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Speaker 1: Behold you.
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Speaker 2: Uh, that's that's great. That's a great question. Yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 2: You know, not easy to prepare for. I have done
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Speaker 2: that a few times in the past. But just an
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Speaker 2: exceptional player, you know what I mean, Uh, as as
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Speaker 2: good as there has ever been I think at the position.
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Speaker 2: Super talented, super smart, tough guys. So, uh, it's a
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Speaker 2: lot of work preparing for him. That's probably the best
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Speaker 2: way to say it.
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Speaker 3: On a defense, I mean, get outside the box and
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Speaker 3: really hundred guards down.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I you know, he has every attribute,
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Speaker 2: you know, his top tier, so he can put a
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Speaker 2: ton of strain on you. You know, obviously everybody has to
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Speaker 2: do a great job players during down the field because
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Speaker 2: you just kind of kept so many plays alive in
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Speaker 2: his career and been able, like you said, you get
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Speaker 2: the ball down the field. But you know, not only that,
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Speaker 2: he really does a great job of throwing on time.
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Speaker 2: You know, the rhythm pass game is as good as
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Speaker 2: there is in the league too. So he's just yeah,
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Speaker 2: you can't say enough good things about him, because he
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Speaker 2: really is an incredible player.
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Speaker 1: What's been to keep for you?
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Speaker 2: Guys? Have sprit some defense for rank differently, Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: think really the guys, their communication, their ability to settle
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Speaker 2: down and you know, just keep playing through the rhythm
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Speaker 2: of the down, you know, knowing that understanding where you
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Speaker 2: are on the field, and in some ways it's it
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Speaker 2: can be advantaged defense, you know, in terms of the
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Speaker 2: field being oftentimes three times as wide as it is
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Speaker 2: along just understanding how to play, what type of routes
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Speaker 2: you're gonna get and anchoring down in the run game
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Speaker 2: was something I thought we did a good job of
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Speaker 2: last week in San France, especially early. You know, they
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Speaker 2: did a good job in their opening script and move
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Speaker 2: the ball down the field, and the guys really locked
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Speaker 2: in and did a good job and our three red
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Speaker 2: zone snaps down there.
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Speaker 3: Jack is there, Lane setting the last week press worthy
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Speaker 3: by just their readiness at that moment.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I I was very impressed by both of those guys,
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Speaker 2: because you know, football is a game like that, as
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Speaker 2: you know, you know, you may just your number may
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Speaker 2: get called and you're up there, you're ready to go,
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Speaker 2: and they were prepared. Credit to them, and then really
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Speaker 2: a credit to their coaches, you know, like Anthony Perkins,
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Speaker 2: I think has done a great job with Ray laying
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Speaker 2: up to this point and then you know, same thing
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Speaker 2: with Tim Lugo, who has done a great job with
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Speaker 2: Jack Kaiser all.
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Speaker 1: Throughout the spring, summer and everything. Jack's been ready to go.
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Speaker 2: So I think, like everybody, I was just having this
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Speaker 2: conversation with our guys, we just need to be we
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Speaker 2: need to be more detailed as a whole defensively, And
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Speaker 2: I think that's something you would say. I probably would
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Speaker 2: say that every season I've been coaching, you know, and
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Speaker 2: I think most coaches would say that. But that's really it.
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Speaker 2: I could say that about us as a unit, and
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Speaker 2: you're working through that. I talked about this in the
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Speaker 2: past too, how it's a long season and every week
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Speaker 2: you're kind of finding out what you do well and
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Speaker 2: you start to gravitate toward those towards towards those things
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Speaker 2: that your players do well.
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Speaker 1: And I think that there's there's a bunch for all
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Speaker 1: of us improve on a lot more of this year than.
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Speaker 3: He has in the past that sometimes, So does that
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Speaker 3: change kind of the equation with how you prepare for
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Speaker 3: him this year?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like he's always been, you know, pretty
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Speaker 2: active as a runner. I know he is running the
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Speaker 2: ball a little bit more, but you know, in past games.
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Speaker 2: He's done a good job of that against us. You know,
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Speaker 2: when I was in Miami, we have played him a
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Speaker 2: bunch of times, and I thought he always did a
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Speaker 2: good job keeping plays alive and you know, trying to
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Speaker 2: get through the middle of the defense or getting an
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Speaker 2: Eskate patch in the you know, in the pass rush,
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Speaker 2: finding a way out of there. So it really does
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Speaker 2: add another difficult element to a defense for sure. The
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Speaker 2: speed as well that they have at their receiver corps
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Speaker 2: this year with Xavier Worthy back and yeah, yeah, different
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Speaker 2: challenge than maybe you.
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Speaker 3: Faced so far.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's he's got elite speed. You know,
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Speaker 2: he's a special player as well. Really, I think he's
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Speaker 2: a good route runner, and I know he got banged
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Speaker 2: up earlier in the year, So he adds a whole
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Speaker 2: nother dimension to them, you know when he came back,
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Speaker 2: and he obviously makes it difficult. You know, years back
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Speaker 2: when they had Tyreek Hill, you know, another guy could
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Speaker 2: really really really go.
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Speaker 1: He kind of brings that element to their offense.
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Speaker 3: You guys leave the league takeaways, how much do you
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Speaker 3: credit that to the intentionality out on the practice field
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Speaker 3: like that, you watch every position group is focusing on punching.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, how much you've credit that.
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Speaker 2: I credit the players and the coaches with that, because
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Speaker 2: it's something that the players take very seriously, you know,
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Speaker 2: and even just culturally in the room. That's something that
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Speaker 2: you know, they want to be about and they put
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Speaker 2: a lot of emphasis and effort into that every day.
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Speaker 2: I talked about that when I first got here, that
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Speaker 2: we want every drill to end with a tackle or
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Speaker 2: a takeaway, you know, or else by definition, we don't
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Speaker 2: feel like there's a finish to the drill, it's not
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Speaker 2: a good enough drill. So they've spent a lot of
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Speaker 2: time emphasizing UH, entry level on the tackles, finishing on
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Speaker 2: the tackles, leg drive, you know, same foot, same shoulder, mechanics,
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Speaker 2: all that stuff. And then when we're not doing that,
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Speaker 2: there should be a violent finish to the player, whether
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Speaker 2: that's you know, ball in the air as a defensive
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Speaker 2: back or back seven guy competing UH in the past game,
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Speaker 2: or attacking the ball at the end of a runner catch.
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Speaker 2: You know, that's something I would credit the players wholeheartedly
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Speaker 2: with that.
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Speaker 1: How do you replace.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we expect Treye to you know, he's a
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Speaker 2: tough kid, so if he's available, I know he'll do
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Speaker 2: everything he can to play. But you know, like we
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Speaker 2: did the other day, the guys that went in there,
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Speaker 2: I thought did a good job, you know, and uh
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Speaker 2: didn't let go of rope and they.
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Speaker 1: Produce for us. So that whole room is, uh, that's
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Speaker 1: a great room.
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Speaker 2: And we feel like we got a bunch of good
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Speaker 2: guys in there, and they did a good job stepping
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Speaker 2: up for him last week when he had exit the game.
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Speaker 2: So what did you see it? I don't know so
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Speaker 2: much what I saw. I just think that he is
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Speaker 2: a great fit for what we do. To me, he's
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Speaker 2: just like a he's a true three down linebacker. There's
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Speaker 2: it's just not that many three down linebackers and football,
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Speaker 2: and some guys are three down linebackers in a certain
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Speaker 2: way and some are three down linebackers in another way,
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Speaker 2: meaning that some guys may be out there and hey,
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Speaker 2: they do a bunch of stuff in the coverage. You know,
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Speaker 2: they're kind of a lighter guy and they're off the
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Speaker 2: off the ball all the time.
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Speaker 1: But you know, he's a guy.
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Speaker 2: I said this about him in the past, is that
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Speaker 2: he's a very unique skill set in that he could
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Speaker 2: play on the edge you know, early down. If you
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Speaker 2: lined him up you know outside an open five technique
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Speaker 2: on a tackle or a nine technique on a tight end,
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Speaker 2: he can do a really good job there. Set in
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Speaker 2: the edge zone, dropping all that stuff. He can play
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Speaker 2: off the ball early down because he sees it pretty good.
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Speaker 2: He can run and hit, He does a good job
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Speaker 2: in a pass coverage, and then if you want to
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Speaker 2: use him as a pass rusher, he has the ability
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Speaker 2: to do that. So I don't think there's that many
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Speaker 2: guys that have that unique skill set where they're a
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Speaker 2: three down guy. Like I said, he's able to cover,
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Speaker 2: he's able to rush, blitz, and he's able to set
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Speaker 2: the edge you know, early down, play off the ball.
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Speaker 2: So that's a multiple skill set.
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Speaker 1: And I I've.
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Speaker 2: Said that in the past here too, is that, like
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Speaker 2: that's what we really value in players, and he definitely
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Speaker 2: has that and he's worked. He's worked so hard that guy,
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Speaker 2: I mean just everything that he does fundamentally every day
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Speaker 2: is showing up in the games, and he really has
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Speaker 2: done a great job building up a lot of that
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Speaker 2: in his skill set over the course of the last
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Speaker 2: few months.
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Speaker 1: Harder will it be.
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Speaker 2: For Josh and Tradon's not be able to go.
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Speaker 3: Do you expect the Chiefs to kind of concentrate.
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Speaker 2: On Yeah, I think I think Josh gets a lot
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Speaker 2: of attention every week. You know, he's used to that
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Speaker 2: if that does happen, and he's just he's done a
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Speaker 2: great job for us because he's really been relentless in
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Speaker 2: the rush and he's done a great job in a
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Speaker 2: run game. So I think he kind of just goes
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Speaker 2: about everything as business as usual, you know, and I
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Speaker 2: think he'll give us great effort there on Monday too.
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Speaker 3: You men, some of the details that they have been
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Speaker 3: stuff the first couple of weeks you's been there, it's
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Speaker 3: looked good. How much I guess room for growth is they're.
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Speaker 2: Still in the I think there's a ton of room
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Speaker 2: for growth with us. I think the players feel that too.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's there's stuff there that can be better.
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Speaker 2: You know, we can be more detailed. You know, as
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Speaker 2: a coach in my position, I can be better. And
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Speaker 2: that's all we're you know, we're all fixated on that
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Speaker 2: every day, just how can we be better? How can
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Speaker 2: we get a better today from now to the end
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Speaker 2: of the season. That's the that's the goal, and as
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Speaker 2: a coach, that's basically how you're evaluated. You know, how much,
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Speaker 2: uh can your players improve in comparison to the competition
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Speaker 2: over the course of the season. That's how we should
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Speaker 2: be evaluated and that's how we're we're trying to approach it.
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Speaker 3: How do you evaluate the play of the outside cornerbacks
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Speaker 3: so far as this year specifically.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they've been super competitive on everything. They
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Speaker 2: made some great plays for us, you know, I think
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Speaker 2: Tyson has made some great plays for us down the field.
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Speaker 1: You know, some of those plays are I.
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Speaker 2: Say this all the time in our room that you know,
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Speaker 2: there's five or six plays in every game, right that
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Speaker 2: are going to dictate the outcome of the game. In
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Speaker 2: the past game, because there's gonna be two guys at
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Speaker 2: the point of attack five or six times in a game, right,
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Speaker 2: and who wins those one on one matchups?
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: Those fifty to fifty balls, or who violently finishes at
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Speaker 2: the point of attack, whether they're going to snatch the
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Speaker 2: ball out of the air as a receiver or us
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Speaker 2: violently finishing separating the man from the football, that's going
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Speaker 2: to dictate the outcome of the game. And I think
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Speaker 2: our guys have been really really competitive with that. Have
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Speaker 2: we won every one of them? No, but uh, we're
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Speaker 2: working to do that every day and I think they've
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Speaker 2: given us great effort that way. I think Jordan's done
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Speaker 2: a great job with that as well. And uh, you know,
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Speaker 2: good to have Monteric back. I think he's a great
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Speaker 2: competitor to Travis. Has given us some great reps that
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Speaker 2: way and Jari and so yeah, really pleased with all
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Speaker 2: those guys to this point.
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Speaker 3: Thanks appreciate that was the ribbon cutting. It sounds like
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Speaker 3: I missed the big event.
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Speaker 1: Show you this grand stairca like you guys.
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Speaker 3: Got to cover it if I need to go over there.
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Speaker 3: All right, how big stage is this?
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Speaker 1: I mean for this offense and the team kind of
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Speaker 1: be on.
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Speaker 3: I think you approach it the same way you approach
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Speaker 3: every week. The environment will be different. Hopefully it's a
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Speaker 3: phenomenal environment. Great opportunity for our fans to see us
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Speaker 3: in Monday night prime time, so hopefully we get to
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Speaker 3: experience that and the guys feel that. But really, the
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Speaker 3: way you approach it is just like every other game.
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Speaker 3: You kind of have to have that same process oriented
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Speaker 3: mindset where're taken every day as its own day, every
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Speaker 3: week as its own week. And if you treat this
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Speaker 3: game any different than the previous couple of games or
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Speaker 3: the future couple of games, then that's really not doing
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Speaker 3: justice to the games that we play at one o'clock
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Speaker 3: on you know, at home, away, on the road, on
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Speaker 3: all those different time slots. So we approach it the
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Speaker 3: same way. It's another game for us in that mindset,
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Speaker 3: but we're obviously excited to see the environment and the
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Speaker 3: fans and struggle. Lords has four regular season games and
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Speaker 3: this new offense under his belt.
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Speaker 2: What sort of track do you feel like he's on?
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Speaker 3: I mean, is he's had a schedule where he kind
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Speaker 3: of wanted it to.
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Speaker 1: Be right where he needs to be.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes putting it on a schedule or definitive schedule is
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Speaker 3: tough because there's so much gray, and there's so many
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Speaker 3: conditional things that are happening out there on the field
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Speaker 3: or the guys he's playing with, or certain things will
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Speaker 3: happen on certain plays that you don't anticipate or that
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Speaker 3: you don't prepare for exactly in that situation, And there's
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Speaker 3: so many different ways you can handle all those different situations.
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Speaker 3: So you don't necessarily have a schedule saying he has
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Speaker 3: to be here with this exact number of yards or
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Speaker 3: this exact number of completions by this week and then
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Speaker 3: by the next week. It has to be that. But
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Speaker 3: I think you see the progress from an overall perspective.
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Speaker 3: When you kind of zoom out and see where we
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Speaker 3: started in the spring, where he was in training camp,
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Speaker 3: and where he is, you see bits of progress show up.
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Speaker 3: It's not going to be linear where everything's going to
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Speaker 3: be perfect in a straight line going from where we
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Speaker 3: started to what we're going to. There's going to be
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Speaker 3: ups and downs. He knows that, we know that, but
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Speaker 3: you see the progress show up in bits and pieces.
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Speaker 3: The goal is to continue to build on that progress,
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Speaker 3: and hopefully January February, we're saying the same thing about
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Speaker 3: where we are there relative to now that we say
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Speaker 3: now relative to the spring. So if we continue to
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Speaker 3: keep building the way we're building, I'm confident that that
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Speaker 3: improvement will continue to come.
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Speaker 2: Third and short probably less than average right now because
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Speaker 2: what have sort of been client defense has made it
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Speaker 2: so tough you to run on third.
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Speaker 3: And one and three. There's been a number of different
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Speaker 3: things kind of similar to we talk about evaluating the quarterback.
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Speaker 3: Each one of those its own instances, and each one
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Speaker 3: of those kind of has its own breakdown. So you
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Speaker 3: go back and evaluate the whole picture. What are we
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Speaker 3: doing holistically that we can improve on as an offensive unit,
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Speaker 3: and then how does each play breakdown? And when you
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Speaker 3: look at it, each one kind of fails for its
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Speaker 3: own unique reason. Now we still have to address what's
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Speaker 3: the best way of mitigating those risks and preventing that
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Speaker 3: from happening overall, because we know we would like to
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Speaker 3: be at a much higher percentage on those down in distances.
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Speaker 3: But I think the variation of fronts and the variations
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Speaker 3: of coverages and pressures that we've seen is something that
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Speaker 3: we need to do a better job of handling and
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Speaker 3: building a plan to put guys in a better place
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Speaker 3: to attack those different variations. I think the combination of
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Speaker 3: that having cleaner plans for those things and the guys
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Speaker 3: having some more experience in those situations where there are
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Speaker 3: looks you might not see, or more challenging looks, or
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Speaker 3: something that doesn't show up the entire game except for
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Speaker 3: that one play. They're more prepared and they can handle
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Speaker 3: that better. Moving forward. Liam said, it takes a village,
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Speaker 3: you know, kind of prepare for Chris Jones just won't
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Speaker 3: challenges he present, just considering his versatility. He might be inside,
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Speaker 3: might be outside. I would echo Liam's exact thoughts. The
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Speaker 3: fact that he can line up inside, outside, he can
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Speaker 3: rush with a variety of moves, speed, power, get to
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Speaker 3: the quarterback in a bunch of different ways, affect the
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Speaker 3: run game in a bunch of different ways. Makes it
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Speaker 3: challenging as coaches. But it also puts stress on the
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Speaker 3: players that they have to identify him, know where he's at,
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Speaker 3: know the different techniques and moves and different changeups that
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Speaker 3: he has, and how they want to approach blocking him
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Speaker 3: or approach attacking him. So it's in every single time
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Speaker 3: he's on the field type thing where you have to
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Speaker 3: be aware of where he is and what your plan
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Speaker 3: is for him. Whether it's red zone, open field, third down,
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Speaker 3: it's every single down. And Jima Cole said, then last
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Speaker 3: week gafensive line in State of course, how much confidence
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Speaker 3: did that give you? Just seeing a naturality that depth
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Speaker 3: got to play out. I would say it confirmed the confidence.
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Speaker 3: It's something we probably saw in training camp a little
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Speaker 3: bit that we talked about with those groups. There was
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Speaker 3: a lot of questions on why the lineup is changing
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Speaker 3: so much, and why guys are playing at different spots,
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Speaker 3: why guys are going with the ones, why guys are
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Speaker 3: going with the twos, And it was really for that
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Speaker 3: instance we referenced that it's very rare for an offensive
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Speaker 3: line the same five guys to play the entire year
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Speaker 3: in the exact positions that they started the game and
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Speaker 3: finished the season in those exact positions. So you saw
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Speaker 3: that come to life in that Sam Frang game, and
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Speaker 3: that was a little bit of the fruits of those
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Speaker 3: guys labor and their flexibility and versatility. It'll play guard,
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Speaker 3: play tackle, play some tight end at different times, rotate
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Speaker 3: in at different positions. So it's a testament to their
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Speaker 3: work and all the work they put in, really not
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Speaker 3: just in the week preparing for the game, but the
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Speaker 3: whole training camp, spring, everything leading up to that. Now,
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Speaker 3: going through the process of figuring out what you want
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Speaker 3: to do with Travis Cunter every week, do you find
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Speaker 3: yourself going give.
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Speaker 2: Them too much and then maybe the other moments going
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Speaker 2: out we haven't given them en off or we haven't
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Speaker 2: used them enough.
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Speaker 1: Or we want to use them more, or maybe we
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Speaker 1: should use a less.
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Speaker 2: How do you does that go through?
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Speaker 3: It's certainly like anything in the game plan where you're
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Speaker 3: evaluating it. Every single week, you're evaluating it, and then
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Speaker 3: even during the week you're evaluating it as you're building
15:17
Speaker 3: the game plan. There's absolutely a push and pull of
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Speaker 3: saying what's too much, what's enough, because we want to
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Speaker 3: try to maximize and at the same time optimize his
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Speaker 3: time on the field. We know there's a lot being
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Speaker 3: asked them mentally and physically with offense defense, so we
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Speaker 3: want to try to keep things as efficient as possible
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Speaker 3: while still capitalizing on those talents. You see it on
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Speaker 3: that third down, you see it in different situations when
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Speaker 3: he gets catch and run. So we're always exploring what's
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Speaker 3: the best way we can find, you know, what's the
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Speaker 3: best way we can get him on the field and
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Speaker 3: let him go play fast, go play free without detracting
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Speaker 3: from all the other things he has to do. When
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Speaker 3: you look at a lot of the holding calls offensively,
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Speaker 3: do you feel like that's an issue right now or
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Speaker 3: it's more of this kind of circumstantial or fluty So far,
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Speaker 3: I don't think we can ever approach anything like that
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Speaker 3: as circumstantial or fluky just from our mindset. We have
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Speaker 3: to stick with that mindset of controlling what we can
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Speaker 3: control and what's the way that we can improve the situation?
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Speaker 3: So how can we approve it? We can improve it
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Speaker 3: by trying to be better with our technique, our fundamentals,
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Speaker 3: maybe as coaches, putting the guys in better positions and
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Speaker 3: doing a better job of teaching and emphasizing those techniques
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Speaker 3: and fundamentals. So those holds and all of those penalties
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Speaker 3: really don't show up. So we have to approach it
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Speaker 3: really with how can we improve that as opposed to
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Speaker 3: brushing it off as fluke even if something were to
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Speaker 3: be a one off here or there. We try to
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Speaker 3: take accountability for all that stuff that happens on the
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Speaker 3: field and always evaluate what's a way we can improve it,
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Speaker 3: what's the way we can find a way to fix
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Speaker 3: those issues? What did you miss most about not having?
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Speaker 1: What does he give you? Guys?
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Speaker 3: THEOMI provides a lot in terms of run game and
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Speaker 3: pass game. I think his toughness and his effort shows
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Speaker 3: up in the run game that you might not always
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Speaker 3: see on TV, but you know from the sideline or
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Speaker 3: from a coach's perspective, you see him doing a lot
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Speaker 3: of work inserting on blocks, digging out safety's, blocking corners.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes he ends up on a linebacker every now and then.
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Speaker 3: His toughness is felt in the run game, and it's
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Speaker 3: felt when another guy's getting to catch and he's transitioning
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Speaker 3: to the block. You'll see someone else take a catch
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Speaker 3: and run down the field and he's down there blocking
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Speaker 3: for the guy, and we love that effort. That effort
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Speaker 3: is infectious for the entire team, the entire offense, really,
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Speaker 3: So you see that in the run game. Then you
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Speaker 3: see in the past game his ability to run really
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Speaker 3: a wide variety of routes. When he's outside, he's lined
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Speaker 3: up inside, he's another guy that over the course of
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Speaker 3: time has become more and more comfortable with the offense.
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Speaker 3: Has really improved his versatility to run a bigger route,
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Speaker 3: tree get the ball in hand that he's done in
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Speaker 3: previous years, but adding that layer gets him each kind
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Speaker 3: of level of the field where he's been deep, he's
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Speaker 3: been short, ball in hand, and now he's got the
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Speaker 3: intermediate layer over the middle outbreakers. So that continued growth
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Speaker 3: has been encouraging and you know, when we have him
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Speaker 3: out there, I think the guys feel that feel that
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Speaker 3: energy that he brings.
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Speaker 2: The sideline. The ball is snap, you watch the ball
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Speaker 2: where he's your responsibilities, want to watch the front cover.
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Speaker 3: It can depend on play a little bit, based on
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Speaker 3: what we're doing, but most of the time I'm watching
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Speaker 3: essentially through the defense into the offense. You know, if
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Speaker 3: you've practiced that play all week and you've gone through it,
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Speaker 3: you know where guys are supposed to be lined up,
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Speaker 3: you know what they're supposed to be doing. You know
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Speaker 3: who they're supposed to be blocking or what routes they're
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Speaker 3: supposed to be running. So assuming that they're in the
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Speaker 3: right position at the right time and we get that
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Speaker 3: executed correctly, you know what that's going to look like
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Speaker 3: from our eleven standpoint. So you're really trying to see
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Speaker 3: how's the defense reacting to what are eleven are doing? Awesome,
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Speaker 3: Thanks guys,