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Ryan Grubb: "We Still Have A Lot Of Growing To Do" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Can see everybody who's up.
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  Speaker 2: Gino's some of his best games in Detroit in the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of years. What do you think about his demeanor,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is that he does well in those really
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  Speaker 2: loud and hostile environments.
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  Speaker 1: Experience.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a big part of it is he
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  Speaker 3: can play through tough environments just number one, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of experience, and he just got the right mindset. He's
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  Speaker 3: got a tough mindset that he knows it's gonna be tough,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he goes into situations like that expecting
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  Speaker 3: it to be, you know, difficult. And I think when
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  Speaker 3: you know that, you bring your best and Geno will
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  Speaker 3: bring his best.
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  Speaker 2: You see a lot of stunts and games with Aiden
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  Speaker 2: hutchins in and then do everything to get him about
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  Speaker 2: what is it that's tough communication wise regards and defending
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  Speaker 2: twists and games and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think if you've got bad eyes, it always
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  Speaker 3: starts there. I'm probably oversimplifying, but I do think if
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  Speaker 3: if people are moving around and guys aren't disciplined with
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  Speaker 3: their eyes, that can be problematic. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think anytime you play a good player like Aiden,
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  Speaker 3: that you know ninety seven, you got to be worried
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  Speaker 3: about him and maybe get a little over ranks on
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  Speaker 3: things and think some of his best stuffs when he
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  Speaker 3: is just ripping up the field too.
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  Speaker 1: How do you put up where you're run game?
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  Speaker 3: I mean never satisfied. I'd probably tell you that in
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  Speaker 3: week twenty four. But you know this league is tough
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  Speaker 3: to run the ball. So I think you know you
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  Speaker 3: have to constantly be continue to find your DNA and
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  Speaker 3: and know the things that you're going to be good at,
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  Speaker 3: and continue to focus on that and try to match
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  Speaker 3: it to your players.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what, what are we good at doing?
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  Speaker 3: I think there's some teams that are a little bit
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  Speaker 3: better at other things than you know, So for us,
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  Speaker 3: I think we've shown a little bit of variety, which
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  Speaker 3: I like making sure your defenses have to defend all
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  Speaker 3: your gap schemes.
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  Speaker 1: Outside zone inside zone.
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  Speaker 3: But I think right now, you know, we still got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of growing to do there. I ken Walker,
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's pretty explosive, you know. I think he
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  Speaker 3: him and Zach are are both crazy talented back you know,
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  Speaker 3: so I think we're really blessed at both those guys.
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  Speaker 3: They're they're just different. I think you know, in the
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  Speaker 3: open space obviously, that's where Ken is really really dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: He's extremely difficult to get a hand on, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: andy strong. So I think sometimes there's guys that are
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  Speaker 3: scat back so to speak, that get out in open space,
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  Speaker 3: but you put a hand on him and they might
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  Speaker 3: go down pretty quickly. But but Ken, I think is
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  Speaker 3: very unique that he can create and generate that space,
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  Speaker 3: and then when he gets into that space, he's very
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  Speaker 3: difficult to bring down.
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  Speaker 1: He's strong, sounds like much until he's good. Obviously.
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  Speaker 3: What would you like to have like calling card schematically.
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  Speaker 1: With your games?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think you you're always going
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  Speaker 3: to find uh what your guys can do best. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, for us, I think it's shown up already
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  Speaker 3: with some of our you know, some of our zone
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  Speaker 3: techniques and things like that. That's been what we've been good at.
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  Speaker 2: Right the right guard spots on kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: An amazing competition. Is there a point where you want
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  Speaker 1: that to not be a competition.
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  Speaker 3: Or yeah, I would say they want to training camp.
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  Speaker 3: Yes I'm being a smart ass, But like I do
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  Speaker 3: think that you're you know, as soon as you can
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  Speaker 3: get that established, I think the more comfort those guys
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  Speaker 3: have working together and and uh that just shows up
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  Speaker 3: the whole operation where guys aren't guessing. So we certainly
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  Speaker 3: hope that we can start to get that hammered down here.
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  Speaker 1: I guess Anthony obviously played the whole games of the
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  Speaker 1: day that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think Anthony would he'd probably tell you didn't
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  Speaker 3: have his best game. And uh, I think he's he's
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  Speaker 3: a young player still that that hopefully he has continued
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  Speaker 3: to develop and we think he has a very good
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  Speaker 3: skill set and there's some other things that just got
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  Speaker 3: to come along in his game and we're just still trying.
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  Speaker 1: To develop that.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like he needs to take a step
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  Speaker 3: forward more playing time?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, just technique and power.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that just raw power at the
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  Speaker 3: at the guard position in the NFL is is so critical.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why obviously, you know, Anthony can we stand
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  Speaker 3: a lot in there, just his sheer size and just
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  Speaker 3: what he can take on on the inside. So I
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  Speaker 3: think for Christian is not getting overpowered and overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 2: What's the team getting the tight ends and the blow
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  Speaker 2: up last game?
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  Speaker 1: Is it more about them?
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  Speaker 3: That's just a maturation of that position, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think the ball finds guys depending on how defenses play you.
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  Speaker 3: And I think one of the things that we have
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  Speaker 3: is we have a good system that the ball can
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  Speaker 3: matriculate to a lot of different guys, and if you
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  Speaker 3: start to draw your attention to one or two other guys,
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  Speaker 3: the ball can find another guy. And I thought that's
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  Speaker 3: kind of what happened on Sunday, where you know, Noah
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  Speaker 3: started to open up on some different concepts.
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  Speaker 2: If Christian does play more, anything that you'll do to
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  Speaker 2: help prepare him for primetime game, loud environment as a rookie.
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  Speaker 3: No I mean we try, you know, every day in practice.
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  Speaker 3: I think you can try to simulate it that as
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  Speaker 3: much as you want, you know, create a chaotic environment
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  Speaker 3: and make it it's tough on him, you know both
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  Speaker 3: you know, sound wise and situationally that you can on
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  Speaker 3: a player, and then you have to, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: believe that they're ready for that opportunity, because there is
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  Speaker 3: there's really nothing you're gonna be able to do here
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  Speaker 3: to truly you know, simulate what that's gonna feel like
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  Speaker 3: on a Monday night game and you know, at Ford
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  Speaker 3: Field really loud. So I think you just got to
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  Speaker 3: trust what you're seeing in practice.
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  Speaker 2: Stone foresight is obviously gonna see a lot of aid
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  Speaker 2: legends and just have you.
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  Speaker 1: Seen him progress.
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  Speaker 2: From when he had to come in week one to
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  Speaker 2: how he played the last time again?
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  Speaker 1: Just steady.
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  Speaker 3: I think that Stone's one of those guys you know
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  Speaker 3: that you really want to tip your cap to that.
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  Speaker 3: He believes he still can play better, takes coaching really well,
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  Speaker 3: knows that there's still tricks and tools that he can
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  Speaker 3: access that he hasn't done yet. And I think for him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's what he continues to do, is is
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  Speaker 3: try to develop his game and eliminate weaknesses.
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  Speaker 1: When you play on Monday night, like having the extra
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  Speaker 1: day to prepare the practice, does that allow you to
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  Speaker 1: have more than a point then to play about the Uh?
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  Speaker 1: The temptation is certainly there, yes, And I mean that too.
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  Speaker 3: I think that you can, you know, start to look
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  Speaker 3: at things almost too long instead of you know, sticking
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  Speaker 3: with what you got. I do think there's some things
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  Speaker 3: that mechanically you can do where people are moving and
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  Speaker 3: things like that that you know you have another day
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  Speaker 3: to iron that wrinkle out. So it might not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: be more quantity, but it might be some of the
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  Speaker 3: type of operations that you're able to do just because
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  Speaker 3: you have more time to detail those things out, like
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  Speaker 3: shifts and oh yeah, yep, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: There's been a trend towards more condensed formations in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL last couple of years. Can we talk about like
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  Speaker 2: what the pros and cons are of condensing your formation
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  Speaker 2: versus spreading spreading things out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, trying to without overgeneralize it. I think in the
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  Speaker 3: NFL that you know, versus college, so to speak, your
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  Speaker 3: hashes are tighter. So sometimes when you condense formations and
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  Speaker 3: splits and things like that, you generate more space to
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  Speaker 3: the outside. And when that happens, you think about where
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  Speaker 3: the ball can go and where you can stress defenses.
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  Speaker 3: So I think, you know, you look at teams like
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  Speaker 3: the Rams and things like that, that's that's generally what
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna see, is there is some type of stress
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  Speaker 3: on the exterior of the field when.
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  Speaker 2: You're playing plus down environment.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a temptation really try not to trying to
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  Speaker 3: play fast, but you have to stay.
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  Speaker 1: Patient within whatever it is. You absolutely have to stay
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  Speaker 1: within the game plan.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's you know, that's the key is
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  Speaker 3: that you if you start chasing ghosts, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: because you're playing in a loud, hostile environment. I think
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  Speaker 3: the guys feel it, you know, And I think there
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  Speaker 3: has to be a piece where you trust your offense
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  Speaker 3: and you trust your guys to make the plays. You
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  Speaker 3: know that you you start trying to generate all these
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  Speaker 3: you know, crazy ideas and things like that, that it
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  Speaker 3: can get difficult for the guys. You just wanted to
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  Speaker 3: be able to compete and execute.
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  Speaker 1: Why have you when you've gone no how to or
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  Speaker 1: faster pace? Why do you see it having worked the
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  Speaker 1: way it has? First review?
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  Speaker 3: I've always felt like, uh, you know, generating tempo against
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  Speaker 3: the defense is you know, for us, we just we
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  Speaker 3: feel like we have more calls than they do, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so there's more concepts and scheme that we can run
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  Speaker 3: on a on an uptick versus what a defense is
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  Speaker 3: capable of running. They're not used to making calls fast
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  Speaker 3: and they definitely have those, and defenses always do. I
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  Speaker 3: know Detroit does as well, and we have to be
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  Speaker 3: aware of that and not think that the whole game
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  Speaker 3: plan is going to rely on just going fast. But
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  Speaker 3: you certainly can see when teams struggle to line up
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  Speaker 3: quickly and then you can attack that. You can't mention
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  Speaker 3: that the touchdown that Eve had against Miami, which will
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  Speaker 3: play you guys report camp but hadn't really visited much since.
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  Speaker 1: Then what goes into putting the downand back to a
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  Speaker 1: play that you maybe haven't repped in oh?
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  Speaker 3: I think first of all, you know, the compliment goes
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  Speaker 3: to DK and and Geno for sure. Those are those
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  Speaker 3: kind of plays come to life when when players can
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  Speaker 3: make you know, checks, you know, so you have plays
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  Speaker 3: and then you have plays off the plays that they
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  Speaker 3: can get into and when they see a certain look
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  Speaker 3: they can go to it, which is certainly what Geno
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  Speaker 3: and DK did on that play. And so when you
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  Speaker 3: start seeing looks in a game, you can alert, hey,
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  Speaker 3: this is starting to show up.
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  Speaker 1: We need to think about, you know, this type of
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  Speaker 1: look and what we can do off of that.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think you repid enough in the off
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  Speaker 3: season that it's a grooved play and you know you
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  Speaker 3: can fall back on that almost at any time, and
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  Speaker 3: that's exactly what happened. So it was really well executed.
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  Speaker 3: So they both look for opportunities like that. Gino will
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  Speaker 3: get the process started. The play gives them a check
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  Speaker 3: that they can get to and then you know, then
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  Speaker 3: you have plays where one guy will check it like
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback, you.
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  Speaker 1: Have one where a receiver will read it. There's all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of opportunities like that.
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  Speaker 2: Lions play a lot of man coverage across the league.
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  Speaker 2: There's less man coverage going on than there has been
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  Speaker 2: the past. Why do you think the trend is that direction?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think coach Clinn has as some
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  Speaker 3: guys that he has, you know, a lot of confidence
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  Speaker 3: in playing man coverage, and I think that's something that's
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  Speaker 3: shown up over the last this season, especially compared to
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  Speaker 3: years past, where maybe they just felt better about their
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  Speaker 3: talent level.
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  Speaker 1: So I think typically it always starts there.
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  Speaker 3: For defensive coordinators, like what their level of faith is
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  Speaker 3: and their guys to be able to guard you know,
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  Speaker 3: man covers.
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  Speaker 1: And then also associated with that is how fast you
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  Speaker 1: can get home.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, they probably feel really good about their ability
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  Speaker 3: to get to the quarterback and play man coverage. So
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  Speaker 3: I think it those two things when they pair up
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  Speaker 3: that that's a really tough defense that you're gonna face.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell by watching even if you'll know the
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  Speaker 1: guy say like the background. Wasn't the day that there's
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  Speaker 1: there's some of that. Yeah, there certainly is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think there's a there's there's a
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  Speaker 3: mentality you can if you're just watching and you don't
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  Speaker 3: know the guy, you can see what type of caller
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  Speaker 3: they are, you know, as far as just watching games
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  Speaker 3: chronologically and things like that. But then sometimes it makes
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  Speaker 3: a lot of sense, Like you watch watch him and
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  Speaker 3: be like, Okay, what's this guy's background. You go back
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  Speaker 3: to You're like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. He's a
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  Speaker 3: D line guy. He's gonna love all these twists and
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  Speaker 3: stunts and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: How much time have you spent on bad studying DC
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  Speaker 1: since you haven't been in the league or yeah, a lot,
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  Speaker 1: a lot and think that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, for us, we always want to look back
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  Speaker 3: on coordinator history and things like that that they've done
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  Speaker 3: or trees that they've come from and think about things
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  Speaker 3: that that have made sense to them in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we do it.
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  Speaker 3: There's some things you definitely have to look at during
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  Speaker 3: the season as well that maybe you weren't you didn't
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  Speaker 3: dive into the details of it during the off season.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else. Thank you, thank you, Good day. Thank you,