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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Tank Bigsby Trade, Upcoming Bengals Matchup · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Tanks trade. How did that all come down.
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  Speaker 2: Which his attitude or you know, any.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of an issue. No, it really just came down to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, after some time of evaluating and just working
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  Speaker 1: through some things, just felt like, especially you know post Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: is just probably best to move on, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: just give him an opportunity to go and both the
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  Speaker 1: same with us. We feel good about, you know, where
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  Speaker 1: we're at moving forward. I wish him nothing but the best,
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  Speaker 1: and you know he's good dude, and just worked out
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  Speaker 1: that way. So I really feel confident obviously with some
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  Speaker 1: of the way that those other guys stepped in did
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  Speaker 1: some good things. It's hard to rotate for and wishing
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  Speaker 1: nothing but the best or just what you've seen from
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  Speaker 1: the rooties that made you more comfortable. Yes, it was combination,
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  Speaker 1: combination of all those things.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of your borrow. What in your opinion makes
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  Speaker 2: him such a special player.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, His ability to create is is elite. His the
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  Speaker 1: accuracy the pinpoint of it. His ability to put balls
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  Speaker 1: in tight spaces, give those guys opportunities. He well, he
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  Speaker 1: knows them so well and what they do well and
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  Speaker 1: how they want the ball thrown to him. It's clear
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  Speaker 1: that they have, you know, chemistry. Even when last week's
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  Speaker 1: output wasn't maybe as much as they've been used to,
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  Speaker 1: you can still see that there was some moments where
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  Speaker 1: like whoa, that was pretty good. So we it's a
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  Speaker 1: huge challenge for us. I got a ton of respect
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  Speaker 1: for Zach and what he's been able to do there
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  Speaker 1: over the years. And Joe's special players, Like how much
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: You get out?
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  Speaker 1: You know he can get it out. You just you
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  Speaker 1: got to take some of the air out of the coverage.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to give him a ton of space, but
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's feast or faming. You go up,
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  Speaker 1: you go and press them, you get too much on
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  Speaker 1: who knows what it could be, and you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just one of those combinations. He's a smart player. He
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  Speaker 1: knows how to get to zero audibles and checks and
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  Speaker 1: h understands the game. So it's gonna be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a chess match.
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  Speaker 2: Moved from a lot.
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  Speaker 1: He's on one side for the most part, and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a challenge for sure. He's a player that can
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  Speaker 1: wreckt the game. He can you know, obviously last week
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  Speaker 1: he was more so getting back in. It didn't play
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  Speaker 1: every snap, but anticipate him playing more as it continues
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  Speaker 1: to get comfortable and get more acclimated. But definitely somebody
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  Speaker 1: that can wreck the game or something from your team
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  Speaker 1: about how they handle going into a road environment. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I do. I think that obviously going to New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: was a good deal, and same thing with Miami in
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  Speaker 1: terms of just handling it the right way and coming
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  Speaker 1: together a little bit more as a team. Smaller group
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  Speaker 1: obviously now going up to Cincinnati, so great opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: us as a team to continue to come together and
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  Speaker 1: get to know each other more and go through things
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  Speaker 1: together as a team more so, I'm actually looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to it, Like more defensive Sweet came as a direct result.
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  Speaker 2: If he's a chase for life, you know, be.
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  Speaker 1: A likely uptick. It's more so, you know, going in
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  Speaker 1: a week one, it was okay, we'll probably we know
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  Speaker 1: that it's not going to be a ton on defense.
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  Speaker 1: The goal is to increase and continue to increase. It
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  Speaker 1: just so happens that we're playing Cincinnati with two good
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  Speaker 1: white House this week. The chase it's hard to find them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there there's some good tandem's out there for sure,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and but the way they've done it at
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  Speaker 1: a high level now for a number of years, the
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  Speaker 1: chemistry they go to a super Bowl, you know they've won.
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  Speaker 1: They've known how to win. Like Sacks done a great
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  Speaker 1: job there with getting those guys where they are now.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, they've just they've played in a difficult division.
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  Speaker 1: They've played a ton of difficult games, tight games over
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  Speaker 1: the years. They've pulled some of those out in some
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  Speaker 1: critical moments. Play Kansas City tough every year. So this
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  Speaker 1: is a team that knows how to win. They're well coached,
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  Speaker 1: and they have some talent. Harrison back on track to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get back on the field. And how
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  Speaker 1: impressed were you with his first performance? Yeah, he is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, had a little furness, but it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's part of it. I was pleased with Anton, especially
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  Speaker 1: in past protection, you know, the whole the whole group,
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  Speaker 1: but specifically Anton and in the run game did some
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  Speaker 1: really good things. So I was pleased with his effort, strain,
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  Speaker 1: the way that he you know, he was battling through
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a nick and battled through it.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously came out for a short period, but I was
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  Speaker 1: pleased with his first outing what about what you got
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  Speaker 1: out of.
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  Speaker 2: Shooting down and what kind of opportunity it's in front
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  Speaker 2: of those guys now.
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  Speaker 1: That yeah, I think that they without having to say
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  Speaker 1: much to them, they understand based on the move. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, even when you know when Toot did get
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  Speaker 1: in and get a couple carries and didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: ton and I think he had a it was a
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  Speaker 1: seven eight yard run or whatever it was, whether there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't much going on at the line of scrimmage, he
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  Speaker 1: made a great cut, got vertical, and another one that
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  Speaker 1: gets hit by the at the end kind of towards
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't quite four minute, but we were running at
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  Speaker 1: that point. Hit behind the line of scrimmage, gets you know,
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  Speaker 1: positive yurds. It gets back to the last scrimmers and
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  Speaker 1: then Quint on a critical third down comes in, gets
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  Speaker 1: a five or six yard run and has a good
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  Speaker 1: blitz pick up. So it's opportunity for those guys for
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  Speaker 1: sure to step up and give us quality snaps. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna work on some guys, so Parker two and all
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  Speaker 1: those guys will get some. Quint still getting some back there,
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  Speaker 1: getting a couple other guys some reps today as well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I thought he did some good things. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: had what he only had three or whatever it was,
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  Speaker 1: but a big critical catch before the half on the dagger,
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  Speaker 1: critical fourth down where he you know, he trips, you
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  Speaker 1: might have had a little bit more. He was pissed
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  Speaker 1: at himself. And then you know he has the uh
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  Speaker 1: the curl which was a good throwing catch. So the
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  Speaker 1: one thing about you, I mean the game that did
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  Speaker 1: really show up was his effort without the ball in
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  Speaker 1: his hands, uh, you know, helping down the field, blocking motions,
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  Speaker 1: just doing the right things. I was pleased with his
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  Speaker 1: out as well. And you know, just like with all
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  Speaker 1: those wideouts, you want to get them more like it's
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  Speaker 1: the goal is to you want everybody to touch the ball.
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  Speaker 1: You want everybody to get included. But also there's some
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  Speaker 1: games that become ones that you're just gonna try to win.
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  Speaker 1: Going back to the trade just a little bit. Was
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  Speaker 1: that something that they guy scored?
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  Speaker 2: Did you want?
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  Speaker 1: There was none of those conversations like last week. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how much more does that a fact? How much playing
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  Speaker 1: is that part game? And how much more returns you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's definitely stressed a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: because of the rules and all that. But I didn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily feel like any of our you know, returns did
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  Speaker 1: anything quite crazy dynamic that we couldn't hold off on.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we need to probably improve some of our
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  Speaker 1: blocking skin. You know, we've got to be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better at the first and second level some guys,
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  Speaker 1: to give those guys a little bit more room. But also,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so much of that is making people miss
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  Speaker 1: having vision, seeing it and just hitting it, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think we can look to improve there.
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  Speaker 2: What are the sort of core philosophies of your program
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  Speaker 2: that have to get elevated to go on the road
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  Speaker 2: and win a game?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think that you're going on the road
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  Speaker 1: playing a team that plays in a physical division, that
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  Speaker 1: has played in a lot of physical football games over
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  Speaker 1: the course of their last four years or so, and
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  Speaker 1: that has to be our style of play needs to
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  Speaker 1: show up this week. And then also, hey, facing adversity again,
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  Speaker 1: right like this, Yeah, Sunday, that was okay, lightning delay.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't really adversity, you know, it wasn't so it
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  Speaker 1: was a glitch. So it was great that we handled
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  Speaker 1: the right way and all that, But like, okay, Jamar
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  Speaker 1: Chase gets one to know it's probably, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: likely they're going to catch one, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: It is what it is like, just move on, cares,
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  Speaker 1: play the next play, and that mentality of Okay, they
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  Speaker 1: get one, shoot, here we go. We're gonna go get
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  Speaker 1: one and just going and continuing to compete regardless of
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  Speaker 1: what just occurred. That's not you know, what we want
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  Speaker 1: to focus on. We want to focus on that process.
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  Speaker 1: How much growth can you expect to see from general
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  Speaker 1: beats kind of gets one full game hunder smelt now
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  Speaker 1: anywhere in particular steps over the courses, right, Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: think that when you look at the operation, the way
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  Speaker 1: you handle things all very very positive. You know, made
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  Speaker 1: some critical third down conversions and especially when we were
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  Speaker 1: trying to extend some drives in the second half, even
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  Speaker 1: after having a difficult third quarter. You look at really
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  Speaker 1: the sequence of incomplete the Travis on the bootleg, incomplete
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  Speaker 1: to Bet on the corner route third and ten dark
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  Speaker 1: to the Amnie on the curl. So it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's there, you know, it's there. It's just the consistency
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  Speaker 1: of it not having those five to six plays that
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  Speaker 1: you know, you could be sitting there at twenty five
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  Speaker 1: or thirty one for two hundred plus and now you're like, okay, shoot,
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  Speaker 1: this is damn good outing. So I think there was
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  Speaker 1: great things to work from, and I do believe we
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  Speaker 1: can continue to see an improvement week in and week out.
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  Speaker 2: Getting out.
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  Speaker 1: Five maybe five six, so etn the whole line. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's like, you know, they are no sacks
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  Speaker 1: two hundred ards Foyer J Lou Logan.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of Jordan Lewis, what was really impressed about
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  Speaker 2: how he conducts his businesses and.
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  Speaker 1: Brow Yeah, I mean since the first conversation we had,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, when we got here in pro Free Agency,
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  Speaker 1: was very clear that he was, you know, wanting to
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  Speaker 1: take the next step in his career, not just in
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  Speaker 1: play and commitment and all that stuff, but more in
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  Speaker 1: the leadership role. That was something that he felt, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he could help provide and that does have some natural
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  Speaker 1: leadership skills and you know, the toughness, the grit, the
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  Speaker 1: competitor biveness that does rub off on guys, It has
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  Speaker 1: rubbed off on guys. He's a great communicator. He's demanding
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  Speaker 1: and challenging of his teammates. And coaches, So I've been
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  Speaker 1: very pleased with him so far. Yeah, that was cool
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  Speaker 1: to see on Mmm, it's uh, he's just plays his
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  Speaker 1: tail off.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just so cool to see because it's like if
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  Speaker 1: your other guys looking at that and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: he's playing that way, it's hard to lose the standard,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like the standard needs to continue to rise
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  Speaker 1: when you see a guy like that on playing unselfishly
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  Speaker 1: and physically throughout the entire game at every moment. There's
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  Speaker 1: not many plays that he takes off, and so that's
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  Speaker 1: critical for our our DNA, our identity as a team,
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  Speaker 1: as an offense, and I was very pleased that he
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  Speaker 1: was able to get off to a quick start. And
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  Speaker 1: when you got a guy like that, yes, it's huge
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  Speaker 1: because now it's not like you can get a huge
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  Speaker 1: heel on Okay, he's on or off the ball, he's
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  Speaker 1: split out where it is he is it run past
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  Speaker 1: tendencies because he's able to do some things in the
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  Speaker 1: run game that allow you to stay balanced. And then
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  Speaker 1: also in the past game, you know, run after catch
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  Speaker 1: and go make some you know, difficult catches as well.
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  Speaker 1: So definitely somebody we want to continue to work with,