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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "They’re throwing it around really well..." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I thought you had did a good job. He went
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  Speaker 1: out there, played a lot of energy, made some plays
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  Speaker 1: for us. Uh, I think he calmed everything down at times.
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  Speaker 1: He helped for you out a bunch. So UH did
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  Speaker 1: a good talk and going forward, you know, just uh
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  Speaker 1: continue to get better. Uh just uh find his niche
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  Speaker 1: in his defense. What do you want to see from Devon?
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  Speaker 1: That's he gets involved in sort of the packages, kind
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  Speaker 1: of reversing the role as I guess with MoMA. Going
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  Speaker 1: forward for a little bit, you know, Devin, it will
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  Speaker 1: just be like go out to practice today, continue to
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  Speaker 1: work on the techniques, continue to get better, and you
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  Speaker 1: know he's still a vital part of this defense and
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  Speaker 1: he'll be in on a linebacker times being on packages.
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  Speaker 1: It's just we have a good group of guys that
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  Speaker 1: were able to use and just try to get uh
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  Speaker 1: the most out of them. Herndon was a healthy scratch
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  Speaker 1: against the Ravens. Is that a product of what you've
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  Speaker 1: seen from Buster Brown and Campbell or was that just
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  Speaker 1: the game plan in situation? For it was really just
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  Speaker 1: uh a way to give another guy opportunity. We saw
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  Speaker 1: what trade could do, and we're happy and we're pleased
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  Speaker 1: with that, but we just want to see what another
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  Speaker 1: guy that hadn't had a chance to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and play and just you know and TC we're out there.
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  Speaker 1: He did a good job for us, and bus have
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  Speaker 1: been doing a good job. So just continue to work
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  Speaker 1: guys in and give them opportunities and let guys uh
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  Speaker 1: step up and take off. I need balance getting guys
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  Speaker 1: at this time that you want to see, but also
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  Speaker 1: wanting the game plan to make sure that you're putting
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  Speaker 1: the best guys on the field to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing. Weekly it changes, and you know, you
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  Speaker 1: might see a package this week, a package and next week,
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  Speaker 1: but weekly we have to go out there and put
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  Speaker 1: our guys in the best position to win that game.
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  Speaker 1: And whoever it calls for, everybody had a different skill
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  Speaker 1: set and we'll use that skill set the best we can.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like the lines have been going on a run,
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  Speaker 1: especially offensively the past few games. What have you seen
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  Speaker 1: from them and what's our challenges? Is that present to
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  Speaker 1: the defense? Really right now they're throwing it around well
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  Speaker 1: and running the ball well, So they're really uh two
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  Speaker 1: headed monster if you look at it that way. So
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  Speaker 1: we just have to you know, just understand that they're
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  Speaker 1: throwing it good, they're running the good. Just have to
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  Speaker 1: go back to our techniques, understand our scheme and go
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  Speaker 1: out there and try to stop him. That the running
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  Speaker 1: back back just with Swift with Williams, like how they
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  Speaker 1: balance off of each other. How how difficult is that
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  Speaker 1: to defend? Really talk about the whole offense has a
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  Speaker 1: two headed monster. They really have three guys back there
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  Speaker 1: running the ball that can really do it. You have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, guys that can power run, guys that are
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  Speaker 1: more of s cat backs, guys that catch ball will
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  Speaker 1: out of backfield, and our offensive line. Offensive line is
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  Speaker 1: built to really move guys up front, and they do
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  Speaker 1: a good job in knowing coach Staley uh playing with
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  Speaker 1: him and working with him, knowing that he really preaches
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  Speaker 1: running the ball, and they're doing a good job doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Brown's a really young receiver, but he's been making some
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  Speaker 1: plays this year. You've shadowed Tyson on some guys this year.
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  Speaker 1: Is st Brown been a guy that's earned enough respect
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  Speaker 1: where you might have to do that this week when
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  Speaker 1: when when you look at him the type of player
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  Speaker 1: he's becoming, he is a guy that he's the number
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  Speaker 1: one and they look to him and they feed him
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  Speaker 1: the ball. So that's another option that we have. But
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  Speaker 1: right now, we'll just go in and as you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll play our defense and have we end up on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see if you can make that work. You did
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  Speaker 1: some things different last week, starting Andrew putting Ray shon
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  Speaker 1: the slide. I think I saw that it was great.
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  Speaker 1: Shoon the most snaps he's ever spending the slide in
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  Speaker 1: the game in his career. What's that say to you
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  Speaker 1: about just how adaptable the guys are. I think, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we first got here, we wanted to build a scheme
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  Speaker 1: where you know, you play a technique, you learn the technique,
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  Speaker 1: you play a technique, and every position can do that.
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  Speaker 1: So when we come into situations where against Baltimore you
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  Speaker 1: need to put a guy in a certain spot because
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  Speaker 1: just what Baltimore presents to us, then we're able to
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  Speaker 1: do that. And I think, uh, the guys handled it well. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Jen played came down and he kept saying Nickel, this,
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  Speaker 1: Nickel that he I think he liked that role a
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  Speaker 1: bit of Nickel and do we did a great job
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  Speaker 1: coming in So just guy has been able to take
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  Speaker 1: ownership of the the defense, and you know, they did
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  Speaker 1: a good job running with it. Run defense to here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it seemed like especially on there a lot
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  Speaker 1: of tackles in the box by those two guys. I
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  Speaker 1: think when you look at this defense, uh, it's really
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  Speaker 1: still trying to form its identity. We're getting great play
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  Speaker 1: from all levels. You know, the safeties are playing well.
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  Speaker 1: Inside linebacker folio had a good game, Chad and Devon
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  Speaker 1: have done a good job. And then we got Shack
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  Speaker 1: waiting in the wings. So we have good guys at
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  Speaker 1: all levels up and then up front. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: got guts up front. So I think when you look
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  Speaker 1: at it overall, like we have guys in position, we
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  Speaker 1: just gotta put them in position to go out there
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  Speaker 1: in excels. What does that say about his performance? Really? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I think I told the guys this when I look
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  Speaker 1: at it, I say, you know, when you get a
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  Speaker 1: linebacker that has you know, twenty tackle, the eighteen tackles
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  Speaker 1: they got ran through, you know, but when you look
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  Speaker 1: at this game, it wasn't that. So you know, he
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  Speaker 1: did a great job of you know, being who he is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he works hard all the time. He runs
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  Speaker 1: to the ball of practice, and he's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: you know, he had a field to find the ball.
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  Speaker 1: He did a great job, and you know it's time
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  Speaker 1: to make plays. He's the playmaker. Put him Chad next
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  Speaker 1: to him, free him up a little bit to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he freedom up. I think it
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  Speaker 1: just you know, it's settled everything down. Uh, not saying
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  Speaker 1: that Devin didn't settle it down, but Chad out there.
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  Speaker 1: Chad was able to because Chad played the mic position.
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  Speaker 1: So when he's a mic position and he has to
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  Speaker 1: line guys up, so he's able to line guys up,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he helped him out. But I think
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  Speaker 1: just overall, really condensing the game plan because against Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: was so many calls that you really didn't want to make.
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  Speaker 1: You wanted to go with our bass stuff. So guys
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  Speaker 1: are familiar to being able to play fast and they
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  Speaker 1: were able to go out there and you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got the victory. Is that impressive for Chad MoMA guy
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  Speaker 1: making his first start. Who I mean, he's gotten spot
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  Speaker 1: play time, but to be able to go out there
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  Speaker 1: help line guys up just shows that he really has
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  Speaker 1: a mastery of the defensive. It's really Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a good job by him just going back to training camp,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and training camp he got the reps at
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  Speaker 1: the MO linebacker and then he played the mic and
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  Speaker 1: he's able to you know, adapt to whatever position. Just
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  Speaker 1: like we talked earlier. You know, there are certain techniques
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  Speaker 1: at one spot that you don't get a bunch at
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  Speaker 1: another spot. But you still understand that technique, and he
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  Speaker 1: would have able to go out there and you know,
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  Speaker 1: do a nice shot for us. What do you like
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  Speaker 1: you gotta do? His personality really is for me, it's
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  Speaker 1: not his personality, it's his professionalism. He's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's one that I don't have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about when if he doesn't get a rep, he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have his nose in a book and he's gonna watch film.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna come in with questions, You're gonna come in
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  Speaker 1: with answers to problems. And he's a guy that he's
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  Speaker 1: a professional. He might not be the starter, he might
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  Speaker 1: not do this, but if I have ever have a problem,
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  Speaker 1: you need to put somebody out there. I know he'll
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  Speaker 1: go out there. And he plays with so much energy
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  Speaker 1: and so much segement. It really just feeds on feeds
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  Speaker 1: to the rest of the guys. But you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a guy that you love to have on the team
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  Speaker 1: because he does it the right way, practices the right way,
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  Speaker 1: play special teams. Then when called upon, he goes out
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  Speaker 1: there and make play. So you know, he can't say
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  Speaker 1: enough about having those type of guys around. And then
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  Speaker 1: just for him to just the respect he has in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room, like he's a guy that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about leaders all the time, that he might
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  Speaker 1: not be a so called leader, but guys in that
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  Speaker 1: locker room listen to him because they see what he
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  Speaker 1: does on the field, and they see what he does
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  Speaker 1: on the practice field. Got you You never how many
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  Speaker 1: starts the team has. Even as a team that wins
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, every good team has about four or
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  Speaker 1: five duties. Don't say you know your role players and
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  Speaker 1: the national guys. You have to because you know your
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  Speaker 1: started is gonna be your starters, and everybody has the
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  Speaker 1: next man up mentality, And whenever he gets a chance
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  Speaker 1: to play, you know, every time he's going out there.
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  Speaker 1: When Jink got demed up a couple of games ago,
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  Speaker 1: made a play on the big down, then in this
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  Speaker 1: game he gets the opportunity win. He gets an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to play, he makes plays, and that's what you want
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  Speaker 1: from role players. And he's playing his role to uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trying to find ways to get him on
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  Speaker 1: the field even more. You talk about siddling the defense
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  Speaker 1: down and sort of simplifying things within the game plan.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something you guys are gonna do continue to
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  Speaker 1: do moving forward? I think when you when you look
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  Speaker 1: at it, like the bye week was good for us
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  Speaker 1: to go back in look at what worked well, what
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  Speaker 1: we practice a bunch of training camp, what we've practiced,
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  Speaker 1: and what we carry throughout the season, and then go
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  Speaker 1: back and just hone in on that and you know,
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  Speaker 1: think about it, sit there and understand the problem that
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore present to you as far as guy's going flash
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  Speaker 1: motion and different guys pulling. But if you settle down
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  Speaker 1: and didn't play the way we want to play and
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  Speaker 1: not really racked them that I think that was the
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  Speaker 1: big key for us, just sitting back and understanding we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do this, and we know how to do this,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna do it, and let's make them execute. And
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  Speaker 1: I think we've made a few more plays