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Ryan Grubb: "We Have To Get the Ball To Ken Walker More" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good?
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  Speaker 1: Good? Who's up?
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to the lack of Gerry's in the
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  Speaker 3: run game the last in the first half games with
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  Speaker 3: the game the way, I mean that got to get
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  Speaker 3: ball Ken more and I think we had plenty of
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  Speaker 3: run game in the plan. Didn't have anything to do
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  Speaker 3: with not have enough calls for that just didn't get called.
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  Speaker 3: And for us, you know, we leaned on the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I think if we get Ken ten more touches,
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  Speaker 3: fifteen more touches, things are gonna look different. So that's
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  Speaker 3: that's one hundred percent on me. And my job is
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  Speaker 3: make sure I get all our guys in the best
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  Speaker 3: position possible.
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  Speaker 1: To win the game. And I didn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: Well when Gino's completing the percentage of passes than he
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  Speaker 2: is and he's making the shots so that their spell
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  Speaker 2: is there because has been successful.
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  Speaker 3: No part of the part of the offense is certainly
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  Speaker 3: to have an aggressive nature and keep the pressure on
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  Speaker 3: the defense. I think there's also a point obviously, when
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  Speaker 3: the defense is on the field, Uh, you have to
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  Speaker 3: find ways to generate to hold the football, and we've
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  Speaker 3: done such a good job of that to this point.
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  Speaker 3: And that that was part that, you know, it was
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  Speaker 3: getting that point where we're just out of rhythm. We
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  Speaker 3: weren't out there for a long time. I couldn't get
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  Speaker 3: them back into rhythm. And the run game could have
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  Speaker 3: helped us, and I should have gave it a better opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Of situations like that happens wherever you guys go.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was like thirteen minutes of game block
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  Speaker 3: who knows how many minutes in real time.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get the call of play as a coordinator.
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  Speaker 2: What's that like?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you can you can typically, I mean overanalyze things
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  Speaker 3: and you've already scripted the next drive probably four times,
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  Speaker 3: and so you stick with your first thought, think about
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  Speaker 3: the players, overplays, you know, and get the ball to
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  Speaker 3: the right guys. I mean that's that's the critical part.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm oversimplifying, of course, but there's parts of that
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  Speaker 3: that can be very simple and let our guys go
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  Speaker 3: out there and play.
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  Speaker 2: My brook question, I just don't know. Is there somebody
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  Speaker 2: up there in your group that's charting the run plays
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  Speaker 2: or you doing that in your mind?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, we have all that stuff charted. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, somebody's coming to you. Oh yeah, they're sitting
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  Speaker 1: right next to me. I got all that info.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, for sure, I love it you're trying to give
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  Speaker 3: me out there, but I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: No, I had all the info. I still screwed it up.
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  Speaker 3: Brian, you said after the New England and the Detroit
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  Speaker 3: games that the defense gave you those pass options that
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  Speaker 3: you had run calls.
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  Speaker 1: And then the defense you took what the defense.
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  Speaker 3: Gave you some of that at play in the Giants
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  Speaker 3: and how much is that may change and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, it was pretty balanced.
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  Speaker 3: I thought there was there was enough looks there where
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  Speaker 3: we could have definitely advantage run boxes and things like
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  Speaker 3: that that we could have taken advantage of. So no,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, certainly Gino is completing the ball at a
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  Speaker 3: very high percentage and some of those didn't go our way,
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  Speaker 3: just as far as getting the looks that we wanted.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, honestly that it wasn't that. It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: that there wasn't enough good you know, light boxes to
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  Speaker 3: run to or you know, six man boxes things like that.
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  Speaker 3: So certainly wasn't the issue.
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  Speaker 1: You Well, obviously people were balanced.
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  Speaker 2: We have in the last couple of weeks. What about
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  Speaker 2: Gino as the quarterback allows him to still perform lovely
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  Speaker 2: as you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Gino plays with a lot of confidence in his preparation.
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  Speaker 3: I think think that he trusts himself to make the
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  Speaker 3: right kind of throws and decisions, and certainly he's earned
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  Speaker 3: that as a veteran, and he's certainly showed that since
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  Speaker 3: I've been here, So I think, you know, myself, I
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  Speaker 3: have a ton of confidence in Geno to be able
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  Speaker 3: to make all those decisions and throws and be responsible.
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  Speaker 1: And he really has done a great job of taking
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  Speaker 1: care of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a couple of the picks that he's had
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  Speaker 3: have been you know, tipped interceptions, so a couple of
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  Speaker 3: tough luck throws there. But I think that's a big
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  Speaker 3: part of it, is just like how much he trusts
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  Speaker 3: his preparation.
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  Speaker 2: In the forty nine ers have two of the lowest
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  Speaker 2: play action rates in the NFL. I'm curious why you
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  Speaker 2: think that might be and what are the differences in
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  Speaker 2: spacing between spreading folks out and running play action.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, the obvious part is that
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  Speaker 3: we're not running the ball as much, and so the
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  Speaker 3: play action isn't as believable. So establishing the run is
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  Speaker 3: is obviously critical to a lot of things that help
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  Speaker 3: enable a good play action game. And then I think
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  Speaker 3: sometimes it comes down to vision with the quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Just some guys are really.
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  Speaker 3: Really good when the field is spread out, and Gino
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  Speaker 3: certainly is one of those guys. When you pull everything
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  Speaker 3: apart from him and let him identify coverages, he's really
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  Speaker 3: good at that, and he knows how to distribute the football.
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  Speaker 3: Fourth call just just a terrible call. Awful call, yep.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like we had a good game plan on it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the head coach wants to go for it
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  Speaker 3: right there. Totally supported Mike on that, and I probably
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  Speaker 3: have ten calls in the call sheet that are better
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  Speaker 3: than that. Put Gino in a really crappy position, and
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  Speaker 3: I didn't give him an out to get to a
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  Speaker 3: better play. And and that's first and foremost, very few
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  Speaker 3: times when you pin me in a corner and make
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  Speaker 3: me have one call, So that that part is certainly
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  Speaker 3: on me perspective.
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  Speaker 2: How did you feel that the way that he played,
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  Speaker 2: how much the distribution that passed run and get packed
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  Speaker 2: there for?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, they played. They played better than people probably think.
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  Speaker 3: I know, people see the sacks. But I do think
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  Speaker 3: the giants across the board, it wasn't like he was
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  Speaker 3: just one good guy.
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  Speaker 1: They had, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, four to six guys that were very formidable in
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  Speaker 3: pass rush specifically, and so when you start throwing it
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  Speaker 3: over and over and when we have to hold the
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  Speaker 3: ball a little bit, it gets it gets tough. So
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  Speaker 3: I thought I thought they played well overall, and I
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  Speaker 3: didn't give them enough tools, you know, to go tee
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  Speaker 3: off on the defense, so to speak, right, and when
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  Speaker 3: you play aggressive upfront, you can kind of eliminate some
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  Speaker 3: of the aggressiveness of the defensive line. So got to
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  Speaker 3: keep making sure we're giving them tools to do that.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're any closer to figuring out the right
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  Speaker 2: guard situation.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's a good question. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I think the better part against the positive part of
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  Speaker 3: me is I think both players are definitely improving. Has
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  Speaker 3: it been completely defined yet? No, I don't think it has.
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  Speaker 3: I think we'll continue to keep working that and I
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  Speaker 3: think at some point, obviously you got to let it
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  Speaker 3: sort itself out. But right now, the best part is
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  Speaker 3: the competition is providing betterment for both those guys, and
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  Speaker 3: I do think they're improving.
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  Speaker 1: Both on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, their skill sets, the things that they need
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  Speaker 3: to get better at. So we're trying to pour into
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  Speaker 3: that part of it. But obviously we would love a
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  Speaker 3: guy just to take the job. I have a new
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  Speaker 3: defensive coordinator that you're still in the same system that
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  Speaker 3: is run the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed any difference in the way they're calling
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  Speaker 2: their defense or the rate of their skiing?
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  Speaker 3: This year's very similar. There's always some subtleties from every
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  Speaker 3: play caller. I think some of those things happening kind
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  Speaker 3: of the the off moments or the third downs, red
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  Speaker 3: zone things like that. But for the most part, structurally
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  Speaker 3: they're they're very, very similar. And some of the things
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  Speaker 3: that you've seen in the past, all the way back
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  Speaker 3: to Robert Salad as far as the structure of the
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  Speaker 3: defense have certainly shown up the same.
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  Speaker 1: You have or Fresno or even stup falls.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have a game like this when you felt
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  Speaker 3: like you blew it, that's so far out of whack
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  Speaker 3: run pass h Yeah. Absolutely, well. Sometimes it was the
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  Speaker 3: other way too. You have a really good quarterback and
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  Speaker 3: you felt like you just didn't give them a chance
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  Speaker 3: to win the game. And I think it's just falling
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  Speaker 3: back on the stuff that you know you guys can
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  Speaker 3: do well, and you know, finding just examining, you know,
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  Speaker 3: where's your offense at, what are the things that when
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  Speaker 3: you go out and as training camp that you know
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  Speaker 3: these guys can execute. And then again going back to
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  Speaker 3: what I said previously, you know, players overplays.
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  Speaker 1: How do we get these guys the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Even if it's in a competition like it's a one
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  Speaker 3: on one setting, And so you just try to find
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  Speaker 3: those those niches that are available, which which they certainly
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  Speaker 3: are just a big picture sets ran between learning a
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  Speaker 3: new offense, dealing with you know, the adversity that happens
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  Speaker 3: in a season.
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  Speaker 1: Anything. Gino has handled things so far, Oh, I mean awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's he's tough as nails man, He's a
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  Speaker 3: total warrior. I think that you know, he is a passionate,
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  Speaker 3: passionate player, and I thought this week, probably more than
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  Speaker 3: any week, it would have been very easy for him
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  Speaker 3: to let frustration take over his game. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's the thing you see from a veteran quarterback is
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  Speaker 3: a guy that you know can still be passionate and
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  Speaker 3: be himself and find a way to get himself back
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  Speaker 3: to room temperature to make good decisions and still give
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  Speaker 3: us a chance to win at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of the things I'm really impressed with Gino is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just his ability to reel it back in,
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  Speaker 3: you know, motivate the guys on the sideline, bring everybody
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  Speaker 3: together and try to orchestrate a winning drive.
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  Speaker 2: Any any coaching points for DK, you know, fight for
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  Speaker 2: extra yardage and a couple of bad, bad moments there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, you know, DK knows all
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  Speaker 3: things to do. He certainly doesn't and ball security does
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  Speaker 3: mean something to him. He he practices it in practice,
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  Speaker 3: and it wasn't like the ball was flying out loose
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  Speaker 3: right there. I think one of the things with a
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  Speaker 3: guy like DK is he is a person that that
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  Speaker 3: struggles for that extra yard and he fights very very
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  Speaker 3: hard to get that, which only prolongs the opportunity for
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  Speaker 3: the ball to come out. And he's in a really
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  Speaker 3: vulnerable position where a lot of players are coming in
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  Speaker 3: and take shots and he knows that, so he knows
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  Speaker 3: he's at risk of that. But I mean, he typically
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  Speaker 3: does a pretty good job in traffic. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: the wrist and tighten it up. And you know that
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  Speaker 3: that's not something you have to over coach. You see
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  Speaker 3: it in practice. You know right away that that he's
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  Speaker 3: really trying to focus on those things.
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  Speaker 1: What's that? What's a J barner?
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  Speaker 2: Showing your dependability?
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  Speaker 3: Wise, he's been great, tough, smart kid, And that's what
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  Speaker 3: we start with, you know, is he's got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of really good physical tool sets, but just his ability
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  Speaker 3: to be savvy and uh and he loves football. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the guy just he loves preparing, he loves being in
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  Speaker 3: the building. He's just got great energy about him. The
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  Speaker 3: way he goes about his game. You bet have a
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  Speaker 3: great day.