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Aden Durde: "Uchenna Nwosu Has Been Locked In The Whole Time" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Doing your coach defne that's been fun.
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  Speaker 2: You Yeah, it's cool, right, It's what I play like
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  Speaker 2: suddenly defensive mind and light dropping. There's not many times
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  Speaker 2: that happens, but now it was a really cool player
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  Speaker 2: I'm so happy for From the catch.
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  Speaker 1: And then the speedy show, those are pretty rare things
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  Speaker 1: for It's a pretty rare guy.
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  Speaker 2: I think he shows it in different phases of the game. No,
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  Speaker 2: he he's done a great job. And like I've been
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  Speaker 2: saying to you guys, he's he's been doing it all year.
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  Speaker 2: I think sometimes the production or the lack of production
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  Speaker 2: in all certain situations mask those things.
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  Speaker 1: But he's been doing those things all year.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, one of the nun heroes, Mighty Boy Marfy.
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  Speaker 2: Considering the conversation we had with Jay Reid earlier today,
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  Speaker 2: what has he done differently in the run game because
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  Speaker 2: his run defenses I think tenth best.
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  Speaker 1: Among head pressures.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, boys like make leaps and bands, and I think
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  Speaker 2: Boy still is has areas that he's pushing to grow
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  Speaker 2: on it. But his ability to edge set. You see
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  Speaker 2: his length, you see his explosion, his power. He's doing
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  Speaker 2: a great job out there.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think of Chenna to us who can
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  Speaker 3: add to that rotation if he is able to get
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  Speaker 3: back this week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so happy for him, you know, like.
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  Speaker 2: He's had such a long roll to come back, and
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  Speaker 2: he's had those kind of bumps in the road along
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  Speaker 2: the way. It's just it was really cool to see
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  Speaker 2: him out there today and just practicing. I think with Chenna,
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  Speaker 2: you guys know, the stuff that he brings on the field,
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  Speaker 2: I think Chenna off the field is as important as
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  Speaker 2: he is on the field, like the leadership, the man
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  Speaker 2: that he is, the way he attacks the game, like
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  Speaker 2: he's going to raise the level of the mini steps
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  Speaker 2: on the field.
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  Speaker 3: When you say that, what has he contributed just being here,
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  Speaker 3: just being in presence even though he hasn't been able
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  Speaker 3: to play in the last however many weeks.
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  Speaker 2: That's like Chenna in a nutshell that he's still in
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  Speaker 2: all the meetings, He's still asking questions, he still goes
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  Speaker 2: he still goes through game plan week like he's playing.
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  Speaker 2: He knows the players like he's been locked in the
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  Speaker 2: whole time.
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  Speaker 3: Defense has obviously been on a roll of late, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, the players and the play caller get a
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  Speaker 3: lot of credit. What are some of the things that position.
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  Speaker 3: Coaches have done that have impressed you to help him
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  Speaker 3: make it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you make a great point.
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  Speaker 2: Like Carl, CP, Justin and Kale, they've all been doing
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  Speaker 2: great jobs. And Jeff, you know, like I think you
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  Speaker 2: look at people like development like Kobe and his kind
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  Speaker 2: of the way he came in. He's played a different position.
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  Speaker 2: They've developed him and now he's at starting safety. I
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  Speaker 2: think Jeff and Carl and those guys have done a
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  Speaker 2: great job. But you see even the development in players
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  Speaker 2: like Spoon Breek. They're pushing that they're doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Team having a rookie playing on the field, Cale's doing
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  Speaker 2: a great job. It's just I think their constant effort
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  Speaker 2: to like Mike talks about it like it's like he
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  Speaker 2: talks about.
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  Speaker 1: Chasing edges all the time.
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  Speaker 2: That pushing to find how how can we develop this
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  Speaker 2: part of his game week in week out, looking at
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  Speaker 2: those areas and seeing how they can grow.
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  Speaker 1: The team is showing out.
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  Speaker 3: Feel What about for you in particular, what are you
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  Speaker 3: trying to make sure you're having an impact on you know,
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  Speaker 3: of course across the season.
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  Speaker 2: I just think it's connecting everyone. I think as you
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  Speaker 2: go through and like I'm learning it, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: I'm in a different leadership position than I was last year,
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  Speaker 2: and that that understand of how you connect your staff,
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  Speaker 2: how you connect your groups of players, and then how
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  Speaker 2: you build that hole as a unit, like I get.
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  Speaker 2: I've got some great mentors here as well. I'm lucky
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  Speaker 2: to be around Les Mike, you know, and share ideas
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  Speaker 2: with those guys. But really, I think the long run
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  Speaker 2: is how you connect the whole group and how you
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  Speaker 2: keep the main thing the main thing when.
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  Speaker 1: You get this job in your assess and your roster.
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  Speaker 1: How far back are you looking at his films when you're.
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  Speaker 2: I think you look at it from the start like
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  Speaker 2: you look at like if you're putting someone in a
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  Speaker 2: position to do those things, you'll go back and see
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  Speaker 2: how they can do them, areas that they need to
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  Speaker 2: work on, and then how what not just what do
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  Speaker 2: they need to work on, but how we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get to that point, what's the development steps to get there?
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  Speaker 2: And those guys did a great job of that. What
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  Speaker 2: did you see from Covin in the west, maybe from
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  Speaker 2: the rookie stuff or anything that said he could be
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  Speaker 2: a good safety. Oh, there's a few things you see
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  Speaker 2: his range, his speed, you see his ability to go
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  Speaker 2: after the ball. He's always around the ball, and then
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  Speaker 2: he has ability to cover as well. So it was
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  Speaker 2: kind of like merging all those things and then saying, okay,
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  Speaker 2: can we develop him into this? And you have to
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  Speaker 2: give credit to Carl and Jeff Howard've done a great job,
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Success against Arizona the first time around, where he went
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  Speaker 3: as a hate changing and maybe just being the same
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  Speaker 3: after facing them.
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  Speaker 2: I think as you go through it, you have to
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  Speaker 2: treat these weeks as normal weeks. You know, like there's
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  Speaker 2: there's obviously less film to watch, but you treat them
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  Speaker 2: like normal weeks. You approach the same week and obviously
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be things that we have to adapt to
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  Speaker 2: in the game, slight changes, but we treat it like
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  Speaker 2: that and then.
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  Speaker 1: We go through the process and attack it that way.
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  Speaker 2: Has defensive minds and can played well without the scat show.
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  Speaker 1: Rory, what's he done? Now?
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot Jay Reed's done, you know, Like he's
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  Speaker 2: on the field. You know, Jay Reeds a very very
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  Speaker 2: good pass Russia. He has the ability to play multiple
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  Speaker 2: positions and that helps us on our front. His versatility,
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  Speaker 2: and then kind of as a leader in the room
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes, how he brings up Murph and the
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  Speaker 2: guys around him.
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  Speaker 1: Both him and Lee are doing a great job.
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  Speaker 3: But you have a player playing as well as Leanna
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  Speaker 3: Williams is or has the last few games, He's just
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  Speaker 3: gonna get a lot more attention. Yeah, what kind of
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  Speaker 3: opportunities that present for other guys in the line? What
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  Speaker 3: do they have to do to step up if he's
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  Speaker 3: getting more attention.
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  Speaker 2: I think as they go through, they have to understand
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  Speaker 2: where their opportunities are, you know, first and foremost, like
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  Speaker 2: when you work it, I think the credit, Like Leo
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  Speaker 2: gets the credit, and he should get credits playing really well,
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  Speaker 2: But those guys as a group are doing.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of good things.
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  Speaker 2: Like Leo's first sat Boy, I just missed the set,
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  Speaker 2: pushed him up in the pocket, and Leo makes the set.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm like?
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  Speaker 2: So as you go through that, to me, it's we've
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  Speaker 2: got to constantly push to be a group that rushes
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  Speaker 2: us one in those situations, and then you've.
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  Speaker 1: Got to really fight as a group.
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  Speaker 2: And I think this is one of the major steps
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  Speaker 2: they've taken forward is to understand how if you defend
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  Speaker 2: the run and you dominate the wrung game, you get
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  Speaker 2: the ability to rush.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see from an others tum from tells
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  Speaker 1: how they're playing football?
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  Speaker 2: They are and that that's I think when you when
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  Speaker 2: you look at it, that's kind of the The goal
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  Speaker 2: that we want for everyone on our defense is how
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  Speaker 2: fast and how free can they play?
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  Speaker 1: And takes a lot of work, and I think.
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  Speaker 2: Ernest has bought that him and Tenite will play off
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  Speaker 2: each other. They work, they approach the weeks right, they
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  Speaker 2: make sure they know their stuff and then they can
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  Speaker 2: allow themselves to play fast and free.
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  Speaker 1: Makes it after the game everybody owes us one or
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  Speaker 1: two drops? Were friend of like that you line in
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  Speaker 1: this stuff? Why is that sports connectically? Just even just
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  Speaker 1: do it one or two times?
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  Speaker 2: Because I think the defense is a rushing defense, Like
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  Speaker 2: you look at Baltimore's the the system that might came
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  Speaker 2: from everyone rushes at one point in the game. So
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  Speaker 2: if everyone rushes, someone has to drop. So like if
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  Speaker 2: you look at it from that perspective through that lens,
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  Speaker 2: someone has to alwaso drop every every game.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's kind of the where that comes from.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much every much as a touchdown, you have a
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  Speaker 1: serious stream the full go like looking for a guy
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  Speaker 1: to be that Like if you has stop one of.
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  Speaker 2: The persons ever changing, I think i'd tell you it's
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  Speaker 2: a credit. It's obviously a credit to him, but it's
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  Speaker 2: also our credits to Like CP and Less, they talk
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  Speaker 2: about the ball all the time, and they talk about
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  Speaker 2: how how can we become the best offense in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL Once we catch the ball, once we pick up
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  Speaker 2: the ball, and Spoon really takes down and runs with it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like you which literally runs with him. But
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  Speaker 2: like goals and attacks and those sel those kind of
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  Speaker 2: selfless acts, they build the defense and they build the identity.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, I'm sure your folks more on the Arizona offense,
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  Speaker 3: but uh, you talked about everyone rushing for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Arizona had nine different players with two pressures last week
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  Speaker 3: against Minnesota. How different is their approach They're blitzing, they
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  Speaker 3: bringing six Uh what does that kind of approach provide
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  Speaker 3: that's a little different than what you guys did.
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  Speaker 2: I can't say I've watched a lot of the defense,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't but I think there's multiple ways to
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  Speaker 2: rush the post in the NFL, and I think ultimately
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  Speaker 2: it's based on giving the players that can rush the
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  Speaker 2: best opportunity to rush. And if you've got six or
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  Speaker 2: seven guys that can do that, then give them the
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  Speaker 2: opportunities to rush. I think like that's that's the way
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  Speaker 2: I see it. Thank you, Thanks guys,