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Mike Macdonald: "Ernest Jones IV Is A Really Good Player" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, good to see everybody in person. Sure you
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  Speaker 1: get a bunch of interesting questions, So let's get it going.
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  Speaker 2: What is it about armist Jones at attraction.
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  Speaker 3: To your defense?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a it's a it's a team decision. Wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just wasn't just my decision. But he's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: I think when you look at uh, kind of all
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  Speaker 1: fronts coming from our you know, our John and our
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  Speaker 1: personnel people, our coaches, our experience with him, a guy
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  Speaker 1: that've had respect for for a lot for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, just just a really good football player, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the way around. I remember seeing him making play
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  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl was probably the first time that
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  Speaker 1: I kind of kind of get on my map and
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  Speaker 1: just excited to get him here and get him get
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  Speaker 1: him rolling. So, by all accounts, a great person, loves
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  Speaker 1: loves ball, tough as tough as nails, and we're excited
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  Speaker 1: to get him here.
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  Speaker 2: Would you step into the weekside back room.
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  Speaker 3: With them play we're working through there right now.
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  Speaker 1: We probably probably gonna earn us at Mike and uh
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  Speaker 1: and have teed up play the weak side right now.
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  Speaker 4: Did you talk to Denard Wilson at all? And consummating
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  Speaker 4: the trade.
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  Speaker 1: I have not no, not yet. Did we stay in touch,
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  Speaker 1: but we just we haven't. We haven't talked personal or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that.
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  Speaker 4: Similar's a scheme that he'll be walking into what he's
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  Speaker 4: been doing this year.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's pretty similar.
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  Speaker 1: I think hopefully the language carries over a good bit,
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  Speaker 1: so the you know, learning curve.
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  Speaker 3: Is flattened out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure Denard's done, you know, his spin on what
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  Speaker 1: they've been doing. And you know, in addition to all
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  Speaker 1: the other stuff, all the other schemes he's been h
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  Speaker 1: that he's been kind of open to throughout the years.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure there's a lot of carryover.
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  Speaker 5: Mike, what does Ernest do best as a linebacker?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he does a lot of things really well.
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  Speaker 1: I think I talk about making tackles, staying square at
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  Speaker 1: the point of attack. He's physical. I think he plays
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  Speaker 1: really hard. Also like good Blitzer as well. Off the
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  Speaker 1: ball coverage skills I think are pretty good as well.
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  Speaker 1: So just an overall really.
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  Speaker 3: Good football player. I do. I do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's on his way playing as to get him
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  Speaker 1: here tonight and get him rolling tomorrow and off we go.
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  Speaker 2: What what had you thought? I guess just in general,
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  Speaker 2: the whole seven games of the light backing play.
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  Speaker 3: To this point, Well, it's kind of like our football team.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, it's good enough to get us to
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  Speaker 1: four and three and be in a situation where we
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  Speaker 1: feel like we can compete and move forward, and there's
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  Speaker 1: things that you know, we want to get cleaned up
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  Speaker 1: as well. So, I mean we've talked about those things
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  Speaker 1: throughout throughout the weeks, and it's not a This is
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  Speaker 1: not an indictment on Jerome at all. This is just
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for us to uh make it, make a move.
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  Speaker 1: This really good for our football team, we think, and
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  Speaker 1: and I decided to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Getting Abe and George back on the field today. I
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  Speaker 2: know he's kind of talked on Monday, you said, be
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  Speaker 2: too soon to get have Abe this Sunday or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that, But just in general, getting those guys back
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  Speaker 2: and starting that process.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was joking with with Abe that tell him
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  Speaker 1: that you know, these are shoulder pads and uh be
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  Speaker 1: good to see him out there and get a new
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  Speaker 1: teammate out there. Just me you kind of you if you
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  Speaker 1: take a step back with Abe, all the stuff that
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  Speaker 1: he's been through, over the last year and working. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's been working his tail off now, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not easy to kind of be doing your own thing
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  Speaker 1: and training and strengthening the leg. I mean, it's this
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  Speaker 1: is a long grind back to where we sit today.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he deserves a lot of credit for
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  Speaker 1: putting himself in the situation to come back at this
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  Speaker 1: point in time, and should be really excited to have
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  Speaker 1: him out there and doing a thing. Now we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: ramp into it and try to be as smart as
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  Speaker 1: we can. I think we've got a really good plan.
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  Speaker 1: So just happy for him and excited to see him
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  Speaker 1: out there with the rest of the guys.
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  Speaker 3: And then and then Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously when you get guys back ready to practice,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be it'll be great to have him back as well.
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  Speaker 4: Take games into your time with Baltimore. You guys acquired
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  Speaker 4: rope On Smith. Seven games in here, you guys acquire
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  Speaker 4: Ernest Jones, different players, different situations. How how much can
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  Speaker 4: a middle linebacker effects and improve a defense.
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  Speaker 1: I know this is I know this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a tough sell, but like this is not this is
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  Speaker 1: pretty coincidental. I mean, it's I think you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: it really through the lens of, Hey, this is an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to get a really good player, uh, just like
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  Speaker 1: it was with Roy. But you know, to be the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the defense and have linebacker play and play
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  Speaker 1: at a high level really really helps out.
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  Speaker 3: And our guys.
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  Speaker 1: Are guys are they're they're doing a lot of great things,
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  Speaker 1: our linebackers are. We just felt like this was the
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  Speaker 1: right move for us right now. But yeah, of course
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a really important position. You know, over the
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  Speaker 1: over the years, people have talked about the you know,
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  Speaker 1: how important are linebackers, and you get into the money
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  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, which is kind of
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  Speaker 1: outside my my realm of responsibility. But uh, great players
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  Speaker 1: that make plays in our and around the football a
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  Speaker 1: lot and can affect the ball and affect the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: on all three levels. I think those are the guys
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  Speaker 1: that that are really important.
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  Speaker 5: So back to Lucas, what is exactly was the nature
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  Speaker 5: of the injury that took long longer than you thought?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it's like if it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a serious injury, and so you know
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  Speaker 1: you're going in you're getting it repaired, and its like
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  Speaker 1: everybody's timetable is kind of this is new to me too.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, this is a serious injury. It's right
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  Speaker 1: right when we right when we got here. He's coming
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  Speaker 1: off of getting it fixed, and so things are kind
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  Speaker 1: of in the air, you know, so you know things
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  Speaker 1: might change and you're dealing with rehab timelines and people.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard.
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  Speaker 1: You're just going off with educated decisions and making the
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  Speaker 1: best guesses you can. So I wouldn't say yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to have I thought there's an opportunity when
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  Speaker 1: we first got going that hey we could possibly have
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  Speaker 1: him at the beginning of the season, and it seemed
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  Speaker 1: like the timeline got pushed back. But it's I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I don't think it's anything that like he did
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  Speaker 1: that moved it back. It's just I think it's just
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  Speaker 1: one of those things where timelines get moving and shaking
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  Speaker 1: based out. There's like strength with the leg that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the ratios. All the smart people are telling me,
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's just what was going on. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it gets a little frustrating when you know the timeline shift,
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  Speaker 1: but that's just the nature of what we.
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  Speaker 4: Do microfracture surgery or what was it?
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  Speaker 3: Shoot? I couldn't tell you, Yeah, microfracture. I don't mean sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Is it all realistic struggling with the medical questions later?
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  Speaker 5: Is it at all realistic to think that he could
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  Speaker 5: play next Sunday, I think versus the Rams? Or is
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  Speaker 5: it more likely that you'd wait till after the bye?
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  Speaker 1: I think I think we're shooting for after the bye
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  Speaker 1: right now. I think that's what we're looking at in
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  Speaker 1: terms of what's the smartest thing for him and the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the guys.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any more of an update on DK and
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  Speaker 2: what his situation.
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  Speaker 3: Would be this week or no? No, I just I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know him, he's doing all the things.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going to practice today, probably won't practice tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Right now. We'll see on Friday. Kind of reevaluate as
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  Speaker 3: we go.
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  Speaker 6: So you guys facing people like Josh Allen, Amari Cooper,
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  Speaker 6: how do you kind of get the younger guys maybe
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  Speaker 6: on defense, but haven't played at this level against those
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  Speaker 6: guys of that caliber. How do you kind of get
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  Speaker 6: them ready just for against the Tames.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're facing you're facing great players. I mean, these
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  Speaker 1: guys are tremendous players, but we're facing you have that
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  Speaker 1: problem every week, So I wouldn't say it's anything different
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  Speaker 1: than our normal approach. Understanding, like what your matchup is
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  Speaker 1: going to be, the techniques that you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: asked to do, the situations are going to be in
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  Speaker 1: all those things are kind of at hand, and then
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  Speaker 1: you know the quarterback, the types of decisions he makes,
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  Speaker 1: how fast he gets rid of the ball. You know,
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  Speaker 1: facing Josh is very different than facing you know, Kirk
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  Speaker 1: Cousins as well as every.
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  Speaker 3: Quarterback we face.
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  Speaker 1: So you're trying to analyze those things and try to
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  Speaker 1: prep the guys for what it's going to feel like
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  Speaker 1: when you're going against them. Try to simulate those situations
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  Speaker 1: as much in practice so when you get to a game,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not it's not foreign to them.
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  Speaker 3: Coach.
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  Speaker 4: All the bills passing touchdowns will come against man coverage.
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  Speaker 4: Josh Allen actually can scramble against man. There are the
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  Speaker 4: reasons that defenses still call zone, still call.
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  Speaker 1: Me in against well, you want to be positive to
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  Speaker 1: the receivers, and his numbers against true zone are pretty
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  Speaker 1: dang good too, So it's like, you know, pick your
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  Speaker 1: poison and at some point you have to populate the
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  Speaker 1: box too to stop the run. So there's there's lots
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  Speaker 1: of reasons why you want to be in man coverage.
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  Speaker 3: Uh it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: I mean if you are a man and you are
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  Speaker 1: already on your guy when it turns into a plaster
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  Speaker 1: situation when you're in zone, now you have to go
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  Speaker 1: find your guy, uh, which is a little tougher to do.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot more space, So there's there's things going
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  Speaker 1: on there and situationally as well, like stress points of
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  Speaker 1: like the passing game and where you're trying to put
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  Speaker 1: that on any given play if you're trying to change
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  Speaker 1: up looks. So it wasn't where all the touchdowns came in.
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  Speaker 1: Its man, it's interesting, but uh, I think you gotta
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  Speaker 1: I think you got to kind of live in your wheelhouse,
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  Speaker 1: which we're gonna at some point we're gonna play man
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  Speaker 1: to man.
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  Speaker 3: You just you know, you have to you have to
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  Speaker 3: be able to be positive to receivers. Sorry, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: The addition of Ernest and Slide and tyroll over, is
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  Speaker 2: there a chance.
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  Speaker 4: To Drake and Tye he get on the field at all?
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  Speaker 3: Those they can be backups. I wouldn't. I wouldn't put
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  Speaker 3: it out right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're assuming Earn's going to come in and
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  Speaker 1: be ready to rock, and.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we expect. But those guys are ready to
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  Speaker 3: go at all times.
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  Speaker 1: But they'll be uh, they can go in there, and
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  Speaker 1: we were confident if they have to go in the game.
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  Speaker 3: How does Amari Cooper change them offense later?
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  Speaker 2: It may it's too early to know from from one game,
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  Speaker 2: but what adding ners.
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  Speaker 3: You feel like that did well.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough with the sample sizers looking at one game
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  Speaker 1: and how they used him. So you're kind of assuming
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  Speaker 1: a you know, growth in his role that they're playing
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  Speaker 1: on another another week's preparation. But Mari's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: I'm familiar with, you know, going against him in Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: for all those years, and he can make you pay.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to you got to make sure you're
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  Speaker 1: on your p's and q's'r on him. He's a great
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  Speaker 1: route runner, He's got great hands. Kind Of when he
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  Speaker 1: was in cluved, he was doing the whole he was running,
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  Speaker 1: he was in all the different positions. They were moving
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  Speaker 1: around a good bit. Last week he was kind of
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  Speaker 1: only in one spot. You're assuming that's going to grow.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's a little it's a tough projection, honestly.
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  Speaker 6: Guy said he's had some big offensive production days sometimes
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  Speaker 6: kind of quiet is it Is it just a take what.
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  Speaker 2: The defense gives you kind of thing, or is he
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  Speaker 2: somebody you'd like to see you get them fall a
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  Speaker 2: little more?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? If you leave games and you like you don't
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  Speaker 1: you kind of feel who you kind of feel guys
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  Speaker 1: throughout game. Jayson is always a guy that I feel
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  Speaker 1: throughout the game. His presence in the run game, play,
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  Speaker 1: action game, drop back game, third down stuff. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a mixture of both. Like I think our staff
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  Speaker 1: does a great job of kind of building plays for
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  Speaker 1: Gino to be able to read out and not force
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  Speaker 1: the ball to any particular people, but also balance it
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  Speaker 1: out and design plays for all of our guys where
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  Speaker 1: they feel like they're an important part of the game plan.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of that's how we'll still do it.
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  Speaker 1: And Jackson, I think he's doing a great job. So
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  Speaker 1: the ball find him and he'll those those plays will
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  Speaker 1: find him and uh, he'll continue to make a big
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  Speaker 1: impact for us.
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  Speaker 5: Is we gonna be able to practice with you today?
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  Speaker 1: Like you're hoping. Yeah, we're expecting Rika out of there
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  Speaker 1: today and just finished walkthrough. We'll see how he does.
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  Speaker 1: Trey Brow Uh, Trey won't be out there today. We'll
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  Speaker 1: kind of take that one day by day to play.
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  Speaker 4: Do you expect me and my fritch Is still to
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  Speaker 4: be your third corner?
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  Speaker 3: Did Josh kind of earn a chance to compete for Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think uh, I think that spot right now. The
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  Speaker 1: secondary configuration we're working through, see how it plays out
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week, and then how we want to match
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  Speaker 1: those guys. We'll probably leave that up to to game day.
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  Speaker 1: But he's right in the thick of it. Neamiah's I can't.
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  Speaker 5: Remember if we asked you about long term outlook with
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  Speaker 5: Ardie Burns, But do you expect to get him back
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  Speaker 5: this season?
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a really good chance we'll get him back.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's too serious and we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you talked the other day about Kobe and
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  Speaker 2: being around the ball, finding the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Have you found over your career.
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  Speaker 2: That that's a skill guys learn well? Or is it
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  Speaker 2: more and some guys just have a knack in some don't.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's both.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, like ball production is is I think,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm going to get quote, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to get fact checked on this, but it seems like
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  Speaker 1: from college, if people make plays on the ball consistently
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  Speaker 1: throughout their career in DB's and at linebacker play, it
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  Speaker 1: seems to be something that continues at the in the
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  Speaker 1: pro ranks. And so I think there is some of
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  Speaker 1: an act that goes with it. And then how will
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  Speaker 1: you emphasize it? Understanding opportunities when the ball is kind
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  Speaker 1: of alive. That's kind of our job as coaches to
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  Speaker 1: practice that and bring it to your awareness and so
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  Speaker 1: you can grow it that way too. So I think
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  Speaker 1: Kobe has both of those things.
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  Speaker 4: What is it about the Bills that they've been able
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  Speaker 4: to kind of sustain this success last few years that
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  Speaker 4: they're always a contender?
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  Speaker 3: You know, obviously Sean and Josh ben able to dead.
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  Speaker 3: What is it about them that've been able to maintain that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there are a good, sound, hard playing, fundamentally strong
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  Speaker 1: football team. And then you look at all the stats
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  Speaker 1: that you know drives winning with all the takeaway differential
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  Speaker 1: field position, how well they've been running the ball, how
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  Speaker 1: well they've been playing situational football on defense, their special
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  Speaker 1: teams unit, the team doesn't beat themselves, and I think
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  Speaker 1: if you can kind of create that formula, that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a tough team to beat on any given
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  Speaker 1: day and put themselves in positions to win a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of games. And you know, having and having Leslie here
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  Speaker 1: and understand and just how you know his experience there
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  Speaker 1: and how they.
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  Speaker 3: Operate, just you get a lot of respect for those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Ask you how much do you I guess you'll lean
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  Speaker 2: on Leslie and all the time he was there this week, with.
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  Speaker 3: That you have, how could you not.
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  Speaker 1: He's just such a such a great resource now they
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  Speaker 1: like every team evolves every year. So it's not you're
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  Speaker 1: not just saying like this is what exactly they're going
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  Speaker 1: to do and these are all the rules. But it
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  Speaker 1: just kind of painting a picture about philosophy and helping
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  Speaker 1: our all of our coaches on both sides of the
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  Speaker 1: ball just understand, you know, where they're coming from, and
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  Speaker 1: insights on players and things like that.
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  Speaker 5: To Ernest, you mentioned kind of him getting on your
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  Speaker 5: radar in the Super Bowl a few years ago. He
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  Speaker 5: made a bunch of plays in that game. What do
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  Speaker 5: you remember about watching.
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  Speaker 1: Him, Well, it plays in big time situations. And then
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  Speaker 1: I just you know, you just anytime you're seeing a
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  Speaker 1: player you do not familiar with, you just you know,
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  Speaker 1: look him up on your phone or whatever. And then
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  Speaker 1: then it's kind of like in your brains and now
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  Speaker 1: he's on crossover tape and there like oh the area
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  Speaker 1: is again just like everybody else.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not just not exclusive to him, but.
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  Speaker 1: Just being a fan of the game and good players,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, then seeing how guys play certain different schemes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the Rams defensive scheme marries a lot of
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  Speaker 1: our defensive coverages and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So you get to see him do some of the
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  Speaker 3: things that we do as well.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: Do you expect him to be wearing the green dot.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: All right now?
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Tea Dot's probably keep the green dot?
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: What about dots and make some suitent for weekside.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Well, he's a guy who's played both in Buffalo and
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: that was part of the conversation when when we signed him,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: aware we would play and he's got great tape on
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: the weak side too, So I think I think it's
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: more of a Hey, Ernest has played more Mike. That's
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: kind of where he's been t Dot can play. We
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: feel comfortable kind of moving him back and forth. He's
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: gotten a lot of reps at at will and dime
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: throughout training camp, and he takes you know, he takes
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: plenty of reps on both sides throughout the week. So
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: it's more of a seamless transition for him than than
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: to take Ernest and move him out of a spot.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: It's really what drove what drove that decision.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Does DK need to practice to play?
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: I uh, I think at some point you'd like to
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: see him out there.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: But DK is a guy that you.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Know, we'd be would probably be comfortable with taking all
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: the way.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: To the game. Oh and your stone expect him to
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: practice him?
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Uh No anything else?
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: Thank you?
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Okay,