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Press Pass | Coen on Readiness for Texans, Mental Toughness & Containing QB C.J. Stroud · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Against the Eagles last week. What has that taught you
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  Speaker 1: about the roster's resilience, character, and ability to perform in
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  Speaker 1: the biggest moments under pressure?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, in this league, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to win some of those kind of games. Not every
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  Speaker 2: win is going to be a blowout or you have
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  Speaker 2: your starters out by the fourth quarter, right? And most
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  Speaker 2: of these NFL games come down to one score. And
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  Speaker 2: you've got to have the belief and the mentality toughness
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  Speaker 2: to be able to sustain for that long. And so
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  Speaker 2: that was a good sign to be able to win
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  Speaker 2: that kind of game. Yeah, I mean, I think when
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  Speaker 2: you talk about affecting the quarterback, it comes in different ways.
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  Speaker 2: And those guys, I think, have done a nice job
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  Speaker 2: of being able to create it when we've needed it, especially.
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  Speaker 2: um you know just making my tape for tomorrow and
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  Speaker 2: some of the things that we've done over the course
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  Speaker 2: of the season um I think it's is it leading
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  Speaker 2: in sacks every single time we get a four-man rush
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  Speaker 2: I can't say that but I can say that they're
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  Speaker 2: affecting the quarterback a ton and we we know we're
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  Speaker 2: going to need it this week right we can't let
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  Speaker 2: CJ stand back there and hang out and um, be
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  Speaker 2: able to pick us apart and, and get those guys
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  Speaker 2: on the perimeter of the ball too quickly. Um, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a great challenge for us this week and
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  Speaker 2: those guys know what they're up for. I hope not.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I hope not. I don't really get into
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  Speaker 2: that too much with them. Um, You know, I think
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  Speaker 2: that CJ's done a nice job of taking care of
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  Speaker 2: the football. And that's just something that you just got
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  Speaker 2: to be aware of going into it. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's impacting them pre-snap, post-snap, being able to change the picture.
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  Speaker 2: And it takes all 11 to be able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: So I would hope not. We have to be more
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  Speaker 2: disciplined with our eyes in general as a defense and
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  Speaker 2: as a secondary coach. So it's definitely not the week
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  Speaker 2: to start being greedy and saying, man, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be the one to get one because we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: be more disciplined with our eyes, especially in some of
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  Speaker 2: our man-match coverages. Yeah, I mean, we'll see today, be
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  Speaker 2: able to see him buzz around, but I do feel
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  Speaker 2: more confident. Yeah, we're going to... I don't think Ross
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  Speaker 2: will probably get a ton today, so we're just going
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  Speaker 2: to look at it. Ross doesn't need a ton of
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  Speaker 2: work to be able to go. We'll be able to
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  Speaker 2: kind of get closer to game time to be able
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  Speaker 2: to decide that. Yeah, so it's either second, eight plus usually,
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  Speaker 2: second and nine, and then obviously second and ten plus,
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  Speaker 2: so you're off schedule, right? Like you're talking about being
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  Speaker 2: on schedule as an offense. I mean, some teams treated
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  Speaker 2: a second and seven, right? Because you just didn't gain
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  Speaker 2: four yards on first down. Some defenses will in second
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  Speaker 2: and seven jump into like third down defenses, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: and be able to play more third down fronts, third
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  Speaker 2: down coverages, and force you because then your runs are
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  Speaker 2: a little bit wonky, right? Like it's second and seven
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  Speaker 2: and they jump into a dime overload front structure. And
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  Speaker 2: now you're trying to run like a base run against it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you haven't practiced that run probably that many times against
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  Speaker 2: that front. And so it's just a mix depending on, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the coordinator and how they see it. Um, so it's
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  Speaker 2: not a world you want to live in by any means. It's, it's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it puts a lot more pressure on the old line.
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  Speaker 2: puts a lot more pressure on the quarterback, and we cannot,
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  Speaker 2: especially against this defense, we cannot live in that world.
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  Speaker 2: You just look at teams that have had success against
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  Speaker 2: Houston specifically have been at least on schedule, and second
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  Speaker 2: and seven we can live with. Second and ten too often,
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  Speaker 2: not a lot of fun. Yeah, like if you had
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  Speaker 2: a penalty on first down, first and 15, first and 20,
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  Speaker 2: which we were in. I mean, well, we had a
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  Speaker 2: second or third and 40. Second and 40? That is. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it was. I just, because like I was going to,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm not going to go burn a timeout
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  Speaker 2: at this point when I got the plan late on
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  Speaker 2: second and 35. Because I'm sitting there like, well, all right, well,
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  Speaker 2: what am I going to call here? And I'm running
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  Speaker 2: down like, all right, I'm not going to make the
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  Speaker 2: same mistake I made at Denver and call it here. Just, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're fighting uphill here. The challenge here is just making
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  Speaker 2: sure we don't continue to go backwards and punt it
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  Speaker 2: and let's go play defense.
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  Speaker 1: You talked before about how Grant is sort.
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  Speaker 3: Of like this to you.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have some examples of game day or during
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  Speaker 2: a game where he's kind of helped you? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: would say.
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  Speaker 1: This past.
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  Speaker 2: Game, I'm not usually too chaotic on game day. It's
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  Speaker 2: more like throughout the week and just in general. But
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  Speaker 2: I would say, honestly, this past week, we kind of
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  Speaker 2: crossed the 50. We stalled out a little bit. We
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  Speaker 2: were looking to maybe try to work a double move
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  Speaker 2: on the outside. We're kind of coming up with a
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  Speaker 2: thought in the moment. And, you know, he came up
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  Speaker 2: with a thought relatively quickly. And it was actually the
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  Speaker 2: play that Trevor scrambled on and hit strange in the
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  Speaker 2: middle across his body. So that was something where he
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  Speaker 2: thought that strange would be able to win and get
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  Speaker 2: that play. And we kind of tagged it a little
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  Speaker 2: differently in the moment than we normally would. And so
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  Speaker 2: that was an example of like, all right, hey, we
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  Speaker 2: just went off schedule.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to get a double move, but we got
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  Speaker 2: to protect too. And so it was something that in
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  Speaker 2: the moment we kind of collaborated with and he suggested
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  Speaker 2: a play like that that just kind of helped us
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  Speaker 2: get back and we were able to make a big play.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it was third down, right? It was
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  Speaker 2: a critical down where we were able to move the chain.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not usually too mental on Sundays. It's typically
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  Speaker 2: through the week. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I mean, that thing happened fast and he was
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  Speaker 2: able to kind of, Hey, let's, what do you think
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  Speaker 2: about getting strange on this? And we were able to
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  Speaker 2: call the play and be able to go from there. Yeah, very.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're obviously together a lot more right after
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  Speaker 2: the day's done, which normally a normal work day, the
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  Speaker 2: players go home and to their families and are away
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  Speaker 2: from each other. Whereas like last night, it was cool.
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  Speaker 2: walking through the dining room there and seeing players, you know,
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  Speaker 2: playing cards together, hanging out, uh, watching stuff together. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think we have just spent more time together
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  Speaker 2: organically this week, um, which I don't think is a
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  Speaker 2: bad thing.
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  Speaker 3: Hi Liam. How would you describe your London experience and
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  Speaker 3: what are you expecting from the crowd on Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been great. Um, I've said this before, really,
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  Speaker 2: really like it here. Was here this summer, um, by choice,
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  Speaker 2: you know, came on vacation out here. Um, have really
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed it, enjoyed the weather, enjoyed just being out here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a change of scenery for us. And obviously the
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  Speaker 2: Grove has done a phenomenal job hosting us here. And
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  Speaker 2: so I expected a great crowd. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 2: rocking on Sunday, obviously, at Tottenham. And Wembley's such a
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  Speaker 2: historic place to play. And what a great opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: us playing a division rival.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, speaking on the divisional rivals that you're facing,
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  Speaker 3: how do you evolve your approach, if anything? How does
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  Speaker 3: the preparation look different when you're facing... A team like
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  Speaker 3: the Houston Texans, you also spoke about them obviously having
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  Speaker 3: a strong defensive line. Yeah. Does it look different compared
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  Speaker 3: to when you're just facing a different?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's just you've got to be very aware of
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  Speaker 2: your tendencies because you've played each other a little bit more, right?
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  Speaker 2: So things that maybe you've had success with against them,
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  Speaker 2: both offense, defense, and special teams, well, you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to get away from those things, right? They've worked. And
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  Speaker 2: so how do you make it look different? How do
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  Speaker 2: you present it in a different way? And that's so
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  Speaker 2: many different ways of doing that, right? That's through personnel, formations, motions, shifts,
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  Speaker 2: different ways of doing it. And then on defense, just
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  Speaker 2: with different disguises and looks. So that's the chess match.
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  Speaker 2: That's the game within the game that you have to
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  Speaker 2: do in order to play a division opponent.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of penalties last week, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: around 12 or 13. How much has that been the
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  Speaker 1: forefront of your game plan this week, trying to reduce
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  Speaker 1: those penalties.
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  Speaker 2: Against the Texans? Yeah, huge. Huge part of it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think anytime you're self-inflicted, it's challenging. And so us
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  Speaker 2: as coaches trying to make sure we provide clarity throughout
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  Speaker 2: the week on the game plan. You don't want to
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  Speaker 2: trim too much because we started the season off pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: And so It is what it is. We're at a
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  Speaker 2: point where we have to, you know, get our hands
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  Speaker 2: inside more in terms of, hey, where we're blocking on
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  Speaker 2: the perimeter, if they're going to call that stuff, we
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  Speaker 2: got to get our hands inside and we got to
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  Speaker 2: be better about it. But ultimately you can call the
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  Speaker 2: hold on every play. Thank you.