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Press Pass | Darnell Savage on Defensive Flexibility, Facing Former Team · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Darnell, obviously you spent five years with the Packers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just curious, you know, going into this week, is
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  Speaker 1: there any extra emotions or any thoughts you may have
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  Speaker 1: before entering this game?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Nah, because you know this is already emotional game as
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  Speaker 3: it is, you know, so uh it's it's championship week
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  Speaker 3: for us, because it's the next week. So we just
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  Speaker 3: we just ready to just go one of those each
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  Speaker 3: and every week. Just just keep turnding into the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: And how have you sort of seen the secondary adapt
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  Speaker 1: this year? You know, you guys had without Tyson for
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  Speaker 1: a little while. This past week you changed the safety
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  Speaker 1: more full time. Just how has it sort of changed
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  Speaker 1: the dynamic and what have you seen from it?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, not having Tyson, you know, injuries,
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  Speaker 3: that's just a big part of this game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's just kind of what comes with it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I missed a little time as well, so uh,
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  Speaker 3: just you know, working everybody back in there and just
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  Speaker 3: getting on the same page as far as communication and
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  Speaker 3: just playing together again.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we haven't really all been.
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  Speaker 3: Out there at the same time since camp, so just
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  Speaker 3: getting back into the swing of things and just you know,
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  Speaker 3: just sharpening up.
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  Speaker 2: The communication and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: But I think the unique thing about our room is
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  Speaker 3: that we all can play a lot of different positions,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and then when you get a guy like
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  Speaker 3: Tyson back, I mean he can you know, go step
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  Speaker 3: to step with whoever.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, this also makes it a lot either appreciate.
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  Speaker 4: You, hey, Darnell, kind of building off of that. So
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  Speaker 4: many pieces for that Green Bay offense. But you guys,
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  Speaker 4: like you said, have so many guys who can play
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  Speaker 4: so many different positions. How do you account for all
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  Speaker 4: of their different weapons, especially for you, someone who's pretty
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  Speaker 4: familiar with them having gone against them in practice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, they definitely, you know, they have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of good weapons over there, you know, which a lot
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  Speaker 3: of a lot of good teams in this league, do
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  Speaker 3: you know. But at the end of the day, there's
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  Speaker 3: one football, you know, So you just gotta you know,
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  Speaker 3: do your job each and every every play and just
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  Speaker 3: be ready and think the boss coming to you every
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  Speaker 3: play no matter what. As long as we keep, you know,
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  Speaker 3: holding that mindset and just make the plays when they
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  Speaker 3: come to us, we'll be all.
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  Speaker 4: How was your transition to more back to safety full
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  Speaker 4: time as opposed to playing more of the nickel position.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it was decent.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the communication itself as well, you know, me
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  Speaker 3: and Dre just kind of talking through some things back there.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was good.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a lot easier to kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: grade it after a win, you know, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: definitely thought it was good. You know, I felt comfortable
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  Speaker 3: back there and all that, so it's good.
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  Speaker 4: And then last one for me, if you could just
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  Speaker 4: kind of grade, if you could, Jarian at the nickel
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  Speaker 4: position and kind of his growth from week one to
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  Speaker 4: where he is this past week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, Jada, he's a good player. You know, we're
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  Speaker 3: just just trying to keep him, just keep everything fresh
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  Speaker 3: for him, you know, just it's easy to kind of
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  Speaker 3: for things to kind of get, you know, repetitive and
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  Speaker 3: kind of the same thing, you know, as a rookie,
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  Speaker 3: So just keep it fresh from keep showing them different
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  Speaker 3: looks and just keeping them on his toes.
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  Speaker 2: But I think he's handling it very well.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He's not afraid to ask any of us questions or
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  Speaker 3: anything like that. You know, we got some great DV
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  Speaker 3: coaches as well, so they keep us prepared for everything.
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  Speaker 2: Also awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate you, John Shipley, followed by Mark Long.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Darnell, just when you have guys like Trayvon and
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  Speaker 3: Josh playing how they've been playing over the last month,
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  Speaker 3: what does that really do for the secondary?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? You know, we talk about it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Just Russian coverage, working together.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we got to cover just long enough for
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  Speaker 3: them to get home, and you know they got a
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  Speaker 3: rust fast enough for us not to cover too long.
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  Speaker 3: So just working together, you know, And it's not always
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  Speaker 3: going to be perfect. You know, they're not always going
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  Speaker 3: to get back there, but you know, right now it
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  Speaker 3: seems like they're getting back there a good amount, so
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  Speaker 3: it's good. You know, those are some big, strong dudes,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so it's kind of scary for a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: you back there trying to go through a reader, make
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  Speaker 3: a read or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You got those guys trying to bring you down.
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  Speaker 3: So we've we really enjoyed having a rushing the way
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  Speaker 3: they've been rushing.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate Darna.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, how good is that secondary you left behind? Some
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  Speaker 6: of those guys I know are new, but some of
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  Speaker 6: those guys you played with, Can you just give us
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  Speaker 6: this little scout on the Green Bay Secondary. That's you
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  Speaker 6: know the offense is going to go against this week.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, they definitely got some good players over there,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And as I said before, as does every
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  Speaker 3: you know, most teams in this most good teams in
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  Speaker 3: this football league. So uh, you know, as far as
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  Speaker 3: as me, I'm worried about the offense side of the well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not too worried about you know, those guys over there.
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  Speaker 3: So I know Doug and Treb and all those guys
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  Speaker 3: be ready to go. So yeah, it'll be fun at you.
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  Speaker 6: Are you are you looking who are you looking forward
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  Speaker 6: to seeing most? I mean, like I know these guys
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  Speaker 6: were it hasn't been that long. But uh who do
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  Speaker 6: you want to you know, hang out with before after
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  Speaker 6: the game?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, like on some friendly stuff. Uh nah, I mean
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  Speaker 3: I'm here to play a football game. It's not a reunion,
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  Speaker 3: you know, We're here to go want to know this week,
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  Speaker 3: So uh, that's how we treating it.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I'm treating it.
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  Speaker 5: And then from the outside, it felt like there was
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  Speaker 5: a lot of adversity around this team the last few weeks,
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  Speaker 5: you know, before the Patriots game. Coming out of that
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  Speaker 5: Bears game. How did you guys handle that internally? Was
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  Speaker 5: it as big as it maybe was perceived from the outside,
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  Speaker 5: and can you build on this win moving ahead?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well you kind of answered it, you know, because
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  Speaker 3: you started off with outside and then you you talked
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  Speaker 3: about inside, you know, and we just kept kept inside
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  Speaker 3: things inside.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we have family in here. We try to
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  Speaker 2: keep it that way.
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  Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, we we're the
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  Speaker 3: ones who comes to work every day, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: it's like it comes to a point in time where
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  Speaker 3: you got to work through things together. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: can't worry about what everybody else outside is talking about.
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  Speaker 3: You just got to work through it together. And I
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  Speaker 3: think we've we've done a good job with kind of
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  Speaker 3: coming together, getting on the same page offensively and defensively,
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  Speaker 3: and playing special teams as well. You know, Park had
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  Speaker 3: a big return just playing complimentary football. That's a big
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  Speaker 3: part of this league. So we're just trying to keep
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  Speaker 3: building on that.
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  Speaker 5: And one more for me. I mean, there's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of football left in the season, right every thing is
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  Speaker 5: believe they're not still out there for this team. That's
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  Speaker 5: the way you guys have to look at this thing, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Our mindset, like we, like I've said many times before,
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  Speaker 3: is to go want to know this week, and like
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  Speaker 3: I said, every week's championship week because it's next game,
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  Speaker 3: so ease.
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  Speaker 2: Keep building. That's everyone. Thanks Savage, appreciate talk.