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Press Pass | Pederson: "Got to Learn From Our Mistakes and Move On." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Get it out of the way first. Uh zah, would
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  Speaker 1: he be here today?
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  Speaker 2: Have spoken with him? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Uh, We've been in great communication with him, you
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  Speaker 3: know obviously since uh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, his situation.
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  Speaker 3: Not much more than that, other than it's it's still
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  Speaker 3: kind of ongoing fact finding, all that kind of information
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  Speaker 3: gathering things of that nature. But quite honestly, until until
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  Speaker 3: we hear something, it's you know, it's it's day.
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  Speaker 4: To day for him.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, yep, yep.
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  Speaker 5: So he is here.
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  Speaker 3: Limited yep, yep. Try to get him back up to
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  Speaker 3: speed football wise. He's you know, he's missed a few days,
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  Speaker 3: a few weeks obviously, and just just see where he's.
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  Speaker 1: At, Jamal Ague, do you have an update on him,
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  Speaker 1: how well he could honestly be out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jamal's a little more significant. Uh, I'm gonna miss
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  Speaker 3: this week and and could it could potentially miss miss
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks here, you know, so you know
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  Speaker 3: the shoulder area obviously, is is the issue?
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  Speaker 1: Was that the reason why you activated Parker are not
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  Speaker 1: activated but started is practice window.
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  Speaker 2: Part of it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, part of it, and and Parker is ready, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so we wanted to get that twenty one day window
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  Speaker 3: going and and get him back in the mix.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a chance Parker could be ready earlier?
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  Speaker 4: Say there's a chance, yes, after some of the kind
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  Speaker 4: of flat performances at home, do you think about shaking
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  Speaker 4: up your home, your schedule, getting ready for home games
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  Speaker 4: at all or stick with it?
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  Speaker 2: Played Tennessee and Tennessee or stay here?
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  Speaker 4: Well you play both?
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  Speaker 2: Still played to in Tennessee. N No, I don't. You know.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things I've learned over my career and
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  Speaker 3: as a player and a coach is y you you
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  Speaker 3: don't uh, you don't.
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  Speaker 2: You don't. You don't change a lot. You just stick
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  Speaker 2: to your process.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the guys have to understand that that
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  Speaker 3: you just continue to do, uh, the things that you
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  Speaker 3: do to prepare and we just got to learn from
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  Speaker 3: our mistakes and move on.
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  Speaker 2: Tyson, still he's gonna be day to day.
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  Speaker 3: You won't see him out there today. He'll probably be
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  Speaker 3: on the side of the you know, field, getting some
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  Speaker 3: conditioning and testing his uh, you know, his hamstring. So
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  Speaker 3: probably not you know, gonna be out there much. You
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  Speaker 3: said on Monday that you want the players to really
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  Speaker 3: be critical of themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get the feeling from after meeting with anybody
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  Speaker 1: that they.
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  Speaker 3: Really want to do that I did even today, you know,
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  Speaker 3: seeing the guys today, they're obviously disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: They're dejected.
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  Speaker 3: Not our best performance, obviously, and you know they they
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  Speaker 3: want to write the ship and you're only as good
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  Speaker 3: as your last game.
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  Speaker 2: You put that on tape.
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  Speaker 3: You know, all our opponents moving forward are gonna watch
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  Speaker 3: that film and you know it's not good. So I
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  Speaker 3: do think the guys really embraced it and it means
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  Speaker 3: something to him, which is good and you know, should
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  Speaker 3: bounce back.
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  Speaker 4: What have you thought about Will Levis and his limited
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  Speaker 4: actions before the season.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I I obviously he started out extremely hot,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that first game, and you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: things have kind of settled in, you know, for him,
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  Speaker 3: and he listened. He he does a great job of
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  Speaker 3: the intermediate stuff, you know. I know they're a little
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  Speaker 3: banged up up front, you know, so it does affect
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  Speaker 3: you a little bit. But he he can move around,
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  Speaker 3: he's he's tough. He's got a really good arm. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he can he can throw it from all different angles.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, if you're gonna knock a pass down
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  Speaker 3: at hand up, it may go into your arm. You
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  Speaker 3: know type thing he's that he's that talented, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: young player. Obviously he's working through some things, but uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's he has done a nice job, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And the limited number of starts.
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  Speaker 1: You you sense it all this morning when you met
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  Speaker 1: when that maybe these guys were sunned by the last
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  Speaker 1: forty eight hours just the performance and then what happened
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  Speaker 1: with Zay. Is there any that in the building.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I mean they're they're obviously really probably from
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  Speaker 3: Sunday and it still lingers a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: But but at the two or.
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  Speaker 1: The two or so print the three safety will let
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  Speaker 1: you guys, I know last year a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of success against the Ravens, I think against tights a
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  Speaker 2: little bit too.
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  Speaker 5: How would you evaluate it against the forty nine ers
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  Speaker 5: versus now and.
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  Speaker 4: You have to go against starts?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's it's good for us obviously. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there's still some communication things with having three guys out there.
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  Speaker 2: Get they got to talk a little bit better.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there were some mistakes made Sunday that you
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  Speaker 3: know affected some some explosive plays for for San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, this is a week to.
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  Speaker 3: Be able to clean that stuff up and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of get on the same page. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: having having the three out there, you know, Dewey's Dewey's
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  Speaker 3: good in and around the box. You know, if he's
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  Speaker 3: if he's pressure pressuring, he can you know, he's been
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  Speaker 3: able to get guys on the ground, uh, and and
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  Speaker 3: or be you know, being.
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  Speaker 2: The post and and in passing situation.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a it's a good combination of the three,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And obviously we're gonna have to use that
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  Speaker 3: probably more moving forward, he.
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  Speaker 5: Thought, So making a move at left guard switching not.
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  Speaker 2: Yet, not yet, No, still look exactly exactly, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean again, Walker hasn't had much time there, so
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  Speaker 3: we got a lot of confidence with Walker. He'll bounce back,
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  Speaker 3: he'll respond. We do want to get Ezra though some
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  Speaker 3: some snaps, you know, and see where he's at mentally
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  Speaker 3: with the offense.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see from.
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  Speaker 4: The offensive line right now that is struggling.
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  Speaker 3: I just think they haven't played together for you know,
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  Speaker 3: a length of time. I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: moving pieces there. Anton continues to improve each week, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I said the other day, I thought he had one
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  Speaker 3: of his better you know performances, you know, against a
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  Speaker 3: really good front, you know, Luke and Brandon or kind
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  Speaker 3: of the the staples there, Cam is Cam, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and then that left guard Spots has been a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of evolving door right now. So there's some some
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  Speaker 3: uneasiness there. But I think I think these guys, the
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  Speaker 3: more they play together, the more comfortable and confident they'll
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  Speaker 3: be in these next you know, eight games.
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  Speaker 1: The last Sunday out we're standing. You expect to see
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  Speaker 1: an edge from your team.
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  Speaker 3: With two games against the division and the chance to
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  Speaker 3: all but grab the division in the next few weeks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I expect it from our guys, you know, to have
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  Speaker 3: that type of edge, you know it just you know,
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee is a good football team, and you know they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna remember last year obviously, and and.
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  Speaker 2: Our guys need to remember too.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I expect that, you know, regardless of
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  Speaker 3: where we play, but more importantly here at home.
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  Speaker 1: I think Trevor's been sacked twenty seven all of last year.
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  Speaker 3: Are you seeing some of that stuff kind of getting
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  Speaker 3: in in his head a little bit or maybe not?
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  Speaker 1: In the set?
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  Speaker 5: Do you see the rush impactic and more this year,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, particularly last week, is he trying to
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  Speaker 5: get rid of the ball too quick or bailing on
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  Speaker 5: some stuff too quick. We're seeing some fake pressures, aren't there.
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  Speaker 5: Like seeing a few look like when it looked like
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  Speaker 5: a couple of times he maybe pulled it away and
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  Speaker 5: started to move before there was actual people in his face.
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  Speaker 2: M okay, So you're saying he's seeing ghosts all right?
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  Speaker 3: You know, listen it one of the things as we
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  Speaker 3: get better as a football team and the more wins
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  Speaker 3: that we can sort of pile up your you're going
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  Speaker 3: to play better opponents, right, That's just the nature of
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  Speaker 3: the of the league.
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  Speaker 2: And we're seeing that.
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  Speaker 3: We're seeing better defenses, We're seeing better fronts. Got another
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  Speaker 3: one this week, really good front and they can get
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  Speaker 3: after a passer, you know, Trevor. Trevor's got to understand
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  Speaker 3: that number one, whether whether that means get through his
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  Speaker 3: progressions a little bit faster. We have to do a
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  Speaker 3: better job up front. Our backs are involved with with
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  Speaker 3: protection tight end, so it's a collective effort. I do
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  Speaker 3: think sometimes when you get hit the number of times
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  Speaker 3: as a quarterback you get hit it it can't affect
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  Speaker 3: your eyes and your eyes can drop and focus on
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  Speaker 3: the rush to touch. But it's one thing about Trevor
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  Speaker 3: that he's really good at continuing.
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  Speaker 2: To keep his eyes down the field.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, we got to continue to coach
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  Speaker 3: him and help him and and uh, you know, make
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  Speaker 3: sure he feels as comfortable as possible.
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  Speaker 1: You you you talked about before on Monday. You want
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  Speaker 1: to see players coaches doing the extra things. What can
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  Speaker 1: you do to sort of get you over the top?
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  Speaker 1: You know, what have you as a codeach started to
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  Speaker 1: sort of maybe do or did you change anything about
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  Speaker 1: what your process is like going.
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  Speaker 2: Into this week?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think a lot about how I can
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  Speaker 3: message the team, you know, the messaging and being consistent
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  Speaker 3: there and things I could show the team, you know,
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  Speaker 3: whether it be through videos or our own our own performances. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: my my study and film study is going to be
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  Speaker 3: the same, you know, each week and all of that,
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  Speaker 3: but you know it's geared more towards the players and
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  Speaker 3: the things that I can help them with. Right and
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  Speaker 3: how do we you know, how do we get off
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  Speaker 3: to fast starts? How do we you know, play better
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  Speaker 3: at home? How do we not turn the ball over?
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  Speaker 3: Those are things that you know, I try to I
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  Speaker 3: try to work on and continue to you know, talk
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  Speaker 3: to the guys about and and you know, make it,
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  Speaker 3: make it a little more more of a priority. I
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  Speaker 3: guess now that we're into the back, you know, two
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  Speaker 3: months of the season.
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  Speaker 5: So is this perception that division games have more physicality
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  Speaker 5: to them?
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  Speaker 1: Has that been your experience in your brief time here and.
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  Speaker 3: Was it your experience also when you're in failing I
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  Speaker 3: think in affiliate it definitely was. You know, that division,
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  Speaker 3: I think I think this division is the same the
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  Speaker 3: same way. I Every game's physical, you know, but there's
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  Speaker 3: a little more probably heightened awareness, you know, when you're
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  Speaker 3: playing a division opponent, and especially in our division because
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  Speaker 3: it's sort of you know, run heavy, let's say, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with the running backs that.
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  Speaker 2: Are in our division, So there's a level of physicality there.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, division games, again, if you want to
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  Speaker 3: be one of the teams at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 3: these are the games you've got to you got to
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  Speaker 3: play good in, you got to play better and you know,
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  Speaker 3: because that gives you an opportunity to be in the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's probably what people feel the most
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  Speaker 3: and what players feel the most is that importance you
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  Speaker 3: know of playing a Division game. Is there a way
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  Speaker 3: to create more explosives on the offense, Sure, how you
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  Speaker 3: do it.
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  Speaker 2: You can do it through you know.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things we haven't been able to do
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  Speaker 3: because of Trevor's condition obviously with the knee and everything,
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  Speaker 3: is just move him a little bit more. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 3: can create some off of that, you know, and he's
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  Speaker 3: been limited that way.
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  Speaker 2: Play action pass can be.
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  Speaker 3: You know, an opportunity to shoot the ball down the
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  Speaker 3: field on first or second down the screen game. You've
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  Speaker 3: seen the screen game, you know, kind of hit a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. You know, those are ways to uh to
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  Speaker 3: to to create some explosives. And then sometimes just just
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  Speaker 3: drop back and throw it right, just just run past,
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  Speaker 3: you know, use use your speed on the on the perimeter,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and and try to take advantage of that way.
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  Speaker 3: You're seeing teams you know do it do it in
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  Speaker 3: different ways. But yeah, you gotta be you gotta be careful,
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  Speaker 3: especially against good rushers who you're who you're gonna ask
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  Speaker 3: to block who you know, our tight end is gonna
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  Speaker 3: block d ends? Are you gonna put two tight ends
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  Speaker 3: on a d end? Are you at a back a receiver.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's there's combination of guys that you know,
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  Speaker 3: I guess schematically you look at. But sure there's ways
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  Speaker 3: of you know, scheming those things you know, open down
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  Speaker 3: the field.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are right to laugh in depth of routes
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  Speaker 1: run like the only team that's like less than ten
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  Speaker 1: yards per round.
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  Speaker 5: Curious what you would.
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  Speaker 1: Attribute that to.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, we probably should just you know, be more conscious
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  Speaker 3: of taking more shots quite frankly, you know. And and again,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you get in a situation too, when you're
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  Speaker 3: going against a good pass rush sometimes it doesn't give
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  Speaker 3: you the opportunity because you've got to hold the ball
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  Speaker 3: a touch longer, you know, And and you know, it
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  Speaker 3: kind of goes back to the protection questions. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it hasn't been the greatest, you know, and so Trevor's
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  Speaker 3: had to get off and we've had we've had opportunities
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  Speaker 3: to push the ball down the field. It's just you know,
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  Speaker 3: one breakdown here, one breakdown there, and then he's moving
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  Speaker 3: and next thing it's you know, it's a it's a
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  Speaker 3: completion for three or four, it's a scramble for four.
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  Speaker 3: So you know it's a combination of a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: How emphasize pro tecting the ball this week? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a different.
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  Speaker 2: You emphasize it, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we we talk about it every week.
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  Speaker 3: Every week with the team offensively and even defensively. We
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  Speaker 3: talked about creating the takeaways, right, that's what has allowed
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  Speaker 3: us to get to six wins, you know, and and
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  Speaker 3: uh we've we've been successful doing that, and we got
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  Speaker 3: to continue to you know, I got to continue to
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  Speaker 3: talk to the team about those things and the importance
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  Speaker 3: of that. And you know, we asked the the look
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  Speaker 3: team in defense, you know, on defense to to you know,
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  Speaker 3: try to punch, try to strip the ball out, try
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  Speaker 3: to do whatever they can to you know, affect a
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  Speaker 3: running back or a receiver, and the same thing defensively,
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  Speaker 3: do the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: So it's.
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  Speaker 3: Having conversation but then again carrying it over to practice
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  Speaker 3: and and making that a point of emphasis each day.
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  Speaker 3: How much did this Trevor get himself a bit in
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  Speaker 3: trouble trying to do too much on a broken down.
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  Speaker 2: Play a touch.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know he's trying to he's trying to
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  Speaker 3: make a play, you know, And and can't fault him
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  Speaker 3: necessarily for that. He's trying to stay positive and then
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  Speaker 3: you know, come away with something. But it's okay to
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  Speaker 3: throw it away, it's okay to punt, it's okay to
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, be be second and ten or
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  Speaker 3: something like that on a first down play. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't I don't fault him for trying to make
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  Speaker 3: make those plays, for trying to extend him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just don't put the ball in harms way.
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  Speaker 4: How much has that impacted what you wanted to do
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  Speaker 4: on offense since it happened.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's been a few games, well, the early early,
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  Speaker 2: the first couple of games.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously very sore, wearing that brace, a little cumbersome, all that.
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  Speaker 3: It affects mobility, you know, straight line, linear speed, all
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  Speaker 3: that's fine. But the stopping is starting and all that
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  Speaker 3: kind of affects it. But as we continue to go,
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  Speaker 3: he gets healthier, you know, and and feels better, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, those are things that we need to that's
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  Speaker 3: his strength he hits, right, is being able to throw
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  Speaker 3: on the run. So the more he feels comfortable and strong,
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  Speaker 3: I think the more we can we can implement those
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  Speaker 3: in our game. Plans, Okay, all right,