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Press Pass | Doug Pederson on Beathard Signing, Injuries, Vikings Defense · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh, if anything is is Trevor Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So obviously, you know CJ was here and Mac was here,
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  Speaker 3: and and you know, from our standpoint, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: felt like we had a really good quarterback room with
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  Speaker 3: the three guys. And and obviously CJ got hurt there
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  Speaker 3: in in uh in camp and and.
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  Speaker 2: You know we had to let him go and all that.
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  Speaker 3: But but we definitely, you know, wanted to at some
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  Speaker 3: point get him back here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think it.
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  Speaker 3: I think it just strengthens our roster, strengthens that room.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Trevor sore obviously, and you know it gives us,
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  Speaker 3: it gives us assurance obviously. You know Mac is still
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  Speaker 3: you know, Mac is still the number two obviously, and
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  Speaker 3: and prepares each week to to play and and and
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  Speaker 3: now you know we've got another veteran quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: On the roster.
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  Speaker 1: What would practice today?
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  Speaker 2: He'll be limited today.
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  Speaker 1: It's his left.
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  Speaker 2: Shoulder, upper body.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, so is there a chance that he's are you
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  Speaker 4: where you may not be all the flights as that.
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  Speaker 2: I can't ask that today, not sitting here Wednesday.
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  Speaker 5: No, So you you you you guys plan to keep
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  Speaker 5: carry three quarterbacks on the page three for the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the year, just for the next three weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we'll maybe we'll carry him for a little while.
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  Speaker 3: And see, I mean, I where where we are roster?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, you know Cooper's going to the ir right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean you know we we we lost you know,
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  Speaker 3: or or let go Flowers and and Christian Kirkman. I
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  Speaker 3: ars for there are spots available right to to the
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  Speaker 3: Duverne's coming back, you know, and and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: So it's an opportunity to to bolster the roster a
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  Speaker 3: little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Don't just say Ezra Cleveland practicing this.
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  Speaker 3: Week not full limited basis again, you know it's going
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  Speaker 3: into week two, I guess for him, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: again it's uh, I would say he's on the heel
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  Speaker 3: of Mason Smith a little bit that way, Mason's closer,
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  Speaker 3: but but still gonna be limited in practice.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He played cans like ours?
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  Speaker 2: Correct?
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  Speaker 1: Is there something wrong with Ross?
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  Speaker 2: Is there something wrong like uh like.
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  Speaker 1: What Sapper of the pack squad? I just wanted if
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  Speaker 1: Ross was injured?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean he he's He's another one that
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  Speaker 3: came out of the game a little banged up and
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  Speaker 3: and just wanna make sure that again with that signing
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  Speaker 3: to the practice squad.
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  Speaker 2: We have someone that can.
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  Speaker 3: You know, do the snapping duties this week and and
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  Speaker 3: let Ross you know, rest basically and and heal, uh,
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  Speaker 3: but he is sore.
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  Speaker 2: And just to follow up to you, he hit he did.
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  Speaker 3: Have the back a couple of years ago, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so and I'm not saying this is the injury, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but but he is sore and and just wanna make
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  Speaker 3: sure that uh, you know that he's he's.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent house game coming into the week.
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  Speaker 3: Good, Uh, he should be. He'll be limited, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you've seen him in the Orange Jersey. He'll stay in there.
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  Speaker 3: Human bet you'll both stay in the Orange jersey. Just
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  Speaker 3: try to limit contact, you know, until until game day.
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  Speaker 1: How'd you feel about how Travis was coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the game with a hamstring.
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  Speaker 2: He was okay.
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  Speaker 3: I think he I think he felt it, didn't re
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  Speaker 3: injure himself, but felt it. You know, later in the
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  Speaker 3: game the weather was cooler, so you know, it's hard
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  Speaker 3: for him and running backs in that situation. But I
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  Speaker 3: think this will be a better week for him.
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  Speaker 1: How strange is had to have a guy in your
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  Speaker 1: locker room and then a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Later, he's on the sideway. Yeah. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you think about that kind of stuff, but it's the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Can't control the schedule, can't control you know, that sort
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  Speaker 3: of thing. But it'll be I know for him coming back,
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  Speaker 3: we'll probably feel a little bit awkward, you know, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: but he listened. He he's a pro. He's gonna do
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  Speaker 3: everything he can to get himself ready to play. He'll
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  Speaker 3: be excited, you know, to play.
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  Speaker 1: What stands out about Minnesota's defense and.
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  Speaker 3: Just what they the right I think coach Flory has
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  Speaker 3: just done a great job with the personnel there. He's
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  Speaker 3: found roles for their guys. It's a multiple, multiple front
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  Speaker 3: disguise defense. They're gonna keep you know, the lid on it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're not gonna, you know, let a lot
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  Speaker 3: of explosive passages, which I think was a year ago,
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  Speaker 3: you know, was was was part of the part of
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  Speaker 3: the issue there. But uh, they've done a great job
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  Speaker 3: I think just just moving guys around on defense, and
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  Speaker 3: they got veteran guys in spots that are leaders there.
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  Speaker 2: It's a physical group and it's another tough challenge for offense.
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  Speaker 1: They done with Sam Donald to make this the season
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  Speaker 1: where he finally seems to click.
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  Speaker 3: What makes say let's start again, Sam Donald's seeming to
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  Speaker 3: click finally this season?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the first time in his career. First round pick? Why, like,
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  Speaker 2: why is this the time for him? Justin Jefferson? Because
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  Speaker 2: you're thinking it?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think, I think I think the talent around him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I mean that helps, right, I mean just
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  Speaker 3: having having having the run game of the defense, the
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  Speaker 3: way the defense has played, you know, being in in
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  Speaker 3: coach O'Connell's system and in the way he calls plays,
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  Speaker 3: I think is helpful. And and look, he's uh, he's
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  Speaker 3: always been. He's always been a solid quarterback and whatever
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  Speaker 3: team or role he's on, I just think now he's learning,
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  Speaker 3: maturing and and showing that.
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  Speaker 2: He's capable of doing it.
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  Speaker 3: And and that's what you're seeing on on film, you know,
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  Speaker 3: taking care of the football.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big part of this thing.
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  Speaker 3: And and to yes, Justin Jefferson is a you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously an elite receiver in this league that.
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  Speaker 2: You know can can recavoc on.
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  Speaker 5: You will you follow him with with Tyson this week? N?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I don't you know, I
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  Speaker 2: I I it's not. I think it's two. It's two ways.
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  Speaker 2: You can look at it, right.
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  Speaker 3: You can take your best corner and put it on
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  Speaker 3: the best receiver, or you can do put your best
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  Speaker 3: corner on their second receiver and put two guys on
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  Speaker 3: the best rat So it's what teams. It's what teams do,
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  Speaker 3: that's what defenses do. So we'll see how the week
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  Speaker 3: n fold.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think last week with with Brian the way, uh,
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  Speaker 5: whoever you.
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  Speaker 1: Played last week handled Brian? Do you think that'll be
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  Speaker 1: like that? Lukran? Moving forward the.
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  Speaker 3: Eagles what they did, Yeah, I I do. I think
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  Speaker 3: I go back a year ago, Uh, Calvin right, there
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  Speaker 3: was a lot of double teams. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: cloud coverage things like that. This team that we're playing
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  Speaker 3: does that anyway, That's just there.
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  Speaker 2: That's just their style. That's what they play. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'd have to go play.
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  Speaker 3: We got four or five other receivers that need to
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  Speaker 3: do their jobs too, and and uh, we gotta find
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  Speaker 3: find a way to get.
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  Speaker 4: Involved opposite Uh Tyson, what's your expectation for that corner
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  Speaker 4: opposite corner spot on sun deck in terms of rotation,
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  Speaker 4: in terms of guys that have showed something to you.
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  Speaker 4: If you need to change things out of opposite Tyson.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think I think we I think we,
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  Speaker 3: you know, stay with Darby, stay with Buster and keep
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  Speaker 3: that rotation going. I think it's been good for Buster
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  Speaker 3: to get in the game. You know, he's been solid
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  Speaker 3: this year, been consistent. I think Darby has been the
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  Speaker 3: same way, you know, and look, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Again if you if you're.
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  Speaker 3: If you're thinking about one specific play or two specific plays,
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  Speaker 3: I think he got to look at the whole scheme
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  Speaker 3: of the defense in those circumstances, and and.
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  Speaker 2: It's not all about one guy.
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  Speaker 3: So both guys have done well and I and I
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  Speaker 3: consider you know or can can see that actually being
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  Speaker 3: the same thing moving forward.
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  Speaker 5: S does do you avoid showing the safe Suon's run
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  Speaker 5: where he leaves over?
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  Speaker 1: Are you avoids showing that in the team just pretty
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of not embarrassing, but it's uh epic.
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  Speaker 5: Do you avoid that or do you guys just show
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  Speaker 5: it like normal and treat it like normal?
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  Speaker 3: And I mean it's part of the game, is part
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  Speaker 3: of the corrections is I mean the fact that it
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  Speaker 3: was backwards I think is just the way he jumped
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  Speaker 3: and turned his body. It just happened that way. You
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  Speaker 3: see it every week. Guy's leaping over defenders and and
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that. You know, but yeah, you show it
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  Speaker 3: as normal and the the the.
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  Speaker 2: Key would have been to tackle him the first time,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: So Uh, but no, it's just a great play, a
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  Speaker 3: great great play uh by a great great running back.
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  Speaker 1: How tough is it as a coach to you, you
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  Speaker 1: have a team to keep grinding and keep fighting when
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  Speaker 1: they're not seeing results.
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  Speaker 2: On the field. I think I think that comes through.
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  Speaker 3: My approach to them on on Mondays, meaning you know,
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  Speaker 3: from a head coach's perspective, I need I need to
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  Speaker 3: sh I need to show them.
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  Speaker 2: And talk to them in a way that is.
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  Speaker 3: Accountability, right, ownership, do your job, do it better, do
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  Speaker 3: the little things. I gotta show that in a in
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  Speaker 3: a team setting, bring it to light and and just
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  Speaker 3: show the guys like, listen, th this is what's holding
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  Speaker 3: us back right now, you know, plays X, Y and Z,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: And then.
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  Speaker 3: On the flip side of that is now you gotta
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  Speaker 3: build 'em back, right, you gotta you gotta get 'em
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  Speaker 3: back ready to go for another another challenge and and
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  Speaker 3: that's what today is about. It's you know, last Sunday
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  Speaker 3: is I'm I'm moving on right, and we're moving on
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  Speaker 3: as a team. And another great opportunity this week. Let's
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  Speaker 3: go get better this week. Let's get better today. Bring
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  Speaker 3: a lot of energy and juice out there, practice and
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  Speaker 3: and you know, get ready for the vikings.
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  Speaker 5: Uh all way off topic, But Washington scored the other week.
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  Speaker 5: Imagine that Washington scoring on a play they called Taylor Swift.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously Philly Special lives in infamy. How much effort, time
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  Speaker 5: and effort.
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  Speaker 2: Do you put in the name calling?
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  Speaker 1: And you took call naming plays.
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  Speaker 5: You also used the phrase the other day last year,
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  Speaker 5: go to week you go about church mode.
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  Speaker 2: I had never heard that that you it's over your head,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: I understand safe mode, but I had never heard church mode.
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  Speaker 1: But how much.
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  Speaker 3: I had had that?
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  Speaker 1: How much time and effort you put into raining plays?
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  Speaker 1: And why is it is it important?
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  Speaker 2: That it's important?
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  Speaker 3: W It's important so that guys, can you know we
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  Speaker 3: do a lot of word associations with with these plays, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I it it's y y say a word ra Let's
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  Speaker 2: use the word rabbit.
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  Speaker 3: Right, it's got r's and a's and b's and i's
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  Speaker 3: and t's right, it's so it could be B for basic,
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  Speaker 3: uh R for read.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I w an I for a whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So word associations, the letter everything means something, right, So
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot of a lot of time is spent,
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  Speaker 3: you know, on on uh the words, the verbiage, the terminology,
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  Speaker 3: and then we categorize 'em by concept and we have
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  Speaker 3: multiple there's multiple categories. So you spend time. That's what
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  Speaker 3: you spend time in the off season doing, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as a staff. And then if you have a play
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  Speaker 3: that's a unique play and you can't really come up
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  Speaker 3: with something, then you name it Taylor Swift or Philly
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  Speaker 3: Special or you know, Oop to Oop or whatever it
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  Speaker 3: might be. You just come up with unique names guys
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  Speaker 3: can remember and and.
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  Speaker 5: Go play unique ones like that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there's there's probably.
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  Speaker 3: A dozen plays that are just unique, you know, unique names.
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  Speaker 3: You really can't find a word that you know fits,
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  Speaker 3: so you just you just make something up like Mark
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  Speaker 3: Long or.
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  Speaker 4: Give us one that you've used in the past for
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  Speaker 4: an example that doesn't apply.
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  Speaker 5: Now, uh, oh wait, why'd you look away when I said,
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  Speaker 5: it lives in infamy, and then like in a good way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it's a infamy infad alright, so it's bad for the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, Okay, so there are.
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  Speaker 2: I can't. I can't off off the top of my head.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 3: I can't, honestly, I can't. I I'll come back to
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  Speaker 3: you on Friday. I'll come back to you on Friday.
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  Speaker 5: We are.
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  Speaker 1: What's your expectations for do we?
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  Speaker 2: I expect him to play?
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  Speaker 3: This obviously is last week of the three week windows,
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  Speaker 3: so uh, he's feeling good, We get him out there today,
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow and Friday and.
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  Speaker 2: And uh and go.
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  Speaker 3: But I I do my expectation and and his expectation
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  Speaker 3: is to is to play.
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  Speaker 1: The gift was just an insurance policy for if Dewey.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean pro probably probably, you know, but
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  Speaker 3: I think I think too, you know, even to have
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  Speaker 3: him around I think was good cause whether do we
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  Speaker 3: could go or not, I mean, if that's the insurance
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  Speaker 3: you're talking about, possibly as a veteran guy. So he
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  Speaker 3: did everything we asked, and it was unfortunate, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with the situation, but you know, had to make a decision.