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Press Pass | Press Taylor: "We're all in this together." · Press Pass

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Speaker 1: We can't control what happens outside this building, and so
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Speaker 1: that's never been a part of our concern or worry.
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Speaker 1: Anything we talked about as a unit kind of stays
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Speaker 1: within the walls of the building, particularly own meeting room,
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Speaker 1: as well as an offense, UM, and the last two weeks,
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Speaker 1: we haven't played to the standard we've set for ourselves
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Speaker 1: as an offense. That's Trevor as well as a lot
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Speaker 1: of other people, coaches included, were included in that. We
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Speaker 1: have not um, you know, we have not met that
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Speaker 1: that standard that we've set for ourselves, and that's why
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Speaker 1: we've come up short as an offense last two weeks.
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Speaker 1: So we all take responsibility for that. UM. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's there's throws, there's decisions. Trevor wants back just like
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Speaker 1: there's decisions. A lot of guys want back play calls,
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Speaker 1: we want back play designs, we want back suggestions, all
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Speaker 1: that type of stuff. So you know, we're all in
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Speaker 1: this thing together. As a follow up to that, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to have in any way diminished the belief
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Speaker 1: in the locker room, and I'm sure within the walls
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Speaker 1: of the coaching offices in Trevor becoming you know, living
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Speaker 1: up to the expectation of where he was taken. Absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: You know that it's it's you know, that's two games
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Speaker 1: in the seventeen game season that he he hasn't Like
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Speaker 1: I said, the offense has not performed the way we
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Speaker 1: expect to perform um. And we're all in it together.
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Speaker 1: So it's not Trevor alone struggled. It's we all struggled
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Speaker 1: as a unit. You know, anytime your defense hold somebody
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Speaker 1: thirteen points and you can't score enough to win, you know,
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Speaker 1: you take a lot of responsibility and ownership of that.
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Speaker 1: And that's what everybody's done. That's been a good, good,
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Speaker 1: good part about you know, struggling right there is there's
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Speaker 1: everybody's taking accountability for what we did and we're you know,
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Speaker 1: we're working to be better this week. Yesterday Trevor said
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Speaker 1: that he always feels like he's that one step away,
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Speaker 1: one mistapple away from breaking off a big one. Just
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Speaker 1: what have you seen from his uh progress in the
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Speaker 1: first five weeks. You know, we know his skill set
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Speaker 1: is certainly that way. You know, he's kind of the
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Speaker 1: guy that when you get the ball out in space,
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Speaker 1: everybody kind of stands up for a second to see
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Speaker 1: what's about to happen, because we know he's got that ability. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, and I think it is it's kind of
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Speaker 1: just one of those things. I think it will happen
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Speaker 1: for him at some point where it really gets that
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Speaker 1: big explosive. Obviously a couple the other day were able
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Speaker 1: to get on the edge and get the ball out
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Speaker 1: in space. Um, but that's just kind of you see
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Speaker 1: his work every single day prepare him for these opportunit unities,
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Speaker 1: and then he just keeps performing better and better. And
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Speaker 1: that that's as a unit, that's what we want to
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Speaker 1: do as well. Fast start to the season. Christian Kirk's
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Speaker 1: kind of slowed down. How do you get him reinvolved
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Speaker 1: in the offense? Yeah, that that's that was completely on
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Speaker 1: us as a coaching staff. You know, we we gotta
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Speaker 1: be able to target him. He's one of our better guys, uh, clearly.
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Speaker 1: And you know as the game went, we weren't really
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Speaker 1: able to force them out of cover two. We didn't
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Speaker 1: make them honor one thing well enough. We weren't good
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Speaker 1: enough in the past game, weren't efficient enough in the
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Speaker 1: run game to kind of force them to play something different.
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Speaker 1: So they were able to stay in what they want.
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Speaker 1: We we feel good about the things we had, we
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Speaker 1: just didn't execute him, um to the best of our ability.
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Speaker 1: So there's there's ways to incorporate him that we certainly
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Speaker 1: need to do. He's a guy that needs touch football
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Speaker 1: and have an impact on the game for us. And
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Speaker 1: this is the second week in a row that you're
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Speaker 1: going against the defense that prefers to play like one
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Speaker 1: single covers. They may give you some different looks, but
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Speaker 1: their bread and butters cover three this week. What's the
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Speaker 1: challenges for an offense when you know a defense likes
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Speaker 1: to throw that same coverage at you over and over. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of what we faced a lot
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Speaker 1: early on in the seas And we feel like a
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Speaker 1: lot of zone coverage, a lot of eyes on the quarterback,
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys drop into spots now, whether they
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Speaker 1: play spot, dropper, zone, or match however they play. And
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Speaker 1: I think these guys too, you've seen their growth from
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Speaker 1: week two to week five of what they've done. They've
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Speaker 1: kind of sprinkled in some new coverages or some variations
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Speaker 1: of the coverages they play that um they've done a
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Speaker 1: good job of. So you know it's certainly something you've
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Speaker 1: got to be very disciplined as a pass game unit,
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Speaker 1: particularly of we know where they're gonna be. They know,
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Speaker 1: you know, we have to know where we want to
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Speaker 1: be and why we want to be there in the
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Speaker 1: timing that it takes to get to those spots, and
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Speaker 1: then you know, you're just gotta be able to execute
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Speaker 1: a high level. That's what they're trying to force you
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Speaker 1: to do. They're playing their defense, they execute it very well,
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Speaker 1: and you've got to execute your schemes really well to
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Speaker 1: be able to have a chance in new offenses. The
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Speaker 1: reds are normally, you know, the kind of part of
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Speaker 1: the game that maybe takes the longest to come together,
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Speaker 1: maybe the last little piece to come together. Um, I
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Speaker 1: don't I don't know if I say it's the last
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Speaker 1: piece to come together. But it's certainly an aspect that
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of timing, there's a lot of chemistry. Um,
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Speaker 1: there's the short the field just gets condensed, all the
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Speaker 1: body end up in a little closer proximity. Things happen
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Speaker 1: so fast, windows closed fast. So it's certainly an aspect
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Speaker 1: that we want to continue to improve on. You know,
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Speaker 1: we have not had the success that we need to
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Speaker 1: have in that aspect of our offense. But that's something
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Speaker 1: we shoul continue to work through. It's kind of glass
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Speaker 1: atful because of you know, the red zone. But is
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Speaker 1: it still encouraging to see the success moving the ball,
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Speaker 1: you know, down the field, you know, before the red
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Speaker 1: zone period? Certainly. I mean we want to move the
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Speaker 1: ball every single play, every single opportunity we get. But
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you got to score points,
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Speaker 1: and that's what we haven't been able to do the
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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, uh, for the last two weeks,
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Speaker 1: particularly in the red zone, so that's a big part
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Speaker 1: of it. Those are big plays. Those are four point
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Speaker 1: plays a lot of times, especially on third down in
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Speaker 1: the red zone. And and you can never turn the
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Speaker 1: ball over, especially in the red zone. You're taking points
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Speaker 1: away from your team right there. What are the benefits
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Speaker 1: of playing in the ages, you know, second time in
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Speaker 1: four weeks. Yeah, I mean the benefits are you have
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Speaker 1: a good feel for their personnel, their schemes, how they
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Speaker 1: want to play um And then I think the fact
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Speaker 1: that we had success in week two, you hope the
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Speaker 1: guys bring that confidence to it, but you know, until
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Speaker 1: until they change the rules and let us carry over
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Speaker 1: twenty four points into this game. It really has no
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Speaker 1: bearing on this game right now. It's a whole new situation.
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Speaker 1: A lot of times the game gets the second half
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Speaker 1: of the game gets dictated by the first half of
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Speaker 1: the game. Well you start a new game, all all
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Speaker 1: that's out the window. So that has nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with this. Um. You know, it's it's about execution. It's
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Speaker 1: a game of execution. It's a play to play mentality
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Speaker 1: right here. And especially if we're if we're gonna say
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Speaker 1: that the league is week to week and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: flush the week before us, we can't go back and say, well,
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Speaker 1: we did this in week two. This is gonna work again.
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Speaker 1: You know, you gotta watch the tape. You gotta understand
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Speaker 1: how they've evolved in a new scheme as well, and
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Speaker 1: where they're at now in week six, um, and then
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Speaker 1: everybody understanding our opponent. They've made some some personnel adjustments
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Speaker 1: as they've gone with people, they've had injuries up and down.
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Speaker 1: They've made some changes, uh in the back end with personnel.
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Speaker 1: So it's on all of us to understand who they
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Speaker 1: are and what they want to do. At this point.
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Speaker 1: In the season. Where have they've grown, Because you know,
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Speaker 1: they turned around and be Kansas City of the Week after,
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Speaker 1: So where have you've seen their their defense work of
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Speaker 1: take off. They they've done a great job stopping the run.
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Speaker 1: And really, when you go back to our game, they
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Speaker 1: did a great job you know against us in the
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Speaker 1: run game. We obviously broke off the one big run
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Speaker 1: with James, but for the most part, it was tough
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Speaker 1: sledding against these guys, and we understand that. And then
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Speaker 1: in the back end or just the coverage elements of it,
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Speaker 1: I think for them, it's just three more games, former
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Speaker 1: game whatever. It's been three more games of them being
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Speaker 1: able to execute their defense over and over and play
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Speaker 1: coverage is match routes, see combinations that people are doing
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Speaker 1: to attack them, Because that's going back to one of
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Speaker 1: the other questions. That's kind of when a team plays
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Speaker 1: a certain coverage over and over and over, they have
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Speaker 1: a good feel for how teams are trying to attack it,
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Speaker 1: where the where everybody kind of feels the weak spots are,
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Speaker 1: and so it's more and more time on task for
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Speaker 1: those guys understand the same issues. Um So, I mean
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Speaker 1: it comes down to execution at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: Evan Evan the last two weeks is big games in
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Speaker 1: the middle of exactly what you guys kind of saw
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Speaker 1: it at him when he brought him in. Yeah, Evans
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Speaker 1: been a great contributor for offense. Obviously, he kind of
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Speaker 1: you know, he's had more of the receiving yards production
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Speaker 1: the last two weeks, but even going back and watching
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Speaker 1: this game week two, he had some huge third down
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Speaker 1: conversions for us where he caught the ball underneath and
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Speaker 1: was on a corner and broke tackles or ran away
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Speaker 1: from a guy and made first downs that really kept
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Speaker 1: drives alive. So he's been a huge contributor for us
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Speaker 1: in the offense. The ball hasn't really gone his way
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Speaker 1: until the last two weeks, and he's produced at the
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Speaker 1: level we've expected of him. I think Stephan Gilmore has
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Speaker 1: looked a little bit more comfortable in their defense. When
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Speaker 1: you when you're going up against a guy like that,
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Speaker 1: a corner like that, defensive player of the Year, all
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Speaker 1: the accolades. What do you have to look for game
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Speaker 1: planning against him in that scheme? Yeah, you're you're always
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Speaker 1: kind of He's a guy we we just call him
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Speaker 1: impact players. We always want to know where the impact
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Speaker 1: players are. And they've done a good job of moving
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Speaker 1: him around. Um, you know, you don't know if he's
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Speaker 1: always in the boundary, if he's always on your right,
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Speaker 1: always on your left. Um, So you can't just say
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Speaker 1: we're gonna call this player, we're gonna throw it to
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Speaker 1: this guy. You kind of have to adjust within the
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Speaker 1: game once you get a feel for where he is,
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Speaker 1: if it's consistent, if there's some rhythm to it. Otherwise
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Speaker 1: you're kind of just playing the game. But he's certainly
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Speaker 1: somebody you're always aware of. He's got great ball skills.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's made the play kind of last two
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Speaker 1: weeks to to seal the game for him, and there
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Speaker 1: in their victories against Kansas City had the past breakup
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Speaker 1: and then uh they got intercepted, and then against Denbury
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Speaker 1: had the past breakup obviously the game on the line
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Speaker 1: as well as an interception down the red zone. So
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Speaker 1: certainly a guy a guy we are aware of and
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Speaker 1: we want to have, we want to be mindful of
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Speaker 1: where he is at all times. Was Tyler Shatley now
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Speaker 1: that he's gonna have to step into that starting guard role.
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Speaker 1: I mean you've got a lot of work during the preseason.
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Speaker 1: Veteran guy, been there, kind of done it before, kind
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Speaker 1: of player, right, Yeah, And Tyler brings a leadership aspect
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Speaker 1: of that room. He has since the day we got here. Um,
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Speaker 1: he's kind of always been that consistent, just mature pro
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Speaker 1: let's understand understood. He was in a position battle and
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Speaker 1: he was willing to do whatever the best for the team.
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Speaker 1: You know, he stepped in at center, He's played right guard,
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Speaker 1: left guard. He's a guy as a coaching staff we
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Speaker 1: trust he knows what's going on, he knows how the
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Speaker 1: speed of the game goes. He works well with the
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Speaker 1: people next to him, and so so we expect production
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Speaker 1: on the Tyler as well. Just the efficiency at the
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Speaker 1: running game. Do you see that, and you know, getting
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Speaker 1: closer where you guys want to be and just you know,
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Speaker 1: being just a little bit away. Yeah, you know, I
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Speaker 1: like to think that. Yeah, I like to think that
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Speaker 1: each aspect of our game just keeps getting better and better.
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Speaker 1: But you know, within everything, it's always kind of a
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Speaker 1: case by case basis. So there were times against these guys.
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Speaker 1: Originally we were not as efficient in the run game
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Speaker 1: early on, but also late we understand late we kind
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Speaker 1: of get into a four minute mode. We're holding onto
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Speaker 1: a three score lead. You know, you may be running
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Speaker 1: uphill a little bit in some of those situations. You're
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Speaker 1: running the ball in third and six, third and seven
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Speaker 1: from under center looks that you probably don't get to.
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Speaker 1: That may skew your numbers overall. Um, Yeah, but we
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Speaker 1: certainly want to be very efficient, as efficient as possible
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Speaker 1: in the run game and understanding running into the right looks.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's hard to be efficient if you're
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Speaker 1: running into heavy boxes or yeah, your misided things like that.
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Speaker 1: So we just want to make sure we're taking the
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Speaker 1: next step as an offense and every single aspect of
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Speaker 1: our game. How do you know, forever Laurence develop in
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Speaker 1: game scenarios. I mean, so far all the losses this
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Speaker 1: year have been by one score. Haven't been able to
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Speaker 1: execute in those drives when you've had the chance to
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Speaker 1: go down and tie or or win the ball game.
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Speaker 1: How do you It's tough to kind of duplicate those impractices.
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Speaker 1: Is not the same same feeling, you know, Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: it's definitely tough to replicate the real emotion feeling of
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Speaker 1: all right, we're in a desperation mode here, you know,
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Speaker 1: this is our last opportunity, and coach has done a
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Speaker 1: great job of creating those situations throughout the week. That's
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Speaker 1: something we've been doing since week one. That's something we
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Speaker 1: emphasized through training camp in competitive periods with our defense
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Speaker 1: as well. UM. And then we just continue to present
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Speaker 1: those situations to him. You know, we'll do meetings. There
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Speaker 1: will be certain aspects or certain meetings during the week.
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Speaker 1: We'll show them situations around the league, right, what are
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Speaker 1: you thinking here? Here's what we're thinking, and it part
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Speaker 1: of it. It It kind of puts all of us in
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Speaker 1: the situation in the mindset of here's how so and
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Speaker 1: so handled one minute left in this game, down three points.
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Speaker 1: Here's how so and so so learning from around the
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Speaker 1: league and how things are going as a coaching staff,
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Speaker 1: him hearing our vision, how we communicate, how we understand
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Speaker 1: these situations and what we're thinking, and then also hearing
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Speaker 1: his thoughts before we even go what are you thinking
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Speaker 1: right here? Well, we have two times, you know, playing
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Speaker 1: the situation together, um, kind of as a group and
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Speaker 1: talking it through, and so we all kind of get
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Speaker 1: on the same page that lacecast