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Mike Macdonald: "We're Going To Learn A Lot From This Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Okay, First of all, I want to shout out the twelves.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's most people have ever seen it a
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  Speaker 1: preseason game, so we we owe them a better performance,
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  Speaker 1: to say the least. But uh, I just told I
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  Speaker 1: told the team it's we're going to learn a lot
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  Speaker 1: from this game, whether you know, take the result out
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  Speaker 1: of it. Obviously, it's disappointing to lose the game anytime
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  Speaker 1: you line up in anything competitively, we're trying to win.
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  Speaker 1: But right now our process needs to improve. That's really
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  Speaker 1: the biggest takeaway is on really in both phases on
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  Speaker 1: offensive defense, our operation is not up to par and
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  Speaker 1: how we're finishing plays is not up to par. So
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  Speaker 1: that'll be a focus moving forward. But it's it's good
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  Speaker 1: to know, you know. I'm glad we know now and
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  Speaker 1: the things we need to be able to do to
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  Speaker 1: take our our team the next level. And then we
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  Speaker 1: have a great opportunity to go to go figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we got a big week coming up, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of couple of great practices opportunities, and then and
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  Speaker 1: then off the Tennessee we go have a great practice
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  Speaker 1: and and play another great game and and take the
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  Speaker 1: you know, and move forward. So that's where we're at.
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  Speaker 1: You see, the operation wasn't up to your standard. What
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  Speaker 1: do you mean, just all all the things? How you know,
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  Speaker 1: how we get calls in, how we take the line,
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  Speaker 1: how we motion, how we shift, how we get lined
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  Speaker 1: up on defense, how we communicate. All those things need
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  Speaker 1: to take a very big jump, very quickly. So but
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  Speaker 1: it's good to know. Now we know it, so let's
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  Speaker 1: go get it. But just ask you a bus the contract.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we all know he's a great player. What
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  Speaker 1: why is he so important to have done? And what
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  Speaker 1: you want to do? Well? I mean, Spoon, Spoon is
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  Speaker 1: all the things. He's a he's a great person, he's
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  Speaker 1: a great football player, he's a great teammate, he's a
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  Speaker 1: great leader. Those are the guys we want to be here.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's kind of similar to Jacks. It's like these
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  Speaker 1: are these are foundational people to to our to our
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  Speaker 1: to our team, and I'm I'm extremely excited to get
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  Speaker 1: that foundation laid, you know where we know Spoon's going
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  Speaker 1: to be here for the long haul and and and
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  Speaker 1: we're also excited for the opportunity to reward him. You
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  Speaker 1: know that this is a contract that we feel like
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  Speaker 1: he's earned and we should celebrate it as well. But
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  Speaker 1: it's also really exciting to know that we've we have
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  Speaker 1: foundational players that are gonna be part of our team
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  Speaker 1: here for a long time. He was one of the
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  Speaker 1: guys when you said, you know, the first phase of
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  Speaker 1: otis some of the veteran guys didn't need to be there.
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  Speaker 1: He's their day one. Yeah he's out, he's still waiting
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  Speaker 1: to get a deal. But like was I tell you
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  Speaker 1: about him? Well, that's that paints a great picture John.
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  Speaker 1: Like he he's just in factious and he loves the game. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know we were talking today, he's just you know, people
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  Speaker 1: would hopefully doesn't mind me sharing this, but people would
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  Speaker 1: talk to him about you know, ask him why he does,
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  Speaker 1: why he's doing what he's doing. He's like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: love I love the game of football, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: season it ready for. You know. He kind of keeps
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  Speaker 1: the main thing, the main thing, without getting distracted by
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  Speaker 1: all the extra stuff. He also probably feels, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's also a great teammate. You know, he just wants
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  Speaker 1: to be there for the guys and and how our
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  Speaker 1: team plays is important to him, which is which is
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  Speaker 1: really cool. He closes out the NFC champions those two
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  Speaker 1: pass breakups and then the slot legs as we're just
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  Speaker 1: going to see in the Super Bowl. Yeah, how like
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  Speaker 1: certain players just have a knack for coming up to
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  Speaker 1: the biggest moments. What is it about Cam riddellows to
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  Speaker 1: do that? Well, I think it's his relentless attitude about
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  Speaker 1: like the details. It doesn't matter the situation. He's playing
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  Speaker 1: it at you know, at top speed, top intent. That's
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  Speaker 1: how we want our football team to operate, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there are plays in earlier in the game,
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC game that Spoon probably could have played better,
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  Speaker 1: but like the mentality to just attack the next play
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  Speaker 1: all the time, is u is probably what makes it
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  Speaker 1: so special. And then in both those plays, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there are both their extended plays where you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think we're a man coverage on both of them. To
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  Speaker 1: be able to you know, to guard your men for
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  Speaker 1: that amount of time relentlessly is is uh. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's legendary type stuff. And then you know, in terms
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  Speaker 1: of how he plays a nickelos on early downs and
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  Speaker 1: the things he did in the Super Bowl or are
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  Speaker 1: some of the some of the things that make him
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  Speaker 1: special as well. You had a comment on the radio
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  Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl about like the impact he had
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  Speaker 1: on the Super Bowl as a flitzer, Like does that
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  Speaker 1: make you feel like maybe you should use it more
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  Speaker 1: in that role? Yes, yes, yeah, it's it's uh, he's
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  Speaker 1: a he's a great corner. He's a great nickel. And
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  Speaker 1: when when Nick's available, Nick's also a great nickel. And
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  Speaker 1: so you know, it's it's a great it's a great
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  Speaker 1: problem to have as a as a coach that you know,
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  Speaker 1: how do you deploy your people to have success? But
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  Speaker 1: Spoon is very I mean, all all those instincts about
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  Speaker 1: timing and you know, even beating guards, you know, setting
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  Speaker 1: them up and beating backs and one on one pastoral
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  Speaker 1: situations is uh, you know, it's not it's not common
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  Speaker 1: for those for that skill set about in the air
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate after Yeah, we were trying to get a penalty.
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  Speaker 1: We were trying to get a celebration penalty back. I
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  Speaker 1: was all disappointed, and you know, we could be we
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  Speaker 1: could bring some more some energy to the celebrations. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys weren't playing very into the game. Guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was excited, you know, and and the guys playing like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we gotta we have to play with more urgency.
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  Speaker 1: Take take the from the when the ball was snapped
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  Speaker 1: to like when the ball is over, the play is over,
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  Speaker 1: but like how we finished the play to opt the
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  Speaker 1: whole operation needs to improve and the players are responsible
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  Speaker 1: for that as well. It's not this isn't like a
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  Speaker 1: comment on our coaches ring. It's it's the whole team
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  Speaker 1: and so and to do that that provides energy. That's
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  Speaker 1: how you stack plays, you know. That's how you kind
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  Speaker 1: of get out of a rut is by you know,
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  Speaker 1: falling back on those on those like core fundamentals, those
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  Speaker 1: core principles of how we're going to operate as a
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  Speaker 1: football team. So that didn't happen to that's probably the
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  Speaker 1: most disappointing thing. Would you really want? Uh? Kind of yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I just wanted the guys. I wanted the
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  Speaker 1: guys to feel the energy and kind of like we
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  Speaker 1: did last year. It was is I think we got
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  Speaker 1: an interception or something and I think everybody was in
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  Speaker 1: uniform that maybe I don't. I don't know. That's probably
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  Speaker 1: know the rules better. Like with Tyr. She said early
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  Speaker 1: in camp that you know you'd like to find a
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  Speaker 1: way to get him involved a little bit. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like he had one of those games and shows. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're a little banged up at inside backer right now.
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  Speaker 1: So teen ide uh played probably more than we bargained for,
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  Speaker 1: but I played probably he's the best player on the
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  Speaker 1: field on defense today for sure. So that was that
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  Speaker 1: was cool to see what the initial thought on how
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  Speaker 1: the two quarterbacks played good enough to put up seven points.
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  Speaker 1: You know, gotta put up more points, so we need
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  Speaker 1: to operate better. There's some good things. There's gonn there's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of there's gonna be like it's
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  Speaker 1: so great to have tape against another team now like
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  Speaker 1: in a real in a different type of setting where
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  Speaker 1: the pass rush is live. You know, you're up against
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  Speaker 1: the play clock, you know, there's there's penalty. All these
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  Speaker 1: different things that you'd have to be able to play
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  Speaker 1: out are great learn experiences for everybody, quarterbacks included. Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk to us a couple of days
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  Speaker 1: about being more decisive is his key? Yeah? How do
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  Speaker 1: you think he was to know seem to hold on
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  Speaker 1: to the There are spots, you know, I we got
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  Speaker 1: to see if you know what the things that he
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  Speaker 1: that he was seeing. But I think the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: just needs just whole thing. Just let's go take another step,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, was it there. Let's let's encourage
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  Speaker 1: him to go rip it. I think that I think
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  Speaker 1: some great things that Jalen did was extend plays with
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  Speaker 1: his legs, something that has been a point emphasis with
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  Speaker 1: him that he's just that he's really uh, it's great
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  Speaker 1: to see him do that today. That really helped us well.
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  Speaker 1: Tory Foster's the guys had a strong camp. Was good
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  Speaker 1: to see when a player can do that and carry
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  Speaker 1: it in. Yeah. Yeah, for sure, You're happy for Montory.
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  Speaker 1: All the things he felt in camp he felt felt
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  Speaker 1: today during the game. We haven't seen Jalen take off
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  Speaker 1: and run a whole lot like this summer and practices,
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  Speaker 1: and it sounds like that's something. Are you saying that's
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  Speaker 1: something you wanted to encourage him to do or yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like it's say, you know, there's the play doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to end if you're if there's nobody to throw in
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  Speaker 1: with your progressions, like you're allowed to extend the play.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's up to you on how long the
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  Speaker 1: play goes. You had Adam Der doing the play calling
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  Speaker 1: the night. Yeah, ad called the game, did a good job.
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  Speaker 1: What did that afford you? What did you see differently
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  Speaker 1: or what did you have to glean from I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was best for us right now for
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  Speaker 1: him to for him to call. It's great experience for
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  Speaker 1: a d uh. He's called the majority of camp up
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  Speaker 1: to this point. He's done a phenomenal job throughout camp.
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  Speaker 1: He really has. He's he's called. We've had a ton
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  Speaker 1: of call periods. He's on the details, he's thinking, thinking,
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  Speaker 1: just doing a lot of great stuff. Honestly so, but
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  Speaker 1: at some point I got I gotta get ready to
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  Speaker 1: call game too. So I think I'll think I'll probably
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  Speaker 1: call next week. Do you get a chance for your
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  Speaker 1: call place to see him? Did some good things, did
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  Speaker 1: some good things. Some things is off the top of
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  Speaker 1: my head that I know that we want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about and improve. But again, he's he's a great example of, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is your first experience playing a game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in a loud environment where we have to communicate, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the communications to improve on, Dave, I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: wake up call to our guys of you know, examples
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  Speaker 1: of them so shout out to the twelve for being
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  Speaker 1: loud and showing our guys that we got to be
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  Speaker 1: able to communicate better. But great, great first experience for
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  Speaker 1: him and he's gonna learn from it. Anything else, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: thank you,