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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The Upcoming Matchup at Commanders · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Be back at it football Wednesday, a real football wednesday. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: had a great morning so far, got a great excited
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  Speaker 1: for the game this week. Uh really still just focusing on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how how good can how how close can
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  Speaker 1: we get to be the team that we envisioned being
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  Speaker 1: run our away? A lot of room from for growth,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, we know important today is so that's really
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  Speaker 1: what we're focused on. But Commanders are a really good team.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously had a great year last year, putting up a
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  Speaker 1: lot of points. Uh. I think the defense, playing all
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  Speaker 1: the special teams is playing great, really well coached, got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of great players, so great challenge ahead of us.
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  Speaker 1: Did want to give you one update on the injury front.
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  Speaker 1: Really the only thing that's new is uh Julian Love
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  Speaker 1: had a bit of a setback with his hamstring last week,
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  Speaker 1: so he won't practice today and uh, game status right
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  Speaker 1: now is saying jeopardy. So we'll work through that the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the week and moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: What's it like preparing for kind of it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: there's some uncertainty with which quarterback is going to start
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  Speaker 2: for them.
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  Speaker 1: What's it like preparing for that?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't I don't know. If there's a the
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  Speaker 1: good news is they they've run a they'ren they're running
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  Speaker 1: the same offense. They don't have to change offenses by
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  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. I think both operate it really well. Both
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  Speaker 1: have really great arm talent, Both can extend plays. Both
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  Speaker 1: are really fast. Uh yeah, I mean it's it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like it's kind of it's a similar operation, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm trying to say. So, you know the
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  Speaker 1: types of plays that were going to be practicing against
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  Speaker 1: and preparing for really wouldn't change based on who's playing now.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta be ready for both. You gotta be ready
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  Speaker 1: for both every every week. But normally you're just focusing
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  Speaker 1: on the starter, So that changes a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Any updates on Devin Witherspoon, Derek Hall, and Drek Young?
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  Speaker 1: So the Spoon and d Hall will practice today and
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  Speaker 1: Derek Young will not practice today?
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  Speaker 4: What's wrong with you week?
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  Speaker 1: He's got a sorry, he's got a hip.
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  Speaker 4: You said the other day you feel like your team
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  Speaker 4: has an identity and closer to it now than maybe
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  Speaker 4: it was last year. What does that look back to you?
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  Speaker 4: I guess? Or what you know when you say that?
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  Speaker 1: What do you kind of yeah, we want to Well,
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  Speaker 1: we say our styles trying to be we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: be decisive, shocking, and relentless. And I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times we're there. Uh, but we know that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're striving towards. I think it's clear on my
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  Speaker 1: front in terms of messaging, how about how we're operating.
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  Speaker 1: But we want to be aggressive. We want to be
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  Speaker 1: physically all you know, with all the hitting without a hitting,
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  Speaker 1: all the coaching buzzwords, you know, but that really is
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  Speaker 1: who we want to be. We want to be attacking
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  Speaker 1: and unrelenting and you know, play an exciting brand of ball.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned Monday when you're asked about that this time
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  Speaker 4: last year year kind of searching for that.
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  Speaker 1: When do you think you guys found it? Was it
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  Speaker 1: during the season, was it in the off season when
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  Speaker 1: you that's interesting. I don't think there is like aha moment.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're all I think we're all kind of
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  Speaker 1: going in there in the same direction the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: It probably starts with me being clear, you know, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: the off season definitely helps. Having a whole off season
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  Speaker 1: and you know, working through it and getting people on
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  Speaker 1: the same page. Have another year under our belt of
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  Speaker 1: understanding how we want to operate and who we want
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  Speaker 1: to be given certain situations. So I think it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of everything. I think it's probably a natural progression, you know. Me,
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  Speaker 1: I always want things to happen, probably sooner than they
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  Speaker 1: actually happen. You know, I'm not the most patient guy,
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  Speaker 1: but but I got really everybody in the building has
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  Speaker 1: been tremendous, like more than you could ever hope for
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  Speaker 1: being in a new situation coming from my lens, and
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  Speaker 1: you realize it does it takes everybody, and it's really
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  Speaker 1: important toet everybody in the same page, poll in the
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  Speaker 1: same direction. And it's not easy to do. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not easy to do when there's a there's there's
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  Speaker 1: new things going on, and our people have been been awesome.
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  Speaker 4: You joke times that, like you know, left to your
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  Speaker 4: own devices, you'll just keep going and maybe overthink things potentially,
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  Speaker 4: how do you guard against that? Who helps you guard
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  Speaker 4: against that?
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  Speaker 1: Well? Our staff is tremendous. I mean, hopefully we're creating
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  Speaker 1: an environment where we can keep speaking, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: we think about certain things. And I feel like we're
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  Speaker 1: doing that and it's not easy to go again, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, if I say I want to do a
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  Speaker 1: certain thing and you don't believe that, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's easier said than done to keep that keep that going.
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  Speaker 1: And but I think we've built the trust around our
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  Speaker 1: staff and our players and you know, John Leslie, those guys,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're kind of in everything. And again we
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  Speaker 1: have a shared understanding now kind of how we want
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  Speaker 1: to operate. I feel like we know what our players
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  Speaker 1: do best. And so when you're coming out through that lens,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, those conversations are happening all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think that's probably the best best way
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  Speaker 1: to describe it.
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  Speaker 3: Mike on on trying to get to third manage where
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  Speaker 3: how do you keep first down without overemphasizing it, but
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  Speaker 3: yet it being important, right, that's the key to get.
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  Speaker 1: What was the first thing you said, are throw down?
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  Speaker 3: Getting to throw down and manageable and make sure on
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  Speaker 3: over sized first down? Right, But yet it's.
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  Speaker 1: Important, well not to avoid the Every play is important.
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  Speaker 1: You know, every play is a situation in and of itself.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of things to go into. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: what people we put on the field, where we're at,
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  Speaker 1: what we just did, how they play us. You know
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  Speaker 1: what people they put on the field, you know the
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  Speaker 1: structures that they're playing. So there's you know, intensive calls
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  Speaker 1: and things that you're trying to achieve, and then the
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  Speaker 1: situation is dictating how you want to play that situation. Normally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your your goal is to maximize yards and points.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not, you know, sometimes it's other things are
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  Speaker 1: at play when you get into a certain special situations.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I think it's that granular, honestly, just
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of that what's important now mindset of just
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  Speaker 1: staying in the present play at a time. If we
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  Speaker 1: end up in a third and eight, it's like, all right, good,
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  Speaker 1: you know, let's go. It's third and eight, it's rock
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  Speaker 1: and roll. What do you have your whole secondary kind
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  Speaker 1: of games?
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  Speaker 4: Since the first grate.
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  Speaker 2: Of the season, How's that changed how you wanted to
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  Speaker 2: call a game, how you can call.
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  Speaker 4: It a game, or has it changed?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we we've talked about how we're always going to
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  Speaker 1: be designing our game plans and calling games based off
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  Speaker 1: of what we feel like our guys do. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: giving you a lot of coach speak in this presser,
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  Speaker 1: but it really is that. I mean, that's that has
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  Speaker 1: to be the lens of how you of how you
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  Speaker 1: build it. So I think that kind of paints you picture.
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  Speaker 1: But it's also why we train the way we do.
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  Speaker 1: It's why we take advantage like we don't take practices off.
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  Speaker 1: We try to maximize reps. Now we try to you know,
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  Speaker 1: leave it like lever things where we can manage, like
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  Speaker 1: player loads and things like that. But to bank all
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  Speaker 1: those reps for the ninety guys initiatly on your roster
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  Speaker 1: and then the eventual seventies is incredibly important because you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen, and you know, anybody
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  Speaker 1: is a player or two away from from being in there,
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  Speaker 1: and you got to have a great feeling for what
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  Speaker 1: that player can do. And the better trained up they
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  Speaker 1: are and the more ready that they are consistently you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you can you can play the things that
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  Speaker 1: you that you want to play.
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  Speaker 4: You when you do change your game plan per who's
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  Speaker 4: ever in how much does that vary from what your
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  Speaker 4: plan at the beginning of the season was or how
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  Speaker 4: you really optimally.
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  Speaker 2: Like to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we I mean frankly that we've we've we've kind
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  Speaker 1: of detoured, uh, pretty significantly from where we thought we
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  Speaker 1: were going to be at the beginning of the season.
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  Speaker 1: And and it's that's not really personnel driven. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's really what we're doing well and what our guys
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  Speaker 1: have shown that they're good at and uh, which is good.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's to me that paints a clear picture
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  Speaker 1: of means we're means, we're watching our players and we're
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  Speaker 1: listening to them like we're listening to them when they
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  Speaker 1: tell us through how they play with what they do well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so that happens every year. But I'd say
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not let me be clear, it's not personnel driven.
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  Speaker 1: It's really what we're doing well. You know, it's detours. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What did you thought of the camp that Christian Means
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  Speaker 2: had had before his injury.
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  Speaker 4: And what's kind of the runway he's going to have
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  Speaker 4: to get through here to get back with you and
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  Speaker 4: be back to being a factor.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think he put himself in position to compete
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  Speaker 1: at guard.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony and Gray won those competitions. So that's that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of how we'll come back, you know, coming off from
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  Speaker 1: being injured, he'll be in a backup role. I can
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  Speaker 1: continually you know, continuously compete to be for for playing time.
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  Speaker 2: Can you envision a scenario where you rotate guy?
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  Speaker 1: I mean you did that last year.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably not ideal, but could you that is that
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  Speaker 2: something you would be interested in doing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like I can list off all the examples
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  Speaker 1: of when guys play great and they deserve to play
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  Speaker 1: that we're willing to play guys. Drake is an example,
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  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant's an example, our running back situation, that receiver
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  Speaker 1: is an example, how the guys that are playing on
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  Speaker 1: special teams or example. It's just this is how we
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  Speaker 1: roll right now. I mean, there's that's not how we
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  Speaker 1: want to do it. But if if someone starts playing
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  Speaker 1: really great, we can't take them off the field, then
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  Speaker 1: we'll put them on the field.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard enough to find one nickel player that can
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  Speaker 4: defend the run, rush the passer, and cover. You got
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  Speaker 4: potentially two now with Devin Wetherspoon Nicki Minory. Uh, what
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  Speaker 4: kind of advantages does that provide and maybe challenges as
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  Speaker 4: well as a play call.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think you look at it through those lenses.
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  Speaker 1: It's one it's exciting that you have those two players
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  Speaker 1: that can play that position, which is awesome, and we
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  Speaker 1: gotta we got to make sure we put a tight
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  Speaker 1: enough plan where we can take advantage of both skill sets.
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  Speaker 1: So really that's our that's kind of our burden to
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  Speaker 1: bear as coaches, to make sure that, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: clean and clear so the guys can go play the
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  Speaker 1: way they can play. But but you know how we
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  Speaker 1: feel about Spooning. The guy's a tremendous player, and Nick
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  Speaker 1: is the beginning of a you know, a great career.
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  Speaker 1: He's off to a great start.
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  Speaker 4: More dime, but can also defend the run. What kind
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  Speaker 4: of advantage can that provide defense?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I don't how many Dime teams are
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  Speaker 1: out there that are playing the run very well. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't really thought about it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't thought about it.
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  Speaker 4: Sounded like Bobby Wagner almost signed with the Ravens when
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  Speaker 4: you were back there at the defensive coordinator that year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had him in for a visit. I think
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  Speaker 1: I can say that. Yeah, Well he said it all later, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, well then we're good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just want what you remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Of Well, it's great. I mean, there's there's a there's
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  Speaker 1: a kind of a gravitas to him. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner and he's coming in for a visit. And
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  Speaker 1: I was first year coordinator, so you know, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of talking. I just kind of let
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  Speaker 1: him talk. But look, I mean, he's it's it's what
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  Speaker 1: you expected in terms of just the person and like
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  Speaker 1: the poise, and we were excited for the opportunity. And
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  Speaker 1: obviously he decided to go. I think it was gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a big move going to the East coast, or
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  Speaker 1: at least he thought there was the time. Maybe not
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  Speaker 1: a few years later when he goes to Washington. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was a great visit. Look, we had a ton
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  Speaker 1: of respect for him, and I was hoping I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna work out.
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  Speaker 4: Just an ask the Terry mclaurin's out for this game
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday. I'm curious when you looked at the games
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  Speaker 4: he was available versus not what kind of differences he
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  Speaker 4: saw in.
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  Speaker 1: The commanders he is out for the game, Okay, all right,
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  Speaker 1: that's news to me. So I don't have a good
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  Speaker 1: answer for you right now. I didn't know that with
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  Speaker 1: Wagner to do what he does at the position he's
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  Speaker 1: doing it at almost thirty six years old, playing one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent of the snaps.
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  Speaker 4: How demanding the deposition be for a twenty six year.
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  Speaker 1: Old Yeah, I think I think you're just speaking to
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  Speaker 1: his his resume, which is probably you know, rival by
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  Speaker 1: maybe one, I mean a couple other people in history
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  Speaker 1: of the game. So it's probably big of a comment
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  Speaker 1: I can give him, you know, just how like it's
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  Speaker 1: to me. It's a meticulous attention to detail, a maniacal
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  Speaker 1: like way to prepare for game. You know, it takes
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Now, it's a toll in your body. It's
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  Speaker 1: probably the most impressive thing, honestly. I mean, his mind
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  Speaker 1: is obviously as sharp as ever, but to be able
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  Speaker 1: to still play all those plays is is really impressive.
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  Speaker 4: Cross pass with Dan quite much in your career.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of times. I mean, there's a funny story
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  Speaker 1: that happened, you know, when I was a g A
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  Speaker 1: and uh some more of the story, but the gist
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  Speaker 1: of it was DQ was the DEEPS coordinator here and
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  Speaker 1: the guy I was working for. I was visiting my
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  Speaker 1: sister in kirkl and he set up a visit with
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  Speaker 1: with with DQ here in the I think I told
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  Speaker 1: Sharon this story, and I might have told him on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, but yeah, walk right through the entrance right there.
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  Speaker 1: I was like wide eyed. I thought it was like
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  Speaker 1: the coolest thing of all time. He came down, he
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  Speaker 1: was playing Beastie Boys in his in his office and
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  Speaker 1: he was talking football about something I had no idea
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about, but it sounded sweet. And Uh,
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  Speaker 1: what I remember from that visit was like, how like
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  Speaker 1: the feeling he had with the players in the building
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  Speaker 1: was you could tell there's a really like special connection
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  Speaker 1: and the respect he had knew everybody's name in the building,
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  Speaker 1: and that really stuck with me for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I just have a ton of respect for DQ, and
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  Speaker 1: he's obviously a great football coach, but that that was
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  Speaker 1: a that was a big time moment in my just
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  Speaker 1: in my life. It was really cool. So I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: him for doing that. What were you hoping to get
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  Speaker 1: out of that meeting? Well, I was trying to get
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, but there wasn't an opportunity here, so
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  Speaker 1: at that point I was just trying to network and learn,
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  Speaker 1: you know. That was really it at that point with him.
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  Speaker 1: Todder Anthem and him had worked together at some point
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  Speaker 1: or they knew each other and he was our keeps
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  Speaker 1: coordinator Georgia at the time.
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  Speaker 4: Is I are potential for either Julian or Drake?
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  Speaker 1: Both, I'd say are under consideration. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, in terms of like your standard and your play style.
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  Speaker 2: How close would you say your offense is to meeting
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  Speaker 2: up to both of those?
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  Speaker 1: I think we're right on our way. I think our
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  Speaker 1: whole team is on its way. We're doing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of great things in terms of finishing plays and there
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  Speaker 1: and there's there's more to be had and really in
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  Speaker 1: all three phases. But the best way I can explain
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  Speaker 1: is I'm excited about where we are and where we
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  Speaker 1: can go.
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  Speaker 2: How does that show up? Maybe maybe when you did yourself, Scott,
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  Speaker 2: maybe in the numbers or just the film in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the standard and the style.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you feel like you feel like it's really not
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  Speaker 1: the it's not the numbers, it's watching the tape and
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  Speaker 1: watching like that. If you go through and watch individual
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  Speaker 1: efforts on each play, there's there's some great effort out there,
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  Speaker 1: and again in all three phases, but you're asking about
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  Speaker 1: offense specifically, and you see that, you see our receivers
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  Speaker 1: blocking all of our linemen are trying to finish blocks
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  Speaker 1: for the most part. You know, there's times where you
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  Speaker 1: want more from guys, but the effort and the selflessness
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  Speaker 1: is there.
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  Speaker 4: What do you guys like about Bayless Jones?
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  Speaker 1: He brought in well helps us in the return games,
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  Speaker 1: special teams. Maybe outside at Gunner got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great speed, you know, we felt and we play against him.
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  Speaker 4: So the special teams team to team translate enough that
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  Speaker 4: a guy could come in.
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  Speaker 1: And contribute right away. I think that's yeah, that's a possibility. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you saw it with with Chaz going into the first
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  Speaker 1: game Mike almost a halfway one of the season.
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  Speaker 4: What do you make if Gray's started.
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  Speaker 1: His career through seven, Yeah, really really solid start. I
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  Speaker 1: think I think the best company you can give Gray
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  Speaker 1: is we're not really talking about him much like he
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  Speaker 1: He's very steady. He's one of those guys that has
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: an identity to how we want to play and finish
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: his plays, and he's got an attitude about him, got
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: some swag to him. You know, sounds like a seahawk
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: to me.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: You mentioned before like Joe, Joe presses really well, So
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I mean you can get to do it because he's
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: good at it. Is he better there than maybe you
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: thought when you guys initially claimed him.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Look, I didn't have a great understand I didn't. I mean,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I knew who Josh Job was, but I haven't watched
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: a ton of tape on him. So that that's a
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: really that's a shout out to our personnel people and
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: understanding what he did as well and how that fits
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: into our scheme. And there's there's several examples of that.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: So you know, I appreciate, appreciate those guys bring him in.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: But he's been he's been great at the line of scrimmage.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: How has that maybe helped the defense, particularly when you
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: guys have shuffled in the secondary? This ability that he's
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: bringing being able to press up.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we we want to a lot of the
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: pass games disrupt timing. We want to be able to
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: press as much as possible. And uh and when you
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: can do that, I mean it, it helps how you
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: how you operate. Some teams play great ball by playing
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: off and letting roles distribute. That's not really our philosophy.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: And he's able to He's able to make that come
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: to life.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: If Robbie makes it through the week, Robbie does he
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: have a chance to play this week or are you
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: guys looking.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: More for for future. No, Robbie has a chance to
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: play this week.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Anything else, thank you?
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you,