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Press Pass | Liam Coen Recaps Week 1 vs. Panthers · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Liam, you guys were really sharp coming out of the
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: lightning delay.
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  Speaker 2: What were some of the keys and what did you
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: guys kind of talk about when you had that hour. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think that the guys just did a nice job
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  Speaker 2: of understanding kind of where we live right that we
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: talked about this going into the game, that this was
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  Speaker 2: a possibility, we talked about it this morning as a staff,
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  Speaker 2: and I think they just did a nice job of
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: we were doing some kind of not after action report
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  Speaker 2: stuff had to have, but a little bit of okay,
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  Speaker 2: what they do. We kept them engaged, also gave them
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of space to go and kind of
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  Speaker 2: stay loose and stretch out in here. They kept their focus,
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  Speaker 2: came out, got them loose, and I thought they came
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  Speaker 2: out with the right mindset and mentality.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: It's a weird deal, first one in my career, but
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  Speaker 2: really proud of the way that they competed and closed
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  Speaker 2: the thing out.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Liam, first game as Dry Wars head coach. Just
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  Speaker 3: in terms of your emotions, in terms of the team's emotions,
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  Speaker 3: where are they right now after the war?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean really cool to be sitting, you know,
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: to be standing up here obviously after a win. But
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  Speaker 2: I was just really proud to be their coach today
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  Speaker 2: with the way that they competed, the way we hit,
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  Speaker 2: the way we were more physical, all the things that
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  Speaker 2: we kind of wanted to preach about. Now is it
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  Speaker 2: perfect and absolutely not. You know, you're frustrated with some
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: of the penalties that have continued to bite us in
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  Speaker 2: the butt that we've we did overcome at times, but
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  Speaker 2: it's that's not something we want to get used to
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  Speaker 2: doing by any means. And so when you play teams
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  Speaker 2: as we go throughout this thing, we cannot do those
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  Speaker 2: things and expect to win.
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  Speaker 3: And then you you talked about all training camp and
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  Speaker 3: the offseason about how you're gonna need to see the
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  Speaker 3: team in actual games to assess the run game. Just
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  Speaker 3: seeing the performance today, particularly Traves ETM, what did you think, man?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, those guys up front I thought probably played
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  Speaker 2: really well at times, but you know, the backed up
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  Speaker 2: run that he makes, Strange comes across, gets a kickout block,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a safety sitting in the hole that Travis
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  Speaker 2: just you know, made a great move and broke loose.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I thought you could feel him all day.
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  Speaker 2: You definitely felt him being a little bit having a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more burst maybe than other.
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  Speaker 1: Guys on the grass.
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  Speaker 2: He looked fresh, he looked fast, He took care of
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  Speaker 2: the football. So proud of him. You know, he did
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  Speaker 2: a great job. But the whole unit really, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the way through the end of the game, ran
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  Speaker 2: the ball effectively. Liam a first fall game with Trevor.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you make of the communication between the two of
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  Speaker 2: you and also how do you play?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I thought that especially early on through out. I thought
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  Speaker 2: he had great communication. We were in out of the
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  Speaker 2: huddle at the one delay, but that was really communication
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  Speaker 2: fault of us as coaches.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he handled things well.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he had not a great third quarter, be honest,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we need to be more accurate and complete
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  Speaker 2: some of those balls when we have people open. But
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  Speaker 2: I thought for overall, for his first start in a
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  Speaker 2: new system, he.
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  Speaker 1: Handled it really well.
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  Speaker 2: He got us in and out of a lot of plays.
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  Speaker 2: He had to can a lot of plays, and he
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  Speaker 2: did it effectively and efficiently, And I was proud of
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  Speaker 2: his leader. How encouragey were those two scrambles?
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Huge, huge, I mean we talked about that on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Was you don't get to see that in practice, right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I didn't get to see it last year
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  Speaker 2: with Baker either, right, because you're trying to be a
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  Speaker 2: quarterback and go through your progressions, go through your reads,
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  Speaker 2: play the position.
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  Speaker 1: And man, he saw he knew it right away. He
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  Speaker 1: came off the sideline. It was man coverage.
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  Speaker 2: The linebacker, who was the whole player, took BT and
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  Speaker 2: he saw a huge lane.
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  Speaker 1: So for him to be able to do that, it's huge.
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  Speaker 2: Those were two huge pickups for us, and I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: that he was able to get out there and play
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  Speaker 2: it that way.
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  Speaker 4: Liam. Did you get the game ball?
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  Speaker 1: I got one of them. We'll give out more on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: Was it a reluctant acceptance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit, but shot, my boss gave it
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  Speaker 2: to me, so I had to accept. But the guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a cool moment, you know, for me
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  Speaker 2: personally and all that, but really it's about those guys.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these guys play their tails off. I thought
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  Speaker 2: the defensive staff specifically did a great job. Not to
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  Speaker 2: single them out better than the offensive staff.
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  Speaker 1: They all did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought CAMPI has some very timely, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pressure calls in both the run in the past. You know,
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  Speaker 2: to really get three turnovers should have been a fourth
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  Speaker 2: and two turnovers on downs.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's damn good defense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was going to fall up with that. On
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  Speaker 4: the defense, Murray, Lewis and Foyer kind of like the
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  Speaker 4: middle of the heart of the defense, right at the middle.
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  Speaker 4: Those guys had huge plays after huge plays. How encouraging
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  Speaker 4: was that to see for a defense that did not
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  Speaker 4: turn the ball over? Yes, very much last year.
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  Speaker 1: Huge toll they have eight last year. So to get
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  Speaker 1: three in one.
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  Speaker 2: Game nine eight on defense nine total, So to get
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  Speaker 2: three in one game, it is probably a.
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  Speaker 1: Good start.
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  Speaker 5: Liam defense and some of those fourth down, high leverage situations,
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  Speaker 5: just what does that say to you to just see
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  Speaker 5: them come out on top of the way they did Just.
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  Speaker 2: That the competition, the mamba periods that we've been able
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  Speaker 2: to kind of replicate and practice, the high level situation
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: football was able to show up. You know, those fourth
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  Speaker 2: down gotta have its. And then really the end of
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  Speaker 2: half execution and by the offense on the flip side
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  Speaker 2: where Trevor we pick up an overload pressure. Laquinn Allen
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  Speaker 2: has a great pickup. Trevor stans firm throws the dagger
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  Speaker 2: to Diami, we get the time out kick the field goal.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's that's well executed, you know, situational football.
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  Speaker 2: But the defense stepping up the way they did, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the rush was getting home. We let him out a
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  Speaker 2: couple times too much for my liking, but we were
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  Speaker 2: affecting the quarterback. And then I think from the back end,
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  Speaker 2: those guys did a great job as well.
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  Speaker 5: And what kind of impression did you get from the
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  Speaker 5: offensive line pass where it seemed like Trevor really wasn't
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  Speaker 5: affecting much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really did feel like they were protecting their
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  Speaker 2: tails off. I mean I didn't feel like he was
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  Speaker 2: under a ton of duress. It's not really Carolina's nature
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  Speaker 2: in terms of bringing much pressure. But I thought those
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  Speaker 2: guys did a nice job in protection. I didn't really
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  Speaker 2: chip much at all on either of those two tackles,
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  Speaker 2: So that was encouraging for sure.
• 6:00
  Speaker 6: Coaches, you've been adjusting to the role of head coach,
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  Speaker 6: and now you've completed your first game. What have you
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  Speaker 6: What aspects of the job have you found to be
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  Speaker 6: most surprising or most unexpected.
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  Speaker 1: Good one probably just the amount of scheduling that goes
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  Speaker 1: into it. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's why I have you know, Jay Kaiser
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  Speaker 2: is a great help of mine and the uh Shane Waldron,
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  Speaker 2: Elizabeth Harrison, like just giving help with the scheduling and
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  Speaker 2: trying to take some of that stuff off my plate,
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  Speaker 2: because ultimately why Shad went this route was to try.
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  Speaker 1: To keep the main thing the main thing. And I
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  Speaker 1: am a.
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  Speaker 2: Football coach, but that's part of the job, so a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the organization of it. I've got a great
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  Speaker 2: support staff helping me out, and that's been probably the
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  Speaker 2: biggest challenge.
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  Speaker 6: Fourth and one you bring in at Oga, and how
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  Speaker 6: rewarding was that for you and the staff when you
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  Speaker 6: look back to last year, in the last several years
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  Speaker 6: around here, third and one, third and two, fourth and one,
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  Speaker 6: this team couldn't pick it up and you played man
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  Speaker 6: football and got a first down? What was that like?
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  Speaker 1: That was huge?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we definitely had a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: conversation about that one kind of leading into the play,
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  Speaker 2: like just a few plays prior, just what our thought
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  Speaker 2: process was, and we did want to be aggressive in
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  Speaker 2: that moment and keep the offense out on the field
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  Speaker 2: and kind of challenge our team, challenge these guys and
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  Speaker 2: they rose. You know, they rose up to the challenge
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  Speaker 2: we got the first keeps the offense on the grass,
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  Speaker 2: keeps the ball moving, keeps the clock moving, and that's momentum.
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  Speaker 2: And we know in this game so much momentum. Man
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  Speaker 2: the swings and how do you handle them and manage them?
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  Speaker 2: And I thought those guys kept their cool and really
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  Speaker 2: handled those situational football really well in terms of getting
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  Speaker 2: those fourth downs and what do we have two fourth
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  Speaker 2: downs that we went for and got, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'd like to be aggressive, that's kind of a mentality
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  Speaker 2: we'd like to have, but without being reckless.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought those guys handled it well.
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  Speaker 6: In your confidence putting a seventh rounder in, you know,
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  Speaker 6: Alan Junior immediately on third down, and what he was
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  Speaker 6: able to do.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, he had a great Like I just said,
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  Speaker 2: the pick up in the two minute drill was huge.
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  Speaker 2: He had JC Horn blitzing on a corner blitz and
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  Speaker 2: that's a big dude coming and a good player. He
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  Speaker 2: stoned it, and he stoned it allowed Trevor to pick up,
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  Speaker 2: step up in the pocket, make a great throw. He
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  Speaker 2: had a good third now run as well, and I
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  Speaker 2: think it was like third and four third and three
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  Speaker 2: where you had a nice run Wich squired it in
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  Speaker 2: there for a first down. So to have all four
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  Speaker 2: of those backs contribute today, right, I mean, whether it
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  Speaker 2: shows up in the stats sheet, is having all these
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  Speaker 2: yards And obviously ETNA will get a lot of that praise,
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  Speaker 2: deservingly so. But I think that room in general, with
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  Speaker 2: Chad Morton as their coach, have done a phenomenal job
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  Speaker 2: getting better and improving all throughout this you know, entire
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  Speaker 2: time since we've been here.
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  Speaker 6: Really, I man, what'd you think of Travis Hunter's performance today?
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  Speaker 6: And is that kind of the way you guys want
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  Speaker 6: to use him going forward? Mostly offense?
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  Speaker 1: No, I think that was game one, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was week one where you missed ten
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  Speaker 2: days or so, and there was some you know a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different kind of coverage changes in the back
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  Speaker 2: end for us with some of their formations adjustments. Was
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  Speaker 2: it was a lot that those guys had to handle defensively,
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  Speaker 2: and so it was maybe, excuse me, a little bit
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  Speaker 2: less for him this game. I think it'll only continue
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  Speaker 2: to evolve and go more. I thought he played hard
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  Speaker 2: on offense. I thought he played fast, He had some
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  Speaker 2: good catches, ran the right route, so I can.
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  Speaker 1: Only see it going and expanding from here. Thank you guys.