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0:00
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers.
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Speaker 2: When you've watched him since he's come back, what have
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Speaker 2: you seen? Did you see any progress from I guess
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Speaker 2: that first start return to the second one?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I thought he looked good in both games.
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Speaker 3: Just obviously super super sharp guy, you know, one of
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Speaker 3: the best of all time, obviously, and he's really got
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Speaker 3: command of everything out there. So it's it's a tough
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Speaker 3: guy to prepare for and to play against because it's
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Speaker 3: like you're playing against the coach out there too. You know,
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Speaker 3: a guy that knows football as good as anybody and
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Speaker 3: can get the ball out really really quickly and knows
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Speaker 3: where he wants to go with the ball immediately. So
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Speaker 3: it's a real challenge and I think he's done a
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Speaker 3: hell of a job so far.
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Speaker 2: Do you go back to when he was in the
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Speaker 2: league previously, I mean, even though that was a few
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Speaker 2: years back, or do you just stick to these two.
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Speaker 3: Watched a little bit of it, Yeah, but you know,
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Speaker 3: I think primarily what's going on right now with what
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Speaker 3: they're doing and obviously with how he's playing, and they're
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Speaker 3: their current team, so that's that's the best that's the
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Speaker 3: best vantage point to look at it from.
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Speaker 1: I think he did.
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Speaker 4: Coach, Hey, coach, obviously it's not over yet. You guys
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Speaker 4: have made the playoffs. If you could reflect a little bit,
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Speaker 4: what are some of the things that have made your
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Speaker 4: group of defenders so special this year?
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Speaker 3: I just think we have a lot of selfless people
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Speaker 3: in here in this organization and really on our unit,
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Speaker 3: and I think what Coach Cohen did here just in
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Speaker 3: this whole process, the thing that stands out to me
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Speaker 3: the most is we practiced very physical to get to
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Speaker 3: this point. We practiced as physical as as you can
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Speaker 3: in the summer, and I think that really helped create
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Speaker 3: the culture of of you know, what we're trying to
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Speaker 3: do here. And it's a credit to the players and
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Speaker 3: really a credit to him, because his vision of what
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Speaker 3: he wanted this team to be I think had a
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Speaker 3: huge impact on it. Any of the success that we had,
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Speaker 3: and if I could attribute it to anything else, I
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Speaker 3: would attribute attribute it to the selflessness of the players,
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Speaker 3: you know, and the toughness state practiced with.
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Speaker 4: Can you see that sort of with guys going down,
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Speaker 4: guys coming in on the fly? Is that sort of
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Speaker 4: what you're talking about with the with the selflessness?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just like when I talk about even
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Speaker 3: in the past rush it's a team rush mentality, or
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Speaker 3: it's you know, it's a do your job culture. You know,
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Speaker 3: if you do your job, it's going to help the
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Speaker 3: whole it's going to help the entire unit.
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Speaker 1: And I think guys have been really really selfless.
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Speaker 3: Uh in terms of doing that, doing what we've been
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Speaker 3: asking them to do. And obviously you're always working on that,
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Speaker 3: you're trying to improve it. But everything we've been asking
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Speaker 3: our guys to do, we've been getting that from them
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Speaker 3: because I think the bottom line is they all have
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Speaker 3: one thing in common. They want to win, you know,
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Speaker 3: they want to win together because they care about each other.
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Speaker 3: So that's been the coolest thing to watch, you know,
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Speaker 3: not knowing them and then you know, when I got here,
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Speaker 3: obviously them not knowing me and them not necessarily maybe
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Speaker 3: not of them knowing each other, and watching that kind
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Speaker 3: of grow.
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Speaker 1: Which had been really really cool. Appreciate it, Appreciate you.
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Speaker 5: We'll go d Rug, followed by Mark long.
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Speaker 6: Heany coach was the staff altogether last night watching that
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Speaker 6: Monday night game.
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Speaker 3: Everybody was kind of working on the next game, but
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Speaker 3: had the TV's going in their office, so you know,
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Speaker 3: working on prior games from them, and then everybody had
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Speaker 3: the TV up with with the current game rolling last night,
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Speaker 3: so I think everybody's kind of on the same plan.
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Speaker 7: So what was the reaction like when it became I
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Speaker 7: guess saw that pick six by the linebacker that it
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Speaker 7: looked like that game was over and you guys are
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Speaker 7: going to the playoffs? Can you kind of describe what happened?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, it was just keep working. You know,
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Speaker 1: that was great.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad that happened. But honestly, they were so focused
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Speaker 3: on this current game. And you know, maybe that's a
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Speaker 3: bad answer, but it's an honest answer.
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Speaker 1: It didn't. It didn't affect what I was doing at
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Speaker 1: the time.
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Speaker 3: And I can't speak for all the other coaches, but
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Speaker 3: I can I can assume it was a very very
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Speaker 3: similar experience for them too, because we've been trying to
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Speaker 3: grind it and get this thing right and get ready
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Speaker 3: prepared for this next game. So definitely fired up about
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Speaker 3: the opportunity to go ahead and continue playing.
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Speaker 7: But you couldn't hear anybody yelling, cheering nothing.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there was definitely that. There's you know, you
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Speaker 3: got that all the time. Man, There's probably just me
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Speaker 3: yelling most of the time for no reason. But but
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Speaker 3: but yeah, that's.
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Speaker 1: That's all hat around here, that's what it usually is.
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Speaker 3: But now, guys were fired up for sure, and you know,
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Speaker 3: I think everybody was excited, like I said, for the
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Speaker 3: opportunity to continue playing, and everybody was for sure still
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Speaker 3: working grinding on this next one.
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Speaker 7: You guys did a really good job again. Jonathan Taylor
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Speaker 7: here in Jacksonville. Is he a different back in Indianapolis
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Speaker 7: on the turf there? And how tough of a guy
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Speaker 7: is he going to be to corral this time up there?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think anytime you're playing against him, everybody better
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Speaker 3: be doing their job. Everybody better have great gap integrity.
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Speaker 3: This isn't a guy you freelance with and you know
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Speaker 3: you delve into your autistic interpretation of what everybody should
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Speaker 3: be doing. This is everybody do your job, you know,
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Speaker 3: and do your job to the best of your physical ability,
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Speaker 3: because he can make you look bad in a hurry.
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Speaker 3: I think he's he's done a tremendous job obviously the
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Speaker 3: whole yearybody knows that about him. But it takes, you know,
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Speaker 3: all it takes is one guy not executing for him
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Speaker 3: to make you pay and you watch him to your point,
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Speaker 3: you watch him in their stadium.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if he gets out, he can he
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Speaker 1: can fly.
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Speaker 3: So he is he is as much of a challenge
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Speaker 3: in the run game as anybody will play the entire year.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, hey, coach.
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Speaker 8: How well is Jarian Jones playing for you on the
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Speaker 8: back end there?
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Speaker 1: He's really done a great job for us, you know.
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Speaker 3: And the thing with Jarian is somewhat like Antonio Johnson
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Speaker 3: I was talking about last week, Jarian wears a lot
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Speaker 3: a lot of hats, hats for us on the back end.
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Speaker 3: So there's even positions he's prepared for that he hasn't
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Speaker 3: played in games.
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Speaker 1: We've been able to move him around and he's.
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Speaker 3: Really got a good understanding of so many positions in
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Speaker 3: the back end, you know, whether that's corner, dime, nickel,
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Speaker 3: even safety in some certain situation. So he's really kind
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Speaker 3: of a glue guy because he's got position flex and
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Speaker 3: it's it's so genuinely important to him, you know, just
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Speaker 3: knowing him and being around him every day.
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Speaker 1: It's so important to him and he wants to be
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Speaker 1: a great player.
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Speaker 3: I think he's done everything that he possibly can to
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Speaker 3: progress and become a better player and become a really
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Speaker 3: good player for us. And we've been leaning on him
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Speaker 3: and he's done that. He's played great football for us.
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Speaker 3: And I love coaching the guy, honestly, Like he's a
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Speaker 3: hard guy not to love it if you're around him
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Speaker 3: every day. He got great energy and he's another guy.
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Speaker 3: Was just talking about people that I just want to win.
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Speaker 3: He just wants to win, you know, he wants to win.
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Speaker 3: And Uh, whatever it takes, however physical it's got to be,
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Speaker 3: or whatever you're asking him to do, he's willing to
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Speaker 3: do it.
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Speaker 8: When you're cutting up clips, did you cut up him
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Speaker 8: jumping a running back on the sideline?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I actually was going over that with him the other day.
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Speaker 3: I taught him how to do that. I did it
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Speaker 3: backwards though I kind of like flipped when.
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Speaker 5: I did him.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, but that was pretty impressive.
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Speaker 3: I saw that on the TV copy and I was like, Wow.
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Speaker 1: That was that was pretty impressive.
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Speaker 8: It doesn't you don't flash that to the team. I mean,
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Speaker 8: he famously.
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Speaker 1: Wed we may have to show that.
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Speaker 3: We may have to show that, as long as it
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Speaker 3: don't show me attempt or something like that.
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Speaker 1: It'd be uh, it's all good, you bet.
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Speaker 9: John Shipley and then Justin, Hey, coach, thanks for doing
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Speaker 9: this with how many guys have stepped in and played,
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Speaker 9: you know, big roles in the secondary of this year.
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Speaker 9: What is that kind of said about the way that
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Speaker 9: coach Myley some coach Perkins, I've just kind of gone
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Speaker 9: to work with that unit since you guys have gotten here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The one thing I'm gonna say about this staff and
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Speaker 3: those guys, especially Ron and Anthony's, they've been grinding since
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Speaker 3: we got here. It wasn't an easy offseason for our
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Speaker 3: coaches either, you know, they were.
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Speaker 1: They were working every day and.
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Speaker 3: We're working long hours to try and get it right
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Speaker 3: and hit the ground running.
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Speaker 1: And they've done that every day since.
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Speaker 3: They've prepared a bunch of different guys for different positions,
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Speaker 3: you know, which, They're always trying to do extra with
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Speaker 3: the guys, whatever it may be, even in the post
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Speaker 3: practice or you've probably seen in the pre practice, whatever
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Speaker 3: they can do to.
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Speaker 1: Help these guys out.
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Speaker 3: And I think they do a great job with all
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Speaker 3: the guys, you know, and getting some of the younger
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Speaker 3: guys ready.
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Speaker 1: Especially thanks coach Justin. I think you muted. I couldn't. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I can hear. We'll move on to mea for now.
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Speaker 10: What's up camp? In a hot minute?
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 11: In the good? How are you at Mary Cooly Christmas?
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Speaker 11: In the same vein of Mark's question, I kind of
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Speaker 11: want to build on that. Who would you argue? And
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Speaker 11: I don't know if you can pick one. I don't
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Speaker 11: know if you want to upset anybody, But who would
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Speaker 11: you say in terms of just sheer juice? You mentioned
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Speaker 11: about you yelling and that's old hat around here, Like
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Speaker 11: who who epitomizes that?
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Speaker 10: On the defensive side.
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Speaker 1: Of the ball?
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Speaker 3: Man, we got a lot of guys like that. I
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Speaker 3: think we got so many guys with great energy. Are
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Speaker 3: you talking about players or coaches?
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Speaker 12: Yeah?
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Speaker 11: Just since you were brought you brought up Jarian and
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Speaker 11: I don't know if there's anybody else.
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Speaker 3: There's so many guys like that, man, I mean, you know,
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Speaker 3: Foyer is such a a great guy, and you know
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Speaker 3: he's such a professional. But you hear him before the games,
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Speaker 3: you know, talk the team, and you know it means
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Speaker 3: something when when he speaks to the guys and he
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Speaker 3: speaks from his heart and you can feel that, you know,
10:07
Speaker 3: you usually have a great feel for people's energy and
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of good energy in that locker room.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of people who bring great energy to
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Speaker 3: our team. There's so many guys, you know. I think
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Speaker 3: Jordan Lewis what he's done coming in here, Eric Murray,
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Speaker 3: who are two new guys, and I think they've helped
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Speaker 3: establish the culture that they want in the defensive back room.
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Speaker 3: And so many of those other guys are uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: they're just the same way. You know, like I think
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Speaker 3: a buster, they all care so much. I think the
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Speaker 3: number one thing that that just jumps out to me
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Speaker 3: is how much these guys really love each other and
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Speaker 3: love playing together.
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Speaker 1: It's a cool thing.
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Speaker 3: It's a little bit like a high school locker room,
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Speaker 3: a high school environment, and having coached in high school
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Speaker 3: for a long time, like I see that in these guys,
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Speaker 3: you know, And I think football, when it's at its best,
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Speaker 3: it is that way, and then you have something, you
11:01
Speaker 3: have something special when that's the case. You know, if
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Speaker 3: people don't want to let each other down, and the
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Speaker 3: more you care about each other, the less that's going
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Speaker 3: to happen.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: I think when somebody makes a mistake that they're genuinely
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Speaker 3: upset about it because they want to do right for.
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Speaker 1: The guys around them.
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Speaker 3: And I think that energy in that culture is evident
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Speaker 3: in a lot of the guys love it awesome.
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Speaker 11: As for the on field stuff, a lot I think
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Speaker 11: has been made about moving Trayveon inside on third downs,
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Speaker 11: not just this season, but for the four years or
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Speaker 11: however many years it's been that he's been here. Why
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Speaker 11: was this game in particular against the Broncos one in
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Speaker 11: which you said, hey, we need to maximize this matchup.
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Speaker 3: You know, one of the things if you guys, you know,
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Speaker 3: if you go back and you're looking at just Stephen,
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Speaker 3: I would say since the buye. But Trey's been in
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Speaker 3: there inside a little bit. That was something we had
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Speaker 3: done in other places I've been. But you're just trying
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Speaker 3: to get the best matchups possible and if there are
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Speaker 3: some things in the protection that you feel like you
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Speaker 3: can take advantage of, or a matchup you can take
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Speaker 3: advantage of, that's very game plan specific.
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Speaker 1: But I said, I think I said this last week
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Speaker 1: or the week prior to that.
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Speaker 3: Trey bon is really a special guy because he can
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Speaker 3: play from a three technique all the way out to
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Speaker 3: a nine technique, like we do stuff with them where
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Speaker 3: we drop him and he can cover from an athleticism
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Speaker 3: standpoint like a linebacker.
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Speaker 1: So he's got a really special skill set.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's not a lot of people are who
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Speaker 3: are capable of doing what he's capable of doing, of
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Speaker 3: having done, And he's really done a good job for
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Speaker 3: us playing inside when he plays out on the guard,
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Speaker 3: and he plays on as a three technique and then
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Speaker 3: as a four I and early down he does a
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Speaker 3: bunch of that. So it's really his ability that gives
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Speaker 3: us the opportunity to do that, and hopefully we're looking to,
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Speaker 3: you know, put him in the best possible situation when
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Speaker 3: it comes to those past rush situations.
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Speaker 10: And then just one more for me.
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Speaker 11: A lot was made on this past broadcast in particular,
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Speaker 11: and I know it's been a bunch of them about
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Speaker 11: you teaching the guys to punch the all out versus tackling.
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Speaker 11: How would you evaluate the tackling on Sunday comparatively to
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Speaker 11: like the one player in particularly in particular they talked
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Speaker 11: about with Jari and near the goal line, like you
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Speaker 11: tried to punch it out instead of tackle. Is that
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Speaker 11: something you guys have had conversations as an entire defensive
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Speaker 11: unit about sense.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're always securing, you know, before you do that.
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Speaker 3: That's the most important thing, is secure in the tackle.
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Speaker 3: And I think, I think as a whole, I don't
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Speaker 3: think we had one of our best tackling games, you know,
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Speaker 3: and that is evident. And we give up a big
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Speaker 3: run the other day, and big runs usually come, you know,
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Speaker 3: obviously oftentimes they come from poor contact, you know, or
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Speaker 3: poor tackle entry, and I think on that run we
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Speaker 3: had some poor tackle entry. We had one little we
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Speaker 3: essentially had a misfit on something, and then we really
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Speaker 3: didn't get the guy on the ground obviously, as you
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Speaker 3: can see, you know, state and the obvious. But I
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Speaker 3: do think to your point, when you're talking about striking
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Speaker 3: the football, there is a way, time and place to
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Speaker 3: do that, and I think there are sometimes in the
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Speaker 3: games that watched it where we can enter into tackles
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Speaker 3: better and we may have given up position to do
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Speaker 3: that striking the ball a couple times, but we're always
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Speaker 3: going to go after the ball. We're not gonna apologize
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Speaker 3: for for attacking the football.
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Speaker 1: That's something we're always going to do around here.
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Speaker 10: Awesome, Thanks camp Mary, Christmas.
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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas.
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Speaker 5: We'll end with Justin and d Rock.
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Speaker 1: I am I good. Oh yeah, I can hear it.
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Speaker 12: Okay, sorry about that. So blocking out noise is probably
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Speaker 12: a little bit easier when the noise is about everybody
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Speaker 12: and you guys as a team. But how do you
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Speaker 12: kind of handle that when your name is starting to
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Speaker 12: pop up more for coaching interviews and things of that
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Speaker 12: such that might come after the season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, I don't pay attention to any of it.
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Speaker 3: I I want to win, you know. I care about
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Speaker 3: my family and this team, you know, and obviously your
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Speaker 3: relationship with God.
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Speaker 1: Those are the three things you better be focused on.
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Speaker 3: And all the other stuff is uh, I don't care
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Speaker 3: about it, to be honest with you, I don't want
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Speaker 3: to win this game.
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Speaker 1: And to me, I wake up with my feet at
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Speaker 1: the ground every day.
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Speaker 3: That's the number one thing I'm concerned about is obviously
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Speaker 3: taking care of my family and helping our team win.
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Speaker 3: So we got so many guys in here who are
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Speaker 3: about the same stuff and go about their day the
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Speaker 3: same way. That's the way we want to go about
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Speaker 3: our work. So that's all I'm really focused on.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks coach, Thank you guys, appreciate you.
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Speaker 4: Marry Christmas, big grant, just both days and all that.
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Speaker 4: When you first got here getting with Trevor, what are
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Speaker 4: some of the intangibles that you saw from him that
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Speaker 4: made you think, Okay, he is going to be able
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Speaker 4: to take on this type of an offense. I understand it.
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Speaker 4: It's very complicated just in terms of what he was
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Speaker 4: able to show you guys that you knew that he
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Speaker 4: was going to be capable of this well.
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Speaker 13: First, it probably started with his passion for the game
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Speaker 13: and his care factor for not only learning the system,
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Speaker 13: performing at a high level, trying to operate the system
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Speaker 13: out there, but his care for the teammates, your organization,
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Speaker 13: and really the betterment of everyone else around him. So
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Speaker 13: when you start with that foundation, you have a lot
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Speaker 13: to work with from there, because you know those type
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Speaker 13: of guys, guys like Trevor are willing to put in
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Speaker 13: the work.
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Speaker 5: They're willing to.
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Speaker 13: Spend the extra time, go the extra mile, do all
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Speaker 13: those things that can separate guys from good to great
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Speaker 13: in terms of knowing what to do, being able to
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Speaker 13: play fast, being able to do all the things we
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Speaker 13: ask of the quarterback position, So.
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Speaker 5: That's one of the things.
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Speaker 13: Then you add on top of that the intelligence, the
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Speaker 13: toughness which you'd see out there on Sundays more so
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Speaker 13: than all the work behind the scenes, but a lot
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Speaker 13: of that goes into the way you practice being willing
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Speaker 13: to go out there when your body's probably not feeling great,
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Speaker 13: you're sore, you know it's coming off of injury this offseason,
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Speaker 13: and that physical toughness, not just the mental toughness, is
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Speaker 13: a big part of your training, not just your actual
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Speaker 13: playing on Sunday. So you have all those different intangibles.
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Speaker 13: Those things come together with probably a laundry list of
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Speaker 13: others that really made this offseason in work, you know,
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Speaker 13: really stand out and create an optimistic attitude I guess
17:05
Speaker 13: really going into the season.
17:08
Speaker 4: And then just you know, at what point maybe I mean,
17:11
Speaker 4: maybe there's not a point, but did you notice that
17:14
Speaker 4: Trevor is finally getting everything down in terms of the footwork,
17:18
Speaker 4: all the things that you guys worked on, and how
17:20
Speaker 4: how challenging is that to have to work on that
17:22
Speaker 4: like during the season.
17:26
Speaker 13: I don't know that there was specifically one point that
17:29
Speaker 13: you notice you crossed the line and said okay, now,
17:33
Speaker 13: he's got it. It's something that is going to take
17:36
Speaker 13: so many reps, and when you're in it, and when
17:39
Speaker 13: you're looking at it day after day after day, you
17:41
Speaker 13: don't always notice the strides that you've made over the
17:44
Speaker 13: course of a month or over the course of the
17:46
Speaker 13: entire year. So it's harder for us because we're so
17:49
Speaker 13: granular trying to look at the improvement from last rep
17:52
Speaker 13: to this rep or yesterday to today, and you know
17:56
Speaker 13: that over the course of the year, it's not going
17:59
Speaker 13: to be a straight line and it's not going to
18:00
Speaker 13: be perfect progress the whole way. But I think even
18:04
Speaker 13: when things were not the outcomes were not what we
18:06
Speaker 13: wanted earlier in the offseason or even in training camp,
18:09
Speaker 13: I always felt, I think he always felt, and the
18:11
Speaker 13: coaching staff always felt that the trend line was always
18:14
Speaker 13: going in the right direction. So there was never any
18:17
Speaker 13: let up from him, never any letup from us in
18:19
Speaker 13: terms of that process and trusting that continuing to stick
18:23
Speaker 13: with that process and put in the work will yield
18:25
Speaker 13: positive outcomes, which I think he believes it has, We
18:28
Speaker 13: believe it has, and we hope that it'll continue to
18:31
Speaker 13: go in that direction as long as we continue to
18:32
Speaker 13: work that way, and then the second part of your
18:35
Speaker 13: question was kind of sorry, could you repeat that second part.
18:38
Speaker 4: Just in terms of how challenging it is for quarterback
18:40
Speaker 4: to have to go through footwork, change all all that
18:42
Speaker 4: kind of stuff during the season.
18:44
Speaker 13: Yeah, in season, even out of season is incredibly challenging
18:47
Speaker 13: because he was coming back from injury, so he's limited
18:50
Speaker 13: reps actually throwing the football. So you only have so
18:53
Speaker 13: many reps throwing the football, so you're trying to emulate
18:57
Speaker 13: the throwing motion and practicing and going full speed when
19:00
Speaker 13: you're just taking drops on air, and you're trying to
19:02
Speaker 13: have creative ways of practicing that in the offseason. Then
19:05
Speaker 13: you get in season and you're so time constrained because
19:07
Speaker 13: you're preparing for a game plan, preparing for an opponent,
19:10
Speaker 13: and trying to study. You got all these different things
19:11
Speaker 13: to manage, and you have limited practice time.
19:14
Speaker 5: Your receivers start to get sore.
19:16
Speaker 13: You need to kind of reduce the player load in
19:17
Speaker 13: terms how much running they can do, so you're not
19:19
Speaker 13: throwing as many routes. You don't have full speed receivers
19:22
Speaker 13: to get out there and work with, so it takes
19:25
Speaker 13: additional effort kind of on his own, on our own
19:27
Speaker 13: to make sure that we continue to refine those things
19:30
Speaker 13: in order to improve, because with the time constraints and
19:33
Speaker 13: really just a scarcity of reps, it does become an
19:36
Speaker 13: immense challenge to continue to improve those things, let alone
19:39
Speaker 13: to keep them the status quo.
19:41
Speaker 9: Appreciate it, Hey Grant, thanks for doing this.
19:46
Speaker 1: Well.
19:47
Speaker 9: Why Admilom, you know, kind of stepping into that six
19:50
Speaker 9: offensive lineman role when you guys go with the bigger packages.
19:53
Speaker 9: Just what if you liked from him in that role
19:55
Speaker 9: and just how have you kind of seen him grow,
19:56
Speaker 9: especially you know, considering he had to fight through an
19:59
Speaker 9: injury at the start and kind of maybe got behind
20:01
Speaker 9: the eight ball a little bit.
20:02
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great question.
20:04
Speaker 13: Why it's one of those guys who's probably been a
20:06
Speaker 13: little bit under the radar but has been working his
20:08
Speaker 13: tailoff in the background, not only to get ready to
20:11
Speaker 13: play tight end, but to play guard, play tackle, wherever
20:14
Speaker 13: we need him. He's embraced whatever role you've thrown him into,
20:18
Speaker 13: and he's battled some of those injuries. But even amidst
20:21
Speaker 13: those injuries, he's still studying and preparing at one hundred
20:25
Speaker 13: percent like he's going into play. So the mental aspect
20:29
Speaker 13: of being a rookie, not getting a lot of reps
20:32
Speaker 13: and trying to juggle multiple positions is really impressive for
20:36
Speaker 13: him to continue to work through that stuff.
20:38
Speaker 5: Then on the field, I think you.
20:39
Speaker 13: See the aggressiveness, the physicality, and like the play style
20:43
Speaker 13: that he plays with. He attacks every single play, every
20:46
Speaker 13: single rep, and he practices the same way.
20:48
Speaker 5: So to get a guy with those kind.
20:50
Speaker 13: Of combination of factors and the way he approaches practice,
20:54
Speaker 13: game preparation and then his play.
20:57
Speaker 5: Style makes him a special individual. Thanks great, Thanks Jan.
21:04
Speaker 1: God Rack, followed by Mark.
21:05
Speaker 10: Loan for grant.
21:08
Speaker 7: Where were you when the pick six happened last night
21:12
Speaker 7: and you guys essentially made the playoffs at that moment?
21:15
Speaker 7: What was the reaction like for you?
21:18
Speaker 5: I was in my office, and I think.
21:25
Speaker 13: The reaction is probably just to keep working on some
21:28
Speaker 13: of the run game and some of the play passes.
21:32
Speaker 13: You know, we have a lot of work to do
21:34
Speaker 13: and we got our hands full this week, so there's
21:36
Speaker 13: not a lot of time for celebration right now. But
21:39
Speaker 13: when the time's appropriate, I'm sure we'll sure we'll celebrate,
21:42
Speaker 13: but right now we're just focused on preparation, so not
21:44
Speaker 13: a lot of celebration going on, but definitely a lot
21:47
Speaker 13: of work to do.
21:48
Speaker 1: You guys are boring, good Lord.
21:50
Speaker 5: I wish I had something. I wish I had something
21:53
Speaker 5: good for you. But that's the truth. That's the truth.
21:56
Speaker 6: Hey, how important maybe import it's not the right word,
22:00
Speaker 6: but critical in something that maybe a lot of people
22:04
Speaker 6: overlook is ball placement from a quarterback, especially back shoulder,
22:08
Speaker 6: front shoulder.
22:09
Speaker 7: Where the defender is. And how much has Trevor improve
22:12
Speaker 7: with that?
22:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great question.
22:16
Speaker 13: Nick Mullens talks about how run after catch, I have
22:21
Speaker 13: to give him credit that he talks about run after
22:23
Speaker 13: catch is an accuracy stat from a quarterback perspective, that is,
22:27
Speaker 13: and there's absolutely some validity to that. Where you see
22:31
Speaker 13: Parker Washington had two huge run after catches in the
22:34
Speaker 13: previous game and a lot.
22:35
Speaker 5: Of that is due to his accuracy.
22:38
Speaker 13: So not only that that placement on short routes, intermediate routes,
22:44
Speaker 13: but even some of those deeper routes.
22:45
Speaker 5: If you can hit a guy.
22:46
Speaker 13: In shride and they don't have to lose their speed,
22:49
Speaker 13: that's the difference between one step a dB catching up
22:52
Speaker 13: and closing the space or a guy being able to
22:54
Speaker 13: turn up and make a move on a defensive back
22:57
Speaker 13: of linebacker safetyhoever it may be in that space, or
22:59
Speaker 13: the guy having to slow down, collect himself or reach
23:02
Speaker 13: back for the ball and lose.
23:02
Speaker 5: All of his momentum.
23:04
Speaker 13: I think as Trevor has gotten used to it and
23:07
Speaker 13: continue to create that chemistry with the wide outs, the
23:09
Speaker 13: tight ends, the backs coming out of the backfield, I
23:12
Speaker 13: think that that's where you see a lot of the
23:14
Speaker 13: accuracy improved because we have such a heavy reliance on
23:17
Speaker 13: timing rhythm, guys being at the right spot at the
23:20
Speaker 13: right time, getting to these certain spots, being able to
23:22
Speaker 13: see the coverages and being able to see how defenses
23:24
Speaker 13: are playing you, and getting to those spots when Trevor's
23:27
Speaker 13: on the same page with his eligibles, that's when you
23:30
Speaker 13: see an elite level of accuracy really come to fruition.
23:33
Speaker 13: I don't think it's ever really been a question of
23:35
Speaker 13: the physical ability.
23:37
Speaker 5: It's more so been a question of our.
23:39
Speaker 13: Execution as an offense, which we've tried to improve, and
23:42
Speaker 13: I think you've seen it improved. There's still room to grow,
23:44
Speaker 13: without a doubt, but that kind of manifests into what
23:47
Speaker 13: appears to be improved accuracy on TV.
23:50
Speaker 5: A lot of times.
23:51
Speaker 1: Thanks boy, appreciate it.
23:53
Speaker 5: Thank you, Hey Grant.
23:56
Speaker 8: How nuanced is the quick snap and was that more
24:02
Speaker 8: to keep Denver's defensive front from getting set or was
24:05
Speaker 8: it to combat maybe some of the issues that come
24:09
Speaker 8: with crowd noise.
24:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's another great, great question.
24:15
Speaker 13: There's a lot of advantages to that quick snap, and
24:17
Speaker 13: we try to mix up those tempos as much as
24:19
Speaker 13: we can. We want the entirety of our time of
24:23
Speaker 13: possession to be in attack mode. Now that doesn't necessarily
24:27
Speaker 13: mean that we're going to be using tempo and going
24:29
Speaker 13: fast every single play, but even when we're coming out
24:32
Speaker 13: of the huddle, we want to mix up the way
24:33
Speaker 13: we're coming out of the huddle.
24:34
Speaker 5: We want to motion. Sometimes sometimes we're not motion. Sometimes
24:36
Speaker 5: we're snapping it quick, sometimes we're hard counting.
24:39
Speaker 13: If we have the ball for thirty one minutes of
24:41
Speaker 13: a football game, we want the defense to be stressed out,
24:45
Speaker 13: under attack, straining for all thirty one minutes. It might
24:47
Speaker 13: not all be physically, but sometimes it is mentally. So
24:50
Speaker 13: we're trying to use some of those quick snaps, like
24:52
Speaker 13: you said, prevent the rush from getting set, prevent the
24:54
Speaker 13: coverage from getting set, prevent them from making communication, maybe
24:57
Speaker 13: prevent them from recognizing the formation win, depending on the
25:00
Speaker 13: play in the situation, there's a whole bunch of different
25:02
Speaker 13: reasons we'll use it. Sometimes it's to dictate certain matchups
25:06
Speaker 13: because they can't identify matchups in that case. There are
25:10
Speaker 13: certain plays where certainly you play a rush like Denver,
25:13
Speaker 13: you want to try to slow them down as many
25:15
Speaker 13: ways as possible, and then you have cover guys like
25:17
Speaker 13: they had too. So there are certain plays where we're
25:19
Speaker 13: trying to create matchups. So depending on the play, we
25:21
Speaker 13: were mixing it up here and there, and we have
25:23
Speaker 13: a bunch of different tempos that will use out of
25:25
Speaker 13: the huddle that will try to keep defenses kind of
25:27
Speaker 13: offset off balance. And I thought the guys did a
25:30
Speaker 13: great job executing. You mentioned the nuance to it. There
25:32
Speaker 13: really is a little bit of nuance where the guys
25:34
Speaker 13: have to understand the difference between tempo A and tempo
25:38
Speaker 13: B out of the huddle and when the ball is
25:39
Speaker 13: getting snapped and what am I doing with my feed
25:41
Speaker 13: and where am I actually getting lined up? Where can
25:43
Speaker 13: I realistically get to to be lined up before this
25:45
Speaker 13: ball snap, Because there's no Cadence on some of those
25:48
Speaker 13: they got to trust and Hainsey when he snapping the
25:51
Speaker 13: ball or Jonah when he snapping the ball, has to
25:53
Speaker 13: trust that that guy's at the right spot at the
25:56
Speaker 13: right time, and I got the green light to go
25:57
Speaker 13: out and snap the ball.
25:58
Speaker 5: So it's great.
26:00
Speaker 13: I'm assuring great work for all eleven to really be
26:01
Speaker 13: on the same page. It's something we try to work
26:03
Speaker 13: on and practice and preach kind of the details and
26:06
Speaker 13: discipline with those fundamentals when we.
26:08
Speaker 5: Do those things. Thank you. We'll end with Justin and Mia.
26:17
Speaker 7: Grant.
26:19
Speaker 12: Blocking out the noise is probably a little bit easier
26:21
Speaker 12: when it's all about the team, all surrounding the team,
26:24
Speaker 12: but when it's your name that's being brought up for
26:27
Speaker 12: potential head coaching interviews after the season, how do you
26:30
Speaker 12: how do you kind of tackle blocking out that noise?
26:34
Speaker 13: Well, thankfully, it's relatively easy in the sense that we
26:38
Speaker 13: have a great challenge on Sunday and you hopefully can
26:40
Speaker 13: continue to have that every single week. So it's the
26:43
Speaker 13: boring answer that I gave d Rock on the on
26:46
Speaker 13: how you celebrate the you know, pick six or making
26:50
Speaker 13: the playoffs and those things. You got so much work
26:52
Speaker 13: dough that you really don't have time to look up
26:54
Speaker 13: and see anything else. So and that's the way I
26:57
Speaker 13: love it. That's the way the guys love and we
26:59
Speaker 13: enjoy that want it any other way. So that type
27:01
Speaker 13: of stuff is flattering. But ultimately, one hundred percent of
27:04
Speaker 13: our effort and focus is on Sunday every single week.
27:07
Speaker 13: So it's really not any more complicated than that. Like
27:10
Speaker 13: I said, I know that's the boring answer, but that
27:12
Speaker 13: kind of is the truth.
27:14
Speaker 12: I appreciate the honesty. Anton is two weeks in a row,
27:18
Speaker 12: he's gotten out on the edge and been able to
27:20
Speaker 12: show kind of some of that athleticism. Just how special
27:24
Speaker 12: is that for an offensive lineman to be able to
27:26
Speaker 12: move that well and pick up blocks for you.
27:29
Speaker 5: Guys, Definitely special.
27:31
Speaker 13: I love anytime we have the opportunity to showcase those
27:33
Speaker 13: big guys athleticism.
27:34
Speaker 5: I love it. I know they love it.
27:36
Speaker 13: They love getting out in space or minded everybody that
27:38
Speaker 13: they are athletes. And when you have a guy like
27:40
Speaker 13: Anton who really is an athlete, and the way he
27:42
Speaker 13: was moving this past weekend and even two weekends ago
27:45
Speaker 13: on that one screen when he's flying down the sideline,
27:48
Speaker 13: it's cool and exciting not only for him and the
27:50
Speaker 13: old line guys to see, but for the skill guys
27:52
Speaker 13: to recognize that's a guy with thought, a lot of
27:55
Speaker 13: weight moving really fast down the sideline.
27:57
Speaker 5: That's very special. As you said, thank you.
28:03
Speaker 11: Okay, maybe this is one you can take us behind
28:05
Speaker 11: the curtain. Maybe it won't be a boring answer.
28:07
Speaker 10: Grant, where were you?
28:09
Speaker 11: What was your reaction when Sewn says over the headset
28:12
Speaker 11: on Sunday, Yeah, Walker is going to go in at
28:14
Speaker 11: right guard.
28:17
Speaker 13: Oh man, I'm going to give you another boring answer.
28:19
Speaker 13: I'm really racking up the booring answer. So I apologize
28:21
Speaker 13: that there was really no flinch when we had that moment.
28:25
Speaker 13: I think from the coachings happened definitely not from the players.
28:28
Speaker 13: And I know that sounds like a cop out another
28:31
Speaker 13: boring answer, Like I said, but you guys had asked
28:34
Speaker 13: about why we had so many rotations in the spring.
28:36
Speaker 13: Why I had so many rotations in training camp. Part
28:39
Speaker 13: of that is knowing that you're not going to play
28:41
Speaker 13: the full season with the same five offensive linement at
28:43
Speaker 13: the same position for the full time.
28:45
Speaker 5: Part of that was.
28:46
Speaker 13: Also due to the fact that we had guys who
28:47
Speaker 13: are really versatile, and we have guys who played on
28:51
Speaker 13: the left, played on the right, inside outside. Colv and
28:53
Speaker 13: Landin's done a phenomenal job playing basically every position but
28:57
Speaker 13: center and tight end this season and then really since
29:00
Speaker 13: the Bible became a pretty short timeframe. Same thing with
29:03
Speaker 13: our tackles have both taken reps and played on both sides. Really,
29:07
Speaker 13: Walker's played inside and outside. So because of what they've
29:11
Speaker 13: done in practice, and they've shown their ability and shown
29:14
Speaker 13: their ability to handle that from mental and physical standpoint,
29:18
Speaker 13: I don't think there was any flinch from the coaching
29:19
Speaker 13: staff or the players. For Walker to be able to
29:21
Speaker 13: go out there and do what he did is still
29:23
Speaker 13: unbelievably impressive. With all that being said, but really the
29:26
Speaker 13: guys kind of hit took it and shried and just
29:28
Speaker 13: kept rolling with it.
29:30
Speaker 10: Gotcha, No, that still works. I mean it's not too boring.
29:33
Speaker 11: I just didn't know if like in the week, Like
29:34
Speaker 11: I know, Liam told us yesterday he didn't think Walker
29:37
Speaker 11: took any snaps at guard during the week of preparation.
29:40
Speaker 11: So that's where you know, it was like, all right,
29:41
Speaker 11: well here we go.
29:42
Speaker 13: Yeah, we had given him a couple reps, but like
29:45
Speaker 13: I mentioned, about even the quarterback position and the forward.
29:48
Speaker 5: Walker had taken some reps at guard during the week,
29:51
Speaker 5: but it's very, very limited. You only have so many reps.
29:53
Speaker 13: You don't have full pad, you don't have full speed
29:56
Speaker 13: practice reps. So even with the reps he took where
30:00
Speaker 13: he's walking through or taking him at half speed tempo,
30:02
Speaker 13: that's not nearly the same. You can't emulate that game
30:06
Speaker 13: speed and that intensity, especially against a defense like that.
30:09
Speaker 13: So to say that he took reps is kind of
30:11
Speaker 13: a little bit of a farce, even me saying that,
30:13
Speaker 13: because he never has taken He certainly has not played
30:16
Speaker 13: those plays at full speed against a real opponent at
30:19
Speaker 13: any point during the week or probably even during the
30:22
Speaker 13: spring or training camp. So that's absolutely exceptional effort and
30:27
Speaker 13: ability by Walker to be able to go out there
30:28
Speaker 13: and execute at a high level, such a high level
30:31
Speaker 13: on short notice, with such a little preparation.
30:33
Speaker 10: And then we'll wrap with this. Maybe you can help me.
30:36
Speaker 11: Do you happen to know why, Trevor and statistic Maybe
30:39
Speaker 11: you have some stats handy, Maybe it's something you guys
30:41
Speaker 11: have been diving into. Why has he been so good
30:43
Speaker 11: against the Blitz the last month or so comparatively, he's
30:46
Speaker 11: got a fifty nine percent completion percentage for the season
30:49
Speaker 11: against the Blitz, but the last few weeks it's been
30:51
Speaker 11: automatic ten to fifteen on Sunday, ninety nine yards, two touchdowns.
30:56
Speaker 11: Why has it really come together here in this last
30:58
Speaker 11: month and in that particular Anario.
31:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, another great question.
31:03
Speaker 13: I think a lot of it has to do with, well,
31:07
Speaker 13: there's probably a couple of in factors, but a lot
31:08
Speaker 13: of it has to do with his recognition and his
31:11
Speaker 13: comfortability with the system and what he's doing pre snap
31:14
Speaker 13: and how that relates to what he's going to do
31:16
Speaker 13: post snap. Earlier in the year, and when you're first
31:20
Speaker 13: taking your first couple reps out there with the offense,
31:22
Speaker 13: it's so different, so foreign compared to what he's used to.
31:25
Speaker 5: There's a lot going on pre snap.
31:26
Speaker 13: There's shifts, there's motions that maybe you don't have as
31:28
Speaker 13: much time or you don't have as much mental space
31:31
Speaker 13: to devote to recognizing the defense and recognizing the blitz
31:34
Speaker 13: and what's going on.
31:36
Speaker 5: Now.
31:36
Speaker 13: I think that he's gotten more comfortable and he's able
31:38
Speaker 13: to play faster. He has more of that working memory
31:41
Speaker 13: available to identify what's the defense doing. What am I
31:44
Speaker 13: going to be able to do? What's this blitz? Can
31:46
Speaker 13: I recognize what this blitz is? Can we figure out
31:49
Speaker 13: what's coming before it happens and then maybe get into
31:51
Speaker 13: the right check or get to the right play, or
31:54
Speaker 13: just know what the right response is beforehand. So I
31:56
Speaker 13: think a lot of that starts with his recognition, and
31:59
Speaker 13: then say, secondly, it goes into being on the same
32:01
Speaker 13: page with the wideouts, with the tight ends, whoever it
32:04
Speaker 13: might be. When you are facing the blitz, everything is
32:08
Speaker 13: going to kind of be you know, I guess exacerbating
32:12
Speaker 13: the sense that if you have a certain route that
32:15
Speaker 13: needs to be at a certain timing or at a
32:17
Speaker 13: certain depth and it's a little bit off, well you
32:20
Speaker 13: might have point two less seconds to get that throw
32:23
Speaker 13: off or point three seconds to get that throw off.
32:25
Speaker 13: So if it's not exactly right, then that's the difference
32:29
Speaker 13: between a negative play and a positive play against the blitz.
32:31
Speaker 13: So it's just that small margin of error of improvement
32:33
Speaker 13: that we've made with the wideouts, with maybe the protection,
32:36
Speaker 13: sometimes with maybe recognition, that can be the difference between
32:39
Speaker 13: the numbers that you cited and maybe sometimes struggling against pressure.
32:43
Speaker 10: Awesome, thanks gant Merry Christmas.
32:45
Speaker 5: Merry Christmas, guys. Thank you, guys so much,