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Mike Macdonald: "There Was A Lot Of Great Stuff" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, good to see everybody. It's great to be back, Looman.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the tools are awesome for you know, for
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  Speaker 1: a preseason game. Places rocking. Uh, you know, we forced
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  Speaker 1: them to be on the on the silent cadence just
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  Speaker 1: told the team, look, you know you ever want to
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  Speaker 1: tie a football game. That kind of kind of stinks.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of great stuff on both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, special teams as well. Uh, you know, guys,
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  Speaker 1: got guys, got our attention. You know, we'll go we
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  Speaker 1: can go through all the guys, but we're gonna want
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  Speaker 1: to watch the tape to evaluate everybody. But I thought
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  Speaker 1: the effort was tremendous, got our vets. Especially the guys
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  Speaker 1: who didn't play, were awesome in support. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: said those two penalties were cost of doing business. Will uh,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be better moving forward. But just great to see
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  Speaker 1: the enthusiasm and obviously, you know we want to be
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  Speaker 1: able to close games out in the fourth quarter, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, both sides, it's to be something we'll look
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  Speaker 1: at and a lot of stuff we're gonna learn from too,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as a as a coaching staff and how
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  Speaker 1: we operate and as players as well. So uh, solid start.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait to watch the tape. And this again, I
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  Speaker 1: keep saying this every week, but it's a big week
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  Speaker 1: coming up ahead of us here and looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: the next game. Would you like your first offensive line there? Well,
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  Speaker 1: just you know, you felt the line of scrimmage, you
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  Speaker 1: felt the physicality. I felt like being able to you know,
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  Speaker 1: they gave us a couple of pressures there early where
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  Speaker 1: we weren't necessarily expecting, so being able to kind of
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  Speaker 1: identify the front, get everything targeted the right way and
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  Speaker 1: in sustaining blocks. I thought that was really good. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought we kept the quarterback clean for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the first half. So a lot of good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It was really early in the process.
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  Speaker 2: But would you like about Clint Off, especially in the
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  Speaker 2: first half when we had more of those guys in
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  Speaker 2: there and it was like setting for ten on third
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  Speaker 2: down and ran.
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  Speaker 1: The ball a little bit. Yeah, I thought situationally we
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  Speaker 1: did a great job. I thought, you know, him and
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  Speaker 1: I are getting on to it feel like a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good cadence. Communicating wise, it's great to hear the communication
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  Speaker 1: over the headset with everybody on the staff. Everybody's contributing
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  Speaker 1: play calls in fast. Just all the things we saw
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  Speaker 1: in practice were we're there and there's some stuff that
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna go back and kind of recalibrate
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  Speaker 1: and learn from and improve from. But saw it first start.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure if he asked Clinton, he wouldn't be you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's always, you know, chasing the things, which is what
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  Speaker 1: you appreciate about him. But yeah, I thought we ran
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  Speaker 1: the ball well. I'm not sure on the stats, but
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  Speaker 1: it felt like we were moving it and third down
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  Speaker 1: completions were good. Be good to get some explosive plays,
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  Speaker 1: and I had a good two minute opportunity there at
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  Speaker 1: the end to go win the game. Had been great
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  Speaker 1: to go down and close it out.
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  Speaker 3: George Halati had a great preseason last year as a rookie.
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  Speaker 3: How have you seen him take his game to the
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  Speaker 3: next level. I hit eighty one yards on just eight
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  Speaker 3: touches today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like you don't talk about Georgia enough,
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  Speaker 1: but he does. He's just kind of the guy that
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  Speaker 1: does everything right all the time, and it's great to
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  Speaker 1: see him have success because of how hard he works.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, George the great man. You know you saw
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  Speaker 1: you saw the runs, but you know, the kickoff tackle
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  Speaker 1: was a big play for us, So I think he's
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's a pretty pretty well rounded player.
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  Speaker 2: Coach. I know it was a fourth and twenty situation
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  Speaker 2: at the end of game as a reason decided to
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  Speaker 2: hunt forward.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of just a lump shot to try and convert.
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, I mean we felt like, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: we that wasn't really part of the conversation. If we
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  Speaker 1: don't convert there, it's we're pretty much handing him the game.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of Jalen? His first two drives
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  Speaker 1: a holding penalty, so he's kind of behind the six.
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  Speaker 1: I guess a little bit on those. But what do
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  Speaker 1: you think I would played? Yeah, I thought I thought
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Jalen played well. I thought he made good decisions
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  Speaker 1: operation wise. You know, there's some things that we want
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  Speaker 1: to be a little cleaner on, but making throwing the
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  Speaker 1: ball accurately, throwing it on time and then when it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there, you know, extending players was like, I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was really cool. We made some good decisions in
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  Speaker 1: the in the quarterback driven game with how they're playing
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  Speaker 1: their edges. Again, something that you know, we haven't game
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  Speaker 1: playing these guys, but you know, they're mess charge of
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback, so you know, not getting greedy and handing
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  Speaker 1: the ball off and having effective runs. I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was good stuff for not really having prepped him for it.
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  Speaker 1: Harden's obviously been having a lot of good practices in
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  Speaker 1: a row.
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  Speaker 2: Just to see him take it to the game.
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  Speaker 1: And have a good game, yeah, yeah, it was great.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. And then see him catch the punt
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  Speaker 1: was it was awesome and get a return not along
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  Speaker 1: that was return was but that helped us there. And
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  Speaker 1: then obviously the touchdown and you just felt them out
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  Speaker 1: there in those situations, which was a continuation of you know,
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  Speaker 1: what we're seeing in practice, so it's great to see
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  Speaker 1: it in a game setting.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about cost of doing business for those two penalties,
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  Speaker 3: What did you make the defense all coming off the sil.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean these guys are they're ready to play
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  Speaker 1: a game, and they've seen the work that you know,
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  Speaker 1: our non starters have put in. So to see those
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  Speaker 1: guys come up and attack the ball the way they
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  Speaker 1: did was was really cool. You know, we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make a little bit more of a have a return
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  Speaker 1: in both situations. We were to work. We worked plus
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  Speaker 1: mode a lot. Uh So there's some meat left on
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  Speaker 1: the bone on that situation. But we do have to
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  Speaker 1: show the guys that, you know, those those penalties did
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  Speaker 1: affect us in the game, you know, change field position.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we really can't afford to be doing that
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. But but you know, having the enthusiasm and
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  Speaker 1: having the guys being fired up for guys making plays,
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  Speaker 1: that was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of Toy seeing his punt return kind of the
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  Speaker 2: way he was able to move around some guys there
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  Speaker 2: on that. What is it about a skill set that
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  Speaker 2: you kind of like in that role in addition to
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  Speaker 2: what you saw to him receiving, obviously he had the
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  Speaker 2: little spin down the end the goal line too to
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  Speaker 2: get in the endzone on the long play as well.
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  Speaker 1: Well you see him at you know, the run after catches.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a similar situation is in punt return and
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  Speaker 1: they works really hard at that. You know, he's catching
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  Speaker 1: a lot of punts and he's worked really hard at it.
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  Speaker 1: That's just kind of his MF. Just works really hard,
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  Speaker 1: does the right things, makes great decisions, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: good things happen when when the process is right. How
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  Speaker 1: do you go about evaluating a preseason game. Is it
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  Speaker 1: is it can you evaluate the team or is it
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of individual evaluations for each of the players.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's both. I think it's both. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: as a coaching staff, there's kind of just piece it
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  Speaker 1: in a bunch of different things. I mean, you start,
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  Speaker 1: how we start the game. You know, we're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: back and look at our warm up and see how
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  Speaker 1: that went. You know, we're gonna go to evaluate our
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  Speaker 1: run defense. We're gonna evaluate our third down defense on
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. We're gonna look at our
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  Speaker 1: punt you know, field goal protection, give him with extra
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  Speaker 1: point block. So you're kind of looking at everything, evaluating it.
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  Speaker 1: You're looking at situationally, and then you know, as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: how we start games, how we close games is going
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  Speaker 1: to be really important. And ultimately this is like a
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  Speaker 1: personality evaluation. So you're gonna be watching all the guys
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  Speaker 1: that played and evaluating him as well.
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  Speaker 2: And how did you think.
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  Speaker 1: Nick, Nickim and Worry played? Was not their time, but
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  Speaker 1: yeah it was good. You know we wanted to you know,
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  Speaker 1: get his get his feet wet, go affect the game
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  Speaker 1: as best he could. And I thought I thought he
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  Speaker 1: from when he was in there, we felt them. We
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  Speaker 1: sent him on a couple of pressures and uh, did
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  Speaker 1: a good job, did a good job, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it was a couple of series and then we felt
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  Speaker 1: like that was good. Let's get the next week. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's just working through something. He'll be he'll be back soon.
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  Speaker 3: On Tuesday, you highlighted Tyreek Smith as a player that
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  Speaker 3: you were looking to looking forward to watching him rest
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  Speaker 3: of the passer Like he came through in some crucial
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  Speaker 3: moments in this game with the drum penalties or his
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  Speaker 3: hands on the foot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, same thing with Tyreek. And then it was great
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  Speaker 1: to feel him in the run game too. I thought
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  Speaker 1: he played physical. I can't think of all the plays
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  Speaker 1: right now, frankly, but looking forward to to watching the
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  Speaker 1: tape and I know, I know he's playing hard. I
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  Speaker 1: felt him out there.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of that Brandon Peeley made?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, Brandon, I mean it's just another great story
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  Speaker 1: of a guy that has really determined over the off
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  Speaker 1: season to have a great off season and really commit
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  Speaker 1: to the process both with his body and how he
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  Speaker 1: practices and getting into getting into football shape so we
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  Speaker 1: can go have performances like this so hey, we're you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're halfway through camp here. We got a couple more
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  Speaker 1: weeks that are gonna be really important for him. But
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  Speaker 1: really excited for him, happy for him, just happy for
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  Speaker 1: him to have success because you see how much work
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  Speaker 1: he's put into it. What did you think of Robbie
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  Speaker 1: Utz's reps there at fullback?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously have the one block on hal On he's touchdown there,
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  Speaker 2: that was pretty obvious to see, but anything.
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  Speaker 1: Else kind of yeah, like when I was talking about
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  Speaker 1: how he started the game, you know, they brought up
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  Speaker 1: Samschrunk safety, something that we haven't really repped much with
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  Speaker 1: that run scheme, but be able to kind of follow
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  Speaker 1: as rules and I ended up blocking Max on that play,
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. So definitely felt them. And but
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  Speaker 1: just like, hey, that's your what is that your second
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  Speaker 1: play as an NFL player, and just go execute at
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  Speaker 1: a high level and we pop an explosive run that
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  Speaker 1: That was pretty cool, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: When you've mentioned a couple of players and make good decisions,
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  Speaker 3: what does that say about what you doing during the
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  Speaker 3: week and how players you bra see that in the
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  Speaker 3: executing the game?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, we like to take pride in how
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  Speaker 1: we practice. And you know, as a coach, you're really
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  Speaker 1: trying to make practice harder than games, you know, by
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  Speaker 1: stressing guys, putting in different situations, make them think on
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  Speaker 1: the fly. Now, there's things that I'm thinking about that
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  Speaker 1: happened in the game that I think we can realize
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  Speaker 1: in real time a little bit faster. And so there's
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  Speaker 1: some things that we're going to want to simulate moving forward,
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  Speaker 1: so we improve in those situations. But yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: you know, you go out there, if the game feels
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  Speaker 1: slower for you, then that means that they're practicing the
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  Speaker 1: right way. And I think our guys, I think our
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  Speaker 1: guys do that.
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  Speaker 2: Or is here a comment turner?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you like him in that one? Well, he's
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  Speaker 1: competing to be our power turner right now, Tori. Yeah. So,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, is run after the catches is great?
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  Speaker 1: You know we talked about this earlier, but run after
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  Speaker 1: the catch is good. Sure, hands works really hard at
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  Speaker 1: it makes great decisions. You Uh, you talked about the
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  Speaker 1: communication with Clint. He's worked from down on the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: So how does that change the dynamic or you know,
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  Speaker 2: what do you like about that dynamicly?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that's where Clint's leaning right now. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really have a preference either way. It's whatever he prefers.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we'll kind of re huddle here in
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  Speaker 1: the next few days to see if we want to
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  Speaker 1: if he wants to try to give it a go
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  Speaker 1: upstairs or see what that feels like. So it's still
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  Speaker 1: kind of work in progress. But I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just as another play caller likes being on the field,
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  Speaker 1: just you get a beauty, good fall for the game
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  Speaker 1: and personal substitutions and situations, and then it's obviously awesome
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  Speaker 1: to you know, the communication piece for guys when they're
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  Speaker 1: on and off the field is great. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's tough like today and he was calling it
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  Speaker 1: so I'm trying talk to him to talk to the
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  Speaker 1: linebackers and uh so you you know, you want to
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  Speaker 1: be direct to the players as much as you can.
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  Speaker 2: You've had marsha On come down the sideline before you
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  Speaker 2: see him today with the.
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  Speaker 1: Camera take us. Yeah we did. Yeah, I was. I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to get him and talk to the guys
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room halftime, but he dipped off, But
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  Speaker 1: great to see him.
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  Speaker 3: Was there anything you didn't expect me to learn to
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  Speaker 3: that you didn't know because of a game situation.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I mean, we'll go back and
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  Speaker 1: evaluate tomorrow. But uh yeah, it's just it's it's a lot,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of both. It's a lot of great
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  Speaker 1: stuff that you're you know, you're thinking about, you're fired up,
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  Speaker 1: and especially guys that haven't had that opportunity yet to
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  Speaker 1: go show it and and put great energy and physicality
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  Speaker 1: out there. That was I thought that was really cool.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, there's some things where you realize
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  Speaker 1: that we're not there yet. So let's let's go let's
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  Speaker 1: go to work on it, you know, let's go attack
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  Speaker 1: it and we have we have time, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: have time. You know, there's urgency there.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, do you have any update on time to night? I.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have an update on them right now. We should.
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  Speaker 1: We're actually going to get more information tomorrow. Anything else? Actually,
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  Speaker 1: one last thing, what do you think the virtual measurements
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  Speaker 1: thing accident? Oh? Yeah, they they I think they said
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  Speaker 1: they were just going to do it just to give
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  Speaker 1: it a go to, like to try it out. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they changed the spot on that one.
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  Speaker 1: Did they are you? Yeah, a virtual measurements in general,
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  Speaker 1: not that particular. Oh what about it? Yeah? I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's you know, twenty twenty five. Let's get it right,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Okay, thanks, okay, all right, thank you,