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Cooper Kupp: "The Energy Is All About What We Can Do To Be Better Moving Forward" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Is that a better.
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  Speaker 2: One? When people ask, like with Jackson getting as many
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  Speaker 2: targets as he does and other guys doesn't, how easy
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  Speaker 2: is it to just say we want to target this
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  Speaker 2: guy or that guy? I mean, it seems the response
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  Speaker 2: is often just the ball goes where it goes kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing. Sam's just kind of looking for the open guy.
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  Speaker 2: But if you really want to target one guy, is
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  Speaker 2: it really that easy to do that in a game?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: You build things out a certain way. You certainly have, like,
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to put guys in good opportunities, good positions.
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  Speaker 3: Our coaches do a great job of trying to get
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  Speaker 3: guys in spots to amplify the things that they do well.
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  Speaker 3: And then you're also battling, like, well, you don't want
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  Speaker 3: to get stuck in just doing the one thing, right?
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  Speaker 1: So there's always a balance to it.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a short, you know, we got, there's not
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  Speaker 3: a whole lot of, you know, we're three days, three
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  Speaker 3: games in. So there's going to be, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: shifting and moving, changing, things like that. I think Jack's
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  Speaker 3: done an unbelievable job maximizing the opportunities that he's had.
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  Speaker 3: And there's no getting around that. He's done an unbelievable job.
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  Speaker 3: He's playing very efficient right now. And then, you know, offensively,
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  Speaker 3: I think there's opportunities for guys to get targets and
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  Speaker 3: things like that based on what the defense has given you. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, one thing of that is the defense would
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  Speaker 3: have to take Jack's away then, right? And so he's
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  Speaker 3: doing such a good job getting open.
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  Speaker 1: Shoot, throw the ball to him. He's open. And so.
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  Speaker 3: that's one of those things that shifts and moves as
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  Speaker 3: as the season goes on and as you get into
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  Speaker 3: game plans and you know i trust our coaches to
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  Speaker 3: make sure we're in good spots for that.
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  Speaker 4: In the offense right now it's you know somewhat reminiscent
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  Speaker 4: of your season in 2021 with the triple crown just
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  Speaker 4: what do you remember from that year in terms of
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  Speaker 4: managing your workload your volume because it's.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of targets is a lot of yeah well
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  Speaker 3: i don't know if you're really thinking about it like
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  Speaker 3: that um you know, you're going through it. There's just
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  Speaker 3: like the, you're handed a game plan. It's like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to go out and do whatever I can to
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  Speaker 3: execute this game plan. You know, there's, this is just,
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  Speaker 3: this is NFL. There's, there's, there's plays that come up.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, man, you can try to picture like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: these are the plays that are being called for someone,
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  Speaker 3: but then defense comes out and man, the defense is
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  Speaker 3: different than what we expected either through the course of
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  Speaker 3: a game or just on a certain play. And suddenly
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  Speaker 3: the fourth reads being activated in the concept and, Um,
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  Speaker 3: so your job is to do your job. You know,
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  Speaker 3: your job is to do what is being asked of
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  Speaker 3: you and execute that job as best as you can.
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  Speaker 3: And our responsibility during this, during the course of the
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  Speaker 3: week is to make sure we're diving into those details,
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  Speaker 3: not allowing ourselves to get any lackadaisicalness because there's lackadaisicalness
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  Speaker 3: is a terrible word there, but not to become lackadaisical
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  Speaker 3: just because you are maybe fourth in the progression, but
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  Speaker 3: you could be very early in the progression if, you know,
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  Speaker 3: things get shut down really quickly front side. So, um,
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  Speaker 3: That's something that you take a lot of pride in.
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  Speaker 3: And for Jax, he's going to have opportunities where he
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  Speaker 3: isn't first in the progression. He's going to have times
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  Speaker 3: where he's fifth in the progression. But he's got to
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  Speaker 3: do a great job throughout the week of just making
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  Speaker 3: sure he does his job over and over again. He's
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  Speaker 3: done a great job of that. I think all the
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  Speaker 3: guys in this building are doing a great job of
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  Speaker 3: just being able to attack those things and being ready
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  Speaker 3: to come alive when the number's called.
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  Speaker 5: I'm curious, from a player's perspective, Mike said that it's
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  Speaker 5: three or four games usually before he really starts to
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  Speaker 5: hone in on tendencies for other teams. But from a
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  Speaker 5: player's perspective, would you say that it is that three
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  Speaker 5: to four game mark where you start to feel like
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  Speaker 5: you're more comfortable with what you're going to be seeing
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  Speaker 5: from an opponent? Or from a player's perspective, maybe does
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  Speaker 5: it last a little bit longer into the season?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think there's always a growing component to it, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like you might Even when you get to later in
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  Speaker 3: the year, you might watch the last four games because
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  Speaker 3: maybe it gives you an idea of what the identity
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  Speaker 3: is of a team at that time. What are the
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  Speaker 3: things that they feel like they're doing well? Because those
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  Speaker 3: things shift and change.
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  Speaker 1: It's moves.
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  Speaker 3: It's just the amoeba nature of the NFL and how
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  Speaker 3: the coordinators work. So once you get to that fourth game,
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  Speaker 3: you're like, okay, well, this is who they are in
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  Speaker 3: this snapshot of time. So I think that picture is
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  Speaker 3: pretty similar for players as well.
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  Speaker 6: What do you think Torrey Horton's potential is? What do
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  Speaker 6: you see as his strengths and what he can become
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  Speaker 6: as a receiver?
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  Speaker 3: Everything's on the table. He's an incredible athlete. He catches
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  Speaker 3: the ball well, strong hands. You can see what he
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  Speaker 3: does when the ball's in his hand in terms of
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  Speaker 3: stuff he did last year, punt return stuff. He's a
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  Speaker 3: very dynamic football player. He's healthy now and able to
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  Speaker 3: get back into the flow of things offensively.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's got, he's got all the potential in the world.
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  Speaker 7: You guys are obviously going to feel the emotions of
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  Speaker 7: the game after, you know, Sunday evening, whatever. But by
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  Speaker 7: the time you get to this point in the week, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 7: when you're practicing, could you even tell being around a
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  Speaker 7: team if they'd won or lost that week?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, there's, I think there is a certain, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as you come in in the morning on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 3: there's like that edginess of like, gosh, this is like the,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the, bad taste in your mouth that you're
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  Speaker 3: sort of ready to like get back to work. But
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  Speaker 3: once it's time to work, it's like, man, it's just,
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  Speaker 3: it's going, we're moving forward. And the energy is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: especially here, like the energy is just great. Energy is
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  Speaker 3: all about what can we do now to be better
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  Speaker 3: moving forward. So once the workday starts on Wednesday, once
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  Speaker 3: you enter into the building, then it's just like, Hey, let's,
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  Speaker 3: let's get ready to attack this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Your touchdown.
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  Speaker 8: Can you, what kind of football knowledge can you drop
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  Speaker 8: on us about why that.
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  Speaker 1: Play was successful? Why that play would work?
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  Speaker 3: Jax did a great job getting double coverage down there
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  Speaker 3: and then you know his job is to run his
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  Speaker 3: route and run a little bit of interference just get
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  Speaker 3: in the way I guess a little bit occupy a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of space and it's my job then to
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  Speaker 3: work off of it and you know when he's drawing
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  Speaker 3: at that much there's just a lot of bodies end
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  Speaker 3: up over there tough for the DB to work through
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  Speaker 3: all of that so a good play call by Brian,
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  Speaker 3: and good job by Jax being in the right spot.
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  Speaker 8: On Brian, I think we've asked you some version of
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  Speaker 8: this question a few times now, but are you continuing
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  Speaker 8: to learn about him? Do you feel like you know
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  Speaker 8: who he is, just personality-wise?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think as time goes on, certainly.
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  Speaker 3: He's a very calm, cool, collected dude.
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  Speaker 1: You can get him fired up, but he's.
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  Speaker 3: Steady and during the game it's awesome because that's what
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  Speaker 3: you need there's all these highs and lows all these
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  Speaker 3: things that are going on but he's just consistently getting
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  Speaker 3: plays in I think he's been doing a great job
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  Speaker 3: of it the communication side of things and just being
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  Speaker 3: able to keep us in a rhythm so yeah it's
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  Speaker 3: been it's been fun to see him and how he
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  Speaker 3: kind of operates come to life a little bit what
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  Speaker 3: gets him fired up messing up messing up it's really
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  Speaker 3: more so like the mistakes that have been fixed already
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  Speaker 3: that happen over again.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a whole lot of time for that. And
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  Speaker 1: we've done a good job.
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  Speaker 3: There's not a lot of that happening, which is good,
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  Speaker 3: which is why you don't see him fired up a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Have you seen the clips of Clint Kubiak in postgame
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  Speaker 6: and how fired up he's been?
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  Speaker 1: And did you see any of that last year?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, we did not see any of that last year.
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  Speaker 3: Clint's been– I saw a picture of him with both
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  Speaker 3: legs up in the air behind him, jumping up, giving
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  Speaker 3: fans high fives. doing the splits on the sidelines. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm pumped for Clint.
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  Speaker 1: How would you try to stop Jax? Is it double coverage?
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  Speaker 1: Have you not given that much thought?
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  Speaker 4: It seems like nobody's figured out how to slow this
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  Speaker 4: guy down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not going to answer that question, seriously.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, put a bunch of D linemen out there on
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  Speaker 3: the field, 11 D linemen.
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  Speaker 6: You talked before about the NFL cyclical. Why is it
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  Speaker 6: incrementally cyclical as opposed to someone just jumping all the
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  Speaker 6: way ahead to the opposite of what people are doing
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  Speaker 6: right now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think it's because if you go too
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  Speaker 3: far ahead, this thing's a cycle. If you go too
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  Speaker 3: far ahead, you end up back where you started. So
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  Speaker 3: it's like you're trying to get these edges ahead as
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  Speaker 3: people try to catch up with you, right? Yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: it's just kind of this like, it's a chess match.
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  Speaker 3: You operate on, and it all comes down to this, sorry.
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  Speaker 3: It all comes down to this. It comes down to, like,
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  Speaker 3: razor-thin margins, right? Like, everyone talks about it. Your wins
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  Speaker 3: and losses come down to these razor-thin margins of doing
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  Speaker 3: one thing better than the team across from you. That's
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  Speaker 3: why any given Sunday anything can happen.
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  Speaker 1: But you're trying to find that slight edge, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like, every innovation that happens, it seems like a huge deal.
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  Speaker 1: It's just giving you this tiny little edge over your opponent.
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  Speaker 3: And it gets talked about as if it's just, you know, groundbreaking– stuff,
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  Speaker 3: but it's really, it's this much, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: And so it's what makes this league so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, and that's why it's all incremental gains over time.
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  Speaker 6: Do you see that primarily happening during the season or
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  Speaker 6: do you think people in the off season, you know,
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  Speaker 6: go off and study and come up?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, I think they, they both happen.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen, I've been places where, you know, the off
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  Speaker 3: season suddenly you come back and there's something new, there's
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  Speaker 3: a wrinkle. I say, Hey, this is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a big thing for us this year. and you've made
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  Speaker 3: it come to life. I've seen times where there's just
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  Speaker 3: a play that you put in and something happens, a
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  Speaker 3: plays over here, something happens over here.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, man, that was good.
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  Speaker 3: And that becomes like a huge thing in terms of
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  Speaker 3: how you're going to do things, you know? So that's just,
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  Speaker 3: that's the world that we live in. And yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: constantly happening.
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  Speaker 9: Ideas here together, going off what Brian said, the league's
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  Speaker 9: gotten to where second level defenders have gotten smaller, linebackers
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  Speaker 9: have gotten, you know, faster, quicker, you know, back end,
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  Speaker 9: same thing, to kind of combat the passing offenses of
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  Speaker 9: the league. For Jackson to be doing what he's doing
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  Speaker 9: now with the league moving in a direction to try
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  Speaker 9: to take that away, like, what does that kind of
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  Speaker 9: speak to what he's doing at the moment?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean, it's special. It is very special
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  Speaker 3: what he's doing. There's no getting around him. There were
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  Speaker 3: plays last week where he's, like, you could tell they're
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  Speaker 3: trying to take him away, and they can't, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And so he's doing an unbelievable job just playing fast.
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  Speaker 3: Sam being able to still, like, you know, the line of, like,
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  Speaker 3: giving Jackson an opportunity while also staying on schedule, knowing
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  Speaker 3: that there might be a half a click more just
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  Speaker 3: because there is more traffic for him to work through.
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  Speaker 3: So those guys have done a great job. They've been
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  Speaker 3: efficient with it. And so it is really impressive. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's all this stuff that's happening. I would
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  Speaker 3: say the league's starting to swing back towards the, you know,
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  Speaker 3: where you've got to be able to stop the run
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  Speaker 3: because these running backs are pretty dynamic in the league
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  Speaker 3: right now. But at the same time, you come in,
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  Speaker 3: you've got Jackson, what he's doing, there's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a plan for him. He's doing a great job being
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  Speaker 3: able to stay efficient.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, Mike was.
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  Speaker 7: Asked about Jax and all the numbers, and at some
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  Speaker 7: point his answer turned to he had the best run-blocking
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  Speaker 7: game that he's had.
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  Speaker 5: In a while.
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  Speaker 7: In your position group, how much do you guys talk
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  Speaker 7: about that? How big is that emphasis when Mike's bringing
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  Speaker 7: that up about the league receiver?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's a constant conversation. It's something that
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  Speaker 3: is always a work in progress. I don't think there's
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  Speaker 3: a single time you come in and say, okay, this
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  Speaker 3: is good enough. You know, that's another– Good enough is
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  Speaker 3: actually maybe never said in this building, period. But it
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  Speaker 3: is something that's constantly being discussed, constantly being critiqued and
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  Speaker 3: tinkered with.
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, I think, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, that's the, you know, Jackson's having an unbelievable year.
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  Speaker 3: Him bringing that kind of energy, that kind of ownership
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  Speaker 3: to the run game, that's a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: One more on.
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  Speaker 8: Brian and his background. He's done basically everything coaching-wise, defense,
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  Speaker 8: I think special teams early in his career. Can you
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  Speaker 8: tell by the way that he coaches or talks about
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  Speaker 8: football or devises an offense that he has that varied.
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  Speaker 1: Of a background? Yeah, I mean, special teams is a
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  Speaker 1: whole other animal now.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how much special teams is coming across
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  Speaker 3: in the offensive scheme of things. But in terms of
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  Speaker 3: just knowledge about what's happening and how he wants to
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  Speaker 3: attack things, understanding what's happening even just like up front
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  Speaker 3: with the combinations and stuff in the run game through
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  Speaker 3: the protections and stuff like that. I mean, he has
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  Speaker 3: a wealth of knowledge of the game. And so you
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  Speaker 3: can definitely tell he's been around it and has seen
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  Speaker 3: it from a lot of different angles.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else? Awesome. Thank you, guys.