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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Previews The Week 18 Matchup vs. 49ers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right for us looking forward to a football Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: For you, it's a Wednesday. So here we are. But
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  Speaker 1: good to see everybody.
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  Speaker 2: What we got a player like who's not a typical runner,
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  Speaker 2: but he's really elusive. At what point do you like
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  Speaker 2: prioritize treating him like a running quarterback and keeping him
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  Speaker 2: in the pocket over you know, stunts and rushing past.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's definitely a balance. Not all the plays are
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  Speaker 1: the same based off the situation. Uh, he's doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job, he really is. I mean, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of plays where he's saw them on time
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  Speaker 1: and layern throws over hooked players and seeing defenses kind
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  Speaker 1: of before it happens and and making you pay that way.
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  Speaker 1: And then he's he's doing obviously it's obviously making a
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  Speaker 1: lot of plays, extended plays, and being creative and using
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  Speaker 1: his playmakeability as well. So I think I think it
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  Speaker 1: depends on the situation what you have called how you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to attack him.
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  Speaker 2: Look, a guy like Christian McCaffrey so involved in both
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  Speaker 2: the past game and the run game.
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  Speaker 3: What are you trying to take away?
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  Speaker 1: First h all the plays you're just that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: that's what you. I guess it's terrible answer, but it's
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  Speaker 1: by situation again, you know, like who do you have
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  Speaker 1: in the field, who do they have in the field,
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  Speaker 1: where's the ball? You know? Are you trying to attack?
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  Speaker 1: Are you trying to kind of hedge? You just that
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  Speaker 1: those are the things you're thinking about. But he's definitely
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  Speaker 1: someone you have to account for at all times. And
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  Speaker 1: they do a great job of moving around. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: skill you can do everything, so you have to account
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  Speaker 1: for everything. So it's a it's a it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a great challenge.
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  Speaker 4: Situation.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, we have some tackles that could play. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like Josh can play, is gonna play? If Charles gets
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  Speaker 1: better and can play, he'll play. If not, then we
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  Speaker 1: get some other guys that can play. So Cross is
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  Speaker 1: potentially playing this week or well, I mean some things
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  Speaker 1: need to happen before before he played. Obviously not going
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  Speaker 1: through it yesterday, but I'd say it's a non non
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  Speaker 1: zero chance that he plays. But we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: Will he practice today, Charles?
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe so. I don't believe so unless something's
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  Speaker 1: changed in the last couple of hours.
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  Speaker 3: But it sounds like Josh is okay.
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  Speaker 1: Josh. We'll see how Josh practices today. He's going through
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  Speaker 1: walkthrough now, we'll see how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: What happened with him in the game, just.
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  Speaker 1: Just banged up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: What about receive?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? To my knowledge, he's practicing today. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know in what capacity. I can't tell you, but he
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  Speaker 1: should be out there.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, I don't think have had a player that
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  Speaker 2: had a concussion play the following week. Is that a
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  Speaker 2: policy for you guys? Or is it if they passed
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  Speaker 2: the protocol, they can play?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty sure? Did Tyree Snight come back and play? He
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  Speaker 1: didn't that next that next week he missed a game.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's out of policy. It's just going by the protocol,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So and Kobe is he getting better? He's
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  Speaker 1: getting better. Yeah, and he's not gonna practice today. He
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  Speaker 1: did walk through again. We'll see. I know those guys
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  Speaker 1: are working like crazy, but you know, we're going into
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  Speaker 1: football Friday. Probably have to do something before before the
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  Speaker 1: game goes. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: If she she can't go for some reason, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Daike Young, Jake Bobo, what do you expect for those guys?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, come and play great football for us, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think we have a really deep receiver room, and
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  Speaker 1: guys have made plays and key moments from training camp
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  Speaker 1: all the way to now, and that's what we expect,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So, yeah, we got really good players.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have have played in just about every style
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  Speaker 2: of game so far, run game, working, past game workame,
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  Speaker 2: run defense, passing. I feel like all those different, you know,
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  Speaker 2: types of games you played have helped prepare the teams
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  Speaker 2: for this type of moment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, I'm I'm certainly I'd rather it
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  Speaker 1: be this way than just being able to only win
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  Speaker 1: one way. Uh. That's probably the most you can take
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  Speaker 1: out of it. And it's a message for our team,
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  Speaker 1: like we're we're you know, we're our second year of
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  Speaker 1: our program here and we're we're trying to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to win, you know, and make that our expectation, make
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  Speaker 1: that the standard for for our team, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: so I think it's I think it's been great for
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  Speaker 1: our team to realize that there is multiple ways to
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  Speaker 1: do it and that they can trust each other, that
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  Speaker 1: you know, someone's gonna we're you know, we're gonna figure
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  Speaker 1: out a way to put ourselves in uh in contention,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the game, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how the game starts.
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  Speaker 4: Earning right to playing meaningful games is something said obviously,
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  Speaker 4: and as far as the regular seasons concern, this is
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  Speaker 4: up there. How do you balance that mistakes and and
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  Speaker 4: earning that right but with you know, just want to know,
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  Speaker 4: normal football week.
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  Speaker 5: Sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's this. I mean, we got here by our
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  Speaker 1: mentality on how we approach every day and that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do this week, and that's what we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do next week, whether we're playing or not. And then
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  Speaker 1: that's how that's just how we're gonna roll. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: it just cleans it up, you know, it's like, let's
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  Speaker 1: not just worry about the stuff we can control, which
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  Speaker 1: right now, it's hey, we get an opportunity to move
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  Speaker 1: around outside and get our timing down and work on
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  Speaker 1: some clean up, some early down stuff, work on third down,
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  Speaker 1: red zone. I mean, that's those are the things that
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  Speaker 1: our guys are thinking about right now. And uh, and
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  Speaker 1: there's some things that we feel like we need to
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  Speaker 1: be able to do to play really good ball and
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  Speaker 1: give us give us give ourselves a chance to win,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna we'll check that out at the end
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  Speaker 1: of practice and see the progress. And that's what we
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  Speaker 1: do on Thursday. So that's that's what that's honestly really
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  Speaker 1: what we're focused on.
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  Speaker 4: How is this team being able to hold each other
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  Speaker 4: accountable through the season and grow from that process? And
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  Speaker 4: what role has your leadership?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm a big Like I'm not a big like
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  Speaker 1: the word accountable guy, Like it's like to me, it's
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  Speaker 1: got a negative connotation. We're more like an integrity type
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  Speaker 1: of thing, like, Hey, we're going to do what we
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  Speaker 1: say we're going to do. We said we want to
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  Speaker 1: operate a certain way. We said we want to be
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  Speaker 1: a certain type of team. We said we want to
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  Speaker 1: practice and walk through and play the game a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: We've kind of all agreed that that's how we want
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  Speaker 1: to operate and that's led by a lot of our
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  Speaker 1: leaders on our team. And and then really I think
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  Speaker 1: it's part of my job to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 1: just doing what we said we're going to do. And
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  Speaker 1: there's ways to get that done and ways to communicate it.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I really think it's that simple. You
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  Speaker 1: know that way, you're just not I I respect all
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  Speaker 1: the quick questions, but like it is a lot of
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  Speaker 1: a lot of is deviated away from what are really
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  Speaker 1: our concentration is all the time. That's really what we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to focus on all the time.
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  Speaker 2: The people that sets like New Year's goals.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think we'll be? We'll be like the
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  Speaker 1: odds out there for that.
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  Speaker 2: You did have some goals for what you wanted to
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  Speaker 2: accomplish this year, and obviously some of those are still
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  Speaker 2: ahead of you. How much has this season kind of
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  Speaker 2: gone according to what you expected versus maybe deviated.
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  Speaker 1: I expect us to win every game we play. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's what we expect, you know. Like quick funny story,
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  Speaker 1: the high school coach I worked for, Xavier Smith, took
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  Speaker 1: us on like a coach and retreat when we were
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  Speaker 1: at Cedar Soul's, and he asked us how many games
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  Speaker 1: we think we should win? I think I've told the
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  Speaker 1: story before, and we're you know, you have ten ten
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  Speaker 1: games in high school, and so we all take a
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  Speaker 1: sheet out of paper and you know, hand it into him,
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  Speaker 1: thankfully anonymously, and he looks at him and he reads
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  Speaker 1: him out and he's all right, well, go ahead, let
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  Speaker 1: me know all the games you expect us to lose, right,
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  Speaker 1: now so we don't have to play him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so it makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 5: How many have you thought of the ways did you
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  Speaker 5: were in that sheet?
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  Speaker 1: You remember it wasn't ten. Yeah, it was done by me,
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  Speaker 1: so lesson learned.
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  Speaker 5: What have you thought of the way Weeks played since
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  Speaker 5: that first game against the.
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  Speaker 1: Forty nine ers? Well, I think an exception for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of those plays, Like I thought we played well
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  Speaker 1: that game. But I can tell you this, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's playing really good football right now. He's playing really
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  Speaker 1: good football and he's playing great football. So really proud
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  Speaker 1: of him, happy for him. It's great for great for
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks, great for him, great for everybody involved. But
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  Speaker 1: he's playing really good football for us. Attention to detail, technique, practice,
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  Speaker 1: all those things are are around point right now. It's
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  Speaker 1: really great. I think we have three starting corners.
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  Speaker 2: Like we've We've heard from John Schneider for years he
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  Speaker 2: likes to start.
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  Speaker 5: As no ego and you know he doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Want doors between personnel and coaching. For you coming in,
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  Speaker 1: how how does that maybe help you do your job?
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  Speaker 1: And how do you think that's just kind of helped shape.
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  Speaker 2: The team that you have now?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's essential. It's just it's to me, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: critical for just for a guy like me coming in.
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  Speaker 1: You're new. There's a lot of things you don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of things you don't know that you
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  Speaker 1: don't know. And I think a critical part of like,
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  Speaker 1: of success is being able to be authentic and being
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  Speaker 1: able to go through those experiences without feeling like someone's
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  Speaker 1: breathing down your neck or you got to oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: so and so wants to act act a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, now, all we're doing is just trying to
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  Speaker 1: chase this vision of who we want to become as
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  Speaker 1: an organization. And and John is one he's set that
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  Speaker 1: he set the tone of that you know from from Jody,
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  Speaker 1: but John's kind of the living, breathing example here on
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  Speaker 1: a daily basis, and he's created an incredible environment to
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  Speaker 1: work you know. I mean, it's just it's been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I love working with him. Kind of always
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  Speaker 1: knows what to feel, feel like, he's got always got
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  Speaker 1: great perspective, but like kind of knows what to say
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  Speaker 1: in those situations. He's obviously been through a ton you know,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of get fooled into like he's a younger GM,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean he's been around forever. He's kind of
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  Speaker 1: seen everything. But it's uh been awesome. Man. He's he's
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  Speaker 1: he's really great. He's really great and probably hes probably
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable with me talking about him like that, because that
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  Speaker 1: is how he wants to operate, you know, like he
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  Speaker 1: really and I and I think it's an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the rest of our our personnel staff. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: from our scouts to the guys that are in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Many they are they are really great at what they
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  Speaker 1: do and and the way they operate too, is a
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  Speaker 1: great example for for me coming in and say okay,
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  Speaker 1: like okay, this is how I this is how I'd
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  Speaker 1: like us to operate too, and and it meshes you know.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just it's a really great group to work with.
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  Speaker 1: No matter of the season, you know, whether we're in
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  Speaker 1: season or draft or whatever, it just feels like it's
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  Speaker 1: there's no drag and we can work together and scrimmage
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  Speaker 1: things out and all with all like the focus of
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  Speaker 1: you know, what's best for us.
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  Speaker 5: Has been a factor when you talk about the depth
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  Speaker 5: and the guy's stepping up all you know, all the
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  Speaker 5: different players.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well we talked about it. Uh, I forget
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  Speaker 1: my days here, but the last I think it might
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  Speaker 1: have been the last media session was just you know,
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  Speaker 1: the seventy matters. You know. It's just that's the way
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  Speaker 1: that it really started with John and how he envisioned it,
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  Speaker 1: and I think I think the actions have backed it up.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about integrity, that's that's what we said we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do, and they've done a great job of bringing
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  Speaker 1: in bringing in players. And I love that our staff
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  Speaker 1: has a developmental mindset that like we're coaching every bid
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  Speaker 1: all the time. There shouldn't be anything in our roster
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  Speaker 1: that is just coming to work and just hanging out
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  Speaker 1: and just you know, grabbing a thing of lunch and
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  Speaker 1: going home. It's like, now you're here to be to
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  Speaker 1: work and develop and get better and play your best
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  Speaker 1: football here.
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  Speaker 3: For us, it's not all that common for a team
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  Speaker 3: to change quarterbacks one offseason and then when at least
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  Speaker 3: thirteen games be in position for the number one seed,
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  Speaker 3: looking back at the change, and John's rolling that, like,
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  Speaker 3: what can you say about that? And how well that's
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  Speaker 3: worked out for you guys so far?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it speaks to the vision we had
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  Speaker 1: as a team of where we want to become and
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  Speaker 1: and like it's kind of one of those methods things.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, the principle is this is where we
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  Speaker 1: want to go, and then you know who's going to
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  Speaker 1: be here, how we're going to get it done. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: all those things are kind of sometimes they're not not
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  Speaker 1: under your control, and so you know, when you go
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  Speaker 1: back and you look through that kind of time of
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  Speaker 1: the off season, maybe to an outsider's perspective, it felt
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  Speaker 1: like it was a lot of decisions that happened really fast.
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  Speaker 1: But John did a great job of like navigating us
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  Speaker 1: through it, especially you know, a guy like me that's
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  Speaker 1: trying to you know, don't necessarily know all the steps
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  Speaker 1: that happens in those things, but he just kind of
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  Speaker 1: just sequentially, like one decision after another. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite quotes made it as simple as possible,
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  Speaker 1: but not simpler, which was really cool.
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  Speaker 2: Shanahan's obviously been at this for a while, but it
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  Speaker 2: seems like maybe there's some new wrinkles a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and how they're using how us checking other things. How
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  Speaker 2: much does he change over the course.
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  Speaker 1: Of the season. I think the great the great offensive
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  Speaker 1: play callers and designers in our league evolved consistently. You know,
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  Speaker 1: so and he and he's done it with the best him.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's a he's a great play caller, great play designer,
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  Speaker 1: great coach. You can tell that by how they execute
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  Speaker 1: and how they evolve as well. You know, but they are,
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  Speaker 1: they're getting to they're getting to you know, the same concepts.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's hard to like invent new plays all
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  Speaker 1: the time, but it's variations of the similar concept that
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  Speaker 1: they've they've run and are really good at and they've
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  Speaker 1: run for a long time. But kind of the art
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  Speaker 1: behind it is getting to it before you realize. On defense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so they're really good at it.
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  Speaker 2: They've been really good on third down good on third down?
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  Speaker 3: Is that a function of I mean they I mean
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  Speaker 3: teams really have like different third down kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of offenses and packages that they can really go to.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, I mean it's it's just a different
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  Speaker 1: phase of the game, you know. But when you look
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  Speaker 1: at it and you turn the tape on, you say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: oh well, maybe it's one thing, but now it's it's everything.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're protecting Brockwell he's he's making you know,
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  Speaker 1: decisive decisions, he's been accurate, and then he's got the
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  Speaker 1: element of being able to extend plays as well and
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  Speaker 1: creating you know, maybe when the first couple aren't there
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  Speaker 1: as well. So it's kind of like the whole package
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  Speaker 1: on third down right now, two of your.
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  Speaker 2: Best rushing performances of the season coming the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: What do you like about what's going on right now?
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  Speaker 5: What's maybe switched in that direction to kind of get
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  Speaker 5: you guys a little more successful?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think we've just stuck to through our process
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  Speaker 1: and really believe in what we're doing and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuck at it, you know, believed in, Hey, we
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  Speaker 1: got a great system, we got really good players, got
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  Speaker 1: really good football plays. Let's go stick at it and
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  Speaker 1: keep ironing this thing out and keep attacking it and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully'll come to life at some point to the way
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  Speaker 1: we want. We're still not there, you know, we're always
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  Speaker 1: trying to grow and get better, but you know, things
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  Speaker 1: aren't going your way. After a couple of weeks and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you you know, you turn into
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  Speaker 1: like a different type of team. I that's not the
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  Speaker 1: way to go.
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  Speaker 2: You lost Nick early in the first game.
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  Speaker 1: It goes the nine Ers.
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  Speaker 5: It's nice to have them. I guess, little thing back
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  Speaker 5: in the rematch and just what have you thought of
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  Speaker 5: the year?
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  Speaker 1: You said, Well, I get I just think I'm really
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  Speaker 1: proud of Nick. I mean, we've gotten questions about him
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  Speaker 1: throughout the year, and I feel like my answer is
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  Speaker 1: that not because it's like but it's it's a tribute
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  Speaker 1: to him that the answers are are consistent, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like on how's on hows his approach, Like that's a
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  Speaker 1: very like mature way of just going about his business
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  Speaker 1: every day and uh and I think that's shown and
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  Speaker 1: like his his like execution, you know, execution level where
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: he's able to play decisive, play fast and ann and
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: he's grown, you know, so and we continue to put
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: stuff on his plate and he's making plays and I
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: think and I think the cool thing now is like
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: the Vets realize, you know, how important he is to
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: our defense as well. So he's really earned a big
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: time role within our defense, which is one it's not
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: easy to do and two that's a it's a shout
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: out to him, that's big time stuff. During the pre
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: draft process all to sad. You just take your word
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: for for it that he's our type of guy. When
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: we have them in for a visit, we really we
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: really enjoyed our time with them. I think the thing
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: that stuck out with when is when he was here
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: was he was so he was really excited to learn
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: the stuff. You know, he wanted to be coached, and
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Jeff spent a lot of time with him, and we're
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: kind of left both. I think both left those those
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: meetings like really excited for the opportunity for him to
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: be with us. And that's that's that's what we were
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: going off of. So and that's what showed you know,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: that's what showed up since he's walked in the door.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: You talked about how they evolved. I mean, you look
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: back at the first game of the season. You guys
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: only have one play action attempt to under centered quite
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: as much. Do you guys learn some lessons in that
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: first game that's helped the rest.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Of the year? Man, that's a long time ago. I
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: think it's I think you learned things after every game
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: and you're just like, that's what you have to operate, right,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: You have to kind of just keep tinkering whittling away,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: you know, get rid of some things you might not
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: feel like is really your fastballs. And I think it
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: starts to you know, really clear up and streamline as
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the year starts to go. And I think that's where,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: especially with our run game, you know, I feel like
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: we've we've narrowed it down a little bit as the
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: season's gone on, which is good. That's the way it should be.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: You've talked about letting the game declare itself and kind
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: of maneuvering from there. Does the quarterback have to do
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: any of that as well, like feel how the game
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: is declaring itself?
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: That's interesting? Uh? I think so. I think I think
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: that plays a part in how we play. For sure, YE.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Do that in some of these stretches here.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean the awesome thing about Sam is he
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: just he figures it out. Like you know, there's gonna
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: be plays here and there, just like at the rest
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: of our team that we're gonna want to be better at.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: But like, guy's a problem solver, he's a fighter, he's
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: a competitor, and he's gonna figure it out, you know
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: as the game goes on, which is awesome.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: You described his demeanor a bunch of times, I think,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: including on Monday you said he's the same guy every day.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Why is that important for a quarterback to be like that.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Well, it's it's it's the hardest position to play in sports,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, and there's a lot of noise that
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: goes around it with it. So it's kind of like
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: us as a football team too, you know, like we
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I think we have to have a vision of who
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: we want to be as a player, as a person,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: as a team and just stick to the and stick
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: to that and just chase that all the time. But
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: if you get at a whack from you know, the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: results or conditions or the surrounding things behind you, it's
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: hard to like stay on track, you know. That's how
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I see it. And and I also think it's important
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: like as the personality of your offense as well, like
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: you know, things aren't really going your way, you don't
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: want everything's going haywire. He's kind of a steadying force
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: for those guys as well.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, John and Jim Marba obvious brothers, but kind
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: of the different personalities. Uh, how did they approach big games?
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Obviously they've they've coached in a lot.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Of them, well, I think I think it's varied. I
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: think it's varied, and I think it the thing that
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: they share in common is it's basically it's about the
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: team that they have. But the cool thing is it's
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: like both their personalities are through their approach. And I'll
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: say this, like I I love the way that both
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: of them did it. But one of the things that
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I've learned in the last year or so, it was like,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: we're gonna, We're gonna, it's gonna be more. It's this
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: is us, you know, It's the principle of the matter
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: is we're making it, you know, trying to do it's
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: best for for our team on how we want to operate.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: So it is a little bit different than than how
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: we handled some of these games in Baltimore and Michigan.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: There we go, okay, all right, thank you,