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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell on prep for Patrick Mahomes & Chiefs offense · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, coach. UM, just dwant smooth this past game
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  Speaker 1: and really over the course of the season. What has
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  Speaker 1: sort of made him so impactful not only as a
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  Speaker 1: pass rusher, but just as a guy on the defensive
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  Speaker 1: line that they you guys can rely on, because I
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  Speaker 1: think his versatility really speaks for herself. He's a guy
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  Speaker 1: that can play inside, can play outside, he can dropping
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  Speaker 1: the coverage, he can rest the quarterback. He does so
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  Speaker 1: many things for us that you know, we just have
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  Speaker 1: to get on and get him on the field and
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  Speaker 1: let him go. And just how important is it to
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  Speaker 1: get him more snaps? I mean just because you know,
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of games, it seems like he's really
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  Speaker 1: been able to turn it on. Um. He's been your
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  Speaker 1: most impactful pass rusher, UM, at least this pass game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely important to get him on the field. There
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  Speaker 1: are certain situations where we want to try to get
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  Speaker 1: him more reps. And you know, once he's out there,
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  Speaker 1: he's performing well and he's doing a great job and
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  Speaker 1: he's really motivating other guys to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we're really excited about it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go to Jamal that we'll go to John Shipley, Hey, coach,
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  Speaker 1: can you talk about the decision to play Trade Herndon
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  Speaker 1: and Buster Brown last week? And what do you think
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  Speaker 1: about what the rookie was able to do. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was just options. We were really just wanting to
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  Speaker 1: get Buster some reps. Had been a while since he
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  Speaker 1: had played. He had been doing a good job at practice.
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  Speaker 1: We just wanted to see how he would fare. And
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  Speaker 1: he went out there and he did a good job.
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  Speaker 1: Trade did uh You know? Trade made a big play
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  Speaker 1: on one of the third down, So they both did
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  Speaker 1: a good job of come in there and really playing
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  Speaker 1: the other side, away from Tyson, away from de Will.
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  Speaker 1: So just just another option for the defense be able
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  Speaker 1: to throw another guy out there. Do you plan to
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  Speaker 1: keep alternating the two of them the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, we're just trying to see and just allow
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  Speaker 1: those guys to continue to grow, especially Buster, to allow
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  Speaker 1: him to grow and then Trade. We know how he
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  Speaker 1: plays and what he does for so just options to
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  Speaker 1: be able to play different opponents. Thanks, coach, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I would go to John Shipley and Gary, Hey, coach,
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  Speaker 1: trop you're doing well, just you know, overall, how would
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  Speaker 1: you describe, you know, trying to face a guy like
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  Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes To. You never really know what he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do on play the play basis. It's tough. You really don't.
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  Speaker 1: He's UH. He's one of those ones that nothing really
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  Speaker 1: is by the book. Everything's UH on his time schedule,
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  Speaker 1: and he does a great job of facilitating his offense
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  Speaker 1: and buying time for them when pressure is brought in.
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  Speaker 1: Also against zwed So, it's really tough. But we just
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  Speaker 1: gotta go out there and play our game and try
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  Speaker 1: to disrupt him as much as we can. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: have you seen how they attack how they attack defense
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  Speaker 1: has changed that much without Tyreek Hill? It really hasn't.
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  Speaker 1: The thing. The thing you see is because you don't
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  Speaker 1: have the one name, you have a bunch of names
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  Speaker 1: that are really really performing well together, and he's spreading
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  Speaker 1: the ball around, and you know, it's it makes it
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  Speaker 1: that much more difficult on the defense when you really
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  Speaker 1: have to focus on everybody is out there on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks catch, Yeah, all right, Gary, Hey, Mike, what's up? Mike?
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  Speaker 1: When you've uh, when the coordinator has played and coached
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  Speaker 1: with a another head coach, he's going up against us.
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  Speaker 1: You have with Andy do you have any insight now
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  Speaker 1: Andy thinks when it comes to play calling, or does
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  Speaker 1: that give you any kind of more of an insight
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  Speaker 1: A little thing going back when when I was a
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  Speaker 1: player playing for him and watching the offense and then
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  Speaker 1: a different quarterback we had, Uh, we had Doug than
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  Speaker 1: we had Donovan, So you kinda remember some of the
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  Speaker 1: things that they did. But it's been so long and
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  Speaker 1: the game has changed so much. You just know that
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna have his guys prepared and he's gonna put
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  Speaker 1: his offense in position to make plays, and you just
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  Speaker 1: have to go out there and ready to defend it.
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  Speaker 1: Defend it. Also, who's the best sight end you ever
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  Speaker 1: went against? The best tight end I ever went against? Um,
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  Speaker 1: and you got hurt my memory right here? Um, that's
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  Speaker 1: going back. I'm saying the first tight end I remember
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  Speaker 1: going against with Eric Greene h Pittsburgh, and I covered
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  Speaker 1: him on a stop route and they threw the ball
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  Speaker 1: to him and I was trying. I had him covered.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to reach around him, but he was so big.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't get around him. And and you know your
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  Speaker 1: experience in the NFL for a long time, you know
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  Speaker 1: where do you raid Travis Kelsey as among the best
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  Speaker 1: tight ends that you've ever seen show to speak, and
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  Speaker 1: can you relate that to a rookie like Devon and
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  Speaker 1: what he's in store for and trying to cover him? Well, really,
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  Speaker 1: when you when you look at it, I really don't
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  Speaker 1: talk about like rankings, but he is a guy that
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of changed the position um. When you have
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  Speaker 1: a guy that that's talented and making that many plays
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  Speaker 1: for you from the tight end position especial, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you go back, you talk about Tony Gonzalez and people
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  Speaker 1: like that that did it. He's doing it. But he's
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  Speaker 1: a guy that he's almost like a receiver, like similar
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  Speaker 1: to the one we faced last week, the guy that
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  Speaker 1: you have to pay attention to that the offense runs
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  Speaker 1: through him and it's it's tough. But then going back
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  Speaker 1: and talking about Devon, we're not gonna put Devon on
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  Speaker 1: him by hisself. We'll have multiple guys being able to
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  Speaker 1: cover him. So it's gonna be a team effort. It
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  Speaker 1: won't be just one guy going out there trying to
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  Speaker 1: stop one person. It'll be a team effort and we'll
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  Speaker 1: have multiple guys we'll try to throw at him. The
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  Speaker 1: well try to slow him down. Okay, thank you? All right,
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  Speaker 1: we'll go to Demetrius and then we'll go to Jamal. Hey, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: just just to follow up on that about Kelsey, Um,
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  Speaker 1: not to give away your game plan or anything of
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  Speaker 1: that nature, but just you know, is it far fetch
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  Speaker 1: to put me be a corner on him? Just as
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  Speaker 1: as the type of player he is, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: more of a receiver, tight end, you know, blocker, all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. You know, is it far fetched
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  Speaker 1: to put a cornerback or someone bigger on him as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to just a linebacker. Uh, in certain situations you
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  Speaker 1: could do that. We have bigger corners than we have
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  Speaker 1: safety that can cover. That's one match up. But again
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  Speaker 1: we talked about earlier that this offense is not just
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  Speaker 1: one person. This offense has a bunch of weapons. So
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  Speaker 1: those weapons will you know, need to be handled also,
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  Speaker 1: so we have different options to be able to use
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  Speaker 1: to try to cover Kelsey. And we'll do that. And
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  Speaker 1: just real quick, if I could go back to the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders game, Um, the coverage you guys did on Davante Adams.
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  Speaker 1: Was it a simple switch maybe, uh, from man to
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  Speaker 1: z own or something like that. Just what you guys
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  Speaker 1: are able to do from the first half to the
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  Speaker 1: to the second half to defend him. It really wasn't
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  Speaker 1: It was really just execution. Um. You saw in the
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  Speaker 1: US half, Tyson with in great shape on the go
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  Speaker 1: ball down the sideline and the Dante made uh he
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  Speaker 1: made a play. And then in the second half you
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  Speaker 1: see we're in great shape and we knocked the ball away.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just different uh, different techniques, better execution and
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  Speaker 1: then the one deep pass. Uh, we were better with
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  Speaker 1: our eyes as the game went on. I just kind
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  Speaker 1: of messed us up on one place. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we just executed better and that was a result.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, we'll finish up with Jamal Hey, coach,
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  Speaker 1: what have you learned about defending mobile quarterbacks already this season?
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  Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes And even if you want to look ahead
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, Lamar Jackson, you've got two pretty dangerous
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  Speaker 1: guys with their legs in a row. Now, Um, you
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  Speaker 1: know Daniel Jones kind of slicing dice the guys a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. What have you learned about how
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  Speaker 1: this defense can kind of slow down some of those
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  Speaker 1: those running quarterbacks. The thing about running quarterbacks, you have
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  Speaker 1: to account for him, and especially in the past game
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  Speaker 1: you get back if it's his own read, you can
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  Speaker 1: scheme up to have someone accountable for his own read.
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  Speaker 1: But when you typically when you're in coverage, they have
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  Speaker 1: five offensive linement, you have four guys Russian and that's
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  Speaker 1: to their advantage. There are six gaps up there and
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  Speaker 1: a mobile quarterback can get out. But we just have
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  Speaker 1: to have a plan and execute the plan as far
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  Speaker 1: as containing him, trying to keep him in his pocket
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  Speaker 1: as much as possible, and then from there just be aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be shy and play play tentative, you know, go
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  Speaker 1: after him, but go after him with the game plan
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  Speaker 1: and through your wrest lanes. And do you think now
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  Speaker 1: that you're a couple of weeks more into the season
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  Speaker 1: that I mean some of the guys like Devin Lloyd,
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  Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker who are younger, are able to play a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more aggressive because the game slowing down for them.
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  Speaker 1: I know Devin Lloyd talked about it after the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: game where he even said he was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: hesitant at times. Um for those guys that now they're
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  Speaker 1: a little bit seasoned almost into the NFL, do you
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  Speaker 1: think maybe they can play a little bit more aggressively
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  Speaker 1: in those situations. That that's the thing uh with young guys.
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  Speaker 1: Uh As after they played a while and their their
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  Speaker 1: rookies no longer you know they're they're guys that have
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  Speaker 1: played a bunch of players and they understand the games
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  Speaker 1: should start to slow down from them for them and
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  Speaker 1: with their steady habits the way they study the game
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  Speaker 1: off the field, that also helps out appreciate a coach
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  Speaker 1: right