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Mike Macdonald: "Devon Witherspoon Is An Elite Competitor" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: All right, good to see everybody. I'm sure you have
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Speaker 1: the questions that you want updates on, but good stuff.
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Speaker 1: Just had a good walkthrough and excited about this week,
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Speaker 1: great opportunity. Guys are in good spirits, so excited for today,
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Speaker 1: excited for the rest of the week.
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Speaker 2: Has a Lucas had any padded practices yet? Has he
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Speaker 2: been full contact?
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Speaker 1: I believe so. I believe now he's been in a
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Speaker 1: limited capacity throughout so and then today's like partially it's
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Speaker 1: will be in pads for a certain amount of time
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Speaker 1: and then we'll take him off at some point. But
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Speaker 1: so we'll have another opportunity today. So, but he's had
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Speaker 1: padded work.
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Speaker 3: It seems like if you've already seen a team once,
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Speaker 3: it would be easy to go back and look at
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Speaker 3: that tape and build a game plan. But I feel
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Speaker 3: like your team's changed a lot, they've gotten mcaffricke. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: what do you do with that previous matchup?
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Speaker 1: Well, you definitely take into account, you know, you just
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Speaker 1: you can't take it, you know, play by play verbatim.
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Speaker 1: But uh, that's kind of the secret. That's the secret question, right,
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Speaker 1: It's what matters, what doesn't How have you evolved, How
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Speaker 1: do you take the next step? How do you answer
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Speaker 1: certain things comes down to how well we play Frankly,
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Speaker 1: so I guess that's the that really is the secret
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Speaker 1: behind it. But that's going to be that's always the
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Speaker 1: way when you're playing a team a second time, sometimes
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Speaker 1: the third time. So we'll see a lot of these guys,
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Speaker 1: So we got to go play.
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Speaker 3: Good in terms of stopping some of those big plays
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Speaker 3: and steps that you've taken this progress.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think that I think we've got more people
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Speaker 1: to the ball, and then I thought we've tackled better.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there was a couple of loose plays,
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Speaker 1: but we had opportunities to tackle. You know. Albeit you
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Speaker 1: know it's not a good play for us. You're looking
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Speaker 1: at a probably a double digit gain, but you know
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Speaker 1: they're not putting points on the board. So those are
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Speaker 1: the things we need to eliminate. How does McCaffrey change
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Speaker 1: out offense? Well, I mean, you know, you have you
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Speaker 1: have last year's tape and then all the things they've
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Speaker 1: done off of it, and then you have kind of
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Speaker 1: a one game sample and they were doing a lot
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Speaker 1: of the things that they do with McCaffrey. Now, albeit
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Speaker 1: it might have been with Debo or with the run
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Speaker 1: that they had out there, So it's kind of hard
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Speaker 1: to gauge like percentage of how much they're going to change.
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Speaker 1: But you talk about interchangeable parts and guys that can
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Speaker 1: do multiple things, I think you're probably more likely to
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Speaker 1: get Christian in funk your spots that he normally you
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Speaker 1: know there they didn't do with the other running backs
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Speaker 1: or really any other running back in the league. So
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Speaker 1: those are things you have to account for and really
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Speaker 1: any situation so that they do a great job. But
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Speaker 1: everybody kind of knows all the different spots and the time.
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Speaker 1: They don't lose timing or anything like that, So that's
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Speaker 1: what you're looking at.
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Speaker 2: You guys had twenty six pressures against the forty nine ers,
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Speaker 2: but only a couple of hits and nose sacks. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: pretty scrambled aroundaly. Is that a focus for you guys
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Speaker 2: this week?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's it's probably fair. He's a tough
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Speaker 1: guy to get on the ground and he is looking
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Speaker 1: to kind of extend plays more this year and that
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Speaker 1: that kind of that adds an element to their offense
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Speaker 1: that that you definitely have to account for. So how
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Speaker 1: you build the rush plan. Pressure wise, it's not It's
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Speaker 1: not tough because there are it's not easy to just
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Speaker 1: throw a bunch of bodies at him because he understands
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Speaker 1: when they're hot and where to go with the ball,
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Speaker 1: and they have they have answers built into all those
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Speaker 1: types of things. So yeah, we just you got to
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Speaker 1: do it, but you gotta try to get him on
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Speaker 1: the ground. Now we have things that we're trying to do.
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Speaker 1: Save that for for our discussions, but it's definitely a
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Speaker 1: point of emphasis.
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Speaker 3: What is is it about perty that makes him tough
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Speaker 3: to get on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean he's a heck of an athlete,
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Speaker 1: and then he's he's like it's got like a lower
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Speaker 1: center of gravity, so he kind of he's like stronger
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Speaker 1: than he looks. And then when he does get out
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Speaker 1: in space, I mean he's he's a mobile gummy. He's
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Speaker 1: an athletic dude. Like he's he has changing direction, is
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Speaker 1: pretty good, like he feels the rush, understands timing. So
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of things to go into
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Speaker 1: it and walk through today. Yeah, DK is going to
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Speaker 1: practice today in a limited capacity, like I phrase it though.
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Speaker 4: When you guys signed Josh Job this summer, Like what
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Speaker 4: did Carl Scott tell you about him? And what could
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Speaker 4: he excel at.
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Speaker 1: You can tell Josh everything was positive from from case Scott,
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Speaker 1: I think, I think it's the things that you're seeing
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Speaker 1: You've got to give our personnel people. I mean, these
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Speaker 1: are things that you know they're they're working on this
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Speaker 1: type of stuff on how we want to augment our
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Speaker 1: roster all the time, and Josh is a great example
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Speaker 1: of that and then using all the resources information of
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Speaker 1: the building Carl Scott included. So I think it's a
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Speaker 1: great example of the teamwork that that we use and
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Speaker 1: the things that you see on tape right now is
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Speaker 1: what made Carl excited about them. Obviously they had a
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Speaker 1: great relationship kind of coming in so that that's definitely helped.
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Speaker 4: Hidden because of the injury at Alabama and missing a
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Speaker 4: lot of the pre draft stuff.
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Speaker 1: Was he kind of an I'm not I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not sure whether it's Josh doing what
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Speaker 1: he's done or someone like Kobe.
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Speaker 3: Do you like the message I SAIDs to the rest
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Speaker 3: of the players of like, hey, you can earn this
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Speaker 3: and practice.
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Speaker 1: And absolutely absolutely, I mean we're we want to be
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Speaker 1: a program built on development and bring guys along and
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Speaker 1: you earn your opportunities and and then we want to
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Speaker 1: celebrate it when when you go out there and you
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Speaker 1: show what you can do. So we've we've had, you know,
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Speaker 1: several examples of that that you've rattled off and hopefully
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Speaker 1: that's it's a message to the rest of the guys.
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Speaker 1: That's that's how we want to operate, and that's that's
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Speaker 1: where you earn. Everything is just day by day, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the meeting room walk through is how you go
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Speaker 1: about your business, type of person you are, all that
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Speaker 1: stuff we're trying to you know, trying to make people
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Speaker 1: grow in all aspects of their life.
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Speaker 2: Cutting an opposing offensive line and you find a weakness,
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Speaker 2: is it easier to attack that if it's an interior
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Speaker 2: part of the line or edge any anything you can
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Speaker 2: say there one way or another.
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Speaker 1: That's a good question. I think, I think, I think, uh, offenses, well,
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Speaker 1: I mean you're talking about running in pass and then
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Speaker 1: offenses have a little bit different mechanisms to help edge
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Speaker 1: guys out via chips or things like that. I meanterier
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Speaker 1: guys be more of a slide like where the center
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Speaker 1: is going on the help some people employ, like the
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Speaker 1: back is part of the chip on the interior tier guys.
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Speaker 1: But there's some things that go along as a cost,
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Speaker 1: that go with doing things like that. So it's probably
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Speaker 1: harder to hide people interior wise, you know, because on
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Speaker 1: the edge you can provide chips, but now you're taking
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Speaker 1: people out of routes and you know, there's just there's
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Speaker 1: just kind of back and forth between the things. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's interesting, interesting idea.
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Speaker 2: How much can Tyrese be helped by having played a
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Speaker 2: couple of games obviously earlier in the year and kind
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Speaker 2: of now getting this chance again.
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Speaker 1: Now, yeah, a lot. I mean, you know, experience, especially
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Speaker 1: early in your career, like that learning curve really accelerates.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean if you hadn't played, probably you know,
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Speaker 1: we probably wouldn't be having this conversation. To this point,
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Speaker 1: n was gonna wear the green dot.
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Speaker 3: Does anything change with that communication? Has he been in
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Speaker 3: your system long enough to have all that burbage and
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Speaker 3: Emma calls down?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it'll be it'll be seamless with with Ernest, Like.
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Speaker 2: You can probably have an idea of what it's like
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Speaker 2: to be a head coach, But until you do it
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Speaker 2: you you probably don't really understand.
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Speaker 1: Just curious.
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Speaker 2: You know, you're a little more than halfway through your
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Speaker 2: first year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well what's the.
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Speaker 2: Experience been, Like, what are some of the challenges that, babe,
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Speaker 2: you didn't see coming?
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Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, I mean you know that there there's things
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Speaker 1: that you uh, you know, there's things you don't know
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Speaker 1: that you don't know, so you're learning those all the time. Uh,
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Speaker 1: any new experience, you know, if you don't have that mentality,
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Speaker 1: then you're not gonna learn anything. Uh So I think
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Speaker 1: you have to you have to have that mindset. And
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Speaker 1: then there's things you know that you don't know, so
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Speaker 1: you know, you have to be humble enough to to
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Speaker 1: seek those answers and and you know, know where to
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Speaker 1: kind of look for the information and try to get
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Speaker 1: it right. But I think look, like I said, like,
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Speaker 1: I remember I was sitting down here, you know how
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Speaker 1: X amount of months ago, and I was like, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna the one thing I know how to
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Speaker 1: do is like be me kind of look at through
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Speaker 1: the lens of the principles that like really mattered, which
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Speaker 1: we really believe in, and try to build off those things.
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Speaker 1: And I think for the most part, we've we've adhered
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Speaker 1: to that and with positive results in certain aspects, and
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Speaker 1: sometimes you you don't get the results you want and
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Speaker 1: you have to go back and just kind of go back.
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Speaker 1: And it's like says, this is constant and chasing of
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Speaker 1: this vision of how you want your football team to
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Speaker 1: be and uh them overall like you're you know, you're
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Speaker 1: really like, hey man, we're gonna get there. It's just
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Speaker 1: a matter of time and win. And but that's the mentality.
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Speaker 1: You have to just have to be steadfast and chasing
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Speaker 1: you know, what you believe in and just you know,
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Speaker 1: you can't can't back down in season.
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Speaker 4: What do you wish you had more time to do everything?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, day days go by like go by like that.
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Speaker 1: You gotta be really gotta be smart with how you
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Speaker 1: allocate your time.
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Speaker 4: Is there any one aspect of your job that you
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Speaker 4: haven't been able to vote as much time to as
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Speaker 4: you want to?
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think it's I think it's fair
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Speaker 1: to say you want to spend more time doing everything.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'd love the and it's and it's it's
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Speaker 1: the conversation with the players, it's the game planning, it's
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Speaker 1: the it's the scheduling, the you know, the weekly all
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Speaker 1: the things that have to go, all those things. So huh,
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Speaker 1: but we got I mean, we got great support people
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Speaker 1: that like tea stuff up for me, com certainly that
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Speaker 1: make me let me focus on football. I'd say, like
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Speaker 1: to maximize all those opportunities. So all those people, I
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Speaker 1: mean the Haley's, the Macapuros, the e Ks, even the Daves,
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Speaker 1: you know, like all those people like they tee it
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Speaker 1: up for me. So it's you know, it's always gonna
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Speaker 1: be a challenge, but it's a fun challenge. So but
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Speaker 1: they've they've made it as seamless as as as possible.
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Speaker 2: Derek Call started off real strong, but has not had
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Speaker 2: a Zach since the Giants game. Just kind of curious
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Speaker 2: what you're seeing from your edge rushers in general the
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Speaker 2: last few games.
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Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't feel like that that he hasn't had
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Speaker 1: you know, the sac production. I think. I think d
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Speaker 1: Hall is still playing well. I think our edges are
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Speaker 1: playing well. I tell you what, like those guys will
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Speaker 1: throw it in there. I think that play has been
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Speaker 1: better since the Bills game. I think those in the
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Speaker 1: last couple of games have been you know better in
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Speaker 1: that regard last couple of weeks for that matter. So
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Speaker 1: those are things that we're working through and then we're
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Speaker 1: able to, like I think the flexibility up front by
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Speaker 1: you know, being able to put some other guys in
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Speaker 1: those spots just because we lack some bodies. It's true,
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Speaker 1: like edge guys, I think that actually helps us in
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Speaker 1: the long run to build depth and create some more
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Speaker 1: like blocking services that teams that I might not expect.
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Speaker 1: When you look back on Geno's performance to how many
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Speaker 1: games did you learn anything new or see anything differently?
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Speaker 1: After a chance to step back, I think it confirms
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Speaker 1: a lot of the things that we felt, like, you know,
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Speaker 1: the things that you don't see on in bye week
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Speaker 1: watching cutups is what it feels like during the game,
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Speaker 1: and his presence and his competitiveness. I think that the
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Speaker 1: team feels that they feed off of. But the message
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Speaker 1: of Genos, hey like, hey, we're all trying to make
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Speaker 1: this thing go to the next level. Keep doing the
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Speaker 1: things that you've been doing to be you and it'll
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Speaker 1: fall into place. So I think that's that's probably the
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Speaker 1: biggest takeaway you.
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Speaker 2: Guys have got as in some situations, I guess when
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Speaker 2: you kind of looked at that, what is the situation.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's I mean, it's all the above. It's a
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Speaker 1: first down efficiency efficiency. Uh, it's how well and effective
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Speaker 1: we've been able to run the ball, dictate terms of
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Speaker 1: the you know, to the defense. We have to do
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Speaker 1: a way better job of that. You know, you can't
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Speaker 1: be last in the league and the third down distance
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Speaker 1: and feel like you're in a good spot. So penalties,
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Speaker 1: things of that nature. You just can't have those negative plays.
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Speaker 1: How you do it, how you call it, how you
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Speaker 1: build it, all those things that you know, those things, Oh,
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Speaker 1: those are things. Excuse me, those are the things that
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Speaker 1: we're that we're working on.
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Speaker 2: Is go ahead, Look thanks Brady. It's being a first
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Speaker 2: down the forty nine ers or second in the NFL,
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Speaker 2: the averaging seven point five yards would play.
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Speaker 1: Yep, Just how important is that to get them into third? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this game is going to come down to a large
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Speaker 1: part of It's going to come down to how well
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Speaker 1: each team plays on first down. And they obviously they
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Speaker 1: do a great job. I think we played it well
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Speaker 1: in certain aspects in the first game. Obviously we gave
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Speaker 1: us some explosives on first down too, So trying to
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Speaker 1: eliminate those types of things, putting ourselves in better position. Really,
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Speaker 1: just executing as a whole is better. And of course
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Speaker 1: as coaches, we're trying to design and put ourselves in
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Speaker 1: better situations, so we feel like we have the upper
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Speaker 1: hand of those in those situations as well, So it's
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Speaker 1: kind of a team effort.
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Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan's offense, how does it test or put pressure
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Speaker 4: on cornerbacks?
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Speaker 1: That's a good question. I think as a whole, it's
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Speaker 1: I mean, really everybody I discipline is at a premium
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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of moving parts, you know, distributions
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Speaker 1: and how how like the number count changes quickly and
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Speaker 1: how will he change his angles and numbers? I think
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Speaker 1: is up there with everybody, you know, the best in
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Speaker 1: the league. And then I'd say, like the timing and
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Speaker 1: the precision in the passing game a really really like
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Speaker 1: really puts a premium on on how well those guys
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Speaker 1: can play their technique. And hopefully that's a good answer.
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Speaker 1: Does it forced him to be bigger parts of run defense?
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Speaker 1: I mean I'm not gonna say like no because they don't,
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Speaker 1: but it's just it's it's you know, standard, you know,
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Speaker 1: the corners are gonna have to show up in every
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Speaker 1: ny of you run scheme. I mean not every run
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Speaker 1: scheme is designed to get to the corner. A majority
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Speaker 1: of them are, you know, because he normally he's the
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Speaker 1: free guy. But but they do. They're able to create
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Speaker 1: and get hats on hats where those guys sometimes will
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Speaker 1: you be forced to show up? Have you said Devin
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Speaker 1: Witherspoon's year to this point? You know, I think I
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Speaker 1: understand where the question is coming from because of probably
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Speaker 1: a lack of stats. But I'll tell you what this guy.
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Speaker 1: There are like force multiplayers on your football team. That
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Speaker 1: is Devin Witherspoon. I mean, this guy has he's an
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Speaker 1: elite competitor. He's a guy that hopefully he's leading the charge,
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Speaker 1: you know, for us for a long time here. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this guy he's just so I mean we talked about
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Speaker 1: us at length, but I mean he's worth the shout out.
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Speaker 1: It's he's so intelligent, he can play all the multiple spots,
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Speaker 1: all the energy we feed off this guy, and how
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Speaker 1: competitive he is plays the way we want to play.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you kind of want to play him everywhere.
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Speaker 1: And so that's probably my biggest compliment to him. So
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Speaker 1: it's trying to figure out how we can play him
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Speaker 1: the best to make him affect the game. And we're
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Speaker 1: thinking through that lens and frankly, it's nothing that he's
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Speaker 1: not doing that's not creating production. You could probably you
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Speaker 1: could put it on me to you know, get him
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Speaker 1: into better spots and so we can go affect the game.
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Speaker 1: But that's definitely a focus chase.
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Speaker 4: Compared to a lot of defensive.
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Speaker 1: Coached he just decides, like I'm like, he is going
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Speaker 1: to get to the football, and so when you watch
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Speaker 1: the tape, there's no hesitation of like, oh, the ball's
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Speaker 1: over there, hopefully so and so makes the tackle, like
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Speaker 1: he expects himself to make the play no matter where
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Speaker 1: it is, and that if we we have eleven guys
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Speaker 1: with that mentality all the time, then we can be
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Speaker 1: a dangerous group. You see from him as a pass
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Speaker 1: rusher specifically, well, I think I need to get more ops.
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Speaker 1: But he's one of the guys that from off the
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Speaker 1: balls has won one on one rushes. But I think
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Speaker 1: he has really good tim being a really good feel
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Speaker 1: for the game, and you know, we got to give
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Speaker 1: more opportunities.
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Speaker 2: Has been asked to travel a little bit more of
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Speaker 2: this year play on both sides of the field. Have
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Speaker 2: you noticed any advantages or disadvantages for him, how that's
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Speaker 2: going for him this year?
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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think his production is a
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Speaker 1: function of how we've tried to deploy him. Uh breaks
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Speaker 1: a guy, He's got all the ability in the world,
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Speaker 1: and he makes all those plays, and then there's just
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Speaker 1: a couple where, hey, let's just if we just if
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Speaker 1: we just stay on a play by play, day by day,
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Speaker 1: moment by moment mentality, he can be the he can
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Speaker 1: be up there with Bill, play at the with the
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Speaker 1: with the best of them. And so he knows that
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Speaker 1: that's our message him every day. He's doing a great job.
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Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I'm sure he's going to say
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Speaker 1: there's a couple of plays where he can you know,
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Speaker 1: if he took advantage of that, he'd be he'd be
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Speaker 1: cooking with gas. George, What do you know about how
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Speaker 1: long he's going to be out? I'm not sure we did.
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Speaker 1: We did put him on all right, Yeah, I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: Do you know if he'll be back this season? No?
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Speaker 1: I don't.
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Speaker 3: You try to change the message after the bye week
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Speaker 3: and refresh, change anything up or do you try to
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Speaker 3: keep it as consistent as you were in the first
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Speaker 3: part of the season.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think consistency is important, but you know, I'm
16:10
Speaker 1: not gonna deadpan, you know, in front of everybody every day.
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Speaker 1: But it's basically the message that I feel like that
16:15
Speaker 1: we need to hear. But yeah, we're we're going forward.
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Speaker 1: It's we're we're just gonna have the same mental if
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Speaker 1: we're trying to attack, we want it to look like
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Speaker 1: in all phases and each day kind of manifest itself
16:25
Speaker 1: a little differently.
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Speaker 2: You look at your run game, is there anything you'd
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Speaker 2: like to see differently from Zach and Kennon.
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Speaker 1: I think, look there, I mean, they're the guys tote
16:36
Speaker 1: in the rock we got, we got a ton of
16:38
Speaker 1: faith in them. But it's it's a it's a team mentality,
16:42
Speaker 1: you know, so we gotta we gotta all have it
16:45
Speaker 1: come together and they're going to be a huge part
16:47
Speaker 1: of that solution and going forward. So it's not that
16:53
Speaker 1: they're not running it right and we're blocking it right,
16:55
Speaker 1: or we're getting it or they're blocking it right, we're
16:57
Speaker 1: not running it right, or we're not collar. It's not
16:59
Speaker 1: like it's not this it's just a it's a this mentality,
17:02
Speaker 1: so I think they see it the same way.
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Speaker 4: Where's Knight's growth been in run defense?
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Speaker 1: I think really, any rookie linebacker has a hard time
17:12
Speaker 1: with block shed. I mean, without naming names. I mean,
17:16
Speaker 1: there's a couple of guys up off in my head
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Speaker 1: that were really great coming out that would I've had
17:20
Speaker 1: the opportunity to coach. But on the most part, it's
17:24
Speaker 1: just how to get off blocks, blocks, trust, and how
17:27
Speaker 1: to use your hands. I think he's really grown in
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Speaker 1: that area. Anything else, okay, all right, thank you,