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Mike Macdonald: "We Have To Get Better In A Hurry" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, look at it stings. It stings to
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  Speaker 1: have lost in a row, just losed against your division
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  Speaker 1: rival at home in prime time, such a great environment. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: guys fought their tails off down to the last minute.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not playing well enough to to uh to
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  Speaker 1: beat the team we need to be. So the message
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  Speaker 1: to the team is we have we have the people
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  Speaker 1: in the building, our players are coaches to become a
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  Speaker 1: really good football team. And right now we're just we're
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  Speaker 1: coming up short. And uh that's obvious based off the tape.
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  Speaker 1: It's obvious based off of what's going on. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to start faster. We have to win the takeaway differential,
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  Speaker 1: which that's that's a team stat. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're just we're just not doing the things that good
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  Speaker 1: football teams do to win football games. And so, uh
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna attack it. You know, we're gonna we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: take a breather here and really go back and and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I say the heck out of this thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I just told like we got one or two options,
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  Speaker 1: you can give up. We're gonna keep fighting like heck
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  Speaker 1: to make it right. And that's what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: So We're six games into the end of the season
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  Speaker 1: and and there's a lot of football to be played.
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  Speaker 1: But we got just just like the messages last week,
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  Speaker 1: we got to get better in a hurry, finding new
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  Speaker 1: ways to lose games. And it's not good. But we
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  Speaker 1: got the right guys for the job. Guys are in it.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna do this thing together and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna fight forward and go to Atlanta next week. How's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I got guys aren't inventing things, They're trying to do
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  Speaker 1: it the right way. We're just yeah, we're just either
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  Speaker 1: stopping them right now at the line of scrimmage or
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  Speaker 1: the balls spitting and it's explosive. So when that happens,
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  Speaker 1: it's either on the front line guys getting out of
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  Speaker 1: their gaps, second level not fitting it correctly, and not
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  Speaker 1: getting in on the on the ground on the third level.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what's going on. There's seemed to be a
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  Speaker 1: rent the run during the lead. Do you feel like
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  Speaker 1: then played out today? Well, we certainly tried. Uh. I
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  Speaker 1: think we ended up with like twenty rush or something.
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  Speaker 1: It's really a team stat because if you're if you're
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  Speaker 1: behind multiple scores, keep into the second half. You're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be able to run the ball. It's just the
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  Speaker 1: way to go. So we're gonna keep working on it.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna keep finding our identity. And I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: just that's one on the list of things that that
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be attacking over the next week. What did
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  Speaker 1: you what did you think of Gino? As ninety obviously
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of interceptions there. Look, at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, we had we put ourselves in a position,
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  Speaker 1: after being in a massive hole if we got to
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  Speaker 1: stop to go go down and score, and Gino's playing
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  Speaker 1: really good football for us. I know, you know it
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  Speaker 1: threw the two picks, but we got we got faith
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  Speaker 1: in Gino. I mean, he's gonna he's gonna bounce back.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he played a good football game and run
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  Speaker 1: and already already already reaggravated his toe. So like severity,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure Trey had an ankle. I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: everybody else is. Okay, how much thought would you put
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown the other person if it was as big
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  Speaker 1: as a matter of where it was on the field,
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't much was it wasn't much thought from
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  Speaker 1: from that yard line. I guess, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: that this will break? What? What do you think players
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  Speaker 1: need to kind of get get back on track here after? Yeah, Look,
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  Speaker 1: you can't fix everything over like overnight. So you gotta
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  Speaker 1: you gotta pick one thing at a time. Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta be really surgical in our approach. You gotta be positive.
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  Speaker 1: There is good things on tape. The effort was there.
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  Speaker 1: The guys are trying to play physical, they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: play the right way. Uh, And we got to look
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  Speaker 1: at what we're asking and how we're coaching it and
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  Speaker 1: how teams are attacking us and uh and then go
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  Speaker 1: from there. I mean, that's really just that's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the thought. It's kind of like it's the a mini
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  Speaker 1: bye week, So we're gonna be looking at ourselves a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the next few days and then go back
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  Speaker 1: to work on Monday. What was the explanation you got
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  Speaker 1: on where they called the personal foul on Leonard but
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  Speaker 1: U but they had called you know, motion on San Francisco. Uh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Apparently the rule says that a fifteen yarder overrides a
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  Speaker 1: five yarder, even if the first five yarder would have
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  Speaker 1: stopped the stopped the play is the explanation I got. So, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: what did you see on the de boat touchdown to
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  Speaker 1: the breakdown you guys got there. Uh, it was a
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  Speaker 1: it was a coverage breakdown on our end, and uh
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  Speaker 1: we had an opportunity to make it right with Julian
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  Speaker 1: on the overlap. If that happens, you know, we just
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  Speaker 1: gotta get him on the ground. We missed the tackle
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  Speaker 1: and off he went. You mentioned the turnovers earlier. It's
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  Speaker 1: multiple turnovers now in the four games added in one guy. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think has changed back like that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we got a Obviously we're not ema sizing it enough.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's the starting point. And uh, the guys
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  Speaker 1: know that, and so we got those. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: add that the list of things we have to attack
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  Speaker 1: but can't be given the ball the other team. We
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  Speaker 1: have to be playing more precise good to see bounce
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  Speaker 1: back the return. Yeah, it's good special teams, you're I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's really like our football team right now. There's doing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good things that put us in chances,
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  Speaker 1: but then we're we're really hurting ourselves in certain phases.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like living in two extremes, and so we
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  Speaker 1: just we got to balance it out and be a
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  Speaker 1: more consistent football team. Another game where you go your
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  Speaker 1: offensive line to hold up the pass protection quite the
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  Speaker 1: fifty it was, how do you feel like they did well?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, again, you know, this is the third third
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  Speaker 1: game in a row now that you're behind, so you
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  Speaker 1: got to chuck it in the second half. So again
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  Speaker 1: that's defensively and as a team, we have to be
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  Speaker 1: in these games within a you know, a score in
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  Speaker 1: the second half, so we're not having to drop back
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  Speaker 1: that much. But uh, the guys are battling. They're battling.
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  Speaker 1: The guys are battling their tails off. So I'm i'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of the effort, and you know, we having
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the score was at some point,
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  Speaker 1: but it looked bleak. Levisca took the touchdown or touch
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  Speaker 1: that took the kickoff back, guys fought back to within
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  Speaker 1: a score and then we didn't get the forour met
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  Speaker 1: stop on defense. So it's kind of the tail of
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  Speaker 1: the last three weeks right now, the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: games that the other teams have been able to drive
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  Speaker 1: right down the field. He's the defense to start the
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  Speaker 1: first in the second half, Yeah, or you noticed in
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  Speaker 1: anything that maybe he was causing that where it seems
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  Speaker 1: like the defense is coming up flat sort of game, right, No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't think. I don't think we're flat.
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  Speaker 1: You know, teams have openers and you have to stop
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  Speaker 1: those openers. I mean, it's just it's just what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a combination of understanding how teams are attacking you,
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  Speaker 1: how that's evolving, how you know, and keep putting them
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  Speaker 1: in better positions to make plays, and then our guys
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  Speaker 1: gonna go make the place. I mean, but our guys
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  Speaker 1: are ready to they're ready to play. Mike, You guys
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  Speaker 1: have been on the negative sign on the turnover patal
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  Speaker 1: for a few weeks in a row. You half, how
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  Speaker 1: do you kind of see that aspect of your guys
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  Speaker 1: play right now? How much? Well, it's probably the single
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  Speaker 1: handedly biggest and it's the biggest thing right now. It's
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  Speaker 1: hurting our football team. So we have to take care
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  Speaker 1: of the ball better. We got to practice it better.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you get what you emphasize, and apparently we're
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  Speaker 1: not emphasizing enough. And that's that's shoot, that's my responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: Three games in eleven days. How much like physically you
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  Speaker 1: need this break right now. I don't know, I physically
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  Speaker 1: not sure what the answer to that is. It is
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  Speaker 1: good to have a couple of days to take a
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  Speaker 1: breath and say and like go back and really have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to go back with the tape and and
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  Speaker 1: let's come up with a great plan of attack to
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  Speaker 1: go forward. You know. That's that's got to be our mentality.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what we're gonna do. Are you concerned about
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  Speaker 1: where your team is right now? Lost? Well, yeah, before
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  Speaker 1: of course you're gonna be upset and worried about losing
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  Speaker 1: three straight, of course, of course. But we are three
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  Speaker 1: and three. We are six weeks in, so we started fast.
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  Speaker 1: We've obviously not played good football in the last three games,
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  Speaker 1: and on where we go. So the mentality always has
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  Speaker 1: to be, hey, let's move forward, let's attack this thing,
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  Speaker 1: and let's fight like hell to make it right. That's
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  Speaker 1: and that's the message to the guys. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: just that that's it's just I hate to be like,
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  Speaker 1: there's no like novel idea, but that's just got to
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  Speaker 1: be the mentality creating turnovers. How do you do that
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  Speaker 1: without oppressing defensive wise, well, I think it starts with stopping,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on first down type plays. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the stats were today, but it felt like we're
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  Speaker 1: behind on some of those things. And if you're not
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  Speaker 1: dictating terms, if you're not forcing them into passing situations,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to put it's hard to affect the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: When we did create those situations today, I felt like
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't get the guy on the ground as she
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  Speaker 1: was able to extend plays and make plays in that
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  Speaker 1: in that regard, but uh, you have to you have
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  Speaker 1: to you have to be you have to be winning games.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's when it comes to life. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if if teams have options to run her pass all
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  Speaker 1: the time, it's, uh, you know, it's hard to get
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  Speaker 1: him behind the eight ball. There we go, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: all right, thank you