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  Speaker 1: It's little.
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  Speaker 2: We'd started just kind of west coast travel plans. You
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  Speaker 2: guys leave a Friday Saturday, and the success you've had
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  Speaker 2: so far heading I know it's mountain time, but heading
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  Speaker 2: out the specific.
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  Speaker 3: Time on Saturday, you know, kind of do our meetings
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  Speaker 3: here on Saturday so that when we kind of get
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  Speaker 3: out there, we just have a few things to do
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  Speaker 3: at night and you know, just try to get there
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  Speaker 3: a little bit later. And you know, look, we've obviously
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  Speaker 3: handled it well thus far in terms of the travel west,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, hopefully we can continue to have the
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  Speaker 3: same mindset mentality going into it. And you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: a business trip, it's a good trip. It's a team
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  Speaker 3: that's i know is going to be fighting, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know it's a great opportunity for us to again
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  Speaker 3: go on the road together as a team and you know,
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  Speaker 3: prepare the right way.
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  Speaker 4: Had success against mcconkee, Alan Gats and their three primary
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  Speaker 4: targets this past weekend, but knowing what brought Bowers was
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  Speaker 4: able to do. Nico Collins, how do you isolate shut
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  Speaker 4: down a player like Trey McBride.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a lot of respect for for trays,
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  Speaker 3: extremely versatile, similar in a lot of ways to brock
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  Speaker 3: that way. And you know, look, you've got to have
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  Speaker 3: eyes on him and understand where he is in the
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  Speaker 3: formation at all times in terms of case he attached,
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  Speaker 3: is he in the hip, is he in the slot,
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  Speaker 3: is he at one? You know, obviously building a plan
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  Speaker 3: around you know, stopping guys like that is mixing up looks, right,
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  Speaker 3: is trying to give different looks and present them and
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  Speaker 3: make sure that maybe you have some some areas in
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  Speaker 3: the red area, whatever it is to double them or
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  Speaker 3: take away their best player.
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  Speaker 1: That's some some things that we're looking at.
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  Speaker 2: Like we're set bounce around and manages to play pretty
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  Speaker 2: well every time he's on the time.
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  Speaker 3: I've always thought he could really throw it. I mean
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  Speaker 3: always you watch the way he's he's played. I evaluated
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  Speaker 3: him kind of at length last year in Tampa we
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  Speaker 3: were just doing quarterback stuff free agent wise, and while
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  Speaker 3: him a lot. I thought he was impressive then, and man,
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  Speaker 3: the guy forty seven to fifty seven last week. You
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  Speaker 3: look at his last like since week six, numbers are
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  Speaker 3: pretty impressive. And you know they're throwing at a at
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  Speaker 3: a good click right now, and their skilled players are
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  Speaker 3: playing at a high level. So, I mean, Jacoby's everything
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  Speaker 3: I've heard of him, I don't know him personally, is
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  Speaker 3: just pros pro just not really outcome driven and just
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  Speaker 3: kind of goes through it.
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  Speaker 1: Knows his talent, knows.
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  Speaker 3: That he can throw the ball, you know, really really
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  Speaker 3: well at a high level. And man, you get into
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  Speaker 3: a situation ultimately and it's fits, it fits for them
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  Speaker 3: right now and they've been able to score points.
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  Speaker 2: How do you as a coach just sort of keeping
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  Speaker 2: the team with the momentum going up instead of you know,
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  Speaker 2: having that up and then sweat drop.
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  Speaker 1: You know that can happen throughout a week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think that's like we've talked of
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  Speaker 3: other as a stand you know, we've set ultimately in
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  Speaker 3: a season right as high as lows. But when you
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  Speaker 3: play like that week, you know, as we played on Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: there's you know, a new standard now in terms of okay,
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  Speaker 3: well that's what it looks like when we prepare the
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  Speaker 3: way we did and got ourselves into the mindset mentality
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  Speaker 3: to go play that way and performed obviously you know, cleaner,
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  Speaker 3: right it was obviously you know, the physicality and all
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  Speaker 3: that I really appreciate and we want every week, but
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  Speaker 3: it was just cleaner in a lot of ways in
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  Speaker 3: all three phases. And so that is the standard, and
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  Speaker 3: we all kind of owe it to each other in
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  Speaker 3: that in that room to uphold that standard moving forward
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  Speaker 3: in terms of the way that we go about our business, prepare,
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  Speaker 3: and ultimately play. So that's the thing about you know,
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  Speaker 3: coaching and playing in the National Football League with long seasons,
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  Speaker 3: it's the teams that can maintain and that sustained success
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  Speaker 3: and consistency.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout a number of weeks. And give yourself a chance.
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  Speaker 3: After reviewing the Chargers game, what kind of step forward
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  Speaker 3: and Lauren's taking that second half? Yeah, I mean he
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  Speaker 3: was being able to play on time and in rhythm.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we did a fantastic job. I was in
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  Speaker 3: the protection, you know, protecting them kind of getting the
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  Speaker 3: ball out and trusting and anticipating some throws across the
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  Speaker 3: middle and went through some progressions that I thought it
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  Speaker 3: was really clean, you know. And again he continued to
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  Speaker 3: uh get us in and out of the right plays
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  Speaker 3: all throughout the game. I mean that was a huge deal.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of that plan in the run game,
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  Speaker 3: excuse me, had to do with Trevor owning and operating there.
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  Speaker 3: And then I thought in the drop back stuff, the slant,
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  Speaker 3: you know that he threw the Tim Patrick on the
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  Speaker 3: left side. Just the ball was you know, coming out spitting,
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  Speaker 3: playing fast. There's always ones you want back. But I
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  Speaker 3: thought he ran our offense, uh really well in the
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  Speaker 3: second half.
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  Speaker 1: Experience help the guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he played against him the preseason against
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  Speaker 3: the Steelers. I think and got a seeing A lot
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  Speaker 3: of football has been on winning, you know, winning teams
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  Speaker 3: for you know, sustained success. I know he's excited about
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  Speaker 3: being here and getting an opportunity to come uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: earn some playing time and just gives that room. You
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  Speaker 3: know obviously with Eric out and do you know vetting
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  Speaker 3: Ben there and Antonio, I think he's just getting better
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  Speaker 3: each week. So it's just another guy in there that
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  Speaker 3: can ultimately go in and you know, hopefully learn a
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  Speaker 3: game playing quickly enough and get into the system and
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  Speaker 3: also be able to help the younger guys. Just anticipation
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  Speaker 3: with anything right down in distant situational football.
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  Speaker 1: All those things help when you get a veteran like
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  Speaker 1: that in the room.
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  Speaker 4: I stick that you can have Jordan anton Brandon and
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  Speaker 4: Bryant back this week.
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  Speaker 3: Optimistic. Yeah, I was always you know, very always optimistic.
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  Speaker 3: But look, I really don't know you were optimistic on
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  Speaker 3: some of them last week and then end up working
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  Speaker 3: out and that was the Obviously there's frustrating for those
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  Speaker 3: guys specifically and for us when you're trying to continue
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  Speaker 3: to get your your guys out there. But I thought
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  Speaker 3: guys stepped up as well in their places. And you
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  Speaker 3: look at operating again with two tight ends in a game,
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  Speaker 3: and those two tight ends play their tails off. So
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  Speaker 3: it is definitely a next man up has to be
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  Speaker 3: a next man up mentality, and ultimately hopefully we get
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  Speaker 3: these guys back while we do.
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  Speaker 4: The oil on the et and touchdown, you got Robert
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  Speaker 4: Ainsyon's face.
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  Speaker 1: Man, has to be.
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  Speaker 3: Encouraging to see that was I mean, if you really,
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  Speaker 3: I think we talked about as a staff, just take
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  Speaker 3: one play, you know, from the offensive table or even
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  Speaker 3: from the game, and just show that one play and say, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 3: this is pretty you know, this is cool to see
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  Speaker 3: for our team. You know, it's just this is who
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  Speaker 3: we are in a lot of ways, and when we're
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  Speaker 3: playing at a high level, that's what it can look like,
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  Speaker 3: but it was the effort, but not just the effort, right,
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  Speaker 3: It was sustaining those blocks for that length without getting
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  Speaker 3: out here, you know, and those the fundamentals and technique
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  Speaker 3: matched with the intensity and physical nature. Yeah, that's ultimately
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  Speaker 3: what you want to highlight and who you want to
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  Speaker 3: be on a consistent basis.
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  Speaker 1: Scample has five sucks.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of respect do you have for his career
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  Speaker 2: and also how effective is he still at this.
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  Speaker 3: Point of so much he's it was one of our
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  Speaker 3: game wreckers this morning in both defense and special teams
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  Speaker 3: for the career block you know, extra points and field goals. So,
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  Speaker 3: but he is playing at a very high level.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he.
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  Speaker 3: Utilizes that swim move at six eight and that's that
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  Speaker 3: can be hard on guards and interior offensive linement and
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  Speaker 3: then is strained through the down in terms of in
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  Speaker 3: the known passing situations, but also where he's extremely effective
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  Speaker 3: is batting balls down as well. So if he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: get maybe an edge in the rush when he's going
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  Speaker 3: to stop, and that's that's a lot of that's a
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  Speaker 3: brick wall there, you know, So we've got to really
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  Speaker 3: make sure we're accounting for him, knowing his strengths and
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  Speaker 3: be able to attack some of the weaknesses there and
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  Speaker 3: get his hands down.
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  Speaker 1: Especially in the past game.
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  Speaker 3: You had to shuffle cornerback, chart that road, cornerback.
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  Speaker 1: Receiver and running back back.
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  Speaker 3: Then you know, des line all those hes a delegate
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  Speaker 3: balance to contain as a coach ors in, he says,
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  Speaker 3: getting because they're pros. Yeah, yeah, I mean, as you're building,
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  Speaker 3: it's you just have to make sure you're doing right
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  Speaker 3: by the whole place and putting the best eleven out there,
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  Speaker 3: that is the healthiest eleven and trying to put the
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  Speaker 3: pieces out there to ultimately go win a game, right
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  Speaker 3: you You individual success is extremely important to us. It
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  Speaker 3: is like you want every player to get what they
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  Speaker 3: truly at the end of the day deserve and and earn.
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  Speaker 3: And you want guys to get paid as much as
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  Speaker 3: he can. I mean, you want that for them, and
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  Speaker 3: but so often it has to just come back to
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  Speaker 3: the team first and ultimately, well, everything we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: do is is you know, do that put the team
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  Speaker 3: first and protect the team and give ourselves the best
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  Speaker 3: chance to go win on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: It is like you we.
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  Speaker 3: Talked about a little bit on Monday, that you know,
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  Speaker 3: bj and Danny and Quinn Moore specifically come to mind.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously there's others, but you know that have played their
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  Speaker 3: tails off on teams, if not done anything else, but
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  Speaker 3: what we've asked them. Has it been perfect the whole time? No,
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  Speaker 3: And they've earned opportunities to go out and impact the
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  Speaker 3: game on offense and defense on Sundays. And it's why
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  Speaker 3: we talked about in the offseason. I had Heath Farwell
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  Speaker 3: speak to our team and talk about his journey and
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  Speaker 3: how he made it, and so much of the league
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  Speaker 3: is built on that. And usually when you have organizations
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  Speaker 3: that that is an internal growth like that, I think
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  Speaker 3: that's what you're striving for. Putting Off Morris came.
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  Speaker 1: Into some really cheap as. Yeah, down the stretch, he
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  Speaker 1: said the press. Yeah, that was just the guys man.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, Yeah, Quinn has made plays like in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 3: I watched him a bunch of he made plays in
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  Speaker 3: playoff games. More so they'll catching the ball right and
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  Speaker 3: like doing things athletically and in space and man, he
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  Speaker 3: gave us a boost on Sunday and he has been
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  Speaker 3: That's how he's been.
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  Speaker 1: Trending through all through special teams.
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  Speaker 3: And then you go out and see him put it
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  Speaker 3: on tape and be as physical and explosive as he
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  Speaker 3: was in numerous occasions, Like I want to see what
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  Speaker 3: he can do with the ball in his hands too, Right,
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  Speaker 3: So I think rich Angelo is one of the best
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  Speaker 3: tight ends coaches I've ever been around, and he has
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  Speaker 3: done a phenomenal job with the next man up mentality
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  Speaker 3: and getting those guys prepared and ready to play, Like
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  Speaker 3: you're building more confidence and consistency in the receiving room
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  Speaker 3: as I played.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that.
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  Speaker 3: Look again, heis and lows and seasons at all position
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  Speaker 3: groups in different times. Right, It's just I think they
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  Speaker 3: are getting some cons you know, I agree with the consistency,
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  Speaker 3: you know, catching the ball and making tough catches. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Trammel made a really difficult catch on that first third
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  Speaker 3: down of the game that was critical to get.
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  Speaker 1: That drive continued.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's definitely the standard in there, I know
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  Speaker 3: is high right now in terms of the way that
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  Speaker 3: they you know, want to go out and block and
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  Speaker 3: want to go out and compete out there, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: making difficult plays and making going and winning one on
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  Speaker 3: one matchups. So you know, you can definitely continue to
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  Speaker 3: see the standard in there. Raising just uh, since you
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  Speaker 3: brought up.
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  Speaker 2: Trammel him and Laquinn and the kickoff return, would you
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  Speaker 2: like that is that kind of a plan that moving
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  Speaker 2: forward with those two?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this week to week on that, well,
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  Speaker 3: we'll continue to evaluate, and I thought they did a
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  Speaker 3: nice job within the opportunities that they had. Obviously, both
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  Speaker 3: have given us returns in multiple different games, so we'll
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  Speaker 3: look at that.
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  Speaker 1: With two and those guys is Indiami as well.
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  Speaker 2: And then the point of the shuffling of the rooms
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  Speaker 2: defensive back. I know it's probably too soon to say
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  Speaker 2: what right status is right now, but what did you
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  Speaker 2: see the Christian braswell going on? And this idea of
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  Speaker 2: he played inside outside Jarring play inside.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, we'll know more a little bit on Greg
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  Speaker 3: obviously in the next day or so. But I thought
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  Speaker 3: Brad stepped in and did really nicely, And I thought
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  Speaker 3: he played really well through training camp, played well in
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  Speaker 3: the preseason, and really was not surprised by him going
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  Speaker 3: in and you know, competing and doing nicely, doing doing
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  Speaker 3: a good job. So he's been somebody we've trusted and
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  Speaker 3: that when his number was called he was going to
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  Speaker 3: go in there and be like this. It's just kind
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  Speaker 3: of how he operates. It's the competitor, it's the preparation,
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  Speaker 3: it's the person. And you know, Jarring, I think again,
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  Speaker 3: has continued to take steps in the right.
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  Speaker 1: Direction as well.
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  Speaker 3: And being able to have some versatility there with Jay
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  Speaker 3: lou Down you know, helped us big time, especially on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll maybe you have to do it again this week.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see