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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: “It’s a big game because it’s the next one.” · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: That was That was my main message. The guy was
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  Speaker 1: looking at me crazy. I was like, go sit down,
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  Speaker 1: catch your breath. We gotta go back and gotta pass
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  Speaker 1: for us again. So there's no time to celebrate. Really,
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  Speaker 1: what is he got into Josh way through that little
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  Speaker 1: low Lady In the season, he wasn't really getting to
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback as much? Is it you know he's an
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  Speaker 1: opponent driven or is it just as he doing me
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  Speaker 1: something different or you're getting in a different position to
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  Speaker 1: where he's made him plays like that? Now, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's Josh, he's made his mind up that uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a time of season for him to turn it on,
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  Speaker 1: and he's turned it on. He's picked his game up,
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  Speaker 1: and you know he's doing a good job for us
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  Speaker 1: when you see the game that Josh Art and and
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  Speaker 1: Tray Vaughan, I mean even Devon Hamilton had in the
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  Speaker 1: trenches last week. And then you say we got a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback and Justin Herbert coming in this week. You have
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  Speaker 1: to like that your pass rouses already kind of coming
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  Speaker 1: off of a pretty good performance. Well that's the thing
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  Speaker 1: we uh we missed smooth, and you know the guys
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  Speaker 1: have stepped up and we have multiple guys contributing and
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  Speaker 1: you know you're Corey. He played a big part of
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  Speaker 1: that also stopping the run and pushing the pocket. So upfront,
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  Speaker 1: I think the guy to understand what we need to
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  Speaker 1: do with the team, and they're they're doing it. They
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  Speaker 1: have too big bass wide receivers and yet Austin Ekeler
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  Speaker 1: there running backs, they're leading receiver. Kind of challenges. That
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  Speaker 1: poses a defensive coordinator to not over compensate for the
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  Speaker 1: running back. No one needs two guys are down the
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  Speaker 1: field when you look at it, when you have a
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  Speaker 1: running back that uh have over a hundred catches, that
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  Speaker 1: that says something about him and he's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: they trust and they get the ball to a bunch.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it works well with him because outside
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  Speaker 1: you have to pay so much attention and then that
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  Speaker 1: opens up for him and the tight ends underneath. But
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  Speaker 1: as the coordinator used to go out there and you
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  Speaker 1: just try to understand where the matchups are and how
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  Speaker 1: they try to attack you and try to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hone in on that and give a guy with a
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  Speaker 1: good plan. He's a patient runner. There's that required patients
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  Speaker 1: on the part of your linebackers. Really, Uh, we have
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  Speaker 1: to get downhill and get the double teams off because
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  Speaker 1: they are a team that likes the double. And he's
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  Speaker 1: a patient runner. He's a that can find the whole.
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  Speaker 1: He takes his time, and we just have to make
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  Speaker 1: sure we're staying our gapsaying control the line of scriments.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling him the status tackles for he has led
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  Speaker 1: the league and tackles for the second year and run.
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  Speaker 1: It's really just his work ethic. He's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: you watch him, He's all over the field and it's
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  Speaker 1: mainly effort. Uh. He's out there, he does it in
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  Speaker 1: practice and it just carries over to the game. He's
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  Speaker 1: a guy that you know he works for really really
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  Speaker 1: hard and he goes out there and it paid off
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  Speaker 1: for him. You've got had him in your system for
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  Speaker 1: a full year. Now. How happy are you that you
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  Speaker 1: decided to sign here during the off season? Oh? Extremely happy,
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  Speaker 1: because he's the quarterback of the defense. You know, when
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  Speaker 1: he's out there, everything runs comfortable. Guys trust him and
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  Speaker 1: they understand that if he says it, we're gonna do it.
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  Speaker 1: Because he understands what I'm thinking and he just relays it.
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  Speaker 1: To the players that Corey's had the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: games and everything, but more impactful than what he did
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  Speaker 1: on the field, how's his leadership and uh and act
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  Speaker 1: into early when when you look at that d line room,
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  Speaker 1: you have a mixture of young guys and old guys
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  Speaker 1: and Corey coming in, stepping in and just showing how
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  Speaker 1: to be a true professional with that position, understanding how
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  Speaker 1: to attack lineman, how to hone your techniques weekly. He
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  Speaker 1: does a great job and it just it helps dave
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  Speaker 1: on because he's seen someone that's done it for a
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  Speaker 1: long time and done it at a really high level,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just helped him increase his his play. And
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  Speaker 1: every one of the sackles us was on Derek either
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  Speaker 1: or the sister or solo, and you know, two or
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  Speaker 1: three negative plays and everything. So did you feel like
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  Speaker 1: you had to have that kind of game out of board? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we knew as a defense up front in our division
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  Speaker 1: playing against the Titans that we have to play strong upfront,
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  Speaker 1: and Corey came out the hand played a great game.
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  Speaker 1: Um Roy, just different guys up front stepped up and
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  Speaker 1: control the line of scrimmage and that enabled us to
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  Speaker 1: be uh, pretty successful in the run game, it was
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  Speaker 1: I think three point seven something like that. Yeah, games
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  Speaker 1: like Saturday games like the playoffs, So those are kind
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  Speaker 1: of games that you drafted tray vonn number oneever on
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  Speaker 1: for Oh yeah, anytime you're playing in a big game,
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  Speaker 1: we uh call him five star games. You need your
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  Speaker 1: five star players to step up. And you know, this
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  Speaker 1: is one of the times where last week he showed, uh,
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  Speaker 1: played real well again in the run game. Pressure on
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback. We just need that performance. Again, is a
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  Speaker 1: player sometimes it's in the packing are kind of going
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  Speaker 1: to be on the status always. Yeah, the things we
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  Speaker 1: see from him in the run game, um, being able
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  Speaker 1: to control tight ends and knock back, being able to
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  Speaker 1: squeeze off gaps. You don't see it on the stat sheet,
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  Speaker 1: but we understand the value he brings to us. Not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of playoff experience when you look around the roster,
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  Speaker 1: but on the coaching staff on the other hand, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you guys have been there and done that.
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  Speaker 1: How helpful can that be as you kind of bring
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  Speaker 1: these guys into a new world of the postseason. Really,
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  Speaker 1: the thing about it, we talked to him and we
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  Speaker 1: try to explain to him and it's been going on
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  Speaker 1: for like things since like middle of season. On the
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  Speaker 1: night before the game, I stand up say, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: a big game because it's the next one. And you
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  Speaker 1: take that attitude it's a big game, but only reason
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  Speaker 1: it's because it's the next one. And they go out there,
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  Speaker 1: and they go out there and play. It's the same
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  Speaker 1: game they've been playing all their lives. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: stakes are a little bit higher. But prepare, understand what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing, Understand your opponent, go out there and do
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  Speaker 1: what you do in that preparation. Are you paying much
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  Speaker 1: attention to Week three and your dam against the charters? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you go back and look at it. But the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: was dinged up a little bit. They we're missing a receiver,
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  Speaker 1: so they'll be a little bit different. We're different now,
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  Speaker 1: so they have to account for us being different. We
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  Speaker 1: have to count for them, and you know, try to
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  Speaker 1: understand what's happened in the last few weeks and see
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  Speaker 1: what they're leaning on, and they'll see what we're leaning on,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, go at it. When you look at
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, just what kind of player is he? He
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  Speaker 1: is a guy that can make all the throws athletic mobile.
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  Speaker 1: He's the quarterback that you love on your team, but
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  Speaker 1: you know you don't want to go up against him.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how the quarterbacks in the leagues are guys
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  Speaker 1: that have big arms, can move in the pocket and
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  Speaker 1: create problem for you in the past game defense facing
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  Speaker 1: Trevor in the preseason and skill set wise, is he
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  Speaker 1: anything kind of similar to address? I don't know skill
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  Speaker 1: set wise, but I was watching the clip and I
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  Speaker 1: pointed out to the coaches with the back angle and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, if you take the number off and
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  Speaker 1: you look, they have the same mannerisms they look. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you take the number off, you can tell one the
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  Speaker 1: way they carried the ball when they're dropping back. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, two big, big guys with strong arms and
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  Speaker 1: very good quarterbacks for the defense. Is that that this
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  Speaker 1: game's in Jacksonville, it's a big lift because anytime you
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  Speaker 1: play in the atmosphere like Saturday night, it was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: The fans did a great job of getting there early,
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  Speaker 1: being loud energy, and the building is was tremendous. And
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  Speaker 1: as the defensive player or the defensive coach, you always
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  Speaker 1: want to feed off the crowd, and you know they
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  Speaker 1: fed us all night was impact and another team needing
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  Speaker 1: to go silence, napcount m on your past run. Really
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  Speaker 1: we were ball key, so as long as they're hopefully
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  Speaker 1: that will be to our advantage. We'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: anticipate and see the ball move and get off before
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  Speaker 1: they can get in their rhythm. And you know, but
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we have to get
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  Speaker 1: to the quarterback. They have to stop up and getting
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  Speaker 1: to the quarterback end. You know, hopefully our fans play
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  Speaker 1: a big part in making it hard for them to
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  Speaker 1: function as offense. On the drinking strip sack, you can
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  Speaker 1: see the Titans running back Son Haskins. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's gotta make a choice, right, and he decides to
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  Speaker 1: try to double up on Traymon even though Traymond was
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  Speaker 1: fairly well blocked e you know, passes up the chance
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  Speaker 1: to How how much does that show respect for Traymon
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  Speaker 1: Walker that he felt compelled to go double him in
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  Speaker 1: a situation where, uh, you know, he could have easily
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  Speaker 1: got gone outside and prevented Raton Caron getting to the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I think in most situations when you have guys that
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  Speaker 1: rest the pastor from the outside, that running backs are
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  Speaker 1: in the game, depending on the yardage that they have
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  Speaker 1: to go, they'll need to chip and help out the
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  Speaker 1: offensive tackles. And you have Josh, you have Treyvonn, you
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  Speaker 1: have Art, and those guys account for attention. And when
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  Speaker 1: you bring it back up and chip someone or thump someone,
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  Speaker 1: that just enables us to be able to come at
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  Speaker 1: a different angle and hopefully press it the quarterback. Big
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  Speaker 1: players can be killer in the playoffs, and you've gotta
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  Speaker 1: get a secondary. Think Tyson Campbell's gound like an eight
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  Speaker 1: team percent completion percentage on passes down the field. How
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  Speaker 1: confident are you in your secondary going up against one
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  Speaker 1: of the toughest wide receiver rooms in football. There, it's
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  Speaker 1: a challenge. They have a bunch of weapons. But we
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  Speaker 1: look at it as you know, we got eleven guys
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  Speaker 1: out there. The pass for us plays just the most
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  Speaker 1: important part of covering the past a deep pass as
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  Speaker 1: a the dvs do. So it all goes hand in hand,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we'll throw leven out there and see
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  Speaker 1: what happens right there. All right, Thank you, thank you,