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Mike Macdonald: "There's A Sense Of Urgency To Grow" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, hopefully there's a lot of rams questions.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're gonna ask about d K guys, guys
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  Speaker 1: doing a great job. Confident, Uh, still not gonna practice today,
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  Speaker 1: optimistic for tomorrow. So we'll kind of play it, uh,
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  Speaker 1: day by day. But if anybody else you want to ask,
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  Speaker 1: you go ahead. But I know you're gonna ask about
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  Speaker 1: that one, so we'll knock it out.
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  Speaker 2: What's the situation.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a he's got a shoulder. You know, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna take care of him throughout the week to make
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  Speaker 1: sure he's ready to go on Sunday. But we're we're
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  Speaker 1: optimistic we'll be ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: Still optimistic that he'll play Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I am yeah, I am again, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but right now we're we're hoping he'll be out there
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  Speaker 1: and George fan Uh, George should start practicing this week
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  Speaker 1: in a more more more manneredive. Hey, let's you know,
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  Speaker 1: possibly get him ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Lucas looked out on the practice field.
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  Speaker 1: He's good. I mean, we're uh, i'd say it's by plant.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Right now, I think you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: make a decision of are we hitting the landmarks after
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  Speaker 1: the bye. But we got a we got a good
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  Speaker 1: plan and and well, you know, we'll see it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to tell right now, like where that's going to land
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  Speaker 1: after the bye. So when it comes to what the
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  Speaker 1: Rams have done, how much stock do you put in
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  Speaker 1: their offensive scheme considering.
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  Speaker 3: That Houka Nakula and Cooper Cutters came back last week.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's tough. It's tough, you know. You you try
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  Speaker 1: to tay this guy would have been doing this if
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  Speaker 1: those guys were in there. Uh there, you can't take
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  Speaker 1: full stock. And hey, you can't just go one for
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  Speaker 1: one because of the type of players they are, and
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  Speaker 1: you could tell that you know they're doing They did
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  Speaker 1: a great job of kind of filming, you know, trying
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  Speaker 1: to fill in for the best they could. But you
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  Speaker 1: felt like and even last week, there wasn't a full
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  Speaker 1: complement of of Cooper Cup and Hookah throughout the game.
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  Speaker 1: So we expect that to you know, get expanded on
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  Speaker 1: this game.
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  Speaker 3: That offensive line is allowed.
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  Speaker 1: I think the second fewest pressures in the league is
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  Speaker 1: that the fact that they played together for so long,
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  Speaker 1: is that the scheme. How do you break that up
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  Speaker 1: a little? Well, I think it's just how they play
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  Speaker 1: on offense. They do a great job of staying ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the sticks, and then you know Matthew does a
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  Speaker 1: great job of getting the ball out on time. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, disrupting timing is not as easy as it
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  Speaker 1: is one might say that it is. And then you
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  Speaker 1: know they're really efficient on early downs. So again, trying
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  Speaker 1: to stop them on those situations to create them or
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  Speaker 1: to force those situations where they have to drop back.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got a whole lot of the ball face
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  Speaker 1: mess effort over your career a couple of times. What
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  Speaker 1: makes him such a good quarterback? Well, he's as tough
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  Speaker 1: as crap.
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  Speaker 4: I know that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this guy's he's he's as tough as they come.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just the arm talent from all the angles
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. I mean everybody sees like kind of the
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  Speaker 1: wow throws, but there's a lot of them, So we
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  Speaker 1: respect him on that. And just the savpiness and the
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  Speaker 1: control of their system. What they're asked me to do
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  Speaker 1: on a down and down out basis, I think is
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  Speaker 1: is uh is pretty cool. So he's a he's a
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  Speaker 1: heck of a player.
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  Speaker 3: With Nickveigh, what makes him different as a game planner
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  Speaker 3: and a play color.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. He attacks your structures and he understands how you're
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  Speaker 1: wired and you better have answers for for how you're
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  Speaker 1: building it. So just like all the great coordinators do that.
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  Speaker 1: But he's he's he's right at the top of everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Rams have a solid run offense. You guys been working
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  Speaker 2: on improving the rand defense. All the fans that have
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  Speaker 2: seen lack of progress, why is this week going to
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  Speaker 2: be different?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's our attitude, and I think the
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  Speaker 1: guys are steadfast and wanting to improve, and uh, we're
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  Speaker 1: figuring out what we do best too, and so right
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  Speaker 1: now we're not we're not executing at the highest level.
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  Speaker 1: And I just feel really confident in our guys and
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  Speaker 1: having another week with at the linebacker position, with Ernest
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  Speaker 1: in here, having a full week at prep ration, being
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  Speaker 1: healthy up front, just Uh, we're gonna, we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: it figured out. You know, it's at some point it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna start to click. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a puzzle and it all fits together. And uh, and look,
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  Speaker 1: if I was if I was a fan out there,
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  Speaker 1: I'd be wanting to see progress too, just like as
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  Speaker 1: as the head coach. We want to see us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: grow and become a dominant defense, and we're gonna get there.
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  Speaker 1: It's just, uh, ends a process right now, and you
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  Speaker 1: gotta kind of you gotta be you gotta be married
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  Speaker 1: to the process. You can't skip steps because you want
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  Speaker 1: better results, you got to keep going through it. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're doing. Mentioned Ernest will be able to
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  Speaker 1: do more. How impressive is what he did last week
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  Speaker 1: to come in practice twice and then play well. I
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  Speaker 1: think I think our coach deserves a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 1: T dot deserves a lot of credit, but Ernest obviously
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  Speaker 1: gets the most at all that this guy's a stud
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  Speaker 1: you know that will fit some things a little bit
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  Speaker 1: differently now that he kind of knows how we play stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, he's just he's a fun guy to be around,
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  Speaker 1: talking football and working through things. And we're really excited
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  Speaker 1: that he's that he's here and expect them to make
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  Speaker 1: another jump this week.
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  Speaker 2: How did you feel Dotson play move it over?
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  Speaker 1: I would say that it's the same thing. Hey, you
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  Speaker 1: know it's it's it's a different window from when you're
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  Speaker 1: in the middle and it's going like this to now
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  Speaker 1: you're looking at it through a different lens. He has
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  Speaker 1: a lot of reps there, so I expect the learning
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  Speaker 1: curve to be sharp. But just like there, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: anytime you put the DEFENSI performance we went out there,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to leave the game saying everybody anybody
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  Speaker 1: played you know particularly well or we called a particularly
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  Speaker 1: a great game. Either. So it's kind of we're all
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  Speaker 1: hands on deck to try to you know, move forward
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  Speaker 1: and grow.
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  Speaker 3: In the competition for that other corner spot between Trade
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  Speaker 3: and Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you might or too. What is going to be
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  Speaker 1: the deciding factor this week?
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  Speaker 2: How does someone win that job?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think I think it's going to come out
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  Speaker 1: down to how we practice and how they how they
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  Speaker 1: show up throughout now through Friday. We'll probably make a
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  Speaker 1: decision on how we're going to work out the reps
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  Speaker 1: going into Friday. Uh, whether or not we'll make that
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  Speaker 1: public or not, we'll kind of lead that leave that
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  Speaker 1: up for grabs. But both are both guys a really
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  Speaker 1: good play. I say, between those two guys me and
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  Speaker 1: Maya is probably the next guy behind those two guys. So,
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  Speaker 1: but whoever's out any one of those three guys are
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  Speaker 1: really really confident what they what they're able to do
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  Speaker 1: for us struggle to.
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  Speaker 3: Move the ball on the ground, and you listen as
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  Speaker 3: a major concern after the game called on Sunday, Is.
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  Speaker 2: There a specific aspect there where do you think you're
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  Speaker 2: falling shorters and auction of things.
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  Speaker 1: To call it a major concern, I probably wouldn't say
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  Speaker 1: it's accurate. I think I just said it was actually
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  Speaker 1: was a concern. But yeah, if you're not being productive
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  Speaker 1: on the ground or any any aspect of your football team,
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  Speaker 1: it's not living up to how you envision it, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna want to attack the heck out of it. I
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  Speaker 1: think we have a really good plan and a plan
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  Speaker 1: of attack, and I think the guys are bought in
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  Speaker 1: and it's not like we're going to reinvent anything. We're
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  Speaker 1: just we're just going to do what we do better
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  Speaker 1: and just keep hammering away at it. Again, it's a
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  Speaker 1: process of how we're designing it, how we're detailing it,
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  Speaker 1: how we finish who's doing what, and how we call it,
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  Speaker 1: how we package all those things. I mean, those are
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  Speaker 1: we talking about like methods, the first principles. Those are
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  Speaker 1: all methods that we're trying to figure out what's best
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  Speaker 1: for us right now, and then again, I just have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of confidence at some point it's going to click.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully it's this week and uh an armorable we go.
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  Speaker 1: But again it's if you're frustrated with something like that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know the guys like we want better results, but
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  Speaker 1: we also understand that you can't can't. You can't just
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  Speaker 1: you can't cheat it. You got to go through it.
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  Speaker 1: You got to go through all the steps, and it
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  Speaker 1: starts with having we just had a great walk through,
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  Speaker 1: really excited about that, and uh, we get another opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to have a great practice and kind of take a
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  Speaker 1: next step. And then once we do that, let's just
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  Speaker 1: keep doing that and I think the results will take
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  Speaker 1: care of itself.
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  Speaker 2: Jared versus filled with.
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  Speaker 3: The statu sheet as a rookie, what flashes most when
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  Speaker 3: you see.
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  Speaker 1: Him on tape, Well, he plays with plays with high effort,
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  Speaker 1: and his physical player is really strong that we showed
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  Speaker 1: that showed up on tape. Uh in college having in
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  Speaker 1: for a visit to understand what type of person he is,
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  Speaker 1: so a lot of respect for him. He's playing at
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  Speaker 1: a high level right now. Is something then that we
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  Speaker 1: have to to account for for sure.
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  Speaker 4: You talked about, you know, Smith taking a next step
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  Speaker 4: as a leader, Mike, how's he been in that regard
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  Speaker 4: in this stretch and body language during gains and frustrations
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  Speaker 4: that he.
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  Speaker 1: Has, How's he Yeah? I think, you know, to take
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  Speaker 1: away Geno's competitiveness and fire and energy and and and
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  Speaker 1: and passion would take away one of his superpowers as
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  Speaker 1: a player. So anytime someone gets upset or or you know,
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  Speaker 1: you want to keep it under control. You want to
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  Speaker 1: stay poised. But like I, we understand when people you know,
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  Speaker 1: if they're frustrated, We understand frustration. We got to bounce back,
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  Speaker 1: stay poised, mentally poised. Gino knows that. I thought, for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, he's done a phenomenal job. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna follow, uh, you know, the the
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  Speaker 1: demonstration that he provides, you know, for offense and the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the team and uh and he you know,
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  Speaker 1: give him a chance to take a deep breath and
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  Speaker 1: go back and attack. So that's that's the mentality wanted
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  Speaker 1: a football team. When we go when we have adversity,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta do this, you know, we gotta,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta come together and and uh and connect in
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  Speaker 1: those moments rather than you know, letting the emotion the
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  Speaker 1: frustration kind of get to us. So we'll grow from that.
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  Speaker 3: Given how the division looks right now, I guess the
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  Speaker 3: little conference.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, what would you say is a significance of this
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  Speaker 1: game on Sunday? I mean, you have to look at
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  Speaker 1: it like this is game one, you know, so a
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  Speaker 1: lot some teams are, like the Rams are coming in
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  Speaker 1: super confident, they've won a couple of games in a row,
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  Speaker 1: trying to take the next Everyone's kind of on their
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  Speaker 1: own little journey of story. So there's some context behind
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  Speaker 1: kind of the game one analogy. But you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think with us, it's it's saying, hey, we've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of opportunities where our record could have been better.
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  Speaker 1: It's not. It is what it is, and there's an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity here to really take a next step and get
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  Speaker 1: a win where we can put ourselves in a great
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  Speaker 1: position to go get another win. So still there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of football to be played, but definitely a win
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  Speaker 1: puts you in a lot in a lot better position,
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  Speaker 1: and it kind of furthers the story that you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to develop as a football team throughout the season at
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  Speaker 1: four of the next five our division of Boomers.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're focused obviously just on Rams right now,
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  Speaker 2: but kind of approach how you feel this team is
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  Speaker 2: heading into what is it really a crucial stretch?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a sense urgency to grow. It's that's what
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  Speaker 1: it is. And bet you mean we could be playing
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  Speaker 1: a team from Germany and where it just doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter you're playing. It's a it's the mentality
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  Speaker 1: as a team for us to to uh, to grow
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  Speaker 1: and improve and and kind of fix fix the things
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  Speaker 1: and make right the things that that are plaguing us
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 4: To that adversity adversity and coming together. Is that something
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  Speaker 4: you addressed with the team this week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we talked about it on on Tuesday. The
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  Speaker 1: guys know. The guys know, and we've done a great
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  Speaker 1: job with that throughout the season. I felt like this
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  Speaker 1: this game was the first time where it felt like
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  Speaker 1: where there's a little bit of looking around rather than
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  Speaker 1: coming together and and and again we're going to grow
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  Speaker 1: from it. Our guys see it. Everybody's been awesome this week.
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  Speaker 1: So bump on the road an armor we go.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of challenge is that for you as a
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  Speaker 4: first time coach, is that a siren call that you
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  Speaker 4: need to step in? What do you see that.
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  Speaker 1: As No, this is like it's just like we this
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  Speaker 1: is this is get The season is a roller coaster,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like, and the path of success is not
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  Speaker 1: going to be just like everything is great and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to go and just keep growing and there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be things you have to face and go through. So
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  Speaker 1: this is just this is part of the process. And
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  Speaker 1: I think you double down on on our core values
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  Speaker 1: and our on our foundation that we've been able to
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  Speaker 1: build since how the players have been in the building.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what it is. And so you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's what that's what I'm thinking about said.
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  Speaker 2: Show me a good loser, and show you a loser.
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  Speaker 2: Who are the people in the locker room, especially on defense,
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  Speaker 2: that are really vocal about wanting to turn this around?
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  Speaker 1: You don't you don't have to be you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be vocal to be dissatisfied. It's it's through our
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  Speaker 1: actions about how we handle it and how we bounce
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  Speaker 1: back that's going to determine our success in the long run.
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  Speaker 1: So all of our guys are not satisfied with where
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  Speaker 1: we're at and not pleased with with the results that's
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  Speaker 1: on the field, and so it's gonna take everybody to
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  Speaker 1: do their part and make it come together and make
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  Speaker 1: it come to life. But yeah, we're not. We're never
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  Speaker 1: gonna be finding like silver linings and losing and anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. We're not. We're not. We're in the winning
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  Speaker 1: production business. So if we're not getting that done, then
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  Speaker 1: we're not doing our jobs. Are you expecting George to
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  Speaker 1: be active this week? I'm not sure yet And when.
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  Speaker 3: He if, and when he does come back, obviously rotated
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  Speaker 3: your right guards.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something feasible at right.
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  Speaker 4: Tackle or not as much?
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  Speaker 1: We would not rotate the right tackle right now. If
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  Speaker 1: if George was up, if he started.
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  Speaker 2: You expect the right guards rotations to kind of continue
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  Speaker 2: as it.
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  Speaker 1: Has been or this week a B will start and
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  Speaker 1: we'll roll. They be going back to the cornerback competition too.
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  Speaker 3: What about Josh has impressed you and has he been
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  Speaker 3: kind of the surprise for you guys over the last
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  Speaker 3: two weeks?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think, uh, since it's since he's shown up,
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  Speaker 1: you really I mean, first of all, the reputation of
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  Speaker 1: the player, the tape that he's that he's had, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on film in the past. You have respect for who
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  Speaker 1: he is. He comes in, he's one of us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: let's rock and roll, and as coaches you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: evaluate what he can do doing in a hurry, how
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  Speaker 1: he picks up the scheme. Uh. But just kind of
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  Speaker 1: a similar simi situation to Kobe stacking. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: great practice reps starts to flash and then if you
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  Speaker 1: want to play, That's kind of how it works. It
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  Speaker 1: takes a while to kind of gain up some of
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  Speaker 1: that some of that momentum and some of those plays
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  Speaker 1: behind your belt, and you show that type of consistency
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  Speaker 1: that builds trust with the coaching staff the rest of
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  Speaker 1: your teammates. I know our offensive player has felt it
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  Speaker 1: when he was you know, he's been on the practice
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  Speaker 1: squad and the quality of play that he was putting
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  Speaker 1: on tape, and then when you get your opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of it, then that's gonna make us better
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  Speaker 1: as a football team. And then we're gonna want to
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  Speaker 1: keep finding ways to get you in the football game.
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  Speaker 4: What have you thought of Kobe Bryant at safety.
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  Speaker 2: Last couple of weeks with.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he's I thought he's done a tremendous job.
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  Speaker 1: I mean talk about the silver linings and loss it,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean there's not It's not like everything is bad.
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  Speaker 1: There are some really good things that think Kobe has
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  Speaker 1: shown his ability in the deep air of the field.
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  Speaker 1: I thought his tackling has been a bright spot for us,
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the deep area and filling in the
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  Speaker 1: alley and things like that. So and he's been working
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  Speaker 1: his tail off on it to figure out ways to
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  Speaker 1: you know, take his game to the next level. So
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  Speaker 1: we expect, you know, him to keep growing while he's
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  Speaker 1: has his opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: I realize it's not easy to move guys around on
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  Speaker 3: the offensive line to unfamiliar spots. But if given your
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  Speaker 3: tackle situation with George getting healthier and your right guard
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  Speaker 3: situation has been in flux, could aide potentially be an option?
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah? No, when Aid comes back, he's gonna play right tackle. Yeah.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: How good the Rams are on offense on early downs?
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: What have you seen corom here defense on early.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Downs to eight weeks?
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Uh, well, we're not creating enough. Third second, well, if
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: you go back to last game, we had a lot
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: of situations in second and long and first and long
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: that we weren't able to convert on those series. So
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: it's all strings together. So if you do, I mean
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: you have to. You have to stack good plays to
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: get off the field in this league, and right now
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: it's not good enough because we're creating two many third
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: and short to mediums and so some of that is
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: play calling. Some of those are situations that we're we're
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: putting our guys in that maybe we can shure up,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: you know in certain areas that type of stuff. We're
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: always evaluating on how we're gonna call it. Uh. And
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: then you know, we have to be better on the
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: perimeter to getting guys. Now, there's a lot of hidden
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: yardage where we're losing right now where we need to
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: clean that up. We get that done, all of a sudden,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: you're looking at more third and longs and uh and
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: now you're now you're putting more pressure consistently on offenses
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: rather than vice versa.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: Among all the other things that may be imperative this week,
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: that those early downs concerning how.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Good the Rams have been. Yeah, absolutely, did you see
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: any level.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: Of physicality in those first three games that dropped off or.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: That you can also kind of look back on and say,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: like this.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Is the conteam you can be Yeah, there's well, there's
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I mean just you know, there's a lot of there's
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of good stuff in the in the first
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: three games, and I think it's a reminder to our
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: guys and what type of defense we have and those
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: plays do show up in the past x amount of
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Weeks's not as consistent as we need to be to
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: be as productive as we need to be, so, but
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: it is, it is. It is a good reminder to
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: show the guys, Hey, this is what we're about, this
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: is who we have, and uh, this is where we're going.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: That's your first Halloween costume you remember wearing? And what's
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: your favorite scary movie?
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Man? I'm not a big Halloween guy. I was Bill
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Belichick one year. He'll appreciate that. Maybe he won't because
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: I were playing on defense. I don't know. Scary movie
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Halloween guy, scream guy? You know classics? You all right,