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Press Pass | Doug Pederson on Monday Night Football Spotlight vs. Bills · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Sun alright, awow had Doug uh injury of a year
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  Speaker 1: A conversation. Oh, you want to ask a question, Evan
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  Speaker 1: Ingram's Darnel Savage? How they look for going into Monday?
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  Speaker 2: Evan right now, he's he's, he's a little bit further away,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so you know, we'll have to take it
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  Speaker 2: kind of day by day, you know. Right now with him,
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  Speaker 2: sav we're gonna we're gonna work back in uh to
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  Speaker 2: practice a little bit today and just sort of get him,
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  Speaker 2: get him progressed. So hopefully he hopefully he's available, he.
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  Speaker 3: Said before the tenth Bixby could have came into the
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  Speaker 3: game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Is is he still on track to be fine to play?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? He he's uh, he he's he's doing well. He's
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  Speaker 2: he's on track. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's such Trevor's play for two two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: I know there's been some good, some bad, but play
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  Speaker 4: Where is he rank in the grand scheme of all
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  Speaker 4: the issues on offense?
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  Speaker 2: I guess, I guess to if you evaluate you know
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  Speaker 2: Trevor and I know the quarterback position and and and
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  Speaker 2: gets a lot of scrutiny, I think, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's there's a lot of issues that we have to
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  Speaker 2: I say a lot. There's there's there's a few issues
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  Speaker 2: that we need just assignment errors that that need to
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  Speaker 2: be fixed obviously. You know, I think I think he's
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  Speaker 2: he's done a he's done, he's done a good job.
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  Speaker 2: He can he be better, Yeah, he can be better,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and I think that's all part of
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  Speaker 2: just the continuing, you know, to to grow. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think too you look at you know, we've had
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  Speaker 2: we've had more you know, backed up drives. Two games
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  Speaker 2: I think we've had in two years, you know, to start.
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  Speaker 2: So our starting field position has been been tough. So
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  Speaker 2: there's some challenges there too, right, so you know we
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  Speaker 2: face we faced some certain you know situations there. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think he's he's on track, he's doing
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  Speaker 2: some doing some really good things. You know, the game
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  Speaker 2: the other day, we just didn't have enough opportunities in
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  Speaker 2: the first half. He's made some really good throws down
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  Speaker 2: the field to Brian, and we continue to push the
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  Speaker 2: ball down the field and you know, I think I
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  Speaker 2: think two when it's not there, he's done a good
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  Speaker 2: job of pulling it down either running or you know,
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  Speaker 2: finding the back So I just got to keep keep working.
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  Speaker 1: With with Evan, you know, working his way back on board.
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  Speaker 4: Was it for Brenton to kind of get that experience
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  Speaker 4: and get the targets on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Just for his confidence?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I think it's I think it was big for
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  Speaker 2: for Brenton. You know, he's he's the that's the type
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  Speaker 2: of player we know that he is that he's capable
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  Speaker 2: of being. And and he did. He did some really
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  Speaker 2: good things. Played well, played played physical too in the
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  Speaker 2: running game, which is which was good to see. And
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  Speaker 2: he's done that, you know, since he's been here. So
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  Speaker 2: it just adds adds more to to his confidence obviously,
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  Speaker 2: and it just continues to I think grow with the
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  Speaker 2: offense and he gets gets more opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: I know, you guys see that from him in practice.
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  Speaker 1: What does it do for years of coach when do
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  Speaker 1: you see him do it in a game?
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  Speaker 2: That's why we drafted him, you know, and that's why
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  Speaker 2: twice here, you know. And and he's got that, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's got that capability of not only running but running
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  Speaker 2: routes and or I should say run blocking and running routes.
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  Speaker 2: And he's physical. So it's it's good to see kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Going back to the quarterback situation. But tangidentially, passing seems
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  Speaker 1: to be down in the NFL league wide. Can you
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  Speaker 1: put your finger on why.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I haven't really studied it right now, kind of
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  Speaker 2: focused on Buffalo, But I just think that, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you had to guess, I think, are you saying
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  Speaker 2: passings down by attempts or by yards or.
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  Speaker 3: Nine touchdown passes? He was in seventy six seven point
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  Speaker 3: one yards. Target's depth is the lowest it's it's been
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  Speaker 3: on record. Design run play, its just seems like it's
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  Speaker 3: shifting a bit.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's it's uh, you still have to
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  Speaker 2: have the ability to run the football. Pass rushers, defenses
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  Speaker 2: are are are You're seeing more too high safeties right,
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  Speaker 2: You're seeing more shell defense, which is eliminating some of
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  Speaker 2: the passing. And if you have if you're in an
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  Speaker 2: offense where you run pass based on coverage, right, you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna you're gonna run certain looks You're gonna throw versus
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  Speaker 2: a certain looks. So that's probably part of it too
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  Speaker 2: with these teams. As far as the the the yard depth,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the ball is coming out of the quarterback's hands.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit more three step you know, passing game.
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  Speaker 2: So there's there's probably a few factors there that are
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  Speaker 2: the reasons why.
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  Speaker 5: Buffalo Monday night. I mean, it's it's a daunting place
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  Speaker 5: to play. Does this tea Do you need that challenge
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  Speaker 5: right now, something really big in front of them to
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  Speaker 5: kind of create maybe what you're looking.
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  Speaker 2: For for Yeah, I think it's just good. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's good for our team. I think, uh, obviously, it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a great opportunity to go on the road.
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  Speaker 2: As you mentioned, it's a it's a really a a
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  Speaker 2: great atmosphere for football. It's a Monday night game. The
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  Speaker 2: fans are gonna be, you know, juiced up and ready
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  Speaker 2: to go, and and it'd be it'll be good for us.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a it's a it's a benchmark. It's
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  Speaker 2: a measuring stick game, you know right now. And uh
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  Speaker 2: uh great for our great for our players to be
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  Speaker 2: you know in these app when we need to be
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  Speaker 2: in these atmospheres. We need to be in these situations more.
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  Speaker 2: And and this is a great opportunity for them.
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  Speaker 1: And you stress not.
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  Speaker 4: Paying a game, but we need personnel changes on the
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  Speaker 4: offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: All mm mm not right now.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, both of 'em.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, when you guys played it last year, the personnel's changed,
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  Speaker 3: the offense coordinators change.
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  Speaker 2: How don't they really, I guess looked different than when
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  Speaker 2: you guys played it last.
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  Speaker 1: Year just on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know, defensively it's the same, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: with with Sean and and coach Babbage over there. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's the it's very similar to what we
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  Speaker 2: saw last year. You know. Offensively, you're seeing you know,
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  Speaker 2: the run game, a little bit more quick passing. Josh
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  Speaker 2: has done a good job. I mean he's about seventy
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  Speaker 2: four percent completion right now. And you know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more that short intermediate passing game that you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing from them. And and really they're creating if you
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  Speaker 2: if you give me go back to the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the the Thursday game. They're creating takeaways, you know, defensively
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  Speaker 2: and short fields and uh, you know they've had a
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  Speaker 2: couple of good kickoff returns. You know, things like this.
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  Speaker 2: They're playing. They're playing good team football, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: complimentary football. And but but there's not a other than
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  Speaker 2: maybe running the ball and a little more you know,
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  Speaker 2: quick passing with Josh and getting the ball out of
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  Speaker 2: his hand. That's probably really the only difference.
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  Speaker 4: Can you even Midge going back, do you get a
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  Speaker 4: sense that you know, these guys want to show that.
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  Speaker 1: They got a little bit loud?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean that you know, it'd be exciting
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  Speaker 2: for them, you know, to go back and and play
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  Speaker 2: play in front of uh, you know the fans that
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  Speaker 2: they they they they've played against or played in front
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  Speaker 2: of for many years. But I know their focus now
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  Speaker 2: is to help us try to win this game and
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  Speaker 2: and they get back on track, So it'll be it'll
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  Speaker 2: be exciting, but at the same time, you know they've
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  Speaker 2: got a job to do and they'll be ready for that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the players that collectively said that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Accountability and how much we go to look.
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  Speaker 5: Ourselves in the mirror, and you know all the buzzwords
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  Speaker 5: that you hear when they're disappointment sent it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you anticipate that this is the type of game
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  Speaker 1: where the the players really have to take.
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  Speaker 5: It upon themselves t to prove to people that they
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  Speaker 5: are that what they put out the first two weeks is.
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  Speaker 4: Not who they are.
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  Speaker 2: I I I think so look, it's it's gosh, it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a player driven you know. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: we as coaches, we we put you know, the best
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  Speaker 2: hopefully the best game plans together that we can, but
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  Speaker 2: it comes down to execution, and we've got to coach
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  Speaker 2: and teach and they have to go play. So it
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  Speaker 2: I can appreciate what they're saying, right then it tells
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  Speaker 2: me that that it means something to them and and
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  Speaker 2: they understand, you know, we could easily be to and no, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, but but we're not. And uh, we've got
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  Speaker 2: to fix some things. And and obviously the players are
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  Speaker 2: a big part of that. And and they know that
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  Speaker 2: they've seen it, We've shown it to them, and this
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  Speaker 2: is a it's a good opportunity for them anybody else