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Press Pass | Ryan Nielsen on Rotations, Defensive Unity in Week 4 vs. Texans · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Let's start with Demetrius then move to John Shipley.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Ryan, I appreciate you doing this. I hope you're
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  Speaker 2: doing well. Just what kind of challenge it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be to be with with without Foyer for you know,
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  Speaker 2: however a number of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a it's a big challenge. He's done
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  Speaker 1: a really good job this year. He's made a ton
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  Speaker 1: of play, flying around, you know, getting his hands on
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  Speaker 1: footballs and disrupting and everything. So really good player. Wish
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  Speaker 1: we had him, we don't. Next man up mentality. Next
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  Speaker 1: guys will go in there and they'll do a good job.
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  Speaker 1: Look forward to getting him back as soon as we can.
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  Speaker 2: And what have you seen from from the Bentrel in particular,
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  Speaker 2: just over the last few weeks, and what gives you
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  Speaker 2: the confidence that that he can kind of replace some
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  Speaker 2: of what Foyer would be leaving on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. Well, the good thing is is he's played in
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  Speaker 1: the first three games, you know, before that this happened,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's had some game experience. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's been out there with the guys, calling the huddle
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  Speaker 1: things like that, and so that'll be a seamless transition.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as the player. You know, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: an explosive guy. You know, he's he's been running, running
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  Speaker 1: and hitting. Uh, he had a really good training camp.
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  Speaker 1: He's made some good plays the first couple of games.
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  Speaker 1: So we're very confident that, you know, well he'll get
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  Speaker 1: out there. Pick right up or Foyer left off.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, John Shipley, followed by Mark Long Brian, thanks
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  Speaker 3: for doing this. You guys are staying safe throughout the
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  Speaker 3: storm and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when it comes to you know, Doug said
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  Speaker 3: earlier this week he thinks Darnell will return this week
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  Speaker 3: just pick of a boose. Could that be not just
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  Speaker 3: because of a skill set, but because maybe the energy
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  Speaker 3: and the veteran leadership that he would have on a
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  Speaker 3: young secondary.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great point. The veteran leadership, the energy, he's fresh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like that that combination experienced player. You know
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  Speaker 1: he's played, you know, in our system, and you know
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  Speaker 1: he's played a lot of years in the league, and
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  Speaker 1: so you can never replace the experience, you know, with youth.
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  Speaker 1: So it's good to have him back. It really is
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  Speaker 1: uh fired up to see him. He's he today. Yesterday
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  Speaker 1: he was great running and around, So you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: an explosive guy. He can he's a great matchup for
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  Speaker 1: us against anybody, you know, and so he's excellent speed, uh,
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  Speaker 1: good tackle or things like that. And so and then
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  Speaker 1: our ability and the packages to move him around, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you see him a safety, a little bit nicole, you know,
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  Speaker 1: move them all over the place. And so that gives
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit more versatility.
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  Speaker 3: And then I know you coached against this offense last year.
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  Speaker 3: Have they added any new wrinkles or I guess pieces
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  Speaker 3: of identity or they kind of just do what they did.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's it's expanded, you know, rookie quarterback and we
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  Speaker 1: played him early in the season, the first third of
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  Speaker 1: the season, and so you see the progression. Uh, they've
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  Speaker 1: done a phenomenal job with the cube and he's he's
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  Speaker 1: playing at a very high level. They got a good
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  Speaker 1: offensive line experience, and then they're explosive at the wideouts
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  Speaker 1: and mixing as a back is you know, he's one
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  Speaker 1: of the top backs in the league. We really respect
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  Speaker 1: him and in his ability to run downhill and make
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  Speaker 1: guys miss, you know. So it's they've got expulsive playmakers
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  Speaker 1: at all the positions, skill positions, good offenseve line of
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  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks distributed in the ball, reads coverages very well.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's gonna be a challenge.
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  Speaker 3: And then the last one for me. Josh has mentioned
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  Speaker 3: before that, you know, Laramie Tunsoles one of the offense
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  Speaker 3: tackles he enjoys going against because he's one of the
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  Speaker 3: best he goes against. Just for you as a coach,
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  Speaker 3: when you're seeing that kind of matchup, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: best on best, I mean, what are you really looking
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  Speaker 3: for out of that? And how much can that help?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Josh is going against a guy like Laramie.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, Josh, you just got to play within hisself in
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  Speaker 1: his own game, you know, not not let the matchup
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  Speaker 1: get you know, too big. You know, just focus on yourself,
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  Speaker 1: his pastor's play, getting off on the football, things like
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  Speaker 1: that and executing. You know that sometimes some players will
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  Speaker 1: make it more than what it really is. And so
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  Speaker 1: you know, Josh is he's in great headspace. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's played the gap before. He's he's very confident. But
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good battle. I mean, Learmie is
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  Speaker 1: a good player, Like he's really good players. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll we'll I'm looking forward to seeing it. I'm really
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to see the battle it could be. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be good, and I know Josh will be ready
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  Speaker 1: for sure, right.
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  Speaker 4: Mark Long, Hey, Ryan, just to go back a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing.
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  Speaker 4: Just go back a little bit to Monday night. Any
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  Speaker 4: regrets about playing so much? Man, I know it's hindsight,
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  Speaker 4: and especially after Jarian went down there, it just seemed
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  Speaker 4: like you guys were maybe a step slow at some
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  Speaker 4: of those in some of those man coverages.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there are some of the things that the pre
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  Speaker 1: snap stuff, the alignment and the just you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: our eyes right, you know, particularly earlier in the game
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  Speaker 1: that we felt we could have done a little bit
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  Speaker 1: better job on. Obviously we needed to, and then we
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  Speaker 1: left some plays out there. You know, ultimately it falls
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  Speaker 1: on my shoulders. It's my fault. You know, I could
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  Speaker 1: plan better, you know, got the guys ready to go
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better. So you know, it all falls
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  Speaker 1: on me. Take full responsibility for what happened. And all
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  Speaker 1: we can do is we can learn from it, uh, improve,
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  Speaker 1: get better, let it happen again. So that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: our focus been this week.
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  Speaker 4: And then when you look at Houston, obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a ton of weapons out there on the perimeter. How
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  Speaker 4: do you feel like you guys match up, you know,
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  Speaker 4: still down Tyson, but obviously getting maybe Jerian and certainly
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  Speaker 4: maybe Savage back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we feel we have a good matchup. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're you know, we're gonna play fundamentals and technique.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do what we do. We always have
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  Speaker 1: a wrinkle or two, you know, for the opponent, But
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  Speaker 1: it's all about going out there, playing confident in our
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals and technique, playing within the scheme, and just executing
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  Speaker 1: our job. I mean, that's what this game is. We
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  Speaker 1: got to we got to execute at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: That's a National Football League weekend and week out. So
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  Speaker 1: that's been our focus.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go back to John Shipley, Hey, right, and last
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  Speaker 3: one for me, do you feel like the dam is
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  Speaker 3: maybe close to breaking in terms of getting to takeaways
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  Speaker 3: and turnovers? It seems like they're really close to happening,
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  Speaker 3: at least from our perspective, it just hasn't yet.
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  Speaker 1: That's and sometimes John, it happens like that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like last game, you know, balls on our hands a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times, balls on the ground. You know once
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  Speaker 1: early in the game that could have you know, got
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  Speaker 1: the ball for the offense in a better field position.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not of a lack of trying. Like the
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  Speaker 1: guys are a very focused ball awareness, things like that
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  Speaker 1: they're punching the ball out. Trayvon had had a big
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  Speaker 1: time punch out opportunity he went forward the other day.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's the continuation of what you get concerned
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  Speaker 1: is if you're not seeing that John on the tape
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  Speaker 1: and so we talk ball disruption. It's a huge part
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  Speaker 1: of what we do on defense. And Foyer has been
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  Speaker 1: really good at get tipping balls, getting balls in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: you know, things like that, and sometimes it just takes one,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and one leads to two, and so that's
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  Speaker 1: our whole thing. Let's just get one, fellas like, and
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  Speaker 1: we're working on it. It's been a constant effort and
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  Speaker 1: practice things that were fundamentals technique. It is a it's
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  Speaker 1: a huge thing that we're we're working to get done.
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  Speaker 1: It'll happen. It's just you know, when it happens. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want the guys to press too hard, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and get you know, too worried about it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just continue to play within our play within our fundamentals
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  Speaker 1: and technique, and good things will happen. Thanks right, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Demetrius Eran last one here. I know it's early the teams,
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  Speaker 2: but have you been disappointed at all by the past rush?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I understand that sometimes the game dictates where
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can't get home every single down obviously,
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  Speaker 2: and there's things that the offense can do to sort
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  Speaker 2: of slow it down or to change it. But have
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  Speaker 2: you been disappointed to see the production there?
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  Speaker 1: No, here's the thing, like, not always concerned about the sacks.
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  Speaker 1: It's affecting the quarterback, like that's That's the most important
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  Speaker 1: thing in the league is the effects, you know, the hits,
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  Speaker 1: the harass, the hands up, things like that. Obviously we
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  Speaker 1: all want to have, you know, twenty five sacks right now,
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  Speaker 1: and that's you know, it is an important thing, but
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  Speaker 1: it's more so our effects and the things that we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: And it's also it's a defense of unit thing. Also
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  Speaker 1: the Russian the cover together and again ultimately it falls
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  Speaker 1: it falls on me and we're working on it. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get it done. We've got good players here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have an effort. You know, today is a third
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  Speaker 1: down day, and we're effort and fundamentals technique all on
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  Speaker 1: pass rush and getting to the quarterback and cover it.
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  Speaker 1: So it all goes hand in hand and combined and
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  Speaker 1: and just very similar to turnovers. And you get one,
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  Speaker 1: you get two. They come in bunches. I mean, next thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you have a game five, six, and and
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  Speaker 1: you know no one's talking about it anymore. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's it's the point right now. You know, you'd like
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  Speaker 1: to have more. We've had a few, but we're certainly
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  Speaker 1: working on it and working to get better and not
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  Speaker 1: disappointed or or down on our guys at all. We
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  Speaker 1: just got to keep going to stay the course.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. That's everyone. Thanks coach, Thanks guys, have a
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  Speaker 1: great day.