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Shane Waldron: "We'll Do A Better Job Of Finishing" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, good evening here, good afternoon. How are you
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  Speaker 1: doing great here? Ready to go for this week?
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  Speaker 2: When you when you kind of reviewed the film, I
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  Speaker 2: guess what what was your takeaway on the issues.
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  Speaker 1: In the right zone just there?
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  Speaker 2: It was almost similar to talking about third down in
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  Speaker 2: the past, where it felt like we had a better
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  Speaker 2: third down day in the field there and then the
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  Speaker 2: red zone just you know, a couple of things, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, each trip down after that first trip in
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  Speaker 2: which we were able to get the touchdown, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that prevented us from from getting points, you know, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's the the you know, penalties or the uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: just some some negative plays there. So just again, great day,
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  Speaker 2: a great week to work on those issues, fix any
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  Speaker 2: issues that came up in the game, and then move
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  Speaker 2: on and move forward to the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: Given how much conversation there's been around that, is there
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  Speaker 1: a point where it becomes overemphasized or it's in guys
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  Speaker 1: heads too much or is that not even a thing?
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  Speaker 2: When yeah, all reference to Detroit game, you know, where
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  Speaker 2: we had a similar offensive look there where we're getting
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  Speaker 2: into the red zone a few different times, including at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the game, and we are able to
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  Speaker 2: finish there. You know, Unfortunately this past week they got
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  Speaker 2: the best of us in the red zone and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you had the five trips in there and only getting
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  Speaker 2: the one touchdown. That's not what we're looking for and
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  Speaker 2: something that we'll look to fix, but not something we
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  Speaker 2: feel like is a problem because we've we've had the
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  Speaker 2: experience down there and come out on the right end
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  Speaker 2: of that scenario right there. So just working to fix it,
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  Speaker 2: not putting stress, not making it bigger than it is,
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  Speaker 2: and trying to find as many championship opportunities throughout the
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  Speaker 2: course of WEEKND practice, every game that we play, where
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  Speaker 2: we keep all of these opportunities that come up, you
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  Speaker 2: know in the mindset of hey, they're all the same.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're prepared for it.
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  Speaker 2: You're ready for those moments, and every now and then
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  Speaker 2: they don't go our way, and then you move on
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  Speaker 2: to the next one so that you don't let the
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  Speaker 2: last experience in a negative way impact your next one.
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  Speaker 1: Would you lot you'd mentioned third down was a little better.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like about that?
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  Speaker 2: I thought we had some good individual one on ones.
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  Speaker 2: The guys are battling in the protection world right there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Bobo had the good run after catch after
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  Speaker 2: he is able to convert on the third down kind
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  Speaker 2: of in that high red zone strike zone area there,
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  Speaker 2: Gino playing in a good rhythm on third down and
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  Speaker 2: something we'll look to continue and like I said, then
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  Speaker 2: add the Okay, let's get back on in a balanced
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  Speaker 2: world in the red zone there, which includes being able
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  Speaker 2: to run the ball, includes being able to you know,
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  Speaker 2: take those completion plays and all add those in together
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  Speaker 2: and then just keep working to bring together an offense
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  Speaker 2: it's balanced and that continuity get throughout the course of
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  Speaker 2: four quarters of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Has it been a.
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  Speaker 2: Challenge at all with just kind of the continuable moving
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  Speaker 2: parts on the offensive line, you know, when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to those situations and all I think the guys have
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  Speaker 2: continued do a great job with the next man up
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  Speaker 2: mentality up front. You know, it is great to get
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  Speaker 2: Charles back in this past game here playing left tackle,
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  Speaker 2: But all the guys that have been in and out
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  Speaker 2: have done.
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  Speaker 1: A great job.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're working and working to correct anything that comes
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  Speaker 2: up within the game. The thing that compliment those guys
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  Speaker 2: on is their and their effort and their attention to
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  Speaker 2: detail throughout the course of the game on the sideline's
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  Speaker 2: ability to fix any issues that might come up. So
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  Speaker 2: they're doing a good job of holding things together. And
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  Speaker 2: again Evan Brown did a great job of keeping the
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  Speaker 2: group together, taking that leadership role, keeping everyone moving in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction. Like I said, you know, the goal
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  Speaker 2: this week will do a better job of finishing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like we talked about down in the red zone and
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  Speaker 2: you know standing up here and it's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: different outcome of different discussion, but can't change that.
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  Speaker 1: All we can do is learn from it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think those old linemen have done a great
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  Speaker 2: job of you know, moving around. Guys have played a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different spots which you know, long term will
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  Speaker 2: help us down the road where guys have that experience,
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  Speaker 2: that game experience. You know, Anthony Bradford's getting better every day,
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  Speaker 2: getting in there at guard and getting more and more
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  Speaker 2: reps and accumulating more and more looks against NFL defenses.
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  Speaker 2: NFL Front so excited to see as these guys continue
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  Speaker 2: to grow, you know where they end up.
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  Speaker 1: Who lost the tackles week too? How much of a
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  Speaker 1: challenge has it been when to help the pass pro
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  Speaker 1: with the extra tight ndswer and Chip went not to
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  Speaker 1: how to employ those going games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, anytime you start your plan,
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  Speaker 2: whether the starting tackles are in there or the backup
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  Speaker 2: tackles are playing like has been the case in the
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  Speaker 2: past few weeks, I think it all starts with that
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  Speaker 2: protection plan, understanding that each week the defense is going
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  Speaker 2: to present and this week with Nick rolis the challenge
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  Speaker 2: of the different structures along with the great rushers they're
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  Speaker 2: going to have, you know, and figuring out, okay, how
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  Speaker 2: much you know, what's the balance in there? Do we
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  Speaker 2: need to help guys because of scheme? Do we need
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  Speaker 2: to help guys because of personnel? And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a weekly thing that we look at, you know, regardless
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  Speaker 2: of who the starters are.
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  Speaker 1: On along the offensive front, because that plan change in
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  Speaker 1: game in the last couple of years. In the game.
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  Speaker 2: Within the game, I think, you know, one thing we
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  Speaker 2: do is we go in with a pretty good volume
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  Speaker 2: and then we were able to shift or pivot based
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  Speaker 2: on the feel of the game where things are going
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  Speaker 2: and then there's going to end up you know in
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  Speaker 2: certain scenarios where uh, you know you're gonna go with
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  Speaker 2: your best plays and and feel like you give yourself
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  Speaker 2: the best chance and and you know, if the game's
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  Speaker 2: going tilted in a certain direction or blitz packages tilted
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  Speaker 2: in a certain direction, you know, trying to preemptively call
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  Speaker 2: the plays they're going to have a little bit more help,
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  Speaker 2: maybe one side or the other, you know, trying to
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  Speaker 2: account for that and letting the guys play. Gino was
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  Speaker 2: really hard on himself after the game and kind of
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  Speaker 2: was again what we talked about earlier today.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever talk to him about that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know this kind of I G guess make you know,
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  Speaker 1: take it. They're obviously not everything assist Well, he's sort
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  Speaker 1: of seen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it starts with all of us because
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  Speaker 2: we're all in this together. I think Gino does a
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  Speaker 2: great job of it of being the leader of our
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  Speaker 2: offensive group. But we talk about that accountability, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and what can every individual do, starting with the coaches
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  Speaker 2: to help the players be in a better position to succeed.
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  Speaker 2: And then as an individual player, you know, what was
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  Speaker 2: your role in every individual play and looking to say,
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  Speaker 2: what's my accountability? How can I help the team win?
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  Speaker 1: Right there?
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  Speaker 2: And then trusting that the other ten guys on the
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  Speaker 2: field are looking at every one of those plays and
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  Speaker 2: looking inwardly first and then helping each other out, picking
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  Speaker 2: each other up. And so I love the fact that
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  Speaker 2: Gino's got that great accountability and know that he's competitive
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  Speaker 2: and is always looking to to do right for the team,
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  Speaker 2: do right longer, and you know, as many opportunities he
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  Speaker 2: has to say, I can I bounce right back. And
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  Speaker 2: that's one thing I've never worried about with Gino is
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  Speaker 2: his ability to whether it was a great game or
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  Speaker 2: a game that we didn't come out with the outcome
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  Speaker 2: we were looking for. By the time we hit that Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's moved on. He's taking the corrections, he
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  Speaker 2: knows what he can do to help himself and help
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  Speaker 2: the team be better.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's where we're at right now, is
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  Speaker 1: his performance overall. I think I did a great.
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  Speaker 2: Job, you know, until we got into the red zone,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that was more, you know, a cumulative effort,
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  Speaker 2: you know, starting with me with putting the guys in
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  Speaker 2: some better positions in terms of some of the play calls,
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  Speaker 2: and then obviously executing down and ending with with touchdowns
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  Speaker 2: rather than you know, a field goal or tamped or
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  Speaker 2: ended up stuck in the fourth down situation. So I
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  Speaker 2: think with Gino again, you know, just showing that he
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  Speaker 2: can handle all the situations, all the plays, and again,
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  Speaker 2: just like we're trying to do on offense, I think
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  Speaker 2: just putting together that complete game would be the thing
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  Speaker 2: we look back at and want to improve on moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: See, I think you guys are eight then scoring despite
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  Speaker 1: having the third down struggles.
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  Speaker 2: What's your kind of thought on just what this offense
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  Speaker 2: can be if you guys are able to clean up
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  Speaker 2: that area.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I still feel great.
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  Speaker 2: We got you know, skill players and offensive linemen and
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  Speaker 2: whether it's the running backs, tight ends, receivers, they can
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  Speaker 2: execute at a high level. And so whether you know,
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  Speaker 2: each week we've kind of talked about maybe different areas
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  Speaker 2: as far as situational football that have taken a dip
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  Speaker 2: and then risen back up. Like we mentioned the field
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  Speaker 2: third downs this past week, you know, we did a
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  Speaker 2: better job there. The red zone took a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a dip where we'd had some success earlier in
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  Speaker 2: the year. There, you know, the first and second down
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  Speaker 2: execution has been maintained at a pretty high level right there.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think just putting all things together through
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  Speaker 2: the course of one game, you know, is really what
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  Speaker 2: we're striving for on offense. And I think when we
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  Speaker 2: get to that, when we get to that point as coaches,
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  Speaker 2: as players, then I feel like we can be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: competing with anybody in the league from a defensive standpoint. Said,
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  Speaker 2: the red zone stuffs when it starts with you.
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  Speaker 1: What needs to change when you're in I guess in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, I'll be a critical on
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  Speaker 2: myself of looking back through every single game and and
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  Speaker 2: that could have, would have, should have, but not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: just the could have, would have should have, But like
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  Speaker 2: what is there is there a better answer that we
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  Speaker 2: could give a player in a certain situation. And I
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  Speaker 2: felt like towards the end of the game there there's
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  Speaker 2: a couple opportunities for maybe I could have.
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  Speaker 1: Helped out the guys a little bit better with the calls.
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  Speaker 2: I think they did a nice job with their scheme
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the game right there, particularly on
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  Speaker 2: the way they played the third down call down there
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  Speaker 2: in the red zone. So just looking at those being
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  Speaker 2: really hard, you know, like I said, looking inwardly first,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what can I do to help the guys
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  Speaker 2: be better? What can we do as coaches to help
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  Speaker 2: them be better? And I think, you know, having that
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  Speaker 2: accountability and then that appreciation for how hard it is
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  Speaker 2: for those guys to go out and execute versus all
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  Speaker 2: these things. You know, how can we get him in
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  Speaker 2: a place where they feel totally comfortable with everything every
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  Speaker 2: single week?
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  Speaker 1: What kN got what you're supposed to do differently?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna stay away from that one, so apologize.
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  Speaker 1: What is readiness to play? If you guys can. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's done a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a guy that came in here knowing that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, need a little bit of a ramp up
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  Speaker 2: period here and and he's gotten there. So I think
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  Speaker 2: when that opportunity comes, you know, he's got the offense
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  Speaker 2: down now, understands the calls, kind of came in here
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  Speaker 2: with that great base knowledge of knowing what to do.
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  Speaker 2: So feel good about him whenever that moment comes for
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  Speaker 2: him to step up and be part of the active
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  Speaker 2: game day roster, like the cadences and stuff like a
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  Speaker 2: Green eighteen or whatever team use you know, the origin.
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  Speaker 1: Where that starting, the origin of the cadence. Gosh, that's
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  Speaker 1: a great question.
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  Speaker 2: Do you do you have the answer on that one,
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I feel pretty good about where some of
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  Speaker 2: the systems came from. But as far as the true
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  Speaker 2: cadence goes, you know, I don't. I don't know the
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  Speaker 2: different ones. I think just as a product of our
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  Speaker 2: own everyone's own experiences, you kind of carry over some
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  Speaker 2: of the cadences that you picked up from a start.
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  Speaker 2: And for me, you know, a lot of the cadences
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  Speaker 2: have been very similar in some of the places I've been.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, then you get together with the quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 2: come to an agreement of what what's you know, because
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  Speaker 2: player ownership of the cadence is paramount, right, the coach
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  Speaker 2: really doesn't have much impact on the cadence. They're not
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  Speaker 2: out there playing. So for us, you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: a collaborative effort when I first got here and of
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  Speaker 2: blend and the cadence and then making sure we're all
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  Speaker 2: on the same page. But I would love to get
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  Speaker 2: a little report on the origin of the cadences there especially.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's changed and adapted, you know, I would
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  Speaker 2: love to know who the first team is that how
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  Speaker 2: to use a silent cadence, and some pretty good football
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  Speaker 2: history probably behind that question.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let you know Green Team, Silent Colors can't. I
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  Speaker 1: can't give away our cadence right here while I'm standing
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  Speaker 1: up here.
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  Speaker 2: But no, there's every team has a different system with
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  Speaker 2: you know, what their verbiage does or doesn't mean within
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  Speaker 2: the cadence. And like I said, I think we settle
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  Speaker 2: on ours and have a pretty good system we feel
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  Speaker 2: good about.
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  Speaker 1: You said, better play calls than the red zone, the
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  Speaker 1: protection scheme choice for the Rats? What was?
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  Speaker 2: What was? I'd say all the above, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think again putting our skies in the best position to
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  Speaker 2: succeed at the end of the game. And I think
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  Speaker 2: there's an opportunity there here and there in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of those without getting into scheme specifics, where I can
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  Speaker 2: do a better job and and we'll do a better
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  Speaker 2: job moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, all right, thank you, thank