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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The 30-23 Win vs. Chargers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I would say we're very, like, grateful for a win.
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  Speaker 2: To be 3-1 is a tribute to our guys and
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  Speaker 2: our mentality throughout the week. I thought the guys were
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  Speaker 2: great throughout the week in terms of our approach. And
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  Speaker 2: to win in the NFL is dang hard, man. And so,
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  Speaker 2: with humility, we're really grateful for where we're at right
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  Speaker 2: now and excited to move forward. But we also understand
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  Speaker 2: that we have to– Definitely a lot of room for
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  Speaker 2: improvement with our operation, how we take care of the football,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously penalties are something we need to address. We
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  Speaker 2: have a spectrum around here on how we ascribe penalties.
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  Speaker 2: One's cost of doing business. In terms of playing style,
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  Speaker 2: we want to play hard. Sometimes we make mistakes. And
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of the spectrum is we call
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  Speaker 2: them selfish penalties. So we need to be– this is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a through-not-around type of next 24 to
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  Speaker 2: 48 hours on– on how we address the penalties.
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  Speaker 3: I look forward to moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a big week ahead of us, and the
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  Speaker 2: guys were excited. They played extremely hard, stayed together, and
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  Speaker 2: did enough to win the game, so we're thankful for that.
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  Speaker 3: He's got an ankle.
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  Speaker 2: Right now it doesn't look serious right now, which is
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  Speaker 2: positive news, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: The penalties, Utena was just in here saying he thought
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  Speaker 1: the emotions got the best of them, maybe a little
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  Speaker 1: bit out there. Did you sense that at all, like
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of a building thing?
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  Speaker 2: For me to say right now, but to have seven
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  Speaker 2: personal foul penalties is unacceptable on any level, however you
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  Speaker 2: slice it. So that's not us, and that's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be how we.
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  Speaker 3: Play football around here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to be able to run the ball. So
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  Speaker 3: the guys did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Emmanuel ran the ball well. I thought George
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  Speaker 2: ran the ball well. It was great to get Sheed going,
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  Speaker 2: which is really cool. And Justin Allen deserves a lot
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  Speaker 2: of credit. John Benton, it's a team effort. So the
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  Speaker 2: guys did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, it seemed like you guys had them on the
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  Speaker 1: ropes during the second half of 21 points with their
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  Speaker 1: missing some guys. Why do you think it took you
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  Speaker 1: until the end of the game to really.
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  Speaker 2: Shut the door?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we were off the field multiple times and got penalties.
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  Speaker 3: So it's cut and dry.
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  Speaker 2: It's not how we're going to do business.
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  Speaker 3: That's not how we need to play. It's unacceptable.
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  Speaker 2: Despite all of that, your defense was able to shut
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  Speaker 2: them down in the last sequence.
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  Speaker 1: How important is that for perseverance?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was good.
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  Speaker 3: We had to stay together.
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  Speaker 2: As frustrated as we were, we got to go win
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  Speaker 2: the game. And Chena got a game ball for closing
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  Speaker 2: it out.
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  Speaker 3: So it was great. That was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: How do you balance everything you said at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: about how hard it is to win the NFL and
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  Speaker 1: celebrating a win and how you want to close a
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  Speaker 1: game and that wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Necessarily the standard you wanted to set? I think it's
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  Speaker 3: a process thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, Yeah, we want to win games, but we
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  Speaker 2: want to be the Seahawks and the vision of how
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  Speaker 2: we want to play.
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  Speaker 3: And so when we're not that, then that's why we
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  Speaker 3: feel the way we feel.
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  Speaker 2: Again, we're grateful for wins. It's freaking hard to win,
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  Speaker 2: which is awesome. But it's also that we're not there yet.
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  Speaker 2: And so we've got to go to work.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to.
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  Speaker 2: Attack the process and attack the thing so we can
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  Speaker 2: improve and get better. the leaders you've got on that team?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody in that locker room knows it. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be everybody. The guys will be great. I've told them
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  Speaker 2: this way. Anytime we've set our intention on something, I
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  Speaker 2: have a hard time finding an exception. The guys have
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  Speaker 2: done it. We just have to be honest with our
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  Speaker 2: process on how we approach it and how we go
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  Speaker 2: through it, straight up.
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  Speaker 3: It's everybody pulling in the same direction. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's where we want to improve. There's other parts of
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  Speaker 2: the game we felt like did a great job. There's
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  Speaker 2: areas where we didn't. The run game on defense isn't
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  Speaker 2: good enough, so we've.
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  Speaker 3: Got to be better there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Nick's been kind of working his way back. Did this
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  Speaker 1: kind of feel like he's fully back doing everything?
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  Speaker 2: We'll see how it came out of the game, but
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  Speaker 2: I think he should be full go now.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of the game you played, the production....
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  Speaker 3: It's good to have him back, but everybody's got to
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  Speaker 3: get better.
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  Speaker 1: When you put in a game plan like this one
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  Speaker 1: to blitz as much as you did on defense, is
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  Speaker 1: that an extra juice for you?
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  Speaker 3: Do you love to create that in for your players?
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  Speaker 1: What's the reaction when they're presented with this?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize we called it any differently.
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  Speaker 2: We just had a game plan, and we either stick
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  Speaker 2: to it or you adjust, and then we went from there.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't like a conscious shift in philosophy or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 3: It was just how I want to go. I do
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  Speaker 3: think we wanted to be a little more aggressive coming
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  Speaker 3: out of the last game. I think that's a fair assessment. Sorry,
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  Speaker 3: Bob keeps getting... Is.
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  Speaker 1: Trevon Diggs played some for the first time?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just kind of his role.
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  Speaker 3: And what you thought?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's an example of a guy coming
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  Speaker 2: in and doing everything we ask and earning a chance
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  Speaker 2: to go play.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm excited to watch the tape.
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  Speaker 2: I thought we covered really well today. I thought the
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  Speaker 2: guys communicated really well. We had some– I just thought
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  Speaker 2: we communicated really well, let's just put it that way.
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  Speaker 2: And so we were all on the same page.
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  Speaker 3: We were aligned. And I thought that was really good.
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  Speaker 1: What did you get from Rashid Shaheed in the backfield today?
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  Speaker 3: A touchdown. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: We've had that in for a while. So it was
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  Speaker 2: a great call by Brian at the right time. I
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  Speaker 2: thought we blocked it great and then he did the rest.
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  Speaker 1: Linebackers at the interceptions, EJ at the 12 tackle banks,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think.
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  Speaker 3: Of those two in the play zone?
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  Speaker 2: I think Dave told me, has that ever happened, like
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  Speaker 2: back-to-back interceptions to start a game, ever? If that happens
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  Speaker 2: next time, let's go for three in a row so then.
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  Speaker 3: We can get the ball back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, those guys are playing really good football. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's something as a.
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  Speaker 3: Staff we have to do a great job of because
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  Speaker 3: Drake deserves.
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  Speaker 2: To play, and so does Nick, and so does Nehemiah,
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  Speaker 2: and so does Trayvon Diggs. And we have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of great players that we.
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  Speaker 3: Want to get on the field. So I'm happy for
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  Speaker 3: those guys.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how we play at the end of the
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  Speaker 2: half and winning those kind of end-of-half, beginning-of-the-half moments, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we really could have been, like, could have been like 14, nothing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, from the, on the swing at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the half. And that's why, that's why it's, it's
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  Speaker 2: so critical that we got.
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  Speaker 3: To be on our details at the end of the half.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, we don't allow the offense to go
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  Speaker 2: back down and kick field goals to end the half.
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  Speaker 3: So that's something we need to get better at.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you think of Sam's day overall?
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  Speaker 3: I thought Sam did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Um, you know, put the first, the first ball, I
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  Speaker 2: know he wants back, but, um, played tough. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they got, we had probably too many hits on the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback and, uh, You know, Sammy's tough as crap. Just
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  Speaker 2: kept playing, you know, just unfazed.
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  Speaker 1: With Diggs, is he still physically ramping back up?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, he's ready to go. Yeah, he's good. He's good.
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  Speaker 1: How did you feel about the offense overall today?
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  Speaker 3: Good enough to win. Good enough to win.
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  Speaker 2: I thought we did a lot of good things. We
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  Speaker 2: should have had that last play protected, so I'm interested
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  Speaker 2: to see what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any sense of how long he might
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  Speaker 1: be out or what the timeline is?
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  Speaker 3: No. Do you feel good about Ty Cotter being back
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  Speaker 3: this upcoming week? Ty has a shot to play this week.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.