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Clint Hurtt: "There's A Lot Of Football Left To Be Played" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Sam about needing to set feel after an opportunities and
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  Speaker 1: those more on one you know, pass or situations twit
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  Speaker 1: or how does that have this?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I mean a lot of it is you could
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  Speaker 2: do a combination of things. Obviously, guys getting used to
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  Speaker 2: rushing together is with that and the communication and and
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  Speaker 2: guys kind of getting the feel for how they rushed together.
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  Speaker 2: But that's whether it be in the rushing and coverage.
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  Speaker 2: That's what third down is, That's what two minute is.
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  Speaker 2: It is the ability to win a one on one situations.
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  Speaker 3: How much of what you.
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  Speaker 1: Saw on Sunday was to be expected And I don't
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  Speaker 1: think the final numbers, I mean exactly what you were saying,
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  Speaker 1: guys getting used to rushing together, or the entire beef
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  Speaker 1: and playing together.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. The thing that I was excited about, encouraged about
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  Speaker 2: was obviously in a run game. That's been a big
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  Speaker 2: focus obviously coming off for last season, and the guy's
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  Speaker 2: accomplished that and now you gotta continue to do that
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  Speaker 2: week after week. But uh, you saw what the emphasis was.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously third down pass rush coverage is always a big
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  Speaker 2: emphasis too, But that for me, you just saw some things.
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  Speaker 2: You saw some guys obviously getting some work in the
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  Speaker 2: secondary that are still getting used to each other, playing together,
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  Speaker 2: guys that have missed some time. And you got the
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  Speaker 2: same thing with rushers and and new additions and all
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  Speaker 2: that we're excited to have and just working through some
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  Speaker 2: tough moments. Obviously that's what practice is for. But obviously
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  Speaker 2: in the game experience, you gotta get that stuff down
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  Speaker 2: and and we'll make those improvements, no excuses.
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  Speaker 3: Though sounds like action. What's he gonna play?
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  Speaker 2: Excitement, juice, energy, play making ability. So excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of.
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  Speaker 3: Damal back inst so much him feeling.
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  Speaker 2: With what so uh a lot, you know, I it
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  Speaker 2: juices up everybody. Everyone's excited to see that. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: the work that he has put in. You know, it's tough,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Obviously the outside thought is when guys come
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  Speaker 2: off injuries, al, yeah, that's part of it. It stinks.
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  Speaker 2: And but when you see a guy that has been
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  Speaker 2: that committed and going through it, and you know, even
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  Speaker 2: if you do go in the tank and you battle
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  Speaker 2: it to be able to come out of it like
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  Speaker 2: he has and come back with the the vigor, the passion,
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  Speaker 2: the speed. He looks awesome out there, so excited for him,
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  Speaker 2: excited for us.
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  Speaker 3: Where there's clin what makes what's what about him makes him?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, certain guys are different and how quickly
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  Speaker 2: they see the game now, the instincts and feel for
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  Speaker 2: the game. You know, I'm not trying to put any
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  Speaker 2: uh anything extra on the kid. Just let him be himself,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and how he'sh what he's showing in practice.
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  Speaker 2: That's the biggest thing. Practice is everything here because we
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  Speaker 2: make it so hard here. You you know, then obviously
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  Speaker 2: you should be ready to go game time and and
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  Speaker 2: respond in the right direction. So if he plays away
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  Speaker 2: he practices, then for us it wouldn't we wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: any surprises.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like he's ready to do both in
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  Speaker 3: the same game right now? Or he prefer to keep
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  Speaker 3: him that one spot as well.
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  Speaker 2: No, we're still you know w all that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the layers and all what we ask him to do.
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  Speaker 2: We're we'll figure that out along the way. Right now, Well,
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  Speaker 2: you know where he's at right now, he's doing really well.
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  Speaker 2: We'll keep him going from there.
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  Speaker 1: Aspect how much of its staff a get the ball
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  Speaker 1: out versus your guys, that's not going.
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  Speaker 2: Ret it's a combination of both. There's obviously the guys
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  Speaker 2: they already know. There's we gotta be better than one
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  Speaker 2: on one rush. The there is times that were obviously
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  Speaker 2: we need to be significantly better than what we were,
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  Speaker 2: and there's others where he can see things, you can
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  Speaker 2: figure out the coverage. You're dealing with a veteran quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: multi time Pro Bowl guy that can see some stuff
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  Speaker 2: from the ball gets out pretty quickly. So there's times
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  Speaker 2: where you always hear me say it's always Russian coverage
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  Speaker 2: works together, because it's very true. There's times that the
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  Speaker 2: ball could come spinning out fast where the rush doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have a chance, but we want to be tight and
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  Speaker 2: have a feeling understanding of routes and what's coming. So
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  Speaker 2: the same anticipation that the quarterback plays with we can
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  Speaker 2: play with. And the times that the coverage does a
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  Speaker 2: great job of disguising the hold and make him go
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  Speaker 2: to the second progression and the definitely on the third progression,
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  Speaker 2: then obviously as rushers we gotta be there. We gotta
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  Speaker 2: at least be able to get him off the spot.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the area of obviously big improvement for us
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  Speaker 2: that we gotta be.
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  Speaker 3: Better or Matthew with Garrett and similar that you know
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  Speaker 3: in some aspects.
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  Speaker 2: You know some aspects they are you doing very good quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 2: same good quarterbacks that have accomplished a lot in this league,
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  Speaker 2: especially Stafford, but golf has been a good player for
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  Speaker 2: a long time.
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  Speaker 3: How much you sort of mentioned there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: young new parts in the secondary and how much covets
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  Speaker 3: quickly I guess skits together.
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  Speaker 2: And they I mean with the amount of work that
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  Speaker 2: guys are putting in obviously on the practice field, but
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  Speaker 2: meeting and and all those things, and meeting even though
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  Speaker 2: there additionally in their own time, you know, you can
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  Speaker 2: get things fixed. You'se not we don't have time to wait.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's time to go. And they understand that,
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  Speaker 2: and the guys will they'll respond.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like Detroit's gonna run a lot of motions.
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  Speaker 3: You saw a lot of emotion of last week. Is
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  Speaker 3: already benefit of having they know it's not the exact
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  Speaker 3: same office, but similar thought.
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  Speaker 2: Sens yea, yeah, I mean there's a lot of similarities
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  Speaker 2: in every offense you see. You know, a week after week,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the same stuff. Uh, there's some carryover,
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  Speaker 2: but there's some things obviously they do differently as well.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Run game, they're definitely different obviously with the power run
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  Speaker 2: game and the offensive line and how they try to
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  Speaker 2: attack you. Uh, So we gotta be ready for that challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Across you like to see uh uh you know.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, depending on what the coverage is depending who I
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  Speaker 2: gotta speak to and have uh you know, addressing those situations.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes if guys have a hard down and you change
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  Speaker 2: the coverage to take some of the stress off of them,
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  Speaker 2: cause it depends on how their attacking the middle. Is
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  Speaker 2: it play action passes or is it uh or is
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  Speaker 2: it drop back? You know, So it's different on who
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  Speaker 2: they try to affect. And if I can change up
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  Speaker 2: who that's affecting, then I gotta change the call up
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  Speaker 2: to help them out. There's a lot to it. I
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  Speaker 2: mean this, Obviously, the guys got to talk and communicate.
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  Speaker 2: For underneath zone defender that could be a linebacker. It's
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  Speaker 2: easier to do that when you have a guy that's
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  Speaker 2: playing adjacent to you, Like if it's a mic talking
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  Speaker 2: to the dime or a MIC talking to the nickel,
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  Speaker 2: But if it's a guy that's coming from depth, it's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit different, you know, of doing that, and
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  Speaker 2: you have to be really boyous out of communication because
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  Speaker 2: we're playing a loud stadium, which we love. There's no
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  Speaker 2: complaints about that. We want to keep the twelves going nets.
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  Speaker 2: So uh yeah, there's definitely layers so that you gotta
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  Speaker 2: continue to work. Yes, yeah, that's why I'm talking about that.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta be really loud with your communication and how
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  Speaker 2: you talk, and especially for guys who are new to
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  Speaker 2: this environment, it's a great learning lesson.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a bit of a random one for you
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  Speaker 1: to d see the tech motion in the Miamis with
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  Speaker 1: the kind of like spread and get.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's Today's game is so much different than what
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  Speaker 2: it was five or six, you know years ago. It
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  Speaker 2: was before it was a very stagnant game. Guys weren't
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  Speaker 2: doing all that. It would be a small short motion
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  Speaker 2: and you just moved the tight end across the formation.
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  Speaker 2: But now then they went to fly motions and then
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  Speaker 2: there's different tempos of the fly and where they snapped
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  Speaker 2: the ball at and how you want to pick up
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  Speaker 2: the routes and things like that. So the game has
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  Speaker 2: become you know, obviously harder, you know, and more challenging,
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  Speaker 2: but that's a great thing. You just got to help
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  Speaker 2: the guys go through those layers.
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  Speaker 1: Do you expect teams will do that even more, seeing
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  Speaker 1: like the way that Miami Not everybody's Tyrique obviously, but
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  Speaker 1: to see the way they kind of used him to
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  Speaker 1: try to get guys moving at the snap and get moving.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: NFL is a copycat league, you know, And I think
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  Speaker 2: even with good coaches, you look for the things and
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  Speaker 2: the issues of things that you see on film from
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  Speaker 2: other people and you try to see if it can
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  Speaker 2: implement and work into what you already do. So absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: if Miami's having a ton of success with it, then
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  Speaker 2: you would anticipate that they would do the same. Other
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  Speaker 2: teams would do the same.
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  Speaker 3: How did you feel Body and Jordan kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Played in their played really well, you know, played really
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  Speaker 2: well together, playing off for one another. Obviously, there's always
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  Speaker 2: little things that we want to continue to work and improve, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: and really talking about that that's bad. Trush and third
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  Speaker 2: down coverage were to get better. But there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things they did really well in that game they
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  Speaker 2: will continue to build off of.
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  Speaker 3: It was really specifically you.
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  Speaker 2: See the same burst in Twitch and you don't see
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  Speaker 2: you know, usually when guys are coming off of a
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  Speaker 2: cl you see him drag the leg a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and you know, still have a hitching the run and
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  Speaker 2: all that. He didn't look like anything ever happened to him.
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  Speaker 2: That was again a testament to his work ethic and
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  Speaker 2: the people that helped him through his rehad process.
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  Speaker 3: You just overall wasn't what you want to put.
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  Speaker 2: Right, absolutely, I mean, we don't do the moral victory thing.
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  Speaker 2: But you gotta find your positives and say, okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: hang on to this and we have the other area
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  Speaker 2: that we got to continue to We gotta make our
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  Speaker 2: strides in and get better. So that's that's how you
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  Speaker 2: gotta approach it. And we're never gonna come in here
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  Speaker 2: and make it saying like the whole world's coming down.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of football left to be played.
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  Speaker 3: Curtis, you have I'm sorry, Okay, thank you, all right,
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  Speaker 3: thank you