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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "Focusing on us, one play at a time." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd and Anton Harrison really sort of stand.
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  Speaker 2: Uh zay Zay still uh kind of day to day.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna see how he works this week. You know,
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  Speaker 2: probably a long shot, you know for the game, but
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  Speaker 2: we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: He's he's worth.
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  Speaker 2: He's progressing very nice. Devin's probably the one that's uh
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  Speaker 2: a little more uh severe with his hand. He's probably
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  Speaker 2: gonna miss this football game just the nature of the
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  Speaker 2: injury and and you know what's gonna take place with him,
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  Speaker 2: so uh, he's actually one of the one of the
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  Speaker 2: players we're gonna keep back here, uh for the next
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  Speaker 2: two weeks. Actually he does, Yeah, had it yesterday, I
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  Speaker 2: believe John correct, Yes, I believe he had it short, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he had uh just a couple of screws putting his thumb.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So for a while, we're hoping just these these weeks
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  Speaker 2: while we're in we're in London, and then we get
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  Speaker 2: back at the Indianapolis game, hopefully he'll be ready.
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  Speaker 3: Have to probably you know, soft cast him something like that.
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  Speaker 4: Guys were working on the Londony schedule and everything with
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  Speaker 4: did you guys ask to make sure that there was
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  Speaker 4: that home game against the familiar opponent of the week after.
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  Speaker 2: No, just just you know, the guarantee of just having
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  Speaker 2: the home game, you know, not necessarily who it was,
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  Speaker 2: but just having a home game after after we get back.
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  Speaker 5: Any other players you're planning to lead back.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Devon will be one that we'll keep back. Devin.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think we do have like four or.
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  Speaker 2: Five guys, you know, our ir guys, although you know,
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  Speaker 2: Smoot Cam, Antonio Johnson will all travel make the trip.
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Hodges will make the trip. He's progressing nicely. Who
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  Speaker 2: else would be on that list right now? I'm just
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  Speaker 2: drawing a blank real quick. That's about it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Greg will stay here, Yeah, he's on I R.
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  Speaker 3: He'll stay here. Yeah, yep. Is Anton good to go
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  Speaker 3: for this week?
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  Speaker 2: Anton Harrison? Yeah yeah, yeah, he'll be out there today working. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he'll be good. You know, look, I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: don't think you have to do anything any anything special.
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  Speaker 2: I just think we have to we just have to
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  Speaker 2: focus in on on you know, the early part of
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  Speaker 2: the football.
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  Speaker 3: Game, right, the execution part of the game.
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  Speaker 2: And and honestly, even last week we started out well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we just were unfortunate. We didn't
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  Speaker 2: catch the touchdown and then we missed field goal. So
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  Speaker 2: we started fast, we just didn't finish.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's kind of the emphasis, kind of the focus,
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  Speaker 2: you know this week is just being able to get
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  Speaker 2: off to that faster start and and trying to come
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  Speaker 2: away with some points.
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  Speaker 6: Are you worried on all the how Calvin will respond
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  Speaker 6: given that it's against his former team.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously he'll be excited, you know, and being able to
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  Speaker 2: see some of some of his old teammates, and but
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  Speaker 2: you know, Calvin does a great job, and just kind
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  Speaker 2: of focusing on Calvin and and understanding his role with
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  Speaker 2: what we're trying to get done, and and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to, you know, seeing how he how
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  Speaker 2: he performs, you know, against him when.
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  Speaker 6: You look at maybe what that the bad practice day
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  Speaker 6: he had, and then like maybe he puts it on
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  Speaker 6: himself and then it compounds it.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think we all have a tendency to
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  Speaker 3: do that, you know, to kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of press a little bit if you have a bad
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  Speaker 2: day or a bad practice coming out the next day
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  Speaker 2: and trying to you know, redeem yourself a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But he just you know, my message to him has
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  Speaker 2: always been just just be him, you know, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: just do the things that you know he's capable of
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  Speaker 2: doing to.
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  Speaker 3: The notion at all that.
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  Speaker 4: Change the senor he might.
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  Speaker 3: Help in some way. I do.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's a good opportunity. It's it's no
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  Speaker 2: different like in training camp when we went up to Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the guys are all in the same hotel,
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  Speaker 2: we're in the in the meal.
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  Speaker 3: Room, meetings, you know, we're doing everything together.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, sort of one of those bonding and type of
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  Speaker 2: experiences as a as a football team, as coaches, and
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  Speaker 2: and uh just just happens to be over in London,
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  Speaker 2: and uh it's it's a great place, and we're excited
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  Speaker 2: to be going over and and a chance for us
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  Speaker 2: to kind of you know, sort of sort of reset
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  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit, and regroup and and try to
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  Speaker 2: get back on track.
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  Speaker 4: You've been there once with this team at once with Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 5: What do you what have you learned about.
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  Speaker 4: This experience and how to prepare a team to play
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  Speaker 4: under these situations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the biggest thing is just handling the travel,
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  Speaker 2: you know from Thursday night into Friday, and Friday is
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a different day. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we don't we don't change much of the schedule. We
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  Speaker 2: prepare the same. We get a lot of the work
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  Speaker 2: done here, you know, Wednesday, Thursday, and and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and then and then Friday is Friday when we get there,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, just trying to get them to understand how
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  Speaker 2: to you know, how to pack, how to hydrate, how
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  Speaker 2: to how to eat right, how to how to do
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  Speaker 2: all those things to take care of their bodies so
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  Speaker 2: that they're they're ready to go on on game day.
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  Speaker 2: And and the other thing too, is it's a different
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a different football surface than than.
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  Speaker 3: What we're used to playing on.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, making sure that they understand that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: having the right shoes on too, you know, just all
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  Speaker 2: those types of little things kind of prepare these guys
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  Speaker 2: for for this game.
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  Speaker 4: Two weeks last year at three and seven, you were
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  Speaker 4: the one that said you still felt like this team
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  Speaker 4: that played for the division type that was much deeper
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  Speaker 4: into the season at that time. Now, is it is
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  Speaker 4: this funk, if that's the right word to use, that
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  Speaker 4: this team seems to be in right now. Is it
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  Speaker 4: more concerning because this is your second year and they
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  Speaker 4: know your system, and there's more familiarity.
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  Speaker 2: I think, I think the difference I really, I would
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  Speaker 2: probably say it's probably no difference. Right that we put
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  Speaker 2: ourselves in a whole last year three and Evan because
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  Speaker 2: of the things that we did to ourselves, and some
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  Speaker 2: of those same things are are kind of creeping into
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  Speaker 2: our game now, you know, in these in these two losses.
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  Speaker 2: And the guys definitely understand I you know, I think too.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they try to.
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  Speaker 2: We all try to press just a little bit, try
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  Speaker 2: to make something happen as opposed to just letting.
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  Speaker 3: The game sort of unfold.
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  Speaker 2: And so we just got to get back to that,
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  Speaker 2: just just get back to you know, having having a
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  Speaker 2: solid week of practice like we did last week, and
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  Speaker 2: and then just you know, focusing on us one play
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  Speaker 2: at a time, what do I need to do on
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  Speaker 2: this particular play, and then go to the next short
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  Speaker 2: term memory if something bad happens, short term memory of
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  Speaker 2: something good happens, and uh, you know, just play at
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  Speaker 2: one play to time.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's week three. Every season is a different season,
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  Speaker 4: is what we're seeing now with this team. Kind of
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  Speaker 4: an example of that that, you you know, we hear
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  Speaker 4: it all the time. The NFL is a week two
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  Speaker 4: week league, and this is kind of an example of it.
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  Speaker 4: But it's still hard to kind of process the fact
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  Speaker 4: that this team seems to be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the hard part because you know, our expectations
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  Speaker 2: a lot higher and you expected to have outcomes differently.
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  Speaker 3: But but it's it's not it's where we are.
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  Speaker 2: I always tell this team too, it's not how we start,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be how we finish, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: season and you know, yeah, we were making mistakes. It's
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  Speaker 2: not like you know, teams have really done much as
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  Speaker 2: you know, to us as far as beating us. Where
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  Speaker 2: we were beating ourselves, you know, and that's usually the case.
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  Speaker 2: And and you know, once we figure out and a
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  Speaker 2: lot like last year we were kind of beating ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: And once we figure out how to you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: of get out of our own way, take care of
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  Speaker 2: the football, tackle better, all those types of things, then
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  Speaker 2: things begin to go in your favor.
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  Speaker 4: Is it to have a guy like shad Way for
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  Speaker 4: you that you know you can put in multiple spots,
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  Speaker 4: you'll get the dropped done for.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's uh, it's reassuring you got a
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  Speaker 2: you got a veteran guy there that you know can
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  Speaker 2: play a couple of spots, the guard, the center spot.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's played a lot of football, and he's
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  Speaker 2: just a he's a reliable guy, you know, trustworthy guy,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, somebody that you can definitely count on
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  Speaker 2: to be able to go in a game at any
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  Speaker 2: at any time eight London game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you do, you tell her rely on him for
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  Speaker 4: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Of stuff or yeah, no, I mean, I mean most
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  Speaker 2: of the guys have been over there, whether with us
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  Speaker 2: or with another team, and you know, it's it's I
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  Speaker 2: know the guys will probably visit with him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and talk to him a little bit, but but I
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  Speaker 2: don't I don't necessarily rely rely on that as much.
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  Speaker 5: Extra challenges does the two week trip to London put
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  Speaker 5: on the table for you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know we're not obviously we're not. You're in
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  Speaker 2: our building and and you know making sure our video
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  Speaker 2: servers and things like that are for computers and film
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  Speaker 2: watching and tape and game breakdown. The second week, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're all up and running, and you know we're having
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  Speaker 2: to move to a different hotel. But you know, again,
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  Speaker 2: this is why I try to keep the week as
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  Speaker 2: normal as possible while we're there, you know, for coaches
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  Speaker 2: and players and just kind of getting that same same
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  Speaker 2: routine and it.
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  Speaker 3: Just just so happens. It's going to be in London, so.
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  Speaker 2: Try not to make too many changes, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: keep it, keep it business as usual for everybody.
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  Speaker 5: You already started to think ahead to the trip back
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  Speaker 5: because you have the two weeks there and then the
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  Speaker 5: home game immediately after.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you got to prepare for that.
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  Speaker 2: You think more about the players obviously, and getting their
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  Speaker 2: rest and getting back on you know, the ourt time.
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  Speaker 3: Time zone here and all of that. So you know, focusing.
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  Speaker 2: On on that just a little bit when we get
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  Speaker 2: back and you know, making sure that they can they
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  Speaker 2: take care of their bodies because you know it's a
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  Speaker 2: long travel, making sure that they're they're doing the right things.
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  Speaker 3: Especially when we get back back to those.
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  Speaker 6: Players who you said you are going to bring to
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  Speaker 6: London if they're injured depended, do you think there's a
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  Speaker 6: chance all four of those guys could play the second game?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, you know camp suspension on the publics.
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  Speaker 2: Could Johnson play this week and then they're getting the
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  Speaker 2: rest of them following waiting. In regards to Antonio Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: he'll actually you know, be able to do some things
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  Speaker 2: this week, just individual wise, you know, just kind of
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  Speaker 2: get him back into into practice a little bit, and
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  Speaker 2: then we can actually practice him next week, you know,
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  Speaker 2: going into Buffalo and see where he's at. So there
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  Speaker 2: is a chance because he's on the fifty three right,
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  Speaker 2: so there's a chance he could he could make it
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  Speaker 2: for the Buffalo game. You know, in Smoot's case, obviously
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  Speaker 2: we want to get him, you know, acclimated into practice.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to once we activate him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we don't have to make a decision right away.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we want to see where he's at, you
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  Speaker 2: know with uh kind of the rigors of practice and
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  Speaker 2: understanding that. And then Cam obviously, you know, with with
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  Speaker 2: the suspension and everything, you know, we've we've you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've got permission to carry him and take him with
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  Speaker 2: us this week. So this is game four, right of
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  Speaker 2: his suspension, so we can actually bring him, bring him
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  Speaker 2: back next week if if need be, and and get
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  Speaker 2: him acclimated into practice as well. So you know, all
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  Speaker 2: things are kind of shape it up for that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for next week, as we you know, as we prepare
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  Speaker 2: for that, Cooper, We're not gonna rush yet. There's no
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  Speaker 2: need at this time, and we'll just see how he
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  Speaker 2: how he handles. You know, obviously the two days, the
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  Speaker 2: two weeks over there can't because he's on I R.
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  Speaker 3: He can't necessarily practice with the team, but he can
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  Speaker 3: do a lot of stuff off to the side.
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  Speaker 1: What's your message to the team. I guess as far
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  Speaker 1: as two weeks over there, there could be distractions and
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  Speaker 1: going out things like that, just to keep them focused.
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  Speaker 3: During that time curfew at night, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not as simple as that, but as
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  Speaker 2: part of it, I mean, and we're we're further away
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  Speaker 2: from the city and some of the distractions there. And listen,
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  Speaker 2: I you know, our goal is to go over there
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  Speaker 2: and play two football games, and and and ultimately you
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  Speaker 2: try to you try to win those those two games.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I've got to trust the players, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and you know, they've got to do the right things.
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  Speaker 3: They've got to be in the right frame of mind,
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  Speaker 3: and and.
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  Speaker 2: I have to put it back on them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to make the right right decisions and right choices.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, by.
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  Speaker 2: By keeping uh by keeping the schedule and the routine
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  Speaker 2: the same. They can get in the same sort of
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  Speaker 2: you know, the same habits they have here, right, And.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: About these guys, you know, getting into trouble or staying
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  Speaker 2: out late.
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  Speaker 3: And yes I do have a bet check and all that,
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  Speaker 3: but that that does help with.
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  Speaker 1: With Devin out. I mean, what have you seen from Chad?
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  Speaker 3: That's more.
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  Speaker 1: I know, he got into the game last week, So
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  Speaker 1: what sort of his progress?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chad has been doing really well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we wanted to make sure he continues to
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  Speaker 2: develop and play and not not hold him back. So
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  Speaker 2: getting him in the football game last week obviously was
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  Speaker 2: by design. Now you know, he gets a chance to
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  Speaker 2: to step up and start and and and be in
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  Speaker 2: the you know, being the huddle full time. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: lean on last year a little bit, you know, young
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  Speaker 2: player who were we're excited about and he'll do a
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  Speaker 2: good job last year.
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  Speaker 5: Would this group give you more confidence that they can
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  Speaker 5: turn it around this year?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? And and yes.
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  Speaker 2: And what I'm hearing from the guys this year, you
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  Speaker 2: know what they're saying and talking about in the locker
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  Speaker 2: room around the building.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's just now we have to go.
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  Speaker 3: We have to go do it.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta we can't just keep talking about it. We
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  Speaker 2: just gotta do it and show it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Coach, thanks so much, Thanks good