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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Readiness for Broncos, Team Mindset & Bringing Right Energy · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You had Colby and Landon play just a half last week.
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  Speaker 1: Is the plan moving forward now just to have them
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  Speaker 1: go the rest of the game? Yeah. It was part
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  Speaker 1: of the progression. Just getting them back in the mix. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: had them play a ton in the preseason, training camp.
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  Speaker 1: So it was more so just a gradual buildup. Fully
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  Speaker 1: expect them to be able to go for the whole
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  Speaker 1: game this week and move them forward. How have you
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  Speaker 1: seen him make a difference? Yeah, he's... He's a tough blocker, physical, scrappy,
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  Speaker 1: tough catches. You can tell Bo trusts him, especially kind
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  Speaker 1: of on those intermediate and in-breaking routes. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: go in there fearless. Got a lot of respect for
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  Speaker 1: the way that he plays the game. We love them
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  Speaker 1: coming out as well. And so it's always good to
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  Speaker 1: see a guy from Jacksonville be able to continue to elevate, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: I hope we can lock him up a little bit
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  Speaker 1: this week, and that's the goal. But, man, he plays
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  Speaker 1: his ass off. Or have they opted to get more
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  Speaker 1: from Amir Abdullah than you might have thought originally when
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  Speaker 1: y'all brought him in? Yeah, I mean, man, like, it's
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  Speaker 1: cool to see when you bring people in that just
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  Speaker 1: got here not long ago and they get votes for captain.
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  Speaker 1: Amir did. Amir was one of those guys. Jelani Tavai
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  Speaker 1: was one of those guys. Chris Rodriguez was one of
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  Speaker 1: those guys. But Amir is... I mean, he's a standard
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  Speaker 1: of professionalism, the way that he treats his body, how
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  Speaker 1: early he's in here every single day, doing all the
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  Speaker 1: little things. He's an example for a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: young players and every opportunity he's gotten, whether it was
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  Speaker 1: in a scrimmage when we had our inner squad. whether
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  Speaker 1: it was preseason games, whether it was obviously in this
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  Speaker 1: past game, he's made an impact. And so surprised, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I'd say that because since he came in,
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  Speaker 1: like he's had a mindset of I'm going to help
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  Speaker 1: this team. It's not just been like I know, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to be an older back with a young
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  Speaker 1: room and I'm just here for some insurance. Like he's
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  Speaker 1: forced us to make him active. and to get him
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  Speaker 1: on the active roster and to be able to play
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  Speaker 1: on game day. So surprise, no, but pleasantness, absolutely. How
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  Speaker 1: is Devon Hamilton playing for you, and how important is
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  Speaker 1: he to that defense? So important. So important. Just making
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  Speaker 1: my cut up now for tomorrow morning's meeting and just
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  Speaker 1: going through the Browns game again and just seeing how
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  Speaker 1: many plays he actually impacted and what he did. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: didn't always have to make the tackle, but he was
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  Speaker 1: in on a number of those. And just he's so stout.
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  Speaker 1: He plays the two gap, whatever gap and a half.
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  Speaker 1: He can play it all. He can disrupt if he
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  Speaker 1: does need to get into the backfield and pierce things.
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  Speaker 1: He had a great play. They had a pin and
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  Speaker 1: pull scheme against us early in the game. Eric Murray
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  Speaker 1: made the tackle in the alley on a nice tackle
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  Speaker 1: on our sidelines. He recognized the scheme right away, and
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  Speaker 1: he actually ran the hump and came all the way
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  Speaker 1: around our whole D-line to really make the offensive tackle
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  Speaker 1: block him to free up Eric. He's so selfless. He
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  Speaker 1: works his tail off, and there's not many guys that
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  Speaker 1: are better examples for what we're hunting up out of
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  Speaker 1: a Jaguar than Devontae. One little change he's made this
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  Speaker 1: week is looking at Trevor in the huddle instead of
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  Speaker 1: the defense. Do those little changes guys make throughout the
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  Speaker 1: week make a big impact on Sunday? They do. If
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  Speaker 1: you just go through your normal process, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times we have our center kind of peak the
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  Speaker 1: defense while listening to the call so he can kind
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  Speaker 1: of see what's the defense personnel, how are they aligning.
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  Speaker 1: He gets maybe a little bit of a jump start
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  Speaker 1: on some of those things, but It's so important that
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  Speaker 1: we are looking at the quarterback and seeing his lips
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  Speaker 1: and reading it so that we don't miss. Every play,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to hear the full thing. It's just
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  Speaker 1: not probably possible. So you've got to be able to
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  Speaker 1: know the whole thing so well that maybe you only
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  Speaker 1: pick up bits and pieces, but you can go and execute.
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  Speaker 1: You know what the play is called. and you can
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  Speaker 1: go and do that. So appreciative of the guys taking
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  Speaker 1: some of that intentionality into the walkthrough settings, into practice
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  Speaker 1: when we've had the music blaring. Hopefully it does help.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are a jar in the box sometimes last week.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been around many teams where you can get
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  Speaker 1: four quarterbacks on the field together as regularly as you
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  Speaker 1: guys do? No, it's definitely unique. I firmly believe that
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  Speaker 1: we have a group of guys that You can play
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  Speaker 1: in a number of different spots, number of different situations.
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  Speaker 1: We can be creative with some of those personnel groupings.
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  Speaker 1: And Jarrion gives you flexibility because he can tackle, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because he's a really good tackler in space and also
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  Speaker 1: in the blitz game and being able to activate them
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  Speaker 1: in different ways that way. We've known Jordan Lewis has
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  Speaker 1: been a good blitzer for us in the past as well.
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  Speaker 1: So I just think those guys, the way that they've
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  Speaker 1: been going, it's been extremely unselfish, knowing that they're all playing,
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  Speaker 1: they're all getting burned, they're all going to be there,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to need every single one of them
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  Speaker 1: in order for us to go where we want to
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  Speaker 1: go this year. How do you guard against overthinking as
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  Speaker 1: a play caller, especially since you just played them so
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  Speaker 1: closely together? I think it's, look, you go back, you look,
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  Speaker 1: you see what worked, what didn't. And then ultimately, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to always not give them too much credit either.
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  Speaker 1: They have to stop us. They have to stop the play.
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  Speaker 1: They still have to defend it. They still have to
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  Speaker 1: tackle it. I think that's a good reminder at times
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  Speaker 1: when you're like, oh, well, we did this against them
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  Speaker 1: last year. They're going to be carding it. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to be practicing it. they still have to defend it
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  Speaker 1: and stop it. And I think that that's something that
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  Speaker 1: you look at as a play caller, that anytime you're
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  Speaker 1: looking back, especially when you played each other somewhat recently
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  Speaker 1: in ways, it's something that you have to kind of
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  Speaker 1: remind yourself and remind the staff of is to continue
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  Speaker 1: to stay aggressive in finding things that work, and ultimately
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  Speaker 1: they have to stop it. Yeah, he's gotten better and better.
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  Speaker 1: That was kind of a situation where we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get him going a little bit, but also it was
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  Speaker 1: trying to be smart with him in that role on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday this past weekend. Fully anticipate him playing a lot more,
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  Speaker 1: especially in some of those third down situations. Not as much, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: You may do it, I think, a little bit more subconsciously.
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  Speaker 1: Like when you're, say you're installing a concept that you
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  Speaker 1: knew that did work maybe versus this team, that it
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  Speaker 1: can just kind of provide a little bit more of
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  Speaker 1: a reminder that, to all right let's put that on
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  Speaker 1: the white board as a broncos reminder or brown you
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  Speaker 1: know whoever it is the concept the team that you're
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  Speaker 1: playing so that you don't forget it but i'm typically
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  Speaker 1: not look thinking about too many opponents in the spring
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  Speaker 1: because you're just really trying to focus on your improvement
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  Speaker 1: your team what you guys are trying to become and
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  Speaker 1: establish so i try not to worry too much about
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  Speaker 1: the opponent in the spring yeah my wife got me
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  Speaker 1: this one for father's day and then I guys in
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  Speaker 1: jeweler made me the cross that I've kind of always
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  Speaker 1: had on since I had it made no true you
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  Speaker 1: know reasons I thought it was nice and you know
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  Speaker 1: I personally have become a little bit more of a
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  Speaker 1: man of faith over the last X amount of years,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you could say. And you try to find
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  Speaker 1: different avenues to look to and to remind yourself to
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  Speaker 1: get back to where you may be trying to actually
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  Speaker 1: be as a human being. And I think that that's
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  Speaker 1: something that helps me as well as, you know, my
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  Speaker 1: mom's name here on my wrist typically helps as well
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  Speaker 1: at times. And so, yeah, they're just good reminders of,
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  Speaker 1: all right, this is the human being I'm actually trying
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  Speaker 1: to be. take away the football, take away the coaching
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, get back to being a better
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  Speaker 1: husband and a better father. I don't wear the one.
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  Speaker 1: Wear the one. Yeah, or else I'm getting ripped. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Although I'd love to know the amount of jewelry I've
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  Speaker 1: purchased for her that gets actually worn on a daily. No,
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  Speaker 1: she does a good job. She usually wears it. She'll
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  Speaker 1: tell me if she doesn't like it. I know that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What about the two-knot kickoffs? Is it a tough decision
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  Speaker 1: whether you just kick it through? Yeah, yeah. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the kicking game in general, I think, is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit impacted and affected, especially in that stadium. There's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a difference with the success rates on
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  Speaker 1: kicks in general, field goals, distances, yardage is there a
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  Speaker 1: little bit as well. So that's something that we have
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  Speaker 1: to take into consideration. And we talked about it at
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  Speaker 1: game management. And I think it just comes down to
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  Speaker 1: how we're covering, too. Like, how are we covering these things?
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  Speaker 1: You know, are they getting explosives? Are they getting hidden
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  Speaker 1: yards within the game throughout kickoff and kickoff return? And
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  Speaker 1: so those all kind of go into play as well as, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: what's the wind going to be like? What's the weather
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  Speaker 1: going to be like? I know we have a potential
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  Speaker 1: of some weather potentially in the second half. And so
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  Speaker 1: all those things are things that Heath and I and
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  Speaker 1: then John Dykeman and I and Shane will talk about
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow in our game management meeting. team just handle the
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  Speaker 1: success from Sunday and getting refocused and ready for Denver,
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  Speaker 1: in your opinion? I thought we had one of our
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  Speaker 1: better Wednesday practices that I've been around in a while.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they came out with the right mindset, the
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  Speaker 1: right energy and juice at practice. I thought yesterday was solid.
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  Speaker 1: It was solid. I'd like to see us come out
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  Speaker 1: today and be a little bit cleaner in some ways,
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  Speaker 1: but I did think on Wednesday especially of setting the
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  Speaker 1: tone for the week, guys feeling a little bit fresh,
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  Speaker 1: fortunate to not have to play the whole game on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday in so many ways. I think they were eager,
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. knowing what's kind of at stake in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ways and knowing what the opportunity is
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  Speaker 1: in front of us. And so I think they've handled
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  Speaker 1: the week thus far really well.