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Brian Fleury Recaps Week 8 & Discusses Drew Lock Getting The Start vs. Cardinals · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's.
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  Speaker 1: Go.
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  Speaker 3: What do you need to adjust for, if anything, with
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  Speaker 3: the change of quarterback this week?
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  Speaker 2: Luckily, I've had experience calling plays for Drew in two
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  Speaker 2: games already this season, so there's obviously a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of an adjustment, but I'm comfortable with what Drew likes
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  Speaker 2: and what he's comfortable executing, particularly against this defense. Luckily,
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  Speaker 2: this is something we've been through before, so... It was
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  Speaker 2: easy to put the plan together once we got the
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  Speaker 2: news that he was going to be the starter. What
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  Speaker 2: kind of confidence does that give you?
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't just played, but he's played really well in
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  Speaker 1: this offense.
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  Speaker 2: Right, no, it obviously gives not only me, but the
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  Speaker 2: entire coaching staff and everybody out there a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 2: We know that he's done it at a high level
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  Speaker 2: against this particular opponent, like I said, and he can
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  Speaker 2: handle everything they're going to throw at us, so we
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  Speaker 2: feel great going into this game.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about coming out last game, feeling like you
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  Speaker 3: guys were coming out the other side of things. And
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  Speaker 3: so I guess the game on Monday wasn't what you
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  Speaker 3: were picturing. So what do you think happened on Monday?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, credit to the Bears. They did a
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  Speaker 2: great job. They had a great game plan and came
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  Speaker 2: out and executed it. They're the best third down defense
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  Speaker 2: in football. And I think that was really the big
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  Speaker 2: difference maker. We had a good plan, but we're all
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  Speaker 2: responsible for executing on third down. And I think we
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  Speaker 2: all Coaches included, players, quarterback, offensive line, receivers, every one
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  Speaker 2: of us can identify something we could have executed or
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  Speaker 2: done a little bit better to help that cause. And
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  Speaker 2: so when you're not doing well on third down, it
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  Speaker 2: makes it hard to sustain drives. And that ultimately, I think,
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  Speaker 2: was the difference in the game.
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  Speaker 1: What was your assessment of the offensive line? Obviously, there
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  Speaker 1: were changes with Clinton and things like that, just kind
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  Speaker 1: of how that began to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't say that it was perfect, but considering
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  Speaker 2: all the moving parts and the new people and new
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  Speaker 2: places communicating in different ways, I was overall happy with
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  Speaker 2: what they were able to do out there. I think
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  Speaker 2: that there's room for growth, and I'm excited to see
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  Speaker 2: that growth.
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  Speaker 3: What have you seen this week down at practice from you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yesterday was just a walkthrough given the short week.
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  Speaker 2: So today we got out there and we're actually able
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  Speaker 2: to get after it and move full speed. You can
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  Speaker 2: see the resolve of the guys in that room, that
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  Speaker 2: they're ready to get out there and improve on what
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  Speaker 2: happened on Sunday or Monday, and they're ready to go
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  Speaker 2: out and play.
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  Speaker 3: What's your top priority to address, your number one thing
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  Speaker 3: you'd like to fix?
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  Speaker 2: But overall, you know, again, the execution on third down
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  Speaker 2: is what's going to allow us to sustain drives. That's
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  Speaker 2: something that, you know, we failed to do well on
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  Speaker 2: Monday night. And in order for us to be the
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  Speaker 2: offense we want to be, we have to be able
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  Speaker 2: to stay on the field, and it really starts there.
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  Speaker 3: This season's gone absolutely not as you had planned it.
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  Speaker 2: You're quarterback, number one draft pick, running back.
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  Speaker 4: What did you learn about yourself and that activity, and
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  Speaker 4: how hard.
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  Speaker 2: Has this been? I mean, it's been challenging for sure,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't take the job thinking it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be easy. I knew the expectations were high. I
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  Speaker 2: knew that there was a good roster, but every single
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  Speaker 2: NFL season I've been a part of has come with challenges.
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  Speaker 2: And it's all about being able to solve problems, being
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  Speaker 2: able to work as a collective group, as a coaching staff,
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  Speaker 2: and then in turn with the players to solve the
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  Speaker 2: problems in the best possible way and move forward in
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  Speaker 2: a way that gives us a chance to go out
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  Speaker 2: and win football games, regardless of what that may be.
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  Speaker 2: The solutions are always different, but every single solution starts
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  Speaker 2: with stop feeling sorry for yourself and get up and
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  Speaker 2: go out and start working.
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  Speaker 4: With all the changes on the offensive line, what do
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  Speaker 4: you feel like is realistic for when they should all
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  Speaker 4: be on the same page and clicking like they ultimately
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  Speaker 4: will be?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that it's realistic to think that
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  Speaker 2: that's going to start to happen sooner rather than later.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're all professional football players. They hold themselves
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  Speaker 2: to a high standard, and they're putting in the work,
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  Speaker 2: not only in what's the time that's required of them
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  Speaker 2: inside the building, but on their own to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that they can get there as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 3: When you've got that many changes, like... quarterback and the
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  Speaker 3: offensive line and the running backs and all those things.
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  Speaker 3: How do you assess what's the player, the execution, the change,
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  Speaker 3: and what's the things that you want to change personally?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's challenging. You're always trying to figure out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: where things can improve, not necessarily where the deficiencies are,
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  Speaker 2: but what can be improved on on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: And you're identifying things at each level, coaching staff level,
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  Speaker 2: player level, continuity level, problem solving mechanics level, and just
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  Speaker 2: trying to blaze forward in the best possible way. It's different.
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  Speaker 2: The solutions are different for every single problem. But as
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  Speaker 2: long as we're working hard to get to the direction
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  Speaker 2: that we want to go, then that's the goal.
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  Speaker 1: With both Zach and Jadari back now, is there sort
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  Speaker 1: of an ideal rotation with those guys and how many
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  Speaker 1: carries you like to see each of them get or
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  Speaker 1: how that would shake out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're both in different phases of getting back up
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  Speaker 2: to full speed in terms of the ramp up and
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  Speaker 2: their conditioning and all that sort of stuff. So the
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  Speaker 2: workload is relative to that. And then there's definitely plays
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  Speaker 2: within the game plan that I prefer to have one
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  Speaker 2: or the other on just kind of based on distributing
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  Speaker 2: the workload and everything. all of that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So it's week to week, and this week will be
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  Speaker 2: slightly different than next week, and I expect it to
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  Speaker 2: continue to go that way through the bye, and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: they're both good and healthy right after the bye and
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  Speaker 2: we can roll forward.
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  Speaker 4: Did you have any sense of what Sam was playing
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  Speaker 4: through Monday night?
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  Speaker 2: I sensed that he had something going on that was
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  Speaker 2: a little bit out of the ordinary. He reassured me
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  Speaker 2: over and over again that he was fine, but you
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  Speaker 2: kind of know something was going on when you know
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  Speaker 2: your player really well.
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  Speaker 3: The average person, you know, sees Quentin Nelson on the
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  Speaker 3: left side and they're like, run behind Quentin Nelson. And
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  Speaker 3: you guys ran a little bit more to the right.
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  Speaker 3: Help people understand, like, maybe there's backside opportunities or how
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  Speaker 3: you kind of figure those opportunities out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, you know, the point of attack on a
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  Speaker 2: run play isn't always in the direction that the run
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  Speaker 2: is going. A lot of times when you're running an
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  Speaker 2: inside zone play, for example, you're expecting that ball to
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  Speaker 2: wind back. So the backside of the run play is
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  Speaker 2: actually the point of attack. So if you're just simply
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  Speaker 2: looking at the direction of the run play, in terms
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  Speaker 2: of who you're running behind, that's a little bit misleading.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why we were definitely trying to run behind him.
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  Speaker 2: We were also trying to allow him to execute blocks
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  Speaker 2: that he was comfortable with that carried over from Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 2: So there was some thought that went into that. And
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  Speaker 2: then we were also trying to be aware of where
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  Speaker 2: 99 might be aligning based on our formation strength. And
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  Speaker 2: they did a good job mixing that up right from
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  Speaker 2: the start. So there was a lot of communication going
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  Speaker 2: on as to what was going to give us the
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  Speaker 2: best recipe for success running the football. And that's why
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  Speaker 2: you saw the variance.
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  Speaker 4: This is easy to ask in retrospect, but given the
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  Speaker 4: transition that Gray faced early or middle of the week,
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  Speaker 4: given who he was playing against, was there any thought
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  Speaker 4: to giving Bradford another game there and letting Gray adjust
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  Speaker 4: just in practice for a week and not start him
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  Speaker 4: in that game?
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  Speaker 2: No, there was not really thought in that direction. We
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  Speaker 2: felt like Gray gave us the best chance to win.
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  Speaker 4: Did that go harder than you thought it would for him?
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  Speaker 1: He said it was harder than he thought it would be.
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  Speaker 2: I think the added variable of the new player on
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  Speaker 2: their side of the ball made it a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more challenging than maybe he would have preferred. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that was it.
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  Speaker 3: How close do you guys feel like you are to
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  Speaker 3: getting the run game where you want it to be?
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  Speaker 2: I think we're very close. We've identified a direction that
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  Speaker 2: everyone's on board with. And it's just going to take
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more time on task in terms of
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  Speaker 2: building the continuity. The moving pieces, both at the running
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  Speaker 2: back position and with the offensive line, has led to
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  Speaker 2: a few hiccups here and there. But the more time
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  Speaker 2: we can get together working in that same group in
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  Speaker 2: the same direction, I think the better success we'll have.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm very optimistic that we'll get going here. I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't say it's a huge change in direction. It's just
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  Speaker 2: more focused.