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Press Pass | Press Taylor: "They're never out of the game." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hey, coach had, I hope you're doing well. Just um,
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  Speaker 1: could you talk a little bit about how well the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line is playing. It seems like every week they've
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  Speaker 1: gotten better in terms of past protection. Then obviously in
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  Speaker 1: the run game, yeah, they've they've done a great job,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And and it hasn't been easy obviously, been
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  Speaker 1: Barts going down with injury and and Chat coming in
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  Speaker 1: and filling in that spot and kind of changes that
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  Speaker 1: dynamics of things. But you know, SHOT's the guy that's
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  Speaker 1: been around here, has great chemistry with everybody plays next
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  Speaker 1: to um and it's really all those guys just getting
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. Like when when we all know
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing, where we're going to, who we're going
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  Speaker 1: to um and communicate really well, which they've done, it
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  Speaker 1: gives us the best chance for success. And and and
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  Speaker 1: it's not just them, you know, it's the it's the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback playing on time, the receiver's being where they're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be when they're supposed to be there, and then
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  Speaker 1: the backs identifying things as well that you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: a big part of our past protection as well as
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  Speaker 1: the tight ends and then the skill players being open
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  Speaker 1: when we are throwing the ball on the right timing,
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  Speaker 1: staying in favorable situations for us. All of it plays
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  Speaker 1: together to to allow us to have that kind success.
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  Speaker 1: And then just you know, this week, obviously going up
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  Speaker 1: against you know, Chris Jones and and guys like that,
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  Speaker 1: how tough of the challenge is it going to be
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  Speaker 1: for the offensive line and and the Ovens in general
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  Speaker 1: going up against this defensive line. Yeah, I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like every single week there's somebody on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line. If not one guy, there's two guys that
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're aware of that. We know our impact players,
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  Speaker 1: and Chris Jones is certainly that type of guy um
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  Speaker 1: and he plays all over the line for them. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a matter of identifying where he is, making sure
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  Speaker 1: we're in favorable situations. You know, you can't get yourself
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  Speaker 1: in second twelve behind the sticks whereverybody knows you're throwing
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  Speaker 1: the football and expect to win all your one on
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  Speaker 1: ones against him, you know, So you want to stay
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  Speaker 1: on schedule, You want to stay where the whole playbooks
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  Speaker 1: available to you. You can keep them guessing, you can
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  Speaker 1: keep him out of pass for us situations. But he's
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  Speaker 1: certainly got we have to be aware of it all times,
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  Speaker 1: just because he is an impact player for them. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I we'll go to John Shipley than Gary. Okay, press,
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  Speaker 1: So if you're doing well, I saw a stat yesterday
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  Speaker 1: that from I think the point of the last drive
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  Speaker 1: in the first half of you guys got the ball
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  Speaker 1: until the end of the game, Trevor, I did one
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  Speaker 1: in completion. And what can you really say about his performance,
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  Speaker 1: you know, over the second half of that game, after
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  Speaker 1: maybe a bit of a slow start. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought he did a great job. You know, there
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  Speaker 1: was early on he missed a slam I think on
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  Speaker 1: third down Um, But beyond that, I thought he did
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  Speaker 1: a great job being accurate, being decisive with the football,
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  Speaker 1: Guys getting open for him. Again, that's what it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to. You you have nowhere to throw the ball
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  Speaker 1: if nobody can get open or you can't keep a
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  Speaker 1: clean pocket. So it's really everybody playing in conjunction. Um
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  Speaker 1: kind of has that success for the offense. But he
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  Speaker 1: was definitely locked in. You know, it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: things you don't really notice it. You're just continuing to
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  Speaker 1: be efficient and effective and moving the football and by
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  Speaker 1: the time you look at it, somebody points out that
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  Speaker 1: he's hit tennant or whatever. He's hit um, And that's
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  Speaker 1: what you wanted to be. You don't want it to
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  Speaker 1: be surprised that we're throwing these completions. You want to
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  Speaker 1: be just you call plays, they execute him, well, you
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  Speaker 1: roll and and by the time you look up your
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  Speaker 1: your numbers are productive. But we're not concerned with numbers.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's more as an offense, we want to score points.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're trying to do, trying to put our
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  Speaker 1: team in the best position to win the game at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day. Duck said on Sunday that
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  Speaker 1: sometimes a young quarterback needs a game like that to
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  Speaker 1: kind of show them, Okay, what coach has been saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is the right thing to do. Is that
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  Speaker 1: kind of the same impression you get, Yeah, absolutely, And
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  Speaker 1: there's been games that he's done that. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: been a couple of games this year where he's he's
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  Speaker 1: really kind of caught fire. He's taken what the defense
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  Speaker 1: has given him and been effective in our offense. And
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  Speaker 1: then there's games he haven't performed as well. So you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to eliminate the roller coaster of the season, but
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. We just want to consistency the growth
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  Speaker 1: from him that he's been able to show, and as
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  Speaker 1: an offense, we need to be more consistent over time.
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  Speaker 1: You know. That's kind of us taking the next step
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  Speaker 1: as an offensive unit. Thanks Press, Okay, we'll go to Gary,
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  Speaker 1: then we'll go to jamal A Press regards to Travis, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: what's the balance or what's the fine line between not
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  Speaker 1: winning the curb of guys and national instincts in a
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  Speaker 1: very physical game and protecting himself little bit better from
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  Speaker 1: getting popped really hard. And if you remember back in
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  Speaker 1: training camp when you've gotten patched for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in Trey really popped him that one time, and and
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  Speaker 1: and Travis got right back up and he said later
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  Speaker 1: on that he really relished that hit. But at some point,
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  Speaker 1: do you want him to learn to uh kind of
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  Speaker 1: run out of bounds a little bit or or or
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  Speaker 1: do you not want to just like I said, curb
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  Speaker 1: those instincts he's got right now? Yeah, you definitely want
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  Speaker 1: to take don't want to take away a guy's instincts
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  Speaker 1: and the way he carries a ball. And that's part
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  Speaker 1: of the reason he's been such an explosive runner for us.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, we understand it's a grueling game.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very physical game. Um, there's gonna be nix
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  Speaker 1: and bruises and so whatever we can do to help
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  Speaker 1: him learn to protect himself and all those situations. Understand
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  Speaker 1: when the down's over, when you know, maybe another HiT's
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  Speaker 1: not necessary for a yard or whatever. That may be
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  Speaker 1: based on the situation. But um, and that can also
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  Speaker 1: go with the way we manage him. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: had thirty something touch, thirty touches, thirty something touches the
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  Speaker 1: other night. Uh, you know that long term, is that
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  Speaker 1: the right way to handle it? Um, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to say we're not gonna give one of our
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  Speaker 1: best players the football as much as we can, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, doing it the right way, making sure that
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  Speaker 1: he's handling things the right way. He's very professional in
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  Speaker 1: his approach, does a great job with his recovery. Our sports,
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  Speaker 1: our strength staff does a great job of getting all
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  Speaker 1: these guys, and that's why I think you've seen kind
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  Speaker 1: of the health play out throughout the year. But we're
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  Speaker 1: certainly something we're aware of and continue to coach with him,
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  Speaker 1: and you're talking about the at bats he's getting right now,
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  Speaker 1: is it? Is it also difficult to rein in the
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  Speaker 1: instincts of the coaching staff to to keep going to
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  Speaker 1: the hot guy. Um. I mean, I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: you want to rain in getting away from the hot guy.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, there's certainly you know, the long term vision
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  Speaker 1: of a season and the touches we envisioned in a game,
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  Speaker 1: but ultimately comes down and doing what's best for the
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  Speaker 1: team to win that game. And if that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: riding the hot hand at that time, if that's spreading
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  Speaker 1: the ball around based on carries, touches, whatever that may be,
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  Speaker 1: then then that's what we're gonna do to give us
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  Speaker 1: a chance to win the game. Okay, thanks to what's
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  Speaker 1: a coach? Um? We talk a lot about that chief's offense.
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  Speaker 1: How much pressure can that Chief's offense put on your
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  Speaker 1: offense to kind of maximize those possessions and maybe even
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  Speaker 1: kind of choose some clock up. Yeah, I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's definitely certain ways to approach it. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: need points against these guys, their number one scoring offense.
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  Speaker 1: We're aware of that. I think one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: things with these guys is they're never out of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So if you build a lead or you're sitting there,
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  Speaker 1: it's not something where all right, we can just run
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  Speaker 1: some clock and and you know we're okay with three
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  Speaker 1: and out and putting the ball as long as we
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  Speaker 1: take they can score in a hurry. I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: saw it all last year, we saw it through this
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  Speaker 1: season so far. Obviously the playoff game last year is
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  Speaker 1: very memorable. They had with thirteen seconds or whatever it was,
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  Speaker 1: and they were able to go down and score. So
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  Speaker 1: it's it's something you can never take your foot off
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  Speaker 1: the gas with these guys and the offensive system that
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  Speaker 1: they have because they're capable of scoring. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: we never go into a drive thinking we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to score. You know, we're always trying to score. It's
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  Speaker 1: just we gotta do a great job as our offense
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  Speaker 1: of eliminating the unforced airs that we've had. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we've we put the ball on the ground the other day.
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  Speaker 1: The one turnover was completely unforced. It's a ball handling
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  Speaker 1: exchange with the quarterback running back, and you can't have
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  Speaker 1: things like that, and that's kind of the thing that
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  Speaker 1: I think has hindered us a little bits an offense
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  Speaker 1: that we eliminate those things, we expect to continue to
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  Speaker 1: climb and improve as a group. And do you see
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  Speaker 1: Trevor getting more and more comfortable tucking and running at
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  Speaker 1: this point in the season. Um, Yes, and no, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's always been a little bit of him. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's understood. I think it's just the way it
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  Speaker 1: happened the other day, how it was just he didn't
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  Speaker 1: even blink, he just took off. You know, he saw
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  Speaker 1: an opening in the defense, understood the situation, took off.
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  Speaker 1: That's something certainly he's got. He's he's a great athlete. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And so getting him out in space, letting him run,
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  Speaker 1: use his speed, UM, that's something that definitely benefits us.
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  Speaker 1: If he's able to create with his legs, and whether
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  Speaker 1: it's first down, second down, or even third down, it's
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  Speaker 1: a huge advantage for us. Appreciated coach