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  Speaker 1: Hey, Press, it seems like Trevor has been on a
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  Speaker 1: roll the past few games. I mean, what do you
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  Speaker 1: sort of attribute that to and what have you seen
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  Speaker 1: from him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's just kind of his preparation, the
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  Speaker 2: work he puts into it, and then it's showing up
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  Speaker 2: on Sundays, and it's everybody around him as well, being
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more consistent in our job, knowing what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing, making plays, understanding the opponent, all all these
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  Speaker 2: little things that you would hope you get better throughout
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  Speaker 2: the course of the season have have just kind of
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  Speaker 2: come to fruition a little bit the last couple Sundays.
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  Speaker 2: So but again it's it's something you gotta build on it.
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  Speaker 2: Then just because you had success one Sunday, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean it's gonna carry over.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't like change anything we did not. It's all
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  Speaker 3: the same stuff. It's just, yeah, all the same stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Just we've we've executed well and they're they're doing a
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  Speaker 2: good job making plays when we need to.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like to the.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have used the middle of the field a
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  Speaker 1: lot more, at least the last couple of games, taking
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  Speaker 1: deep shots whatever it may be. Have you seen that
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  Speaker 1: portion of the offense eve Ball as the season's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, each game is its own, So depending on
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  Speaker 2: the coverages we're playing, the types of concepts that we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get to and try to emphasize, and then
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  Speaker 2: what they're allowing throughout the course of the game, because
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  Speaker 2: there's plenty of times you call things that you think
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  Speaker 2: the primary is going to attack a certain area of
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  Speaker 2: the field, they play a certain coverage, the ball goes
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  Speaker 2: where it needs to go, that's the hope, or a
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  Speaker 2: play action concepts comes to life, we're able to build
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  Speaker 2: a pocket, climb through the pocket, and push the ball
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  Speaker 2: down the field, whether that be inside the numbers, outside
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  Speaker 2: the numbers, whatever it is. So each game is kind
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  Speaker 2: of takes on its life of its own, and each
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  Speaker 2: series really does as well too. It's still early in
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  Speaker 2: BT's career, but he is he already kind of one
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  Speaker 2: of those guys where you kind of want to dial
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  Speaker 2: up a deep play for him at least one time
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  Speaker 2: a game. Yeah, I mean, I think that's fair. And
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of guys, a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of our guys have skill sets that we want to
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  Speaker 2: try to take advantage of throughout the course of the game.
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  Speaker 2: It's always in the plan. It's whether you can get
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  Speaker 2: them called, get them executed at the time, get the
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  Speaker 2: right look. That always kind of comes to place. So
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  Speaker 2: there's there's plenty of times we'll call opportunities to pushball
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  Speaker 2: down the field to Evan Christian, Gabe Brian and either
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  Speaker 2: either we carried into the plan and we just never
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  Speaker 2: really get to it based on what's going on or
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  Speaker 2: the course of the game, the flow of the game,
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  Speaker 2: or we get it called and they play a certain
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  Speaker 2: look and maybe we kill a run and you never
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  Speaker 2: even see that that play was called, or we get
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  Speaker 2: it called and it's just different coverage and the ball
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  Speaker 2: get spit out in a certain area before that developed.
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  Speaker 2: So it's always something that you want to be able
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  Speaker 2: to take advantage of. And you know, we want to
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  Speaker 2: maximize Brian's speed down the field as well as much
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  Speaker 2: as we can, and you know, if the defense allows
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  Speaker 2: it in the right situation determines we can, then we'll
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  Speaker 2: push the ball to theme.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of BT with a guy like Gai Air coming
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  Speaker 1: in that likes to play the mind games, like to
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  Speaker 1: do that, and you saw that Brian isn't going to
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  Speaker 1: shy away from talking during a game.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anything extra that you tell whom or anybody
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  Speaker 4: really just with a guy like that coming in.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean our guys are always we have a
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  Speaker 2: good group in terms of the character and kind of
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  Speaker 2: just keeping a level head on their shoulders. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think BT does not strike us as a guy that's
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  Speaker 2: going to get riled up. I mean, obviously somebody's talking
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  Speaker 2: to him and he makes a play, I'd assume he
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  Speaker 2: might say something. I mean, that's just kind of the
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  Speaker 2: course of a game where a competition as it goes.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm not worried.
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  Speaker 2: So far in his career, he's not shown that we
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  Speaker 2: need to be somebody that's worried about somebody getting in
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  Speaker 2: his head, messing with him things like that. He may
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  Speaker 2: never respond, who knows, So it's that's just how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: We want our guys to play with emotion, but not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of motion play with them. And so that's
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  Speaker 2: just kind of the course of something we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: from way back when. But I think we have a
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  Speaker 2: good group that has a level head.
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  Speaker 1: What does it mean Evan back in the offense, not
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  Speaker 1: even just maybe his talent, but just kind of his leadership, energy,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a big part just having Evan around.
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  Speaker 2: Evan's one of our juice guys of just brings a
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  Speaker 2: lot of energy to people around him, celebrates his teammates
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  Speaker 2: really well, hypes up Brenton and the guys as they
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  Speaker 2: make plays. So that was something he was bringing on
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  Speaker 2: the sidelines. But now he's in the huddle in between drives,
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  Speaker 2: in between series, as the drives going along. He's one
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  Speaker 2: of those guys that tends to be a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more vocal in the huddle. And then he's he's a
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  Speaker 2: great player, so being able to get him the ball
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  Speaker 2: the first game out he had one hundred ard whatever
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  Speaker 2: he had. He had a big game the first time
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  Speaker 2: he came out, and his catch and run of ability
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  Speaker 2: is huge. His playmaking, just the comfort the chemistry that
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  Speaker 2: he and Trevor have together is big for us as well.
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  Speaker 2: In some of our third down execution.
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  Speaker 4: At the beginning of the year, Doug repeatedly emphasized when
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  Speaker 4: he was asked about the offensive line about how they
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  Speaker 4: hadn't had a lot of time together. You need to
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  Speaker 4: get more continuity. Is that kind of what we're seeing
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  Speaker 4: down now you know, the season's almost at the halfway point.
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  Speaker 4: That they've had had they have had time together, you know,
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  Speaker 4: although Cam was out here for a little bit like
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  Speaker 4: the last game. But is that what we're seeing why
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  Speaker 4: there's been so much what seems like significant improvement from
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  Speaker 4: that unit and let's say weeks one, two, three versus
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  Speaker 4: what we've seen in the last three or four weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I think that, yeah, that's the hope. And I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's it's the NFL. The odds are you keeping the
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  Speaker 2: same starting five throughout the course of the season are
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  Speaker 2: slend to none. I mean that that just didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: So you kind of worked through. That's off season, that's
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  Speaker 2: training camp, that's all of it, of having the next
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  Speaker 2: man up and being ready to roll because stuff like
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  Speaker 2: this happens. So plug and Walker into the mix and
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  Speaker 2: the fifth, sixth play of the game whatever that was,
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  Speaker 2: nobody really bat And I I mean, our guys have
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  Speaker 2: worked together in the meeting room, work together on the
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  Speaker 2: field to where you're hoping that continuity, that chemistry shows
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  Speaker 2: up throughout the just like we're talking about Evan and
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  Speaker 2: Trevor having their chemistry. I mean Cam Ezra, Ezra Mitch
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  Speaker 2: Mitch Brandon like the communication the guy next to you
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  Speaker 2: is critical to our success. I mean half the battles
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  Speaker 2: just eleven guys being identified on the exact same page.
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  Speaker 2: With every single look.
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  Speaker 4: We get earlier about how each game, sometimes even each series,
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  Speaker 4: takes on a life of its own, right, Is that
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  Speaker 4: what we saw on Sunday? I mean, you get the
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  Speaker 4: two score league. I'm sure that you didn't have it
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  Speaker 4: in your mind to have sixteen consecutive design runs, but
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  Speaker 4: they weren't stopping it. You had the two score league
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  Speaker 4: behind the eight clock, and it just it just kind
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  Speaker 4: of like evolved that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just the way it goes. I mean, again,
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to do that if we're not being efficient.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it started with two twelve yard runs, a
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  Speaker 2: nine yard run, a five yard run, six, or if
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  Speaker 2: it's all one, two, three, you're probably not gonna keep
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  Speaker 2: doing it. It just doesn't make sense, and it doesn't It
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  Speaker 2: didn't un lended in your favorite where you're down two scores,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to do that. So that's why it's
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  Speaker 2: it's great when you're able to because our guys were
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  Speaker 2: feeling it and tanks feeling it. He kind of gets
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  Speaker 2: eased into the drive and starts seeing things even better.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of it was repeat concepts things we
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  Speaker 2: were running throughout the course of the game that we're
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  Speaker 2: just favorable looks for us. So our guys fed off
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  Speaker 2: that and did a good job. But I think in
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  Speaker 2: this league, you gotta be able to win any way possible,
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  Speaker 2: you know you, I think we want We won a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago throwing for three hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 2: yards or whatever that was. Then we win this week
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  Speaker 2: with sixteen straight runs. It's what can you do to
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  Speaker 2: win that game that week? Or and it changes the
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  Speaker 2: first quarter, you're gonna play it differently than you do
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  Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter. So that's just the way the
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  Speaker 2: game goes, and we're going to continue to try to
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  Speaker 2: do what we think is working at the time. We're
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  Speaker 2: not just gonna do something because we ran it sixteen
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  Speaker 2: times one time and that was cool, so let's do
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  Speaker 2: it every game like that doesn't make sense. So our
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  Speaker 2: goal is just to win the game. We'll do whatever
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  Speaker 2: it takes to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Fresh as Brian.
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  Speaker 2: Is shedding an ability to win fifty to fifty balls win,
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  Speaker 2: there's good covers obviously, I don't think Gonzalez could have
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  Speaker 2: covered anybody could have covered any better.
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  Speaker 3: No, that was he made play.
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  Speaker 2: Does that give you more confidence to keep taking those
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  Speaker 2: shots when you've got a rookie, by the way, who
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  Speaker 2: can win those battles against pretty good corners. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: rookie tenth year player, doesn't matter. If our guy can
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  Speaker 2: make plays down the field, good opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: And that I agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: That is I don't know what Christian Gizolz is being
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  Speaker 2: told in the meeting room in terms of you could
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  Speaker 2: have done this differently. That was probably as good a
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  Speaker 2: coverage as you could get. His arm was between I
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  Speaker 2: think the ball was at one point pinned off his
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  Speaker 2: arm and BET's body before he got his hand on it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was, it was great coverage. It was
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  Speaker 2: a heck of an effort to finish the catch and
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  Speaker 2: come up with the ball at the end of it.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that gives you confidence. The more that guys
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  Speaker 2: producing those situations, the more you want to put them
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  Speaker 2: in those situations. So yeah, that's certainly something we think
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  Speaker 2: he can do.
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  Speaker 1: From your view, why has this team been able to
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  Speaker 1: have success on the games coming back from one that's.
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  Speaker 3: A good point.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize that we have, haven't we.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's just I think a lot of that
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  Speaker 2: stuff just like circumstance.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we won the game.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if there was something that was had
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  Speaker 2: to do with coming back from London, and I have
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  Speaker 2: no idea. I didn't even realize that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I just found a way to score more. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: very deep. A lot of thought in that one caught
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  Speaker 3: me off guard there. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: That's the challenge going up against Green Bay just their defense.
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  Speaker 1: You already mentioned I you're just but what's a challenge there?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly it feels and I haven't played Green Bay a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot recently.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously it's a new.
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  Speaker 2: Decordinator anyways, but it feels like just the defensive line
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  Speaker 2: is just a whole new wave. Every single play you
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  Speaker 2: watch the Houston game, and they just got after him
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  Speaker 2: with relentless pressure, not even always bringing extra people, just
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  Speaker 2: fresh legs, guys flying off the football attacking. It just
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  Speaker 2: jumps off the tape. They were able to just kind
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  Speaker 2: of overwhelm Houston, even if they weren't free runners. Just
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  Speaker 2: a lot of high energy, a lot of really good players,
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  Speaker 2: just a wave of pass rushers rolling through and everybody
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  Speaker 2: firing off the ball. It was impressive slash. Not fun
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  Speaker 2: to watch as you know you're getting ready for it.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, you respect good football, and
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  Speaker 2: they played good football, and they did a great job,
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  Speaker 2: you know, making life hard for Houston, and not just
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  Speaker 2: third down situations, but really all situations throughout the course
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  Speaker 2: of that game. But I don't it's a very high
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  Speaker 2: energy group. They seem to have a lot of fun
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  Speaker 2: doing what they're doing. They seem to really know what
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  Speaker 2: they're being asked to do within the scheme, and they're
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  Speaker 2: playing really good football right now.
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  Speaker 3: I looked this up.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Dad, as you mentioned that they're like eighth in
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  Speaker 2: the league in sacks, but they don't have one guy
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  Speaker 2: who's in the top thirty.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, in sacks, they've got twenty sacks, twelve guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're rolling a lot of bodies.
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  Speaker 4: Is it Is it more difficult than if you're playing
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  Speaker 4: a guy with an elite pass or the press and
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  Speaker 4: the pressure is gonna come.
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  Speaker 3: Is it more difficult preparing for a team like this?
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  Speaker 3: I would say that's fair to say, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if it's one defensive end that lines up
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  Speaker 2: on one certain side, we're going to provide as much
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  Speaker 2: help as we can through the course of the game.
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  Speaker 2: If it's four to potentially five rushers on any given
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  Speaker 2: situation and they're all flying off the ball and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you try to provide somewhere else and they're winning their
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  Speaker 2: one on ones on the back side of it, then
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  Speaker 2: that just makes life hard. So time you have an
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  Speaker 2: entire unit producing the way they're producing that that that's
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  Speaker 2: I would say that's probably a little bit tougher than
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  Speaker 2: just one guy. That is clear and obvious that's the
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  Speaker 2: pass rusher form. So yes, thanks, just