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  Speaker 1: I feel like through three games, we haven't we haven't
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  Speaker 1: done the things we've felt like we would be able
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  Speaker 1: to do in certain games, whether that be setting guys
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  Speaker 1: up for certain things, finishing plays, executing plays. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we just we haven't achieved the standard we expect for ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's something we'll continue to chase and that's
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  Speaker 1: that's an ongoing process forever and always. I think if
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  Speaker 1: you have a little bit of success early in those
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  Speaker 1: games where maybe we stalled out in certain situations, it
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  Speaker 1: changes the feeling, It changes the rest of the game
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  Speaker 1: as you go. But you know, we're gonna keep keep plugging,
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  Speaker 1: keep chipping away at it and until we get the
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  Speaker 1: same turnin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't get that that sense just talking to him,
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  Speaker 1: the way he works, observing him, haven't been together now
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of months and things like that. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like he's a guy that just
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  Speaker 1: continues to put his head down, continues to work. And
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  Speaker 1: I think a couple of those plays that maybe didn't
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  Speaker 1: come up with, he'll get an opportunity to come up
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  Speaker 1: with here pretty quickly and that'll kind of turn the
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  Speaker 1: tide for a lot of that and maybe change the.
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  Speaker 2: Narrative less than down so far this year.
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  Speaker 1: Improve You know, there's a lot of things when you
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  Speaker 1: look through it, whether it be protection, batted balls here
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  Speaker 1: and there, catching here and there, making decisions here and there.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I think as we look into it,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's had their hand in this. So as a unit,
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  Speaker 1: there's not one certain person group that has kind of
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  Speaker 1: let us down where you'd think you could make this
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  Speaker 1: certain change right here. I think it's just everybody kind
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  Speaker 1: of in some way, shape or form, doing the best
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  Speaker 1: at their job at that given time, whatever that may be. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think especially early on in season three
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  Speaker 1: games in small sample size, you know quickly you have
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  Speaker 1: one successful game in there and it flips the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: So I understand the rankings and.
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  Speaker 1: All that, but we go in, we watch every play individually,
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  Speaker 1: we try to diagnose what was the issue with that play,
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  Speaker 1: what happened, why was this not successful or not efficient,
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  Speaker 1: and go through the entire game with that to provide
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  Speaker 1: context for each situation. And so it's not something we
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  Speaker 1: feel like there's one glaring issue or this change will
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  Speaker 1: fix all of that. It's just something everybody just continue
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  Speaker 1: to put their head down do their job at the
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  Speaker 1: best best of their ability, and.
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  Speaker 2: We'll come out on the other side of this. You
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  Speaker 2: had some key.
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  Speaker 1: Drop passes in the first couple of weeks that probably
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  Speaker 1: and better positions down the field.
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  Speaker 2: Do you just look at that as some of those
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  Speaker 2: small mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of add up to problem.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's part of you know, obviously, not
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  Speaker 1: sustaining a drive, whether it be a battered ball, a sack,
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  Speaker 1: inefficient run, whatever that may be. You know that that
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  Speaker 1: keeps you out of getting that rhythm within a drive,
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  Speaker 1: getting more plays here and there. It's where you really
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  Speaker 1: get flowing when you're in first down, second doun, first down,
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  Speaker 1: second down. That's a lot better than going first down,
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  Speaker 1: second down, third and one, first down, second down, third
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  Speaker 1: and two. You know, just that that routine of a drive,
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  Speaker 1: or that momentum of a drive. We haven't been able
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  Speaker 1: to really sustain that at this point in time. But again,
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  Speaker 1: we don't feel like there's any one major issue that
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  Speaker 1: it's that right there. It's just everybody doing their job
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better. Early run, yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we established a physical tone I think to
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  Speaker 1: start that game with some of the runs we hit,
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  Speaker 1: came back to the second half, had a variety of runs,
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  Speaker 1: kind of got that drive going and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of the game kind of gets away
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  Speaker 1: from you. You play the game a little bit differently, but
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  Speaker 1: we were encouraged with what we saw in the run game.
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  Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing with this league is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a play to play basis.
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  Speaker 2: So because we had success at.
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  Speaker 1: Some point in time in that game run on the ball,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't carry over to this week. You play a
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  Speaker 1: different team, different scheme, different personnel, and you got to
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  Speaker 1: do what you need to do to execute against that
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  Speaker 1: look each play. I think it's been hit or miss
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  Speaker 1: here and there. There's been some things we've done well.
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  Speaker 1: There's been some things we need to get better at.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've played some pretty good fronts. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like as we've gone through there's always going to be
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  Speaker 1: in this league. There's always somebody on every single defensive
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  Speaker 1: line that's a problem one, maybe two as you get
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  Speaker 1: into it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's been up and down.
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  Speaker 1: I think as an entire unit, we need more consistency
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  Speaker 1: across the board. And I think everybody in that room
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  Speaker 1: would agree, coaching staff, we'd all agree with that as well.
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  Speaker 1: We need to do our jobs better than we've done
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  Speaker 1: to get ourselves out to the other side of the.
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  Speaker 2: Full game.
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  Speaker 1: You have to find that I guess, uh yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it kind of just it's an ebb and flow
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  Speaker 1: with within a drive within a game as things are working,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we certainly we spend Monday to Saturday coming
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  Speaker 1: up with a plan of attack. We kind of try
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  Speaker 1: to execute that plan in the first quarter of games,
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  Speaker 1: and then you kind of play off the adjustments in
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  Speaker 1: the second quarter, you play off the halftime first half
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  Speaker 1: adjustments in the third quarter, and the fourth fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: just kind of go win whatever that looks like.
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  Speaker 2: It may be.
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  Speaker 1: You're in four minute mode, two minute mode, desperation mode,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that is. So kind of the game is always
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  Speaker 1: kind of changing, but you're trying to certainly establish that
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  Speaker 1: flow and find that flow within it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, such a thing as trying.
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  Speaker 1: Probably, yeah, I don't know. I couldn't tell you. If
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  Speaker 1: guys are trying too hard, not trying hard enough, then
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  Speaker 1: that's something everybody themselves would tell you. But I think
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  Speaker 1: there's there's a certain time where things aren't going your way,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe it build is.
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  Speaker 2: A frustration do you get out of character?
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  Speaker 1: Do you execute the way you know how to execute
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  Speaker 1: the way we've trained them to next cute like I
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  Speaker 1: think that comes out, But I think that's a case
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  Speaker 1: by case, more personal situation.
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  Speaker 2: We do. Absolutely, Yes, Yeah, I believe so.
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  Speaker 1: In Tank, just like anybody, we're all gonna learn from
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  Speaker 1: every single experience we go through. So you know, you
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  Speaker 1: want each of your players to learn from every play
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  Speaker 1: that happens. You love it when they learn from plays
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  Speaker 1: that happen to other people and continue to grow. And
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  Speaker 1: that's something we feel like we've seen out of Tank
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  Speaker 1: as we've gone on. But all our guys just learn
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  Speaker 1: get better every single rep as we go into.
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  Speaker 2: This thing, a little bit rushed, sometimes second or second earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Than he really wants to Chris again, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a case by case thing. I think in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of that game the other day, we're
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  Speaker 1: in a drop back desperation mode and things change a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and I think there were probably time he
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  Speaker 1: would tell you, maybe I could have hung in there
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  Speaker 1: another half second on a read, whatever that may be.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of the way we expect things to
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  Speaker 1: operate and things like that, outside of that fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: where the game, the complexion of the game is different.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that i'd sense that.
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  Speaker 2: How would perform two three games. His numbers suggest that
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  Speaker 2: it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's been similar to the rest of the unit.
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  Speaker 1: I think just more consistency across the board. I think
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  Speaker 1: that that's all of us. That's myself, that's the offensive staff,
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  Speaker 1: that's every position group you could think of, just being
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  Speaker 1: more consistent every single down doing doing your individual job
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  Speaker 1: at the highest possible level. Again, again, that goes to
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  Speaker 1: every person in our offensive room. To something you guys
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  Speaker 1: have been trying to figure out, dating all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to last year. How is it maybe script plays
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  Speaker 1: differently to start the game.
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  Speaker 2: Is it getting guy or is it guys just take
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  Speaker 2: a little while to kind of get into the flow
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  Speaker 2: of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Have you guys figured out why? Not? Necessarily?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we felt like we had an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: the day in the game, we had created a good matchup,
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  Speaker 1: had an opportunity to make a play, didn't make a play.
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  Speaker 1: So I think again, it's it's all case by case.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy to.
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  Speaker 1: Say one certain thing has been an issue, but when
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  Speaker 1: we watch it and we put context every play and
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  Speaker 1: why things happen, why things don't happen. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: more of what you're trying to diagnose as a coaching staff,
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  Speaker 1: and then how do we fix that big picture. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's necessarily Like I think we
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  Speaker 1: have the ability to start fast. The other day, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't make a play and then it comes down to
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  Speaker 1: you missfield. But then now the whole dynamic of the
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  Speaker 1: game certainly changes after that first drive. If you maybe
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  Speaker 1: if you catch the ball in score, we call something
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  Speaker 1: different early on and get somebody an opportunity early on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's something we're always trying to search for
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  Speaker 1: as a as an entire unit. I know you're more
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  Speaker 1: interested in for you, but league wide offenses down.
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  Speaker 2: And all the teams would offense supposedly had.
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  Speaker 1: Their moment.
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  Speaker 2: Against Miami's. You only want to have it. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: theories why, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't no, I've really just kind of been focused
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  Speaker 1: on us. Honestly, I've maybe kind of game here or
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  Speaker 1: there as have gone on, but I really have it.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't tell you've paid attention. I think.
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  Speaker 1: I think again, it's easy to make general statements about everything.
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  Speaker 1: But I think watching everything play by play, understanding why
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  Speaker 1: things are happening, why they're not happening, what somebody's plan
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  Speaker 1: of attack.
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  Speaker 2: That's the other thing. It's hard to say if you do.
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  Speaker 1: Watch another offense, like as we watch offenses play against
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  Speaker 1: our opponents that we're watching, it's hard to say what
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  Speaker 1: they're being asked to do. And if you don't know
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  Speaker 1: what they're being asked to do, it's hard to say,
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  Speaker 1: this is why they're struggling, that's why someone's so struggling,
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  Speaker 1: or that's what's making a play difficult. So we try
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  Speaker 1: to focus in on us putting our players in the
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  Speaker 1: best possible position to attack the opponent we're playing that week,
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  Speaker 1: or that give and play based on the situation we're
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  Speaker 1: in there.
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  Speaker 2: They're physical.
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  Speaker 1: They do a really good job of being a physical unit.
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  Speaker 1: They got a big physical interior front seven. I think
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  Speaker 1: on the outside they're doing a good job of being
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  Speaker 1: physical with receivers. You know, they brought in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of free agents that have really added to their team
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  Speaker 1: personnel wise. We had the opportunity to practice with them
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  Speaker 1: last year, so we have a feel for some of
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  Speaker 1: the people. Personnel wise, but now they're obviously playing in
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  Speaker 1: a different scheme. You know, adding Jesse Bates to the
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  Speaker 1: back end has been a big thing for them. He's
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  Speaker 1: got i think three picks already through three games. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he changes just the complexion of the back end based
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  Speaker 1: on how rangy he is as a safety, how instinctive
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  Speaker 1: he is, and they're letting him make plays. But then
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  Speaker 1: bringing in you know, Bud depre Kalays Campbell, having Grady Jarrett,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's a physical unit that makes the game
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  Speaker 1: hard and kind of want to turn it into a fistfight.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the outside there have been aggressive and
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  Speaker 1: physical and coverage that you know, the way they played
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  Speaker 1: Detroit making it hard to get off into speed and
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  Speaker 1: space a little bit so