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Pete Carroll: "This Is A Really Challenging Matchup" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Okay, uh said earlier in the week, this is a
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  Speaker 1: really challenging matchup, even getting to the week with well,
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  Speaker 1: now we've done it all and we've done the plans
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  Speaker 1: and in all phases here, it's it's still a really
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  Speaker 1: big challenge because these guys are so good at everything,
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  Speaker 1: so it's gonna really call on us to be at
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  Speaker 1: our best. And so then that's a great thing. And
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  Speaker 1: I hope, hopefully we'll be able to pull this thing
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  Speaker 1: often and uh and get a great win out there.
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  Speaker 2: Leonard.
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  Speaker 3: Look his first few days he looked exactly like we
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  Speaker 3: had hoped.
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  Speaker 1: We had hoped he was great and picked stuff up,
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  Speaker 1: no problem with him learning the scheme and the principles
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. Everything carried over, so he'll he'll
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to play.
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  Speaker 4: Felt like almost like he'd been here for a while.
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  Speaker 4: Just how seamlessly he fit in. Did you get that
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  Speaker 4: sense of those guys just all kind of or yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I did, I did, and and uh, it's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a credit to him fitting in.
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  Speaker 3: Our guys were very receptive, of course.
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  Speaker 1: But he just kind of just rolled right with it,
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  Speaker 1: and we got after him little bit of the meetings
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, kind of try to close that
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  Speaker 1: that transition in down to make it quick, and he
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  Speaker 1: took right to it. So we're off and running.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like this is as healthy as you've been
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  Speaker 2: in a while.
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  Speaker 3: It certainly feels like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this week, so many guys on the practice field
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  Speaker 1: and guys fighting for reps, which was great. It's the
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  Speaker 1: first time we felt like that and a long time.
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  Speaker 1: So it would be like if you came off like
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  Speaker 1: a buy or something like that, you know, you feel
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  Speaker 1: really good at We feel like we got a big
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  Speaker 1: boost from the guys that are out there battling.
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  Speaker 3: So it's no time like the present.
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  Speaker 1: He worked well today, so he was out there going
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  Speaker 1: and Dealu was out there going to Bradford.
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  Speaker 3: He couldn't do much today with see, so you expect
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  Speaker 3: all the plenty of guys.
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  Speaker 1: Let me wait till we get a little bit closer.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to see how this oh week hit him
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  Speaker 1: and see what we get from the docks.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that yet.
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  Speaker 2: Macintos and Austin that you guys have returned to practice.
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  Speaker 2: I guess were they in the stags of things right now?
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  Speaker 1: They're both going, they're both practicing and going. They're they're
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  Speaker 1: they look like they're right in the flow with it.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see how that goes. But again, that just
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  Speaker 1: continues to help us feel the depth and of guys
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  Speaker 1: being healthy and they're out there working and taking reps.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, just kind of got his feet wet last week.
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  Speaker 4: How much will he be able to do more with
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  Speaker 4: another week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we he did have a good week too, and
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  Speaker 1: so we'll we'll expect him to fit in more. It
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  Speaker 1: was a lot to ask him last week. We had
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  Speaker 1: very few plays for him in the plan and uh,
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  Speaker 1: but we've expanded that and so you can certainly feel
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  Speaker 1: his his speed on the field, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: it's exciting to have him out there. I'm hoping. So yeah, right,
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  Speaker 1: he practiced today, So that's a really good sign, hoping that.
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  Speaker 2: He can earn k had good weeks in practice.
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  Speaker 3: They did.
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  Speaker 1: They're both ready to go. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: noticed it, you might not notice, but you have a
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  Speaker 1: little switch switch on us with the Jerseys today. I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't tell you which one guy from the other I
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  Speaker 1: was unscrewed up.
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  Speaker 3: The reason why they did that, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I know that Tyler's jersey on
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  Speaker 1: DK looked like a bikini.
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  Speaker 2: That offer.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know how he's gonna give
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  Speaker 3: it off. The other way around it. You could look
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  Speaker 3: at Tiger, looks like he's one of his big brothers jersey.
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  Speaker 2: So standing back flip, how long have you known that?
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  Speaker 1: I did not know that. That shocked me yesterday when
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  Speaker 1: I saw that. So I was gonna show mine, but
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  Speaker 1: I thought, no, I'll hold off a little bit then,
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  Speaker 1: won't take away from his first you know, coming out
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  Speaker 1: with the back back flip.
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  Speaker 3: You see guys doing that.
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  Speaker 1: No, he wouldn't do it unless he could do it,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 3: So it made it look easy. It was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a very big guy to do that was
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  Speaker 1: a shock to see that.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: Baltimore leads the league with sacks.
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  Speaker 2: We know that, But.
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  Speaker 4: The amount of sacks that they racked up at home
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  Speaker 4: is there something that I think it's been five and
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  Speaker 4: every game they play, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's just I'm sure they're feeling the crowd and all
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  Speaker 1: that and the momentum of you know, the games they've
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  Speaker 1: had there. They're they're doing playing well there. I mean
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  Speaker 1: anywhere you look, any statistic you want to dig out,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are out there, and uh so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to see if we can keep that kind
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  Speaker 1: of quiet and see if we can do it.
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  Speaker 2: There's special teams ever are even really good as well? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: for blocks and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's he was a great special teams coach
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  Speaker 1: back in the day and he's carried that as part
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  Speaker 1: of you know what he has become as a head coach.
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  Speaker 3: He does everything well.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's a rare instance for a guy
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  Speaker 1: to be a special teams guy to get a head
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  Speaker 1: coaching job. But I think it's a really valuable thing
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  Speaker 1: for guys to look at. And for all the special
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  Speaker 1: teams coaches that are out there, they have so much
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  Speaker 1: to do in terms of running the game and being
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  Speaker 1: involved with it that they probably have the best perspective,
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  Speaker 1: you know, once they've had their experiences to understand how
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  Speaker 1: what it is to manage a game.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, more guys we get that chance,
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  Speaker 3: what do.
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  Speaker 2: You think get Their down numbers are getting better.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible getting better, getting a little bit better. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're doing a little bit better in a number of
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  Speaker 1: areas and it's important to us, you know, to see
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  Speaker 1: that this will be a really you know, a really
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  Speaker 1: important game.
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  Speaker 3: To keep the ball and so we can move it
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  Speaker 3: and keep them off the field.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm hoping we can just keep getting better on
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the football. We're Improvings being better or
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  Speaker 1: Geno being better. I think it's just getting together and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just being out here and working it.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we thought we were we were ready
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  Speaker 1: to go, and we weren't. We weren't good enough at
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  Speaker 1: the start of the season, and so the numbers are
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  Speaker 1: going to look kind of bleak for a while because
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  Speaker 1: we've started poorly. But I don't care about that now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you just get about getting better this week
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  Speaker 1: and see if we can do a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: to help us win.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear anything from the NFL on Reek's penalty
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  Speaker 2: last week?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I did, I did. I was. I went into that.
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  Speaker 1: They were very very gracious about talking through the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about all those plays that came up.
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  Speaker 2: That's seeing the same.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we did.
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  Speaker 1: We had a really really good conversation about it, and
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  Speaker 1: we we got to this and said what happened and
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  Speaker 1: what was going on, who could see what? And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I was I was, you know, I was okay about
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  Speaker 1: having the conversation. We're just learning. The thing I'm concerned
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  Speaker 1: concerned about is what you know, what what is the
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  Speaker 1: penalty and what isn't and you know, how do we
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  Speaker 1: coach our guys to to understand it?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 1: And and so those are those really those discussions are
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  Speaker 1: worthwhile and and and we clear things up.
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  Speaker 3: That helps us a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Is it hard to coach penalty stuff to during the
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  Speaker 2: season You're not like training camp or you're practicing as much.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what the penalties you know on the field
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  Speaker 2: and what is it?
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  Speaker 1: I I think it's because the impact is so much
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  Speaker 1: more obvious now. I think that the guys feel it
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  Speaker 1: more so, and they're and you know, they're trying and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we don't want to give our opponents anything,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and so uh as hard enough as it is,
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  Speaker 1: so we're working at it, and uh, guys get more
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with understanding, and they get more comfortab their assignments
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  Speaker 1: and playing in the games, and they don't they don't
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  Speaker 1: feel as desperate as they do sometimes when they when
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  Speaker 1: they reach and they grab or they you know, they
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  Speaker 1: lunge at a guy when they should and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I actually think that it helps. You were and
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  Speaker 1: we shouldn't be improving there. Also, we're kind of dug
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  Speaker 1: ourselves a little bit of a hole bit, but just
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  Speaker 1: as long as we keep climbing out of it, we'll
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  Speaker 1: do all right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he is.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, do the help.