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Shane Waldron: "We're Always Striving For Balance" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, good afternoon. How's everyone doing well from Drew? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I love seeing Drew get out there and compete, you know,
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  Speaker 1: right from that that opening drive right there, guys rallying
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  Speaker 1: around him, no one going through the ins and outs
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  Speaker 1: of the week leading up to it, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: the kind of a you know, a late in the
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  Speaker 1: week adjustment that we had to make for an unfortunate
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  Speaker 1: set of circumstances. But saw the guys rally around him
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  Speaker 1: and saw him go out there and compete and have
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  Speaker 1: fun doing it. I think he's talked about this before
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  Speaker 1: you run passing numbers, we're not twenty for balance, not
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  Speaker 1: fifty to fiftys to making a decision on just a
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  Speaker 1: number of runs in terms of that, like the number
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  Speaker 1: runs per game is always going to be predicated upon,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how the drives go, how everything's going, and
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  Speaker 1: so we know in a perfect scenario, especially if you're
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  Speaker 1: in the lead in the game, where you get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to get more runs going in the fourth quarter. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's also chances throughout the course of the game in
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  Speaker 1: those first second down scenarios and then mixing and matching
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  Speaker 1: them in the h In some of the situational football
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  Speaker 1: right there. And so for us, you know, again, it'll
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  Speaker 1: all be about being efficient on first and second down,
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  Speaker 1: and and the more times we can do that, and
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  Speaker 1: the more that we can execute on third down, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the more balanced our final numbers in the run game
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  Speaker 1: each week will be. And I think this week, this
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  Speaker 1: past week was indicative of some struggles on third down,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where you get behind the behind the chains
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  Speaker 1: and and then late in the game when you're down
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  Speaker 1: a couple scores, throwing those numbers off. So we're always
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  Speaker 1: going to be striving for that balance and and really
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  Speaker 1: coming back to that execution on first and second down
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  Speaker 1: and playing consistent football for four quarters. Did anything really
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  Speaker 1: have to change it all game final wise or anything
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  Speaker 1: when you have the switch to do at that point,
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, going through like we would do
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  Speaker 1: with Gino as well, where you go through the final
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  Speaker 1: call sheet on some of the things that that that
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  Speaker 1: are his favorite plays and and really leaning on those,
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  Speaker 1: but really in terms of the system and the and
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  Speaker 1: the scheme that we went with. You know, that's what
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  Speaker 1: we love about Drew and Gino together is that you've
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  Speaker 1: got two guys that can really operate in a similar
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  Speaker 1: fashion and so we can week out their ownership of
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  Speaker 1: the game plan. You know, whether it was Drew's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the starter or was going to be the backup.
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  Speaker 1: You know, his approach each week, just like when Gino
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  Speaker 1: was in that backup role, has remained the Hey, I
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  Speaker 1: might be the starter this week, and I'm not just
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  Speaker 1: doing it to do it. I really believe this, and
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  Speaker 1: I got to prepare like this, and I think that's
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  Speaker 1: going to pay dividends and did pay dividends for Drew
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  Speaker 1: in the first start. And I think we need to
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  Speaker 1: keep improving overall as an offense around him and around
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  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks as we keep moving forward here, what are
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  Speaker 1: some of the things that when he does get just
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  Speaker 1: to play end that's done a season correct. I think that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the number one thing is always going to
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  Speaker 1: be for every one of our guys on offense is
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  Speaker 1: taking care of the football, you know, giving us a
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  Speaker 1: chance to be in the plus on that turnover margin
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the game. We know that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be one of the major factors in winning and
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  Speaker 1: losing football games. So, you know, starting with the quarterback position,
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  Speaker 1: who has the most chances in the game for the
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  Speaker 1: potential for the ball to be in peril, you know,
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  Speaker 1: doing a good job with some of those things. And
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  Speaker 1: you know there's always going to be things that come
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  Speaker 1: back and say, hey, you know, what was the result
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  Speaker 1: or why did it turnover? Occur. Sometimes it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: one specific reason. Sometimes it's a multitude of things. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, for Drew's you know, confidence level and everything
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  Speaker 1: where he's able to make every single throw just understanding
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  Speaker 1: you know, the accuracy, the downfield decisions, some of those
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  Speaker 1: things that come into play, doing a great job with it,
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  Speaker 1: which he continued to do. He did a great job
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  Speaker 1: with his decisions. And then there's a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: where you know, the ball one one's a tip and
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  Speaker 1: one's a left inside type of throw where you know,
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  Speaker 1: if we can eliminate those type of things, we know
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the game, you know we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a better chance to win those those contests where
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  Speaker 1: he got out of the markets. Yeah, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of Drew's strong traits is being able to work
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  Speaker 1: off schedule. I think the one they blitzed us on
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  Speaker 1: a third down and he's able to break contain on
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  Speaker 1: the right side and find a completion of Tyler right there.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's always gonna be one of Drew's
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  Speaker 1: strong suits, be able to use his athletic ability and
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  Speaker 1: and get out and extend plays. First interception, the decision
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  Speaker 1: just a bad throat. Yeah, he just left it inside.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think I love about Drew. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he knows it came right off. You know, he left
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  Speaker 1: it inside on a throw that's a you know, an
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  Speaker 1: outside the numbers to the sideline throw right there, being
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  Speaker 1: aggressive with that mindset to DK who had had a
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  Speaker 1: little edge right there. And you know, it's one of
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  Speaker 1: those things he learned from and and takes the accountability
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  Speaker 1: and comes right off and learn from it for the
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  Speaker 1: next time that that play might come up down the road.
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  Speaker 1: His patients when he's out out day, we talk about
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  Speaker 1: that because that's something that he's doing. How specially is
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  Speaker 1: that for him he comes out of the pocket smoking
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  Speaker 1: down field. I got you, oh, he said, the patients
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  Speaker 1: when he's breaking containing Yeah, yeah, no, I agree, You
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  Speaker 1: know he does. He has a good feel for once
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  Speaker 1: he gets out on the edge right there where it's
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  Speaker 1: not a panic scenario right there. He's really got good
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  Speaker 1: big field vision and I know probably say it goes
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  Speaker 1: back to his basketball days right there. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: he can really operate off schedule. You know, he really
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  Speaker 1: has understanding of you know, he comes off the field,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about a series. You know, it might be
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  Speaker 1: a scramble play. He can articulate, Hey, where were the
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  Speaker 1: other twenty one guys on the field. He has a
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  Speaker 1: great sense of where everything's happening and what's going on
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  Speaker 1: around him. So, you know, having his patients having a
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  Speaker 1: good decisions there and you know, really finding some of
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  Speaker 1: those off schedule plays, especially in the third down or
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  Speaker 1: in the red zone. To me as an offense as
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  Speaker 1: a whole, that's something that we can help progress and
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  Speaker 1: keep progressing upon to steal a few of those conversions
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  Speaker 1: each game. You emphasizing most or what's the one area
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  Speaker 1: to improve to turn this around offense? Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: the one area by far and away has been consistency.
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  Speaker 1: It's something we've talked about. Uh, you know where we've
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  Speaker 1: had these these great moments. You know, you come off
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  Speaker 1: of a game where you know we're over fifty percent
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  Speaker 1: on third down, and then you roll into the next
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  Speaker 1: game and we're back to you know, struggling on third
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  Speaker 1: down right there. Uh, so it's really and it's not
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  Speaker 1: just the third down. I know that's been a major
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  Speaker 1: area we've talked about, but it's that consistency throughout four
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  Speaker 1: quarters every single week where we've had games where we've
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  Speaker 1: you know, done a really good job starting fast, come
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  Speaker 1: out with a touchdown drive. We've had games where we've
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  Speaker 1: whether it's Cleveland or you know, some of those games
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  Speaker 1: Washington down at the end in the fourth quarter, where
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  Speaker 1: we've really finished strongly. And so for us on offense,
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  Speaker 1: it's how do we find that consistency through four quarters
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  Speaker 1: and everything that we're doing. I haven't felt that in
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  Speaker 1: one game yet. I feel like we've we've been a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of up and down and sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 1: but that's going to be part of it. We know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the plays that the defense makes, the plays
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  Speaker 1: that the other teammates. We know in the NFL, everybody's good,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's got playmakers. So you know, we're not expecting and
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  Speaker 1: we are expecting everything to be perfect, but we know
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, pretty unlikely through the course of a game.
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  Speaker 1: We know the other player is going to make plays
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  Speaker 1: throughout the course of the game, but our ability to
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  Speaker 1: stay consistent mentally where we're not riding emotional highs or lows,
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  Speaker 1: to execute at a high level through four quarters, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that there's gonna be good things coming, there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: some bad things that might occur, and then keep bouncing back,
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  Speaker 1: keep playing the next play or keep playing the next drive.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a good challenge for us and something
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  Speaker 1: that we know. You know, there's still a lot of
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  Speaker 1: season left right here with these four games right here,
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  Speaker 1: and we know that as an offense, there's still plenty
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  Speaker 1: of time to stay on an improving mindset right here
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  Speaker 1: and keep getting better at the things we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get better at. Good, all right, thank you,