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  Speaker 1: Truly not the knee. It's actually the foot in the
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  Speaker 1: toe area. UM. And he was checked out today. He's
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  Speaker 1: he's good. They're no issues, obviously sore from from the hit,
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  Speaker 1: but we're still getting some more UM testing done on
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  Speaker 1: his uh foot and toe area. Any worry about his
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  Speaker 1: availability for this upcoming week, I'm not sure yet. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think things trending in the in the right direction,
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  Speaker 1: but I won't have a definite until I get the
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  Speaker 1: report later today, you know, on his foot and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Chad uh ankle. Um, he's gonna be day to day
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  Speaker 1: this week. Based on the investment the team's made in
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  Speaker 1: the defense, it's got to be disappointing to see the
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  Speaker 1: production as a late yeah, you know, and quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing's frustrating. Um even you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: it was a culmination of a lot of things yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: not just defense, but you know, throwing the offense and everything.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's something that we got to just
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  Speaker 1: continue to um, continue to work out, you know, continue
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  Speaker 1: to put these guys and in positions and and of
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  Speaker 1: course it's on you know, it's it's on it's on
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  Speaker 1: the player as well to understand their role, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and understand their their job. And you know, coaches have
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  Speaker 1: to look at it from you know, are we doing
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  Speaker 1: are we doing too much? Are we doing not enough?
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  Speaker 1: If you know, if we need to pull it back,
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  Speaker 1: we pull it back. But you know, um, there's been
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  Speaker 1: just too many, ah, little things that show up in
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  Speaker 1: games that shouldn't be happening this late in the year.
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  Speaker 1: Was this the most frustrating loss of the year so far?
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  Speaker 1: By far? Yeah? By far? Yeah, at this stage in
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  Speaker 1: the season, this late, you know, you've got what could
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  Speaker 1: be done with the defense? I mean, just what's more,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what do you got to lose? Go for?
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  Speaker 1: Broke a little bit more? I don't know. I mean yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know you look at everything. Um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's just a matter of look we
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  Speaker 1: we have we when I say we, the staff coaches, Um,
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  Speaker 1: we need to look at ourselves and see if we
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  Speaker 1: can coach things a little bit better so the players
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  Speaker 1: understand exactly what we're asking them to do, where to
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  Speaker 1: line up, how to line up, which gap to fit? Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and then and then it's on you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's on the player to understand that. So there's got
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  Speaker 1: to be some give and take. That's uh, that's part
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  Speaker 1: of this game. And and um, you know, so it
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  Speaker 1: starts with us and making sure that we have everything
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  Speaker 1: covered before before we can ask the player to just
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  Speaker 1: assume that he knows everything. I guess the defense performance
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  Speaker 1: or effort or not effort. But what's happening on the
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  Speaker 1: field gets worse as the season goes on. What is
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  Speaker 1: that a sign up for you? Well, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't say it's getting worse. I just think yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: a culmination of everything. You know, you go back the
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  Speaker 1: week before, there was some there was some positive things there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the Baltimore game and and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's it's not all come together. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: you know you look at it and and um, there
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  Speaker 1: are some bright spots. You know, there's some there's some
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  Speaker 1: there's some good plays being made. Guys are giving great effort, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I never questioned that aspect of it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it comes down to just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of ownership with the coaches, with the players understanding again,
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  Speaker 1: understanding responsibility, understanding your job where you need to be
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  Speaker 1: and when you need to be there. And yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: just you know, this is not all on the defense. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: you know, offense had their share, uh in this yesterday
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  Speaker 1: as well. You know, we can't put the ball on
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  Speaker 1: the ground so I can play the game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Who's that he'll be day to
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  Speaker 1: day again. But he you know, he was, he was good.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't want to put him in a situation
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  Speaker 1: where UM set him back further. You know, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: training in the right direction. So it's just a uh
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  Speaker 1: sort of medical decision yesterday to keep him, keep him
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  Speaker 1: out and and UM hopefully we get them back this week.
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  Speaker 1: The defensive struggles go to the first year coordinator. Is Mike,
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  Speaker 1: you know, able to kind of get this stuff twitching
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  Speaker 1: around and fixed quick enough or not? Or I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: it takes it takes time. You know. I can remember
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  Speaker 1: back when you know, I was the first time coordinator
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  Speaker 1: and you're trying to do you're trying to do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different things, and then you know, you realize,
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  Speaker 1: you you you back off just a little bit. And
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  Speaker 1: we've done that. We have we've we've scaled back a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and and UM you know, we've got some
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  Speaker 1: talented players, We've got some good players, and again, as
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  Speaker 1: a staff, we're just making sure that, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: put these guys in the right positions, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: that's on us to do that. But um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think Mike's done a done a good job of
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  Speaker 1: organizing and and and really keeping things, you know, keeping
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  Speaker 1: things together. But on the same side of that is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've got to do a better job of
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  Speaker 1: coaching and teaching and making sure everybody understands, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the your jobs. Back to Trevoral quick whatever kind of
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  Speaker 1: tests to seem kind of undergoing X rays, m R I,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's usually m R I. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the foot and toe area right now
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  Speaker 1: and the right for fullback or do I really wish
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't either one? Um? I guess yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean, if you're thinking about plant
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  Speaker 1: foot versus push off and all that, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: being on the left side is probably a little better
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  Speaker 1: if there is a better side. And honestly, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: like a smart ass or anything, but how can you
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  Speaker 1: he feel like it was a knee and it was
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  Speaker 1: more the ankle? I think I've seen that with some
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  Speaker 1: other guys too, what they initially feel like they've hurt
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  Speaker 1: their knee, but it ends up being something else. I
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  Speaker 1: just think the nature of the hit, the way it
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  Speaker 1: was twisted. It started from the knee down through the calf,
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  Speaker 1: down through the ankle down eventually down through the toe.
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  Speaker 1: As everything sort of kind of unwound, you know, on
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  Speaker 1: the play, ultra ended up at the you know, at
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  Speaker 1: the ground level, which is where your feet are and
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  Speaker 1: your toes are. So that's how we got down. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It did start up high, it did start up high,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but ended up down low. Look at the film,
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  Speaker 1: so all private kind of spot was it should have
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  Speaker 1: been a penalty or no? Um, I don't think. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so you look at it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's borderline, But I think I think the hit
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  Speaker 1: was was okay, it was it was it was up
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  Speaker 1: high in the hip area, you know, and then just
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  Speaker 1: it was just the nature of the twist on the tackle,
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  Speaker 1: you know, which is which is what happens. You know,
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  Speaker 1: guys want to get him on the ground, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: no fault was a good play, you know, it just
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  Speaker 1: uh was was unfortunate that Trevor's leggy just got caught
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  Speaker 1: underneath after a game two weeks ago and then a
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  Speaker 1: game like he had yesterday with the three drops. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we just got to get back
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  Speaker 1: to you know, focusing on the ball. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of times too, you know, uh, even
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  Speaker 1: with the nature of Day's injury last week, there were
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  Speaker 1: some times where he didn't necessarily he practiced, but he
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  Speaker 1: didn't get some of the reps that he would normally
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  Speaker 1: get during the week. And so you know, um, he's
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  Speaker 1: very prideful though, and he'll make sure that he's he
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  Speaker 1: bounces back and and um, you know, corrects that stuff
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  Speaker 1: in practice and make sure it doesn't happen again when
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  Speaker 1: you've got receivers dropping balls, you've got travisy team fumbled
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  Speaker 1: on that first drive. To just feel like nothing was
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  Speaker 1: really going right for the offensive side of the ball either,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it felt that way. Um, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: felt like we were off to a good start for
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  Speaker 1: you know, first two plays, positive runs. The second one
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  Speaker 1: was a nice run. Nice game. You know, even you know,
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  Speaker 1: even as that first quarter, second quarter, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: were still there, still moving to football just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of third downs, you know, didn't capitalize. We had opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't do it. Um, you know, we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get a stop on defense, get off the field. We
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  Speaker 1: we still felt comfortable and that what we were doing
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  Speaker 1: and sticking with the game plan and all that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: after after a point, they're probably you know, beginning a
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  Speaker 1: third quarter, you know, when they go down and score,
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  Speaker 1: and it just felt like at that point things things
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  Speaker 1: were kind of sliding in the wrong direction. How do
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  Speaker 1: you work with a guy like Davis? He said, totally
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  Speaker 1: will pretty well for you this season, but he's had
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  Speaker 1: a few costly fumbles. I just gotta keep keep you know,
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, we do a ball security circuit with everybody,
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  Speaker 1: and we just gotta keep keep on them, keep on
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  Speaker 1: all the guys. You know, ball security. Football's the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the prize possession and and uh you know, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: continue to teach, continue to show them, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: um it's gotta learn. I know you've got the cheap
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  Speaker 1: story about week by week, but now that we get
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  Speaker 1: a Tennessee games here, have you been able to get
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  Speaker 1: a feel for the fact that this is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a robbery almost it's almost like a college
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  Speaker 1: robbery between the two cities, between the two teams and everything.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, do you think that having Tennessee at
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  Speaker 1: the end of this week is going to get their
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  Speaker 1: attention and maybe results? You know, Yeah, good football team.
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  Speaker 1: We know they're they're you know, obviously top of the
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  Speaker 1: division and and um, you know, they they let one
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  Speaker 1: slip away yesterday and and just like we did. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he got two teams that are kind of
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  Speaker 1: licking their wounds this week, and we got to travel
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  Speaker 1: again on the road, um, you know, and we've got
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  Speaker 1: to be able to have a great week of preparation
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  Speaker 1: and practice and and we can't get caught up in
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  Speaker 1: the I think in the rivalry and the hoop law
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  Speaker 1: we should. We just gotta it's gotta be business as usual,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and you've gotta we've got we've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of mistakes that we've got to fix and correct
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  Speaker 1: and and that's kind of what this week is going
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  Speaker 1: to be about, you know, making sure that we're on
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  Speaker 1: track that way, and and uh, you know, getting back
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  Speaker 1: to fundamentals, details and and focusing on that within you know,
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  Speaker 1: within the game plan is there in this league where
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  Speaker 1: it's more important to tackle fundamentally well. And against Derrick Henry, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean yeah, you've you've got to, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to get him on the ground. He's a
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  Speaker 1: he's a big, strong, powerful guy. And uh, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those one of those games where you
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  Speaker 1: gotta you gotta bring your big boy pads, as they say,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh you know it's always a physical game
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  Speaker 1: against Tennessee and and um you know this will be
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  Speaker 1: no difference. So you know, um, you gotta watch a
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  Speaker 1: lot of tape you know, on him, see his his
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  Speaker 1: style of runs, and and see how guys are tackling
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  Speaker 1: him and and making sure that you know, we prepare
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  Speaker 1: ourselves that week to do that. You who are embarrassed
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  Speaker 1: after the game things you did too, What do you
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  Speaker 1: tell them in like the meeting this morning, were on
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  Speaker 1: the plane right home. You're not a light into the
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  Speaker 1: team guy, right as a general rule? Or is that
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  Speaker 1: something you make an exception for when you have a
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  Speaker 1: game like that, you know, um, you pick your spots. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's these guys understand what they've done, what we've done
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  Speaker 1: as football team, and where we are. Um, a game
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  Speaker 1: like yesterday is unacceptable for anybody, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: the players are included. They understand that. And so for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's not about yelling and screaming and trying to get
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  Speaker 1: their attention that way, but but still having serious, hard conversation,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and look, you know, I want them
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  Speaker 1: to understand what's in front of us. I mean, still
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  Speaker 1: five games and three division and you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: as crazy as it sounds that we're not out of anything, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's still it's still right in front
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  Speaker 1: of us. But um, it's my job to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they understand that, you know, and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: as coaches, we gotta I think I think the more
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  Speaker 1: you yell and scream and try to put a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pressure and heat and this and that they get
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  Speaker 1: tight and tense and and don't play well. I still
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be loose and play and have fun and
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  Speaker 1: all that, but at the same time, they gotta understand
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  Speaker 1: this is a this is a it's a discipline game,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got to be born disciplined than we were yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Sundays things along losing streak for this franchise against NFC teams,
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  Speaker 1: is there a difference in play style from the n
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  Speaker 1: f C the in see or is that just kind
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  Speaker 1: of how the alls bounced. I mean, look, we just
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  Speaker 1: didn't played well yesterday at all. You know. Um, it's
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  Speaker 1: a good football team. And we talked all last week.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they were in the same situation we're in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and um, we just didn't play well, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and a f C NFC I think I think
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  Speaker 1: both have been in both conferences. Both conferences are great conferences,
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  Speaker 1: and um, it just comes down to you know, who
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  Speaker 1: wants it a little bit more on on game day
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  Speaker 1: and and just doing your job and and and owning
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  Speaker 1: up to your responsibilities and trying to take care of business.
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  Speaker 1: And we didn't do that yesterday. We talked about responding
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  Speaker 1: and how the guys handled the response to things at
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  Speaker 1: times this season. This week is or Sunday was the
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  Speaker 1: first time that you kind of really got beaten that
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  Speaker 1: way this year. Can you learn about some of the
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  Speaker 1: guys how they respond this week? I think so. I
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  Speaker 1: think moving forward, this week is gonna be important for
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  Speaker 1: I think the psyche and the mentality of the football
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  Speaker 1: team and where we are and just how guys respond,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from from uh, you know, that type of
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  Speaker 1: loss and definitely things we can learn from. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you want to you want to sort of burn the
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  Speaker 1: film and move on, you know, but you still have
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  Speaker 1: to go through it with them, and and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fix the mistakes, make the corrections and point out and
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  Speaker 1: still point out some of the good that was there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he can't be all negative. Um, you
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  Speaker 1: still want to be able to correct some of the
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  Speaker 1: positive as well. But yeah, you know it's um, uh
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  Speaker 1: you don't want too many of these obviously, but we
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  Speaker 1: can definitely learn from it. Worry about coach Caldwell with
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  Speaker 1: the struggle the first time as a defensive coordinator, going
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  Speaker 1: through this kind of rough patch at all, No, I don't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because because again, you know, part of part
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  Speaker 1: of my job is to help support him and give
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  Speaker 1: him everything that he needs, you know, to be successful.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna do that and make sure that
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  Speaker 1: you know, um, even even who's up who's down on
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  Speaker 1: game day, you know, we determine that. So uh, to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that he has everything you know, readily available
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  Speaker 1: to him, and want to support him and make sure
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  Speaker 1: that um, you know, he can he has everything he
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  Speaker 1: needs to to be successful as well. Thanks coach al Right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: thanks