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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Previews NFC Championship vs. Rams · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Okay, all sorts of new stuff. All right, great to
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  Speaker 1: see everybody. He's had a great walk through and to
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  Speaker 1: go try to have a heck of a Wednesday and
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  Speaker 1: go from there. So what we got, like, how's Sam doing?
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  Speaker 2: And what's the plan this week?
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  Speaker 3: Is he gonna have to be limited at all in
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  Speaker 3: terms of how much he throws?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Yes, Sam continues to get better. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: he's not gonna be a full go the whole week.
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  Speaker 1: So we're we have a plan, We're gonna work through it. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: see how the day goes and then, uh, we'll kind
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  Speaker 1: of take it day by day and then take it
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  Speaker 1: to tomorrow. But he won't be like throwing every ball
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  Speaker 1: every play for the whole week.
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  Speaker 4: Now, what about Charles Cross? So you expect him to
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  Speaker 4: practice today?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Charles did walk We're kind of working it through with
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  Speaker 1: Charles right now. So we'll see how it plays out
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the day.
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  Speaker 3: And how's that While we're on the recepject, how's Josh
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  Speaker 3: Jones doing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't believe Josh is gonna practice today.
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  Speaker 4: So could yours you get that activated?
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  Speaker 1: George?
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  Speaker 4: Could George get realistic to play Sunday?
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  Speaker 5: Can you get ready that fast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, George is in great shape, has been
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  Speaker 1: working his tail off. We're excited to get him out there.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't seen him practice in a minute, so it'll be fun.
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  Speaker 4: Are there certain games where there's a clear advantage that
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  Speaker 4: you try to game plan to exploit and other ones
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  Speaker 4: where it's such a close game, such a close match,
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  Speaker 4: that you focus more on what you want to do
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  Speaker 4: versus what the opponent presents.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you talk to me from Monday to Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: there's just a lot of a lot of problems, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that you're trying to solve, and that's every week. And
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  Speaker 1: as you start to kind of feel like you have
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  Speaker 1: some things that you want to be able to do
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  Speaker 1: and you see the guys executing practice, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: starts to come into focus as the week starts to
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  Speaker 1: you know, get towards the end.
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  Speaker 5: I think over the course of two games, the point
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  Speaker 5: difference is like one point yardage is like one yard.
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  Speaker 2: Between you and the Rams.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what do you think it is about when you
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  Speaker 5: two match up? Why it's such tight games?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're they're a really good team and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they play hard, they play together, they got really talented players.
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  Speaker 1: They got a great scheme. You know, it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: a great matchup. So that's right where we should be
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  Speaker 1: at this point of the year. It's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: What really makes Puka Nukula stand out? And it was
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  Speaker 4: the obviousest size and things like that, but just in general.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you name it. I mean, ball skills
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  Speaker 1: are are tremendous, So a lot of those contested catches,
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  Speaker 1: he's coming down with body control, you know, on the sideline,
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  Speaker 1: being able to make plays. They kind of he can
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  Speaker 1: kind of do everything, so you can't just count for
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  Speaker 1: him for to do one thing. He's great in the
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  Speaker 1: run game. It's great running after catch. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: he kind of gets like hidden yardages, which is which
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  Speaker 1: is a testament to his toughness, and so he does
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  Speaker 1: a lot of great things. He's a really good player.
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  Speaker 4: You've gotten obviously exposure to the offensive side of play calling.
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  Speaker 4: What is the differences between offensive play calling and defensive
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  Speaker 4: play calling?
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  Speaker 1: Well, defense, defensively, you're just kind of inherently reactionary, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't it's hard to dictate terms defensively because they're
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  Speaker 1: allowed to do whatever they want and line up however
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  Speaker 1: they want. So I think that's probably the most fundamental
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  Speaker 1: difference at some point though, you know, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of the tables do turn based off of
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  Speaker 1: something that maybe the offense would expect and you're in
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  Speaker 1: something different or a different presentation or a different personnel group.
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  Speaker 1: So but that's where it starts. It's just they're kind
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  Speaker 1: of dictating terms. Initially.
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  Speaker 5: You guys had a.
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  Speaker 4: Positive turnover differential against every other team in the league
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  Speaker 4: this season combined. What was the difference in those two
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  Speaker 4: games you think against the Rams and how do you
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  Speaker 4: change that stem around?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting, I think I think you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: a really small sample and it's kind of like two
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  Speaker 1: independent like observations that happen to not go our way
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  Speaker 1: takeaway wise, so you look offensively, like, hey, there's some
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  Speaker 1: things we could do better to protect the ball, special
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  Speaker 1: teams wise, you know, I thought we've been pretty sound,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the football and been secure and defensively.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's some things that we did in the
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  Speaker 1: first that was really good, that we took the ball
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  Speaker 1: away and we had some ops pass game, and it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, are we doing you know, are we
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  Speaker 1: doing the things that we need to do defensively to
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  Speaker 1: kind of put the ball in jeopardy and be able
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  Speaker 1: to attack it. And so it's kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: pay by play, game by game type of thing, and
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  Speaker 1: they do a good job of protecting it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So but that that really doesn't it doesn't really have
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  Speaker 1: an effect on how we prepare what we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: do in terms of making the ball come to life.
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  Speaker 1: What have you thought of.
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  Speaker 3: How the Russian coverage has worked together to try to
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  Speaker 3: affect Matthew.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like we've been on point sometimes and not
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  Speaker 1: so much, you know, especially the second game. But look,
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  Speaker 1: you got to tip your captain. They played a great game.
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  Speaker 1: Stafford played a tremendous game. I mean, Pook obviously had
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  Speaker 1: a great game in the second game, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: they did what they did to put up all the
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  Speaker 1: yards and points that they did, and we got to
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  Speaker 1: figure out a way to you know, to stop them
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  Speaker 1: this time. And as a team, I'm proud of the
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  Speaker 1: way that we figured out a way to win the
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  Speaker 1: game given all the given what happened on defense.
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  Speaker 2: Like what that's what that second game, that's the only
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  Speaker 2: team that's kind of been able to do that against
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  Speaker 2: you guys anytime recently here What what kind of stood
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  Speaker 2: out to you when you went back and looked at
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  Speaker 2: it about what kind of went wrong that that game
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  Speaker 2: and how how you're looking to flip at this time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, first you got to give them credit, and they
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  Speaker 1: they had a great game plan and it made a
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  Speaker 1: lot of great plays, you know, So they had guys open,
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  Speaker 1: and when they didn't, they still made some plays. And
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  Speaker 1: I think the explosives really, you know, inflate the stats
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  Speaker 1: a lot, you know, really, I mean that's how you
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  Speaker 1: get the only way you get to a number like
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  Speaker 1: that is by some really explosive plays. And those are
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  Speaker 1: good plays by them, you know, and plays that we
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  Speaker 1: have to execute it, you know better. But when I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking of that game, I'm thinking of, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: got punched in the mouth early, and then our guys
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  Speaker 1: regrouped and we and we and we kind of put
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  Speaker 1: ourselves back in a position to go win the game defensively.
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  Speaker 1: So there's positives and things you want to grow from
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  Speaker 1: that game, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: After that game, and then I think after the Bucks
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  Speaker 3: game earlier, you said kind of similar things about how
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  Speaker 3: you maybe gave them too much game plan wise, and
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  Speaker 3: I know that second game was on a short week,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, do you have a better feel for like
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  Speaker 3: the right amount of what they can handle and everything?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're I mean, you're always going to go into
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  Speaker 1: the game hoping that this is the right You're kind
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  Speaker 1: of at that sweet spot. But look, anytime, anytime the
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  Speaker 1: result doesn't go your way. You know, I got a
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  Speaker 1: big hand in how we play too, And so you know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to look inward and say, Okay, what were
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  Speaker 1: some of the inputs throughout the week that maybe I
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  Speaker 1: could have helped the guys out better, or even in
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  Speaker 1: the game about some of the play calls that we made.
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  Speaker 1: And there's several in that game where you want back
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  Speaker 1: and it stings to say, I mean, it stings that
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  Speaker 1: that's the case, but that's the case, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: you got to confront it and say, okay, well, what
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  Speaker 1: are the things we can do throughout the week to
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  Speaker 1: put ourselves in a better situation where we can help
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  Speaker 1: our guys out more. And so that that's the mentality.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same thing after Tampa Bay, and you can
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  Speaker 1: feel it in real time, like when when you know
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  Speaker 1: your guys are in a certain position and it's not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily advantageous for them. Well, it turns out that that's
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  Speaker 1: on the design of the play and you know what
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  Speaker 1: you're asking him to do, so you can kind of feel.
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  Speaker 1: You can feel that in real time for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Had a chance yet to get Matt Stafford on the
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  Speaker 4: ground in no secks yet, how much of that do
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  Speaker 4: you see as the rush and how it was doing
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  Speaker 4: versus coverage.
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  Speaker 1: I know they work together well. Again, they do a
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  Speaker 1: really great job of getting the ball out on time
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  Speaker 1: and playing decisively. So we have to disrupt timing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's really the fact of the matter. And we've gotten
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  Speaker 1: to him a few times where he's gotten rid of
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  Speaker 1: it and thrown the ball away which had been smart
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  Speaker 1: decisions where he hasn't putting the ball in danger. So
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  Speaker 1: I think there's some good plays that we're putting on
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  Speaker 1: tape to be able to affect him. It's not as
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  Speaker 1: much as we want or as frequently as we want,
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  Speaker 1: but I think you're talking about that's a product of
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  Speaker 1: like how you're playing early down football and third, you know,
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  Speaker 1: situational football to put you in those in those moments
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  Speaker 1: where maybe you can dial something up when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to that you've got.
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  Speaker 6: A rams playoffs and your team in a playoff game,
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  Speaker 6: does that change anything about how you prepare a value
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  Speaker 6: way to look at just kind of what's out there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're always going to use You're always going to
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  Speaker 1: use what information is out there. So since you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have we have the extra game that we can watch,
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  Speaker 1: which is great, but that that really doesn't affect our
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  Speaker 1: process at all. We're just you know, it's actually like
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  Speaker 1: I didn't we didn't even I didn't like, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: do any work on either of these teams on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: because I did that and I just wasted a whole day,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, in the in the round before. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just like, look, let's just take it like a
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  Speaker 1: normal week. So Sunday happened, Let's go to work on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: Let's do our normal Monday. Yesterday's a normal Tuesday's do
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  Speaker 1: what we do on Wednesday today, and and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's week twenty now, which is kind of cool. We
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  Speaker 1: got the guys were fire up to hear that in
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  Speaker 1: the team meeting today.
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  Speaker 6: On that note, you know, you've spoken a lot about
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  Speaker 6: that about maintaining kind of that routine and that mindset
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  Speaker 6: in the process, what do you walk in and there's
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  Speaker 6: a different backdrop or there's some other little different new
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  Speaker 6: allow yourself to field the magnitude of it, or or
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  Speaker 6: is that for some.
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  Speaker 2: Time down the road.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think like I think it's it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: natural to like kind of have like your mind's gonna
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  Speaker 1: go there. But and it's gonna happen to all of us.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, it's really just it's not it's not
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  Speaker 1: like we're hey, like we're just gonna ignore it, So
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  Speaker 1: like now just come back to center, because that's just
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of what we're It's just not important. You know.
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  Speaker 1: What's more important is what we do on the things
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  Speaker 1: every day that's within our control. And you can it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean you like can't enjoy the process and appreciate
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  Speaker 1: where you're at and have gratitude for what our team
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  Speaker 1: has been able to accomplish at this point. But that's
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  Speaker 1: really what I'm asking the guys that that's a good
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  Speaker 1: reminder to me giving you this answer is just hey,
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  Speaker 1: when it happens, okay, great, and then just come back
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  Speaker 1: and you know, how how great can we be refocusing
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week you.
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  Speaker 2: Have been in a conference title game before Baltimore. What
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  Speaker 2: do you kind of take away from that experience, anything
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  Speaker 2: you learn from from that to.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of yeah, yeah, look, a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of our philosophy is coming from, you know, our experiences, right,
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  Speaker 1: That's how you generate, you know, these thoughts on things,
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  Speaker 1: and so that that has help shape, you know, why
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  Speaker 1: we do what we do, why we treat it just
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  Speaker 1: like another week. You know, there's some things we took
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  Speaker 1: away from that game that you kind of said, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get there again, and we'd handle a
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  Speaker 1: little bit differently from my perspective, not from like how
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  Speaker 1: John built the week or anything like that. It's just
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  Speaker 1: how you want to get your team ready to go.
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  Speaker 5: We've been We've been hearing from players from you all
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  Speaker 5: year about how close this team is that week eleven loss.
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  Speaker 5: Sam has a tough outing, and we hear what we
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  Speaker 5: heard from EJ and all the defense picking him up.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just like, how clear an example that is, and
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  Speaker 5: then maybe what the lasting effective it is if you
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  Speaker 5: haven't lost since then, and just maybe how the team
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  Speaker 5: rallied around that.
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  Speaker 1: Well. You know, it's funny I think if you you know,
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  Speaker 1: took a strap pol from the guys around the team.
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  Speaker 1: I think that game was a game where we really
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  Speaker 1: came into focus about what type of team we would be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that we had we have a special
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  Speaker 1: group that was resilient as heck and had each other's backs,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to stick up for each other and
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  Speaker 1: fight like heck for sixty minutes and really becoming the
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  Speaker 1: team that we wanted to be. We started to have
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  Speaker 1: some some real evidence of it, even though it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really the outcome that we wanted. So I'm kind of
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  Speaker 1: glad that it happened, you know, You're kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's stunk in the moment, but given where
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  Speaker 1: we're at now, like that was that was an important
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  Speaker 1: part of our season that I felt like something maybe
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  Speaker 1: we had to go through to get to the point
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  Speaker 1: where're right now.
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  Speaker 4: The team released video today you during the first team
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  Speaker 4: meeting talking about a vision of the NFC championship. When
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  Speaker 4: when did that become the vision and that that that
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  Speaker 4: was what you're going to talk to the team.
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  Speaker 2: About that for sure.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny when when Dave showed me that, all I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking about how nervous I was going to the
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  Speaker 1: first team meeting. I don't know if you can tell
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  Speaker 1: my it was a good editing job by our people.
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  Speaker 1: Some other there's probably some more awkward pauses throughout that.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny. It's actually a point of like an inside
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  Speaker 1: joke with the guys about like, you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: just we didn't know each other, and it was just
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  Speaker 1: it was our first like true interaction. It was just
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  Speaker 1: kind of this wild experience, you know, and everyone talks
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  Speaker 1: about like what your first message to the team is
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  Speaker 1: going to be, and they kind of it's really overblown frankly,
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  Speaker 1: But and you think about, hey, look, you know what
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  Speaker 1: am I gonna what am I gonna talk to the
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  Speaker 1: team about? What's the first thing? I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say the wrong thing, you know, like, but it just
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  Speaker 1: came to me. It just I think God just just
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  Speaker 1: allowed me to just like kind of just take a
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  Speaker 1: pressure away and said this way you should say. And
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty pretty powerful. It was pretty awesome. You
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  Speaker 1: check the weather for Sunday, I actually did. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's gonna be in the forties. Unfortunately, a few
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  Speaker 1: degrees went.
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  Speaker 2: Back to uh, you said.
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  Speaker 3: You guys kind of rallied around the loss of week
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  Speaker 3: eleven and side of a team you want to be.
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  Speaker 2: What was different about that game?
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  Speaker 3: I guess than maybe losing to the Niners which was close,
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  Speaker 3: and losing.
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  Speaker 1: To the Bucks, which was closed.
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  Speaker 4: What was it?
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  Speaker 2: What was it different about that game?
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's.
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  Speaker 1: A good question. I don't think it's like, hey, now
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  Speaker 1: we realized it. I think I think that's or we
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  Speaker 1: realize like what we wanted to be. I think that
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  Speaker 1: was clear from the get go of what we're chasing,
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  Speaker 1: but just to be that probably deep into the season
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  Speaker 1: and to feel like, hey, you know, this outcome could
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  Speaker 1: have gone the other way and given all the things
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  Speaker 1: that didn't go our way in the game against a
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  Speaker 1: really good team, and so I think it I think
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  Speaker 1: it puts some emergency behind playing a little bit cleaner
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  Speaker 1: football and understanding like, hey, look, you know we can
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  Speaker 1: we can expect to, you know, try to figure out
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  Speaker 1: ways to win these types of games, and we're and
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  Speaker 1: we're good enough to be able to do that.
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  Speaker 4: The Rams were really good against the Blitz all year,
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  Speaker 4: and then they've struggled against it in the playoffs. When
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  Speaker 4: you face a team that's got kind of disparate results
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  Speaker 4: in those situations, how do you weigh what to pay
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  Speaker 4: more attention to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, well, the blitz thing is an interesting
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  Speaker 1: question because it's just like, well, what's the context and
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  Speaker 1: so that's how that's how we look through it. And
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  Speaker 1: so there's sometimes where it's important to send people. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's important where it's not trying not to put too
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  Speaker 1: much stock into like one game, you know, just especially
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  Speaker 1: against a team that you're really familiar with, So it
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  Speaker 1: really doesn't really affect like how we're going to think
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  Speaker 1: about how we want a game plan in the game.
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  Speaker 5: I might have been on the radio a few weeks
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: ago about John potentially winning Executive the year. I think
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: you said, you know, it's only matter about how much
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: when you just look at the job he's done in
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: building this ross early before you got here to now
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: over the last three four years and trades pre atency, draft,
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: just what stands out about the job he's.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Done well When when Saul asked me why, it took
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: me a minute to come up with the answer, But
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: like it really is like conviction of what we're what
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: we're trying to build, and what we want the Seahawks
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: to be all about. And he's led the charge. So
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's really that simple. And then I think
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: just like his leadership example from a on a day
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: to day basis shows up in so many ways, just
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: like the spirit of the building, his interaction with everyone,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: I mean talks more people in the billing I do,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: you know, like he's just he's doing this thing all
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: the time, and he's been incredibly helpful to me. You know,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: he was talking to somebody today actually about just like, hey, look,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know anything coming in like you just you know,
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: you're just trying to do the best job you possibly
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: can't every day. And you know, he knew when to
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: kind of give you some some air to breathe and
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: grow and expand and learn, you know, and maybe fall
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit. And then he also was there to
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: support you when you needed it. So he's just got
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: a great feel for how to handle those situations, whether
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: it be me or anybody else in the building.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: Like a week twenty comment opponent, when your game planning,
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: how much you have to focus on the why was
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: it more about the execution?
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Now since you players focus on what was the first time?
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Why you're talking about that.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Is, Yeah, well it's it's the same. It's just Hey, look,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna call this is why. All right,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: let's go, let's go do it. See what it looks like,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: and then go from there. If it looks great, keep
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: hammering it out. If it doesn't, let's figure out how
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: we can make it clearer. Let's move on. You know.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: So it's the same same cadence.
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: On the blitz right numbers. Statistically, you guys have one
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: of the lowest in the NFL this year.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Did you anticipate that going end of the year.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Is that just kind of the general thought or does
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: it change kind of Yeah, it does change, but uh,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: frankly I anticipated us pressuring more. But it's just you
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: just got to You got to listen to your team,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: and I feel like we've done a good job of that.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: Think to our workouts when majority of the team shut
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: up for what was the voluntary workouts? You mentioned it a.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Lot talking about it back then, But now after this
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: far into this season, what did that kind of do
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: for you guys?
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Like during to sea then yeah, great, we we would
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: not We would not be here if the guys didn't
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: buy in the way they did and work the way
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: they did in the off season and it's easier said
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: than done. You can, you can ask, so you're blue
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: in the face of for them to come to our
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: off season program. But if you haven't built something out
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the way that like Ivan and Danny and the rest
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: of the guys built out and our coaches create an
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: environment where they feel like they can come and get
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: great work in and spend time with their teammates and
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: actually improve as a player. If you're not doing those
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: things to back it up, you know, guys aren't gonna
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: want to aren't gonna want to come. So really it's
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: it's it's the players having a you know, have taking
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: a leap of faith, trusting us and trusting what we've
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: been able to bring to the table for them, and
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: our coaches and staff, you know, creating an awesome environment
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: where they feel like they can get better. So if
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: we if we didn't do it, we would not be
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: here right now. I'm convinced of that. All right, great,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: thank you,