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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On Loss To The Rams in Week 11 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, it's a great football game to two really
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  Speaker 1: good teams, two great teams going after it. Proud of
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  Speaker 1: our guys for for fighting, man, I mean, we got it.
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  Speaker 1: We got a heck of a group, some tough dudes
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  Speaker 1: that fight to the very end. And you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: about three yards short from putting ourselves in a great
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  Speaker 1: position to go win the game, you know, giving all
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  Speaker 1: the things that happened throughout the game. So we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: learn from this and we're gonna move forward and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get better from it.
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  Speaker 2: And really, you know, it is what it is. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Rams are a really good team. And
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  Speaker 2: we knew going into.
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  Speaker 1: The game we needed to be able to capitalize on
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  Speaker 1: scoring opportunities in the red zone. We knew we were
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  Speaker 1: gonna obviously have to take care of the football and
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  Speaker 1: uh and we didn't do that. We took it away
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  Speaker 1: once on on defense and you know, we got to
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  Speaker 1: make the ball comes left a bit more on defense
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: So but we're gonna recoup. We're gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: Get back and attack the heck out of this week,
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  Speaker 1: just like we would if the field.
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  Speaker 2: Goal one went in, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So but encouraged by our group very you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: very disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: We lost.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know, you want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: win a game like that given old circumstances, but we didn't.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a long season and we'll move forward. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's his knee, no update, We'll get an image and and.
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  Speaker 2: See see what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: Just the interception, Sam through just how you kind of
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  Speaker 3: assess those.
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  Speaker 2: And you have that Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably a combination of multiple things.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, we'll get it, attack it and figure out
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  Speaker 1: what we can do to you know, not put the
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  Speaker 1: ball in jeopardy.
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  Speaker 2: But that's why he told that.
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  Speaker 1: Given everything happened, you know, you get pinned back at
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  Speaker 1: the one yard line. It's a heck of a punt
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  Speaker 1: by the guy, and we just kept battling and Sam put.
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  Speaker 2: Us some position to possibly win the game. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: look at it and learn from it. What do you
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  Speaker 2: think that defense did over all the day?
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  Speaker 1: Given you guys, our guys, Our guys fought incredibly hard.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we executed well. We're you know, gave them
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  Speaker 1: some tough spots. You know, that's what we talk about
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  Speaker 1: all the things to talk about death on football. Have
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  Speaker 1: been great to have another red zone stop. But tell
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  Speaker 1: you what, our guys, our guys stuck together and had
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  Speaker 1: a great attitude and played tough as nails.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll look at it, you know, I'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: And we're we're gonna be seeing a lot of these guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna see them twice a year, possibly three.
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  Speaker 1: And to me, it's like who evolves best from game
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  Speaker 1: to game, who learns from it, who grows the most
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  Speaker 1: is gonna he's gonna, you know, get the advantage every
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  Speaker 1: time we play. But every time we play it's been
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  Speaker 1: an absolute knockdown, track out fight.
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  Speaker 2: What was your message to the team.
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  Speaker 1: Just just what I'm telling you guys is obviously we're disappointed,
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  Speaker 1: but it's very clear to me that we have a
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  Speaker 1: great team and we're gonna learn to win games like that,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna learn from you know, weeks like this
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  Speaker 1: and all that. I mean again, we're really we're young.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got you know, you got a young
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  Speaker 1: head coach or whatever like that. I'm learning how to
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  Speaker 1: how to prepare our teams from week to week, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So we're all learning.
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  Speaker 2: We're all learning, we're all growing.
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  Speaker 1: I actually think that's like a competitive advantage for us
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  Speaker 1: as we start to grows. We are willing to grow
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  Speaker 1: and evolve, you know, given any circumstance. And but we
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  Speaker 1: have to keep doing that, you know. You got to
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  Speaker 1: keep tacking that type of process and keep learning, and
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  Speaker 1: and that's the way we'll get better, you know, So
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  Speaker 1: we can we can put ourselves in better position to
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  Speaker 1: win games like this.
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  Speaker 2: A little different weapon the press box, like Ernest and
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  Speaker 2: some of the defense, we're kind of trying to pick
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  Speaker 2: up the offense after the interceptions. It would be easy
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  Speaker 2: for you guys to get down to that situation when
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  Speaker 2: they're puting.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see that, But it doesn't surprise me to
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  Speaker 1: hear that. Our guys love each other. We're connected, and
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  Speaker 1: we got each other's backs. We've had games where the
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  Speaker 1: offense has picked us up on defense and and vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not surprised to hear that. What do you
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  Speaker 2: tell your quarterback after a gain a performance like to
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  Speaker 2: rip it man, we love you, we got your back.
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  Speaker 2: How did you notice his demeanor through it all? I
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  Speaker 2: thought he was I thought he was I thought he's great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look Sam's a Sam's like an ultimate competitor
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  Speaker 1: one thing, you know, And so he's gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna he's gonna be like, he's gonna be pissed.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what you love about him. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna but he's gonna bow up and he's gonna keep
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  Speaker 2: rocking back. But that's how we had to play to
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  Speaker 2: go try to win the game. So yeah, what did
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  Speaker 2: you think of Jackson's one handed catch?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's he's a phenomenal players and get his
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  Speaker 1: feet down and all that probably shouldn't have gone fast
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  Speaker 1: because they were out of timeouts, so you're you're worried.
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  Speaker 3: About it, which changed defensive their first couple of series
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  Speaker 3: that they moved in a couple of times, and then
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  Speaker 3: after that they never really did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, one, you know, I gotta settle settle down
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the game plan. Any work kind of
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  Speaker 1: come in and you're trying to figure out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, and we have initial plans and
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  Speaker 1: you got to move and shift and they got us
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times, and but are you know, we
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  Speaker 1: kind of go back, recoup, make adjustments and our guys,
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  Speaker 1: guys did a great job. But that's a hard that's
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  Speaker 1: a tough man. Off has not been behind schedule. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't shoot, they haven't had like any third downs
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  Speaker 1: and like the whole year. I mean, they're they're playing
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  Speaker 1: at like an incredible efficient rate. And so I thought
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  Speaker 1: our guys did a great job on like on first
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  Speaker 1: and ten on early downs to get him behind the stick,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: How did you like to run?
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  Speaker 1: We're on the cornerbacks.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't do them in mixing matches.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be interesting, yeah right now, Yeah, I mean look,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you, if you, if you earn the
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  Speaker 1: right to play, we're gonna play it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a it's a blessing hand a.
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  Speaker 1: Curse because we have great defensive backs that we want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to play. There's only so many spots.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like we're demoting people or anything. It's
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  Speaker 1: really like a promotion. It's like, hey, you guys are
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  Speaker 1: all starters, except there's only so many snaps to go around,
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  Speaker 1: so we're all gonna play and rotate and match up
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  Speaker 1: and do all that type of stuff. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: Nick playing dime and give them some flexibility to uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even be stout against the run and dime.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we performed well there as well. So well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming we'll stick to it. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: subjects to change every week. Everybody's under evaluation.
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  Speaker 2: Ours in the running game today good. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: our final stats.
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  Speaker 1: I think our coaches are doing a good job of
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  Speaker 1: getting to plays, you know, down the list and making
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  Speaker 1: adjustments and I'm eager to see just watch it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we ran it probably better later in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Has been as good as anybody this year. Today, he
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  Speaker 3: looked frendsy. You didn't have the big game that we've
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  Speaker 3: been seeing. Thoughts about how you read the you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was a non Stafford.
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  Speaker 2: Like game for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, lookt Stafford is a premier quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: our league. He's probably going to the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: The guy is a great player. It means he's.
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  Speaker 2: A hard guy to attack.
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  Speaker 1: He's really really hard and they got a great scheme
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  Speaker 1: and they're really well coached. And but you know, you
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  Speaker 1: can't let him be in first and tend the whole time,
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  Speaker 1: otherwise they can call any play in the book. So
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  Speaker 1: you got to get into passing situations and and then
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  Speaker 1: you got to you gotta play Russian coverage, just like
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  Speaker 1: we've tried to do all year, and our guys did
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  Speaker 1: a great job of that. But you know, he's a
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  Speaker 1: he's a phenomenal player.
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  Speaker 3: You referred to the last drive there before halftime. Did
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  Speaker 3: you wish you guys had done something different there on
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  Speaker 3: that in terms of how you used it to the clock.
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  Speaker 2: Or you didn't want us to run the whole first
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  Speaker 2: half out? No, No, I just didn't know if you.
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  Speaker 2: I just I thought you said.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'd rather score, but we didn't score. So
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  Speaker 1: there's a possible fourth down if we would have gotten
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  Speaker 1: too closer.
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  Speaker 2: Pass his catch that you should have quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we're not trying to get We're not
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  Speaker 1: in the business to give him the ball back at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the half. How different does it feel
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  Speaker 1: for you and the team memoral victories, but to have
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  Speaker 1: Sam come back from all.
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  Speaker 2: Those turnombers and then lead a touchdown drive and almost
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  Speaker 2: leave the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's part of my like the message to team,
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  Speaker 1: and the guys know that. But I'm not surprised. That's
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  Speaker 1: who Sam is. I mean, he's been He's done it
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  Speaker 1: since day one with us, and he's an ultimate competitor.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great quarterback. He's he's our quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: We love him anything else. Thank you, Okay, all right,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: M