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Brian Fleury: "We're Going To Just Play Seahawks Football" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Hi. How we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Great. Anybody want to start? I don't have any opening remarks.
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  Speaker 2: How did you get your first chance to call plays
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  Speaker 2: in an NFL game and all that? How much are
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  Speaker 2: you looking forward to that?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I'm really looking forward to it. I've had more
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  Speaker 1: fun out here at practice these last two days than
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  Speaker 1: probably any of the last seven years, so I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to continue this journey and get out there for the
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  Speaker 1: first time on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: What's been fun?
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  Speaker 1: Just going into the game plan process with the guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a great group of guys, and they have
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  Speaker 1: so much experience together. They all have great ownership of
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  Speaker 1: the offense, and so being able to talk about things
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  Speaker 1: and how I see it and how they see it
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  Speaker 1: and make sure that it's all synchronized together has.
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  Speaker 2: Been really fun. If anyone, Brian, have you sought for
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  Speaker 2: advice on this whole experience?
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, the people I would seek advice from aren't really
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  Speaker 1: interested in seeing us do well, so not many.
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  Speaker 2: What have you seen? This is obviously your first camp
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  Speaker 2: working with Sam. What have you seen out of him?
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  Speaker 1: It's my second camp working with Sam.
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  Speaker 2: First as a coordinator, I should say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, just his growth over the last three
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  Speaker 1: years since I've been with him and his confidence level
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  Speaker 1: has increased significantly and his ownership of the offense and
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  Speaker 1: his command over just the room and the group has
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  Speaker 1: been really impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Are you looking at a lot of guys today that...
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  Speaker 2: Communication is super important week one when you're adjusting on
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  Speaker 2: the fly. When did you know you were over the
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  Speaker 2: hump and making sure that messaging was clear across all phases?
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  Speaker 1: Messaging has been clear since I walked in and that's
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  Speaker 1: a credit to Mike and John. We really kind of
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  Speaker 1: got over the hump as we got back into training camp.
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  Speaker 1: I think it became really clear we you know had
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  Speaker 1: some growth opportunities in the offseason as they were getting
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  Speaker 1: used to how I see things and You know, they
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  Speaker 1: were coming from Clint's offense and how they saw things.
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  Speaker 1: And then when we got here in training camp is
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  Speaker 1: really when we kind of hit the ground running within
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  Speaker 1: that first week.
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  Speaker 3: It used to be in the 80s that speed was
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  Speaker 3: about vertical stretch. Now you see it used for stretching the.
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  Speaker 2: Field horizontally as well. Talk about how those two things
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  Speaker 2: work together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously you want mixed elements. There's vertical separation, which
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  Speaker 1: you can create with speed down the field, but also,
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  Speaker 1: you know, horizontal could be lateral quickness, like the shorter
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  Speaker 1: area moves similar to like a West Welker or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. And then there's also the ability just to
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  Speaker 1: use the entire width of the field with the same
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  Speaker 1: type of speed that you would stretch.
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  Speaker 2: It vertically with.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, if you're using all 54, 53 and
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  Speaker 1: a quarter yards and whatever's left to the end zone,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to be down on the field or
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  Speaker 2: up in the.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to call it from down. I was
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  Speaker 1: really pleased with the communication from upstairs. Justin Outen's doing
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  Speaker 1: a great job. Tyson Prince is up there too. And
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  Speaker 1: the information and the And Daniel Stern also, the quickness
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  Speaker 1: with which they're getting it to me has been outstanding.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel very comfortable being on the field. What
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  Speaker 2: are the pluses to doing it there?
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  Speaker 1: I just like being able to communicate in real time
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  Speaker 1: with the players. You know, the way I want to
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  Speaker 1: call the game lasts about two series and then you
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  Speaker 1: get into the flow of it and there's adjustments being made.
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  Speaker 1: And it gives me an opportunity to preview maybe things
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  Speaker 1: on the call sheet that I want to go to
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  Speaker 1: next and why. and anticipate just like one little nugget
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  Speaker 1: of coaching point that I think might make a difference.
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  Speaker 1: It's just easier to communicate that in-person, face-to-face when you're
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  Speaker 1: dealing in like microseconds. You know, I just like that
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  Speaker 1: part of it better.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean the two series? What's that?
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean the way you want to call
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  Speaker 4: a game on the last two series?
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  Speaker 1: I just mean, I mean, we're dealing with outdated information
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  Speaker 1: in terms of what the New England defense is going
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  Speaker 1: to look like. And so how they decide to play
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  Speaker 1: us will start to take shape within the first two
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  Speaker 1: series is what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Can you remind us which preseason games you did it
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  Speaker 4: from the field?
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  Speaker 1: I was on the field the first one against Dallas
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  Speaker 1: and the third one against Kansas City. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we've all grown in that regard. Obviously, this is a
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  Speaker 1: great coaching staff. They just come off winning the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of great coaches, one of which I
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  Speaker 1: had the opportunity to work with before, but in a
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  Speaker 1: different role. And so we kind of had to go
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  Speaker 1: through a process of our own of them learning exactly
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  Speaker 1: how I see things and how I want to call
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  Speaker 1: the game. And that was a lot of like me
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  Speaker 1: being the voice and them listening. And then once we
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  Speaker 1: got to a point where they felt comfortable with that,
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  Speaker 1: it's been easier for me to turn things over to
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  Speaker 1: them because they can kind of see it through the
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  Speaker 1: lens that I would see it. And so that's been
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  Speaker 1: the really fun part of these three preseason games. And
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  Speaker 1: now going into this game is now kind of handing
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  Speaker 1: things back over to them and seeing what they can
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  Speaker 1: bring to me from a collaborative standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: It's been really cool.
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  Speaker 3: You were on the other sideline for the first game
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  Speaker 3: last year in the midfield, and that was a game
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  Speaker 3: that kind of was different than all the other offensive games.
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  Speaker 3: We only won a play-action pass, and so the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: offense kind of changed identities a little bit in that game.
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  Speaker 3: How do you approach this game to make sure you
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  Speaker 3: call your game and maybe not fall to adjusting to
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  Speaker 3: the opponent too much?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, there's always an adjustment to the opponent, right?
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  Speaker 1: You want to take away their ability to do what
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  Speaker 1: they want to do well, but I think that fits
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  Speaker 1: well within what we want to do. We're just going
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  Speaker 1: to play Seahawk football, and that's what Mike has always said.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be fast and aggressive and just try
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  Speaker 1: and control the game and put pressure on the opponent
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  Speaker 1: any way we can.
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  Speaker 4: Cooper Cupp was telling us about the call-out periods in practice.
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  Speaker 4: How important do you feel like those have been for
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  Speaker 4: you in just getting ready to do it?
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  Speaker 1: Those have been great. Great for me, but also great
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  Speaker 1: for us as a unit for them to kind of
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  Speaker 1: hear in real time the way I would like to
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  Speaker 1: sequence things and how one play can lead into the
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  Speaker 1: next and the next and the next and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of feel.
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  Speaker 2: The flow of it.
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  Speaker 5: The background with your stepfather, obviously, and it sounded like
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  Speaker 5: you kind of were thinking coaching maybe at a pretty
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  Speaker 5: early age.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, at a pretty early age. I wasn't a very
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  Speaker 1: good football player after high school, and so as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I realized that that was the only way I
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  Speaker 1: was going to be able to stay involved, that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the direction I went.
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  Speaker 2: Did you always think something like this was realistic for you?
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  Speaker 1: No, I didn't think that grandly. I mean, I As
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  Speaker 1: a kid, I always wanted to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League, so, you know, that part of
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  Speaker 1: it has always been there. I've always had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of respect and admiration for the people that play football
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  Speaker 1: in this league and the people that have, like, helped
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  Speaker 1: build it from the ground up. But it was really
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  Speaker 1: more about the teaching for me early on, just, like,
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  Speaker 1: taking what I knew from a knowledge standpoint and just
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  Speaker 1: being able to help people get better.
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  Speaker 5: And I heard you describe yourself once as kind of
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  Speaker 5: a non-athletic quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I played a different brand of football than Jalen
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  Speaker 1: likes to play out there, if that's.
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  Speaker 3: Given that the guys you're playing with are ones they
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  Speaker 3: haven't seen time during the preseason, are.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of curious about how that communication is going
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  Speaker 2: to actually go when those guys are in the fire
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  Speaker 2: and how it's all going to work when you're going
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  Speaker 2: with the guys? Or did you get enough?
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  Speaker 1: No, we got enough work. I'm not concerned about the
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  Speaker 1: communication at all. We've done enough simulations here where I
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  Speaker 1: feel good about that. I'm just excited to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and watch them execute.
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  Speaker 3: This is your first time actually being in the ear
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  Speaker 3: of the quarterback before the microphone gets turned off.
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  Speaker 2: How has that communication been? What do you try to communicate.
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  Speaker 4: During those preseason?
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  Speaker 1: To try to communicate beforehand it's I mean you've seen
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  Speaker 1: some clips right they don't like to hear too much
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  Speaker 1: information and the sequencing is important like if I want
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  Speaker 1: to give them a reminder it has to happen before
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  Speaker 1: I call the play because if I try to call
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  Speaker 1: the play and then tell them something else then they
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  Speaker 1: get something lost so you know that part of it
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  Speaker 1: is important and I've had to learn that and Sam's
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  Speaker 1: been great about giving me feedback from that and I
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  Speaker 1: think we're going to be rolling just fine.
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  Speaker 2: Are you a wristband system or do you like to
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  Speaker 2: call it?
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  Speaker 1: It's a mixture of both we'll have some stuff on
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  Speaker 1: the wristband that is like maybe a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: verbose or game plan specific, but anything that's something that
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  Speaker 1: we've been using from a terminology standpoint since we got
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  Speaker 1: here and into training camp that they're comfortable just hearing
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  Speaker 1: and saying, then we just roll with that.
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  Speaker 2: You're a rookie tailback. Of course, you work with him
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  Speaker 2: every day, but he hasn't played since November. What are
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  Speaker 2: you curious about Wednesday night?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just excited. I wouldn't say curious. I'm just excited
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  Speaker 1: to watch him play. I'm excited to see him get
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  Speaker 1: his first touch. I'm excited to see him be able
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  Speaker 1: to play in this atmosphere, and I think it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the beginning of a really good career.
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  Speaker 2: Some of your players have described you as pretty even keel, stoic, reserved.
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  Speaker 4: Where do you think that kind of comes from, and
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  Speaker 4: do you agree with those assessments?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with their assessment. What's portrayed on
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  Speaker 1: the surface isn't always what's going on internally, so I
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  Speaker 1: would agree with that for the most part. Usually when
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  Speaker 1: something good happens, I'm thinking on to the next scenario,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll celebrate at the end. That's kind of my personality.
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  Speaker 2: Did anybody tell you those lessons, or was that kind
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  Speaker 2: of organically?
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  Speaker 1: No, that's just organically kind of how I've always been.
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  Speaker 6: Were you on the field coaching for San Francisco previously,
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  Speaker 6: and do you like being on the field as opposed
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  Speaker 6: to being in the field?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's advantages to both. I was on the field
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  Speaker 1: for the last four years in San Francisco and upstairs
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  Speaker 1: for the first three, and then upstairs everywhere else I
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  Speaker 1: was around the league. So I've had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: experience at both. Again, the communication part with the player,
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  Speaker 1: like if you're trying to communicate directly with the player,
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  Speaker 1: there's something about picking up the phone that just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: vibe best for me. So I like to be able
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  Speaker 1: to have the face-to-face, eye-contact conversation with those guys whenever possible.
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  Speaker 2: Mike has talked about.
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  Speaker 3: That he sometimes could be drawing things up and making
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  Speaker 3: adjustments the night before and implementing those in the game.
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  Speaker 2: What's your style?
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  Speaker 3: How quickly do you kind of lock things down?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I try not to make too many schematic changes.
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  Speaker 1: There was definitely a couple times in the preseason where
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  Speaker 1: I would add a play. But that, again, like if
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to add a play, it's something that we're
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  Speaker 1: all comfortable with and I can go position to position
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, I think I'm going to call this
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  Speaker 1: on the next drive.
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  Speaker 2: Is everybody good?
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  Speaker 1: The way the game is going to be called can
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  Speaker 1: evolve right up until kickoff, as you're thinking of. matchups
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  Speaker 1: and situations and then again as you see how the
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  Speaker 1: defense is coming out and playing you so like there's
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  Speaker 1: an element of the game plan that shifts over you
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  Speaker 1: know the course of time but not like just adding
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  Speaker 1: random stuff. I saw a lot of growth from what
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  Speaker 1: I saw on film last year he still has a
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  Speaker 1: lot of room for growth and I'm excited hopefully we
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  Speaker 1: can put around consistent playing time here early on and
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  Speaker 1: just continue to trend in the right direction he'll definitely
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  Speaker 1: be out there we've got some things that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to use him with for and you know that'll be
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  Speaker 1: fun to see.
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  Speaker 4: How have you seen sam take to the stuff that
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  Speaker 4: you're bringing obviously it sounds like it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a very similar offense to last year but the stuff
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  Speaker 4: that you're bringing with you how have you seen him.
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  Speaker 1: Take to that uh he's taking to a great uh
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  Speaker 1: we've you know it's just ongoing dialogue there's there's things
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  Speaker 1: that he loves and things he maybe doesn't love so
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  Speaker 1: much that we can come to an agreement maybe we
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  Speaker 1: do want to try and push forward and get better
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  Speaker 1: at this or some things that we've just said you
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  Speaker 1: know what this isn't worth the investment so i mean
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  Speaker 1: he seems very comfortable overall with kind of where we've
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  Speaker 1: landed in terms of this game.
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  Speaker 6: The Rams ran a lot of 13 last year. You,
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  Speaker 6: of course, coach tight ends. What are some of the
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  Speaker 6: pros and cons from being able to get heavy like
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  Speaker 6: that in terms of whether they're going to match or
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  Speaker 6: they're going to play nickel?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a really interesting conversation because last year
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  Speaker 1: I think they caught a lot of people off guard
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  Speaker 1: by doing that, especially in those first few weeks. And
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  Speaker 1: so when you get into bigger groupings, usually it simplifies
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  Speaker 1: the defensive menu. But as they continue to put it
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  Speaker 1: on the field, the defensive menu continues to grow as
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  Speaker 1: people become more and more prepared. So going into this season,
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  Speaker 1: while that might seem like an advantage trends for an
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  Speaker 1: offense to do. The entire league has had the entire
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  Speaker 1: offseason to come up with their plan for defending 13 personnel,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't think you're going to see quite the
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  Speaker 1: same advantages. We will have some of it available and
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  Speaker 1: deploy it when we feel appropriate, but I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that you're going to get quite the level of production
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  Speaker 1: that the Rams had out of it just league-wide.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else? Thank you.