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Mike Macdonald: "This Will Be A Good Game To Build Off Of" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: David was still telling me that there's uh still folks
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  Speaker 1: out there in our Seattle area that are still without power,
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  Speaker 1: so uh, you know, our thoughts and prayers go out
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  Speaker 1: to those people, and just from our perspective, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having gone through it this week, I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a great opportunity for us to come together. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I hope everyone's still safe out there and you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting through the getting through that, and then it's obviously
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  Speaker 1: great to win at home finally after this hiatus and
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  Speaker 1: bring some joy back to some people's lives. So I
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  Speaker 1: thought the defense played with great energy, physicality, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of detail. Offensively, I thought we did some good things, uh,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, we need to clean some things up operationally,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought some penalties kind of drew us back.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm just talking to Gino, you know, continue
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  Speaker 1: to make better decisions in the red zone, take care
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. But I thought we did. We are
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  Speaker 1: improving and we're making strives in that area as well.
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  Speaker 2: So be be a good game to build off of.
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  Speaker 2: What did the defense as a whole today? Is this
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  Speaker 2: kind of what you feel like you've maybe been building
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  Speaker 2: toward all season.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just think it's a credit goes to
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  Speaker 1: our coaches and our players and everyone in the building
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  Speaker 1: of just like understanding of what we're trying to build,
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  Speaker 1: and just when it's not that way, then you just
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  Speaker 1: hammer away and just go to work and work on
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  Speaker 1: our processes and try to figure out schematically what we
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  Speaker 1: what we're good at putting our guys in better situations.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just kind of everybody working together all the time,
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  Speaker 1: stand together, trust in the process, and and then you
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  Speaker 1: have games where you feel like, you know, you played
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  Speaker 1: pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: And helped his team win the game. So but it's
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  Speaker 2: about that consistent.
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  Speaker 1: We've done three games in our own now we played
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  Speaker 1: pretty decent on defense. You know, let's there's a there's
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  Speaker 1: an expectation here and a standard throughout the course of
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  Speaker 1: you know our our our you know Seahawks history that
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  Speaker 1: that we're trying to live up to and and build
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  Speaker 1: build on.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the idea.
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  Speaker 1: Williams today, I thought he was dominant. I knew he
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  Speaker 1: played great, and then I looked at the stat line.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really mean he played out of his mind.
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  Speaker 3: How much does it help your defense when you have
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  Speaker 3: a player like that's three hundred plus pounds. They can
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  Speaker 3: play inside and destroy the guards and then go out
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  Speaker 3: of two point stance and go yeah sack.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's has not many like him walking the planet.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I'm glad he's on our team. And he's
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  Speaker 1: a heck of a guy. And he's leading, leading the
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  Speaker 1: charge in the in the in the defensive front room
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  Speaker 1: as well with Jay Reid, And I thought Jay Reid
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  Speaker 1: played really well. You know John Hankins, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: all those vets are really helping kind of building the
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  Speaker 1: camaraderie in that room, and they're playing together and rushing together,
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  Speaker 1: and our coaches are doing a great job leading as well.
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  Speaker 1: Play Spoon was able to make on that fourth down
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  Speaker 1: to string Kyler out, and yeah, it's just that's a
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  Speaker 1: that's a Devin Witherspoon one O one just lead, effort, energy, competitiveness, football, understanding,
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  Speaker 1: all the above. So uh, he definitely made that play
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  Speaker 1: come to life.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the best time you've ever called? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Originally I was after an Initially I was kind of bummed.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it, and then it turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be a great time.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you guys go time out there? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we play these guys in two weeks just
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  Speaker 1: kind of not tell you that one did. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: trust in the process and on all that stuff, But
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  Speaker 1: you guys really have like a different team, especially defensively
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  Speaker 1: since the bye week.
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  Speaker 2: Did anything change during.
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  Speaker 1: That time to put this point? You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: this is more of an opportunity to go to work
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  Speaker 1: on kind of narrowing it down, tightened down the focus
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  Speaker 1: about where we're gonna live and what we need to
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  Speaker 1: do better. So I just think, like it just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: happen overnight. You know, you just got to You gotta
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  Speaker 1: go through it, can't go around it. And the guys
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  Speaker 1: have that mentality, and it's the only way you can
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  Speaker 1: make it come to life. Can't just hit a magic button.
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  Speaker 2: Guys know that.
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  Speaker 1: And you know we're looking at three weeks now. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's again, you put this thing in a big perspective.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to do this over the long haul and
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  Speaker 1: uh and make a run here in the latter part
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  Speaker 1: of the season, and it's going to require us to
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  Speaker 1: play this way every week.
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  Speaker 2: So the guys know that they're locked in and it
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  Speaker 2: requires great weeks of Prepper.
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  Speaker 1: So we got to, you know, we got to do
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  Speaker 1: it on kind of a short week, going going to
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  Speaker 1: going over over New York because we have Thanksgiving everything.
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  Speaker 1: We're on to get the guys some time to be
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  Speaker 1: with their families.
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  Speaker 2: What did the team show you from practice this week?
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  Speaker 2: Just staying focused, giving some adversity and then coming to
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  Speaker 2: the game with that attitude. Yeah, we didn't. We didn't blink.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just the guys, you know. It's just
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  Speaker 1: it seems like something happens every week, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of par for the course at this point.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, which is good. You know, Jocko wentent good.
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  Speaker 3: Where we go.
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  Speaker 2: Devin said, you're in your bag today on your calls?
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  Speaker 1: Is there something that you feel like you're rounding into
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  Speaker 1: shape here as a coach now? At this time, I
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  Speaker 1: just think we're playing well together. We're operating well together.
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  Speaker 1: I think the guys haven't been with us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: been kind of together for a minute now, and we're
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  Speaker 1: on the same page about how we're going to play
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, I like to think that I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to grow as a coach as well from week to week.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, in order to do that, you have to
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  Speaker 1: understand your players and communicate them and how how well
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  Speaker 1: you coach stuff. So all of our coaches are doing that.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're growing together as a unit. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: that he feels that way. But look, the players make
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  Speaker 1: this thing come to life.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's they deserve the credit here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they're they're putting on the line and executing
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  Speaker 1: a high level and playing together, so they deserve the credit.
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  Speaker 3: You had said this week that you'd wanted to treat
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  Speaker 3: it this like a home playoff game.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, is this what you were hoping to see across
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  Speaker 2: the board on that art?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I mean we we we won the game,
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  Speaker 1: which is awesome. That the fans were freaking awesome. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: twelves are rocking the place is like bouncing. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was an awesome aposphere. It's just just
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  Speaker 1: the way we want it just. Uh but you know,
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  Speaker 1: you look at it and we're gonna go back into
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  Speaker 1: the tape. It's never as great, it's never as as
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  Speaker 1: as bad as you think.
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  Speaker 2: So it's got to be the same mentality.
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  Speaker 1: Go back attack it, you know, have like try to
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  Speaker 1: try to take that next percentage increase to get better
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  Speaker 1: and then go stack it next week. On the road
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  Speaker 1: and then when we get another has to come back
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  Speaker 1: home in a few weeks and let's do it again.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's really the mentality.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we wanted to we want to defend our
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  Speaker 1: home turf and and make this place a tough place
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  Speaker 1: to play for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Fourth down interception by Brant.
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  Speaker 3: How difficult is that play by Witherspoon to spin out
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  Speaker 3: when he's thinking it's gonna be an inside run to
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  Speaker 3: get out to Murray.
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  Speaker 1: Quick as on that play he's honestly, he's he was
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  Speaker 1: a flat player, so I was just doing his job.
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  Speaker 3: His speed he takes to get out there to the outside.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the urgency like the wherewithal the h the competitiveness
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  Speaker 1: of just fighting for every inch is it's just to me.
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  Speaker 2: And he doesn't as good as anybody who you've been
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  Speaker 2: tell us for months and you know he's a guy
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  Speaker 2: that makes plays on the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Just Yeah, it's uh, if the ball is in the
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  Speaker 1: air near him, I'm I'm assuming he's coming down with it.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a credit to him.
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  Speaker 1: Like, speaking of Tyler, how hard is it to prepare
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  Speaker 1: for a player of his caliber with those legs?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you look like you contained them pretty well today.
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  Speaker 2: Are you satisfied with that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would say satisfied, but just pleased with the
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  Speaker 1: effort and where we're at. But yeah, Kyler is a
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  Speaker 1: pain in the neck to get ready for him. He's
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  Speaker 1: he's a dynamite player. The things he's been able to
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  Speaker 1: do this this year, you know, are credit to him.
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot of respect for him, So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be seeing a lot of them. So we
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  Speaker 1: got we gotta we kind of you know, it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be fun going back and forth about how you evolve game.
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  Speaker 2: Plans and how to do like that and do things
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  Speaker 2: along those lines.
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  Speaker 1: But look, our guys, in order to do that, you
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  Speaker 1: have to rush unselfishly and so to be a type
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  Speaker 1: of unit up front to rush the way they did,
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  Speaker 1: I think that gifts speaks a lot to who we
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  Speaker 1: have in that room, how they're doing it, how we're
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  Speaker 1: playing our coverages.
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  Speaker 2: So it's definitely a team effort.
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  Speaker 3: You talked a lot about the energy that Devin brings
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  Speaker 3: to the defense, but but what have you seen on
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  Speaker 3: that front from tyree Knight of these first goal game backs,
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  Speaker 3: especially at the beginning of this game, It just it
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  Speaker 3: just seemed like he was bringing electricity in the middle
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  Speaker 3: and everybody was feeding off of.
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  Speaker 2: That with someone played as making up there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I think the middle of our defense
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  Speaker 1: right now is playing pre dang good.
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  Speaker 2: Happy for him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's doing a lot during the week to
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  Speaker 1: prepare and Existitting's another example of a I'm sounding like
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  Speaker 1: a broken record, but it's like, just stack good moments,
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  Speaker 1: good days, good reps, good preparation, take care of your body,
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  Speaker 1: study the.
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  Speaker 2: Heck out of the game, plan over communicate, take it
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  Speaker 2: one point at the time. It's just like, that's just
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  Speaker 2: how you have to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And to his credit, that's what he does and there's
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  Speaker 1: no extra about him. It's just business as usual and
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  Speaker 1: he's very poised even in awesome NFL environments, and you
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  Speaker 1: gotta give him credit for that, for being a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: Help excuse me?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that last offensive drive, I mean, you mentioned clean
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  Speaker 1: some things up on offense, but they took eight minutes
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  Speaker 1: off off the clock. Excuse me, sorry, sorry that again,
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  Speaker 1: Bob Oh, Yeah, this is great for everybody. Off the
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  Speaker 1: last offensive you guys took eight minutes off the clock
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  Speaker 1: thirteen plays.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, that was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I really thought we had a chance to close it
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  Speaker 1: out the whole way. You know, zero Chack was just elite,
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  Speaker 1: just as high powered football right there, So he deserves
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  Speaker 1: a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 2: Guys ran hard, offensive line blocked well, it would have.
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  Speaker 1: Been awesome to close it out, But to get in
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  Speaker 1: field goal range and let Jami put it to a
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  Speaker 1: two score game was really you know, really into the games.
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  Speaker 3: You want your offense to score thirty every week, of course,
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  Speaker 3: but is this the mentality the type of team you
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  Speaker 3: want to be to win sixteen to six no touchdowns?
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  Speaker 1: Will have Well, if you told me that we've you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you could tell me Telus we're gonna hold the
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  Speaker 1: team to six points every week, then yeah, we'd play.
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  Speaker 2: You know, but I think it's just complimentary.
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  Speaker 1: Football defense stepping up when the offense needs us to
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  Speaker 1: do it, vice versa offense coming through at the end
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  Speaker 1: eight minute drive to put it on ice. That's complimentary.
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  Speaker 1: Is the best way that you're is the envision? But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, and we got great players that are explosive.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be great to create a little bit more explosive plays.
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  Speaker 1: You got to give Arizona credit for some of the
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  Speaker 1: things they were doing today. So those are some things
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  Speaker 1: that we're gonna need to, you know, counter in the
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  Speaker 1: next two weeks. But uh, I think we are making strides.
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  Speaker 2: I think we are.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're improving some of the things that got
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  Speaker 1: called back today. You know, we'll look at some of
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  Speaker 1: the things that kind of got us behind the sticks
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  Speaker 1: and got us behind in some of those drives.
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  Speaker 2: What do you know about Anthony Bradford's situation. He's got
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  Speaker 2: an ankle and we'll see. I mean, it's not broken
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  Speaker 2: or anything, but.
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  Speaker 1: I don't give you a timetable, but it probably doesn't
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  Speaker 1: like probably looking like at least a game.
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  Speaker 2: The check you mentioned. Do you know on the eight
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  Speaker 2: minute he'll go drive which play was that it was
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  Speaker 2: a third down conversion? I think on the run to
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  Speaker 2: sharps here we have Thank you all right, Thanks guys,