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Mike Macdonald: “We Just Kept Fighting” · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Just how we drew it up exactly what we expected
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  Speaker 1: six to three.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know it's not It's just it's not easy
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  Speaker 1: coming across the country in a short week, Uh, planning
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  Speaker 1: an atmosphere like that. So our guys deserve a lot
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  Speaker 1: of credit for the poise stuck together throughout. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I face some adversity throughout the game, and then our
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  Speaker 1: defense just deserves a lot of credit. Man. They just
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  Speaker 1: they played really hard, even when they made some unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: plays there in some critical moments. You got to give
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  Speaker 1: their quarterback a lot of credit. I mean, he made
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  Speaker 1: some made some phenomenal plays under duress. So we just
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  Speaker 1: kept fighting. And then you know, you defended to play
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  Speaker 1: the grass at the end of the day, So uh
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  Speaker 1: had an opportunity to win at the end, and guys
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  Speaker 1: did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: What was a look that made you go nine on
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  Speaker 3: the line and send a plitch you did on the course?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, how do I answer it without kind of giving
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  Speaker 1: away like trade secrets.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I just think I just think it's something.
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  Speaker 1: That we've been practicing and we haven't really called it
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  Speaker 1: in situations like that. We've had versions of like blitz
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  Speaker 1: that we've called, but not that particular version.
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  Speaker 2: So something that we've had that.
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  Speaker 1: We've been preparing for and our guys were excited about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting to that that particular call. And man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just you call something, you have an execute
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  Speaker 1: it and it's for basically the seasons on the line,
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  Speaker 1: and he just shows it like, hey, our guys can
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  Speaker 1: handle it, and they you know, they've earned that confidence
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  Speaker 1: to call those types of high leverage plays.
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  Speaker 2: So I know Spoon was asking for it.
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  Speaker 1: So when Spoon's excited about it, then we're excited about it.
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  Speaker 4: But he had the pressure on that last throw. And
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  Speaker 4: the same thing with the Jets game. Just what moments
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  Speaker 4: makes them a good fit there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean again, even though when you are blitzing
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of guys, I mean, it is a team
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  Speaker 1: blitz mentality. So we got align correctly. We gotta, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got to set it up right. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: have disguises that are paired with it. Guys have to
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  Speaker 1: take proper angles, you know, to gets this quarterback on
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  Speaker 1: the ground and make him go backwards is easier said
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  Speaker 1: than done. So you gotta there's some you know technique
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  Speaker 1: to it as well. So just again in critical moments.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that speaks a lot about the trust
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  Speaker 1: that we have in our guys that they can go
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  Speaker 1: get the job done. Version of that's been around forever,
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  Speaker 1: but this particular version of it went in a couple
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little poetry and Rik Woland getting the final
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  Speaker 3: interception after what happened last week.
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  Speaker 1: I was hoping he went down after he caught it. Yeah, yeah, Look,
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  Speaker 1: I mean this is why we have the make it
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  Speaker 1: right system. It's you move on and you go to
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  Speaker 1: the next play, and he's been doing that.
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  Speaker 2: So happy for making that plays a great play. You've
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  Speaker 2: mentioned a.
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  Speaker 4: Couple of times this year that Devin Withers the stats
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  Speaker 4: haven't met up with the impact he's having your defense within.
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  Speaker 2: Today three tackles for a loss, gets his first sack. Yea,
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  Speaker 2: what did you think of his performance to win? The
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  Speaker 2: rest of the defense fed up back today? Yeah, we we.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's a leader on our dys the
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  Speaker 1: second year, but I mean we're he's he's grown so
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  Speaker 1: much as a leader and he's gonna be someone we're
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  Speaker 1: going to depend on for a long time here. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: we love him and it's because of the energy and
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  Speaker 1: the competitiveness and the person and his love of the
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  Speaker 1: game and love for his teammates, and uh, it's infectious.
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  Speaker 1: How could you not play one thousand when twenty one's
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  Speaker 1: on the field doing the stuff that he does. So
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  Speaker 1: we talk about force multipliers. He's a force multiplier. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy he got a sack. Wasn't pretty, but.
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  Speaker 2: He got one, and uh, yeah, I'm really happy for him.
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  Speaker 2: Did you think they might try a field goal there?
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  Speaker 3: From fifty seven or fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Year our line was a little bit tighter than that, so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we had a I was ready. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you have to be ready for a fourth down call, but.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you never know if they're gonna try one,
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  Speaker 1: So we had a we had a call ready on
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  Speaker 1: field will block as well.
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  Speaker 2: What do you make of what you got it from
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  Speaker 2: the offense?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of got the run game going a little bit
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  Speaker 1: early on office, Yeah, yeah, I think, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think we took a step in the right direction in
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  Speaker 1: terms of run game and and moving the.
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  Speaker 2: Ball especially early in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Was good to get the first drive going, but I
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  Speaker 1: think we're gonna still focus on Hey, let's close these
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  Speaker 1: drives out. You know, once we get this thing moving,
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  Speaker 1: let's finish in the end zone. You know, seven points
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  Speaker 1: is such a big difference, especially to start the game.
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  Speaker 1: And then when we are playing with the lead, let's
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  Speaker 1: try to you know.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta do it. We we gotta keep chasing, trying
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  Speaker 2: to get to multiple score.
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  Speaker 1: Leads, you know, and then that that that that's good
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  Speaker 1: for the that's good for our team. So that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're chasing. The guys battle thought hard, but you know
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  Speaker 1: it didn't go our way in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Got to give the Bears credit.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they played hard, played physical, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get better from this.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about sacks as a team today seven can just
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  Speaker 3: talk about.
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  Speaker 1: How multiple players are well, yeah, I think you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's I've always said it's a function of Russian coverage.
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  Speaker 2: So in order to sack them, he's got to have
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  Speaker 2: the ball.
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  Speaker 1: So some sacks were clean, you know, where you win
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  Speaker 1: and you uh and this is a hard quarterback to
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  Speaker 1: get on the ground as well, so that's good. And
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  Speaker 1: then some of them are hey, you know, we we
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  Speaker 1: do a great job on the back end making them
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  Speaker 1: progress through. And now you can buy an extra click
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  Speaker 1: in your rush, so it'd be fun to watch the
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  Speaker 1: tape and show them why those happened. That we're able
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  Speaker 1: to create those passing situations on first down and those
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  Speaker 1: are all team stats man. So I'm excited for the
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  Speaker 1: guys that they got the sacks, but it'll be fun
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  Speaker 1: to show them why, you know, and who set them up.
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  Speaker 4: The energy that they brought, and also the speed of
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  Speaker 4: which they played today.
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  Speaker 1: When we talked about that, look, I mean, yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to on a short week on Thursday, and you
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  Speaker 1: got to get your bodies right to go play and
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  Speaker 1: go play the right way.
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  Speaker 2: You got to be able to play the right way
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  Speaker 2: to win this league.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I think this is an opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: a shout out for our support team, Sam Ramsden, Ivan
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  Speaker 1: Lewis and his crew. Like getting those guys either bodies
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  Speaker 1: right on Monday, I think that was big for us.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think we needed that, and the guys
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  Speaker 1: were determined to go get a win here on the road.
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  Speaker 2: That was an humble return for a touchdown. Did you
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  Speaker 2: realize at the moment, in the moment, I was really
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  Speaker 2: I was what was the term to use? Was I worried? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: pretty consistently worried about stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Holding the team to three points is always tough, But
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  Speaker 4: what kind of strain is out of defense when it's
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  Speaker 4: a one score game throughout that. I mean, they're one
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  Speaker 4: play at any time from from taking the lead.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. I don't think your mentality changes. I mean, we're
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, we're playing field position game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you really want to be critical, we could have
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  Speaker 1: played we could have done a better job of flipping
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  Speaker 1: field position for our offense. You know, they're they're coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the well too many times this game, So
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  Speaker 1: we were fighting uphill battle Offensively, defensively, we're getting stops,
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  Speaker 1: but you know they're on midfields, they're able to put
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  Speaker 1: them down deep. We didn't affect the ball as much
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  Speaker 1: as we'd like to. I mean, you're being critical there.
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  Speaker 1: We played great, but I mean those are the things
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  Speaker 1: that were Chase sing So it's hard to go ninety
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  Speaker 1: eighty ninety the yards consistently put points on the board.
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  Speaker 1: So that's something that we'll we'll look at and see
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  Speaker 1: what we can do better.
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  Speaker 2: But the mentality is the same.
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  Speaker 1: Year.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's fired up. That was great.
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  Speaker 1: If you just pause time and think about the journey
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  Speaker 1: that he's been in it's pretty awesome. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty anxious to the next couple of days, kind of
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  Speaker 4: seeing what happens with the rams and everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Else or look where I mean, we're in the mode
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  Speaker 2: of controlling.
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  Speaker 1: We control, we know what's coming, uh next week, So
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna spend this weekend and getting getting our minds
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  Speaker 1: and bodies and spirits right to go play a game.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, we're praying that it's for the division championship.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Joe doing Oh he's doing good. Uh, he's like
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  Speaker 1: a patella of something in his knee. Again, you get
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  Speaker 1: me on the medical terms. I'm it's like, how much time, man,
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  Speaker 1: how much time? But uh, we'll see, we'll see as
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  Speaker 1: it goes. We're fortunate that we have an extra couple
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  Speaker 1: of days to treat them.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we started strong, you know, put the ball
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  Speaker 1: and harms way there in the red zone, which you
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  Speaker 1: know we'd like to do a better job of that.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, Like Gino is battling right now.
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  Speaker 1: The guy is battling his tail off keeping us together,
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  Speaker 1: so we follow his lead. And I know the guys
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  Speaker 1: on offense are excited that we won the game. But
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  Speaker 1: we talk about being twelve is one and they're part
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  Speaker 1: of the team too, and we won the game, and
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  Speaker 1: so our expectation is obviously higher than six points. But
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  Speaker 1: let's go to work this week and do the best
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  Speaker 1: we can to go in the Thursday nights games are funky.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's a short week. It's just, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like there's some weird outcomes that happen. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, we'll look at the tape and go to
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  Speaker 1: work and and Gina will be right there leading.
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  Speaker 4: Us two sacks, the tackles for the loss. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: seems like he's student week after week. But what's he
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  Speaker 4: meant to you guys in live that defense?
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  Speaker 2: He's he's meant a ton.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I give Jerry the game ball just because
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  Speaker 1: he's really he's really leading us up up front with
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  Speaker 1: those guys, and you know, there's it's the edges and
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  Speaker 1: the d line that are in the same room, and
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  Speaker 1: we really follow jay Ree's lead. And then Leo's done
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  Speaker 1: a great job leading him as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he should be up for all the accolades.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what what the awards are
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  Speaker 1: out there, but I would give it to him, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just a phenomenal player, phenomenal human being.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm glad he's a seahawk man. Glad he's glad
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  Speaker 1: he's with us.
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  Speaker 3: A tough short week, you get to win. Talk about
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  Speaker 3: what the extra rest maybe means the team head end
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  Speaker 3: the next week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nice.
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  Speaker 1: We have some positive net rest, so that'll be good
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  Speaker 1: for us. It's about time you're.
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  Speaker 3: Watching Brahm's Cardinals. You can just go stay away from
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  Speaker 3: what you.
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  Speaker 2: Can't control now, gonna watch every snap. Yeah, what was
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  Speaker 2: the process like getting ready for this week?
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  Speaker 3: And it sounds like you guys after the game Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: you guys went back to like right back to working
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  Speaker 3: when a host?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right? Uh? Well I did? I mean yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well yeah, he just you have to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a function at a time,
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  Speaker 1: and we really felt like if we can give our
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  Speaker 1: guys a tight game plan that they knew they could
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  Speaker 1: execute a high level on a like basically you install
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  Speaker 1: the whole game plan one day, and uh, losing sucks,
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  Speaker 1: So uh let's go back to work.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we did. Anyry else, thank you, Okay, thank
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  Speaker 2: you