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  Speaker 1: Monday. It was Monday. Hell yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like moving on.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah. It was good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a we had a good time on there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's hard to it's hard to have a
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  Speaker 1: bad time with those two guys.
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  Speaker 2: So that's pretty fun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys saw the photoshop pictures and all that.
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  Speaker 2: So that was a that was a good time.
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  Speaker 1: Nine games left in the season, A bunch of them
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be here in the bank starting this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: How important are the fans down the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: For this huge I mean especially we talk about the
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  Speaker 1: position we're in and how much these games are gonna mean. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: no matter where we're at, these are gonna mean a lot,
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  Speaker 1: especially just the last half year. Season is always important,
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  Speaker 1: no matter if you've a winning record or not going
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  Speaker 1: to that stretch, but just to have that home field advantage.
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  Speaker 1: And we've we've gone through a rough stretch or a
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  Speaker 1: tough stretch schedule wise of just playing on the road,
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  Speaker 1: playing in London Thursday night game on the road, all
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  Speaker 1: those things, and now we get a we get kind
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  Speaker 1: of more of a I guess friendly schedule as far
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  Speaker 1: as just being at home. A couple of weeks in
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  Speaker 1: a row. Obviously a great team coming in here. We
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  Speaker 1: get to play at home instead of having to go
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  Speaker 1: to the West Coast things like that. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: definitely definitely good for us. So the fans are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be huge. I mean, obviously we've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: momentum right now and they're a huge part of that
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  Speaker 1: and just bringing that. You know, we've been really successful
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  Speaker 1: on the road this year. We need to we need
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  Speaker 1: to start winning at home more and that's a big
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  Speaker 1: part of you know, with our fans as well, and
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  Speaker 1: I know that's what they're looking forward to seeing. So
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  Speaker 1: we just need all we can get all that home
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  Speaker 1: field advantage.
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  Speaker 4: Does that carry through the bye week or do you
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  Speaker 4: have to kind of restart it?
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  Speaker 2: I think a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we still we still feel that momentum, that
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  Speaker 1: energy that we that we left with you know when
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  Speaker 1: we took the week off. But you gotta find a
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  Speaker 1: way to kind of get that edge back because it is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're kind of relaxing, getting your body back
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  Speaker 1: underneath you.
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  Speaker 2: You have to. It's a long season.
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  Speaker 1: We played you know, eight tough games in a row,
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  Speaker 1: and then now we got a nice stretch, so you
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  Speaker 1: got to give your body a chance to rest. But
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  Speaker 1: now it's today in practice, and it started on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Really we had a we had a lighter practice, and
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  Speaker 1: just getting that getting our legs back under us and
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  Speaker 1: getting that edge and practicing hard, that's where it starts.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just walk out there Sunday and expect to
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  Speaker 1: expect to play with that edge if you didn't all
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  Speaker 1: week in practice. So I think that's where it's arts
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  Speaker 1: really today and as we practice every day of the week.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how much of a deep dive you
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  Speaker 5: do into numbers and analytics and all that other stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just curious, are you in any way a little
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  Speaker 5: bit baffled, a little bit puzzled as to why third
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  Speaker 5: down is not better than it should be, particularly the sort.
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  Speaker 6: Of work and the third and eight and longer. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you would think, you know, every once in a while
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  Speaker 6: you're gonna convert one of those, but for some reason
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  Speaker 6: that just hasn't happened for you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys in the first half. Yeah, it's uh, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about a few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's an emphasis for us that we got
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  Speaker 1: to get better at and that's where you that's where
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time, especially playing good teams, you win games,
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  Speaker 1: is being able to stay on the field on third down.
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  Speaker 1: Also not being in as many third downs's you know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to be first, second, third down every sequence.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's nice to be to be able to
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  Speaker 1: hit a first down on first down or on second down,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's all I think those are all part
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  Speaker 1: of it. We got to be better on short yardage.
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  Speaker 1: That's something that we've been talking about, We've we've been emphasizing.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, last week or two weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh, you know, I thought we were better third down.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what the numbers were, maybe four
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  Speaker 1: minute kind of threw it off at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game, but we were definitely better and we got
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  Speaker 1: to continue that though. It can't just be one week
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  Speaker 1: we're forty to fifty percent, the next week we're twenty.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got to be more consistent and if
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  Speaker 1: you want to be one of the best teams at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year, you got to convert on
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  Speaker 1: third down standfield.
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  Speaker 6: I'm certainly not You certainly can't pin one one area
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  Speaker 6: of concern on any one particular player in one particular facet,
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  Speaker 6: But how much would having say Jones back help, particularly
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  Speaker 6: in the red zone portion of things.
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  Speaker 2: It would help.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's one of our he's one of our
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  Speaker 1: better players for sure, and he's he's a great player
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  Speaker 1: and really smart guy that's obviously been this smart the
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  Speaker 1: system now for going on two years. A guy that
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  Speaker 1: I have a ton of chemistry rep with just getting
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  Speaker 1: reps together for two seasons, you know, so he would help.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, the reality of it is where we're at,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we're we're letting say, you know, get
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  Speaker 1: healthy and take his time, and so whenever that is,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's this week, week, three weeks, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: not for any of us to decide. He's got to
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  Speaker 1: get healthy, and you know, we got his back in that,
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  Speaker 1: but we got to make the adjustments and and fill
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  Speaker 1: in that gap. And guys are doing a good job that.
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  Speaker 1: But we got to keep getting better every week and
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  Speaker 1: get guys involved and all those things. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's got a we gotta have options, and I think
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  Speaker 1: those guys are getting better and better every week that
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  Speaker 1: are having to step in. Whether it's whether it's ag
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  Speaker 1: who's had a lot of experience in his career, especially here,
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  Speaker 1: having to step in and different times when guys are
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  Speaker 1: hurt or he just has to make a play. He's
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  Speaker 1: he's got a lot of experience with that and we
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  Speaker 1: trust him and Elijah Cooks, Tim Jones, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys could could fill that void. And we just got
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  Speaker 1: to keep keep getting better every week. You know, we're
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  Speaker 1: finding ways to win, and yeah, we gotta be better
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  Speaker 1: third down and red zone two, but you know we're
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  Speaker 1: final ways to win. So if we can just keep
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  Speaker 1: doing that while we get better, that's obviously the goal. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there are many linebackers that you play against, like Fred
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  Speaker 1: Warner just what you've seen on tape, Like who does
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  Speaker 1: what he does and coverage? No, not really, He's pretty unique,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think just the the mixture of athleticism
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  Speaker 1: and physicality, and he's great versus the run, great versus
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  Speaker 1: the pass, and cover guys and man, a great blitzer.
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  Speaker 1: Really can do it all. There's not a part of
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  Speaker 1: his game where you're like, you know, he's he struggles
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he can do it all.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great player sideline to sideline, can fly just
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  Speaker 1: has great instincts. And you know, there's there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good linebackers in this league, but I'd say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's I mean, he's definitely one of the best,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the best. I mean, he's he can play, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know, he's he's a great player, and
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy you always got to know where he's at,
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  Speaker 1: and he leads things for them.
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  Speaker 2: He's really smart.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's something you notice, and even like playing
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  Speaker 1: against a guy like Foyer and practice and stuff, it's
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  Speaker 1: like guys like that that are really smart to see things,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's.
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  Speaker 2: A formation or emotion or a split. They see things
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  Speaker 2: where they happen.
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  Speaker 1: And those are guys that are really tough on defense
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  Speaker 1: because they just got to step on you because they
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  Speaker 1: know where it's going. So, you know, he's he's a
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  Speaker 1: great player, and we're gonna have to have a plan
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  Speaker 1: for him for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are going to.
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  Speaker 6: Be the first one to play against Young and Bosa.
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  Speaker 4: How do you kind of prepare for that without having
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  Speaker 4: the tape of them?
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  Speaker 2: He can field together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the difficult part of it
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  Speaker 1: is that they're both just they're both great players, So
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  Speaker 1: that's what makes it hard. I don't think you know,
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  Speaker 1: of course, there's gonna be things that you might have
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  Speaker 1: to adjust to in the game, and you're kind of
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  Speaker 1: guessing on where they're gonna play, what they're gonna do,
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  Speaker 1: which side they're gonna play on, you know, so you
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  Speaker 1: don't really know that stuff. But that's something you adjust early.
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  Speaker 1: I think from a planning perspective, you kinda you go
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  Speaker 1: into it. We've played some good edge guys this year
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  Speaker 1: and uh, Pittsburgh be an example of that, so we're
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  Speaker 1: used to having plans for that, but now it's a
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  Speaker 1: new guy with Nick, and obviously Nick's a great player
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  Speaker 1: and chases too. So at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta win your matchups. You gotta be
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  Speaker 1: able to block them, we gotta help, gotta help our tackles,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta get the ball out, we got to run
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  Speaker 1: the ball great, all those things. That's kind of what helps.
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  Speaker 1: But the end of the day, you got to go
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  Speaker 1: block them. And when it's two ends, you kind of
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  Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do. They gotta pick a side
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  Speaker 1: and they're gonna rush and they're gonna, you know, play
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  Speaker 1: with instincts, and those guys are good players, so I
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  Speaker 1: would say not having the tape maybe isn't as big
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  Speaker 1: a deal when it's an edge guy. But yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: got to make some adjustments. I'm sure as a game
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  Speaker 1: goes on, you see up a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: How do you avoid that, you know, getting distracted or
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  Speaker 4: playing too fast, but just knowing how they're coming so.
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  Speaker 1: Fast as you think, I think you gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 1: feel the game out. There's you gotta pick and choose
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  Speaker 1: the plays where you feel like you might need to
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  Speaker 1: hold it more. You gotta be great at taking what
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  Speaker 1: the defense gives you. It's a mixture. I mean, we've
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  Speaker 1: played fortunately and unfortunately. I guess it's like in this
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  Speaker 1: league you're gonna play I mean, these guys are pretty unique,
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  Speaker 1: but you're gonna play really good edge guys almost every week.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like I said two weeks ago Pittsburgh, those
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  Speaker 1: two guys are really good. I mean, going back, there's
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  Speaker 1: other guys that we've played, and then moving forward, there's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be guys you know.
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  Speaker 2: Next week too.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you kind of you're used to having
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  Speaker 1: a plan, you used to being for myself speaking, being
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  Speaker 1: back there and having a plan of what I want
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  Speaker 1: to do, how I want to start the game, how
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  Speaker 1: I want to kind of settle in, and then we
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  Speaker 1: come up with a good plan, you know, me and
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  Speaker 1: Pressing and Doug just to get of like kind of
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  Speaker 1: what we want to do. So we'll have a plan.
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  Speaker 2: I think it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to be smart, you want to get
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  Speaker 1: the game going, and then there's but there's sometimes you.
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  Speaker 2: Got to be able to have explosives too.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just you can't just throw everything underneath and
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  Speaker 1: you can't just run the ball over play like. You
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  Speaker 1: got to try to take some shots and take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of some stuff in the back end. So you got
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  Speaker 1: to have it all. You know, you can't just pick
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  Speaker 1: one thing. It's teams are too good in this league
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  Speaker 1: to just to be one dimensional. So you know, we'll
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  Speaker 1: have a good plan for him.
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  Speaker 3: Numbers are pretty solid during the five game winning streak.
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  Speaker 3: I think your top five and completion percentage in QBR,
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  Speaker 3: but touchdowns not not great. But is that do you
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  Speaker 3: feel like you guys are on the cusp but maybe
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  Speaker 3: breaking through and breaking out and having a big offensive
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  Speaker 3: performance I hope.
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  Speaker 1: So you know every week you kind of sorry yelling
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  Speaker 1: this every week. You kind of hope it's that week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've we've been I think we've been a
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  Speaker 1: lot more consistent on just moving the ball, not stalling
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  Speaker 1: out as much. But then you see two weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: we have the we have the dumb turn turnovers that
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  Speaker 1: kind of kept Pittsburgh in the game and gave him
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  Speaker 1: a shot and didn't let us really take off and
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  Speaker 1: blow the game open. So it's something like that every
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  Speaker 1: week that we got to fix. So you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: hoping every week is that week, and we're emphasizing it.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of a lot of emphasis on
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  Speaker 1: the details of just not having turnovers, being better on
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  Speaker 1: third down and all those things play together.
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  Speaker 2: And having a clean game.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the idea, is having a game where you
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  Speaker 1: can come out of it not any or many turnovers
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  Speaker 1: at all, being great on third down, scoring in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone. It'd be nice to, you know, put all
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  Speaker 1: those together this week and against a good team like this,
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  Speaker 1: this is the week to do it. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta gotta play well against great teams. Obviously, you've had.
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  Speaker 4: A full year and a half now, plus two training
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  Speaker 4: camps and what have you to see the evolution of
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  Speaker 4: Darius Williams. I mean, he's really taken a significant leap
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  Speaker 4: from last year.
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  Speaker 5: What stands out to you about him?
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of things. I mean, really hard worker.
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  Speaker 1: Just the way he takes care of his business, I
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  Speaker 1: think is impressive. He's always been that way. But he's
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  Speaker 1: just really smart. You know, going against him in practice
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  Speaker 1: and training camp and even one on ones and stuff
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  Speaker 1: when we're just you know, repping against our guys, he's
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  Speaker 1: just really smart. You know, he knows splits, he knows concepts,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's why he can play so fast.
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  Speaker 1: He can there's plays where we might have a double
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  Speaker 1: move on and for some reason, like he's twelve yards
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  Speaker 1: off and I don't know why he changed. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what he saw. And he just has really good,
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  Speaker 1: feel good instincts. He's really good at keeping everything in
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  Speaker 1: front of him. His ball skills are really good, and
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  Speaker 1: he plays he plays a lot bigger than he is honestly,
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  Speaker 1: he's physical, does a great job tackling too. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's just he can do a lot for us, and
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  Speaker 1: I think you're seeing I think it's the mental side
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  Speaker 1: is what makes him so good and makes him hard
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  Speaker 1: to go against, because he's not just he's not a
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  Speaker 1: guy that you're gonna get gimme's on. He's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: let you over the top. He's not gonna bite on
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  Speaker 1: a double move. Things like that. Like he's really smart.
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  Speaker 7: I want to ask you about the one play against
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  Speaker 7: the Saints he gets beat him, a play he somehow
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  Speaker 7: is able to recover, leap up and deflect that ball.
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  Speaker 7: What about his recoverability when he does sometimes get beat.
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  Speaker 1: I think it just it goes back to I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's great instincts, and that's just a lot of that's
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  Speaker 1: natural ability. But I think too it's he's he knows
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  Speaker 1: where his issues are. If maybe he takes a chance
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  Speaker 1: right when he sees that ball, maybe he took a chance.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know the play necessarily your time. I
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  Speaker 1: think I remember him tipping it, but I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what he did. But if he took the underneath route,
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  Speaker 1: he understands if he holds onto it and tries to
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  Speaker 1: throw it over top, there's an issue. So he knows
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  Speaker 1: to get back. And I think all that kind of
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  Speaker 1: plays together, and I'm sure he can give you a
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  Speaker 1: better answer than me. But you know, I just think
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  Speaker 1: his instincts are are great, and he's a really smart player.