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Ryan Grubb: "Geno Smith Is A Warrior" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: When you look up with this Vikings team dogs, they
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  Speaker 1: can create a lot of pressure, and I think they
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  Speaker 1: need the league in that.
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  Speaker 2: So what is the best plan for countering pressure in the.
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  Speaker 3: Way that they work against.
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  Speaker 4: That would be a long answer.
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  Speaker 2: I think the best way is whatever team you are,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you're doing, whatever you're able to execute against Coach
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  Speaker 2: Flora is, you got to be dialed and you gotta
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  Speaker 2: have a good plan obviously, because those guys play really hard,
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  Speaker 2: number one, and they execute their system.
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  Speaker 4: At a really, really high level.
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  Speaker 2: So the stress that they create on offenses is generated
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  Speaker 2: by confusion and all the things that they put on
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  Speaker 2: tape that coach works on. So I think it's more
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  Speaker 2: relative to just making sure that your.
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  Speaker 4: Guys are down in the game plan.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever you feel like you're gonna be able to attack
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  Speaker 2: them with, you need to go at that. They're also
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  Speaker 2: really good at stopping running backs before they even gets.
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  Speaker 3: The line of stream that you Ken is able to build.
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  Speaker 4: What about this skill set works at that situation?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think Ken in general is obviously a really
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  Speaker 2: explosive runner. So anytime you have a guy like that
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  Speaker 2: and you're you're working against a good defense and you're
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  Speaker 2: working just to get cracks and daylight.
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  Speaker 4: You know, having a guy like Ken.
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  Speaker 2: Is obviously advantageous just that you know, the daylight doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have to be quite as much and he can make
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  Speaker 2: things happen for your off script.
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  Speaker 5: You've had to deal with your starting quarterback going out.
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  Speaker 5: What changed for you to make game with that?
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  Speaker 4: Say? What changed with you when that happened?
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  Speaker 2: I mean nothing changed in the game plan. Sam was
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  Speaker 2: acquainted with the game plan. I think obviously a player
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  Speaker 2: like Gino goes down and just his control of the
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  Speaker 2: offense and things like that. You just kind of really
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  Speaker 2: try to get Sam dialed in to what you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be thinking in the next couple of drives and
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  Speaker 2: things like that, and try to find a way to
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  Speaker 2: get him in rhythm, you know, which Obviously Sam had
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  Speaker 2: a tough outing and you know, he wanted to do
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  Speaker 2: better and he's a good player, And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the biggest thing is is the challenge is just trying
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  Speaker 2: to find a way in a situation like that where
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to come back to get that guy in rhythm.
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  Speaker 5: That was my next question is in a perfect world,
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  Speaker 5: you probably wouldn't have thrown at fourteen and sixteen the
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  Speaker 5: first seventy times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah three, Yeah, you're you're you're hoping for better, uh
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  Speaker 2: situations than that. But certainly Sam, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: Mike did a good job building them up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I think we all did just supporting Sam and like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: if that situation comes up again, you know, just that
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  Speaker 2: he has the ability and confidence, you know, just go
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  Speaker 2: get it and attack the situation. Because certainly Sam's playing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of football games in the NFL already and
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  Speaker 2: a young career, so we believe in him and we
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  Speaker 2: support him.
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  Speaker 1: I seem like asking this question every few weeks.
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  Speaker 4: So that's where NFL is.
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  Speaker 1: But when do you know the abandoned to run like
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  Speaker 1: keep going and keep going and saying you know what
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  Speaker 1: today we might like, what's the metrics? You know, I
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  Speaker 1: have to tell us the metrics as a play call,
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  Speaker 1: or when do you know? You know?
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  Speaker 2: Well, certainly, I think when you're the scoring situation dictates
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that when you're when you're down, but
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  Speaker 2: there's always opportunities. I think that we've gotten ourselves in
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  Speaker 2: a good position, you know. I think that when we
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  Speaker 2: got ourselves back in the game within ten points and
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  Speaker 2: ten minutes left. You know, do you give a guy
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  Speaker 2: a chance to run the ball a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: than what I did? Certainly, you know, hindsight, it's always
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty and you look at those things critically, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, could we have gotten Sam going a little
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  Speaker 2: bit better with different play package? Always potentially, but at
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  Speaker 2: some point you're just trying to find ways to you know,
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  Speaker 2: get the ball to fourteen and sixteen, which we weren't
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  Speaker 2: able to do as well. And you know, you're looking
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  Speaker 2: for those opportunities to spark the offense and the team.
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  Speaker 2: And certainly it didn't work out, that didn't end up
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  Speaker 2: being the right formula, But those are the things you're
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  Speaker 2: always looking for. Is what's going to get us in
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  Speaker 2: rhythm or make the big play to get us going,
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  Speaker 2: so if.
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  Speaker 1: I can, so you don't necessarily abandon the run all together.
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  Speaker 4: The pass can get you back in there and then
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  Speaker 4: you can sack absolutely from there. Yeah, yeah, and I
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  Speaker 4: think that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's points in football games where you might
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  Speaker 2: not be able to run the ball anymore, depending on
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  Speaker 2: how much times left and things like that. But if
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for a play and you're trying to spark
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  Speaker 2: the offense, I think it always starts with the playmakers,
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  Speaker 2: and you know that was certainly the thought is how
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  Speaker 2: to get the ball to fourteen and sixteen and eleven.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, like I said, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was tough on Sam and they really did a
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  Speaker 2: good job up front, and we certainly, you know, know
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  Speaker 2: that there's some things we got to work on. We
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  Speaker 2: had some moving parts in there. But I thought Jalen
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  Speaker 2: stepped in and played really well for a young guys.
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  Speaker 2: A couple snap issues, but for a guy stepping into
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  Speaker 2: a situation like that in a game that was pretty hostile,
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  Speaker 2: I thought.
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  Speaker 4: I thought he did a good job that position in particular.
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  Speaker 4: How hard is it could come there in the game
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  Speaker 4: as a rookie with so much the years. Yeah, it's tough.
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  Speaker 4: It's tough.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, that's a attribute that both Olu
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  Speaker 2: and Jalen shares. They're both very calm players. Like I
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  Speaker 2: don't even when Jalen was a little off or snapped
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  Speaker 2: the ball early on Gino a couple of times, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't get flustered and let the moment be too
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  Speaker 2: big for him. So certainly a lot to look forward
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  Speaker 2: to there with him as a player. I think that
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  Speaker 2: he can continue to develop in a really good center
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  Speaker 2: because those guys, as you said that, that is a
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  Speaker 2: stressful situation and anytime, whether you're up or down or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: and I just didn't think the moment was too big
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  Speaker 2: for him. So him and Olu both have that that
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  Speaker 2: quiet confidence about him.
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  Speaker 4: What did you see from.
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  Speaker 3: Their protection specifically when Gino was.
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  Speaker 2: A Yeah, we we lost some inside battles and those
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  Speaker 2: are some of our games that you know, we've struggled
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  Speaker 2: with pass protection. Those have been of our toughest games.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you look back to the Giants game, similar problem.
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  Speaker 2: We were losing on the inside and it's tough to
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  Speaker 2: get help in there, and so when you're losing there,
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  Speaker 2: it happens a lot quicker. And there's certainly some times
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  Speaker 2: that that Geno just didn't have time to react. And
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  Speaker 2: so those are those are the things that you got
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  Speaker 2: to shore up quickly, and you know, we've certainly been
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  Speaker 2: working on that, right.
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  Speaker 3: I guess kind of similar to us question about the
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  Speaker 3: band and the run, At what point do you have
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  Speaker 3: got up there your life? I don't know if we
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  Speaker 3: can block.
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  Speaker 2: It in Tier today. Yeah, I mean, you got to
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  Speaker 2: find ways to be creative and get the ball out
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  Speaker 2: of their hand. I mean, that's you can't dwell on it.
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  Speaker 2: You got to think about the things you can do
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  Speaker 2: and and try to move on quickly and come up
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  Speaker 2: with different schemes or how you can protect them better.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes it's it's uh tough day at the office.
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  Speaker 1: He said that everybody's kind of playing less than one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent at this point in the New York But
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  Speaker 1: given that and given the interior pressure and what Divide
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  Speaker 1: was to do, does that votes for anything.
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  Speaker 4: About the plan?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean it's uh, they're they're up against the
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  Speaker 2: same situation as us. I mean, there's every NFL team
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  Speaker 2: has different levels of health at this point. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: a long season, and I think we're plenty healthy up front,
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  Speaker 2: and the guys will be ready to take on the
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  Speaker 2: challenge and it'll be it's good for him to have
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  Speaker 2: to get back on the horse on a game like
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  Speaker 2: this where they know the level of play is gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to be really, really high.
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  Speaker 4: How was Gino looking the last couple of days. You
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  Speaker 4: look really good. He took every rep today.
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  Speaker 2: He did great. He looks great. He's strong and man, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's a warrior. Man he's he'll be ready. The red
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  Speaker 2: zone turnovers that you've had this year, has there been
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  Speaker 2: a theme you've kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of sensed any of that at all or kind of?
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's been a couple of interceptions, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was that's been one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's not really anything to quantify that.
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  Speaker 2: You there's certainly some throws that that seven would love
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  Speaker 2: that back, but he's made a lot of really good
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  Speaker 2: ones too.
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  Speaker 5: Do you see any value or effectiveness to play action
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  Speaker 5: out of shotgun?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, sure, yeah, we do both.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think that your sell I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that's any secrets. Anyone you're sell under center is always
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  Speaker 2: going to be better. But I think there's that there's
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  Speaker 2: advantages obviously in shotgun as well. If you need to
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  Speaker 2: have your quarterback back away from the line of scrimmage, you.
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  Speaker 4: Can do that. Did you do a lot of Washington? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: done both here as well.
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  Speaker 5: What's different other than of course the looks of the
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  Speaker 5: player to start and they'll back being.
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  Speaker 4: Behind, The biggest thing is just the action obviously.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the run gun situation isn't just harder to
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  Speaker 2: see the ball, you know, it's just tougher for defenders
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  Speaker 2: to see what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: The ball is in hiding longer, so to speak. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and when you.
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  Speaker 1: Change the quarterback, do the offensive lineman have to make
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  Speaker 1: an adjustment depending on how far the quarter back drops
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  Speaker 1: back in the pocket, Like Sam might go back six
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  Speaker 1: yards as opposed to Geno going I'm making this up
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  Speaker 1: eight yards?
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  Speaker 4: Does that change how I block? Then?
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  Speaker 2: No, their drop points should be the same or at least,
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  Speaker 2: you know, within a half a yard of each other.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest thing is always cadence. You know, That's the
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  Speaker 2: thing that's the toughest is when you're going off with
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  Speaker 2: verbal cadence. You know, Sam's working just like any ever
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  Speaker 2: NFL team, your backup is always trying to mirror your
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  Speaker 2: starter's cadence. So Sam's job is to make his cadence
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  Speaker 2: sound as identical or as close to Geno's as possible,
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  Speaker 2: So that that's probably your biggest change up. And just
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  Speaker 2: you know, huddle demeanor, things like that, all those little
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  Speaker 2: intangible things.
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  Speaker 3: What are the conversations like you guys in terms of balancing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, taking advantage of the attention DK gets to
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  Speaker 3: help other guys or to realize he needs the ball.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's a that's a great question. It's it's a
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  Speaker 2: weekly balance, right, dk is a weapon, no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the thing that you know, we're lucky
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  Speaker 2: that he has such a positive demeanor and he's just, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's a stud, you know, just the way he goes
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  Speaker 2: about it, when he gets that much attention and frees
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  Speaker 2: up other people to get the football. But at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, you know, we're always working to try to
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  Speaker 2: get Deka the football. And you know, last week, this
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  Speaker 2: was probably the first time after the game on the
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  Speaker 2: next day where I talked to him and I really
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  Speaker 2: you know, it bothered me. You know, it pissed me
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  Speaker 2: off that I couldn't get him the ball more. And
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  Speaker 2: a guy like that, you just gotta gotta find ways
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  Speaker 2: to get him football.
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  Speaker 4: And it doesn't matter if they're clouding him or what
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  Speaker 4: they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we we obviously are always making a you know,
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  Speaker 2: very very We're trying to get get the big guy
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  Speaker 2: at the ball and we will.
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  Speaker 4: He's a stud, will find ways that though. What's that
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  Speaker 4: have you seen him handle?
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  Speaker 5: Though?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Incredibly positive?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know Dk' is a passionate player, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but you talk to him after the game or you know,
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  Speaker 2: the next day, he's not. It doesn't affect his performance
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  Speaker 2: or his preparation or you know how he operates in
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  Speaker 2: this building. He's a pro, and you know he cares
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  Speaker 2: about this football team. So I think that he recognized
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  Speaker 2: that and he just does a He doesn't outste any
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  Speaker 2: job because certainly a player his caliber when the ball
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  Speaker 2: doesn't find him, you know, I can linger into the
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  Speaker 2: next week and you know, let opponent beat you twice,
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  Speaker 2: but just haven't seen that he does a good job
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  Speaker 2: with that.
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  Speaker 5: Why was this game the one you were particularly upset
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  Speaker 5: about yourself?
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  Speaker 2: It just you know, you lost the game, you played,
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  Speaker 2: didn't play great, and you know you're not getting one
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  Speaker 2: of your best guys.
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  Speaker 4: The ball enough, and you know, you just get done.
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  Speaker 2: You put all that work, everybody collectively in the building,
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  Speaker 2: putting all this work into a game like that, and
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  Speaker 2: you come out and it doesn't go like you wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: And then you look back and you're you're seeing your
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  Speaker 2: guys it's like, how can I get this guy at
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  Speaker 2: the ball.
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  Speaker 4: So it's it's frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: And those are things that you know certainly happen every
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  Speaker 2: week all over the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: For good players.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, DK is not the only guy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Lockett, all those guys, but they know the work
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  Speaker 2: that we're putting in and that they're putting in to
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  Speaker 2: try to, you know, get our best guys the ball
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  Speaker 2: at the right moments and get this thing clicking on
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  Speaker 2: all cylinders because when they do and we are, we're
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  Speaker 2: really good.
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  Speaker 3: It looked like some some teams around a division kind
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  Speaker 3: of brought the little tunnel screen to guys.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Packers did.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, there's been a couple of teams doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I think, uh, there's not very many
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  Speaker 2: original plays in football left, so I think everybody's looking
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  Speaker 2: for ways they hey, they.
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  Speaker 4: Got their good guy at the ball, this way, how
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  Speaker 4: can we do it? So, yeah, that's cool. What do
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  Speaker 4: you think of Penis in Atlanta? Oh? I'm excited for Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, talk to him via text, uh the other day
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  Speaker 2: when it happened, and uh, you know, just excited for him.
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  Speaker 4: You know it's uh, he'll be ready.
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  Speaker 2: You know we've been talking about that for a while
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  Speaker 2: and just you know, when the spotlight hits him, I
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  Speaker 2: think he'll do a great job and they'll rally around him.
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  Speaker 2: He's got good players around him, good running back, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so he'll be exciting.
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  Speaker 4: I'm pumped up for him, like Coffin. You stay in
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  Speaker 4: touch with him, a man.
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  Speaker 2: It had been a little bit, honestly, probably been a
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  Speaker 2: month or so since UH visit with him. But I
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  Speaker 2: know his dad's mad at me right now because I
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  Speaker 2: haven't called him back yet. So I got do that
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  Speaker 2: and I will. But it's pretty cool seeing some of
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  Speaker 2: those guys. They're doing a great.
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  Speaker 4: Job, all right. Thank you, thank you, thanks everybody. Thank you.