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Klint Kubiak: "I'm Really Fortunate To Be A Seattle Seahawk" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, great, good to see everybody.
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  Speaker 2: This is a great day for us as Seahawks. Me
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  Speaker 2: here to introduce Clint Kubiak is our new offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's well documented that we we took our
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  Speaker 2: time with with our search.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to be pretty extensive.
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  Speaker 2: Felt like it was important to talk to a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people and understand what kind of the lay of
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  Speaker 2: the land was out there.
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  Speaker 1: And in order to do.
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  Speaker 2: That, you know, it's uh, it takes a team of people.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't just me kind of doing my thing. It was
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  Speaker 2: a whole team effort. So uh, you know, got to
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  Speaker 2: take this opportunity to uh to thank John uh Leslie.
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  Speaker 2: Leslie Frasier was a big part of the search. It
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  Speaker 2: was a was a big help guy person that I
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  Speaker 2: leaned on throughout the process.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of our personnel staff did a great job
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  Speaker 2: kind of behind the scenes. And then some of our coaches,
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  Speaker 2: add Adden Dirty was a great was a great resource
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  Speaker 2: as well as Jay. Chris Parker was a part of
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  Speaker 2: the part of the process as well. Guys like Bow
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  Speaker 2: and the Building are are always people that we were
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  Speaker 2: respect and appreciate their efforts too.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a team effort. Really excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: As the process started unfold, it became really clear that
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  Speaker 2: Clint was a great was the was the best option
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  Speaker 2: for us, really excited about it, and really just I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's twofold, right, It's it's it's Clint is
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  Speaker 2: the person as the man men of really high integrity,
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  Speaker 2: high high character, passion for the game, passion for his players, humility,
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  Speaker 2: just just really just really respect, respect Clint as a person,
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  Speaker 2: Excited for him to work with our players, and then
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  Speaker 2: as a coach.
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  Speaker 1: Just the scheme expertise.
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  Speaker 2: This guy's been around the game for for a long
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  Speaker 2: time and while documented with his family and have so
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  Speaker 2: much respect for the rest, for his brothers and and
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  Speaker 2: and his father, for his father Gary, I worked with
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  Speaker 2: him in twenty fourteen. But the passion for the game,
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  Speaker 2: the scheme expertise that the track reckup with the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: guys have played at a really high level every stop
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  Speaker 2: that he's been and then the evolution of the scheme
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  Speaker 2: too and being able to fit it to your personnel,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, Clint has a really great vision
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  Speaker 2: for where he wants our offense to go. Is very
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  Speaker 2: clear with that with the personnel we have on our roster,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we'll talk about it as we go here,
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  Speaker 2: but I definitely believe that aligns with how we want
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  Speaker 2: to rock. So just really really excited, and we've were
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  Speaker 2: gotten off the work we saw the day that we've
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  Speaker 2: hired some more coaches on our offsive side.
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  Speaker 1: So excited about those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Probably a couple more moves here in the upcoming days
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  Speaker 2: or weeks. So excited about this whole process. But it's
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  Speaker 2: been a lot of fun and we've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work to do. So this is just the start,
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  Speaker 2: but this is a great day. So without any further ado,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to introduce Clint Kobyak because our new office coordinator.
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  Speaker 4: All right, that's Mike.
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  Speaker 3: How was that day? Pretty good?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just to open up, I'm really appreciative of Mike,
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  Speaker 5: of John Leslie of give me an opportunity to be here.
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  Speaker 5: I know, you know, I know how big of an
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  Speaker 5: opportunity it is. And then don't take it lightly. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we got some really impressive coaches on our staff to
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  Speaker 5: work with, and that's what it's really about.
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  Speaker 3: Is our staff and what we do together.
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  Speaker 5: It's had nothing to do with me it's it's us
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  Speaker 5: communicating a vision our players together and that that is critical,
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  Speaker 5: and that's what we're that's we're in the weeds of
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  Speaker 5: right now as a coaching staff. So there's there's plenty
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  Speaker 5: of work to do, you know, and I'm really fortunate
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  Speaker 5: to be a Seattle Seahawk and looking forward to the challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Coach.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, you coach Kirk Cousins in Minnesota ninety four touchdown
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  Speaker 6: passes the three years that you were working with him.
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  Speaker 6: What similarities do you see in Geno Smith's game compared
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  Speaker 6: to Kirk and how do you maximize his strengths in
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  Speaker 6: your scheme? Accentuate his strengths.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, to two excellent players, and I think Geno is
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  Speaker 5: his own man in a great way. Like Gino is
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  Speaker 5: a very aggressive player, have a lot of production. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: he's been doing it for a long time. He has overcome
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  Speaker 5: a lot in his career. I have a lot of
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  Speaker 5: respect for Geno. Was a huge draw to I'm here
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  Speaker 5: and be able to to get to coach him, you know,
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  Speaker 5: alongside Andrew Ginoco. So we have high expectations for him.
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna push Gino and and get the best out
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  Speaker 5: of him. And we'll do that by pushing his teammates
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  Speaker 5: as well. It's not just his show, it's it's a
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  Speaker 5: it's a team thing, and uh, he's got to be
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  Speaker 5: ahead of that.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, offenses can change based.
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  Speaker 3: On personnel and other factors.
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  Speaker 4: But for you, like at your core, what does an
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  Speaker 4: offense need to do well to be successful?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think the number one thing is that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you better have more than one way to win. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we're gonna have an identity. You know, we want to
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  Speaker 5: be smart, we want to be tough, we want to
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  Speaker 5: be physical. Those are three critical attributes. But it's it's
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  Speaker 5: important that that we uh we can run the football,
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  Speaker 5: that that we're you know, successful throwing team. We got
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  Speaker 5: to have all of our guys contribute on special teams
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  Speaker 5: and we have to communicate that to the offense how
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  Speaker 5: how important it is to win as a team, and
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  Speaker 5: there's just there's not one way to do it. So here,
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  Speaker 5: going from April to June, we better get rocking on
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  Speaker 5: the fundamentals so that we can win multiple ways to
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  Speaker 5: come to fall.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome was theattle.
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  Speaker 4: Uh you your offense last year in your own and
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  Speaker 4: there's seconds in the NFL and yard games on the
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  Speaker 4: third and fourth and short short yards is a bit
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  Speaker 4: of a challenge for the Seahawks last year. What did
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  Speaker 4: you like about your short yardage offense in New Orleans?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Well, what did I like about it? Well?
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  Speaker 5: We had we had a guy that comes to mind
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  Speaker 5: in Taysom Hill that was a weapon that was able
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  Speaker 5: to get creative with. And that's the number one thing
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  Speaker 5: is you got to get to those short yarded situations.
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  Speaker 5: You gotta be really good on base downs to to
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  Speaker 5: put yourself in a lot of those short yardage opportunities,
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  Speaker 5: and then then you have then you have options to
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  Speaker 5: take shots and also to move the chain. So uh,
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  Speaker 5: I think it all comes down to the players you
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  Speaker 5: have and putting them in position to be successful.
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  Speaker 3: So no matter what the down of distance is. He
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  Speaker 3: makes critiques a few times.
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  Speaker 7: What about the scheme that do you like and how
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  Speaker 7: it aligns with how you wanted to play ball?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Clint's been around this scheme since it
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  Speaker 2: probably took his first breath, so he knows it.
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  Speaker 1: He knows it cold.
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  Speaker 2: It's been fun to to learn it, you know, over
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  Speaker 2: the last last few days. But I think it's the
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  Speaker 2: repetition and time on task. I think the reads are
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  Speaker 2: consistent for the quarterback. The on line tracks are the same,
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  Speaker 2: the running back tracks the same. We're gonna much like
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  Speaker 2: we're doing on defense when we call coverage, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be repping this thing, you know, hundreds of times between
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  Speaker 2: now and January and February. Same thing goes for offensively.
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  Speaker 2: Our guys are going to get really good at what
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  Speaker 2: we do. Got no other option to do so, so
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  Speaker 2: we're going to hang around on those things.
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  Speaker 8: Could you tell us about the evolution of your scheme
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  Speaker 8: over the years and what have you made uniquely years
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  Speaker 8: versus what you've sort of adopted from you know, the
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  Speaker 8: people you've spent time with, your dad, the Shanahans.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I can just say that just you know, learning
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  Speaker 5: it from from my dad and get to be a
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  Speaker 5: part of that of that offensive staff and twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 5: and then you know, being around guys like Shanahan, you know,
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  Speaker 5: being being in Denver with UH with Justin out and
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  Speaker 5: running a similar scheme, similar verbiage every year. You you
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  Speaker 5: got to you gotta keep evolving and you know, studying
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  Speaker 5: the league and changing your concepts up a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: But the fundamentals, they're not going to change, so uh
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  Speaker 5: you know, I think that's the things that we have
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  Speaker 5: to harp on the players is being fundamentally sound. And
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  Speaker 5: all the bells and whistles will come, but the most
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  Speaker 5: important thing is that we get good at at the
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  Speaker 5: the fundamental stuff phone and catching, blocking, and uh no
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  Speaker 5: matter no matter what we do schematically, it always comes
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  Speaker 5: down to that and being good at that.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations and also welcome to Seattle.
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  Speaker 9: During the off season said.
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  Speaker 10: That this is a betch job out there.
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  Speaker 7: What made this and healing landing spot for you?
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  Speaker 3: Uh uh?
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  Speaker 5: Number one was have a chance to work with with
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  Speaker 5: coach with Mike, to be on a team that's coached
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  Speaker 5: with with a dang good defense, because you know how
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  Speaker 5: powerful that is, and we want to be able to
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  Speaker 5: contribute to that and play complimentary football with them. Gino Smith,
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  Speaker 5: DK Metcalf, Jackson, Charles Cross. The list goes on. There's
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  Speaker 5: a lot of really dang football players on this roster
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  Speaker 5: that that I'd love to coach and want to be
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  Speaker 5: a part of helping their careers and helping them so
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  Speaker 5: we can win as a team. So I think the personnel,
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  Speaker 5: the coaching staff here John Snyder, the reputation the Seattle
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  Speaker 5: Seahawks have as a as a first class organization. So
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  Speaker 5: that's just common knowledge around the NFL.
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  Speaker 10: What did you and John Benton's view of the offensive
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  Speaker 10: line and what you're planning to change or what do
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  Speaker 10: you think needs to change there?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'd say that we're we're learning that right now.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we haven't been here very long. We're watching
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  Speaker 5: a lot of tape. We're getting to feel for the
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  Speaker 5: guys that we have, and we're getting to feel for
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  Speaker 5: their strikes and weaknesses, and we're looking at free agents,
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  Speaker 5: we're looking at college players, and that's.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the off season is all about.
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  Speaker 5: But we're we need to we need to gel together
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  Speaker 5: a little bit here and and get to know our
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  Speaker 5: guys better before we could start getting them better and
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  Speaker 5: putting a plan of action for him.
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  Speaker 8: As you were looking at candidates, how important was it
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  Speaker 8: to find somebody who you felt could maximize your offensive
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  Speaker 8: line and really develop the offensive line?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a that was a massive part of it.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's I think you got to look
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  Speaker 2: at it through the lens of how they they're planned
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  Speaker 2: for development, just in their track record and then obviously
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  Speaker 2: offsive line is a critical part of our football team.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, we're not records centers, but we believe in
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  Speaker 2: our guys. We've got an opportunity to become a great
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  Speaker 2: offensive unit, and uh, in order to do that, we
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  Speaker 2: have to have a great offensive line working together. So
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  Speaker 2: I think there's track record speaks for itself. But we're
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  Speaker 2: excited that these are the guys that leading the way.
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  Speaker 9: You look for a new oc what was the one
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  Speaker 9: thing that you were not getting with the previous staff
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  Speaker 9: that you had to get with.
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  Speaker 2: This play called You know, I'm not really going to
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  Speaker 2: answer from last year. This is today's about the excitement
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  Speaker 2: that we have for Clint, the alignment that we have,
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  Speaker 2: the coaches that we're bringing on our new offensive staff,
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  Speaker 2: respect the heck out of the guys that have worked
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  Speaker 2: with us last year, and we're in the trenches with us.
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  Speaker 2: But this is the new unit that we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be going a battle with moving forward.
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  Speaker 9: You mentioned the words shared vision right a couple of times.
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  Speaker 9: What what is exactly that shared vision?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's our football team.
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  Speaker 2: It's we want to be a physical football team that
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  Speaker 2: plays together.
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  Speaker 1: As a unit.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we don't throw around the We don't throw
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  Speaker 2: around the words twelve is one lightly. That's how we
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  Speaker 2: want to play and that's how we want to operate.
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  Speaker 2: And Clint says it the same way he's been doing
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  Speaker 2: his whole career, his whole life, and it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: a great connection.
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  Speaker 4: You've primarily had a lot of zone blocking in your
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  Speaker 4: background and John Benton as well the Seas uh kind
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  Speaker 4: of popped with gap the blocking last year. How much
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  Speaker 4: do you adapt to your scheme to your personnel versus
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  Speaker 4: teaching up your personnel on your scheme.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's important to you know, establish a
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  Speaker 5: way of doing business here. You know, we're going to
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  Speaker 5: start with that being an outside zone, but obviously we're
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  Speaker 5: going to incorporate gaps schemes inside zones, uh, penning pools.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we gotta we got to do what our
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  Speaker 5: players do best. So you know, we have a we
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  Speaker 5: have a philosophy that we believe in, a style that
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  Speaker 5: we believe in.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: But you got to be able to win more than
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  Speaker 5: one way, like we said, so we'll we'll start with
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  Speaker 5: the fundamentals running off the ball and then we'll get
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  Speaker 5: to know our guys and we better do what they
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  Speaker 5: do best or else we're not going to like the results.
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  Speaker 6: One of the most important attributes that you look for
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  Speaker 6: in offensive linemen to be successful in your scheme, and
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  Speaker 6: just how critical is to guard play, particularly with the
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  Speaker 6: wide zone.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's like it's all players, smart, tough, dependable,
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  Speaker 5: and with the offensive lineman, they gotta be they gotta
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  Speaker 5: be intelligent, and they got to be available.
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  Speaker 3: They have to be.
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  Speaker 5: Healthy enough to get better practice every day and contribute
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  Speaker 5: to the team. So those are those are really important things.
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  Speaker 5: The skill takes care of itself. That's things that.
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  Speaker 3: We're evaluating right now.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, having having a high intelligence between the
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  Speaker 5: ears and be able to react quickly to movement in
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  Speaker 5: front of you is very important.
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  Speaker 4: What's the learning curve like with your offense and what
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  Speaker 4: is the message to some of the guys that are
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  Speaker 4: now learning their third offense in the last three years.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, uh, we're gonna challenge the heck out of them,
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  Speaker 5: There's no doubt about that. But I but I know
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  Speaker 5: that we have a darn good group of teachers. You know,
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  Speaker 5: that's our job as coaches to be to be excellent
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  Speaker 5: teachers and to get them up to speed.
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  Speaker 3: With the verbiage. These guys are football players. We're not
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  Speaker 3: reinventing the wheel.
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna say some things, probably a little bit differently,
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  Speaker 5: but it's important that uh you know, we all get
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  Speaker 5: together early and often and start to learn this new
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  Speaker 5: this new language. And and for us as their coaches,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we we're we're serving these guys. We're we're
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  Speaker 5: gonna we're gonna be at our best to make sure
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  Speaker 5: we're the best teachers for them so they so they
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  Speaker 5: learn it fast. So what do you like about John
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  Speaker 5: and Andrew that you want to.
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  Speaker 6: Bring them with you here?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, well, I'll start with with the coach.
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  Speaker 5: Bet you know, if if, if you know, our identity
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  Speaker 5: is gonna be a running football team that starts with
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  Speaker 5: coach Benton and his you know, his approach. Just really
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  Speaker 5: impressed with his ability as a teacher. Number One, he's
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  Speaker 5: an excellent teacher. The way he runs the room, holds
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  Speaker 5: his guys accountable. And I've just seen the way he
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  Speaker 5: leads them in and he's in he schemes, is is excellent.
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  Speaker 5: Andrew Jenoko have been with him at two different stops.
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  Speaker 5: Another another good teacher. Like that's the things we're looking
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  Speaker 5: for in our coaching staff is great teachers and guys
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  Speaker 5: that can that can motivate Andrew Genoko is is a
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  Speaker 5: is a is a really good teacher of see him
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  Speaker 5: do it with Kirk Cousins, with Derek Carr, seeing him
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  Speaker 5: relate to the younger players like like Spencer Rattler and
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  Speaker 5: developed those guys. So really, uh, thankful for for Mike
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  Speaker 5: and John for letting us bring those guys here and
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  Speaker 5: to get his started.
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  Speaker 10: Quicker Plenn, how do you maximize if he came at.
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  Speaker 5: Cap well a lot to work with, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: a lot of great skill to work with down the field, threat,
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  Speaker 5: strong physical player, extremely excited about getting to work with him,
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  Speaker 5: and and uh, you know his physical presence brings a lot,
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  Speaker 5: can bring a lot to our offense.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, whether it's.
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  Speaker 5: Tim, Jack's all of our guys that really looking forward
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  Speaker 5: to working with them.
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  Speaker 3: Here come middle of April interviewing candidates.
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  Speaker 10: How much was that a question?
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  Speaker 1: Well, uh, I'll tell you this. We talked to every candidate.
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  Speaker 2: Had you know how we're gonna use DK definitely at
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  Speaker 2: the top of their mind.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to hear different visions.
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  Speaker 2: You know, throughout the league have got how guys saw them.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like, I think clint has probably the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the best vision out of all those guys. If but
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  Speaker 2: we but we have to we have to go through
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  Speaker 2: the process of of how you do it. It's how
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  Speaker 2: you can move them around, how you can take care
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  Speaker 2: of matchups, the rout tree that's available on on how
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  Speaker 2: we want to build it.
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  Speaker 1: So the track records there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just like what they did in Minnesota with
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  Speaker 2: but justin Jefferson as a rookie Chris Olave last year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, all these all these premier wideouts and this system,
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  Speaker 2: especially under Clintons really come to life.
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  Speaker 6: Red zone issues obviously were a major problem last year.
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  Speaker 6: New Orleans finished eleven the red zone touchdown rate. How
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: much of a priority was that for you during this
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: search process trying to identify a play.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Caller that was Yeah.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I think if you start just trying to like just
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: patch band aids from you know, previous like shortcomings, it's
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: probably not the best way to do it long term.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: It's not probably the most sustainable solution. But if you
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: think about what does produce in the red zone, it's
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: the ability to run the ball, having an identity, getting
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: the ball moving forward, keeping the ball moving forward, taking
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: pressure off the quarterback. I think that's what Clint Shoni
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: has been able to do. And and it's going to
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: be a team effort. I mean, this is something that
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: we're gonna be working through. We work red zone all
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: the time. Our guys know that, and we'll have an
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: identity down there, and that's important.
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: Talked about the importance of running football very early up there.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: Talk about Ken and how you envision him fitting your style.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Of run game.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: Well, I think Ken can can fit in just about
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: in any style. He's he's a talented player, so I'm
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: really excited about him in this zone scheme. Okay, but
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: I've seen Ken in all schemes play really good at football.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: I've seen I've seen the guy catch the ball well
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: out of the backfield. I think it is really important
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: for our backs that we utilize him obviously, uh whatever
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: we can do to get him touches, throwing them, throwing
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: them outs out of the backfield, throwing them screens, get
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: the ball in their hands, getting the ball to our
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: our best runners.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: And that's what he is.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: So and I think he's got a really good group
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: of teammates that compliment him as well, and and especially
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: with Charbonnay. So looking forward to him in this scheme
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: and we're going to ask a lot out of him.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: A lot of folks on the offensive line in terms
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: of establishing that physical identity. To talk about where a
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: full back, tight end, other positions help in your scheme.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: Uh, certainly love playing with a fullback. Like being twenty
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: one twelve personnel. Again, that's gonna come down to, you know,
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: the strength of our players who we have on our roster,
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: and uh, let's let's use the best eleven out there.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Let's get the five best eligibles uh deployed out into
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: the route schemes. So that's those are things we're working
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: on right now. Who that's gonna be. But we gotta
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: we gotta adapt as coaches to our best players on
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: the roster.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: On the on the red zone subject, what does it
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: take to be a good red zone offense? What do
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: you have to do to well do well to succeed.
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: When you get down that zone?
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: I think you gotta be you gotta be excellent on
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: first and second down. Okay, third down, third and eight
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: from the eight in the red zone. Isn't a real
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: high percentage for a lot of teams, So you want
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: to be aggressive to score on those base downs.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: And uh, and then once.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: You get to third down, you gotta have a quarterback
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: that's an elite decision maker and and and an elite
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: scrambled drill player. You know that always helps. So I
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: think we'll emphasize many things, but and then the drive
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: on on your base downs is always a good way,
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: good place to start.
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: I've heard you speak about failing forward, just the concept
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: of learning from the stakes success as failures.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: I'm wondering how you feel like you're a better coordinator,
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: play caller, communicator.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Than maybe a couple of years ago.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Definitely just has all come with experience and uh, being
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: in the fire and being around being around really good
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: coaches that I've had that I've been blessed to work with,
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: because you don't you don't do it alone, you do
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: it with the whole staff of coaches. And uh, you know,
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: I'm really I think that the guys that we have
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: in our room right now, I'm really excited about. Obviously
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: the guys that I have that i've worked with before
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: and I've been through the fire with, and then the
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: guys that the new guys that have not worked with
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: that we can we can draw on ideas from but
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: it's just, uh, it comes from comes from experience, and
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: I've been really fortunate that I've had some experiences early
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: in my career and I and you know, just like
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: the players were just asking all of our guys to
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: get better with every rep.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: But you mentioned that GDP has draw for you for
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: the specific things.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: I think Geno's toughest nails.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: I think you look at the guy in the fourth
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: quarter and he goes and when's football games? So that's
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: that's that's pretty That excites me.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: It fires me up. I've watched his career.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: You know, studying him more now than I ever have before.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: But you just, uh, you know, you think about a
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: guy that's been through a lot of adversity, the guy
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: that's been knocked off off the high horse and had
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: to clause way back into the starter's role and then
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: comes back to the last two years and you know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: win's more games in the fourth quarter than anybody in
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: the NFL.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: That's a that's a guy that I want to coach.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: You mentioned how excited you were for Andrew to have
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: the opportunity to work with Geno. But how rare is
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: it to have a coach in your staff that has
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: coached offensive lineman, receivers and quarterback And how much of
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: an asset is that to your staff to have somebody
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: that brings that kind of versatility to the table.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, It just it just means he can help us
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: in so many other places in just the quarterback room.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: And it also you know, allows him to be such
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: a better teacher to Gino and and to all of
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: our quarterbacks so they can really visualize the whole picture,
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: which is so important.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, play read a lot about physicality.
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: Uh what are those traits and how do you teach that?
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Well, you drafted I think number one, there's there's guys
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: that there. They grew up one way and their mom
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: and dad taught them how to approach go about their business.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: And I think that's what John Snyder and and Mike
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: have on our roster. We have some tough guys and
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: we have to accentuate those those attributes and uh, we
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: got to improve everything that they do. But I'm not
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: gonna tell you that we're gonna go create the toughest
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: guys on the planet. We we go find them we're
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: gonna look for them and we're gonna draft them, and
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: then those guys are gonna play.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: What's the challenge of the opportunity of having the guy
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: next to you defensive?
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: How does that.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Help you in terms of, you know, creating this thing along.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: With him, you know, as they just have a shared
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: shared goals, shared vision. And I'm here to support coach,
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: and you know, we have to do our part on
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: our offense to to make sure that you know, we're
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: showing our comrades on the defensive side of the ball,
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: that we're giving them everything that we got and we're
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: all we're all pulling in the same direction.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: You mentioned wanting the run game to be your identity.
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: Why do you feel like that's we repeat that over time? Yeah,
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: you said you want your run game to be your identity.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: Why do you feel like that's important.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: I feel like that's important because if you drop back
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: fifty times a game, it's going to be it's tough.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: You know, you got to you gotta be a balanced team.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I think balance is important.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: And sometimes you got to drop back fifty times and
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: win the game, and sometimes you got to run it
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: fifty times. So but when when it all comes through.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: We want to be balanced and we want to be
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: able to win multiple ways.
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: Then, going back to the fullback question, that my guess yet,
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: your coach was asked a lot about using bier Murphy
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: as of blocking back last year, and he didn't do
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: that last year.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Like I did in college.
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: But do you envision actually signing a fullback to be
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: on the roster or using a tight end defensive tackle.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: We're going through that process now with John and Mike.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: But I think we're gonna we're gonna take a look
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: at all those things. I'm excited about the guys we
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: do have on the roster. We'll play tight ends in
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: the full back position for sure, but those are that's
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: a process right now.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Would you be opposed to us?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Byron is not going to be our starting fullback. He
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: might be there, but he's not gonna start there.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: For both the final four teams in the playoffs this
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: year finished one, three and four and fourth down version.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: How important is fourth down two NFL teams right now?
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: Is that it's something you.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Guys are focused on.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I'll take that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's incredibly important if you can utilize all
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: four downs. It's like when you play Navy and college.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: You know, it's just absolute pain in the neck. But
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: it also speaks to how effective you are on early downs,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: creating some of those third down situations and plus territory
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: where more of your playbook is a been and then
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: being able to convert in those high leverage situations are
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: incredibly important.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: And uh, we'll have a plan.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: For that, but absolutely we're looking at that, working on
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: stuff as we speak.
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: What kind of bigger picture question do you do you
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: feel like the running game is kind of coming back
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: a little bit in the NFL, Like as past heavy
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: as things have gotten here over the last decade or so,
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: do you start to feel like things are sliding back
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: towards the run game being prominent again, like with the
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: your sake one Derrick Henry and such a kind.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Of havish Yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: I think you look at the World Champions right now
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: and they had a heckuy year running the football. There's again,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: there's more than one way to win, you know, more
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: than one way to win. I think it's good to
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: see running backs like coming to the forefront and getting
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: getting some attention. You know, this league is cyclical and trendy,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: and it all comes back around. I'm not focused on
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: the trends. We're just focused on, you know, being good
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: at all facets.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Like how do you feel like this offense can come?
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: You know what?
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: He's well?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I think the I think there's a lot of clarity
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: in what we're trying to do.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of detail.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: They've kind of lived through all the things that could
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: happen to the quarterback. So it's very clean in terms
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: of progressions, and I think there's accountability factor for the
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: whole football team. We all got to play on the
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: same accord. We have to be in the right spot
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: when we need to be there, ball needs to be
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: out on time.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Protection, all works hand in hand.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: So it's gonna take everybody, but it's a very very
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: clear vision and detail on how we need to get there.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Clip.
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: What have you learned? The biggest things you've learned from
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: your dad? Is he still the guy you call right
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: after a game?
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Absolutely?
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Just the main thing just overall, how to act, how
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: to treat people, how to carry yourself, everything that has
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: nothing to do with football, you know, That's what That's
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: what I've learned from them, and definitely look forward to
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: speaking to them after every game.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: And getting a little tough love.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Having now a full off season right being higher than
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: move of the last year, having this full off season
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: right now, getting played in place. How much for a
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: long point can that be for you now in this
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: second year.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Well, it needs to be.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: We talked about at the end of the season we
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: wanted to take advantage of the time that we had,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: and I thought we've done that up to this point.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: So there's a balance there of there's a sense of
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: urgency that things we need to get done, but we
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: got to be intentional on how we do it. So,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: like Clint said, when the when the players show up
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: here in April, we're we're buttoned up.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: And we're rolling.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: So but again, this is an exciting time building a
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: vision for our team. You know, opportunity to add great
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: players to our roster and then you know, develop a
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: great plan for the guys that are here.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And and make the best make the best of our
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: off season.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: Clint, in your play calling stints, you've been in the
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: bottom half of the league in terms of play action percentage.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: How much of that has been philosophy versus personnel circumstances.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Et cetera.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Uh, Well, I think it's, uh, we're gonna We're gonna
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: do what it takes to win. Definitely something we'd like
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: to use more of play action movement, but whatever our
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: players do best best, that's what we gotta that's what
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: we want to Rep.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Clint, do you like call games up in the press.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Boxer down on the done?
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Both was on the field last year, it was in
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: the in the box in Minnesota. I think there's advantages
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: to both get a feel for that. How we're going
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: to attack that as we get closer this season.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: What was what was the toughest interview question.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: That might ask you.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: I don't know if he wants me to get into
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: the weeds of that stuff, but I thought I thought
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: it was. There was a really cool situational discussion that
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: was impressive.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: I really enjoyed.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: How did your process of hiring coaches change from last
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: year to this year, if at all, from going through
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: a process.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Well, it's certainly less coaches in the amount of time,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: so I felt, and I think we weren't as under
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: as much of a time crunch as we were last year.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: But the focus is the same that you're you're hiring
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the person first. I'm proud of our track record of
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: the people that we've added to our football team, coaches included.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: We'll continue to do.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: That because it's really important on the type of people
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: that are are coaching our guys. So I'm excited about
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: this this crew of guys. And yeah, i'd say the
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: time is probably the biggest.
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: Difference, including some defensive coaches in the interview process. Why
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: was it important for you to get their perspective?
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Well, I felt like the other leaders of our football team,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: you know, should be part of the process too, And
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: it's a team effort. So I'm a guy that wants
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: all the information and I respect their opinions and there
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: and their viewpoints on what our team needs and and
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: so I just felt like that was the best best
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: move for us.
• 27:37
  Speaker 10: You mentioned how big Deslie Fraser was. What exact role,
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: how what did he bring to this?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's everything that we do, you know,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: it's we're kind of a tag team and and uh.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: All the directions that our team goes.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: And he's a resource for me and Leslie and Clint
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: have a relationship that goes back a long ways, so
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: he's particularly helpful with Clint.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: But unless he's a great resource for me.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: And he's also really well connected throughout the league too,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: so he's able to gather a lot of.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Great information on the staff next year.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, he'll be on the staff this coming season.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Sure, I hope.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: So, Mike, you mentioned some other potential change.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, go ahead, Bob, Do you mention some other potential
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: changes that on the offensive side or defensive side or yeah, those.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Things are in the works right now.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Everybody that's here will be here, but might be a
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: couple additions as you guys go through.
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: Your roster assession, do you anticipate having Tyler.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: On the physiction Tyler Lockett?
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're I think we're working through that right now.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: But those you know, those decisions will have probably uh
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: when the time comes in the next month or two.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Timing and patience so importance that in the quarterback play
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: and especially when the defense accelerates what the quarterback has
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: to do.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: How important is that and how do you teach that.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: To the quarterback?
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: You said Timing and patience. Yeah, that's something that we
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: definitely stress, is uh, decision making, timing and accuracy, you know,
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: getting the ball out on time is.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Critical and our quarterbacks footwork.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: Has a lot to do with that timing, So that'll
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: be a major point of contention for us, or a
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: major major meeting point every day is you know what's
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: the footwork for every play?
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: You know what exactly does it look like.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: How can I play the game blind by going through
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: my reads and you know when the play breaks down
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: and getting out of the pocket. But timing is critical
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: to obviously avoiding sacks everything else.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you.