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Pete Carroll: "This Is About As Fun As It Gets" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Okay, here we go, uh again preparing to head to
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  Speaker 1: the East. Uh with a big matchup. I'm so impressed
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  Speaker 1: with with and always have been, but so impressed with
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  Speaker 1: this team that we're playing, and really the way John
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  Speaker 1: has done a great job of coaching these guys for
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of years. They're just so well rounded and
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  Speaker 1: they're just good in all phases, and so they make
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  Speaker 1: you realize what it's like to play in the championship matchup.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they that's what you expect the teams to
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  Speaker 1: be like. And and uh and man, they're they got it.
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  Speaker 1: So whether it's offense and in all of the firepower
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  Speaker 1: they have with Lamar and Andrews and and all of it,
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  Speaker 1: Gus the whole crew, or their defenses just kicking butt
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  Speaker 1: special teams.
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  Speaker 2: They they got Tucker there. It's an amazing team we're playing.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, it's a it's gonna be hard, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to have a great week of preparation and uh,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta learn a new group. They do too, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a race, and so we'll see if we can
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  Speaker 1: pull this together and put together a great game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: How does their offense look with a new offensive.
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  Speaker 1: Coordinator, they're throwing the ball quite a bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: dropping back and trusting it, and protection is good and
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  Speaker 1: uh Lamar is doing a really good job with it.
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  Speaker 1: And uh you can just see that they've just shifted
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  Speaker 1: some you know, some emphasis, but uh there's still a
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  Speaker 1: running football team. There's still average on hundred forty yards
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  Speaker 1: a game rushing, so they're able to mix it really well.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, he adds so much.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's he's rushed seventy something times already, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so he's a big factor in it. And so you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got to see if we can, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: can keep it under wraps.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, go to see.
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  Speaker 4: Uh what's the excitement of bringing Leonard in on?
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  Speaker 2: That's done now and can join you guys and and
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  Speaker 2: all that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is about as as as fun as it gets,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, to get a player of this magnitude, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the makeup of the kid, the guy he is, that
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  Speaker 1: he that you bringing into your locker room, amazing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: leader and all of that tremendous effort guy and you know,
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  Speaker 1: everyday worker, all the whole thing, and there's so many positives.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's just it's it's a real boost to us,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and uh, we'll move some stuff around,
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  Speaker 1: figured out how it's all gonna fit together. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a real positive and other guys are really excited about.
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  Speaker 5: It's a transition time to what you guys are doing.
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  Speaker 1: Or No, he won't, he won't need much. He'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to get it done this week, you know. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a really good chance he'll be active this week.
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  Speaker 3: Going back to Baltimore's running game last in Cleveland, had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of yards on the ground, but it was
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  Speaker 3: the yards per caring that was oppressive. Would you like
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  Speaker 3: about the way your defense.
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  Speaker 4: Made to work for those yards?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we we did. We did work it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and they they had more, uh a couple more
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  Speaker 1: explosions that we want to give up. But to keep
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  Speaker 1: money four yards to carry that, that's a that's a
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  Speaker 1: consistent day's work, is what it is. It's we respected
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  Speaker 1: their run game, they stuck with it, uh, and we
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  Speaker 1: we expect to kind of see the same, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the same kind of presentation this week too.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, we.
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  Speaker 1: Just have to do better and eliminate the big place.
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  Speaker 1: The big place are the ones that changed the field position,
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  Speaker 1: and we have to make sure those those aren't happening.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned Harvard, he's been there since two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 4: You've talked a lot in the past about, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the turnover run with jobs this league. Just as someone
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  Speaker 4: who's been to this long time yourself, just how much
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  Speaker 4: respect you have for the coaches that have been able
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  Speaker 4: to sustain.
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  Speaker 1: John's been just a rock, you know, he because he's
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  Speaker 1: a great football coach.
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  Speaker 2: The whole family can coach.
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  Speaker 1: You know, his dad was a great coach, and Jim's
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  Speaker 1: a great coach, and the whole group can go and
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  Speaker 1: they how however, Jack got it done way back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. These guys came out like really great, fundamental
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  Speaker 1: football guys, you know, and and it shows. And that's why,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you look at their their overall evaluation, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you look at their dvo A numbers and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's really really extraordinary and that's what everybody should be
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  Speaker 1: shooting for.
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  Speaker 2: They were doing it. I wish we could have those numbers.
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  Speaker 5: Well you expect Phil Haynes the practice.
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  Speaker 1: Today, Yes you do, and I'm gonna see how he does.
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  Speaker 1: Really just gonna take the day at the time. We're
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  Speaker 1: happy to have him back though, and we'll see if
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you can figure in.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of addresses the other day. But you guys have
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  Speaker 2: had to play so many offensive linemen.
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  Speaker 5: Now that you're going forward help I guess does it
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  Speaker 5: help help you guys as so many guys.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly, Yeah, it does, it does.
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  Speaker 1: The guys have all played and it's not a big
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  Speaker 1: deal for a guy to pop on one side to
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  Speaker 1: the other, and uh, you know, for us to just
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  Speaker 1: have that flexibility is it's really a good deal. And
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  Speaker 1: we haven't felt like that, and you know that we
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  Speaker 1: haven't been at this level of kind of the fluid
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, who's in there, who's out and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But it's worked out well and it's going to make
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  Speaker 1: us better down to stretch.
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  Speaker 5: How did Jason Peters come out of Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: He's good. He's good. Yeah, he.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's he's got some regrets about a few
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  Speaker 1: plays and all that, but he did a really nice job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a remarkable thing we're watching.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is one in a million that you
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  Speaker 1: see a guy like this that can still play and
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  Speaker 1: play at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: So he'll continue to be a factor force.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen lately out of Charbonnet and what
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  Speaker 1: are you kind of expecting from him?
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  Speaker 2: And a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the first thing it say is not having him
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  Speaker 1: the week before was really obvious to me, you know then,
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  Speaker 1: because we've already started to lean on his style and
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  Speaker 1: what he adds and how he compliments what Kenny does
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  Speaker 1: and what we do in the running game.
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  Speaker 2: So to get him back was it felt great.
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  Speaker 1: And the first guy went to today, how you doing,
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  Speaker 1: how do you feel coming out of the week, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and all that, and he feels great. So we got
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  Speaker 1: him again this week, and that's a that's a real
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  Speaker 1: positive because he's such an all around player. He can
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  Speaker 1: do everything. You know, he can run, and he can catch,
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  Speaker 1: and he can block, and he's a good special teams guy.
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  Speaker 1: He does everything really well. So he's doing great.
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  Speaker 4: Jonathan syl wh is the guy you're really excited about
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  Speaker 4: in camp. You glad to see him get back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to have Jonathan back. He's got a knack that
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  Speaker 1: I really like. He's He's an aggressive, attacking guy, take shots,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit hard to corral sometimes, but a guy
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  Speaker 1: that we should see be a factor in special teams
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  Speaker 1: and when he gets around it to it and all that.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to have him back. I really like this kid.
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  Speaker 5: Help those this Kenny mcinton.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny's he's there. He's practicing with his full speed and going.
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  Speaker 1: So we guess, you know, see when the opportunity comes.
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  Speaker 3: You guys go from facing the top ranked defense in
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  Speaker 3: the league to the second best defense in the league.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how big are these tests?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: How big these tests early in the season as far
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  Speaker 3: as going forward for this offense.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean you hear me say that.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is amazing for us at this time
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  Speaker 1: of the year to have these challenges. This is a
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  Speaker 1: great challenge. Whether you know we're playing here or there,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. It's just it's this is the kind
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  Speaker 1: of games that we have to have in your schedule
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  Speaker 1: to build yourself up so that you get stronger, you
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  Speaker 1: get smarter, you know, you learn from them. And so
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  Speaker 1: this is this feels like a championship game again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: division leader in the whole thing. So it's really exciting.
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  Speaker 2: For us able to play this week. He could he
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  Speaker 2: could you could expect him to. M huh.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, they got to date and Clowney over there looking
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  Speaker 4: at him now and when you think back, I guess.
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  Speaker 5: At his time and see I don't have any sort
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  Speaker 5: of look.
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  Speaker 1: Back at that. He looks really flashy still. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's got such a such great length to me.
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  Speaker 2: So tall and lean and all that. He looks great.
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  Speaker 1: We're in't twenty four, you know, he just looks like
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  Speaker 1: you know, it just looks cool to see him out
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  Speaker 1: there playing. He's had some you know, three sacks I
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  Speaker 1: think already, and Ben a factor. They're rotating them in
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  Speaker 1: so h just as there's a natural level of respect,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because he's been really special for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to the number of interceptions they have had,
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  Speaker 3: I think Geno Stone leads the league with five. Is
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  Speaker 3: that a gnat from what you've seen from him while
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  Speaker 3: looking at their defense? Or is he baiting quarterbacks into
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  Speaker 3: some of those talking about Stone?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you know, to me off he has
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  Speaker 1: a natural feel for it. He's he's had his interceptions
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  Speaker 1: have been numbers of different kinds, you know, but he's
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  Speaker 1: he's shown the ability. He looks like a like a
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  Speaker 1: ball hawk and uh, you know they've had some pretty
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  Speaker 1: famous ones there over the years. He's off to a
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  Speaker 1: great start in the season.
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  Speaker 4: For one, Smith add to their defense as I got
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  Speaker 4: him last.
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  Speaker 2: Year, terrific athletes speed committed.
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  Speaker 1: Both their guys are really good, queens were really good,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and they fly around, flash around. I mean
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  Speaker 1: this is just as it's just as difficult and challenging
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  Speaker 1: as it gets. You know, the speed behind them, the
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  Speaker 1: good play they get from up front, and the guys
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  Speaker 1: in the back end. They have an excellent secondary you
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  Speaker 1: know in the end, so but they do their part
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  Speaker 1: to add to it all.
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  Speaker 5: Big picture of philosophically, what what's harder to develop defensively,
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  Speaker 5: a secondary.
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  Speaker 1: Or a pass routs in today a tame Uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to develop pass rush. You kind of either have
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  Speaker 1: a don't you know. It seems you got to have
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  Speaker 1: the guys, you know, it's for me, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: we can take all time all comers on the back
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  Speaker 1: end and figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Up front.
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  Speaker 1: You got to have those guys that kind of knack.
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  Speaker 1: And we're really fortunate to have Mafe and and DT
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  Speaker 1: and the guys have the speed on the edge. Daryl
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  Speaker 1: on to come and have Frankie back those guys are
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  Speaker 1: they all have a chance they can develop as they're
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  Speaker 1: as they're growing. Not Frankie's kind of there, but uh
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  Speaker 1: I it's it's if you don't have that natural ability
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  Speaker 1: to you know, to get on the edge and turn
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  Speaker 1: the corner and do those things. Man, it's hard to it.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, you look other ways. You got a pressure,
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  Speaker 1: and you get to do other things to create your pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Build a lot of your defenses from the back at
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  Speaker 2: least homegrown developing.
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  Speaker 5: Is that because that you're teaching your background.
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  Speaker 2: Consistently secondary when we we've built it from the back,
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  Speaker 2: I mean the legion of Boom.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've got a seconderation of the secondary corners that
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  Speaker 1: you drafted and young corners. So the question is question
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  Speaker 1: is is that it for you in your system more
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  Speaker 1: more developmental peace than the pass rush where you could
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  Speaker 1: import guys.
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  Speaker 2: I think so, yeah, I do think that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We have we have a lot of stuff that we've
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  Speaker 1: done over the years, you know a lot of that,
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  Speaker 1: And I think to highlight the guy's strengths and and
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  Speaker 1: and try to feature those guys where they're where they're
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  Speaker 1: best played, and and I mean just look at the
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  Speaker 1: the marvelous example we used to have.
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  Speaker 2: I used to love the example of of early.
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  Speaker 1: In cam You know, they couldn't have been more drastically
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  Speaker 1: different athletically in style of play, but they both had
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  Speaker 1: huge roles in the way we played him and all that,
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I'd like to think that's what we're
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  Speaker 1: always looking to create that whatever the guys bring us.
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  Speaker 2: Pete, what do you what do you think of the
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  Speaker 2: job Evan Brown's done for you? He seems to be
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  Speaker 2: the most consistent.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think he's a lot of sack yet this year.
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  Speaker 2: What's kind of stood out he about.
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  Speaker 4: His players, bron.
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  Speaker 2: His consistency. He's really strong. He plays strong.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't get knocked around at all, and we've had
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  Speaker 1: some guys over the years that aren't as physical as that,
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  Speaker 1: and just the solid element that he brings us. He's
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  Speaker 1: really smart and he's not a gregarious, outgoing communicator, but
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  Speaker 1: he gets the message across and the guys really trust
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  Speaker 1: him and all that. So he adds that element that
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  Speaker 1: helps us, you know, confidence, wife me, It's it's been
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous get for us.
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  Speaker 2: He's playing great football.
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  Speaker 3: You've talked about finding consistency, needing to find consistency in
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  Speaker 3: the run game. Is that styles together? Is that getting
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  Speaker 3: more plays in the game. What do you think is
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  Speaker 3: missing from the consistence.
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  Speaker 1: We need to do it more, just more that we're
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we can run the football. Our guys
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  Speaker 1: are good at at carrying the rock and so we
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  Speaker 1: we just need to get more chances and we need
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  Speaker 1: to do that. You gotta get more first downs. That
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  Speaker 1: means you go back to third down. It's the same old,
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  Speaker 1: same mole. There's not a new story there.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: We have to convert on third down so that we
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  Speaker 1: can create the next series of downs. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't go three and out without losing on third down,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so you gotta win thows and then then
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  Speaker 1: it'll happen. So it's not just gotta call more runs.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what we're talking about. We got to develop
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity for the for the runs to be a
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  Speaker 1: bigger part of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Do you kind so how fun for like what a
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  Speaker 2: term is going to watch the dynamic with the young
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  Speaker 2: guys and the veterans really kind of come together as
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  Speaker 2: the season has gone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this has been it's been really fun. It's been
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  Speaker 1: really exciting to see it happen. And we're we're just
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  Speaker 1: we're we're just kind of moving in the in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction. You know, we don't we haven't established anything yet,
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  Speaker 1: but we're we're we're moving in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: You can see the potential of it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why, you know, adding Leo and adding Frank's
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  Speaker 1: those are good additions for us right now. And so
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  Speaker 1: it is really fun. It's one, you know, my favorite
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  Speaker 1: part of what's going on, and to see these guys
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  Speaker 1: develop and start to feel what it's like to be
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  Speaker 1: able to control, you know, facets of the game, the
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  Speaker 1: running game and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So we're getting there. We're not there yet.
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  Speaker 5: When you've made you've made a handful of deals of
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  Speaker 5: the trade deadline in previous years, when you've brought in
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  Speaker 5: guys who have not been here before, what is sort
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  Speaker 5: of the biggest challenge to overcome for them to be
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  Speaker 5: able to contribute early on, whether it's the week that
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  Speaker 5: the trade happens or a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of weeks down the road. I don't I don't think
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  Speaker 2: there's much of a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just it happens, and if you could
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  Speaker 1: see Leo in the meeting today, you know, his first
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  Speaker 1: time in with us, and as things were going on
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  Speaker 1: and all that. I mean, I think he's probably looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to the next one. He wants to see what's
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen next, you know. So he got him in
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  Speaker 1: the right frame of mind. He's he's anxious and excited
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  Speaker 1: about it and all that. The transition is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's with a guy like this in particular, there
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  Speaker 1: is not much space there.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna he'll be there tomorrow. You know, he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: know his stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna he fits right, and he understands the blocking
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  Speaker 1: schemes and the principles and technically he's an amazing player.
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  Speaker 1: So just get him lined up right, he'll he'll do
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  Speaker 1: things well. You know.
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  Speaker 2: So, I don't think it's a bigger deal.
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  Speaker 5: Really, They they goes think you be cut