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Mike Macdonald: "I'm Proud Of Our Mentality & Drive" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh, he wouldn't be wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Good everybody all right, Good to see everybody again.
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  Speaker 1: Good really good bye. Week. Uh just gave us an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted to kind of take a step back, just like
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  Speaker 2: what we talked about before we left. Uh, guys got rejuvenated,
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  Speaker 2: did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: I say, you know, staying on top of their stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And we had a really sharp practice today and uh,
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  Speaker 2: it was an opportunity for us to you know, look.
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  Speaker 1: Where we're at. I think some of the big takeaways
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  Speaker 1: was really hot.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the what we're doing, it's the how we're
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  Speaker 2: how we get it done.
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  Speaker 1: And we've talked a lot about.
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  Speaker 2: Process, you know in this uh in this setting, and
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  Speaker 2: the same thing goes. But I think, uh, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: everything was on the table, you know, made personal decision
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  Speaker 2: you know today that well I'm sure you guys will
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  Speaker 2: ask about and.
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  Speaker 1: We continue to move forward.
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  Speaker 2: So the guys were excited, they were good spirits and
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  Speaker 2: uh we got a great, you know, big week of
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  Speaker 2: prep ahead of us and on where we go.
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  Speaker 1: A decision to move on from Tyrol Dotson. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we really appreciate t.
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  Speaker 2: Dot I mean he's he's worked extremely hard rehabbed you know,
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  Speaker 2: throughout the off season here. Uh, these I think is
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  Speaker 2: one was an opportunity for us when we when we
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  Speaker 2: kind of sat and it took a step back and
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  Speaker 2: realized where we were at.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it was really the.
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  Speaker 2: Best thing for us to move forward that way, give
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  Speaker 2: the other guys in the room an opportunity to step up.
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  Speaker 1: I hope those guys grab that.
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  Speaker 2: Opportunity by the horns and and take it and run
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  Speaker 2: with it. And uh and then it gives uh, it
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  Speaker 2: gives to relevant opportunity to you know, find another spot
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  Speaker 2: somewhere else so we can finish the year strong.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the thought behind it. Who takes over
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  Speaker 1: at that spot? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Teennight will Uh, we'll get the first kind of look
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll look at some different personnel s. But
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  Speaker 2: we could look at some different personnel packages as well.
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  Speaker 2: And Drake Thomas you know, might get it, might get
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  Speaker 2: a crack at it as well.
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  Speaker 3: Is there to take over the learning grin.
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  Speaker 1: Or yeah, that's the plan right now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what what did you see Tyre's plays started?
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  Speaker 1: Figs? What did you see out of the steps got more?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we expect him to keep improving as a player.
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  Speaker 2: And he's gonna get a lot more reps now and
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  Speaker 2: so just try to take his game to the next level,
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  Speaker 2: do what he does, make tackles, play good, solid football
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  Speaker 2: for us, and looking forward to seeing what he does
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  Speaker 2: with the opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: That's both your inside linebackers out in two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: What weren't you getting there that you needed to change?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you know, holistically, as a defense, we
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  Speaker 2: weren't getting it done. And you know, we count we
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  Speaker 2: we we put a lot on our linebackers, and so
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  Speaker 2: you know, I hate that it had to work out
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  Speaker 2: like just through those two guys, because those two guys
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  Speaker 2: that uh that we respect a lot and and have
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  Speaker 2: come in and worked really hard. But you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you have to make these decisions and do what you
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  Speaker 2: feel like it's best for our defense to take the
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  Speaker 2: next step. And so that was the decision. But just
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  Speaker 2: happened to be those guys. But we do put a
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  Speaker 2: lot on our linebackers. We expect a lot from those guys,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know that'll always be the case here
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  Speaker 2: as long as we're here.
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  Speaker 1: Is it as simple that you need to need more
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  Speaker 1: stout at that.
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  Speaker 2: Position in particularly, Well, I mean I think you look
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  Speaker 2: at some of the plays that got out on us
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  Speaker 2: and some explosive runs that we.
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  Speaker 1: Felt like we could we could have played better at
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  Speaker 1: that level.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I don't want us to feel like we're
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  Speaker 2: singling guys out. Obviously it looks that way because of
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  Speaker 2: the roster moves we made. We made them for two
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  Speaker 2: completely different reasons. But those those, you know, the things
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  Speaker 2: that we need to improve on are really all the
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  Speaker 2: entire defense. Just so happens that you know we made
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  Speaker 2: the move at linebacker, you just.
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  Speaker 1: Alluded to it. But how important is it in your
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  Speaker 1: role just to be willing to.
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  Speaker 3: Say, okay, we need to go in a different direction
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  Speaker 3: and be adjustable.
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  Speaker 2: In that way. Well, sometimes you have to make really
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  Speaker 2: tough decisions, and uh, you know, that's part of my responsibility,
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  Speaker 2: it's part of John's responsibility of doing what's best for
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  Speaker 2: the club at all times. And we owe that to
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  Speaker 2: our to our fans, and to our football team, the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the locker room. So we're always gonna take
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  Speaker 2: that mindset. It's always the team, the team, the team.
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  Speaker 3: Coach over sick keeper. Center of the pressure so FARVN
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  Speaker 3: attributed to the right side of your offensive line. Are
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  Speaker 3: there any changes potentially.
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  Speaker 1: There as well. Oh we hope you get back soon.
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  Speaker 1: I think that'll help us.
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  Speaker 2: And we're still I mean, the right guard spot is
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  Speaker 2: what it is at this point.
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Ab will still be starting right now. I think we
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  Speaker 2: can do some things schematically to alleviate some pressure on
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  Speaker 2: those guys. So it's a it's a team effort on
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  Speaker 2: that front. But I think we haven't made a change
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  Speaker 2: right now, but we expect those guys to keep improving.
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  Speaker 2: But like like we've shown, we're willing to shake it
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  Speaker 2: up if we need to.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any consideration to moving Connor to guard and
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  Speaker 3: thank someone else's center.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, there has but we're staying stay in put right now.
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  Speaker 3: With a so realistic he get place side down?
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, maybe so that it was a good fight
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  Speaker 1: with What makes sit a five week? Is it the
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  Speaker 1: way the guys showed up today?
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  Speaker 2: Is it the separation everybody gets for games?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think everything you know coming in Monday and it's
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  Speaker 2: still and it stings on, you know, from from the
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  Speaker 2: past game.
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  Speaker 1: But then saying hey, this.
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  Speaker 2: Is is where we're at, this is what we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do over the course of the week, players kind
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  Speaker 2: of getting away refreshing their minds and their bodies. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was good for them. Their spirit today was great.
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  Speaker 2: Just had like I said, had a really energetic practice.
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  Speaker 2: So put a great game plan together tomorrow and and
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  Speaker 2: on where we go for the second half of the season,
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  Speaker 2: and then coaches wise, I think it does. It alleviates
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  Speaker 2: some pressure in order to you know, putting game plans
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  Speaker 2: together and take a big picture approach about where we're
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  Speaker 2: at and what we're doing and how we do it.
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  Speaker 2: I think is is really the biggest question, is the
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing that we attacked of how we're putting things together,
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  Speaker 2: how we're detailing it out, gives us clarity on where
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  Speaker 2: we're moving forward with it. So I think I think
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  Speaker 2: that's that's probably the biggest takeaway is kind of an
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  Speaker 2: improved clarity and uh for a vision of where we're
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  Speaker 2: going in all three phases.
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  Speaker 4: Mike, you talk about attack quite quite a big Is
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  Speaker 4: that something you saw that maybe that had to be
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  Speaker 4: reinforced or message more to the team in the second half.
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  Speaker 4: Here we can look at the at the bye week,
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  Speaker 4: the film movity you saw there.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I mean there's there's plenty of you can kind
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  Speaker 2: of go byline by byline on places where on things
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  Speaker 2: that were you know, not up to snuff at this point.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, you want to have the mentality of going
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  Speaker 2: instead of just putting a band aid on it.
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  Speaker 1: You want to attack it. You want to make it
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  Speaker 1: a strength.
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  Speaker 2: How we're packaging things on offense and defense and like
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  Speaker 2: how we're trying to id how other teams are attacking
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  Speaker 2: us and kind of counterattack. I mean, all those things
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  Speaker 2: are always on the table, but when you're putting game
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  Speaker 2: plans together, absolutely you're you're not trying to really defend anything.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to attack stuff that you see on tape
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  Speaker 2: and personnel wise. So I think that'd be a fair
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  Speaker 2: way to like, you know, reframe our mentality what we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to do. Josh signed from off the practice spout
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  Speaker 2: of what's he showing in the three games bought. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and Ad was great today with the group, and I
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  Speaker 2: think it I think it just shows it kind of
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  Speaker 2: backs up our message on what we said, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you come in here, you practice at an elite level,
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  Speaker 2: you earn some opportunities in game siams, and you have
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  Speaker 2: production in those games, and you help us win. Then
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  Speaker 2: you know which we're gonna we're gonna find a role
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  Speaker 2: for you. So and those are going to be a
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  Speaker 2: varying degree. You saw it with Cody White. Guys can
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  Speaker 2: play a really significant role, but not having that many
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  Speaker 2: snaps or being a backup role. I mean, all those
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  Speaker 2: things manifest themselves differently. But uh, you know, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: give Josh a lot of credit for what's his approached
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  Speaker 2: since he's been here and he's he's playing some good
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  Speaker 2: football for us, So we're.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to have him part of the squad.
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  Speaker 2: Does Josh have a hold.
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  Speaker 5: Of that third quarterback job right now?
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  Speaker 1: There? Is that still a competition? I mean it's still
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  Speaker 1: gonna be week in week out. How we want to
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  Speaker 1: match it up?
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  Speaker 2: I'd say right now, you know, Josh, if we started tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: Josh should be out There.
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  Speaker 1: Is the recurred to a George Fann. But we did
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  Speaker 1: anything okay? So no nothing. How's DK doing doing well?
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  Speaker 1: Doing well? Again? Optimistic we should see him on on Wednesday?
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  Speaker 3: Out there us who is eligible to come off?
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  Speaker 1: I our this week?
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  Speaker 2: Any updates there no updates on Chenna, But you know,
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  Speaker 2: same thing.
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  Speaker 1: We're still optimist to get him back at some point.
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  Speaker 3: You put cave on on the high r I guess
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  Speaker 3: how you feel like the safety youngs there right now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's tough, I mean, and fortunately we still have
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  Speaker 2: some really good players on the roster. Kobe's playing really
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  Speaker 2: at high level, Julian, so you know, Jerck Reid had
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  Speaker 2: had an opportunity to do it on defense yet, so
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  Speaker 2: would have confidence with him. And then we have some
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  Speaker 2: guys on a practice squad that can come in and
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  Speaker 2: play for us.
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  Speaker 1: But we haven't worked all that stuff out for this
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  Speaker 1: week and who's going to be up and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll be all right.
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  Speaker 3: Do you typical do exit interviews at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the season with players? Is there anything that similar in
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  Speaker 3: the mid years or in a bye week to kind
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  Speaker 3: of talk to individual player.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny you asked that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we actually kind of called it like mid
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  Speaker 2: year exit interviews on Monday. You know. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: just important for the players to know where they stand
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  Speaker 2: and the role and be really clear in the role
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  Speaker 2: that we expect them to to fill, and them to
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  Speaker 2: understand where they fall and where they can improve their game.
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  Speaker 2: So it just gives you an opportunity to kind of
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  Speaker 2: sit down with your coaches and make sure you're on
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  Speaker 2: the same page moving forward. So I think we did
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  Speaker 2: a good job taking advantage of that. Where's Trey Brown
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  Speaker 2: fit and everything now? Well, like I said, I mean
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  Speaker 2: he's competing with with Josh at the third corner. And
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  Speaker 2: I think you like the more the more corners you
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  Speaker 2: have healthy and available, the better. I mean, you can
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  Speaker 2: play matchup ball, just it. It opens up a lot
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  Speaker 2: of opportunities that you might not have, you know.
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  Speaker 1: If you if you have less guys.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see how's the game plan comes together. But
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  Speaker 2: Tray's got a significant role.
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  Speaker 1: You said we focus our mentality. What do you mean
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  Speaker 1: by that?
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  Speaker 4: What do you need to horn?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's all about the how of how of
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the x's and o's are important, but how
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  Speaker 2: we make it come to life is the secret sauce,
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  Speaker 2: And I think when you kind of see it on
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  Speaker 2: all levels of the assembly line, from how we how
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  Speaker 2: we game plan.
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  Speaker 1: It, how we package it, how we coach it.
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  Speaker 2: How we drill it, how we practice it, how it
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  Speaker 2: shows up on game day. When that system's right, we
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  Speaker 2: play really good football. When when there's a you know,
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  Speaker 2: when that system's kind of jacked up on any part
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  Speaker 2: of the process. Then you know that's I feel like
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  Speaker 2: that's where we're we're falling short. So it's a you know,
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  Speaker 2: from from top to bottom. We got to do a
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  Speaker 2: great job of of of packaging it and making it
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  Speaker 2: come to life out here in the practice field.
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  Speaker 1: Then on on Sundays.
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  Speaker 3: Consideration instead of doing more under Center after the bye
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  Speaker 3: week Withking at offers.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, all things are on the table.
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  Speaker 2: I think under Center, does you know, give you some
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  Speaker 2: more opportunities to especially let the like the action game
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  Speaker 2: and some of the runs that we want to do
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  Speaker 2: come to life.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see as as it kind of
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  Speaker 1: manifests itself again.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't, I mean we've we've done work on San Francisco,
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  Speaker 2: but the you know, the meat of potatoes will happen
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  Speaker 2: over the next twenty four hours practicing.
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  Speaker 1: And you're playing this week aid.
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  Speaker 2: Practice today, and you know that's like San Francisco is
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  Speaker 2: a realistic expectation at this point.
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  Speaker 5: I know you I have seen him on the practice build,
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  Speaker 5: but the feat is backward.
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  Speaker 1: Or what kind of boost was that gift over?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that the best version of ABE is
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  Speaker 2: going to give us the best version of our offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: So we want to make sure that he's ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: But from what I saw today, it looked really good.
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  Speaker 2: Looked good last week. So you know, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: timeline here that we're kind of abiding bey and there
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  Speaker 2: thinking there's certain milestones that and hurdles you need to
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  Speaker 2: cross in order for him to you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, play his best ball. So hopefully that's hopefully that's
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  Speaker 1: this week. I'm sorry if you actuals earlier, but will
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  Speaker 1: Ernest claw the plays repeat the game? Do? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ernestly in a couple of weeks he's been here, Kenda,
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  Speaker 3: what did you see from how he's.
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  Speaker 1: Taken Uh.
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  Speaker 2: An urgency about him, but also like a calmness, uh
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  Speaker 2: a poise about him that football makes a lot of
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  Speaker 2: sense to him. So again, we're doing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that he did in Tennessee, so there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of carry over there.
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  Speaker 1: But I think, I mean, I think you see in.
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  Speaker 2: His play on Sundays, you know, the plays that he's making,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's helping us win.
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  Speaker 1: It put him a position to win. We haven't won
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  Speaker 1: with him yet.
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  Speaker 3: When you're looking at everything in the awful because what
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  Speaker 3: did you see obviously if.
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  Speaker 1: You want to clean up, but what did you see
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  Speaker 1: as Sethi Muff want to build on and kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of gets off fives as Probaly, I mean, we're we're
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  Speaker 2: we are doing a lot of really good stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I've talked about it, you know, at the past, but
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  Speaker 2: like situationally.
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  Speaker 1: I think really all three phases are locked.
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  Speaker 2: In on those situations and we've had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: like big time points swings at you know, at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the in the beginning of halves. So it's
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  Speaker 2: about being consistent, being efficient offensively on early downs, taking
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  Speaker 2: advantage of some of the things that we're getting, you
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  Speaker 2: know from looks that we're that we're seeing, and uh, defensively,
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  Speaker 2: I think that we've seen a steady improvement in our
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  Speaker 2: process and our play on early downs that can help
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  Speaker 2: us create some of those more past situations where where
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  Speaker 2: we can start to affect the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Took the step back and look trend of Biley good.
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  Speaker 3: If you think that by your three coordinators Rev A,
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  Speaker 3: G gare not the first half of.
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  Speaker 2: The season, well, I just I'm just happy with our
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  Speaker 2: approach right now. I Mean, our our guys are open minded,
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  Speaker 2: really smart guy to have a great feel for what
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  Speaker 2: we're what we've been trying to do at all points
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  Speaker 2: to the work when we're working together on this thing
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  Speaker 2: to make it, to make it better. So just like
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  Speaker 2: the message of the team was today, Hey, we're not,
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  Speaker 2: by no stretch of the imagination are we happy or
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  Speaker 2: uh satisfied, but where we're at a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: like it's okay to be kind of mad about where
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  Speaker 2: we're at. You know you're not, just because we expect
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  Speaker 2: more from our football team right now. But you've got
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  Speaker 2: to be proud of the mentality and like and the
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  Speaker 2: drive you know, and the and the resiliency that we've
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  Speaker 2: shown mentally to you know, to keep looking at our
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  Speaker 2: process and try and try to make it the best
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  Speaker 2: we can possibly make it. So those three guys are
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  Speaker 2: leading the charge with us.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry that earlier Tyro, why wave in eye having.
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  Speaker 5: To be a best.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we did talk about this, but it's it was
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  Speaker 2: as best for us for the team at this point,
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  Speaker 2: and you're you're looking at what's best for the for
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  Speaker 2: the person too. I mean, this is the guy that's
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  Speaker 2: coming worked really hard, didn't work out here, which is
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  Speaker 2: which is on everybody involved myself included, and but it
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: gives them an opportunity to go to go play somewhere else.
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: Mike, I talked about it.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: You've made a couple moves this bye week to talk
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: about the process of how John Schneider is involved in that.
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: Is that when they were communic coaches make a decision
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: and then talk to him to verify or how.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Does that work? Yeah, John and I were in lockstep.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: He's an elite.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: Communicator, probably better than I am, so I'm learning a
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: lot from him. But we worked through things together. So
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: and naturally, any given decision is going to be brought
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: up by someone because that's just how it has to work.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: But we're in constant communication about all these things, so
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: we're partners in that way.
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: I would say, Mike, just going back to openness, just
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: how important is it for you talked about your coaches
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: are open, you talk about your players being open because
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: uh Leo talked to us last week about how the
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: coaching staff was open. How impoint is it in your
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: process to have the transactional communication between the.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Well, we hope it's more than transactional communication. Sometimes it is.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: You're looking for more of a transformational relationship. No, I
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: mean it's well, it builds trust. You know, if if
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: you're full of crap and the players know that, if
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: the players don't feel like you're presenting an environment where
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: you know they can really share their honest opinions, then
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: you're not going to go anywhere.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: You're not gonna you're not gonna build, you're not gonna learn.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: So I think really the onus is on us as coaches,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: you know, to create create those relationships and as you
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: build those conversations, that will build trust over time if
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: you're consistent. And that's what we're shooting to do. We're
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: learning to grow. We're trying to grow. We're trying to
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: make this thing the best, you know, the best team.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: We can possibly make it. The only way to do
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: that is to do it together. Yeah, it's just an.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Opportunity for a guy that that we liked coming out
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: and kept track of.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: So we'll get get take a look at them here.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: It's doing well.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Uh, we'll see as the week kind of progresses here,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: but not sure about the game Sunday.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: I guess are what you're looking for one or two
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: biggest games to that.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Guys wanna turn this around and.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Be at a team and want to do by Gnuay. Yeah,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: we talked.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: We talked about this in the beginning, but the bye
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: week is about how we make it come to life.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: It's not what we're doing, it's about how we make
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: it come to life. So it's like an assembly line,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: all the things going into what shows up on Sunday.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: It's the product that we're delivering. That's how we're going
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: to make it better.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Speaking of transactional relationship, thank you.