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Press Pass | HC Doug Pederson on Goals for Last Three Games of 2024 Season · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You're s you se no you still and alright, well
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  Speaker 1: Dormy did not play yesterday? Was that uh what was
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  Speaker 1: that related?
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  Speaker 2: Or I just think I just think, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Buster's been playing, playing well and and really just just
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  Speaker 2: giving him an opportunity right now.
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  Speaker 1: So it is that herman and switch?
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  Speaker 2: Ah yeah, moving forward, I think you know, with the
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  Speaker 2: last three games, I think you'll see Buster and and
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully get a chance to see Trey Prince and
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  Speaker 2: just kind of see where he's at, uh as well.
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  Speaker 2: And uh but yeah, Buster has been playing, been playing
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  Speaker 2: really well or anything?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, not at all.
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  Speaker 3: When you're at this point in the season, it's just
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  Speaker 3: the time to see what the younger guys kind of have.
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  Speaker 2: To know what you have moved forward. Yeah, if you
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  Speaker 2: get an opportunity, you know, you're still trying to go
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  Speaker 2: out and compete to win the game, right so uh
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  Speaker 2: but if you get a chance to play one of
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  Speaker 2: your young players and and it's a g it's a
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  Speaker 2: good time to do it, then then we'll do it.
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  Speaker 2: How do you house that you you have a young
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  Speaker 2: guy a chance that maybe you haven't seen, but still
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  Speaker 2: trying to make sure you put the team in the
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  Speaker 2: best position to win. Yeah, I mean it's it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: you think about just I think about Trey Prince right,
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  Speaker 2: He's he's been active a lot this year, but just
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  Speaker 2: hasn't seen the field as much. So I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a great example, you know of a guy that that
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  Speaker 2: in a player, young player who you know dresses and
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  Speaker 2: and really I wanna see defensively and also on special teams.
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  Speaker 1: You know what what he can do, and.
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  Speaker 2: This will be a good time to, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get that done. You think of good young players that
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  Speaker 2: kind of get their opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Brenton's strange with Evan Ingram kind of took advantage of
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  Speaker 3: that on Sunday. How much growth have you seen from
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  Speaker 3: Brenton over the last kind of two years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, Brenton's been a been a
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  Speaker 2: bright spot for us, somebody who we've always as a
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  Speaker 2: staff really have had a lot of confidence in. And
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  Speaker 2: I think too for Brenton, it's just a matter of
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  Speaker 2: getting that opportunity and and now he has.
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  Speaker 1: It, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Under unfortunate circumstances, but he really has just been been
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  Speaker 2: a bright spot. He's he's done everything we've asked. He's
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  Speaker 2: does a great job in the run game. He's physical,
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  Speaker 2: and then you're seeing what he can do in the
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  Speaker 2: past game. You know, strong hands, ability to separate and
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  Speaker 2: get open and then and then break tackles, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what you want really from your tight end.
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  Speaker 1: You guys went on balanced line.
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  Speaker 3: I think a play or two yesterday short yards is
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  Speaker 3: that is that brought.
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  Speaker 2: In mainly for that, and I think had four tight
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  Speaker 2: ends would.
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  Speaker 3: Come much droppings the line on the one just with
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  Speaker 3: that more just to get the short yardage.
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  Speaker 2: Off some of it and then some of us just
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  Speaker 2: to take advantage of just you know, the way the
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  Speaker 2: defense shifts themselves over it creates an extra sometimes an
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  Speaker 2: extra gap. Executed it well, you know we've we've honestly
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  Speaker 2: we've carried it for the last several weeks. We just
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  Speaker 2: haven't haven't shown it, you know, until until yesterday. But
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  Speaker 2: guys executed well and it was good to see more
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  Speaker 2: third and ones, twos, threes, a little more manageable third
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  Speaker 2: downs a little bit yesterday than in some of the
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  Speaker 2: longer ones.
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  Speaker 1: Does it get more difficult to keep the guys locked
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  Speaker 1: in the.
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  Speaker 2: Closer you get to the end, it becomes a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: You know. But but I'll say you the guys have really.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it yet, you know, any any sort
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  Speaker 2: of disconnect, And obviously that that falls on my shoulders
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  Speaker 2: right to make sure that that doesn't happen. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: just continue to lean on the on the guys, the
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  Speaker 2: leadership guys.
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  Speaker 1: And and you know, we got three games.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got three games left, and and you
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  Speaker 2: want to be able to go out and play well
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  Speaker 2: and win these three games and and give yourself, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a chance each each Sunday. But I haven't seen that yet,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And that's that's positive for the guys in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Tyson say that you in terms of bit you
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  Speaker 3: play for the guy next to you, and and uh
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  Speaker 3: is that as good a reason as any at this
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  Speaker 3: point to to play this game for.
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  Speaker 1: For each other. Yeah, that's a great that's a great answer.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Look, hey, we spend so much time together coaches and
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  Speaker 2: players that that you know, Uh, obviously people players play
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  Speaker 2: for certain reasons. Uh, but I think the biggest one
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  Speaker 2: is to play for the guy next to 'em, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And and you wanna do right and do your job
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  Speaker 2: so that he can do his job. And you know
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  Speaker 2: all eleven can do there. So that's what they do.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they battle and they fight for one another, and
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  Speaker 2: and you know that's that's encouraging.
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  Speaker 3: And what everything has happened this year, the injuries, the adversity,
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  Speaker 3: is this a bunch of guys still, you know, almost
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  Speaker 3: to a man, you know, get along, love each other,
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  Speaker 3: play for each other.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great locker room that way, you know, even
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  Speaker 2: even just you take it, take it one step further
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  Speaker 2: from the locker room to the to the game, to
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  Speaker 2: the sideline, to to the week of practice and preparation.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they continue to.
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  Speaker 2: Lift each other up, encourage one another, coach each other
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  Speaker 2: on the field, which is good.
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  Speaker 1: To see, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And and so it just shows you you have a
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  Speaker 2: you have a strong, united locker room that are gonna
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna battle for each other.
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  Speaker 3: What happened the play were Adams was open, wide open
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  Speaker 3: on the sideline and late in the fourth quarter of
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  Speaker 3: the when.
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  Speaker 1: That got down in the one yard line, it was
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  Speaker 1: a coverage bus.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Yeah, unfortunately, it's a misassignment. You know, uh, mesh
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  Speaker 2: concept underneath, and we just pass we just passed it
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  Speaker 2: off and we passed the one side and we carried
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  Speaker 2: the other side. It was just a misassignment.
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  Speaker 1: And that's still be happening at this point this season.
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  Speaker 2: That's the that's the challenges coaches right now. We've got
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  Speaker 2: to continue to you know, find ways to to make
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  Speaker 2: sure the information is is is passed along properly. And
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  Speaker 2: that's up to the player obviously too to digest and
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  Speaker 2: ask questions on certain things. But you know, and and
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  Speaker 2: sometimes too, in the heat of the moment and the
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  Speaker 2: heat of the battle, you get you kind of kind
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  Speaker 2: of locked in on the the man over you a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, and and you you know, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to say you lock up or freeze up, because you
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  Speaker 2: don't do that, but you just sort of lose track
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  Speaker 2: of what you need to be doing and and you're
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  Speaker 2: you're focused on that one on that one guy. And
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  Speaker 2: and then sometimes just being able to take a deep
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  Speaker 2: breath and I.
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  Speaker 1: Think see the big picture can help. M Walker came
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  Speaker 1: off for a little bit, walk a little came off
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of an ankle. I guess it's it's
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  Speaker 1: that he just rolled his ankle.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, did you come out with any other And that's
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  Speaker 3: very pretty clean.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, pretty healthy yesterday, just normal nix from the game,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, it came out pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: How much has Brian grown over the course of the year, Thomas, Now,
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  Speaker 1: I think Brian has grown a lot, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I can remember back right after the draft when you.
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  Speaker 2: Get him in here and and start working with him,
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  Speaker 2: and and just watching that development, that growth to you know.
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  Speaker 1: To to where he is today as a receiver.
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  Speaker 2: And and uh one of the top young receivers in
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  Speaker 2: this league and and obviously you know, a big part
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  Speaker 2: of our offense and and just uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a bright spot. You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's uh, it's been encouraging to see his growth and
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  Speaker 2: what he's capable of doing, going back and watching him
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  Speaker 2: on film coming out of LSU too, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: today some of the same things, you know, some of
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  Speaker 2: the explosiveness and and you know, and we continue each
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  Speaker 2: week to load his plate up, you know, and and
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  Speaker 2: give him more more opportunities and really expand I think
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  Speaker 2: his route tree just a little bit more. Uh has
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  Speaker 2: been good and and he uh, he embraces that well,
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  Speaker 2: the rule he has now.
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  Speaker 1: Being forced into being.
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  Speaker 3: I guess the biggest playmaker You've got.
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  Speaker 1: The guy the offense kind of runs.
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  Speaker 2: Through earlier in the season where he'd been able to
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  Speaker 2: handle that have been forced it with injuries earlier.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, I I think he I
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  Speaker 1: think he could have. I think he could have. I
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  Speaker 1: really do.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I think earlier in the season, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we s when we had everybody, we were just we
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  Speaker 2: were just finding ways to to get him the ball
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  Speaker 2: at that point, you know, just just plugging him in
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  Speaker 2: with Christian and Evan and Gabe and everybody. And but
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  Speaker 2: now these last couple of weeks, it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: been it's kind of been his show, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: and he's he's really done a nice job. And and
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  Speaker 2: as the seasons progressed each week, we've given him more,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so again, just been a been a big
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  Speaker 2: bright spot for us on offense when.
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  Speaker 1: So many of the losses kind of feel similar in
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  Speaker 1: the game late or play here or play there, a mistake,
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  Speaker 1: full and coverage. How frustrated is that when just late
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  Speaker 1: in the season and.
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  Speaker 3: It almost feels like almost ground all day for.
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  Speaker 1: Some of these losses.
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  Speaker 2: That's the you know, that's the that's the tough part
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  Speaker 2: sometimes of you know, what we do is as as
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  Speaker 2: coaches myself to try to sometimes figure out the whys.
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  Speaker 2: You know, players ask us why all the time on
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  Speaker 2: certain things, and for me, it's to.
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  Speaker 1: Find out the whys.
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  Speaker 2: You know, why why are we still making some of
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  Speaker 2: the same mistakes? And you know, it's gotta it's it's
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  Speaker 2: gotta work two ways, right. The just have to obviously
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  Speaker 2: explain the information and teach the information in a way
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  Speaker 2: that the player can understand, and then the player has
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  Speaker 2: to digest it and ask questions back. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: what I try, you know, having encouraged the players to
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  Speaker 2: do more of is just I mean, if you don't
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  Speaker 2: know something, ask right. I mean that's why we go
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  Speaker 2: out and practice and you know, questions come up all
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  Speaker 2: the time and make sure you get you know, get
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  Speaker 2: the answers that you need, you know, going into the
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  Speaker 2: games that you can just play, you can just play free.
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  Speaker 2: You know, your mind's free and you're just seeing things
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  Speaker 2: and you're reacting to what you see and and and look,
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  Speaker 2: mistakes are gonna happen, right, I mean, they're gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: But you know we've got to do our part two
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  Speaker 2: to to minimize and and and really try to eliminate
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  Speaker 2: some of the mistakes from making what steps.
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  Speaker 3: Us MAC have to take over these next two weeks
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  Speaker 3: to kind of get over the turnover the problem.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of a couple of Yeah, you know, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: The first one yesterday, I think, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: he'd well, both of them he'd like to have back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, quite frankly, I think I think he'd just
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  Speaker 2: location of the ball where he threw him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: was was not where he wanted them to be. And
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  Speaker 2: and just sometimes in situations, just understand the situation too
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  Speaker 2: that you're in and end of the game is different
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  Speaker 2: than than a third down and you know, the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the game, right, so sometimes just take what the
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  Speaker 2: defense gives you. And these are these are things that
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  Speaker 2: he can continue to improve and we can show him
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  Speaker 2: as coaches and and just put sometimes just put the
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  Speaker 2: ball in play. If we end up punting, we punt,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not a big deal. It's not the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day. But those are things that he can do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, take another step obviously. But uh, he played
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  Speaker 2: well yesterday. You know, he played well. He played tough,
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  Speaker 2: some good scrambles in there, played physical, got a little
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  Speaker 2: chippy in there, which is good. To see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I think those two throws he definitely want want back,
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  Speaker 2: he explained.
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  Speaker 1: Brought out a bounced sack or late first half. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was right in.
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  Speaker 2: The first half, right, Yeah, we gotta dive into the
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  Speaker 2: weeds in that one, uh a little bit more, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And and and really because of where it was on
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  Speaker 2: a field, it's not a not a play that was
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  Speaker 2: gonna hurt you as much, cause then you still had
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  Speaker 2: a third down play. We ended up kicking the field
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  Speaker 2: goal there got three points. But you know, sometimes just
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  Speaker 2: don't get caught up in the emotion of the game
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  Speaker 2: sometimes and uh, you know, possibly throw it away or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: find a find a guy. But it didn't hurt us
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  Speaker 2: in that situation, you know, which was uh, which was okay.
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  Speaker 2: The other one early on, you know, there was a
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  Speaker 2: penalty in the end zone when he took the long
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  Speaker 2: long sack on that one as he saw the flag
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  Speaker 2: thrown there, so that one was nullified. But but you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just just the awareness of the situation.
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  Speaker 3: Has he really embraced this opportunity, and I'm sure he
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  Speaker 3: knows it goes without has goes having to be said,
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  Speaker 3: he knows what this.
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  Speaker 1: Means we're moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: Does you really embrace all that that means?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he really has. You know, I think he's he's
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  Speaker 2: taken each game, you know, in stride, and and he
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  Speaker 2: knows his his situation, you know, from a career standpoint too,
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  Speaker 2: and and not only helping us win right now, but
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  Speaker 2: I think too he's you know, he's he's obviously auditioning
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  Speaker 2: for maybe a potential you know, spot down the road,
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  Speaker 2: for maybe another team, right, something like that. So he knows,
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  Speaker 2: he continues to improve, he continues to get better, and
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  Speaker 2: it's and it's good and it's good.
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  Speaker 1: To see him do that.
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  Speaker 2: And and you know the fact that we were able
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  Speaker 2: to you know, put up some points yesterday and and
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  Speaker 2: and play as well as he did.
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  Speaker 1: It's a step in the right direction. You hold your
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  Speaker 1: breath on, loved better and did the back foot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: somebody said he did that. I didn't see it it.
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  Speaker 3: No, Yeah, I didn't know he could do a flip.
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  Speaker 1: I did not know, did not know. I know some
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  Speaker 1: of the guys can, but I didn't think he could.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, pretty talented, Yeah, no not at all.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, hate her, Thank you, coach, Thanks your time.