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Ryan Grubb: "Geno Is An Elite Quarterback And It's Showing Up" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Doing great, doing great right out.
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  Speaker 2: There working with guys right now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you and Scott have coached a lot of football,
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  Speaker 3: But what is what kind of experience is he bringing
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  Speaker 3: to help his teammates. Well, I mean, I think any
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  Speaker 3: time you have a guy that is a Hall of
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  Speaker 3: Fame caliber player that has done it at that level
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  Speaker 3: for that many years, like you're, you're only bound to
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  Speaker 3: get a lot of experience and wisdom, you know, filtering
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  Speaker 3: through the room. So it's it's been awesome Avenue already.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big help.
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  Speaker 1: Would you see from the Guard battle last week, I
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  Speaker 1: think guys out.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they both had some really really good points.
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  Speaker 3: I thought there was a couple of points there were.
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  Speaker 3: Both of them played their best football of the year.
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  Speaker 3: So I think the competitive spirit is is helping that.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I think some of the things that
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  Speaker 3: we still got to brush up in practice are still
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  Speaker 3: showing up on tape.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought Christian did a better job of not
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  Speaker 1: getting overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 3: I thought Ad did a better job of sustaining long
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  Speaker 3: drives and playing through the whistle and all those things.
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  Speaker 3: So I think the challenges that were set out for
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  Speaker 3: both of them, they both accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: How is Jason Peters helping already?
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  Speaker 3: I just think he's he's there, like he was just
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  Speaker 3: doing right behind us, just working sets with the guys.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's just seen a lot of football, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, the advantage for our guys is that he
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  Speaker 3: knows all the tricks. He knows what's worked for him,
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  Speaker 3: what's worked for other guys he's seen, and I think
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  Speaker 3: he just passing information on which has been super helpful.
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  Speaker 1: Passing numbers are now throughout the NFL. But you guys
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  Speaker 1: are I mean, we we had a big game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we don't want to end up in that
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  Speaker 3: type of situation obviously, ever where you're kind of in
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  Speaker 3: a position where you're playing from behind a little bit
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  Speaker 3: and kind to throw the ball a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: than you want to, especially when we were having that
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  Speaker 3: much success running the football, which we you know, we
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  Speaker 3: figured out and got nailed down.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's just a little bit of opportunity
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  Speaker 1: with that too.
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  Speaker 3: And and then obviously Geno's playing at a really, really
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  Speaker 3: high level. I felt like I said it for quite
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  Speaker 3: a while now, I think that Geno is an elite
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  Speaker 3: quarterback and it's showing up. I mean for Gino to
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  Speaker 3: do what he did in that game on the road
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  Speaker 3: fifty six past times, like how difficult that challenge. It's hard,
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  Speaker 3: It's really hard. Him and the old line, like those
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  Speaker 3: guys were were grinding. You're you're you're calling those plays
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  Speaker 3: and and you're continually putting them in.
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  Speaker 1: A tough position.
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  Speaker 3: You know, those guys are racing up the field and
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to find screens and things like that to
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  Speaker 3: alleviate some of that pressure. But the bottom line is
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  Speaker 3: you can't use clock and you got to keep moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: So certainly could have made calls at different times that
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  Speaker 3: I thought could have helped even more. But Gino's a
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  Speaker 3: warrior man. He took a couple of shots. He had
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  Speaker 3: people in his lap at times. Not because the Old
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  Speaker 3: Line wasn't doing a good job. It was just it's
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  Speaker 3: hard work. When those guys are running forward and you're
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  Speaker 3: going backwards that much. It's it's tough, right Card.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like you kind of rotated every series is
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  Speaker 1: with those guys. I guess what was kind of the
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  Speaker 1: thought of doing it that way, And I.
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  Speaker 3: Think it just gives you know, honestly, ab still the
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  Speaker 3: starter and it gives him a chance to get his
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  Speaker 3: feet set, and you know, honestly, the whole group, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to be in and out every series,
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  Speaker 3: So it gets one guy two series, and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: got a peek at Christian, and then we felt like
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  Speaker 3: if one of them had established themselves with a really
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  Speaker 3: hot hand, we could have stayed with one of those guys.
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  Speaker 3: So we just let it play out the whole game,
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  Speaker 3: which I thought was the right thing to do, and
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  Speaker 3: just continue to develop Christian as a young player.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a player pick you ever?
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a player like double flip over
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  Speaker 3: defender the way that Canine did.
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  Speaker 1: And what I always say, his athletic profile like a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different from guys that you'd had to pass.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen an athletic profile like that. He's a that.
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  Speaker 3: I really didn't see it until I got on the
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  Speaker 3: plane and I was watching film grade in it and uh,
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  Speaker 3: and somebody had pointed out and then I started watching,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, wow, he was not down.
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  Speaker 1: That was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: So I think, you know, I texted a couple of
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  Speaker 3: friends of mine that were wrestlers back in Iowa that said,
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  Speaker 3: this guy's a wrestler. You see the balance and the
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  Speaker 3: strength and the power and and uh yeah, Kim, he's
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  Speaker 3: special man. He's he's grown every day, he's getting better
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  Speaker 3: and it's scary what his top ends looking like. You
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  Speaker 3: feel like your offense, your system fits him in terms
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  Speaker 3: of his skill set, how maximizes what he brings to
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  Speaker 3: the table. Well, I think you know, in a game
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  Speaker 3: like that, you see you can still throw the ball
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  Speaker 3: to him. You know, you can still utilize him in
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  Speaker 3: the screen game.
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  Speaker 1: Things like that.
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  Speaker 3: I think those are things that in our offense that
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  Speaker 3: if you do get limited by whether it's a game
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  Speaker 3: and how it's going or structurally what's happening up front,
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  Speaker 3: you can still get the football that you're running back.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's really really important. When you got
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  Speaker 3: guys like Zach and Ken that are special, you want
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  Speaker 3: to find ways if for whatever reason you can't hand
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  Speaker 3: the ball to him, you still can get the ball
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  Speaker 3: to him.
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  Speaker 2: And the luxury of having a quarterback that's got that
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  Speaker 2: quarterback presence. What does that do to you as a
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  Speaker 2: as a caller.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it brings confidence to the unit. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's the first and foremost is when the guys are
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  Speaker 3: out there and they're hearing the calls and they're getting
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  Speaker 3: themselves dialed back in. They hear Geno even how he
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  Speaker 3: talks and when he when he says the call, it
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  Speaker 3: it sounds like good things are about to happen. And
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  Speaker 3: I just think it's so important, you know, and he
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  Speaker 3: can redirect the ship when it's not going right.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, he's a veteran.
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  Speaker 2: Abe said. I asked him kind of a similar questions.
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  Speaker 1: You know, with him, you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have to worry about that that the quarterback because
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  Speaker 2: you just stay on the block. Could they trust him
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  Speaker 2: to do that?
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  Speaker 1: That's right?
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  Speaker 3: I think that, you know, for a play caller, that's
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  Speaker 3: you know numero uno is that you can trust your
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  Speaker 3: guy and you know, no matter what the circumstances or
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  Speaker 3: the play call is, you know that he's on the
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  Speaker 3: same page with you. He's gonna be responsible at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, know the right times to be aggressive. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that you know, those little gray areas for quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 3: That's where that elite quarterback play comes in, is finding
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  Speaker 3: the times to be really aggressive, knowing the time is
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  Speaker 3: not to be and then managing the team. And Gino's
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  Speaker 3: doing all three of those things that are really really
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  Speaker 3: high level right now. Well, Gino Smith's doing well his
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  Speaker 3: what is his pocket presence?
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  Speaker 1: His ability to extend plays in the pocket. How's that
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  Speaker 1: helping the offensive?
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  Speaker 3: Just the Yeah, I think I think it's actually improved.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's gotten a lot better at it. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think I think he moves really well.
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  Speaker 3: We see it out of here at practice every day.
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  Speaker 3: You see him running around and uh, he'll finish a
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  Speaker 3: play if it's not you know, if it's a scramble
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  Speaker 3: play and practice, He's not just gonna dirt the football.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna keep playing.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that he works at it, to be
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  Speaker 3: honest with you, I think he Some quarterbacks don't do that.
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  Speaker 3: They just kind of drop the ball on the ground
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  Speaker 3: and they go to the next play. But I think
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  Speaker 3: Gino looks for those opportunities and uh, he's just a
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  Speaker 3: really hard worker.
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  Speaker 1: He's looking for those things that he knows they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: come up in a football game.
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  Speaker 3: Is that third and eight to Smith and Jagoa at
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  Speaker 3: midfield and the third quarter example of that where he
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  Speaker 3: got outside absolutely absolutely, Yeah, he made a great play there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna use Rahie Morris's line, I like my money,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not saying anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but what have you kind of seen the first
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  Speaker 1: of the season year.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like, yeah, No, A j is a great competitor.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a lot of confidence. He's he's wildly coachable.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's got the approach that he doesn't know
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  Speaker 3: everything and but he's gonna work his tail off to
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  Speaker 3: try to make the play.
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  Speaker 1: So whether it's blocking and catching the football.
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  Speaker 3: I really think he's one of those guys that he
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  Speaker 3: takes every moment that he has on the field. He
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  Speaker 3: never takes it for granted. I feel like he practices
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  Speaker 3: the same way and it shows up on the field.
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  Speaker 3: So no surprise to us that AJ's doing really.
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  Speaker 1: Really well. When it was the last time you ran that, well.
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  Speaker 3: That was Saturday practice. I think it was one of
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  Speaker 3: what never run in a game, Never run that in
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  Speaker 3: a game. Nope, that was the first time. But we've
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  Speaker 3: been repping that for a while and it came up
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  Speaker 3: with the right opportunity. We need a way to stay
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  Speaker 3: on the field. We felt pretty confident in the look
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  Speaker 3: that we were gonna get and called it, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: Jacks executed a really high level. What's kind of go
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  Speaker 3: through your head after you call that and you're like
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  Speaker 3: putting a lot of faith in multiple guys to get
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  Speaker 3: that done.
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  Speaker 1: Is it left ash, We're up here? We go.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's the thing is that, Uh. I think when
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  Speaker 3: you have plays like that, regardless what the ruts and
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  Speaker 3: things like that, it's the same thing you're talking about
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  Speaker 3: with your quarterback is just having a really high level
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  Speaker 3: of trust that they're gonna do the right thing. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, totally trusted Jacks to do that and he
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  Speaker 3: executed really well camp or is that a season that
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  Speaker 3: was during training camp? Yeah, we've repped that for a
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  Speaker 3: while now.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have to find out if Jacks can throw?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was tryouts. You could ask the guys. There
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  Speaker 3: were some guys that Bubbo got fired. I think Locke
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  Speaker 3: got fired. There were multiple guys DK said he could throw,
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  Speaker 3: and he could throw it about a mile. But Jackson
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  Speaker 3: was clearly the most accurate.
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  Speaker 2: Chirst you most about how the line played this past game.
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  Speaker 1: I just like how they fought through the whole game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I thought they were the ones that that
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  Speaker 3: kept us in it, and there was a belief that
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  Speaker 3: you know, we were gonna get it within one score
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  Speaker 3: and we did. And just their competitive nature against a
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  Speaker 3: really really good defensive front for Detroit, and I thought
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  Speaker 3: it inspired a lot of the guys around him.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson put his toughness kind of underrated, asked a little
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  Speaker 2: bit, because you see's physicality, We see DK, but doesn't it
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  Speaker 2: take some physicality some of the.
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  Speaker 3: Jackson is That was one when we first got here
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  Speaker 3: and watching film on him, some of the screens that
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  Speaker 3: they're in with him and things like that. Last year
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  Speaker 3: he would get vertical quickly break tackles and we talk
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  Speaker 3: about it throughout the offense all the time. You know,
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  Speaker 3: one of the things we want to be great at
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  Speaker 3: is forcing to miss tackles. And so right now I
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  Speaker 3: believe we're seconding the NFL and miss tackles forced, and
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  Speaker 3: we call that one of our gritty stats. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that we got the guys on the team, you know,
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  Speaker 3: including Jackson, DK and all the guys when they touched
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  Speaker 3: the football, we expect them to break tackles and I
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  Speaker 3: think Jackson is the epitome of that.
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  Speaker 2: That was a really good catch by Blobo that he had.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, it's hard to get the ball that everybody, but
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  Speaker 3: I trying to fit him into into that.
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  Speaker 1: I guess what if?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you want to make sure that you
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  Speaker 3: know anybody you have on the field obviously when you're
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  Speaker 3: throwing the ball, that there's legitimacy that they're they're a
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  Speaker 3: target out there, and we try to make sure we
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  Speaker 3: honor that with all the guys, and and and Jake's
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  Speaker 3: a really good receiver. You know, he's not just a
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  Speaker 3: blocking throat. We've all seen him out here making a
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  Speaker 3: million plays, so a ton of trust with him. Do
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  Speaker 3: you know Smith was talking about Giants mixed coverage or
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  Speaker 3: even change after the snap coverages.
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  Speaker 1: Is that unique to them or is that becoming now
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  Speaker 1: the trend in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: No, there's there's definitely the mixed coverages and and changing
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  Speaker 3: post snap is pretty standard in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: They do a great job of it, though. They disguise
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  Speaker 1: things well as they have up front the Giants and
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  Speaker 1: what kind of challenges that on the time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, they're they're really good across the board. I'd say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as far as all four of them, this
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  Speaker 3: is the best front will face. They obviously have a
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  Speaker 3: really good nose and two defensive ends that could play
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  Speaker 3: anywhere in the league. So I think there really isn't
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  Speaker 3: a resting spot, if you will, on the offensive line
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  Speaker 3: this week at any given points. So they just got
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  Speaker 3: to be ready to go and and battle and fight.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's the biggest part is there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of confidence that they will do that. They know
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  Speaker 3: that it's a tall order, and I think the biggest
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  Speaker 3: part is they're up for it anything. All right, thank you,
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  Speaker 3: have a great day.