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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 16 vs. Rams · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, it officially feels like a Friday right now,
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  Speaker 1: and then he used to hurry up and get the
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  Speaker 1: Saturday because tomorrow's Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: For us, So good week.
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  Speaker 1: Preparation is still ongoing. But guy's done a great job
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  Speaker 1: so far, so we're really looking forward tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: You guys wrapped up.
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  Speaker 4: This game in La a few weeks, so it seemed
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  Speaker 4: like there was a feeling of determination as.
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  Speaker 3: The guys got to come off the field.
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  Speaker 4: Did that show what would all of this in the
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  Speaker 4: preparations kind of a different.
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  Speaker 1: Level of intensity We really haven't talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the last game, I think it on
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  Speaker 1: you don't really have much time to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're kind of turning the page pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But the guy, the guys know what we need to
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  Speaker 1: do and don't know how to do it. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that I think that's the same feeling we have
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  Speaker 1: every week, honestly, just trying to try and nail the
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  Speaker 1: process and doing what we're doing and feel as prepared
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  Speaker 1: as we can going.
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  Speaker 2: Into the game.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Charles John.
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  Speaker 1: He's actually I don't know, I don't have all the
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  Speaker 1: updates for you, but he's he's not he's gonna be out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, tomorrow, So.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a time frame for you. We're working
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  Speaker 2: through it.
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  Speaker 3: For similar when you watch the last game you guys
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  Speaker 3: played against the Rams, there's a time between now and
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  Speaker 3: then anything stand out to you and reflecting on that.
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  Speaker 1: First game, be disappointed. My answer, I mean, I kind
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  Speaker 1: of just I think I think we just take it
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  Speaker 1: very black and white, like it's just you know, these
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  Speaker 1: are the plays that we ran. This is how we played,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what they did, and this is what
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  Speaker 1: they've done since, and this is what we've done since.
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  Speaker 2: And then you.
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  Speaker 1: Try to kind of up you kind of these are
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  Speaker 1: the guys that are available, and we got a different
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  Speaker 1: you know, host of guys that are available on both odds,
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  Speaker 1: and so you know, you try to you try to
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  Speaker 1: make the best decision you can on how you anticipate
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  Speaker 1: things going and things that you want to you know,
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  Speaker 1: protect or attack or you know that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of you know, you're it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: four game sample since you play, which is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit you know, it's you know, when you play teams
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  Speaker 1: the second time, there's a different spectrum of like how
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  Speaker 1: long those games are in between sometimes, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: we play the Niners, it can be a whole season's worth.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's hard to go off that.
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  Speaker 1: Tape, but there's a lot off that tape, you know,
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  Speaker 1: within four games that is probably.
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  Speaker 2: You know, probably relevant Josh, Josh, What Josh starts? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Jo's gonna starts. What's been your impression, what's been your
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  Speaker 2: impressure of what Josh.
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  Speaker 3: Has provided for you when you Stopp's.
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  Speaker 1: Got most of those opportunities and in uh in preseason,
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  Speaker 1: and he did a great job filling in for Charles
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  Speaker 1: when he was going through uh his t any camp stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So just like everything else, you know, we've had, We've
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  Speaker 2: had guys.
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  Speaker 1: That have had to had it, that had that have
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  Speaker 1: had opportunities throughout the season, and this is this is
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  Speaker 1: no different. He's got a great opportunity, He's prepared go
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  Speaker 1: out there and.
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  Speaker 2: Player tail off. You know, let's go roll the same answer,
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  Speaker 2: the same question.
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  Speaker 3: Has he primarily been practicing at left tackle or also
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  Speaker 3: at right tackle over there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like he's swing tackle right now. It's always
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  Speaker 1: practice at both.
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  Speaker 5: These short weeks always present major challenges, but it is
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  Speaker 5: do you kind of relish the opportunity to go up
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  Speaker 5: against somebody like Sean mcavay in this type of situation
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  Speaker 5: that then it has been so.
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  Speaker 2: Good over the years about switching things up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this question from now until we uh
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  Speaker 1: hopefully for a long time. It's just look, it's the same.
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  Speaker 1: There's Shawn's especially especially good at what he does. He's
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  Speaker 1: one of the best to do it, and if not
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  Speaker 1: the best. And but there's a lot every court. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: look that there's a lot of talented play cards and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of talented schemes.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of great players.
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  Speaker 1: And you see that every week, and so every week
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  Speaker 1: has its own host of challenges that you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: trying to work through as a football team, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So in that regard, it's it's it's the.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing now, Like you know, they have a certain
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  Speaker 1: way of operating and how things that they play and
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  Speaker 1: how they build stuff and ways that they attacked us
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  Speaker 1: in the past, and that's that's the lens that you
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  Speaker 1: have to maybe you don't have to, but that's the
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  Speaker 1: one that we choose to, you know, look through every
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  Speaker 1: every time we go against the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, John, Like.
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  Speaker 3: The whatever twenty stats before the draft that last week
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  Speaker 3: is already seem kind of progress.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a good way to put It's just.
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  Speaker 1: It's a we're we're fortunate that we're in a situation
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  Speaker 1: where Ty can go in and play good football for
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  Speaker 1: us and we can kind of go through that whole process.
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  Speaker 2: So we feel like.
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  Speaker 1: Julian is you know, a hundred percent that, which I
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  Speaker 1: feel like we're getting close to that.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I think you can talk about the rain,
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  Speaker 5: but the win it's forecasting, right, what sis plans would
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  Speaker 5: you made boom calling and doing planning for that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll it'll factor into some of the decisions that
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  Speaker 2: we make.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what in particular any area that were some of them?
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  Speaker 3: Robbie was a help the scratch frea last week. We
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  Speaker 3: kind of went to that decision to go out him
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  Speaker 3: and kind of the kind of seasons fit.
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  Speaker 1: Back this week if he does and kind of hol Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: last week we decided to go with five wideouts, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, having a full back wasn't a big part
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  Speaker 1: of our plan, and when it was, we felt like
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  Speaker 1: Brady could do that too. So that was the roster
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  Speaker 1: decision we made. It wasn't anything Robbie's done or anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's just what we felt goes best for us. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just a week a week process decisions that we
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  Speaker 1: have to make. And unfortunately sometimes you have really good
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  Speaker 1: players that aren't going to be grabbing their helmet. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a good problem to having. Means you had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good players ready to return. Uh, Greek is
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  Speaker 1: ready to return if we decided to have him return.
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  Speaker 1: Them all.
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  Speaker 2: Oots is ready to play tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Focus always on the process, but your thoughts on just
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  Speaker 4: the magnitude of this game could potentially you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: first time Thursday football game is speature, two eleven win teams.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's y'all's job to put all the meaning
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  Speaker 1: behind it. It's our job to go play great football.
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  Speaker 2: So it's all good. I get it. It's exciting, but
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  Speaker 2: every game is exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Say I try differently.
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  Speaker 4: What can you say about your team's commitment to the
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  Speaker 4: process to be able to get to.
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  Speaker 2: This game here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great point. I mean there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of there's a lot of stuff that happens in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And I my message to our team was, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're we we have. We are really fortunate and blessed
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  Speaker 1: and should feel really confident in the work that we've
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  Speaker 1: done up to this point to put ourselves in this
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  Speaker 1: position where we have a lot of great players that
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  Speaker 1: are ready to go. We trust each other. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like we're a connected team. I feel like we're a
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  Speaker 1: tough team, and so let's go. Let's go do it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, let's go, let's.
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  Speaker 2: Go rip it. So that's that's where we're at.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get Derek Salbury signs for next year.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, really excited to get Sobby back man.
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  Speaker 1: Just what an asset that he's been to our football team.
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  Speaker 1: I can kind of do everything on offense, which is great,
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  Speaker 1: and then he's been an asset on special teams as well,
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  Speaker 1: especially the way that special teams going nowadays.
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  Speaker 2: Having body types like him is great.
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  Speaker 1: And then just the day to day stuff he's done
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  Speaker 1: just just as a as a teammate and a person
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  Speaker 1: in an organization, he's been phenomenal and he's been He's
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  Speaker 1: just a just a great person to have on your team.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm glad we got him locked up.
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  Speaker 5: Rewarding is it your reward a player like that that
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  Speaker 5: has bounced around so much the way he has now he.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like, yeah, it is, I mean, and it's funny
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  Speaker 1: because like that, that's not in our calculus of like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the guy's been on X amount of teams, he's been
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  Speaker 1: around for X amount of years.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, no, we're just going off.
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  Speaker 1: Of our experience with with him since he walked in
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  Speaker 1: the door. And I think that's a great message to
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  Speaker 1: to players that'll that'll walk in here. It's like, our
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  Speaker 1: goal is always the same. We want you to play
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  Speaker 1: your best football here. We want you to feel like
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  Speaker 1: you're the best version of yourself here, and and it
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  Speaker 1: really doesn't matter what you've done before. It's just when
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  Speaker 1: you walk in the door, you're gonna have that opportunity
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  Speaker 1: no matter no matter what your story is.
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  Speaker 4: You guys have special teams player of the Week two
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  Speaker 4: weeks in the brow.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously the individual will serving those spot dative but that.
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  Speaker 4: That nice up kind of broader about who you got
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  Speaker 4: to play on teams this year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it speaks to just the character of
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  Speaker 1: our guys and the intent that they have. And Jay's
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  Speaker 1: you know, a phenomenal job of aligning that group and
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  Speaker 1: connecting them, and and we got a lot of great
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  Speaker 1: special teams players too. I mean the specialists obviously are
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  Speaker 1: doing a great great stuff where she'd you know, taking
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  Speaker 1: back the touchdowns. I feel like every week it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a different part of the UH of our special teams,
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  Speaker 1: units of guys that are coming through and making plays
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  Speaker 1: for us, plus.
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  Speaker 4: Mike to playing craft so that you don't overthink and
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  Speaker 4: just rely on what.
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  Speaker 1: I think you could use it to your advantage. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like if you if you're decisive and how you want
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  Speaker 1: to operate and they're the right decisions, I think that
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  Speaker 1: I'll help you. Sometimes you might be behind the eight ball,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, kicking the butt doesn't doesn't necessarily hurt you.
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  Speaker 2: They challenge for.
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  Speaker 5: The NFL records for field bows in the season.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a good thing? Yes? Do we want more
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  Speaker 2: red zone touchdowns? Yes? Him kicking scoring points for us?
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  Speaker 2: Is that good? Yes?
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  Speaker 5: The message written on the wall on the stairwell, they're
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  Speaker 5: the team, the team, the team.
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  Speaker 1: But where did that come from? Well, I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: really from Bocean Beckler.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's also like stacking wins is really the thought behind
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  Speaker 1: it too. So but we've we've actually kind of like
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  Speaker 1: not diverted from that, but it's really it's really around
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  Speaker 1: like twelve is one. You know, the guys decided mob ties,
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  Speaker 1: which is awesome, but that's that's really what we're about,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's where all the decisions come from.
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  Speaker 2: That was we might be making it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's important, like it's always team for like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, every decision we make is team first.
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  Speaker 2: That's part of it. But that might that might be
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  Speaker 2: making a change soon.
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  Speaker 3: Don't seem like, uh, you guys play the disrespect card
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  Speaker 3: very much or use that as a motivation.
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  Speaker 1: Why if we did, then we would to me, it
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  Speaker 1: would be inconsistent with our message to the team. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you start making about what other people think, and now
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  Speaker 1: you start you stop making it about what we do
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  Speaker 1: and how we operate. So I get it something like
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  Speaker 1: some some people do it and they're good at it
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  Speaker 1: and they come up with new stuff every week. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where they get it from or but then
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  Speaker 1: like then the tides turn, like how do you know,
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  Speaker 1: how does that affect your just you kind of go
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  Speaker 1: down that rabbit hole and it's like okay, well I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, uh, like sustainable that is over time.
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  Speaker 2: So we choose to keep it about us.
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  Speaker 5: You're a leadership counsel and that's a have you said,
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  Speaker 5: that's a mix of like veterans and.
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  Speaker 2: Some younger players as well. Yeah, yeah, roughly how many
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  Speaker 2: guys are on there? I think there's ten.
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  Speaker 1: Ten guys don't make to that, but ten eight if
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  Speaker 1: anywhere from yeah, let's say ten.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else, thank you, all right, thank you,