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Mike Macdonald: "We Grew As A Football Team This Week" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, get everybody. Uh yeah, just uh, just proud
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  Speaker 1: of our guys.
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  Speaker 2: We said the message really after the game was team win,
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  Speaker 2: and I felt like I felt like we earned the
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  Speaker 2: win on our preparation Monday through Saturday is probably our
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  Speaker 2: best week of prep. Guys were locked in going through
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  Speaker 2: you know, traveling East ten am game on our time,
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  Speaker 2: having energy, uh, the focus, the togetherness, all all all
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that we need in order in order for
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  Speaker 2: us to win.
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  Speaker 1: We did so complimentary game.
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  Speaker 2: Felt like our offense responded and sometimes when when the
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  Speaker 2: Falcons were able to go down there and score so
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  Speaker 2: and then special teams as well.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's bit excited to go watch the tape, but
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  Speaker 1: great win.
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  Speaker 2: We'll enjoy it and get ready for a Buffalo next week.
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  Speaker 3: How's the team gonna respond after three losses? Just how
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  Speaker 3: excited are you just see your players come out and
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  Speaker 3: do what they did?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Uh, you know it's funny you feel it throughout
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  Speaker 1: the week.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully that was you know, within the messaging, you
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  Speaker 2: guys felt the same way. But our guys are determined,
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  Speaker 2: and uh we grew, we grew as a football team
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  Speaker 2: this week and now we have to we have to
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  Speaker 2: keep it going, Okay, we've got to keep stacking these days,
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  Speaker 2: keep stacking our prep, take what we need to learn
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  Speaker 2: from this game, and keep moving forward. So it's still
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  Speaker 2: stir early in the season, but it's great to get
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  Speaker 2: back in the win gone for sure.
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  Speaker 1: You have the three takeaways plus the defensive touchdown. What
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  Speaker 1: did you see out outside of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of like what we said, if you
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  Speaker 2: force them into more passing situations, you can start to
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  Speaker 2: affect the quarterback a little bit more. And again it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a team, it's a team stat So our
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  Speaker 2: offense did a great job of kind of pushing the envelope, responding,
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  Speaker 2: keeping us with the lead as the game started to
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  Speaker 2: wind down there, and you know, force to pass and
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  Speaker 2: try to create some pressure on the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought in the past game we played a.
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  Speaker 2: Complimentary game Russian pass and guys made their opportunities when
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  Speaker 2: the ball came their way.
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  Speaker 1: It was great to see. What did you think of
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  Speaker 1: that the secondary?
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  Speaker 3: You kind of had you at Josh starting and starting
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  Speaker 3: and Kobe at safety and everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no flinch, Yeah, just like I said, just we're
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  Speaker 2: excited to see those guys go perform and they did.
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  Speaker 2: I thought they played a great game and they'll learn
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  Speaker 2: from it and keep growing. Name might a little ankle
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  Speaker 2: there at the ends or not, doesn't look serious the.
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  Speaker 1: Decision to take a shot.
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  Speaker 4: If you have in the first half, you could have
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  Speaker 4: kind of played for a field in that situation. What
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  Speaker 4: went into the that.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great preparation by our offensive staff, faith
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  Speaker 2: in our guys. We felt like we had enough time
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  Speaker 2: to to go ahead and make that play call, and
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  Speaker 2: if it was incomplete, we felt like we were still
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  Speaker 2: in range, so.
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  Speaker 1: Stayed aggressive field level. Do you appreciate how good that there?
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  Speaker 3: Aard? Think you'll need to see the angles.
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  Speaker 2: I felt pretty dangn good from where I was, but
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  Speaker 2: it'll be fun to see it on tape.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us about DK and being carded off with? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: He like he on that sideline catch. He banged up
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  Speaker 2: his knee a little bit, so I'm not sure that
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  Speaker 2: severity doesn't optimistic at this.
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  Speaker 1: Point, So it doesn't it doesn't look too bad. What
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  Speaker 1: were your thoughts about that pass protection?
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  Speaker 2: Well, uh, I felt like the guy's battled out there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think I think Atlanta had a sack
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  Speaker 2: or two. I'm not sure the stats, but uh, Gina
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  Speaker 2: was able to move and groove in the in the
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  Speaker 2: in the pocket if they're able to get immediate pressure,
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  Speaker 2: so uh something to build on for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I was how much of a concern was Matthew Judahn fifteen?
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  Speaker 2: Well, uh, you know, look, I know from experience this
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  Speaker 2: guy is a great player. They have a really good
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  Speaker 2: front and a good pressure package. So we needed a
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  Speaker 2: nice tight plan and to go execute it and and
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  Speaker 2: then go battle it and battle it out.
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  Speaker 4: What did you You mentioned gen moving and groove and
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  Speaker 4: he really manipulated.
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  Speaker 1: The pocket a lot today, very successfully. How do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like he played throughout this game?
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  Speaker 2: I thought, look, you have to know where he is
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  Speaker 2: at all times, and it's easy to find him. He's
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  Speaker 2: got the red sleeve, so uh, he's agreeing and uh
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  Speaker 2: and not only is he a really good player, but
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  Speaker 2: he's also really smart and feels the game and understands,
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  Speaker 2: uh how offenses work. So uh, I lived it, and
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  Speaker 2: uh we got a lot of respect for him.
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  Speaker 4: And being back, how much do you feel like the
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  Speaker 4: interior pressure was helping the guys in the outside. Seemed
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  Speaker 4: like they were able to feed.
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  Speaker 1: Off each other.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about in the past rush, Yeah, well, you know
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  Speaker 2: you got you got everybody healthy now, so you're able
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  Speaker 2: to get a rotation and kind of keep the play
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  Speaker 2: numbers to where you on it so that that's big.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, Murph, I think he's just what
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  Speaker 2: he's able to do to push the pocket to your point.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a team pass rush. So he got it.
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  Speaker 2: Like Kirk does such a great ball job of getting
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  Speaker 2: the ball out on time, so trying to kind of
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  Speaker 2: get him to a second and third read and then
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  Speaker 2: everything in the pocket kind of swarmed from that point.
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  Speaker 2: Like the sack fumble was a very rare extended play
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  Speaker 2: that you get against him, so we were able to
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 3: How sick was ken Walker?
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  Speaker 1: You have to fight through to play? Uh me, he's
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  Speaker 1: pretty sick, but he fought through it. Guy's a beast.
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  Speaker 1: How did you think it?
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  Speaker 2: Again?
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm not like a dog. I just know told
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  Speaker 1: wasn't feeling well. I didn't know how stayed at a
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  Speaker 1: holiday and last night. Sorry, how much unserved he was
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  Speaker 1: there that he would play and what did you take it?
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  Speaker 1: The way he played?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it ever got to the point where
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  Speaker 2: we said that he wasn't going to go, but I
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  Speaker 2: know he wasn't feeling well and you know, trying to
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  Speaker 2: get fluids in him.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought he played.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he played incredibly hard for what it was blocked,
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  Speaker 2: you know on the touchdown run, the cutback and then
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  Speaker 2: the touchdown catch was just a dynamite play as a
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  Speaker 2: heck of a throw by by Gino as well, but
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  Speaker 2: two guys working together on that one.
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  Speaker 1: How did you feel Michael Gerald handled that everything?
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  Speaker 2: I thought Mike played great. I was excited to see
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  Speaker 2: him play and proud of him. Guys had his back
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  Speaker 2: and uh excited to welcome to the NFL rope. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: I thought Gina played a great game, was poised, delivered
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  Speaker 2: the ball on time, and then when the on the
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  Speaker 2: extended play stuff just like the the the the scrambled
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  Speaker 2: to find Noah when we were trying to respond. There
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  Speaker 2: was was a heck of a play and then obviously
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  Speaker 2: a couple of touchdown passes were great throws as well.
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  Speaker 3: The first drive.
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  Speaker 4: The second half did wanted to score. He had several
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  Speaker 4: plays where he stuffed into the last striven in the
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  Speaker 4: run games, you feel like you got a sense there
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  Speaker 4: is some improvement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well they do they do a great job in
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  Speaker 1: the run game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it felt like we were fitting and right, we're
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  Speaker 2: just missing tackles and the first half so that's something
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  Speaker 2: that we're gonna need to be chasing here moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: But we responded in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: So not sure what the stats are, but it felt
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  Speaker 2: like we were a little more square had the edge set. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: secondary contained was was a little faster to show up.
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  Speaker 1: So disappointing that we let him score in that fourth down.
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  Speaker 3: Though, Halin for coming down with that throat and I
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  Speaker 3: kind of threw that into some traffic.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that was a heck of a play man.
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  Speaker 2: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: How did you sort of did? Josh Joe? But we
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  Speaker 1: haven't really gotten seen him at all ever. Obviously I
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  Speaker 1: had you kind of decide on him starting there.
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  Speaker 4: Today.
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  Speaker 2: We'll shout out to John and his staff for for
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  Speaker 2: picking him up. And he's been practicing his tail off.
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  Speaker 2: Just picks everything up really quick. Smart guy, like long, tall,
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  Speaker 2: fast corner that was the defense and like like I said,
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  Speaker 2: he just practiced so well throughout the week. We just
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of I know Carl Scott was probably
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  Speaker 2: had some longer nights than I did, but I felt
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  Speaker 2: I felt pretty good going into the game.
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  Speaker 1: I think you get hit in the eye, maybe his
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  Speaker 1: contact up or whatever. So he's fine.
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  Speaker 3: You've been talking for a while about Kobe Bryant and
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  Speaker 3: like the way he's practicing, the way he's progressing, and
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  Speaker 3: just what was it like to see him out playing.
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  Speaker 2: Ale game like that and do any I'm not surprised again,
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  Speaker 2: just this guy just keeps playing at a high level
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  Speaker 2: and uh, the game like it's slow form, and he
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  Speaker 2: just he just sees how like plays progress.
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  Speaker 1: He just happens.
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  Speaker 2: He seems like he's in the right spot all the
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  Speaker 2: time on these overthrows and patrolling the deep are of
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  Speaker 2: the field.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know in the run game and support
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see what we want to clean up. But
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  Speaker 2: this guy can refect the ball like we like we've
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  Speaker 2: been talking about.
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  Speaker 1: So it's t a unique trade for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Him playing previously boundary corner, also playing the Nicholas position.
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  Speaker 4: How much does that cater to the way that you
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  Speaker 4: want your safety.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point.
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  Speaker 2: Our safety's were asking to play man a man a
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  Speaker 2: good bit and carry guys down the field, and he's
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  Speaker 2: comfortable doing that and just seeing the game from like
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  Speaker 2: different angles and stuff, and he's such a smart player
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  Speaker 2: feels how like route distributions and can see the kind
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  Speaker 2: of slow motion out there.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a great point. I know you had
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  Speaker 1: a cheering section of your own. What was I like
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  Speaker 1: to come back here and coach and win?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we just want to trust me, We just wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get back in the win Colm, I mean, just
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  Speaker 2: try to do everything we can to get to four
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  Speaker 2: and three. That was that was the thought throughout the week.
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  Speaker 2: Tried to kind of lead the distractions aside. And I
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  Speaker 2: know there's a section of folks that are waiting on us,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm excited to go go see them and spend
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  Speaker 2: a few minutes before we take off.
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  Speaker 3: Was it nice to be hearing your fans out in
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  Speaker 3: this building? I mean you're a couple thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Miles Well, well, I mean shout out to all the twelves.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's a ton of people on the on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline at the end of the game, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was really a couple couple family and friends
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  Speaker 2: that we saw.
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  Speaker 1: That was cool.
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  Speaker 2: But the rest of the twelves they showed up. They
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  Speaker 2: were allowed towards the end of the game. I thought
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  Speaker 2: that was really awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Seemed like Roy Robertson Harris made his presence. What did
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  Speaker 1: you see there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean just knock back at the point of
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  Speaker 2: attack and then felt like he was able to set
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  Speaker 2: the edge on some of those runs. And just another
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  Speaker 2: guy that like we can kind of plug and play,
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  Speaker 2: you know, inside and outside and then we'll get the
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  Speaker 2: pass rush going with him as he starts to feel
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  Speaker 2: out how we're calling it and and uh playing off
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  Speaker 2: one another. So we're excited to have him.
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  Speaker 1: Does George have a chance to come back this week?
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  Speaker 1: We think so there's a chance. Yeah, so, uh, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: It's not it's not definite yet, but we're optimistic that'll
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  Speaker 2: it'll be soon.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Stone, I don't know right now anything else. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: all right, great, Thanks guys,