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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Moving Forward to Week 3, Confidence in Ability to Respond · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Coach, how important is it to kind of be
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  Speaker 1: able to move forward from this one? First loss of
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  Speaker 1: the season, tough matchup with the Broncos. How important is
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  Speaker 1: it to kind of put that behind you and start
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  Speaker 1: thinking about what's next?
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  Speaker 2: That was the message right after the game in the team,
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room, and then obviously this afternoon now
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  Speaker 2: in the team meeting was, hey, guys, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: be extremely accountable to each other, to the things that
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  Speaker 2: obviously we could improve on or where we fell short. coaches, players,
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  Speaker 2: everybody involved in that. We got to be accountable. We
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  Speaker 2: got to connect, reconnect, and we've got to move on
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  Speaker 2: and respond. I mean, that's what it really comes down to.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see us respond. I'm excited to get
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  Speaker 2: back on the grass on Wednesday with this group and
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  Speaker 2: get back to work. But you're right. It is the
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  Speaker 2: message to the, especially some of the younger players, rookies,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, hey guys, this isn't the college football playoff
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  Speaker 2: where you know, you lose a game in week two
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  Speaker 2: and you might not make it. So we've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of games ahead of us and we have a,
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  Speaker 2: you know, really big opponent, quality opponent coming into Jacksonville
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  Speaker 2: this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Jamal, did you have another one or you're good? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we can then move to D-Rock and then to Justin.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Liam, after you went Back, watch the tape from
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  Speaker 4: yesterday's game.
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  Speaker 5: Can you reevaluate the offensive line and the job you
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  Speaker 5: think they did?
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  Speaker 2: Did it look worse or better than maybe you thought? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I thought in the run game it was a little
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  Speaker 2: bit better than it maybe felt at times. I think
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  Speaker 2: we had some decent movement. I thought we handled some
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  Speaker 2: movement well and some pressures decent. In the past pro,
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  Speaker 2: I think we got edged a little bit. I think
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  Speaker 2: Zach Allen really disrupted things inside. We all kind of
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  Speaker 2: took our turns a little bit up front. I think
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't necessarily one guy for the majority of the game.
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  Speaker 2: I think we all kind of took our turns. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to do a better job of moving the launch point,
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  Speaker 2: doing some things to be able to help those guys out.
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  Speaker 2: so they're not just getting teed off on, and some
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  Speaker 2: of the longer down and distances, getting the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: ball out a little bit more, you know, some longer
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  Speaker 2: developing routes that, you know, the ball's getting held on
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  Speaker 2: to a little bit. I don't think we helped them
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  Speaker 2: with some of that, you know, so it definitely wasn't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily one guy that just kind of, you know, hurt us.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody kind of took a turn, very similar to Our
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  Speaker 2: game and our team as a whole, we all kind
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  Speaker 2: of took turns, and I'm confident in that group and
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  Speaker 2: their ability to respond.
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  Speaker 6: Can you elaborate a little bit, too, on the cornerback
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  Speaker 6: rotation that you guys are using, you know, those outside corners?
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  Speaker 4: Is it, like, pre-planned?
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  Speaker 2: Which drives? Is it more by feel? Is it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more? It's just by drive with those guys
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  Speaker 2: rotating in, you know, with Buster coming Travis, Jarrion, and
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  Speaker 2: then obviously J. Lou specifically in some of the nickel stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We did it for the most part of the last
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  Speaker 2: season as well before Travis got hurt. It's something that
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  Speaker 2: we've got to continue to do. We have corners that
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  Speaker 2: we have confidence in. Those guys can all make plays
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  Speaker 2: for us. They can all communicate for us. They've been
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  Speaker 2: in the system now. We've got to play it better
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  Speaker 2: for sure, but we've also got to get to the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback to help those guys out as well in the
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  Speaker 2: back end. Definitely some communication and we're a little bit
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  Speaker 2: softer than I would have liked us to be, especially
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  Speaker 2: in some situations. But yeah, it's a rotation based on pregame.
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  Speaker 2: We have it all laid out. The players know it.
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  Speaker 2: They all know the rotation. It's been clearly laid out
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  Speaker 2: to them what the expectations and standards are.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go to Justin and to Shipley. Justin, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think we can hear you.
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  Speaker 4: Can you guys hear me now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry about that. I think on Wednesday, Mark was mentioning
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  Speaker 4: how many road games are in the next few years
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  Speaker 4: for you guys. Is there anything that you can do
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  Speaker 4: to improve that communication on the road? I know a
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  Speaker 4: few times it looked like Trevor was trying to get
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  Speaker 4: guys lined up correctly because they probably couldn't hear. Is
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  Speaker 4: there anything that you guys can do to kind of
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  Speaker 4: improve that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we tried to, do some tempo to like
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  Speaker 2: getting some static formations and it was good for us.
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  Speaker 2: And then we also had some incompletions on, on those plays.
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  Speaker 2: So it wasn't necessarily, you know, that, that could have
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  Speaker 2: helped us. I don't think, but, you know, look, just
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  Speaker 2: trimming the inventory when you're on the road. Hey man,
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  Speaker 2: maybe some, you know, less motions, less moving parts to
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  Speaker 2: be able to help these guys, you know, just go
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  Speaker 2: settle in. I thought, I mean, we had the one
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  Speaker 2: illegal shift penalty that got called that, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: ended up getting reset on it. So it was a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, you know, could have gone either way. I
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  Speaker 2: thought our guys handled it for the most part decent.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a tough place to play. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's some real home field advantage that they have there.
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  Speaker 2: And it's something that in the NFL, you got to
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  Speaker 2: deal with it. I mean, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: We have to go compete at that level. and be
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  Speaker 2: dialed in to execute in those situations. But we can
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  Speaker 2: continue to help them with, hey, making sure that we
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  Speaker 2: have a tight inventory, making sure that we can trim
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  Speaker 2: verbiage and motions when applicable. But I didn't think that
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  Speaker 2: the guys were too, like, you're going to have some
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  Speaker 2: plays that you're down on the clock, that you're having
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  Speaker 2: to get people moving around. I mean, that's pretty normal,
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  Speaker 2: especially in week two in the NFL, first time on
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  Speaker 2: the road in that environment. So I was actually proud
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  Speaker 2: of the way our guys handled from a discipline standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: the penalties, like pre-snaps. I mean, we really didn't shoot
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  Speaker 2: ourselves in the foot when it came to some of
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  Speaker 2: that communication. But in general, communication has got to be better.
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  Speaker 4: And then did it seem like guys were kind of
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  Speaker 4: feeling the altitude a little bit in that second half?
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember which one of their players said it,
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  Speaker 4: but one of their guys said you could kind of tell.
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  Speaker 4: Did it seem that way to you?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get anything from Ferg or from any of
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  Speaker 2: the guys saying, hey, man, we're gassed. I didn't sense
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  Speaker 2: that or get any of that information. Maybe they just
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  Speaker 2: felt like they had momentum and they sustained a few
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  Speaker 2: long drives where our offense went three and out a
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  Speaker 2: number of times there or didn't sustain drives, so then
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  Speaker 2: our defense is on the grass probably a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to happen. when you don't execute and you
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  Speaker 2: don't sustain drives and can't get off the field as
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  Speaker 2: a defense. So I didn't hear anything at all. Like
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  Speaker 2: post game after action review, I didn't get anything from
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  Speaker 2: those guys in terms of like feeling the altitude or
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  Speaker 2: being out of shape from any of that stuff. I
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  Speaker 2: just think we were on the grass a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Liam.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go to Shipley then to a Halloran.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Liam, thanks for doing this.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed like you guys had a lot of success
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  Speaker 2: going to the middle of the field yesterday, but less
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  Speaker 2: so outside. What do you think that was kind of
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  Speaker 2: that disconnect? Was it self-inflicted or was it just kind
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  Speaker 2: of the defense makes place too?
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  Speaker 1: Was it both?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a combination, John. I mean, we weren't
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  Speaker 2: like we weren't connecting on the on the outcuts that
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  Speaker 2: I think we've been better at specifically last week. They
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  Speaker 2: did mix up some of their coverages of playing some
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  Speaker 2: tricky cover twos in which you need to be able
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  Speaker 2: to work some of the intermediates in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the field. But when we were throwing the ball out,
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  Speaker 2: we just weren't connecting. Whether we were leaving the ball inside,
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  Speaker 2: we had the drop on the out and the comeback
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  Speaker 2: over there. It was a combination, as you mentioned. And
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  Speaker 2: that's something that obviously... we need to continue to work
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  Speaker 2: on in practice. Like, it's not going to just happen
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  Speaker 2: in the game. We got to be better at the
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  Speaker 2: connection in practice to getting the ball outside on outbreakers
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  Speaker 2: and be able to continue to work the middle when
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  Speaker 2: it's applicable. But, you know, I think it was, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: and they made some good plays too, as you mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: But if you leave an outbreaker inside, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a hard down for anybody, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And so, fully expect these guys to, to be able
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  Speaker 2: to connect on that throughout the week. And we've got
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do it. We're in the NFL. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and you can't just throw, uh, singular cuts, which one way,
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  Speaker 2: or else you're going to get real, um, static.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go to O'Halloran and back to Jamal.
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  Speaker 6: Haley, I'm a couple, couple for you. Um, buzzword amongst
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  Speaker 6: the defense yesterday was uh sloppy and details if you
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  Speaker 6: agree what weren't up to your guys's normal standards on that.
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  Speaker 2: Side yeah Ryan I'll say um we kind of you
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  Speaker 2: talk about practice performance equal game reality um we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have our best practices last week um you know on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday and Friday specifically on the defensive side of the
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  Speaker 2: ball I'm not saying it was you know, putrid by
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  Speaker 2: any means, but it was just, you know, there was
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  Speaker 2: a little bit too many completions happening. The show team
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit too much time and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we addressed it and it did, it kind of carried
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  Speaker 2: into Sunday in some ways, I'll say. And it's a
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  Speaker 2: clear um line for our team to see like guys
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  Speaker 2: practice matters practice we don't dominate practice it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: really hard to go dominate an opponent and go play
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  Speaker 2: a high level opponent and so we've got to look
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  Speaker 2: at um the inventory as a as a coaching staff
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that we're not putting too much on
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  Speaker 2: these guys plates to where you like you mentioned sloppy
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  Speaker 2: details communication where that stuff kind of starts to be
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  Speaker 2: a lapse. To me, it's on us to trim it,
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  Speaker 2: tighten it, get back to fundamentals and techniques, and really
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  Speaker 2: let these guys go play fast and freely. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it was a combination of, man, do we have
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  Speaker 2: too much on them? Do we execute it during the
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  Speaker 2: week well? If we weren't, hey, how can we adjust that?
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  Speaker 2: But also, look, when you're playing in Man coverage, like,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we got to get home. We got to
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  Speaker 2: get pressure on the quarterback, and we got to play
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  Speaker 2: it better. So it's on all of us to be
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  Speaker 2: able to tighten that up. I know Campy wanted calls back.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted calls back. But, yeah, we've definitely played better,
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  Speaker 2: and we will play better.
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  Speaker 6: And then second for me, Quentin Morris, end of the
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  Speaker 6: first half, catches the pass, delay a game penalty, clock stops.
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  Speaker 6: Why does the clock restart for you didn't have to
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  Speaker 6: call timeout?
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  Speaker 2: Um, in this situation, because it was already, it was
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  Speaker 2: a running clock. So because of the running clock, um,
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  Speaker 2: the penalty just can, they're going to continue to run
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  Speaker 2: it on this. Now it's on the ready. So that
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  Speaker 2: was how I was getting it communicated up top. Cause
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  Speaker 2: we were like, Hey, maybe do we take another shot potentially? Um,
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  Speaker 2: but then we were like, all right, let's just take
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  Speaker 2: the time out here at three or four seconds, kick
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  Speaker 2: the field goal. We got momentum, but it's going to,
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  Speaker 2: the class going to run there.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: Follow up on that drive real quick. What makes Trevor
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  Speaker 6: so effective and so calm during that two minute?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think when you're in two minute, especially
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  Speaker 2: with some of the play calls, right? Like we, we
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  Speaker 2: rep those ad nauseum. You know, it's their core plays.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of them are, you know, things that he's
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  Speaker 2: been running now for a year and it's static and
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  Speaker 2: it's clean, you know, it's clean formations. We go get
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  Speaker 2: lined up, we go play and, that's something we've got
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  Speaker 2: to continue to evaluate is being able to call some
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  Speaker 2: of that stuff throughout the course of a game and
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  Speaker 2: continue to give them some of those ops. But I've
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  Speaker 2: been pleased. I mean, you look at last year, obviously
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  Speaker 2: in the Denver game, we had the two-minute drive at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the half to be able to get points.
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  Speaker 2: We did the same thing. And obviously we've got to
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  Speaker 2: continue to be better at it in some of those
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  Speaker 2: known passing situations. But, yeah, he's operated in the two-minute
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  Speaker 2: fairly well since we've been here.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Liam. Thank you. We'll go to Jamal and then
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  Speaker 3: to Mark Pritchard, and we'll have time for just one
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  Speaker 3: question each, please.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, Liam.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about the pass rush. You
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  Speaker 1: mentioned needing to get pressure on the quarterback. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think on Sunday was it just the way the Broncos
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  Speaker 1: were attacking you offensively? Was it a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: the marriage between the pass rush and the coverage on
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  Speaker 1: the back end? Where would you put the problem of
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  Speaker 1: being able to kind of get after Bo a little
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  Speaker 1: bit at it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they did a nice job of mixing
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  Speaker 2: some of their schemes, like in terms of limiting maybe
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  Speaker 2: some of the true drop back ops that he had.
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  Speaker 2: They were moving the launch point. They ran a lot
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  Speaker 2: of boots on early downs, which moved the launch point,
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  Speaker 2: got us chasing and running a little bit. They did
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  Speaker 2: a nice job, I think, of chipping when they needed to.
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  Speaker 2: And Bo, I thought, did a really good job of
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  Speaker 2: all right, he would get to the top of his
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  Speaker 2: drop and maybe the routes hadn't declared yet. And he
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  Speaker 2: just was checking it down a ton. And even if
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  Speaker 2: we were rallying and tackling, it's still frustrating for the D-line, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's frustrating for those guys when maybe it's even a
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  Speaker 2: longer down and distance situation. He checks it down. And so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, frustrating for sure. But I thought Denver did
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  Speaker 2: a nice job of mixing it, like some of the
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  Speaker 2: play action and moving the launch point, the boots. They
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  Speaker 2: threw a number of perimeter, you know, some screens on
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  Speaker 2: the perimeter to spit the ball out. And so I
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  Speaker 2: think it was a combination of they did a nice
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  Speaker 2: job of mixing it. And, you know, when we had
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  Speaker 2: some of those ops to go, we just didn't take
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  Speaker 2: advantage of them.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Lou.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: This will be our last one. Mark. Hey, Liam.
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  Speaker 5: So down the stretch, it felt as if the execution
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  Speaker 5: in the run game, especially on the earlier downs, became
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  Speaker 5: a bit stagnant. What do you direct that or attribute
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  Speaker 5: that stagnance towards exactly?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, on the one drive later
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  Speaker 2: in the game, when we when it got tied up,
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  Speaker 2: we actually started off running it decent. We had an
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  Speaker 2: eight or nine yard run on first down, ran it
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  Speaker 2: again for like a two yard gain on first down.
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  Speaker 2: And then we went to throw it on first down.
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  Speaker 2: We canned it to a run. Not everybody got the run,
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  Speaker 2: the can, and so we end up with a negative play,
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  Speaker 2: and now we're in second and long. And so that
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  Speaker 2: was just a critical moment. I think that was one
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  Speaker 2: some of you guys were referencing where it looked like
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  Speaker 2: we weren't on the same page, which did occur, where
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  Speaker 2: we had a pass canned to a run. We canned
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  Speaker 2: it to the run away from pressure. And we didn't
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  Speaker 2: all get the communication and get it down pat. So
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  Speaker 2: critical moments call for, you know, being at our best
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  Speaker 2: when our best is required. And so as coaches, as
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  Speaker 2: a staff, how do we continue to communicate to let
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  Speaker 2: them go play freely? We got to block better on
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  Speaker 2: the perimeter. We had one that first play of that
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  Speaker 2: drive that we missed. Absolutely had a gash on and
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  Speaker 2: we end up losing at the perimeter there. We've got
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  Speaker 2: to be better on the perimeter as blockers. We did
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  Speaker 2: a heck of a job in week one. I think
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  Speaker 2: that they shed us a little bit better than we blocked.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be honest. Whether it was at the first, second,
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  Speaker 2: or third level... they were getting off blocks. They were
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  Speaker 2: shedding blocks. They were a little bit more physical at
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  Speaker 2: times than we were. And so those are some of
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  Speaker 2: the things that, you know, we need to improve on.
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  Speaker 2: We got to be better in practice. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: really what it comes down to. I know it's coach speak,
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  Speaker 2: but if we don't do it throughout the week of practice,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to just happen on Sunday, right? Like
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  Speaker 2: if we're not sticking to our blocks in practice on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
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  Speaker 2: and kicking our show team's tail, then it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to just show up on Sunday, right? And so those
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  Speaker 2: are some of the things that we talked about. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't feel like the run game was why we
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  Speaker 2: didn't win the game. You know, I really don't. I
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  Speaker 2: think that we didn't get any explosives, if you really
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  Speaker 2: look at it, from the first drive of the second half.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't have another explosive play from that drive. And
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  Speaker 2: so whether it was in the run or the pass,
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  Speaker 2: we just didn't create any explosives. So For me as
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  Speaker 2: a coach, I've got to put them in a better
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  Speaker 2: position to be successful, and we've got to go execute
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: the calls a little bit better as well.