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Press Pass | Liam Coen Talks Meyers Extension, Team Outlook Heading Into Week 16 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Four games against the best defensive lines in the league,
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  Speaker 1: Ram Seahawks and Texans.
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  Speaker 2: This is obviously one that's got as good I got better.
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  Speaker 1: How do those games prepare you to face this caliber
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  Speaker 1: of the defensive front?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you've you've got a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: experience playing some good rushes that also get matched with
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  Speaker 3: the back end and playing their coverage as well as
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  Speaker 3: you know, so it all kind of ties in.
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  Speaker 4: But up front, it.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely helps being able to go against quality opponents and
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  Speaker 3: quality individuals for most of the season.
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  Speaker 4: In a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 3: Up front, it's like every week we are doing the
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  Speaker 3: what it takes game wreckers type dealing. It always starts upfront,
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  Speaker 3: and that's pretty typical for most teams. So great challenge
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  Speaker 3: for our guys, but I feel like, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we continue to rise to those challenges and those guys
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  Speaker 3: up front take it personally.
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  Speaker 4: On Kobe's contract descension signed this morning, and obviously you're
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  Speaker 4: not so.
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  Speaker 3: Behind the scenes, but maybe you and your staff conversations
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  Speaker 3: you have.
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  Speaker 2: The problems about the importance of around long term.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just the obvious connection between he and Trevor.
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  Speaker 3: Early on, you could feel that there was chemistry there
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  Speaker 3: and guy that's prepared like a true pro since he's
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  Speaker 3: got here. And you know, anytime you can get guys
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  Speaker 3: like that where you have a continued chemistry and you
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  Speaker 3: feel like it continued, it gets better each week, and
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  Speaker 3: really happy for the.
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  Speaker 1: Guy early on he goes out there plays against Euston,
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  Speaker 1: just how valuable he just how he was able to
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  Speaker 1: get things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the first week was pretty impressive with how he
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  Speaker 3: operated him in the walkthrough settings and in practice and
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  Speaker 3: actually didn't end up winning that game, you know, against Houston,
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  Speaker 3: but he was a part of that tough time and
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  Speaker 3: and also made some plays in that game, and you
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  Speaker 3: could kind of tell that it.
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  Speaker 4: Was it was going to be a good fit and
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  Speaker 4: it's continued to be.
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  Speaker 3: And really the most important thing is his teammates really
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  Speaker 3: like him. The offensive line loves him, and that's usually
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  Speaker 3: where you can kind of check the moral compass of
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  Speaker 3: the person.
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  Speaker 1: About the organization to do it. So, I mean, is
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  Speaker 1: there a message door as well to do it right
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  Speaker 1: now in this.
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  Speaker 3: Sever No, you know, it's just conversations started to be
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  Speaker 3: able to come between us and Jacoby in terms of
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  Speaker 3: wanting to make this thing, you know a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more permanent, and so it was more so just I
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  Speaker 3: think those conversations started pretty naturally, I guess you could say,
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  Speaker 3: on both sides, and we were able to get to
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  Speaker 3: a nice agreement. So it wasn't much of a message, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: It's more just, hey, you always want to continue to
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  Speaker 3: send them send a message. I guess too that we
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  Speaker 3: always want to pay the person out the player in
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  Speaker 3: a lot of ways, right, and his teammates love them.
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  Speaker 2: See what what? What kind of message do you think
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  Speaker 2: that sensitive?
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  Speaker 3: The longer roum just knowing that if you could come in,
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  Speaker 3: do your job, do well, you'll get rewarded.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I think everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Every guy understands that predic a production based business, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, guys can see who does what and and
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  Speaker 3: I think the locker room typically.
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  Speaker 4: Knows their peers pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's one of those deals where it's, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you always want to try to earn what you get
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  Speaker 3: in this league. As as players, as coaches, as teams,
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  Speaker 3: I think those guys all understand that.
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  Speaker 2: A uniquely productive player.
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  Speaker 3: The combination of the traits physical traits along with his
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  Speaker 3: obvious pattern recognition, concept recognition, ability to catch up if
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  Speaker 3: he does get edged, and the length to finish is
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  Speaker 3: definitely something that stands out.
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  Speaker 4: And his competitiveness. I mean he'll come up.
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  Speaker 3: In crack a place on a tackle on duo and
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  Speaker 3: you know that's what definitely makes him a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more of that all purpose, can do it all type.
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  Speaker 2: Coin you guys are obviously you guys have had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of penalties. That has had a lot of penalties.
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  Speaker 2: It hasn't really affected the win loss record at all.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're in a matchup like that, do you
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  Speaker 2: talk about like the crew and things that they tendencies
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  Speaker 2: that they have. Is that communicated to the players or
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  Speaker 2: do you kind of stay out of that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: No, yeah, oh yeah, it's part of Situational Masters every Friday.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we have to be as educated as possible
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  Speaker 3: on as many elements without clouding their minds with things
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  Speaker 3: that you want them to just go play, right, But
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  Speaker 3: when you've got the two highest penalized teams in the
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  Speaker 3: NFL going against each other with a crew that may
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  Speaker 3: call a decent amount of specific calls right or wherever
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  Speaker 3: they rank, well, you got to address that and just
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  Speaker 3: bring it up. And look, we're trying to be as
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  Speaker 3: disciplined as humanly possible, right, Like I want our guys
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  Speaker 3: playing on the edge. We've talked about that a lot,
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  Speaker 3: but playing in this type of game obviously with the crowd,
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  Speaker 3: noise on the road, all that it's maturity and discipline
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  Speaker 3: is going to win this football game in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of ways for us.
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  Speaker 1: Even with Jordan Eric, you know, coming back healthy jury
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  Speaker 1: and you have still been able to have roles and play.
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  Speaker 1: Why was that important and what does that say about
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  Speaker 1: the defensive staff just you know finding areas for Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's development right and in depth and competition and guys
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  Speaker 3: making the most of some of their opportunities, and you
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  Speaker 3: want to continue to foster that growth. The more roles
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  Speaker 3: you can give and provide players I think to help
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  Speaker 3: them stay engaged to use their talents on the field
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  Speaker 3: to help us win is great. As many times and
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  Speaker 3: many guys that you can have find roles for that
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  Speaker 3: they take pride in that they want to study and
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  Speaker 3: know so that on Sundays when their number their numbers called,
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  Speaker 3: they want to go and execute at a high level.
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  Speaker 3: So credit to those guys on the defensive staff for
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  Speaker 3: being able to continue to find those spots for those
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  Speaker 3: guys and the players for taking advantage of the situations.
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  Speaker 1: On your shoulder after ten post game fist pumps.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I'm definitely a blackout oftentimes post game, and
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  Speaker 3: so I can't really be held accountable for what I
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  Speaker 3: say and do, no kidd, Yeah, it's been fun.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, you know, Shane showed a bunch of.
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  Speaker 3: You know, games this season and plays from the games
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  Speaker 3: of the season and specifically at the end, just showing hey, man,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's fun and different. It's the NFL to win
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  Speaker 3: different ways some in days. Some games it's on a
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  Speaker 3: tipped ball and a two point play. Other games you're
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  Speaker 3: kneeing it out. Other games you're having to make miraculous
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  Speaker 3: plays on it and just around the league, right, But
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  Speaker 3: you know, just finding different ways to win is what's
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  Speaker 3: kind of been fun about this team.
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  Speaker 1: For you in a way though you're locked in obviously
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  Speaker 1: and pretty Yeah, is that moment kind of an ex
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  Speaker 1: sail for you?
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  Speaker 4: For sure? Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: You're a lot of build up, right, a ton of
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  Speaker 3: prep emotions, communication, You're there's that border of being exhausted
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  Speaker 3: slash adrenaline at different points, and so yeah, even as
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  Speaker 3: a coach, you want to let it loose a little
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  Speaker 3: bit after Tier.
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  Speaker 2: The offensive line responded this week to what's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a pretty tough match.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think those guys have had a good week
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  Speaker 3: in terms of understanding that we got good quality opponents
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  Speaker 3: inside that are are matchups that we we're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to win some one on ones. We have to be
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  Speaker 3: able to create some movement when we do get double
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  Speaker 3: teams inside, and you know, try to take advantage of
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  Speaker 3: those things with a good, healthy one on one matchup
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  Speaker 3: at times, so you know they understand what's at stake
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  Speaker 3: is oftentimes we already know what the edges are dealing with,
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  Speaker 3: right with some of the speed eating to get off
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  Speaker 3: that those guys have, but you know the guys inside
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  Speaker 3: where they can help and be able to clean the
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  Speaker 3: pocket and continue to try to move the line of
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  Speaker 3: scrimmage that way. I mean, that's gonna be one of
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  Speaker 3: those kind of games this game.
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  Speaker 2: How do you evaluate the whole offensive line knowing that
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  Speaker 2: you've got step.
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  Speaker 3: There going up against your own up against the sweet Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've been proud of our group in terms of,
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  Speaker 3: if you look at the totality of the season, being
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  Speaker 3: able to do some really good things in the run
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  Speaker 3: blocking and the pass protection. Right now, continued continuity and
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  Speaker 3: consistency is hey, that next continued step that we have
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  Speaker 3: three more games to continue to work on. And look,
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  Speaker 3: not every game you're gonna rush for one p fifty
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  Speaker 3: or throw for three thirty. Right, it's that balance of
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  Speaker 3: what kind of game does it become and how do
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  Speaker 3: you have to go win that game? And so I
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  Speaker 3: think our guys have for the most part done a
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  Speaker 3: nice job of Okay, it's become a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: of a pass game. Well, we don't allow sacks last week.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever it is this game, we're gonna have to be
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  Speaker 3: balanced though.
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  Speaker 2: How important is it to have a tight end like
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  Speaker 2: Brenton that does everything well when you're facing a defense
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  Speaker 2: that presents so many problems like the Broncos do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they they definitely like with their ability to play
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  Speaker 3: and split safeties and then also get a single high
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  Speaker 3: and you know Halfungo being able to come and show
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  Speaker 3: down and blitz and just do a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 4: And so if you can have a tight end or
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  Speaker 4: multiple tight ends.
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  Speaker 3: Be able to create a matchup issue or help us
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  Speaker 3: in the run game, help us also in protections, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's in dropback or play action and then utilize that
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  Speaker 3: person at the first second level of the defense. Is
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  Speaker 3: definitely helpful against a team that mixes up whether they
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  Speaker 3: play man or match or vision zone. So something that
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  Speaker 3: definitely we appreciate about his game.
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  Speaker 2: He's like guard X, really giving you guys a big
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  Speaker 2: boost in terms of gain after the quarterback. What makes
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  Speaker 2: him such a savvy player.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the word is he's savvy. He's slippery, but
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  Speaker 3: he's also violent, you know. I mean he takes takes
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  Speaker 3: blocks on he he whoops blocks at times, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's relentless in his approach. The way that he kind
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  Speaker 3: of practices, the way that he plays is definitely something
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  Speaker 3: we appreciate. And I think some some of those different
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  Speaker 3: body type edge rushers can be a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a pain for some bigger guys.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's just a.
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  Speaker 3: Different type of UH player that's working edges on you.
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  Speaker 3: And you know he's relentless.
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  Speaker 2: What is kind of vocal and you know we've obviously
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  Speaker 2: seen him going out some players and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you try and rein him.
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  Speaker 3: In it all or.
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  Speaker 4: No, no shot, let him rip.
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  Speaker 2: That's good