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Mike Macdonald: "Our Guys Fought The Heck Out Of That Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, uh, you know, just not a good
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  Speaker 1: enough performance on our front. Got to give Detroit a
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  Speaker 1: lot of credit. I thought they had a great plan offensively, definitely,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the they borderline they outplayed us on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. For us, I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you this, our guys fought the heck out of that game.
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  Speaker 1: They went down to the last second. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm most proud of right now. And we're gonna hold
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  Speaker 1: onto that and that's that's a foundation that we've built
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  Speaker 1: here that we're gonna you know, push forward with.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, we're four.
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  Speaker 1: Weeks into the season, and look, I mean the message
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  Speaker 1: all week has been, you know that we're on the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of our football team and where we want to be.
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  Speaker 1: And it's obvious we're not the team that we want
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  Speaker 1: to be yet, and we shouldn't be the team that
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we have we have time to grow as
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  Speaker 2: a football team. We have a short week.
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  Speaker 1: We have to have a said Sergecy about it, and
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  Speaker 1: we need to take the next step. But just just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't good enough, especially on the defensive side of the
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  Speaker 1: ball today. So you know, we're gonna make it right
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  Speaker 1: and move forward.
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  Speaker 3: Change.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say it changed much. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't say it was a significant change. I mean in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the plane, you can't be you can't go
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  Speaker 1: like you know, you can't be just making rash decisions.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get an explanation.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we got to stop at the end of the safety.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean that's probably the one, you know, one
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  Speaker 1: of the few bright spots of the game. It just
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  Speaker 1: shows you we're not you know, we're not. We're just
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  Speaker 1: not gonna give up, no matter of the situation.
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  Speaker 3: So that's gonna that's gonna be us. I think.
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  Speaker 1: You're saying they targeted the run after the run after
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  Speaker 1: catch stuff. Yeah, I think that's a compliment of component
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  Speaker 1: errors one.
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  Speaker 2: Uh goodbye them.
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  Speaker 1: Uh to you know, the things that we've been executing
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  Speaker 1: at a high level on defensively, taking right angles, tackling
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  Speaker 1: and all the stuff that we emphasized on a daily
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  Speaker 1: basis wasn't coming to life.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll watch the.
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  Speaker 1: Tape and attack it and fix it and uh and
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  Speaker 1: move forward. But you know, you get you can't you
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  Speaker 1: can't allow all that rack yardage and create those explosives
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  Speaker 1: for sure going there.
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 1: Well, at the time, we felt like we probably you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had a chance of getting a stop on defense,
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  Speaker 1: and then just the way the game was going, having
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  Speaker 1: a chance to win it in regulation if you needed,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna need another score regardless.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, make it a six point game, did
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  Speaker 2: you chance?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it looked like it initially. You know, it's it's tough,
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  Speaker 1: it's moving fast. And then the explanation I got was
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  Speaker 1: that they they were looking at it, the booth was
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  Speaker 1: looking at it, and they confirmed that it was incomplete.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what happened. Yeah, I mean we're forced to
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  Speaker 2: chuck it around in the second half. And uh, I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was poised. I mean, it was a loud environment.
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  Speaker 1: Lions fans did a great job, but operation wise, I
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  Speaker 1: thought we were clean.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was poised. I thought he was accurate. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he played a heck of a game. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the stats are, but.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he played really well. I wouldn't say it's
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  Speaker 2: a litmus test.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it just shows us we're not the team
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  Speaker 1: that that we need to be at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just that's what it is. Just it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't good enough. They did what they did to win
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  Speaker 2: the game. They did a great job, they had a
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  Speaker 2: great plan, and we came up short.
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  Speaker 1: So it's how do we move forward right now as
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  Speaker 1: a football team and uh and take the next step
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  Speaker 1: because we've got a short week coming up, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a there's an urgency.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's always an urgency, but is it you know,
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  Speaker 2: we gotta we gotta, we gotta go to work here
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  Speaker 2: over the next few days and make this right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, it's we gotta play it better again.
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  Speaker 2: A great plan.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, the one long one to nine was a you know,
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  Speaker 1: a good job by them, but it.
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  Speaker 2: Was a it was a massive bust on our end
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  Speaker 2: that we have no business making.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we gotta look inwardly, man like, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta when we hit adversity, we gotta we can't be
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  Speaker 1: pointing fingers, we can't be blaming. You know, it's just hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where's my responsibility? Where did I fall short?
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  Speaker 1: And then as a team, that's how you grow. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what we need to do. Yeah, we'll look at
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  Speaker 1: the play. I mean, we're we're never gonna I mean
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  Speaker 1: the guy's fighting his tail off to get extra yards,
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  Speaker 1: just dragging people down the field. Guy had a good hit,
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  Speaker 1: found the ball and it came out. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll try to make it right. But yeah, we're never
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell guys to go down earlier now like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I felt our line played well. I felt they
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  Speaker 1: played well in the run.
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  Speaker 2: Game.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't really come alive until the second half. But it
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  Speaker 1: felt good, you know, it felt better than that. It's
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  Speaker 1: been so excited to watch the tape and see where
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  Speaker 1: we improved. He's got a quad contusion. I don't really
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  Speaker 1: know what that means.
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  Speaker 2: It's just we'll see. But it wasn't able to finish obviously,
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  Speaker 2: what do you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they look they operated at a high level. I
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  Speaker 1: mean they had a really good plan. I mean we're on.
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  Speaker 2: Record that that Jared's a great quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Uh played clean. They ran Chris brouts and we didn't.
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  Speaker 1: We obviously didn't deny the ball. That's perfectly. It's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's about as obviously it gets. So we've got our
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  Speaker 1: work cut out for us on defense. We we have
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  Speaker 1: to improve quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Is there.
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  Speaker 2: I I don't know, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know, just it's a Uh, it's a function of how
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  Speaker 1: fast they can improve, you know, and they're doing everything
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  Speaker 1: they can to do to do so. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we obviously look a bit. Uh we'll see as we
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  Speaker 1: kind of progresses here. I'm sorry again, Uh, we tried,
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  Speaker 1: We tried. It just became clear going into the weekend
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  Speaker 1: that as the game kind of got closer, it was like,
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  Speaker 1: probably probably not gonna be able to go.
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  Speaker 2: Tim out Kim Walker.
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  Speaker 1: I really felt to him and talk about one of
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  Speaker 1: the guys that's gonna fight to the bitter end. This
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  Speaker 1: guy is tough as nails. You're never I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: plays not over man, It's just like he can. Plays
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  Speaker 1: are designed to go in certain gaps and with him
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  Speaker 1: it's just could go anywhere. And he runs extremely hard,
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  Speaker 1: plays hard. He cares.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna be leaning on him, you know, moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: So it's good to have him back. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta, yeah, we gotta. I mean, look, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: got to handle our business. I mean, Detroit's a great team.
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  Speaker 1: They've shown it, they've proven it. They proved it again tonight,
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  Speaker 1: and we want to be a great team. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: so we have to become a great team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have we want to become the team that we
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  Speaker 1: believe that we can become.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's that's our focus.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's our focus.
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  Speaker 1: Well I think, I mean, I think it speaks everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It speaks to the protection, speaks to, uh, the unselfishness
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  Speaker 1: that our skill guys have, Uh, the precision that you
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  Speaker 1: know we're playing with some of the routes you know
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  Speaker 1: Gino just you know, playing within the system and throwing
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  Speaker 1: the ball where.
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  Speaker 2: It needs to go.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, we got to continue to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And if if everybody is a threat at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to take away one guy and have success.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, that's what we expect. Mean, that's that's you
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  Speaker 1: need to be able to do that. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: can't just throw it to one guy every snap there
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  Speaker 1: it'll take that away. Get you repeated, John, Yeah, well yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, offense was responding defense. We weren't
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  Speaker 1: able to get stops, you know, especially in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a feeling that you see in the guy's
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  Speaker 1: eyes where you know there's not every no one's hanging
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  Speaker 1: their heads, you know, no one.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's just like laser focused, poised.
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  Speaker 1: Just like we've talked about throughout the Denver game and
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  Speaker 1: this that's a characteristic of our team that we've had
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  Speaker 1: throughout the season.
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  Speaker 2: So proud of that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's easy to start, you know, looking around
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  Speaker 1: and you know what was me type and idea, but
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  Speaker 1: those that's not our guys anything else.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Okay, thank you.