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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 9 at Commanders · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll go ahead and just start with the injury situation.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see here, Julian is out, Derek Young is out,
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  Speaker 1: Sobby is out, and then I guess realistic Christian Hans
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  Speaker 1: is out.
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  Speaker 2: And Bobo's out.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, and then Coop and Jared Reader questionable for the game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Coops, Coopan and Uh and Bobo's just happened in practice.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: Just so we'll see with with Coop and hopefully those
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  Speaker 1: guys will be back soon and we'll get some guys
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  Speaker 1: ready to go to Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Had a great opportunity in front of him.
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  Speaker 1: So we're doing one day travel because of it the
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  Speaker 1: primetime game, So we'll be leaving here tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Get let's back obviously, I mean gets ten lots. That's
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  Speaker 2: a guy who clearly loves the game so much. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: for you for hitting me up, well, I think I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm excited for him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think our our teammates are teams excited to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, play play with him again. Uh. He's one
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  Speaker 1: of the guys that you know, just adds such great
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  Speaker 1: energy and competitiveness and spirit to our defense. So and
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  Speaker 1: and look to his credit. I mean you felt him
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline when he wasn't playing me him and
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  Speaker 1: you know, really all those other guys that hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: playing have been awesome, you know, helping the guys out
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  Speaker 1: between series and cheering them on from the sideline. But
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  Speaker 1: it'll be great to him out there. Are you looking
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  Speaker 1: at any of these guys going to I r uh, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like the guys from yesterday or guys from earlier on.
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  Speaker 2: Not yet, No, just would just because it's dint killies.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't rupture it or anything. No, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't interrupture it.
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  Speaker 1: Did you make a decision yet on whether you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: put Julian on IR?
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  Speaker 2: We have not made that decision yet.
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  Speaker 1: Does this give someone like Nick Caller up an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: or is it grad to wrestle who would get the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity attend?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: I think what's great about our kind of core people
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  Speaker 1: in the offense that we run is we have people
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  Speaker 1: that can that can come in and step in and
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  Speaker 1: do a great job for us, have a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: So all those guys are eligible. How much did you
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  Speaker 1: have to keep him back and wanting to play and
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  Speaker 1: his ansiness or was that a pretty clear cut.
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  Speaker 2: Ye.
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  Speaker 1: Look, one of the one of the things I'm learning
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  Speaker 1: is these things are never clear cut, you know. It's
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's the layup, you know, layup
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  Speaker 1: comment of the century. So I think you just there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people involved, you know, there's but with
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  Speaker 1: with with Spoon, I mean it's it's it's easy to
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  Speaker 1: work with him because you know he wants to play
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  Speaker 1: so much, you know, So it's it's a team effort.
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  Speaker 2: And it's our job is you know, to protect.
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  Speaker 1: The team number one and then try to do us
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  Speaker 1: best for him too.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the decisions were pretty straightforward. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so Robbietz, you're expecting him to to play.
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  Speaker 2: In this game? Uh? Yeah, rob probably will be back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you haven't had a lot of games maybe any
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  Speaker 1: where you kind of all your edge guys help even knows.
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  Speaker 2: What do you like about the depth you have there?
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  Speaker 1: All the way?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't realize that it's great.
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  Speaker 1: Look, it's it's hard to just play like four guys
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  Speaker 1: over the course of a game, I mean, really a season.
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  Speaker 1: So you need depth, you need a rotation, especially late
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  Speaker 1: in games, so and and what's cool about it is
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of really good players that are competing
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  Speaker 1: for for plays and opportunities, and even even with like
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  Speaker 1: by being on the field, they're competing for certain roles
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  Speaker 1: that we're asking them to be to do when once
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  Speaker 1: they're out there.
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  Speaker 2: So it's great.
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  Speaker 1: I think we we had a lot of flexibility up
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  Speaker 1: front right now. You guys did some bye week performance
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  Speaker 1: check ins last year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious if you did.
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  Speaker 1: That again this season, Like on an individual basis, we
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  Speaker 1: just left it up to position coaches. But yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't like a formal thing. But yeah, the coaches work
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  Speaker 1: with their own players.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen Ocata grow in that role as he's
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  Speaker 2: played quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Over the first Yeah, I think I think you might
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  Speaker 1: have asked about it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you asked about him a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: Brady about Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think my answer back the last time I was
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  Speaker 1: asked about him was, hey, like, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to play every play or solve all
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  Speaker 1: the issues and you're out there, you just you have to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, play within this game, play with energy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and the players will find you and that's I
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  Speaker 1: think that's what he's come to, you know, with his
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  Speaker 1: style of play, not saying he can't make those plays,
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  Speaker 1: it's just, you know, that's what we need him to do,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what I think. He has confidence in his
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  Speaker 1: role and that's when he's been able to execute.
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  Speaker 2: So it's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: This as a one day trip, any different than you
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  Speaker 1: than you would have done in the past or uh, well,
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  Speaker 1: I've only been on a team that we've gone east
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  Speaker 1: once one year and we've always done like we like Detroit,
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  Speaker 1: we went two days and we just we felt like
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  Speaker 1: maybe smarter to go one day, but going west, I
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  Speaker 1: think is a little bit different. Yeah, I'm sorry on
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  Speaker 1: the prime time games, like I think the Christmas game
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  Speaker 1: was was prime time. We went out early for that too.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's the first time.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, let's cook Cooper, I think with a heel
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  Speaker 2: and a hamsterring here, both of those practice.
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  Speaker 1: He had been dealing with the heel and then the
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  Speaker 1: hamstring was practice on the receiver front. There we know
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  Speaker 1: Tody's come up in a couple tears. What about the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the guys have been on the practice squad,
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  Speaker 1: how they kind of developed over years every important Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean what position. It's a it's a great question.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's why we say it's a seventy.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we say it's the ready squad. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just we're not just trying to come up
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  Speaker 1: with sweet sayings. We're trying to trying to build a
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  Speaker 1: deep team that's ready to go play.
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  Speaker 2: At a moment's notice.
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  Speaker 1: So if those guys were called upon them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they should be excited for their opportunities and and let's go.
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  Speaker 1: But you're always i mean you're always competing out there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're you're you're working on your craft. You're
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  Speaker 1: trying to sharpen the other side of the ball. You're
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  Speaker 1: trying to you know, develop your skills. And then you
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  Speaker 1: obviously want to stay ready for if opportunities to present themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And what we're trying to get across is like, hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: you can go force your way out on the field.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if we can't, if we can't block here,
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  Speaker 1: we can't you know, cover you in practice. Well then
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  Speaker 1: and you keep doing that, you keep stacking that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a guy in baseball, it just keeps hitting
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  Speaker 1: like it's hard to keep him out on the lineup
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  Speaker 1: with the amount of time that with this, do you
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  Speaker 1: have to kind of like e's him back in or
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  Speaker 1: is he ready to play a full normal amount of STAPs? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll we'll kind of let the game plan declare itself
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  Speaker 1: as it as it goes throughout the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, nowhere was the emergency quarterback last week?
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  Speaker 1: Or is that this kind of remain a week two
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  Speaker 1: week kind of thing based on the roster? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of it right now is just roster management. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you see some teams there's.
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  Speaker 1: Like an uptake on other numbers play they use like
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  Speaker 1: a six to oerlignment. Like, why do you prefer maybe
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  Speaker 1: to use like just to running back full back I
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  Speaker 1: guess instead of maybe the six.
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  Speaker 2: Full line packages.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think people might be using the six ozer
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  Speaker 1: linemen sometimes out of necessity because they might not have
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  Speaker 1: a wide tight end that can block.
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  Speaker 2: The c area.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, the fullback is really sometimes sometimes those guys are
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  Speaker 1: blocking the area for us, but more more often than not,
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  Speaker 1: they're second level guys. Are you know, trying to split
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  Speaker 1: the defense rather than block that area of the field,
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  Speaker 1: And then it gives you some formation of like flexibility
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  Speaker 1: to where you can create different pictures and manipulate formations
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: Tory Orden has been opening games but not get results
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  Speaker 2: to paying other places or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You to talk to him about the big man on
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  Speaker 1: campus for so many years you talk about that part
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  Speaker 1: of the game and trying to stick Carpeo gets the ball.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure Friz does. I mean, he's toy
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  Speaker 1: has been great, He's been to had a great attitude.
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  Speaker 1: There's a sense of urgency about him. There's an attention
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  Speaker 1: to detail. The veterans in the room have been great
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  Speaker 1: with him, you know, So there's there's more opportunities for
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  Speaker 1: him though, you know, I think that's I think that's clear.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a fair statement.
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  Speaker 2: So Botimore, Washington, you and your wife, is it to
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  Speaker 2: mean anything stot to go back there or is that
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  Speaker 2: too for possible?
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  Speaker 1: I don't like consider it going back. I saw that
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  Speaker 1: we were landing at BW I was like, Oh, that's weird,
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  Speaker 1: we're landing in Baltimore. But that's really the only the
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  Speaker 1: only thing I thought about jering today to do like
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  Speaker 1: a pregame workout for determine the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh no, No, anything else. Thank you, thank you, thank
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  Speaker 2: you you