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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Looks Ahead To Week 5 vs. Buccaneers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh, good to see everybody. Good.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, good work day today, a little extra uh team work,
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  Speaker 2: individual work. Guys are flying around, good spirits. We'll be
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  Speaker 2: back wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you use.
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  Speaker 2: Uh we you know, we kind of like it treated
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  Speaker 2: like a miniature by so some self scout stuff, some
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  Speaker 2: around the league stuff, work ahead on Tampa, all the above.
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  Speaker 1: So it was good.
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  Speaker 2: It was good, and you know, and and uh take
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  Speaker 2: some time to get away for a minute, which I
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  Speaker 2: think everybody was important for everybody. Do you DeMarcus Arms
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  Speaker 2: or uh no, yeah, no, no, really, no injury update
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  Speaker 2: really today it's just bonus day. Let it let it
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  Speaker 2: play itself out over the next few days. I think
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  Speaker 2: you said that.
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  Speaker 3: But Richard Drumman has said that Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Had told him to bat.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Nick was out there today, so we'll see how the
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  Speaker 2: injury report works out.
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  Speaker 1: But he was out there today.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think some of the past kvs separate themselves
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  Speaker 4: by the throws they choose not to make versus the throws.
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  Speaker 2: That they do.
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  Speaker 1: The question is give me that again.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think some of the best QB's separate themselves
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  Speaker 4: in terms of their decision making about when they choose
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  Speaker 4: not to make a throw maybe dirt, a throw that's
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  Speaker 4: not there, throw it away versus the.
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  Speaker 1: Throws that they do.
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  Speaker 2: I think the I think great quarterbacks are decisive and.
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  Speaker 1: Make fast decisions. You have to be.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's a really hard position and it's
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  Speaker 2: the hardest position in sports, So you got to you
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  Speaker 2: got to play decisively to have success.
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  Speaker 3: Get some of that self Scotts which at.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that we do well or
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  Speaker 2: some things that we need to, like certain schemes that
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  Speaker 2: we're good for us in camp that haven't been as
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  Speaker 2: good for us in the first four weeks, and we
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  Speaker 2: just got to keep keep sticking to the process and
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  Speaker 2: do what we do.
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  Speaker 1: But it's good to see. It's good to see like that.
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  Speaker 2: Certain concepts pop pop up as as effective runs for us.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, when you look at your penalities, was any anything that.
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  Speaker 4: Was familiar I mean, I mean not familiarly that must
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  Speaker 4: consistent or there was just the cost of doing.
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  Speaker 1: Business on your penalties, I'm sorry, And Mike.
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  Speaker 2: On your penalties when you get some self scouting, is
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  Speaker 2: there any fain sline where they just cost a Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think with the penalties you're looking at them on
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  Speaker 2: an individual basis. I don't know where how many we
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  Speaker 2: have on the season or anything like that, but there
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  Speaker 2: are there are a couple where I feel like we
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  Speaker 2: can make smart decisions in those moments, and there's and
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  Speaker 2: there's several where it's cost of doing business, so we
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  Speaker 2: kind of address them on a.
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  Speaker 1: Per play, per penalty basis. Luckily, there's not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the the former. So that's good when you go back.
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  Speaker 4: And kind of look at the self cut from a
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  Speaker 4: big picture standpoint, just how do you feel like where
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  Speaker 4: you are reporters?
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  Speaker 2: I think I think we're in a cool spot because
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  Speaker 2: we've we've figured out a way to win games, and
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  Speaker 2: we also feel like we have a lot of room
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  Speaker 2: for growth. And I think the guys feel the same way.
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  Speaker 2: So there's an urgency there to go keep attacking, keep
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  Speaker 2: figuring out ways to get better, Uh, improve on the
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  Speaker 2: one on the on the things and the mentality that
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  Speaker 2: we have on them, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout games, and it's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: It's exciting to have room for growth and also have
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  Speaker 2: some you know, wins in the win column.
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  Speaker 4: We went back and looked good they gave me and
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  Speaker 4: how good that way?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? He was great. He's I think you've seen some confidence.
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  Speaker 2: I think his legs feel good and uh, hopefully that's
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  Speaker 2: a building block to to move forward. But yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: had he had applied. I thought Channa played a tremendous game.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds like there's a chance we might have to live.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to pick the game.
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  Speaker 3: That might be moved a little bit new, and.
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  Speaker 4: There is that anything happen too much?
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  Speaker 2: Account don't more just from what from what I understand,
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  Speaker 2: it's not that big of a move. So we would
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  Speaker 2: just adjust our morning schedule accordingly, fullly, no big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually it's actually kind of great that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be forced to move. I think that's uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: awesome for our city and it's gonna be a really
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  Speaker 2: exciting Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know when you would just don't know, like
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  Speaker 1: you do find out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't, or it's like somewhere between later
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  Speaker 2: on in the week, I think, But it's kind of whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Just let us know when we're playing the game.
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  Speaker 4: Are you considering growing a playoffs stash for the Mariners
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  Speaker 4: of that platfront.
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  Speaker 1: If you see my official air, but it's not good
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  Speaker 1: so Patch.
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  Speaker 3: There was a report for Medicot that one on Sunday
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  Speaker 3: that I think you're.
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  Speaker 4: Monitoring because potentially traded or some of.
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  Speaker 3: The trick you, so you can't control what they monitors.
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  Speaker 2: Your level of companies. Well, I think if teams are
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  Speaker 2: interested in our players, it means we got good players.
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  Speaker 2: So I love having great players.
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  Speaker 4: Teams are are bullitzing you guys when you're running play
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  Speaker 4: action at the highest rate in the league is almost
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  Speaker 4: sixty percent of the time you guys are running play action?
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  Speaker 1: Does that mean anything?
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  Speaker 4: Is it coincidence? Does it mean maybe that they're they're.
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  Speaker 2: Keying on something, and I think it's something to monitor.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if the sample size is big enough
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  Speaker 2: right now, but that to me, that that just that
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  Speaker 2: smells opportunity. So you know, you send more people at
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback, there's less people back there, and so there's
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  Speaker 2: some room for explosive plays.
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  Speaker 3: Probably a slam dunk question, But how important is continuity
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  Speaker 3: on the offensive line in the early stage of the season,
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  Speaker 3: not having guys get hurt, keeping that health across the board.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's incredibly important.
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  Speaker 2: I think the guys that haven't had the opportunities yet,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's for them staying up to speed and
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  Speaker 2: ready to go. I think we feel feel great about
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  Speaker 2: the next guys in the game too. But yeah, slam
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  Speaker 2: dunk question. I mean it's important. It's important, just like
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  Speaker 2: just like any unit, you know, you're gonna build that
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  Speaker 2: chemistry over time. We're fortunate that the whole line has
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  Speaker 2: been intact, and then at some point it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be and we'll work through that kind of like
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  Speaker 2: we are are. You know, we've you know, with the
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  Speaker 2: stuff that we work through on defense up to this point.
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  Speaker 3: It's beneficial at all for getting Great up to speed,
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  Speaker 3: getting him incorporated.
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  Speaker 1: To playing NFL level.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry they're getting Gray's able up to speed four
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  Speaker 3: games in, like having that continuity across the board to
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  Speaker 3: help get him incorporated. Do you think it's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of an official for him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean, well, you know, I think Charles
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  Speaker 2: being next to him, I think they've developed a great relationship,
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  Speaker 2: great chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, throughout camp you do have to have some
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  Speaker 2: moving pieces to build depth and build flexibility. So I
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  Speaker 2: mean he's played next to Olu a Ton, He's played
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  Speaker 2: next to jail On a Ton Sou.
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  Speaker 1: Both those guys give.
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  Speaker 2: Him confidence and then you know, Josh played left tackle
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  Speaker 2: when Charles is out during you know, for that period
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  Speaker 2: during camp too, so it's kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of whoever is up there. But Gray's off to a
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  Speaker 1: good start.
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  Speaker 3: You had said previously that if there was a.
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  Speaker 4: Change at guard inty or something like that, that Jail
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  Speaker 4: Tendell the movie guard the OI would play center. Is
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  Speaker 4: that still the case or is it that changed at all?
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  Speaker 1: That's that's probably still the plan. Yeah, you've kind of
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  Speaker 1: played from something on Thursday to did with the backgron.
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  Speaker 3: How did you feel that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, from from earlier in the week, I thought ab
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  Speaker 2: had a solid games.
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  Speaker 4: Out here again, so that you getting her any basically
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  Speaker 4: seal that because you got a lot of guys who
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  Speaker 4: have earned the right n playing.
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  Speaker 2: How do you see that shaking out?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be interesting.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't We haven't game plan anything yet on on defense.
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  Speaker 2: But again, more this is this is a byproduct of
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  Speaker 2: guys getting a lot of work, staying ready with the
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  Speaker 2: ready squad. Guys being ready to go gives you added
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  Speaker 2: flexibility when you go into game planning, which is which
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  Speaker 2: is cool. It's also something you have to be mindful
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  Speaker 2: of so you don't get too cute and you're still
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  Speaker 2: able to throw fastballs and guys can execute without having
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  Speaker 2: a thousand personnel groups.
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  Speaker 1: Any else. All Right, all right, thank you,