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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "...when offensive success, there’s stability around the quarterback.” · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You just keep showing them on film, right, You show
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  Speaker 1: it during the week of practice, You have conversations during
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  Speaker 1: the week. You just you go over it and over
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  Speaker 1: it and over it. You know, I go over it,
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  Speaker 1: you know as my messaging to the team each week.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta stay consistent with it. You know, we know
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  Speaker 1: that there's gonna be some you know, some bumps and
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  Speaker 1: some hiccups in the road. That's that's just that's part
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  Speaker 1: of it. Uh. And it's our job as coaches to
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  Speaker 1: to to help minimize you know those And so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it falls onto players because they're the ones playing. But
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  Speaker 1: I think us myself, you know, as a staff, we
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  Speaker 1: take you know, we're taken pride and helping those guys
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  Speaker 1: get through it. What are you, gals and darker pushing
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  Speaker 1: out much taking? Now? I mean it each game is different, right, Um.
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  Speaker 1: You go into games and and you you you sort
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  Speaker 1: of anticipate and you practice all week against a certain defense,
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  Speaker 1: certain coverages. Um, you go against a love you smith defense,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're gonna get covered to And it was
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  Speaker 1: quite frankly about the shell defense, and you know we
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  Speaker 1: had the answers for it. Um. But again you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about a young quarterback that just needs needs time, needs
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  Speaker 1: needs reps, needs to see more of it, needs needs
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  Speaker 1: to understand that, UM, structures like that, their eyes are
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  Speaker 1: always gonna be looking at the quarterback. They're not going
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  Speaker 1: to take their eyes off the quarterback. So as a
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  Speaker 1: as a coaching staff, where we can help him is
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  Speaker 1: to where he can he can manipulate the defense with
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  Speaker 1: his eyes a little bit more, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: and and still be able to find some underneath throws. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, did a great job of pushing it down
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  Speaker 1: the field a couple of times, you know, down the
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  Speaker 1: little to Evan and um, you know, just Dan Arnold
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  Speaker 1: on a on a deep out type route and things
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  Speaker 1: like that and there there, there's opportunities there. Um. But
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  Speaker 1: but we have to continue to show him. It's like
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  Speaker 1: it's like trying to get a young team to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how to win, you know, the same thing. We
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  Speaker 1: just gotta keep showing him and keep talking to him.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, and that falls more on us as
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  Speaker 1: a staff than it does does on him. Well, Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: a step back for where you thought this team was
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  Speaker 1: in not really, I still think we're where we need
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  Speaker 1: to be, quite honestly, Um, it's not perfect, you know.
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  Speaker 1: We we could easily be the other way around. You
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  Speaker 1: know when you look at the three losses, obviously it's
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  Speaker 1: and look it's I'm gonna keep saying this to the team.
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  Speaker 1: It's about what we do. You know, it's self inflicted.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Um, you look at the third downs in
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  Speaker 1: this game. The defense should be off the field on
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  Speaker 1: a on a couple of those, and we weren't. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, costly turnover deep in the red zone cost
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  Speaker 1: us points, penalties. You know, so there's just those are
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  Speaker 1: all things we can control. And um, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be that mindset as we go, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: how we how we handle those those issues. Does a
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  Speaker 1: loss like that one hit closer to home for you
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  Speaker 1: since you're an offensive guy? Play called? The defense pitched
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good game, but the points just didn't come up.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it does. But those are the games you'd
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  Speaker 1: love to be in, games like that because that's where
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  Speaker 1: you know, you want someone to step up and make
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  Speaker 1: a play, right. You know, We're it's like I told
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  Speaker 1: the team this morning, we're gonna be in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these close games this year, next year or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It is, and it's either gonna be a six six
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  Speaker 1: game or it's gonna be game. And then somewhere, a unit,
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  Speaker 1: a player, somebody's got to make a play, right and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that's what we gotta get our football
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  Speaker 1: team to do and understand. And they do understand that,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just a matter of going out and doing it.
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  Speaker 1: But um, I think we're at where we need to be.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's still those little mistakes that we gotta
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  Speaker 1: correct and move on and and get better from. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and I know our guys will do that. Ultimately, you
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  Speaker 1: want your quarterback to be that guy that wants to
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  Speaker 1: step up and make that play. Distriver have that sort
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  Speaker 1: of mentality he does. He does, Um, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's the type of guy that that can can you know,
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  Speaker 1: he takes the hard coaching and he fixes it from
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  Speaker 1: week to week and um, you know, is it always perfect. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not always perfect, But but he does have that
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  Speaker 1: mentality he wants you know, he wants the ball in
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  Speaker 1: his hand and and and and we do everything we
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  Speaker 1: can to try to get him through that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and um, the more he plays, the better, the better.
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  Speaker 1: Hell get they had a great game. He was solid
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  Speaker 1: and then getting more tes frount today, Um, and should
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  Speaker 1: have something for you either later today or or possibly
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday or maybe even tomorrow. But we're getting more
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  Speaker 1: and more tests run. But have had some of this
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  Speaker 1: coaching him last year. It's hard to say, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: I think excuse me, I think we can speculate, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all we want. I wasn't here. It's hard to comment
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  Speaker 1: on it. You know. I just know working with him
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  Speaker 1: this year so far, that that everything is there that
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  Speaker 1: you want, you know, in a quarterback to be successful
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  Speaker 1: in this league, and and it's our job as his
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  Speaker 1: staff and his coaches to get him there. How can
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  Speaker 1: you help to advance the processes? It's just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of spending time and giving him those opportunities, but you
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure those opportunities are high quality reps
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  Speaker 1: from him as well. So is it getting to know
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback and the more that you get to spend
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  Speaker 1: time with him, you can make sure that he's in
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  Speaker 1: the right positions to make sure that those chances in better? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: How do you do that to kind of accelerate? Is
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  Speaker 1: it just is it the time you spend together in
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  Speaker 1: the meeting rooms where you understand what he's looking at,
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  Speaker 1: what he's seeing on the field sort of deal or
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  Speaker 1: is it a understanding who he is as a person
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  Speaker 1: even off the field. How does that come together? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's all part of it, right, who he
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  Speaker 1: is as a person, who is as a player. Um?
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  Speaker 1: What does he know? What does he not know? Right? Um?
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  Speaker 1: And and it's our job as as coaches is to
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  Speaker 1: fill in those gaps for him, you know. And and
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  Speaker 1: what you love about Trevor too is his work ethic.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the way he the way he competes in
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  Speaker 1: practice every single day, competes in games. You see you
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  Speaker 1: see the toughness out there, the mental and physical toughness
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  Speaker 1: out there, and and it just comes. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a young guy. Let's go back, just check him out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, three years ago he was in college, right,
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  Speaker 1: and he had an offensive coordinator, and last year he
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  Speaker 1: had another offensive coordinator, head coach. This years a new
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  Speaker 1: head coach, offensive coordinator. Everybody, you know, it's not there
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been consistency yet, right, And so we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: build as a team and as a unit that consistency
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  Speaker 1: around around him and and really around this team and
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  Speaker 1: I know that once you get there. I mean, just
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  Speaker 1: look around the league, right, let me look how Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I used as a great example because you
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  Speaker 1: see how it took a young quarterback struggled for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of seasons and then bang, you know, they're they're
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  Speaker 1: right where they need to be. You know, I do.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can, you know, have an opportunity this
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  Speaker 1: year to take advantage of some situations and get better
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  Speaker 1: as a team. I do, and and the team believes that,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But but there's a process here, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times people don't want to nobody wants to
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  Speaker 1: wait anymore. You know, there's there's always you know, it's now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I get that. I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a win now mentality, and um, you know
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  Speaker 1: it's it's our job to to try to speed that
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  Speaker 1: up the best we can. Um, you know, through practice,
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  Speaker 1: through prep, and and just through teaching. In your eurofe
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  Speaker 1: or you were on the outside looking in, did you
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  Speaker 1: see that from some of the young quarterbacks where he
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  Speaker 1: said he just needs a little bit more time. He
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  Speaker 1: has the tools, maybe he doesn't have that consistency or
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  Speaker 1: not the best situation and he just needs a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more time. Look at Jalen Look at Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 1: Great example last year. You know, he's got a new
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  Speaker 1: head coach, he's got a new coordinator. You know. Um, yes,
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  Speaker 1: they made the postseason and he probably went through some
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  Speaker 1: growing pains last year. Now second season, the same head coach,
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  Speaker 1: same coordinator, play caller, the whole thing. Add some more
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  Speaker 1: pieces around it, have consistency, things thrive. You look at
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals young quarterback, things or things thrive, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at you look at the Chargers. You
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  Speaker 1: can take a young quarterback. Put the pieces around. There's consistency,
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  Speaker 1: things thrive. So it's a model, you know, for for
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  Speaker 1: success in this league. Um, you know, and and and
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's just where we are at the time.
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  Speaker 1: But but I know that with time, you know we'll
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  Speaker 1: be there. You know with those teams quarterbacks like he
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  Speaker 1: had no right there and Haback quarterings right there and
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  Speaker 1: you go home, said Kelsey, that's got to be party
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  Speaker 1: to the castle was a lot better. And what Trevor
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  Speaker 1: has a routine that's gotten it does, it does And
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  Speaker 1: that's why you know we did the moves in the
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  Speaker 1: off season with the free agents and guys like that
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  Speaker 1: to bring here that can help, you know, help Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: And again it it's this is a this is a
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  Speaker 1: two way street, right. It's it's the players and coaches
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  Speaker 1: and and and we're working. We're working together to try
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  Speaker 1: to build that consistency and UM have sustainability, you know,
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  Speaker 1: year in and year out each each time we we
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  Speaker 1: we take you know, you know we take the field
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  Speaker 1: every year. And UM, you just see it around the league.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when offensive success you know, UM, their stability
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  Speaker 1: around the quarterback, if you're going to have probably and
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  Speaker 1: general having now or how do you heat? You know,
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  Speaker 1: you look at it and you go back and watch
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  Speaker 1: the tape. The players are there. They're there, and we
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  Speaker 1: we being coaches, UM, I need to teach a little better. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we need to show the players, UM a few more
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  Speaker 1: examples of how those plays can succeed. UM, and then
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  Speaker 1: we make them right and then we stay on the field.
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  Speaker 1: We convert the fourth down, you know, we stay on
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  Speaker 1: the field. UM. I don't regret any of the decisions
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  Speaker 1: at all. I think they were you know, favorable, you
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  Speaker 1: know for us to to go at those those times,
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  Speaker 1: taking taking out the end of game, you know, fourth downs,
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  Speaker 1: but the normal in game ones and and I would
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  Speaker 1: do them again. So it just it comes back to again,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's the players and the coaches doing it, doing
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  Speaker 1: it together. We can't just rely, you know, solely on
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  Speaker 1: the players to get it done. We've got to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we're you know, putting putting them in in
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  Speaker 1: positions to to see the plays, to execute the plays
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, have success. You've been a part
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  Speaker 1: of a game where the offense moved the ball at well,
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  Speaker 1: at that many yards and scored that few points. It's
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  Speaker 1: hard to go back and think, but it's rare, you know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean you're over three in the red zone, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're down there and you've got chance, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to put points on the board and score touchdowns and
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  Speaker 1: you don't. And that's the frustrating thing sitting here today.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as you look at that, and you might
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  Speaker 1: beat beat him on the stat sheet, right, but that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's the final score, you know, that matters
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  Speaker 1: the most. And this game, when you look at it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, red zone efficiency, penalties, turn over, the takeaway margin, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even time of possession possibly or all all
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  Speaker 1: factors in you know, us not winning that game. There's
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  Speaker 1: small things you can tweak to improve the red zone offense,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's harder to make changes when you're no,
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  Speaker 1: but you you can. You can. You can build on consistency.
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  Speaker 1: You can go back and and and see what you've
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  Speaker 1: had success in doing, you know, down there. And granted,
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  Speaker 1: each each week's a different defense too, so you're you're
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  Speaker 1: scheming for a different you know, a different front, a
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  Speaker 1: different coverage you know in the tight red low red
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  Speaker 1: and you know, but you can go back and look
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  Speaker 1: at similarities from week to week and see what's worked
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  Speaker 1: and and try to try to continue to build on
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  Speaker 1: those those plays each week. So there's you know, familiarity
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  Speaker 1: with with the offense or within the offense that the
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  Speaker 1: guys know. Has it hurt at all in the red
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  Speaker 1: zone when you Marvin's probably one of your few, like
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  Speaker 1: top shelf kind of receivers, does it hurt like when
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  Speaker 1: you call in plays. I mean, you've got Marvin who
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  Speaker 1: you know you can kind of put it up there
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  Speaker 1: and know he can go get it. But you have
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  Speaker 1: a a handful of receivers who aren't that kind of
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  Speaker 1: player necessarily yeah, and you know, and Marvin is a
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  Speaker 1: good needs a good player down there. Um, But we
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  Speaker 1: feel like we've got several good players down there, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna be aggressive and try to take
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  Speaker 1: our shot to the end zone. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with with the quarterback and with Trevor, we
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  Speaker 1: got it. We can also check it down or run
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  Speaker 1: or you know, keep us ahead, you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: down a distance. And those are all again, those are
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  Speaker 1: all things that that like today that we can we
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  Speaker 1: can show and teach our players. When you went back
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  Speaker 1: to the film Christian man, was that you know, Marvin
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  Speaker 1: and Evan is having a hot hand or was Houston
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  Speaker 1: doing something that kind of maybe take him out? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know it was. It was unfortunate when when they
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  Speaker 1: again during the week, when you you anticipate a certain
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  Speaker 1: structure and you you have some plays designed, you know
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  Speaker 1: for Christians and then they come out and play that
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  Speaker 1: shell you know, cover to it. It. It took away
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  Speaker 1: a few of those plays, um. And and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: we still have to find, you know, the ways to
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  Speaker 1: to get you know, Christian the football, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: he's such a dynamic player for us that that we've
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  Speaker 1: got to make sure that, um, we're doing everything we
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  Speaker 1: can to get him, get him the football, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, you don't ever want to be in
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  Speaker 1: a situation where you know, he has three or four targets.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he needs to be up there, you know, nine, ten,
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  Speaker 1: eleven targets possibly, you know, and and and being able
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  Speaker 1: to spread the ball around to you know. Um but
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  Speaker 1: as it us, you know, there were some opportunities and
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  Speaker 1: we just missed on. Thank you, thank you, all right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: mhm