan?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: It was the same same deal with his knee, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: What about kid on Walls?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he's got an ankle.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have any idea of house?
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  Speaker 2: No, like a severe enough to not come back.
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  Speaker 1: So it's pretty clear, you know, pretty clear that we
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  Speaker 1: weren't going to have him back, So whatever that means,
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  Speaker 1: we'll look at it. We'll look at I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 1: look at it in the morning. Have some more Jones look.
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  Speaker 3: The second week, the second game with.
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  Speaker 1: The team, just uh, tough to tell on on just
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  Speaker 1: his individual performance, but I did feel like he made
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  Speaker 1: a couple you know, racing type tackles when the ball
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  Speaker 1: wasn't stopped at the line of scrimmage that that was
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  Speaker 1: big for us. Uh coverage wise. Don't have a great feel,
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  Speaker 1: but just excited to have him. You know, God does
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  Speaker 1: a great job in one of us.
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  Speaker 3: If you went with Josh job, Uh, what did I
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  Speaker 3: guess when it went into that and what did you.
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  Speaker 2: Think of how that worked out?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Trey still coming back from the from uh his injury,
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  Speaker 1: and so we just felt like he's not quite ready
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  Speaker 1: yet to you know, taking on Josh still practicing really well.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, that's that's what went into it. Was pretty
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  Speaker 2: simple here they got alright, thank you