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Press Pass | Press Taylor: "We're Called On To Produce in the Run Game, Produce in the Pass Game and Produce as an Offense" · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Whatever it may be, is when we get that going. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of like you said, you got
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  Speaker 1: to find different ways last week. Kind of our our
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  Speaker 1: move at one point in time was to go to
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  Speaker 1: some wildcat. We had a couple of different runs out
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  Speaker 1: of the Wildcat to try to spark the run game
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. We had some production early on and
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  Speaker 1: then obviously didn't produce as well as we liked in
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  Speaker 1: the second half. Dynamics of the game changed a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, there's certain different elements given different people
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  Speaker 1: the ball, trying a couple of different things as you
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  Speaker 1: get going on certain things, but always trying to put
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  Speaker 1: our guys in the best position.
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  Speaker 2: I havn't so many different group games along the offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: I know, consistency instability is a big thing there.
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  Speaker 1: How much has that really impacted that aspect.
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  Speaker 2: Of the well, I mean it's a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, there's a comfort level in playing and knowing who
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  Speaker 1: you're playing with, experience next to the people, But at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's an excuse. I mean
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  Speaker 1: we're called on to produce in the run game, produce
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  Speaker 1: in the past game, and produce as an offense. So
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  Speaker 1: we got to find whatever way we can do to
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  Speaker 1: get that going. We've done that at points in the season,
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  Speaker 1: but it needs to be better than it was last
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  Speaker 1: two weeks. Perker's done a good job, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's made the most of his opportunities when the ball's
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  Speaker 1: been thrown his way, made a couple of tough catches
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  Speaker 1: for there for touchdowns last two weeks. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a young player that all of a sudden is
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  Speaker 1: getting and thrust into a heavy role, a lot of usage,
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  Speaker 1: and he's done a good job responding to it, and
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  Speaker 1: he'll continue to get better as he keeps going. Just
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  Speaker 1: for the offense, yeah, obviously he's a dynamic ball carrier.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've all seen that as a punk returner.
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  Speaker 1: He's done that at times for us in the two
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  Speaker 1: years here as a ballcarrier for us in the offense,
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  Speaker 1: and then gives us this speed, the vertical threat down
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  Speaker 1: the field that you know, without a guy like that,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you lack. So I think that's an element that
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  Speaker 1: stresses defense a little bit. You know, where he is
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  Speaker 1: on the field, people are certainly aware of when he
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  Speaker 1: comes in the game, when he goes in motion, when
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  Speaker 1: he is near the football in some way shape for him.
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  Speaker 1: Then he's continued to grow as a receiver from our
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  Speaker 1: time here. You know, he's still relatively new to the position,
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  Speaker 1: and so we've just watched him get better every single year,
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  Speaker 1: every single week, and grow in his receiver ability zone
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  Speaker 1: statistically a lot better in the last few weeks. Does
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  Speaker 1: it feel that way to you, and so what's going right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've we've capitalized when we've had those opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: So that's certainly something. I mean early in the year,
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily it didn't feel like we're struggling as
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  Speaker 1: much as turning the ball over in critical situations and
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  Speaker 1: so that that obviously is a big hindrance for you,
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  Speaker 1: even if you're settling for field goals. It's now the
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  Speaker 1: frustration is getting in the end zone. But we were
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  Speaker 1: just turning the ball over, so that was that was
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  Speaker 1: certainly a big issue for us. It's gotten better. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, there hasn't been any philosophical change, scheme change.
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  Speaker 2: Anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: We've just done a good job executing things and taken
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  Speaker 1: advantage of opportunities and sort of getting going down there
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  Speaker 1: help everything. How key is that? Yeah, he's done a
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  Speaker 1: great job again making the most of his opportunities. Part
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  Speaker 1: of it's the coverage, the matchup, the way things dictate.
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  Speaker 1: But he's certainly somebody that has produced with the opportunities
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  Speaker 1: given to him. He's somebody that we can all trust
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  Speaker 1: and count on, and the quarterbacks have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: familiarity with where he going to be and when he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be there, and trust what we've asked him to do.
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  Speaker 1: Last Sunday, Trenor talked about miscommunication, so that was interpreted
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  Speaker 1: to be guys running the wrong route, right, how do
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  Speaker 1: you see it? You know there was some pushback yesterday
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  Speaker 1: from players.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, on that idea. Can you clear it up?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think there's a big difference in running the
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  Speaker 1: wrong route and not being on the exact same page
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  Speaker 1: with how you running route.
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  Speaker 2: We have not had wrong routes.
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  Speaker 1: It has not been this person doesn't know what they're doing,
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  Speaker 1: they're running the wrong route, or things like that.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I think back to we had three interceptions the other
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  Speaker 1: day in the game, I think two of one of
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  Speaker 1: them we didn't expect the ball at the time the
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  Speaker 1: ball came out, so or head one and a round.
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  Speaker 1: We ended up missed opportunity. Unfortunately that turned into an interception.
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  Speaker 1: If the ball hits the ground, it's first down, second down,
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  Speaker 1: We'll keep playing the down or keep playing the series out.
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  Speaker 1: We had another one, we got zero blitz. The ball's
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  Speaker 1: got to come out. You know, they're they're bringing more
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  Speaker 1: pressure than we have protectors. Quarterback through a go ball.
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  Speaker 1: I think receiver thought the ball is gonna get thrown
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  Speaker 1: earlier because of where the coverage was. But again, understanding
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  Speaker 1: the entire situation, what the quarterbacks dealing with, the ball
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  Speaker 1: comes out early turned into an interception as well.
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  Speaker 2: And then we had another one.
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  Speaker 1: We took a post route a little flatter across the
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  Speaker 1: field where we were expecting maybe a little deeper angle
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  Speaker 1: on that, so nobody ran the wrong route. And those
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  Speaker 1: instances we just in terms of the details of it
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  Speaker 1: and where we thought the ball is going to go,
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  Speaker 1: where we thought the ball was going to be thrown
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  Speaker 1: after a certain time, just barely off. And unfortunately all
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  Speaker 1: those plays turned in interceptions, which is not always the case,
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  Speaker 1: but unfortunate. A lot of practice impact that, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time with.
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  Speaker 2: The quarterback, and yeah, I think that's certainly a factor.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously trevored in practice last week.
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  Speaker 1: There's just certain things that come up and you continue
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  Speaker 1: to grow and communicate through them and show examples and
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  Speaker 1: and do everything you can to get on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: But if any of those plays ends on the ball
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  Speaker 1: hitting the ground, then it's something you continue to learn from,
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  Speaker 1: and unfortunately those turned into plays for the other team.
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  Speaker 1: How does the Ravens defense challenging offense? Man, They good players,
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  Speaker 1: good scheme combined with a good offense. Right now, it's
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  Speaker 1: moving the ball well and scoring points, so all that
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  Speaker 1: kind of factors in. I think they do a great
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  Speaker 1: job on the first level of being physical, setting edges,
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  Speaker 1: keeping double teams off with the two interior players and
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  Speaker 1: then letting the linebackers just roll side to side, and
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  Speaker 1: they can do a great job of that. Included Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Hamilton that look. He plays a lot of the second level,
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  Speaker 1: so between him Queen Roquan, those guys are flying sidelined sideline.
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  Speaker 1: The interior guys do a great job of keeping double
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  Speaker 1: teams of combinations off of them, of getting there and
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  Speaker 1: so they're able to clean things up. But they they
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  Speaker 1: do a great job presenting a lot of different looks
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  Speaker 1: to you, so you never necessarily hone in on what
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna see down in, down out, and then they
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  Speaker 1: got good players to play physical and play fast. They
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  Speaker 1: need to always have a lot of sacks. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that seems to be here and you're out.
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  Speaker 2: No matter who the players are, what is.
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  Speaker 1: What are they doing? That's work. I mean they've always
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  Speaker 1: done a good job with their pressure looks on passing situations.
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  Speaker 2: You go back to the Rex Ryan air and all that.
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  Speaker 1: That was always kind of their thing was all these
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  Speaker 1: different exotic packages they could present to you and being
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  Speaker 1: able to get free runners. I mean it's not even
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  Speaker 1: which is a terrifying situation. It's not always that guy
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  Speaker 1: beat that guy. It's when they got free runners because
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  Speaker 1: they're messing with your protection schemes and you know to
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  Speaker 1: do that. Sometimes they give something up so it may
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  Speaker 1: feel like there's space in the past game, but they're
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  Speaker 1: they're manipulating the coverage.
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  Speaker 2: They're rolling out of it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of that is guys being
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  Speaker 1: really smart in their system, understanding the system well, where
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  Speaker 1: the holes are, what the presentation needs to be to
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  Speaker 1: the offense to get the offense the point directed some way,
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  Speaker 1: and then bringing pressure away from it and rolling your
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  Speaker 1: coverage to compliment where those issues are. So they're obviously
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  Speaker 1: very well coached, they have been for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: But I think coach McDonald does a great job with them.
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  Speaker 1: They seem to have a great understanding of what they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do, and they have a really aggressive secondary too.
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  Speaker 1: Is that put a little extra pressure or on Trevor
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that he doesn't I guess give them
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  Speaker 1: those opportunities to go after the football. Yeah, they've done
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  Speaker 1: a good job taking the ball away, particularly we were
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  Speaker 1: looking through it today. Geno Stone's done a great job
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  Speaker 1: taking the ball. He's got a couple of picks in
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  Speaker 1: the back end. Yeah, I mean, I think there's alway
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  Speaker 1: is the issue of we're always trying to throw it
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  Speaker 1: to our guy no matter what. But yeah, I understand
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying in terms of they do a good
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  Speaker 1: job challenging you, and that's a big part of it.
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  Speaker 1: They got physical corners that want to play press, want
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  Speaker 1: to put their hands on people, and then in the
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  Speaker 1: back end they've done a good job making plays earlier.
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  Speaker 1: This is weird.
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  Speaker 2: I love it if there get.
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  Speaker 1: Your official name for that.
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  Speaker 2: Trevor stretching across the goal line. What do you guys get.
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  Speaker 1: Thrown out there? Jacksonville John But I think the Warren's
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  Speaker 1: Sleep or something like that. But we don't have any
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  Speaker 1: particular name for it. I like when he scores, Otherwise
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  Speaker 1: I really don't like it. We've talked about a lot
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  Speaker 1: we showed. I mean, Baltimore last year had the one
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  Speaker 1: and almost was when of the playoff games, the game before,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it was the playoff game, the playoff game where
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  Speaker 1: they reached out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you see a lot of bad things happen.
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  Speaker 2: He knows that.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about it a million times. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily love it, but I love scoring touchdowns. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: when I see him reaching before they even go, I
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  Speaker 1: did we just know you. I've seen so many bad
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  Speaker 1: examples of that. Now it's worked and it's great, but
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  Speaker 1: it's terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's a cold player.
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  Speaker 1: There's we sneak and so depending on what the look is,
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback is sneaking it if he has determined going
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  Speaker 1: over the top is the best course of action for him,
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  Speaker 1: as long as he scores, and he knows that I've
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  Speaker 1: we've clearly stated that that we are hesitant about the
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  Speaker 1: over the top, but I think he's.
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  Speaker 2: Four for four so it's hard to argue with results.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks guys,