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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "I know this is not who we are." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Anton just got rolled up on ankle. He'll be fine,
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  Speaker 1: kind of day to day right now.
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  Speaker 2: X rays were.
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  Speaker 1: Negative, so he should be he should be good to go.
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  Speaker 1: The other one probably a little more significant. Devin Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: with his with his hand, I think it's his right hand.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he's he's.
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  Speaker 1: Still going undergoing further testing, but we'll have to see
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  Speaker 1: where his his thumb is he here, he injured that
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  Speaker 1: during the game. So as far as you know, practice
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, he'll probably he'll probably miss Wednesday, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see later today where he's at on that.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the Yeah, okay, yeah, he was cramps.
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  Speaker 2: He was cramps. Who else for you? He was fine.
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  Speaker 1: He was get hit right on the kneecap kind of
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  Speaker 1: just a good hard low tackle.
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  Speaker 2: Just got hit low. He's fine today, He's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: still day to day.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if we had to actice today, he'd be
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  Speaker 1: out obviously. So we'll see again on Wednesday where he is.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. Did you get any kind of explanation from Heath
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  Speaker 3: on what happened on the kickoff return?
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  Speaker 4: Because it's very rare to see one side of the
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  Speaker 4: field be that vacant, because you know, usually you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's respond there's lane responsibilities on a kickoff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: obviously poor tackling, right, I mean, it was a great kick,
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  Speaker 1: ball was on the ground. We had a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to pin them, pin them deep, you know, right there,
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  Speaker 1: and then and then we just we just lost leverage.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, guys see the ball on the ground and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just made a bee line for the ball,
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  Speaker 1: and and we had uh, you know about four guys
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  Speaker 1: I think five guys missed missed tackles. I mean that
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  Speaker 1: that's just unacceptable and that can't happen when when you
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  Speaker 1: have such a great kick, At.
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  Speaker 5: What point does the it's early excuse kind of go
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  Speaker 5: out the window?
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, We're we're too listen, We're we're too far down
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  Speaker 1: the road. We've we've been together for going on two
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  Speaker 1: years now. You know, we know each other, players, coaches, coaches, players.
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  Speaker 1: I just think there's just a sense of guys are
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  Speaker 1: just pressing a little bit too much, trying to make
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  Speaker 1: plays then just just let the game come to them,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, it's put us in a bind, particularly on
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  Speaker 1: third downs.
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  Speaker 5: Is there anything to be an overconfident in the ability
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  Speaker 5: to come back. Dating all the way back to last year,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of the.
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  Speaker 6: Games, even the wins, you were down at some point
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  Speaker 6: in the game, but the team just knew they had
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  Speaker 6: the talent to make the plays when it mattered.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously that's a good thing, knowing that we've
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  Speaker 1: been in those situations before and we've pulled ourselves out.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday was a little different, however, and I say different
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  Speaker 1: from the standpoint. Sure we were we got back to
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  Speaker 1: seventeen to ten, but then that that kickoff return hit us,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that sort of took the wind out
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  Speaker 1: of the sales. But you know, we still had chances
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  Speaker 1: and opportunities. But then you know, we gave up those
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  Speaker 1: same opera contunities on the other side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they scored I think on four out of
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  Speaker 1: the five possessions they had, counting that kickoff return, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the second half. So this was a game where
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  Speaker 1: that it's very rare where all three phases really had
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  Speaker 1: a hand in this loss yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Like there's a report that you took over peg.
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  Speaker 2: It's false, it's false.
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  Speaker 5: Were you that's a little bit more involved in terms
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  Speaker 5: of in that second half maybe than you had normally.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I I communicate with press in the offensive staff,
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  Speaker 1: you know, no more or less than I usually do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, on game day, Doug, it seemed like it
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  Speaker 1: was second half there was maybe more of a contort
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  Speaker 1: effort to get Evan and Christian involved, So may be
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  Speaker 1: a reason why, like maybe it took as long as
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  Speaker 1: it did. Actually, the plan, quite honestly, was to try
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  Speaker 1: to get them started early, you know, get get Evan
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  Speaker 1: and Christian going, and really get our run game established.
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  Speaker 2: As you saw, you know, early in the football game.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that first drive, I mean, we we executed
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  Speaker 1: the plan, you know perfectly. We had to missed touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: you know, catch there, Calvin, He'll make that. He'll make
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  Speaker 1: that play nine out of ten times. But but uh,
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  Speaker 1: and then we missed the missed the field goal. So
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  Speaker 1: we're given it's not not necessarily what they did to us,
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  Speaker 1: it's what we did to ourselves. But we we have
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  Speaker 1: to we being the staff, need to make a conscious
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  Speaker 1: effort to make sure that our best players are touching
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  Speaker 1: the football, especially early early in the football.
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  Speaker 5: Game, and breakdown on the block field.
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  Speaker 1: Will Anton got a little overextended, so head down and
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  Speaker 1: what ended up happened Walker little being to his outside
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  Speaker 1: went to the outside with the three rushers there, and
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  Speaker 1: that just created created a gap for fifty one Will
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  Speaker 1: Anderson to to to break through and and block the kick.
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  Speaker 5: What happened don who was.
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  Speaker 3: The long touchdown past the dell.
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  Speaker 1: Looked like there's miss miscommunication on the back end man coverage.
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  Speaker 1: Just just miscommunication again though, you know that one. And
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  Speaker 1: then even the post in the in the first half
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  Speaker 1: with the safeties, the one they scored their first touchdown drive.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the one you're talking about or the one
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  Speaker 1: in the late in the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, both of those.
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  Speaker 1: Were just just uh miscommunication, you know on the secondary's part,
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  Speaker 1: just things that again are are unacceptable and can't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys have worked together too long, you know, uh
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  Speaker 1: to make those mistakes more of the Darius.
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  Speaker 5: Thought they were playing zone instead of man on both
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  Speaker 5: of them.
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  Speaker 2: Is that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the the first one was that the safeties of
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  Speaker 1: Cisco and and uh ray Seon were both of them
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  Speaker 1: were down and Rayeon was shooting back late to the
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  Speaker 1: post and and uh it's just a miscommunication who was
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  Speaker 1: going back and and we were late getting back there.
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  Speaker 1: Can this game provide the same sort of spark that
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  Speaker 1: the Lions game did last year?
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  Speaker 2: I think so, I hope.
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  Speaker 6: So.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know that this is not who we
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  Speaker 1: are as a team. A lot of pride in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room, the coaching staff, and and we understand we've
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  Speaker 1: got to you know, this is what's on tape, right,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we're putting out there. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta and Buffalo and all our opponents the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the season, this is what they're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: And and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, we we feel that, uh, and we know that
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  Speaker 1: we're a better team. And like I said, I think,
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  Speaker 1: I think guys are just trying to make plays instead
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  Speaker 1: of just allowing the play to sort of organically happen.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: And and and when you do that, you know, balls
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  Speaker 1: gonna come out, fumble, You're gonna throw a pick, You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna drop a touchdown, right, You're you're gonna trip the
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  Speaker 1: running back on third and two. You know, you're just
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  Speaker 1: you're just doing things out of the norm, out of characteristic.
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  Speaker 2: And we just get it. Got we just have to
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  Speaker 2: get back to be in us.
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  Speaker 5: Why does the need that sort of wake up call
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  Speaker 5: maybe to get to get everything flowing in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it needs to happen, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean again, it's uh uh, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pride in that room. You when you when you talk
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  Speaker 1: to the players after the game and and uh hear
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  Speaker 1: what they're saying and the comments they're saying. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're still they're still focused. We believe in them,
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  Speaker 1: they believe in us. It's gonna be u a conscious effort, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and we just got to treat you know, stay in
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  Speaker 1: the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Right it's a week to week, week to week business.
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  Speaker 5: You got to break it down as in all three aspects.
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  Speaker 5: Like you said, it's past game. How do you is
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  Speaker 5: there enough time to fix all of it in one week?
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  Speaker 5: Or or do you have to really just kind of
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  Speaker 5: concentrate on the highlights.
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  Speaker 1: How well you focus on the highlights, But you definitely
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  Speaker 1: coach at all. That's why days like today are so
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  Speaker 1: important with the guys in the building to to be
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  Speaker 1: able to show the mistakes and make those corrections today,
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  Speaker 1: you know, before we hit the practice field again on
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and then you know, you just you have
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  Speaker 1: to you have to you have to show, you have
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  Speaker 1: to show the good, the bad, the ugly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to the players, and you get and you know, my
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  Speaker 1: job is to is to paint the picture. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is where we are, this is not who we
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  Speaker 1: want to be, and this is where we're going. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, all that stuff is still right in front
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  Speaker 1: of us.
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  Speaker 3: Did you feel the oppensive line performed okay yesterday a
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  Speaker 3: low par or what what.
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  Speaker 2: Was your assessment? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I thought okay, not great.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know Ton is still learning, you know, just just
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  Speaker 1: getting to feel in a sense of playing at this
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  Speaker 1: level and all the different rushes that he's seeing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Ben is still.
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  Speaker 1: Working through, you know, getting back into into playing, and
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  Speaker 1: he got you know, he got beat a few times.
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  Speaker 1: I think Luke and Brandon and Walker are the kind
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  Speaker 1: of the three you know, consistent guys right now. But
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  Speaker 1: we continue to work. Ton's gonna be a really good
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  Speaker 1: player for us the more reps and the more game
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  Speaker 1: game action he gets, and and and the same with Ben.
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  Speaker 1: So we're heading in the right direction. But we just
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  Speaker 1: got to clean a few things up there.
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  Speaker 3: Ton did a little bit better against uh against Anderson.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean not that Anderson didn't have a
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  Speaker 3: good game, you obviously had the great play on special teams,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean it.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't look like he got handled the way he got
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  Speaker 4: handled the week before.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and this is not against you know, Will Anderson.
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  Speaker 1: I think Will is gonna be a great player, but
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  Speaker 1: he's not Chris Jones either, and uh it Ton did
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  Speaker 1: have a much better game, you know, but again, there's
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  Speaker 1: some things he can he can clean up. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he got beat inside a couple of times on some games.
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  Speaker 2: Just recognition.
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  Speaker 1: It all comes from from playing and and he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: see a ton of that or didn't see a ton
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  Speaker 1: of that at the collegiate level.
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  Speaker 2: You know, And you know.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's everything's new for him. But he's he's improving, and
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  Speaker 1: you know we have a lot of common and send
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  Speaker 1: them he'll he'll get it done.
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  Speaker 5: All off season about not thinking they can pick up
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  Speaker 5: right where they left off. But when your offense is
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  Speaker 5: pressing the way it has been the first several weeks,
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  Speaker 5: do you get a sense or you're worried that maybe
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  Speaker 5: they really did kind of think they would just kind
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  Speaker 5: of keep.
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  Speaker 2: Going from where they were.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's some of that. I think I think
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  Speaker 1: too human nature. You read into a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: hype you know, preseason a little bit and and you
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  Speaker 1: know right now we're not living up to that expectation,
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  Speaker 1: right And yeah, you want to pick up where you
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  Speaker 1: left off, but you know, it's a it's a new it's.
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  Speaker 2: A new season.
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  Speaker 1: You still got to go put in the hard work
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  Speaker 1: and the preparation and still you know, work in practice
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  Speaker 1: and all that. And that's the one thing that I
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate about those guys is is, uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: they're not Yeah, they're disappointed just like I am. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: they continue to work and and and show the confidence
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  Speaker 1: that they need to to get fixed. When you jump.
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  Speaker 4: Start the pass rush.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I just think it comes down to each man.
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  Speaker 1: Just it's a want to, a will to, you know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously we can it's a staff you can
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  Speaker 1: create it with with games and and different things, you know,
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  Speaker 1: stunts and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll say it's.
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  Speaker 1: Hard when the ball's out of the quarterback's hand, you
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  Speaker 1: know fast, so you're on your second step or maybe
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  Speaker 1: your third step making a move and the ball is gone.
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  Speaker 1: It does affect that a little bit. But but we
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  Speaker 1: can be better just understanding the uh uh, the pass rush,
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  Speaker 1: the game plan, you know, that week and and and
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  Speaker 1: really use that to our advantage.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you can now you.
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  Speaker 6: Have a player of Calvin Ridley's caliber, have a couple
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  Speaker 6: of drops, a couple of full starts. As a coach,
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  Speaker 6: how do you approach the guys win in the league
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  Speaker 6: for a few years and get him back on track
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  Speaker 6: or do you leave it to himself to do that?
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  Speaker 1: No. I grabbed him actually, you know, coming off the field,
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  Speaker 1: and I just just reiterated to him that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: take a deep breath, stay locked in, stay engaged. I
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  Speaker 1: told him he was a big part of part of
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  Speaker 1: our our system and the offense, and he's gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of success. And just wanted to reiterate that
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  Speaker 1: confidence in him, excuse me, And and really and Trevor
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  Speaker 1: does a great job of that too, of getting with
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  Speaker 1: those guys. And you know, Calvin, Calvin wants to do.
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  Speaker 2: So well, so good, so much.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to prove, you know, and he doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to he's a good player and he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: do I'll just be Calvin. And and so those are
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  Speaker 1: the things that we're trying to just get him to do.
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  Speaker 1: Just relax, focus on his job and the and the
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  Speaker 1: plays that you know have his number attested to him.
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  Speaker 5: It was good to have guys in the building getting
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  Speaker 5: worked done today. What are you looking for from your
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  Speaker 5: team this week? What do you want to see as
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  Speaker 5: you prepare for the Falcons at London? And is that
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  Speaker 5: different than you what you would normally be looking for.
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  Speaker 1: No, but obviously with the with the sort of this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a hole we put ourselves in.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to see how these guys respond. I
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  Speaker 1: want to see the energy on Wednesday. I want to see, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the attention to detail, the how do they attack the
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  Speaker 1: walk through the meetings, you know, the practice that day,
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  Speaker 1: and just how do they respond right? And obviously they're
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  Speaker 1: they're they're frustrated today, disappointed today because they know, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I painted a pretty vibrant picture for him this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we all know where we are, and but
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  Speaker 1: we all know where we can go and where we
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  Speaker 1: where we can or what we can become as a
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  Speaker 1: football team. And and you know, they get excited for
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  Speaker 1: that part of it.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's always going to be about us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: focusing on our jobs and what we need to do
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  Speaker 1: and and those are the things that I want to see.
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  Speaker 1: Guys don't have to go chasing things, just make the
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  Speaker 1: plays that come their way.
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  Speaker 5: Changed your view of where this team can go at all.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, it, it really hasn't. I got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of confidence in this team and how we can respond
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  Speaker 1: and and bounce back and and uh, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: it takes. Listen, it's fourteen games left and we got
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  Speaker 1: a big one this week. You know, we we've got
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  Speaker 1: to continue to you know, right the ship obviously, and
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  Speaker 1: fix the things that we need to fix. Coach, coach better,
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  Speaker 1: play better, but do it collectively. You know, can't point fingers.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is not about offense versus defense or
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  Speaker 1: special teams. This is everybody together collectively, Coaches in there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the players, and and uh, that's the
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  Speaker 1: only way to get it done, right, Coach