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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "For Us, It's a Matter of Just Continuing to Focus on Us, Be Us, Be Who We Are, Control the Things That We Can Control" · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: The ways that you can try to get creative with
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  Speaker 1: the running game to get it going given the injuries
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  Speaker 1: in the offensive line and you guys exhausted the possibilities
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  Speaker 1: to now or are you still working on ways that
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of kickstart this thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, obviously, go find ways to improve, possibly getting back
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  Speaker 2: to some of the some of the schemes that worked
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the season, or you know what what helped Travis,
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  Speaker 2: you know, break free. Obviously, the injury situation, you know
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  Speaker 2: in the offensive line is has affected that just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, having that continuity up front, but you know
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  Speaker 2: it's something that we were focused on, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: even with Phil, you know, just again finding those schemes
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  Speaker 2: that have worked in our past and trying to tap
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  Speaker 2: back into that to see if we can't jump start
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  Speaker 2: the rung game.
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  Speaker 3: Ezra and Cisco hurt yesterday. If you have an update
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  Speaker 3: on you hear those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Ezra, I believe it was his knee that he felt
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  Speaker 2: in the game. Everything, you know, checked out good this
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  Speaker 2: morning today, so you know he'll be day to day.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously he's sore. You know, Cisco has growing that you know, well,
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  Speaker 2: those are those are a little bit different injuries obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, much like a hamstringer requad. So so he'll
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  Speaker 2: he'll be uh, you know, obviously day to day, but
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  Speaker 2: I just gotta see how he feels as the week progresses.
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  Speaker 3: Is there some hope that offer be able to go
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  Speaker 3: this week? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Optimistic you know, we'll see these next couple of days
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  Speaker 2: and when we get to Wednesday, but optimistic that he
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  Speaker 2: can maybe get some some reps. He and Brenton Strange
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  Speaker 2: both possibly this.
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  Speaker 3: Week day after How did travel Ale fun? We're storing today,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll be limited at all practices.
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  Speaker 2: We you know, we'll be we'll be careful with it.
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  Speaker 2: But you know right now, you know, being a Monday,
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  Speaker 2: if we had to practice today, probably probably not. But
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  Speaker 2: if he you know, comes back Wednesday, should be, should
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  Speaker 2: be good to go.
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  Speaker 3: Said yesterday you wanted to be playing your best football
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  Speaker 3: at this time of year? How long does it take
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  Speaker 3: to get that re engaged?
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  Speaker 1: Four weeks enough time to get this team playing to
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  Speaker 1: a level coach that you would say is is best football.
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  Speaker 2: I believe four weeks is plenty of time. And we've
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  Speaker 2: we've been able to do that. We've shown it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in in in about the mid season point, you know,
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  Speaker 2: of our season, we were playing pretty good football right
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  Speaker 2: in there, and we actually, quite honestly, these last couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks, you know, other than yesterday, I felt like
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  Speaker 2: our passing game was kind of you know, on track.
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  Speaker 2: It was, it was improving and and obviously the injury
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  Speaker 2: to Christian, you know, affects that a little bit. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, the things when you look at the tape, gosh,
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  Speaker 2: it's uh, it's all the self inflicted stuff. I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's it's negative. You know, negative runs are incomplete passes
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  Speaker 2: early in the down. You know, it's pre snap penalties
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  Speaker 2: that put you in first and fifteen's you know, route details,
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  Speaker 2: just just fundamental things that that we can control, you
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  Speaker 2: know that that have And really the same thing on defense,
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  Speaker 2: right just not staying disciplined in the gaps, missing tackles
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  Speaker 2: on the perimeter, all things that are within our control
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  Speaker 2: that that we've got to get back to doing. So
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  Speaker 2: you get those corrected and you put a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a you know, the attention to detail on those,
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  Speaker 2: I think you will be back to playing good football
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  Speaker 2: and competing.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been surprised about the pre snapt that on
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  Speaker 1: easies last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, really have you know, And quite honestly, they show
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  Speaker 2: up in practice during the week and and that's where
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  Speaker 2: that's where it starts. I'm a big believer that you
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna play like you practice, and when you don't
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  Speaker 2: have the Chris practice during the week, sometimes those things
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  Speaker 2: are going to creep into a game, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it gets magnified in a ballgame, right everything, everything matters,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's something that you know, to a point
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  Speaker 2: of emphasis. Obviously offensively, you know, we pride ourselves too
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  Speaker 2: with the silent count being able to use that. I
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  Speaker 2: mean because yesterday we did draw a couple of defensive
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  Speaker 2: offside penalties, which was great. I think one that was
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  Speaker 2: missed late in the game on that touchdown pass, which
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  Speaker 2: was okay. But yeah, those are things that are are
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  Speaker 2: concerning and alarming because those are the things that are
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  Speaker 2: that are holding the offense back right now.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's not an excuse, but how much of
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  Speaker 1: that is There's just so many different phases going in
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  Speaker 1: and out of the line.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's hard. You got different personnels, you know,
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  Speaker 2: different bodies, different people. But it's not an excuse that
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna use. You know, everybody reps those plays in practice.
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  Speaker 2: They know exactly which plays they're going to be in
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  Speaker 2: on and the cadences. But it's all kind of predetermined
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  Speaker 2: going into a football game what we're going to use.
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  Speaker 2: And so there's no excuse. You know, we just got
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  Speaker 2: to We just got to focus in and detail that
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  Speaker 2: part of our jobs.
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  Speaker 3: You have guys making mistakes that you know have been
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  Speaker 3: they've been making all you're having them fixed, wrong routes,
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  Speaker 3: those penalty things like that, and you're fifteen fourteen weeks
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  Speaker 3: into the season. Is that one of those things that
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  Speaker 3: drives you more crazy than a lot of other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It does, It drives me nuts. And you know, we
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  Speaker 2: continue and I continue to talk to the team and
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  Speaker 2: you know, just reiterate the impact that those fouls and
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  Speaker 2: mistakes have the implications of those plays, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: a game, and you know, it's the things that have
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  Speaker 2: kind of kept us from being better right maybe in
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  Speaker 2: the in the win loss column this season and than
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  Speaker 2: where we are right now. And and you know, but
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  Speaker 2: again too, we we have to own it. We got
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  Speaker 2: to take responsibility and accountability for it, and and everybody
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  Speaker 2: has to everybody has to lock in and focus a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 3: More so what is that? Is that a lack of
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  Speaker 3: focus or preparation on their part with those mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean some of it's on on players obviously, their
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  Speaker 2: attention to detail. They just got to focus and listen
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  Speaker 2: in the huddle, what the what the play is, what
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  Speaker 2: the call is, where to be aligned, the snap count
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  Speaker 2: and all those types of things. And and I get
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  Speaker 2: it too. They're in the heat of the moment. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you got to block Miles Garrett one on one,
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  Speaker 2: and you might anticipate the count just a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you just get a little jumpy. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: those are things that that we have to try to
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  Speaker 2: eliminate and you know, keep us out of those those
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  Speaker 2: long yardage situations.
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  Speaker 3: There's a chance of Jamal and you're coming back.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think, you know, I think this would
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  Speaker 2: be the week that if we can activate his window,
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  Speaker 2: we might do that, you know, later in the week.
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  Speaker 2: So see where he's at healthwise. He's feeling good, so hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hopefully by Wednesday we can we can make
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  Speaker 2: that you know decision.
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  Speaker 1: What did Antonio Johnson show you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, right, obviously he showed he showed quite a bit,
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  Speaker 4: you know, his ability to blitz, his physicality, tackle cover,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just a player that we've seen that out of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and and I think the more he plays,
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  Speaker 4: the better he'll he'll get and and all of that.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, he did, he did a nice job. You know,
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  Speaker 2: yesterday he was one of the one of the one
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  Speaker 2: of the bright spots you know, coming off the out
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  Speaker 2: of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Parker Boma. But he also called a touchdown pass. Is
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  Speaker 1: you know between Parker Antonio. Is this kind of boast
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  Speaker 1: you need from some of these young guys this late
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  Speaker 1: in the season, especially with all the injuries. But are
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  Speaker 1: they even though they are making the mistakes, they're performing
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  Speaker 1: in other areas, aren't they.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously the mistakes, you know, they gotta they got
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  Speaker 2: to minimize those and really eliminate those. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've gone too far now right into the season. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're showing, showing promise, They're obviously showing why
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  Speaker 2: why we drafted him obviously, And and now this late
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  Speaker 2: in the season, you know, these young guys really are
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  Speaker 2: going to be called upon, you know, based on injury
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  Speaker 2: and where you are as a team, and so the
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  Speaker 2: more opportunities they get. This was great for Parker obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with Christian's absence, he gets a chance to
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  Speaker 2: really kind of sink his teeth into the offense and
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  Speaker 2: show what he can do, which he's he's done the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of weeks, and the same with Antonio.
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  Speaker 1: End of the season. I'm looking at this, looks like
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  Speaker 1: Dallas and Baltimore the only teams that haven't had a
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  Speaker 1: losing streak. Everybody's had a two or three game Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City and Philadelphia. Philadelphi's on the one right now. So
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  Speaker 1: is is uh? Is the parody even more evident in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL this year than.
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  Speaker 2: Ever, I believe, so, I think the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and for us, I mean, this guy's not
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  Speaker 2: falling obviously. Yes, we have played our best football the
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  Speaker 2: last two weeks when we've gotten beat you know, but again,
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  Speaker 2: you're right. You look around the league and and and
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  Speaker 2: multiple teams have have had, you know, back to back
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  Speaker 2: losses or more, and you know it's it's this time
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  Speaker 2: of year, though, is where teams begin to separate, right
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  Speaker 2: and you start to get a better picture or clear
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  Speaker 2: picture at least of the postseason. But you know, for us,
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  Speaker 2: it's a matter of just continuing to just focus on us,
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  Speaker 2: be us, be who we are, you know, control the
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  Speaker 2: things that we can control, and you know, not you know,
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  Speaker 2: at least at least go out and not try to
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  Speaker 2: lose another football game if possible.
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  Speaker 1: Christian in the lineup, but he's also replacing agnew who
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how's he handling the fact that he's replacing
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  Speaker 1: two guys you wouldn't have thought he.
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  Speaker 3: Got to replace.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big role, big shoes to fill, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And and Jamal is obviously a tremendous returner in the
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  Speaker 2: in the kicking game. And you know, for Parker that's
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  Speaker 2: a you know, that's a that's a big opportunity. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's he's done well on some of the
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  Speaker 2: returns obviously, you know the Cincinnati game he put the
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  Speaker 2: ball on the ground, you know, on a punt return,
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  Speaker 2: and and then again yesterday, same thing. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: those are the things as a young player he has
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  Speaker 2: to understand, right And and we'll continue and Chad does
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  Speaker 2: a good job of communicating and talking with him and
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  Speaker 2: making sure that you know, he understands his role. But
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  Speaker 2: great opportunity for him you know, obviously we got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of confidence as a staff in him, and but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: big big shoes to fill with those two jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Where's the defense in your eyes right now?
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  Speaker 1: They had some big takeaways in the second quarter yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: but then's some big plays against him.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, I think for the defense, it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, it came down to I think three plays
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  Speaker 2: for about one hundred and twenty something plus yards yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: It's really that's really what it came down to. And
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  Speaker 2: some of that was communication airs and you know, again
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  Speaker 2: and when you're in a when you're that type of environment,
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  Speaker 2: you know, communication is is of the utmost and you know,
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  Speaker 2: on a couple of those plays, we failed to do
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  Speaker 2: that and and that can't happen, and that cannot happen.
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  Speaker 2: And that's something that I know the defensive staff and
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  Speaker 2: Michaeill reiterate, I've reiterated that we continue to talk to
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  Speaker 2: our guys and and but but you know, they kind
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  Speaker 2: of kept us in the game a little bit again
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  Speaker 2: with some of the takeaways, and uh, it just it
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  Speaker 2: just goes to show you how how close these games
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  Speaker 2: are because it comes down to three, four, maybe five
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  Speaker 2: players and you never know, you never know what play
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be. That's the that's the thing, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what I keep trying to reiterate with the team. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you got to play each play independent of
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  Speaker 2: the last, and and because you never know which one
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be, that's it's gonna come your way and
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have the opportunity to make that play.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, coach.