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Mike Macdonald: "Geno Is A Stone-Cold Assassin Late In Games" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: Bob Candota, do you want to get us going?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 1: Sure, Mike.
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Speaker 3: I know you've talked about this a little bit after
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Speaker 3: the game, especially after watching the film. What do you
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Speaker 3: look at as kind of the biggest improvements in your
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Speaker 3: defense from this game from the first time you played
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Speaker 3: the forty nine ers.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, uh, you can't start singling stuff out.
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Speaker 1: It gets it gets tough.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's it's all I know, I sound
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Speaker 4: like got Brokeram, It's all eleven. It's how we how
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Speaker 4: we game plan, It's the things that we want. How
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Speaker 4: is how we work the stuff throughout the week, how
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Speaker 4: we iron out the rules, how we create clarity for
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Speaker 4: our guys, how we get the call on fast, how
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Speaker 4: we communicate it, how we set the front, how we
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Speaker 4: play blocks up front, how we play second and third level,
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Speaker 4: how we tackle streamlined. I mean, all those things going
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Speaker 4: to having success on Sundays, and when you do it
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Speaker 4: the right way and you stack those plays, you stack
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Speaker 4: those reps. I think that gives the guys a lot
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Speaker 4: of confidence going in being able to execute.
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Speaker 1: Brian Hey coach.
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Speaker 5: According to NFL next Gen Stats, you guys had a
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Speaker 5: point seventy to one get off as your fastest so
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Speaker 5: far this year, and you also had a season best
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Speaker 5: two point seven yards per separation in terms of coverage.
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Speaker 5: I think you'd attribute that to in terms of whether
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Speaker 5: it's coaching emphasis, resting from the buy, or something else
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Speaker 5: that might have changed in this game.
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Speaker 4: Well, having fresh legs definitely sounds like that has something
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Speaker 4: to do with it. Uh, I mean that's a that's
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Speaker 4: a hell of question, Brian. I just I it's good.
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Speaker 4: It's good to hear you know that we're guys, we're
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Speaker 4: going off of good keys up front, Guys are reacting fast.
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Speaker 4: You know, being sticky in coverage is uh not an
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Speaker 4: easy task against the forty nine ers, the way they
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Speaker 4: create space and how they handle their formations and personnels.
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Speaker 4: So it tells me that we're executing at a high level
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Speaker 4: communicating well.
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Speaker 1: So that's all good stuff up.
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Speaker 5: It's curious if you had the number one pick in
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Speaker 5: the draft and you could take any position on defense
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Speaker 5: to start a defense, best player possible, which position would
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Speaker 5: you pick?
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Speaker 1: Man?
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Speaker 4: Without without context, that would be uh, that be the
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Speaker 4: rule of thumb would be or conventional wisdom. You think
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Speaker 4: someone that could affect the quarterback, so would be the
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Speaker 4: you know, probably the easy answer, but I will say this, like,
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Speaker 4: you know, I think we've we've found out that, you know,
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Speaker 4: some of these positions that people say that they don't
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Speaker 4: that they undervalue or you know, are analytically undervalued. I
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Speaker 4: think we've kind of debunked some of that over the
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Speaker 4: last few years with you know, the the uh you know,
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Speaker 4: the great interior guys up the middle, the great safeties
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Speaker 4: in our league, the great defensive tackles in our league,
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Speaker 4: inside linebackers.
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Speaker 1: I think that I think that I.
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Speaker 4: Don't want to uh, you know, I don't want to
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Speaker 4: devalue any of those guys because I mean, those people
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Speaker 4: can can have a huge impact on the game as well.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Cook, Jen.
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Speaker 3: We got our first look at Olu and Aid for
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Speaker 3: extended periods.
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Speaker 1: Where did both of those two excel on Sunday? Well?
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Speaker 4: With Olu, I mean, this guy's on his p's and q's,
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Speaker 4: the details, how we're making our calls, coming out fast,
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Speaker 4: making sure we're all on the same page.
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Speaker 1: Offensively, especially upfront.
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Speaker 4: It's one of Olu's superpowers and he was sturdy you
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Speaker 4: know in past protection run game we're still chasing right
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Speaker 4: now our run game numbers.
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Speaker 1: You know we still want to improve.
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Speaker 4: You know, uh significantly and just have an ab out
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Speaker 4: there just again. I mean proud to see the process
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Speaker 4: that he's gone through to put himself in a position
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Speaker 4: to go play winning football for us. Haven't haven't talked
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Speaker 4: to a yet about what he thought of his performance
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Speaker 4: right yet, but uh, I'm sure there's some play I'm
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Speaker 4: sure it's pretty sore today and I'm sure there's some
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Speaker 4: plays that he wants to improve on.
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Speaker 1: But I thought he was off to a great start.
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Speaker 6: Corbyn and coach, going more specifically with the cornerbacks, how
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Speaker 6: do you feel about the cohesion of that group? Josh
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Speaker 6: job right now has the lowest passer rating against of
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Speaker 6: any cornerback in the NFL with least one hundred snaps
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Speaker 6: and coverage spoon with the three pass breakups yesterday, what
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Speaker 6: we've seen from Reke woll and what have you seen
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Speaker 6: from that group here as the seasons progressed, with the
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Speaker 6: way those guys as a unit are working and maybe
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Speaker 6: how the front line is impacting their play as well.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great point, Corbyn that I think it's
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Speaker 4: all it's all three levels how it works together. H
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Speaker 4: I will say continuity really helps, you know, being able
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Speaker 4: to stack reps over it from a week to week basis,
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Speaker 4: and I think schematically we're starting to find out what
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Speaker 4: we're good at and things that we're going to like
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Speaker 4: the answers to the riddles that we need to be
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Speaker 4: able to solve earlier in the weeks. You're able to
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Speaker 4: get some of those reps throughout the week. The guys
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Speaker 4: can see. So we play with confidence. And then Josh
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Speaker 4: deserves a lot of credit to him. This guy, uh
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Speaker 4: just keeps putting great stacking great days on top of
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Speaker 4: each other, and we got a lot of confidence in him.
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Speaker 1: Right now. I thought I played a tremendous game. Thought.
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Speaker 4: You know, Devin Wispoon got the one of the game balls,
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Speaker 4: one of the five game balls after the game. But uh,
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Speaker 4: I thought he played one of his best games this season.
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Speaker 4: And you know, Riek one, uh, in my opinion, played
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Speaker 4: one of his best football games of the year as well.
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Speaker 4: Just to focus, the attention to detail, the snap to snap,
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Speaker 4: the snap to snap, just locked in this of what
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Speaker 4: of what we're asking him to do was was some
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Speaker 4: pretty high powered stuff. So uh, now, challenge, let's go
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Speaker 4: do it again.
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Speaker 1: Stack it?
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Speaker 4: Can we do it two weeks in a row, you know,
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Speaker 4: for the first time, and you know in the last
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Speaker 4: month or.
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Speaker 1: So John Boyle, Yeah, Mike, last week.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot going on with moving on
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Speaker 2: from Tyrell Conner retires, and some people would have thought, Okay,
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Speaker 2: this could be a distraction. Clearly it was, and the
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Speaker 2: players showed that. I just wanted to tell you about
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Speaker 2: your team, about your players the way they responded last week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Man, our guys there are they are steadfast, man, they are.
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Speaker 4: I'm just really proud of our mentality, the leaders in.
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Speaker 1: Our in our locker room.
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Speaker 4: I mean even the young guys just showing up to work,
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Speaker 4: handling their business, sticking together. Uh, the leaders understanding like, hey,
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Speaker 4: we've got a lot of good stuff that we're of
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Speaker 4: a foundation that we're building here and believing that they
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Speaker 4: they kind of having faith in the process and seeing
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Speaker 4: the stuff happen on the practice field, understand the things
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Speaker 4: that are going on in the meetings, all the conversations
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Speaker 4: and stuff. So just really proud of our mentality that
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Speaker 4: we've had and we've we've shown this mentality throughout then
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Speaker 4: the course of the season, face some adversity and you know,
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Speaker 4: it's just it's just great to get some some.
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Speaker 1: Returns on some of the all the work that we're
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Speaker 1: putting in mos veto and.
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Speaker 7: Might just going back to the communication piece of your defense.
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Speaker 7: How important is communication to your defense and what does
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Speaker 7: it allow your defense to do?
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Speaker 4: To play on one accurt yep if if if we're
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Speaker 4: on the same page, you can play with anticipation, you
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Speaker 4: can play with disciplined eyes, you know what to look at, uh,
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Speaker 4: and you can go play fast. The name of the
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Speaker 4: game of the NFL is you got to be able
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Speaker 4: to play the right way. You got to play violently.
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Speaker 4: You got to be you have to be decisive. You
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Speaker 4: have to be able to take great angles. And in
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Speaker 4: order to do that, you got to know where to stand.
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Speaker 4: You gotta know what to look at and all that thing.
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Speaker 4: All those things happened through communication both pre and post snap.
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Speaker 1: And also you know throughout the week, uh, starting with.
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Speaker 4: The coaches all the way down to how we practice
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Speaker 4: and making sure the guys know what's going to be called,
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Speaker 4: what's expected of them, what are their rules, and make
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Speaker 4: it clean so they can go make fast decisions and
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Speaker 4: play the right way and just discipline.
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Speaker 7: Piece Ard Jones in the post game said if we
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Speaker 7: played discipline and physical, we can play with anybody. Have
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Speaker 7: you are you sensing that just in terms of the
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Speaker 7: confidence and improvement you've seen in your defense?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think I think being disciplined comes with
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Speaker 4: with trust, and that comes with doing a lot of
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Speaker 4: good stuff consistently. And now you start to see, hey,
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Speaker 4: all my teammates and the guys playing next to me
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Speaker 4: are going to do their job. Therefore I only need
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Speaker 4: to do my job. And uh, I'm glad that it's
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Speaker 4: coming together with EJ since he's been here in the
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Speaker 4: in the in the short week said he's been here.
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Speaker 1: But uh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mean everybody wants to be disciplined, you know, nobody
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Speaker 4: wants to be this out of whack operation, you know,
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Speaker 4: So how do you kind of make that come to
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Speaker 4: life and make it tight so the guys the guys
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Speaker 4: trust one another. And again, it's all about playing the
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Speaker 4: right way, playing connected.
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Speaker 1: That's the secret, sauce. It's just, you know, it's hard
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Speaker 1: to make it come.
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Speaker 4: You can't just like hit a button or you know,
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Speaker 4: call certain play and it comes to life. It's this
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Speaker 4: constant process of alignment on what we're trying to chase
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Speaker 4: what we want this tape to look like, making sure
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Speaker 4: you know we're we're hitting our game emphasis and the
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Speaker 4: things we think we need to do in order to
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Speaker 4: win games.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael Sean.
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Speaker 2: I guess perhaps with the last run by Zach notwithstanding,
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Speaker 2: do you feel like you took some strides in your
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Speaker 2: short yardage run game? And if so, to what do
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Speaker 2: you do attribute that to?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 4: I think, you know, we have to start to find
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Speaker 4: an identity to it. To your point, you know, so
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Speaker 4: we had four short arage opportunities. You could argue that
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Speaker 4: three of the four were successful, you know, with Geno
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Speaker 4: sneak putting us in a in a fourth and even
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Speaker 4: shorter situation have been great to convert in that in
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Speaker 4: that time. But I think some of the stuff we're
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Speaker 4: doing kind of behind the scenes and how we're game
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Speaker 4: planning and how we're detailing it out trying to find
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Speaker 4: an identity, uh, is letting us take a step now.
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Speaker 4: We want to be we want to be one hundred
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Speaker 4: percent really decisive, really confident in those calls which I
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Speaker 4: felt like we were going into this game and uh,
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Speaker 4: you know, I think, well, we've got to keep contrnding
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Speaker 4: in that situation though, keep finding some new wrinkles understanding
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Speaker 4: how we're going to build certain formations, you know, all
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Speaker 4: the personnel groups that we want in those situations. But
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Speaker 4: we're getting closer, so that's I guess positive returns. But
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Speaker 4: it would have been great to convert that that fourth
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Speaker 4: and one so we could continue that drive.
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Speaker 3: And as on your run game as a whole, what
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Speaker 3: are you what element are you still chasing?
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Speaker 4: I think just I think just consistency. I think consistency.
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Speaker 4: I mean we had some we had some like it's
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Speaker 4: kind of like I'm just talking about on defense, kind
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Speaker 4: of all three levels kind of working together.
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Speaker 1: It's the same thing in the run game.
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Speaker 4: You know, how we're going to target it, how we're
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Speaker 4: getting off the rock, how we're protecting the edges, how
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Speaker 4: we're taking our tracks, and how we're reading it when
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Speaker 4: with the ball cares. Right now, it's just it's kind
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Speaker 4: of one playoff here or there and it just hasn't
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Speaker 4: really connected.
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Speaker 1: But if we stick to the process and.
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Speaker 4: We you know, stake you know, committed to the things
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Speaker 4: that we're trying to do on different sets and how
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Speaker 4: we're going to game plan it and work it, I
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Speaker 4: think I think it'll come together.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Curtis.
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Speaker 4: I hate to put you on blast, but is that
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Speaker 4: a new Christmas tree or an old Christmas tree?
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Speaker 5: For four years straight hasn't come down, so it just
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Speaker 5: stays there.
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Speaker 4: All right, six six of the year. You just look
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Speaker 4: like you know what's going on.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, Mike, first chance for Ernest and Tyrese to play
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Speaker 8: play together. What'd you kind of think of their game?
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Speaker 2: Would you like between the two of them and how
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Speaker 2: you guys played there yesterday?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 4: I thought I thought, I thought, really both guys played
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Speaker 4: a pretty dang good game. I mean you talk about
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Speaker 4: I think they ended up with like twenty three tackles
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Speaker 4: between the both of them. Uh, there's some chemistry they're
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Speaker 4: starting to build, which is cool.
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Speaker 1: Just like just like you said, there's some.
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Speaker 4: Understanding where you kind of know how guys are going
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Speaker 4: to play stuff. And just felt like it was sharp
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Speaker 4: and we were on it kind of head of play
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Speaker 4: sort of thing. Got to give Teenite a lot of
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Speaker 4: credit for just being up to speed, like being sharp
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Speaker 4: at the game plan and his responsibilities. I think you
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Speaker 4: only had one you know, m me sort of speak
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Speaker 4: or per se after the game. But yeah, it's a
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Speaker 4: launching point for those two guys and happy with the
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Speaker 4: way that those two played.
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Speaker 1: Brady in Mike.
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Speaker 3: Aside from just the obvious the talent, like what is
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Speaker 3: allowed Jackson to be as productive as he has the
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Speaker 3: last couple of weeks a couple of games.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an interesting question.
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Speaker 4: I mean, like, we're gonna have We're always gonna have
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Speaker 4: stuff in the game plan where he's the primary guy,
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Speaker 4: and like you see some of the stuff that's on time,
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Speaker 4: that he's getting the right spots, how we're how we're
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Speaker 4: running some of the routes, is able to free him up.
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Speaker 4: I think the cool part is the stuff that's happening,
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Speaker 4: like later in the down Brady of like him and Gino.
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Speaker 4: Like I talked about this last night, but after watchington tape,
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Speaker 4: you kind of feel it. There's a chemistry going between
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Speaker 4: those two guys. And you know we did we actually
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Speaker 4: did like he you know, Gina was trying to throw
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Speaker 4: it to him on the one pick. So we're not
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Speaker 4: perfect there by you know, we're not perfect in that
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Speaker 4: stretch by you know, if we take it, you know
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Speaker 4: you want one times too many, I guess is my point.
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Speaker 1: But uh, but it's just It's just pretty cool that, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm there's It's not just one play.
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Speaker 4: You know, if the ball doesn't come to me right now,
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Speaker 4: I still have an opportunity to come to life, find
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Speaker 4: the open window and no, Gino has the capability to
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Speaker 4: extend plays and and uh and find.
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Speaker 3: Him and one injury one.
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Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Do you do you know anything more about de Williams
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Speaker 2: his status?
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't.
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Speaker 4: Actually I haven't gotten the medical report yet today, so
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Speaker 4: I'll have an update for you on Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: Thanks.
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Speaker 1: Greg.
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Speaker 8: So you mentioned yesterday Clear in the Next Room you
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Speaker 8: talked about with Gino Smith. That Yeah, another great reference
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Speaker 8: by the way, thanks. How how much is Smith's experienced
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Speaker 8: twelve years in the league? Yes, it was his tenth
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Speaker 8: comeback win in the fourth quarter and overtime in the
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Speaker 8: last two and two third seasons. How much does that
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Speaker 8: experience show up in games like yesterday? And how much
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Speaker 8: does your team benefit from that experience because of the
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Speaker 8: trust factor?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I mean it, it just shows up every week, right
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Speaker 4: this h that's who he is. I think the cool
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Speaker 4: part about the Clear the Next Room like that that
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Speaker 4: was that was really a message that resonated with Gino
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Speaker 4: that he that he thought was pretty cool that came
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Speaker 4: out of that whole experience and you know, to see
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Speaker 4: like the kind of the two worlds kind of collide
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Speaker 4: and say, hey, man, like this is pretty cool. Like
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Speaker 4: we were really more like than we are than you
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Speaker 4: would anticipate and deal with a lot of the same
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Speaker 4: things mentally. You know, it's it's because it's like you
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Speaker 4: you know, he's a perfectionist. You know, this guy wants
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Speaker 4: to be right all the time, as you want your
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Speaker 4: quarterback to be.
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Speaker 1: And so.
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Speaker 4: You know, just having that mental toughness to say, Okay, hey,
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Speaker 4: look it didn't go the way that I wanted, but
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Speaker 4: there's no thing I can do about it.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna go make it right.
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Speaker 4: And then you know the poise that he has that
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Speaker 4: he's continued to show, you know, his whole career. Uh,
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Speaker 4: late in the fourth Core on some of these comeback wins, guys,
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Speaker 4: just he's just it's just a stone cold just assassin
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Speaker 4: late in game, so happy he's with us.
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Speaker 8: And then on Ernest Jones, what tangible difference has he
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Speaker 8: made in three games? What is he doing that you
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Speaker 8: lacked or what is what what are you benefiting most
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Speaker 8: from him?
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Speaker 4: Right now.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's kind it's hard to like, it's
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Speaker 1: it's a little it's.
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Speaker 4: Harder to compare. You don't really it's not fair to
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Speaker 4: like compare the guys.
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Speaker 8: Which you didn't have before. That's the wrong way to
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Speaker 8: put it. Yeah, what is he doing right now.
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Speaker 4: That Yeah, I'll just I'll just speak to like what
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Speaker 4: makes him a really good player? And this guy the
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Speaker 4: game is slow for him, So there's a poise there,
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Speaker 4: there's a confidence in how to play blog, how to
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Speaker 4: pace the ball. He's seen all these things before, the
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Speaker 4: things that are you know, where we're like to take.
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Speaker 4: The next step for him is just to understand, like, hey,
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Speaker 4: how our guys played the blocks in front of him
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Speaker 4: and where the ball is going to kind of end
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Speaker 4: up based off of what structures that we're in and
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Speaker 4: the you know, the schemes were seeing. Now, I'll just
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Speaker 4: come with reps so he'll he'll he'll pick that up easy,
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Speaker 4: just on how we want to play some of these
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Speaker 4: runs being in the middle of our defense.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, there's a there's a poise, there's a put
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Speaker 4: not that like, not that that's unique to him, but what
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Speaker 4: makes him kind of like all these guys, Hey, there's
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Speaker 4: a lot of stuff going on when you're in the
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Speaker 4: middle of the defense, but just kind of have an
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Speaker 4: understanding of where everything kind of falls into place. And
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Speaker 4: now he's doing prime. He's the primary communicator on all
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Speaker 4: three levels, you know, getting everything set up. Uh he doesn't,
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Speaker 4: you know, he hasn't. He hasn't complained to me yet
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Speaker 4: that I've talked to him much in his ear.
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Speaker 1: So that's good.
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Speaker 4: Uh, so's he's a He's a fun guy to work
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Speaker 4: with on game day, for sure.
16:54
Speaker 1: Is that this is weird?
16:55
Speaker 8: Ques? I guess this is maybe a nuanced question of
16:58
Speaker 8: how to play a position. But is there a paste
17:00
Speaker 8: is scraping to the right hole where you take your
17:03
Speaker 8: time and read instead of just go there because that's
17:05
Speaker 8: where you're signed to go?
17:07
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, sure, I mean teams have different teams do
17:10
Speaker 4: it differently and with both you know, high degrees of success.
17:14
Speaker 4: So there's some teams that say, hey, look this is
17:15
Speaker 4: my gap. They ain't running in my gap, so I'm
17:18
Speaker 4: gonna go. I don't care where the ball is, like,
17:20
Speaker 4: I'm getting my gap.
17:22
Speaker 1: Whatever. That's some people's philosophy.
17:24
Speaker 4: Ours is more, Hey, we're going to relate to the
17:27
Speaker 4: ball play off the guys in front of us, try
17:30
Speaker 4: to have a little bit more layers of the defense.
17:32
Speaker 4: You don't get as many TFLs that way, but up
17:36
Speaker 4: until you know this year, we can get a lot
17:37
Speaker 4: of explosive runs, you know, in the last couple of weeks,
17:40
Speaker 4: so you should have some overlap and the ability to
17:42
Speaker 4: get guys on the ground.
17:43
Speaker 1: So that that's our philosophy.
17:44
Speaker 4: And he's played in systems like that, so that's not
17:47
Speaker 4: entirely foreign to him. But yeah, understanding, Hey, I'm gonna
17:50
Speaker 4: press press the line of scrimmage in relation to my
17:53
Speaker 4: gap and then based off what's going in front of me.
17:55
Speaker 4: That's kind of when I can pull the trigger or
17:57
Speaker 4: when maybe I.
17:57
Speaker 1: Have to go over the top.
17:59
Speaker 4: So it's a little bit more of an art to
18:02
Speaker 4: it than the science, I guess is the way that
18:03
Speaker 4: we do it.
18:05
Speaker 1: Thank you, Okay, time for a few more Brian.
18:10
Speaker 5: Yeah, coach, Speaking of Ernest, you guys made a move
18:14
Speaker 5: to acquire him, and he's given you what you're see.
18:17
Speaker 5: It sounds like what you're hoping for.
18:18
Speaker 1: Position.
18:19
Speaker 7: Is that something you and.
18:20
Speaker 5: John talk about keeping around here long term during the
18:24
Speaker 5: season or is that something you just wait for the
18:26
Speaker 5: off season to figure out well.
18:28
Speaker 4: I mean, so you know, John and I are we're
18:30
Speaker 4: talking every day about our team and direction we want
18:33
Speaker 4: to go short and long term. So I can tell
18:36
Speaker 4: you that we're really excited about Ernest and I hope
18:39
Speaker 4: there's an opportunity for him to be here for an
18:41
Speaker 4: extended period of time. But when that pops up in
18:44
Speaker 4: that opportunity, if and when, not sure right now, but
18:48
Speaker 4: he's definitely one of our type of guys, so we're
18:50
Speaker 4: excited to have him, hopefully's here for a while.
18:53
Speaker 5: Last thing, if you could pick one thing on the
18:55
Speaker 5: team right now to make a big jump forward, what
18:58
Speaker 5: would it be.
19:01
Speaker 1: Let's take the ball away more Bob? Thanks?
19:06
Speaker 7: Thanks coach.
19:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, just with do you know how much trust
19:12
Speaker 3: is there in him? I mean, obviously there's a lot,
19:14
Speaker 3: but like that the run at the end, the clock's running,
19:17
Speaker 3: you guys don't have timeouts. If something goes awry there,
19:20
Speaker 3: you know, potentially that could that could be sort of bad,
19:22
Speaker 3: I guess, But how much how much trust do you guys?
19:23
Speaker 3: Haven't you know that you know that's gonna all work
19:25
Speaker 3: out the way it did?
19:28
Speaker 1: Well?
19:29
Speaker 4: I mean, Bob, these are I mean you never do
19:31
Speaker 4: it for real until you have to do it for real.
19:33
Speaker 4: But these are situations that uh, you know, Brian Airs
19:38
Speaker 4: is a great job as scripting it out. We've been
19:39
Speaker 4: working on this stuff since April. I mean, Gino's been
19:42
Speaker 4: doing these situations. He's just been calling them differently, you know,
19:45
Speaker 4: his entire career. And I think Grubb deserves a lot
19:48
Speaker 4: of credit understanding that, like how the rules are different
19:51
Speaker 4: in the NFL versus in college and kind of taking
19:54
Speaker 4: that on, uh head on as well. So these are
19:58
Speaker 4: situations that we we haven't understand of, so there's a
20:01
Speaker 4: calmness about how we're going to operate. We've been in
20:03
Speaker 4: some of these like clock running type situations. Now that's
20:06
Speaker 4: that play at the end that could have gotten a
20:08
Speaker 4: little hairy if if the ball was you know, in
20:11
Speaker 4: bounds at that time, but we had a plan for it.
20:14
Speaker 1: But uh, Gino continues to.
20:16
Speaker 4: Show poise and uh, calmness and confidence in those situations.
20:21
Speaker 4: So to answer your question, we have a lot of
20:23
Speaker 4: confidence in him.
20:25
Speaker 3: And one other thing, the their their laugh. Hear you
20:29
Speaker 3: mentioned Witherspoon earlier. I think he only came running it,
20:32
Speaker 3: you know, three or four times yesterday but he really impacted.
20:35
Speaker 5: That last play that they had there.
20:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, just take it to that aspect of him and
20:40
Speaker 3: that in that play there.
20:41
Speaker 4: But can of impact that well, We'll got a laugh
20:43
Speaker 4: out of the team meeting because I think he did
20:44
Speaker 4: about a five eighty somersault from the running back. But
20:50
Speaker 4: just putting it on the line, you know, when the
20:52
Speaker 4: team needs it the most. He did that in that moment.
20:57
Speaker 4: Talk about team football, you know, making sure everybody was
21:00
Speaker 4: accounted for in the in the in the uh in
21:03
Speaker 4: our coverage, I thought Kobe Bryant made a heck of
21:05
Speaker 4: a play on the perimeter and open in the open field,
21:08
Speaker 4: and then we had the reinforcements coming uh after he
21:11
Speaker 4: after he broke the initial tackle. So but yeah, I
21:15
Speaker 4: mean that's what kind of we're talking about last week.
21:17
Speaker 4: But those all the all the.
21:19
Speaker 1: Stats will come with Spoon.
21:20
Speaker 4: He plays the right way that they'll they'll come his
21:23
Speaker 4: way sooner than later.
21:26
Speaker 1: Okay, ask you last two, Corbin and then John Boyle.
21:33
Speaker 6: Yeah, coach, Yes, you're the forty nine ers only had
21:35
Speaker 6: one reception of more than fourteen yards. You've talked about
21:38
Speaker 6: the play of the corners and the safeties, but one
21:41
Speaker 6: of the biggest plays that was taken away from them
21:43
Speaker 6: was Boy Mafe coming over the middle and swading a ball.
21:45
Speaker 1: It looked like a big nickel out there.
21:47
Speaker 6: What have you seen from him growing into that role
21:51
Speaker 6: and how does that change things for you as a
21:52
Speaker 6: play caller when you have an outside linebacker that gives
21:56
Speaker 6: you that kind of flexibility that can cover that kind
21:58
Speaker 6: of space.
21:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy. I knew exactly what they're gonna run.
22:02
Speaker 4: Decide to put Boy right there so we could knock
22:04
Speaker 4: it down. No, I mean, uh, it's funny. Sometimes it's
22:08
Speaker 4: better to be lucky than good in those situations.
22:11
Speaker 1: So but Boy, I.
22:13
Speaker 4: Mean, I'll tell you what, this guy has a knack
22:14
Speaker 4: for getting, you know.
22:15
Speaker 1: For tipping the football.
22:16
Speaker 4: He actually he actually tipped the pass right before that, Corbyn,
22:20
Speaker 4: if you didn't if you didn't see it, So I
22:21
Speaker 4: was two in a row. And if he doesn't make
22:24
Speaker 4: the play on the third down, then the Niners are
22:26
Speaker 4: kicking a field goal, and now we're talking about a
22:27
Speaker 4: different football game.
22:28
Speaker 1: So I think there is a knack to it.
22:31
Speaker 4: But we're definitely fortunate in that situation that he was
22:35
Speaker 4: standing right there, so you know, we'll, uh, we'll take
22:38
Speaker 4: the win and move on.
22:44
Speaker 8: John, Like, yeah, we might have kind of overlooked it
22:48
Speaker 8: because it happened early in the game.
22:49
Speaker 2: How big cha to kind of keep you guys in
22:52
Speaker 2: it early, especially that doesn't go there almost a field
22:57
Speaker 2: right right away.
22:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you're making you know, long field goal decisions, Uh,
23:02
Speaker 4: it's not easy because of the repercussions if you don't
23:04
Speaker 4: make it. But I mean, Jami's just uh, he's been
23:07
Speaker 4: great for us. He's bailed us out at several situations,
23:11
Speaker 4: you know, those situations on offense, and we took two
23:13
Speaker 4: sacks you know to create those long, longer field goals.
23:16
Speaker 4: So we got to be better on that front to
23:19
Speaker 4: try to keep the ball moving forward in the fringe.
23:21
Speaker 4: But when you got a kicker like like Jami, then
23:24
Speaker 4: you know he can kind of bail you out in
23:26
Speaker 4: those situations. So him the operation you know, Stolely, Michael Dixon,
23:30
Speaker 4: those guys did a great job to get the ball
23:32
Speaker 4: out and and Jami hit two two great kicks for us.
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Speaker 6: Okay, thanks everyone, We'll see you wednesday, all right, Thank
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Speaker 6: you guys.