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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The Prime-Time Win Over The Cardinals In Week 4 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good morning everyone, Brian, you want to start us off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Coach, A couple of things for you, Uh, questions
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  Speaker 2: for you about Clint Kubiak and all san Donal's getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot of praise as he should. Uh do you
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  Speaker 2: think Klinick Kubiak after that first game, we've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of criticism, maybe deserve some credit for how he's
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  Speaker 2: been scheming guys open the last few games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Our our whole offensive staff I think is doing a
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  Speaker 4: great job. And then we have another opportunity just you know,
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  Speaker 4: finishing the guys on the radio, you know, having this
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  Speaker 4: kind of miniature by here understanding, like taking a look
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  Speaker 4: at what we're doing and how how we can improve
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  Speaker 4: and just love their mindset and we're working well together.
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  Speaker 4: And I think Clint's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you said just on the radio, you guys
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  Speaker 2: are good, you can be great. What are two things
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  Speaker 2: that you think you want to improve on until they
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  Speaker 2: go from good to great?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think there's opportun unities for us as a
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  Speaker 4: football team to capitalize on. And that's how we're executing
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  Speaker 4: in those moments and how we're calling it and our philosophy.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't have the answers to that right now,
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  Speaker 4: But I know we'll be looking at that and our
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  Speaker 4: run game. You know, where's our run game? What are
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  Speaker 4: we doing well? How can we improve? And then you
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  Speaker 4: know how we're handling right now. I feel like our
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  Speaker 4: past defense is good, but there's gonna be room for
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  Speaker 4: growth there and how we marry it together, so return game,
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  Speaker 4: you know our turn numbers. Uh, there's there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of a lot of things that come to mind.
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  Speaker 2: And then Nick even worry he didn't play last night.
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  Speaker 2: You'd said before that Devin Witherspoon doesn't need as much practice,
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  Speaker 2: but Nick, being a rookie does. Was he being held
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  Speaker 2: out last night because you feel like he needs more
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  Speaker 2: practice reps? Or is that still a health to thing?
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  Speaker 3: No, it was a well, it would have been both.
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  Speaker 3: If he let's say, he said he.
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  Speaker 4: Was ready to play on Wednesday, we wouldn't have played
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  Speaker 4: him unless he took a turn leer in the week.
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  Speaker 3: We probably would have looked at it. But yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: was it was a health thing.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Bob.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike, it just sounded like maybe you haven't gotten
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  Speaker 5: through the second half of the watching your film what
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  Speaker 5: you said on the radio, But just you guys were
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  Speaker 5: so dominant statistically defensively through three quarters. Did you feel
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  Speaker 5: like anything change with what they were doing in the
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  Speaker 5: fourth quarter at all or just obviously you guys had
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  Speaker 5: a couple of penalties in there as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well they they their their philosophy is they go
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  Speaker 4: to when they're down multiple scores, they go into no
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  Speaker 4: huddle mode earlier than most teams. And we have to
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  Speaker 4: play that better. I mean, we have to play it better.
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  Speaker 4: We got to call it better. I got to execute better.
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  Speaker 4: And again that that's the feeling I had come out
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  Speaker 4: of the game. I know our guys, it's not for
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  Speaker 4: a lack of trying. Our guys are guys are battling,
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  Speaker 4: they're playing really hard. And uh, you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: I understand there's some penalties involved, and you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: some lot of yards with a couple of those penalties,
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  Speaker 4: which we'll look at and and see what I can
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  Speaker 4: improve on that front.
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  Speaker 5: And and the old I guess the only injury we
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  Speaker 5: saw was Lawrence. Was there anything else that came out
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  Speaker 5: of that game and all that?
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  Speaker 4: You know, yeah, there's there's again there's a couple of
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  Speaker 4: things and uh, if I told you now and I'd
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  Speaker 4: probably change it on Monday, so I'll wait to tell you. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: all right, I want I look, I want to be
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  Speaker 4: I want to be right, but I haven't been right.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna no, that's fair, it's gonna not
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  Speaker 3: be right this point.
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  Speaker 6: We got to ask.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of not being wrong, Michael Sean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: How to take that, Mike.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, as you know, a lot of Zach and Ken's
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  Speaker 7: runs have gone backwards or for nothing. Why is that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think I think it's a processed result thing
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  Speaker 4: you're looking at. You're looking at. I mean, what do
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  Speaker 4: we we ran for on one hundred and fifty to
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  Speaker 4: more yesterday? So there's a lot of good stuff that
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  Speaker 4: we're doing. I think we took a step from the
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  Speaker 4: week before, but there are some there are runs where
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  Speaker 4: we're just not getting off the ground.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, it's really everybody.
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  Speaker 4: It's our It's how we design it, how we coach it,
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  Speaker 4: how we're blocking it, how we're running it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of things.
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  Speaker 4: So I think you know that that's part of the
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  Speaker 4: things we're gonna be looking at moving forward, especially.
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  Speaker 3: Over the weekend, and see how we can improve.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Greg, Sir, how's Reek Woman doing and what's the coaching
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  Speaker 6: emphasis on the ball in the air for him right now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I think Reek's he's playing really hard. He's like,
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  Speaker 4: I think he's pressing maybe a little bit on his situation,
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  Speaker 4: like with the situation going on, and.
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  Speaker 3: But it did.
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  Speaker 4: It does seem like some of those penalties there are
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  Speaker 4: in the same kind of mode where it's playing the
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  Speaker 4: deep ball when he's in phase A couple of them
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  Speaker 4: are you putt in a tough spot where they looked
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  Speaker 4: like it was underthrown a little bit, And that's a
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  Speaker 4: hard situation for the corner. But we can keep putting
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  Speaker 4: them in more situations in practice, give him some more
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  Speaker 4: exposure to those plays so he has some more confidence
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  Speaker 4: when he's putting those situations. Those are plays that he's
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  Speaker 4: made throughout his career. He's we expect him to make
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  Speaker 4: him He he knows that he can make those plays,
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  Speaker 4: and so we'll just go try to make it right
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  Speaker 4: at this point.
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  Speaker 6: William, what was the thinking of the Anthony Bell as
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  Speaker 6: a big nickel third safety last night and had that
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  Speaker 6: work out?
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  Speaker 4: Yeahd Anthony's doing a good job for us, really, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's kind of filled in for for Knick's role and
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  Speaker 4: when the teams go a little bit bigger on us
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  Speaker 4: and we want to get a little bit bigger at
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  Speaker 4: Nickel and uh that's really the driving the decision behind it.
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  Speaker 4: But he does a great job. He's really physical, he's decisive,
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  Speaker 4: he plays hard, tackles well, he's been an asset for
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  Speaker 4: us and then.
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  Speaker 7: We'll find one.
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  Speaker 6: When they tied it at twenty, I talked to some
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  Speaker 6: guys about the mentality of aside and did what struck
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  Speaker 6: you What did you notice in those moments before the kickoff?
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  Speaker 4: Well I didn't I didn't do like a survey of
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  Speaker 4: whatever it is feeling, but by by by the uh,
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  Speaker 4: just by the feeling that I had was okay, hey,
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  Speaker 4: look we're in a you know, we could kind of
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  Speaker 4: describe our our what our two minute operation is at
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  Speaker 4: that point, and I was I was hoping we would
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  Speaker 4: pop a return, you know, to to shorten the field
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  Speaker 4: for us.
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  Speaker 3: So that was it.
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  Speaker 4: That was an example of hey, you know, we get
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  Speaker 4: an opportunity with you know, our starting field position, and
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  Speaker 4: we took advantage of it, and uh, by not having
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  Speaker 4: to create anything crazy, but just by executing and playing
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  Speaker 4: our style ball doing the stuff that we do well,
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  Speaker 4: and we're able to pull the you know, be able
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  Speaker 4: to execute to give ourselves a chance to win. Those
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  Speaker 4: are those are That's a situation where we have to
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  Speaker 4: do a better job of throughout the games and take
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  Speaker 4: advantage of those things. But I know our conversation on
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  Speaker 4: on the office, on the headsets was really just identifying
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  Speaker 4: the situation, you know, getting the plays dialed up that
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  Speaker 4: we wanted to get dialed.
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  Speaker 3: Up and and let's go rock.
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  Speaker 6: And roll if they don't miss the landing zone there
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  Speaker 6: and say, you're hamm din in your twenty ors, so
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  Speaker 6: were you with one time out twenty seconds? Were you
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  Speaker 6: going for the field goal anyway?
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  Speaker 3: Or were you yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going for it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thanks mas Veta.
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  Speaker 7: And my kind of philosophical question. We keep hearing the
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  Speaker 7: connectedness of this team from players and you as well,
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  Speaker 7: Just how does trust play into that? Why is that important?
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  Speaker 7: And how does that show up on the field.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's easy to you know, give you all the
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  Speaker 4: buzzwords and everything whenever and when things are going well. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes that can mask the spirit of your team, the
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  Speaker 4: connectedness of your team, all those things we're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: So to me, it's like when.
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  Speaker 4: We're when we have adversity and we're when we're up
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  Speaker 4: our backs are up against the wall. Things aren't necessarily
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  Speaker 4: going our way. You know, people might make some decisions
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  Speaker 4: that aren't helpful for the team. How do you how
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  Speaker 4: do you work through those situations? And right now, I'm
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  Speaker 4: proud of our attitude and our approach and and you
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  Speaker 4: have to have trust to kind of work through those things.
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  Speaker 4: And so that's gonna be something that we're going to
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  Speaker 4: be leaning on here over the next X amount of
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  Speaker 4: weeks X amount of days where we're we have a
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  Speaker 4: you know sense urgency to improve, you know, and get
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  Speaker 4: better and and put games like that away earlier and
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  Speaker 4: then on.
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  Speaker 7: Your chinna just you know, the return And he kind
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  Speaker 7: of said he was gassed last night. That just what
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  Speaker 7: are you seeing in terms of his return? And that
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  Speaker 7: helps the team.
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  Speaker 3: I said that Chenno was gased last night.
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  Speaker 7: No no, no, no no. Somebody asked him just how
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  Speaker 7: he felt post last night and he said, I'm glad
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  Speaker 7: to be back. I'm proud of my team, but I'll
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  Speaker 7: be honest with.
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  Speaker 3: You, I'm gased.
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  Speaker 4: Well, our guys play hard. I mean should be tired, man.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they play a certain way and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it felt like felt like he felt Chen out there,
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  Speaker 4: which is great. And he's back and I'm proud of him.
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy for him.
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  Speaker 3: Again.
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  Speaker 4: I've only watched the first half, but definitely felt his
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  Speaker 4: presence out there. And he's got such a knack for
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  Speaker 4: how to like to rush with angles and set up blocks.
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  Speaker 4: He's a great game runner, all those things. There's a
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  Speaker 4: physicality to how he plays, which is really cool. And
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  Speaker 4: you compliments the rest of the group.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike, yesterday I think you said Sam and Jacks
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  Speaker 5: were playing lights out.
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  Speaker 2: What is it for two guys that have played together for,
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  Speaker 2: you know, less of a season.
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  Speaker 3: What allows them to have that kind of connection.
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  Speaker 4: So really, yeah, every opportunity that I have to to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, show the importance of the significance of the
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  Speaker 4: off season program. It's I really believe that that is
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  Speaker 4: sets foundation for your team on and off the field.
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  Speaker 4: All the chemistry, all those reps in April and May
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  Speaker 4: and June, those stack, you know, and that those are
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  Speaker 4: things that are really important. It doesn't necessarily feel like
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  Speaker 4: that in the moment, but if you don't do those things,
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  Speaker 4: you don't have that foundation, and I feel like you're
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  Speaker 4: playing catch up the rest of the season. And those
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  Speaker 4: guys were here every day in the spring and they're
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  Speaker 4: in the process along with the rest of our offense,
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  Speaker 4: like our whole offense is here the entire spring, which
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  Speaker 4: is just awesome. I think I think that's been pan
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  Speaker 4: dividends for US.
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  Speaker 2: Brian, which you said earlier that one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: that you guys didn't use the push with Barner was
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  Speaker 2: it was longer than the yard. Last night seemed like
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  Speaker 2: there was a play that was shorter and you guys
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  Speaker 2: didn't go there. Yeah, just thoughts and why why that's
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  Speaker 2: not the automatic on short gardage.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, that's something we need to talk about.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think you can put that on me
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  Speaker 4: in terms of diagnosing how long the play was, but
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  Speaker 4: that was that was a play that we could have
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  Speaker 4: gone to in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: And then just a question on what what do you
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  Speaker 2: think needs to happen on defense for you guys to
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  Speaker 2: close out games a.
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  Speaker 5: Little bit better?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think it's I think it's several things I got.
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  Speaker 4: I think I gotta call it better. I think I
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  Speaker 4: gotta put our guys in better positions in those situations.
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  Speaker 4: How how we how we get organized on a play
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  Speaker 4: to play basis, We're gonna look at in terms of
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  Speaker 4: our process, and I think our guys mental space or
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  Speaker 4: is the right is right thing? I think we just
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  Speaker 4: got to keep executing, just keep stacking really good plays
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  Speaker 4: over one over one ao another, and we had opportunities
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  Speaker 4: to do it. I think we got him to a
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  Speaker 4: couple of fourth downs. The guy made a great play
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  Speaker 4: on the fourth down where you know, I think our
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  Speaker 4: execution of that play was about as good as you get.
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  Speaker 4: So sometimes that's gonna happen, and you gotta be able
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  Speaker 4: to rebound and ultimately come up with those plays.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right, we have to be able to close
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  Speaker 3: games out in the fourth quarter. Thanks Coach Brady.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Mike, what do you think the way Witherspon played
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  Speaker 5: after missing the last couple of games and is he's
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  Speaker 5: still like dealing with the knee injuries that's something that
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  Speaker 5: still was affecting him last night.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, as soon as you take your first snap
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  Speaker 4: of this season, you're not gonna be one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 4: so he's gonna But I thought I thought he played
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  Speaker 4: a good game I mean there's a couple of plays
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  Speaker 4: he gave up a couple of catches that you know
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  Speaker 4: they got the Harrison had on. But Spoon's gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the guy, the guy competes, he's on his stuff.
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  Speaker 4: He's a spark plug out there for us. Uh, you
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  Speaker 4: gotta remember, he hasn't practiced. He literally hasn't had a
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  Speaker 4: full speed practice in three weeks. And he goes out
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  Speaker 4: there and plays an NFL game on a Thursday night
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  Speaker 4: and played good football for us. So I think you
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  Speaker 4: got to keep that under consideration. And now he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: have a full week of practice going into the next game.
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  Speaker 3: So Spoon's gonna be just fine.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Bob.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike, it looked like Drake Thomas played played quite
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  Speaker 5: a bit last night, a little bit more than Tyree
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  Speaker 5: if that's spot. Just just kind of curious what the
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  Speaker 5: thinking was there.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's a it's the same thing that we've been
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  Speaker 4: saying here for a few weeks. Drake's playing really good football,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, he's playing winning football. And when you when
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  Speaker 4: you do that, you're gonna play for us. And so
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  Speaker 4: it's it's really that simple. So it's great. We got
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  Speaker 4: we've got multiple spots where we have guys that can
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  Speaker 4: that and play and go help us win games, which is.
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  Speaker 3: Which is great for our team.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, all right, thank you everybody, Thank you, right,