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Press Pass | Campanile & Udinski on Productive Bye Week, Self-Scouting & Prep for Colts · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Cam, who do you think makes this defense, your defense,
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  Speaker 1: so good at stopping the run?
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  Speaker 2: I think really our players just being bought into what
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  Speaker 2: we do, you know, the process of doing that every day.
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  Speaker 2: I think our coaches do a great job of just
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  Speaker 2: coaching the fundamental things every day.
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  Speaker 3: That's really.
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  Speaker 2: to me, a culture thing, and that's what I would
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  Speaker 2: lay it at the feet of the coaches and the
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  Speaker 2: players buying into that, trying to do that and work
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  Speaker 2: the technique every day. It's hard work doing it and
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  Speaker 2: being consistent that way, but they've done a great job
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  Speaker 2: with that.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone brings up Devon, but Josh has been one of
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  Speaker 1: the top edge rushers at defending the run.
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  Speaker 4: What have you seen from Josh in that way?
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  Speaker 2: Josh, he's one of the guys who I would say
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  Speaker 2: fundamentally against the run as an edge player in this
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  Speaker 2: league is as good as it gets.
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  Speaker 3: He's physical at the point of attack. It's hard to
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  Speaker 3: block him on the tight end.
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  Speaker 2: He's powerful enough to power back a tackle and set
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  Speaker 2: an edge. And what that does really at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, if you're setting edges and you're grinding
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  Speaker 2: blocks inside out from that point on within the interior
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  Speaker 2: of the defense, it gives you an opportunity to to
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  Speaker 2: play with leverage on the ball, you know, and if
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  Speaker 2: the ball is running on the angle and it's able to,
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  Speaker 2: obviously if it can get the perimeter of the defense,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's going to generate yardage, but the faster
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  Speaker 2: you can get that ball or the ball carrier to
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  Speaker 2: get square and up cut. Now you have an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to play with backside fill on the defense and get
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  Speaker 2: the ball down and eliminate big runs.
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  Speaker 3: So in the times where we have given up a
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  Speaker 3: big run, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think that's usually the case, you know, maybe not a
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  Speaker 2: great edge or not playing with great, eyes on the
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  Speaker 2: back side of the play, but he really gives us
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to do that.
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  Speaker 3: You spent the bye week kind of doing the self-scout.
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  Speaker 3: What did you walk away with? A ton.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of spent the whole bye weekend here to really
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  Speaker 2: just watch everything we've done, watch everything other teams have done,
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  Speaker 2: watch everything some of our opponents that are coming up here, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: in Indianapolis and some teams that will play down the
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  Speaker 2: road just to get ahead, but I think what you
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  Speaker 2: look at is when we're eliminating big plays, we're playing
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  Speaker 2: good defense. And when we're not, we're struggling and not
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  Speaker 2: playing the type of defense that we want to play.
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  Speaker 3: And that's Captain Obvious, I get it, right?
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, if you're eliminating
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  Speaker 2: big plays and you're making people drive the length of
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  Speaker 2: the field, you're going to be playing good defense. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to have more opportunities for takeaway. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: have more opportunity for stops. But you can't, no defense
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  Speaker 2: can overcome giving up chunk plays, you know, and there's
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  Speaker 2: some things that we looked at in order to help
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  Speaker 2: ourselves there, you know, where we can be better, where
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  Speaker 2: I can be better, even in terms of like what
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  Speaker 2: we're playing in some of the situations.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it was really good. It was really
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  Speaker 3: productive and even watching other teams, you know, some of
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  Speaker 3: the stuff they're doing. So you get into all that.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a way to get after the quarterback a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more to do some pass wrestling? Yeah, I think,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's definitely ways to do that. I think
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  Speaker 2: I can give guys, there's some different calls. You can
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  Speaker 2: probably put them in to help them out there, but
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  Speaker 2: there's also sometimes where we are forcing the ball out
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  Speaker 2: and doing that intentionally, you know, trying to get the
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  Speaker 2: ball out and get a free hitter to the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: When there's times where the ball is coming out, some
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  Speaker 2: of those times you're not always playing man to man,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're playing zone. And I think that's probably,
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  Speaker 2: probably more consistent over the course of the league right
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  Speaker 2: now with guys playing zone coverage behind, you know, some
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  Speaker 2: of the pressure in different zone coverages, whether it's split
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  Speaker 2: safety coverage, or playing vision zone even when you're sending
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  Speaker 2: extra players at the quarterback. So some of that is
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  Speaker 2: intentional to get the ball out of the quarterback's hand quicker.
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  Speaker 2: But I also think there's some things we can do
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  Speaker 2: with the coverage that will tighten that up and help
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  Speaker 2: our guys finish at the point of attack on some
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  Speaker 2: of those. There's some reps where we are getting in there,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, in order for us. Some
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  Speaker 2: is finishing it at the top of the rush, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Some is tightening the coverage so that the rush can
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  Speaker 2: get there and finish the rep. So on a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of those, we're close, but that don't mean anything. You know,
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  Speaker 2: being close, no one cares about that, and we certainly don't.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, I got to
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  Speaker 2: be better, and part of the process in looking at
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  Speaker 2: that is getting better there.
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  Speaker 1: How hard is it.
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  Speaker 2: To improve at finishing at the top of the rush?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you guys crank out a ton of pressures,
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  Speaker 5: but getting to that conversion.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a huge part of the rush, right,
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  Speaker 2: finishing at the top of the rush, and violent hand
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  Speaker 2: combat often gets you there.
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  Speaker 3: Or pad level at times can get you there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if the guy's trying to ride your hip
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  Speaker 2: and ride you past the quarterback, being low and burrowing
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  Speaker 2: back into the quarterback and rushing intentionally at the top
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  Speaker 2: can finish some of those. But also, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: there's some things that we can do on my end
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  Speaker 2: to help those guys, give them another click to get there.
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  Speaker 4: Jerry yesterday was.
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  Speaker 3: Still lamenting his play against Houston. He said it was
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  Speaker 3: one of his worst games. What were the coaching points
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  Speaker 3: for him to rebound from that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think anybody feels like they played
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  Speaker 2: their best game versus Houston.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I did a good enough job, to
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  Speaker 3: be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: And so part of it is, like you guys were
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  Speaker 2: just asking, looking at it and looking at what you
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  Speaker 2: didn't do well and where your eyes were, fundamentally where
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  Speaker 2: you can be better. And I think a huge part
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  Speaker 2: of that is taking accountability and not accepting that, not
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  Speaker 2: being okay with it. And I think anytime that's the case,
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  Speaker 2: when you're honest with yourself, you can improve in anything
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  Speaker 2: in life. You know, if you're being honest and you're
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  Speaker 2: looking at it internally, how can I do things better?
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  Speaker 2: You got an opportunity to get better. And some of
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  Speaker 2: those situations, like I said, there's calls I want back
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  Speaker 2: in the game that I don't think, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: good enough for the situation.
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  Speaker 3: So we can all be better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly we had a guy who's got a lot of experience,
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  Speaker 2: you know, who knows our system.
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  Speaker 3: It'd be good to have him back out there healthy.
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  Speaker 2: I know in Philly, in the Philly game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: tough situation where he got hurt there in the game,
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  Speaker 2: but he looks good and we gain a veteran presence
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  Speaker 2: and we gain a level of physicality anytime Buster's out there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think he's done a great job for
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  Speaker 2: us that way on the line of scrimmage, tackling, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being physical.
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  Speaker 3: Even in the coverage element of everything. So, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: what we gained with him in there.
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  Speaker 1: And then at the same time, Antonio mispracticed yesterday. As
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  Speaker 1: a guy that does so much for the defense plays
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  Speaker 1: off the line, just how much would it change kind
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  Speaker 1: of what you guys want to do if he's not.
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  Speaker 2: Able to go?
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  Speaker 3: Every game's different, and I think we're fortunate where we got.
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  Speaker 2: A really good room there, and I think Kayvon's done
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  Speaker 2: a good job coming in here as a new guy
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  Speaker 2: who's stepped up and given us the opportunity to have
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  Speaker 2: another guy that can kind of play some of those roles.
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  Speaker 2: I think even in watching him in the last game,
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  Speaker 2: you see some physicality, uh, and I think he's learning
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  Speaker 2: everything we're doing. He's worked really hard at it. I
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  Speaker 2: think Perk's done a great job with him, uh, getting
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  Speaker 2: them up to speed. So there's some other guys in
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  Speaker 2: that room who help us that way. And, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like any game you're, you're always adjusting.
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  Speaker 1: I think it definitely happens on a practice field.
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  Speaker 2: Um, There's some guys, we were talking about that yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: just where they're at now as opposed.
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  Speaker 3: To where they were at coming out of camp.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like a different guy, a couple of these guys.
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  Speaker 2: And they're getting to the point where they're pushing it
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  Speaker 2: and they're catching everybody's eye right now. And a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times that happens on our scout team. That happened
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  Speaker 2: with us last year on our scout team when guys
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  Speaker 2: started to get brought up.
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  Speaker 3: Danny Strigow is a guy like that. B.J. Green is
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  Speaker 3: a guy like that. Rayon is another guy like that.
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  Speaker 3: during the season. Even Matt Dickerson, I've said that before.
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  Speaker 2: He's a, um, you know, a veteran guy, but he
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  Speaker 2: was kicking ass on scout team, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, Hey, well, if he can go out
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  Speaker 2: there and do that, uh, in practice against our starters
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  Speaker 2: and do it consistently, there's no reason why he can't
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  Speaker 2: do it in a game.
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  Speaker 3: And he proven to do that for us, you know? Um,
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  Speaker 3: so yeah, you.
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  Speaker 2: Develop a lot of trust, just seeing consistency and performance
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  Speaker 2: every day.
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  Speaker 3: That's who the guy is. That's what he does. That's
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  Speaker 3: what we're going to get out of him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, It's a lot easier to feel really good about
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  Speaker 2: that when you see it every day, like anything else,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, I would say that's the answer, really, to practice.
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  Speaker 3: Who are the guys kicking ass right now? With our
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  Speaker 3: young guys?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I really look at even, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Rook's not a rookie, but I think he's improved so
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  Speaker 2: much for us. Just yesterday, looking at our practice, I
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  Speaker 2: thought Wesley Williams, he's a guy that, really in the
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  Speaker 2: last few weeks, I feel like is, is getting better.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he really is.
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  Speaker 2: Um, Albert Regis is a guy who I feel like
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  Speaker 2: is getting better. You know, he's making it hard for
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  Speaker 2: our guys, even over in London, just some of the practices.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, man, he's, he's hustling his ass off.
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  Speaker 3: He's working. So like they're grinding in practice. You know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean? They're taking those opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm going to turn it on and show everybody
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  Speaker 2: here that, uh, you know, how capable I am and
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  Speaker 2: the improvements that I made. So I feel that way
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  Speaker 2: about Jalen Husky too. You know, he's had some really
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  Speaker 2: good stuff show up in practice. So, those are guys
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  Speaker 2: just off.
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  Speaker 3: The top of my head.
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably forgetting a couple of guys to be honest
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  Speaker 2: with you, but I've been pleased with their performance in
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  Speaker 2: that practice. And I think part of it is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being in tune to that, watching it, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean? Like the offense is out there. We all
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  Speaker 2: got to be watching that and coaching that and looking
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  Speaker 2: at it on tape.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: We got to ask you about Jonathan Taylor this week, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's, he's top of the line as good
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  Speaker 2: as it gets. You know, he's a Jersey guy that
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  Speaker 2: probably has some things to do with his success.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, Nah, he's.
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  Speaker 2: A phenomenal player. Never down, never tackled. You can't like
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  Speaker 2: assume the guy's tackled. He's just made so many great
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  Speaker 2: plays over the course of his career. um and not
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  Speaker 2: just in the run game like he's been explosive in
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  Speaker 2: the past game too you know and they do a
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  Speaker 2: great job of getting on the ball whether it's in
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  Speaker 2: screens checkdowns um like the checkdowns can really make you
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  Speaker 2: pay if he's got the opportunity to do that you
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  Speaker 2: know um and i think like the one thing that
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  Speaker 2: people probably don't talk about enough for them is I
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  Speaker 2: think they're really well coached up front. Fundamentally, this offensive
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  Speaker 2: line is coached really, really well. They finish blocks. They
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  Speaker 2: work well together on double teams. That's one of the
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  Speaker 2: things they do a very good job of, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: is moving the line of scrimmage. And if you can't
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  Speaker 2: get knockback against an offensive line, it's hard to stymie
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  Speaker 2: the run game. If contact's starting three yards past the
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage, it's going to be hard.
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  Speaker 3: To stop the run. So he is a phenomenal player,
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  Speaker 3: phenomenal talent.
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  Speaker 2: But also, I would say their offensive line and their
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  Speaker 2: tight ends have been very, very consistent as run blockers.
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  Speaker 5: Where do you think the run defense needs to improve
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  Speaker 5: from last.
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  Speaker 3: Outing to now defending Jonathan Taylor this week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think leveraging the football was probably the number
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  Speaker 2: one thing that comes to mind for me. And part
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  Speaker 2: of that is always your eyes tracking the footwork of
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  Speaker 2: the ball carrier. That can be true of us even
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  Speaker 2: in the past game, to be honest with you. Missing
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  Speaker 2: tackles can often be attributed to that. How you're entering
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  Speaker 2: into a tackle often starts with your eyes. If I
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  Speaker 2: get a profile view of somebody, he's going to have
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  Speaker 2: a much harder ability to cut back. But when the
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  Speaker 2: ball carrier is square, obviously he's got the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: go either direction. So how you enter into those two tackles,
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  Speaker 2: based on visual circumstance, what the ball carrier is doing,
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  Speaker 2: that's critical to put you in position to make those tackles.
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  Speaker 2: So on the backside of the defense, that can be
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  Speaker 2: true as well. If I've got a profile view of
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  Speaker 2: the ball carrier, you know, and his shoulders are turned,
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  Speaker 2: I can see the stripe on his pants and his
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  Speaker 2: ear hole or whatever. Like I better get down the
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  Speaker 2: line and go sprint my ass off to get the
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  Speaker 2: ball down. When he starts to square up, I need
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  Speaker 2: to be in a position to square myself up to
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  Speaker 2: deal with cutback runs. So there's a few reasons, a
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  Speaker 2: few things that can improve there. I would say that's
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  Speaker 2: probably number one for us just going through that game. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and then, like I said, tackling, entering the tackle, are
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  Speaker 2: you clamping on tackles? Are you finishing tackles? Um, because
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  Speaker 2: guys will step through tackles if you don't clamp, um,
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  Speaker 2: pin their body, uh, to your body and making sure
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  Speaker 2: that you're getting that guy on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of elements to that, but yes.
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  Speaker 2: How often do you add a completely new pressure during
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  Speaker 2: the season?
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  Speaker 3: That, I mean, yeah, that, no, that happens.
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  Speaker 2: That happens a bunch. Um, You know, we do that
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  Speaker 2: a bunch, to be honest with you. I think you're
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  Speaker 2: always looking at what everybody does. And I feel like
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  Speaker 2: most places I've been and most guys I was around,
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  Speaker 2: that was just part of it, right? You're looking at
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  Speaker 2: what the protection plan is a lot of times, and
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  Speaker 2: that can basically, as you're looking at that, that can
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  Speaker 2: force you or enable you to make the decision to
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  Speaker 2: do something new, right, where you can take advantage of
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  Speaker 2: something someone's doing. Now, that may be, you know, early
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  Speaker 2: down in the run game, how you're hitting some of
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  Speaker 2: these blitzes, what people you have in the game in
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  Speaker 2: order to do that, you know, to try and manipulate
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  Speaker 2: line calls. And then also in the protection, trying to
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  Speaker 2: manipulate the protection, whether it be with front disguise, whether
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  Speaker 2: you're sending two second level players or however you're doing that.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's always the part of the game within
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  Speaker 2: the game each week. And then in the game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being able to adjust if there's something different that you see,
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  Speaker 2: having the ability to get back to some things that
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  Speaker 2: are kind of in your toolbox to attack the protection.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of areas of improvement.
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  Speaker 5: I think you go back through what you've done to
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  Speaker 5: this point, even what you did last year. And unfortunately
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  Speaker 5: it's overwhelming the areas that you can improve, but on
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  Speaker 5: the bright side, there's so many things that you can
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  Speaker 5: improve and you know that you're just scratching the surface
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  Speaker 5: or our potential.
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  Speaker 4: You see the run game and.
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  Speaker 5: We had opportunities to be explosive, but I think there
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  Speaker 5: are more opportunities there for us to find ways to
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  Speaker 5: get our backs in space or for our backs to
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  Speaker 5: find the cuts that present themselves in the run concepts
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  Speaker 5: that we're trying to hit. In the pass game, very similar,
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  Speaker 5: but in a different vein that we are trying to
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  Speaker 5: get our receivers to get explosive opportunities, whether it is
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  Speaker 5: down the field or whether it's underneath for catch and run.
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  Speaker 5: We saw some great catch and runs really in the
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  Speaker 5: later weeks or these more recent weeks as opposed to
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  Speaker 5: the first couple weeks. how can we create more of
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  Speaker 5: those opportunities for our guys because they are so good
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  Speaker 5: with the ball in their hands. And then the protection game,
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  Speaker 5: just shoring up a couple of things, modifying a couple
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  Speaker 5: of techniques and fundamentals we think will allow our guys
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  Speaker 5: to prosper versus all the different techniques that we play
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  Speaker 5: up front. We've had the good fortune of going against
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  Speaker 5: some really good fronts and testing our guys out, whether
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  Speaker 5: it's some interior rushers, some exterior rushers, shoot.
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  Speaker 4: Even some blitzers off the ball.
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  Speaker 5: So if we can continue to build off of that,
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  Speaker 5: build our fundamentals, build our techniques, then I think the
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  Speaker 5: offense will continue to find ways to be more explosive
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  Speaker 5: and more efficient. The most obvious thing to point out
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  Speaker 5: is the penalty is something we know that we need
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: to improve. We're going to continue to work tirelessly to
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: improve that because those are intolerable and make it too
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: difficult to be successful as an offense. When you look
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: at Tommy Adebare for the Colts, your defensive lineman, what
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: type of challenge does he present this week? He's playing
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: phenomenal football at a really high level, presents a lot
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: of problems, I think in the past game, it kind
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: of pops off the tape when you see the production
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: that he has as a rusher, especially when he's one-on-one.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: But I think the same problems present themselves in the
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: run game because he's so slippery, so good with his hands,
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: so good really facing a variety of different blocks that
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: you see the reason why he's excelled this year.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: I think it's, an all the time thing.
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: Like you said, practice is the big one because practice
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: is where all of the work that they put into
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: going out there, that's where it materializes. But it's the
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: way the guys carry themselves in the meeting room. It's
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: the way the guys handle themselves in the walkthrough. When
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: we're asking questions, how quickly are they spitting out answers,
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: how they prepare themselves from a physical standpoint with their
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: rest and recovery or their prehab or their pre-practice work.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: So all of it goes into it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: I wish you could say that there's just one thing,
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: but the reality of it is everything we do matters
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: and everything they do matters. we're fortunate to have guys,
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: young guys, and really year two guys, even year three
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: guys who take that stuff seriously. That makes it easier
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: for a coach to trust knowing something like you get
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: the Sunday and they put the work in that they're
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: ready to go, not just physically.
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  Speaker 3: But mentally.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: I think that's one of the things along with many others,
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: why we were attracted to guys like those guys is,
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: you have the play style and you combine it with
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: the care factor for preparing themselves to get right the
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: intelligence on and off the field. It's not an easy
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: offense to play in. We ask the guys to do
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: a lot. We ask the guys to recognize coverage. We
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: ask the guys to recognize fronts. We ask the guys
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: to recognize pressures. We ask the guys to understand we
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: could check to a variety of different plays really at
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: any time. We're calling multiple plays in the huddle. We're
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: using multiple tempos. It's a mentally taxing offense. So to
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: combine that ability from a mental standpoint with the physical ability,
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: makes it for a rare group of guys who go
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: out there and play for us on Sunday.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Are there any of the young guys that you've seen
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: some of the stuff, how they carry themselves in the meeting,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: the practice field, and maybe just haven't got a chance
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: to show it on Sunday yet?
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: I think so.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: I think certainly it's almost like we talked about with
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: the backs the past couple weeks. I know I've been
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: saying that where I think the backs have more ability
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: in the past game than we've been able to showcase.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: And that's more of a product of the problem where,
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: not the problem, the good fortune of having so many
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: different receivers and tight ends and backs who you want
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: to feature in the past game. It's the same thing
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: with some of the younger guys where you see the
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: great catch by.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Nate when we were in London with the one hander there.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: And to everybody else, it might be a surprise, but
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: we know he's had that capability where he shows it
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: in practice and a lot of different routes. And same
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: thing with Tanner or the rest of the tight end room.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Those guys have a lot of ability in the past game,
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: but we haven't been able to feature all those guys
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: all the time. Same thing with the backs, really same
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: thing with some of the stuff, even in the run
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: game with some different things. So I think as the
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: season continues to progress, those opportunities will present themselves naturally.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: You try to find the balance of showcasing a guy
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: and trying to feature them with letting the opportunities present
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: themselves based on the rhythm of the game, the scheme,
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: the defense, and those situations.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: On Friday before this past game.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: You and the quarterbacks were at the far end of
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: the field for a long time. You were walking through
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: some things. What is the purpose of that session with
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: you and the script?
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's just a part of our process each week,
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: just going back through some of the plays, some of
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: the plan. Like I said, it's a difficult offense to
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: play in, and that's probably the most true for the
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: quarterback position because they're handling the most from a mental standpoint.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: So you know that going into a week we're not
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: going to get a live rep of every single play
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: and every single look. So there are certain checks or
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: certain calls that a quarterback has to be able to
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: make on Sunday that we may not have gotten with
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: the full group and we may not have gotten in.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: An 11-on-11 setting. So it's good sometimes to go back
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: through some of.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Those things that you don't get in an actual team
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: setting or in a practice setting and make sure guys
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: feel really good about going out there and executing and
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: understanding why we're doing the things we're doing on maybe
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: a third down or a red zone, even a first
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: and second down check.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: We saw Travis Hunter get a bunch of reps against Houston.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Just what did you see out of him on offense
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: and how much more can he add to the.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Offense in general?
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it, I know I've given this answer before, and
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: I apologize for being redundant, but it's something that will
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: probably vary week to week. We know that that skill
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: set will continue to develop and evolve, and we're going
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: to continue to build off of that. But some weeks
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: it might be a strong feature of Travis, and you
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: may say, man, this guy suddenly had 10 catches one game,
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: and then the next game it might only be two
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: or three catches or a couple touches. But we know
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: that he has that ability at all times. So we're
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: going to continue to try to build his route tree,
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: build the things he can do in the run game,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: the screen game, the pass game.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Shoot, you see him blocking out there.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: I think he's impressive from a blocker standpoint, whether it's
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: in the pass game or screen game or in the
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: run game. So we know he provides a lot for
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: our offense anytime he's out there because he's so good
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: with the ball in his hands, has so much different
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: route ability, but the time is limited.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: So we're trying to be strategic.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: In the way we continue to build his skillset and
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: the way we utilize his skillset as a receiver.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: It certainly changes things a little bit.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Anytime, whether it's a player of that caliber, which obviously
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: he's an exceptional player, or it was just a backup
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: guy or, you know, maybe a corner different injuries.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: But at this point in the season, you're used to.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: The idea that a player that might be listed as,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: you know, a starter could be available leading into the week.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: And then he gets injured during practice. And then all
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: of a sudden he's not available.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: So you're used to adjusting that same thing, vice versa
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: guys trade for players.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: In the middle of the week. And now next thing
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: you know, they're.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Playing or players listed as doubtful or out on the
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: injury report.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: And then the next thing you know, he's playing.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: So you kind of have gotten used to this process
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: for the most part as coaches of knowing that that roster,
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: that depth chart could change at any point in the week.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: So, just like we talk about the contingency.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Plans for situational football or for matchups or for certain
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: ways that teams are playing you schematically. You have the
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: same thing from a personnel standpoint. So it certainly changes things,
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: but it's not something you're unprepared for, if that makes sense.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: How much does being at home help with the offense
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: and offensive communication? It certainly changes the dynamic of it
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: because your cadences are different. The way you can communicate
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: out to receivers is different. The way you can communicate
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: to the offensive line is different. shoot, even the way
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: you're communicating personnels in and out of the huddle, you
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: can basically scream to those guys from the sideline, try
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: to get some form of communication where you're on the road.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: You're not going to have that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: We try to make a point of emphasis really throughout
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: the entire off season into training camp of practicing those
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: road scenarios. So you're feel really just as confident on
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: the road as you do at home.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Maybe we haven't.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Reached that perfectly yet, but it's something we're going to
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: continue to work towards. So even though it's different, there's
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: not one that we like more than the other, where
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: we feel just as comfortable in maybe the silence or
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: our silence of being on the road as we do
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: with the verbal communication at home.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I know there's a player who kind of gets his
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: hands on the football a lot. Is he one of
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: those guys where Trevor always has to know where he
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: is on the play?
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. I had the good fortune at the time
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: of being with Cam in Minnesota. Now the bad fortune
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: of going against him. But I don't have enough good
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: things to say about how impressive he is as a
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: player and, of course, a great, phenomenal human being. But
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: his intelligence, being able to recognize offense, being able to
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: recognize your route patterns, your distribution, he moves around so much,
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: creates so much.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Havoc for you.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: And then he'd come down, play in the box and tackle.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Then he's playing man coverage. Then he's great in zone,
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: great off the vision of the quarterback. So what you
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: said is absolutely true. He's a player along with a
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: couple other guys on their defense. You have to be
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: aware of where he is all the time because he
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: can do so many different things. It's a credit to
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: him and his skill set that he has as a player.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: both physically, but also mentally to be able to do
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: all those different things and present so many issues. One, two, three.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Awesome. Appreciate you guys.