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Shane Waldron: "We Want To Be A Consistent Offense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Well, when you looked at the film, I guess the
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  Speaker 1: most significant issues you saw in the second half on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: in the second half just being able to execute it
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  Speaker 1: at a high level through four quarters.
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  Speaker 2: And we talked about that.
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  Speaker 1: We know we want to be a consistent offense, and
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  Speaker 1: you know that wasn't our best showing obviously in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. And you know, having those three and out's
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  Speaker 1: happened that the way they did.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the.
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  Speaker 1: Effective effectiveness of us on as an offense on third down,
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  Speaker 1: we know is imperative to playing good, complimentary football.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we've moved forward, looked at those corrections.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's always all eleven, starting with the coaches
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  Speaker 1: and then moving on to the players of how we execute,
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  Speaker 1: how we handle some of that adversity that we did
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  Speaker 1: face in the second half. So feeling confident we were
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  Speaker 1: able to get those corrections done, move forward, get into
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  Speaker 1: a Wednesday practice, now on to Thursday and and ready
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  Speaker 1: to move forward and go against a really good Detroit
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  Speaker 1: Lions team. We should exactly, I think when we get
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  Speaker 1: into the situations that we did in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go through a first half where we don't
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  Speaker 1: we don't punt the football. You know, we have a
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  Speaker 1: couple of chances there, maybe to finish with touchdowns instead
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  Speaker 1: of field goals.
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  Speaker 2: I know that. But first game, and then I think
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  Speaker 2: in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: Starting with me when things aren't perfect in the first
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  Speaker 1: part of that first series where we got out there
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  Speaker 1: with the three and out, you know, coming back with
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  Speaker 1: that mindset, we don't need a press.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to try harder or do anything different.
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  Speaker 1: We need to really go back to our fundamentals and
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  Speaker 1: really execute at a high level. And not without getting
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  Speaker 1: into specifics of you know, all eleven and play calls
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. It's just going back to fundamentals
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  Speaker 1: and really trusting training, trusting all this practice work and
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  Speaker 1: executing at the highest level like we do out here
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  Speaker 1: every single day, like we did throughout training camp, and
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  Speaker 1: feeling confident about doing it that way. Moving forward, Stone
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  Speaker 1: playing half of this week, it's how much easier for
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  Speaker 1: I have this week personally, they're thrown in and start
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  Speaker 1: for Yeah, I think both of those guys for us,
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  Speaker 1: we have all the confidence in the world in both
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  Speaker 1: Stone and Jake. You know, Jake did a great job
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  Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty one against the Lions starting against
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  Speaker 1: those guys, Stones had his chance to be in there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not always the easiest thing in the
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  Speaker 1: world to get thrown in the mix in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of a game like that, especially towards the latter half
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  Speaker 1: where we really need to get things done there. But
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  Speaker 1: we know execution, you know the things that they can
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  Speaker 1: do the offense. You know that they've been a part
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  Speaker 1: of now for the last several years. Makes us feel
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with them going in there and executing, and like
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  Speaker 1: everything else in football, is not always going to be
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  Speaker 1: about one guy or two guys.
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  Speaker 2: It's about all eleven of us coming.
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  Speaker 1: Together on the field and executing at a high level
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  Speaker 1: so we can play that good, complimentary football. We can
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  Speaker 1: have a good balance attack on offense and playing consistently
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  Speaker 1: through four quarters.
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  Speaker 2: That's the biggest challenge of the blitz packages to the
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  Speaker 2: Lions and Huby.
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  Speaker 1: I think we'll starting up front with the great rusher
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  Speaker 1: and Hutchinson there, and then just like last week when
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  Speaker 1: we faced Aaron Donald, you face an elite pass rusher
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  Speaker 1: like he is transitioned to in this league. You know
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna garner a lot of attention right there. But
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  Speaker 1: making sure that that doesn't take away from the other guys.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that the Lions historically, you know, they've
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  Speaker 1: brought you know, Coach Glenn does a great job with
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  Speaker 1: the multitude of blitz packages they've they've varied every single season,
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  Speaker 1: every single week. So being ready to be prepared to
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  Speaker 1: adjust and adapt on the flight and in the course
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  Speaker 1: of the game to anything that we see newness, but
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  Speaker 1: also just again going back to fundamentals, going back to
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  Speaker 1: our rules and really trusting, you know, for the guys
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  Speaker 1: to trust themselves and everyone around him to do the
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  Speaker 1: right thing. I think it starts with, like any great
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  Speaker 1: defensive lignment, with high effort. You know, he's NonStop, his
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  Speaker 1: motor is excellent. And then he has a good mix
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  Speaker 1: of complimentary moves, whether it's speed to power, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: using some of the pick stunts, or whether it's just
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  Speaker 1: going straight with speed around the edge right there. So
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  Speaker 1: it's got a good mix, got a good repertoire. They
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  Speaker 1: move him around. He played over the guard some you
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  Speaker 1: know in that first game there, and he was able
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  Speaker 1: to generate pressures in the multitude of ways. When you're pressing,
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  Speaker 1: is it is it due to something that you see
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  Speaker 1: that just not executing. Is that why there's ten And
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  Speaker 1: I think this, you know, anytime they that we're out
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  Speaker 1: here as a coaching staff and the players and we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about it, you know, we're always really battling that
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  Speaker 1: mindset of having to go outside of the framework or
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  Speaker 1: to do too much in a certain scenario. And I
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  Speaker 1: think when you get into a spot on offense where hey,
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  Speaker 1: the goal or the expectation is to score every time
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  Speaker 1: you touch the ball, right that that should never waiver
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  Speaker 1: no matter you know, where you're at in a football team.
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  Speaker 1: And then when some of the things don't go perfectly okay,
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  Speaker 1: how do you go ahead and play the next play,
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  Speaker 1: play the next game? And like for us, the mindset
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  Speaker 1: right now on offense is not letting one bad half
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  Speaker 1: of football really trickle into the season or trickle past
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  Speaker 1: just what it was, which was one half where we
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  Speaker 1: know we can do a better job. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's where it comes back to, you know, we don't
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  Speaker 1: need to go outside the framework of what we've been practicing,
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  Speaker 1: what we've been putting on tape, as far as far
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  Speaker 1: as training camp, OTAs all the offseason work that the
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  Speaker 1: guys have done. You know, just staying within ourselves and
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  Speaker 1: trust in that we do have good players on this
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  Speaker 1: offense and we have a good group of players that
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  Speaker 1: really play hard for each other.
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  Speaker 2: Moving forward, How did.
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  Speaker 1: You think of the Sarbonne and Jackson Smith and tig
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  Speaker 1: and sort of what they did at side of yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, one thing is obviously wish they
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  Speaker 1: had more ops, you know, but that's gonna come, like
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  Speaker 1: anything with more opportunities as far as total number plays
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  Speaker 1: within the game.
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  Speaker 2: But in terms of opening you know, opening.
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  Speaker 1: Game for those guys going out there, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: moment's not too big for either of those guys. They're
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  Speaker 1: able to go out there and execute their assignments and
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  Speaker 1: when what they were asked to do in the game
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  Speaker 1: and looking forward to their roles growing as as the
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  Speaker 1: season continues to go on. I'm sorry with the wind,
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  Speaker 1: you know, oh for the noise of the purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's like I keep keep that up right there
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  Speaker 2: for the noise. Huh uh No.
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  Speaker 1: This this this environment we know is gonna be as
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  Speaker 1: loud as it gets. It's gonna be uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the roles are reversed. We go from having some
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  Speaker 1: of the loudest fans in the world and you know
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  Speaker 1: where we get to enjoy that as an offense when
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  Speaker 1: we're on the home side of it. But now we're
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  Speaker 1: going on the road knowing that they're going to be loud,
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  Speaker 1: and and that's where execution and the understanding of what
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  Speaker 1: our our tempo and what our cadence is when we're
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  Speaker 1: on the road when it when we have that toolbox
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  Speaker 1: to utilize when we go on a road environment, making
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  Speaker 1: sure we're all on the same page and knowing that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting off on the snap out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all eleven firing off the ball at the same time
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  Speaker 1: is so imperative in these noisy environments.
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  Speaker 2: But we also look at the same way.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the positive side for us is then the
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  Speaker 1: defense has to deal with all of those same structural issues,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where they're on the silent communication for everything
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  Speaker 1: they got to do. So I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: throughout the course of different home games and road games,
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be noise, and you know, you want those
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  Speaker 1: type of environments. They lamp everyone up, get everyone going.
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  Speaker 1: But we can't again let that make us do anything
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  Speaker 1: outside of the framework of what we want to do
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  Speaker 1: and execute. Brown sign or on the road take environment.
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  Speaker 1: Always got two tackles. How curious. However, I think you know,
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  Speaker 1: the one thing for us, you know, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the silent counts or the verbal cadence, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we really start that in OTAs and we rotate that.
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  Speaker 1: We know that at least half the games, especially with
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  Speaker 1: the odd number of games now we get the more
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  Speaker 1: on the road than at home this year, So we
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  Speaker 1: really space that out and plan for that and had
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  Speaker 1: every other whether it's been every other week or every
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  Speaker 1: other practice, and really worked hard to get the music
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  Speaker 1: cranking out here and work on the silent count throughout
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  Speaker 1: the course of the last several months right there. So
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  Speaker 1: feel comfortable with it, and it's just part of the
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  Speaker 1: way that we operate. It's not something that you know,
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  Speaker 1: comes comes about, you know, the first or second week
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  Speaker 1: of the season.
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  Speaker 2: As we are in right now.
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  Speaker 1: How Jason look, Yeah, Jason's Ben is pretty special to
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  Speaker 1: see a guy walk in and you know, look like
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  Speaker 1: he's ready to play right now, and knowing that he's
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  Speaker 1: going into his twentieth season in the NFL and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know came out here and was able to move around,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with great foot speed, great quickness, uh and
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  Speaker 1: and just his football knowledge and his understanding. Like in
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  Speaker 1: my mind, to see him come out here yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: before really getting into meetings and knowing all our calls,
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  Speaker 1: but just have a football understanding where he can just
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  Speaker 1: get in and fit in and see what pressure coming
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  Speaker 1: and pick it up and know what's going on has
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  Speaker 1: been special to see. So there'll be a great addition,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not only for him as a player, but
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  Speaker 1: the person where some of these younger linemen can talk
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  Speaker 1: to and gain some great knowledge from him right away
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  Speaker 1: shows up the nineteen year playoff, What does he do
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  Speaker 1: the process? I would say, you know, showing up in
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  Speaker 1: that type of position. You know, for for both Charles
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  Speaker 1: and Abe, you know they took time in an offseason program,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how to get used to a system.
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  Speaker 2: How to know what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: But but for Jason, for a guy with with that
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  Speaker 1: many snaps accumulated at a high level throughout his career,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he has that ability to just walk out
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  Speaker 1: into an NFL practice field and and maybe not need
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  Speaker 1: all the details of the knowledge because it's he's got
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  Speaker 1: it somewhere in his archives that he can resource and
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  Speaker 1: reference and able to come out here and function at
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  Speaker 1: a high level, you know, with limited exposure to it,
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  Speaker 1: to a totally new system. Third down situation stuff in
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  Speaker 1: the offseason is frustrating to see how things take it
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  Speaker 1: out on a Sunday. Yeah, I think there's no doubt,
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  Speaker 1: you know, our expectations and and what our goals are
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  Speaker 1: and third down didn't play out how we saw them
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  Speaker 1: or you know, how we we felt like they would
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  Speaker 1: go there. And so I think that goes back to
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  Speaker 1: you know, one one example, one game of it right there,
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  Speaker 1: like let's not let that bleed into the next game,
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  Speaker 1: or let us try to say, hey, we need to
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  Speaker 1: change the whole thing of how we're approaching it, or
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  Speaker 1: change how we want to execute a certain play. We
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  Speaker 1: just need to do better in those pressure situations that
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  Speaker 1: come up throughout the course of the game and continue
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  Speaker 1: to have that positive mindset moving forward correcting that happen
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  Speaker 1: on some day. What Moll did the coaches specifically play
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  Speaker 1: in that. I think it's like any part of the
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  Speaker 1: game where you're able to get a good honest evaluation
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  Speaker 1: as a coaching staff on that Monday where you go
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  Speaker 1: through everything and and you know that after action report
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  Speaker 1: where you go through it honestly, and and then you
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  Speaker 1: go through it with the players and and for us
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  Speaker 1: as an offense, you know the ability. We've got some
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  Speaker 1: great players, We've got great people on the offensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball that are totally open to that clear,
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  Speaker 1: open and honest communication on a you know, following a loss,
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  Speaker 1: when we know it's a it's a little easier to
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  Speaker 1: correct after a win if something goes wrong, you're feeling
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better, but you know, everyone still wants
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  Speaker 1: to win.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's competitive.
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  Speaker 1: So when you come in after a loss and you know,
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  Speaker 1: those guys are able to listen and then also provide
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  Speaker 1: their own feedback and some stuff because I think think,
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  Speaker 1: like everything else, it's a collaborative effort in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone's always learning and always looking for some way
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  Speaker 1: to improve or to provide more clarity in those scenarios.
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  Speaker 1: As much as you're emphasizing the third down play, how
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  Speaker 1: much of the coaching and teachings going on about first down?
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  Speaker 1: We got that to make a third manage. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the third downs and then you know
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  Speaker 1: what precedes that. I think that's you know, really one
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  Speaker 1: of our key points that we make, and we talked
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  Speaker 1: about you know throughout the course of the off season
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  Speaker 1: is the first and second down efficiency is always going
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  Speaker 1: to lead to better production on third down. So the
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  Speaker 1: more times that we can get into those third and
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  Speaker 1: six or less situations throughout the course of the game,
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  Speaker 1: just percentage wise in football, the better chances.
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  Speaker 2: That you're going to have.
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  Speaker 1: And I know on our scoring drive there for example,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe we had a third down. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's always a good way to execute high on third
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  Speaker 1: down is not have any of those. You know, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's always a nice way to do it too, But
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  Speaker 1: you know they're going to come up. You know they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be critical situations. But that first and second
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  Speaker 1: down execution, you know, getting into third and manageables and
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  Speaker 1: providing you know, better offense of opportunities than being in
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  Speaker 1: a third and long, especially against you know, in a
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  Speaker 1: road environment, against elite pass rushers or an elite pressure
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  Speaker 1: plan like we're about to see right here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to stay third and manageable is a big part
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  Speaker 1: of it, which all starts on our first and second
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  Speaker 1: down execution. Anything else very