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Geno Smith: "We Have A Lot Of Big Play Playmakers" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah to Facebook. What's different than the way the
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore doesn't versus.
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  Speaker 2: Pet Yeah, you know, I think the difference is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you look at the two defenses, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: the style of play overall. You know, they played from
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  Speaker 2: more of a two hot shell versus uh you know
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  Speaker 2: the Browns that like the play a little bit more man,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more single high, but overall, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just as effective. They leave the league in sacks. So
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  Speaker 2: they're getting to the quarterback. They got some really stout
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  Speaker 2: guys up front, uh interior and UH edge guys. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think two of the best linebackers in the game.
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  Speaker 2: When you talk about uh ro conn Smith and then
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  Speaker 2: uh Patrick Queen, you know, guys who are out there
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  Speaker 2: just flying around making plays. And then overall just the
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  Speaker 2: way they play together connected, not many mistakes, Uh, they
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  Speaker 2: take away big plays. Uh. I think they do a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things well. And so another great opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: us to go out there against another really good defense.
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  Speaker 1: For averaging uh for points to New York School. What
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  Speaker 1: you so, what does that tell you about either having
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  Speaker 1: the entire like you know, shifting away.
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  Speaker 2: And unto Yeah, you know, it just comes down to
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  Speaker 2: what happens on game day. You know, obviously we got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of big play playmakers, and so we believe
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  Speaker 2: that our guys, you know, we can make plays against anybody.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, they have done a great job at uh
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  Speaker 2: shutting guys down and you know, really keeping things in
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  Speaker 2: front of them. So you know, if we have to execute,
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  Speaker 2: uh and and put together long drives, then you know
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  Speaker 2: that's what we have to do. But uh, ultimately it
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  Speaker 2: comes down to, you know, the situations in the game.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like to you know kind of you know,
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  Speaker 2: put you know, anything away from us, cause I think
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  Speaker 2: we can make plays against you know, the best defenses
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  Speaker 2: in the league. Uh, we play one every single day
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  Speaker 2: in practice, so you know, we know they're gonna present
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of different challenges.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. We know the game is gonna be another.
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  Speaker 2: Tough game against two really good teams, and so uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's what we need at this point
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  Speaker 2: in the season. We needed to be battle tested and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I look forward to this one.
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  Speaker 4: What would you like seeing uh Jason Peters out there
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  Speaker 4: by Sunday, especially on that player drive every day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Uh, you know, JP, he did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: You know, It was great.
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  Speaker 2: It was great just to be able to you know, say,
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  Speaker 2: I got a chance to play with him. Man, just
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  Speaker 2: talk about his resume, what he's done over his career,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know what I saw from him was, uh, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, exactly who he's always been, Hall of Fame tackle
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he went out there when toe to toe with
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  Speaker 2: Miles Garrett and whoever else they had out there, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: he held his own and more than held his own,
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  Speaker 2: he helped us win. And I think the biggest thing
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  Speaker 2: he did was on that last drive. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: stepped in there, gave us a little bit of a speech,
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  Speaker 2: a little pep talk, uh right before we scored, uh,
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  Speaker 2: right before Jackson scored on that plane. So you talk
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  Speaker 2: about his veteran leadership, uh, and then just his overall
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  Speaker 2: play man. He he brings a lot to the table.
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  Speaker 3: What was his good for the step?
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  Speaker 2: You know, he just said, uh, you know, his exact
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  Speaker 2: words were, this is why, this is why we prepare
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  Speaker 2: all week.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is what we worked hard for.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, these moments right here, and uh, you know it
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  Speaker 2: was it was great in that moment, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: for him to step in there, and it was exactly
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  Speaker 2: what we needed. You know, everyone stayed poised, and you
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  Speaker 2: know it's just again great to have him on our side.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, so excited. Man.
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  Speaker 2: I was actually on the Jets, I believe when he
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  Speaker 2: got drafted, and uh, you know, just being around him,
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  Speaker 2: uh and then playing against him.
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  Speaker 3: You get a feel for just the type of dynamic
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  Speaker 3: player he is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just a problem up front, you know, especially
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  Speaker 2: in the interior, and I think he does a great
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  Speaker 2: job again of just uh, you know, pushing the pocket,
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  Speaker 2: making it hard on the quarterbacks. You know, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: not easy when you got you know, the bull coming
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  Speaker 2: right in your face, you know, sorry Pauls, when you
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  Speaker 2: gotta blitzing right at you and you you gotta either
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  Speaker 2: step up right or left. So you know, it's just hard.
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  Speaker 2: It's just hard to go against guys like that in
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  Speaker 2: the interior. And he does a great job and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just making a tough one guysfferent Uh I could you know,
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  Speaker 2: I could we Uh we actually got some training in
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  Speaker 2: together in the off season and uh, you you just
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  Speaker 2: see right away, you know, just the improvement that he's
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  Speaker 2: made over the course of you know, from his rookie
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  Speaker 2: season to now.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, and he's still getting better. He gets better.
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  Speaker 2: You know, every single day at practice, he works his
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  Speaker 2: butt off. He's in the weight room on the off days. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know he's here super early working out and you
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  Speaker 2: can tell that. You know, he's starting to hit his
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  Speaker 2: stride and you know he's he's always been to me,
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  Speaker 2: a really good player, and I think, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: just continuing to.
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  Speaker 3: Get better and better each week.
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  Speaker 2: And he had a great training camp, uh, turned into
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  Speaker 2: a great preseason and now to a great season. You
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  Speaker 2: just talk about his overall strength. You know, you can
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  Speaker 2: tell he really hit the weights in the off season.
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  Speaker 2: He was already a strong guy, but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he just came in a little looking a little bit stronger,
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  Speaker 2: had a little more pop to him, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just his get off, you know, getting off the ball.
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  Speaker 2: You can you could feel that right away in camp.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he made us you know, I had to
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  Speaker 2: step up a bunch of times in the pocket and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he was getting a lot of pressure in camping,
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  Speaker 2: so we were hoping that were translating. It's definitely paying
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  Speaker 2: off for him. We're just working out in the off
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  Speaker 2: season down in Florida. Uh, you know, I think he
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  Speaker 2: might have came down for maybe a vacation or something.
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  Speaker 2: But we got a chance to work out together. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: not not much.
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  Speaker 3: I mean a little bit. We're both South Florida guys,
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  Speaker 3: both played in Broward.
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  Speaker 2: Uh always followed his career, you know, spoke to him
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  Speaker 2: a few times, But now I wouldn't say we're close.
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  Speaker 3: What's uh the in the quarterback for avoiding as a.
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  Speaker 2: Team, like you said, yeah, I think the main thing, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it really starts with owning the protections. They
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  Speaker 2: have a bunch of different schemes that they use, and
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  Speaker 2: uh they're they're very uh you know, intricate in the
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  Speaker 2: way that they scheme up against your protection. So uh
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  Speaker 2: being able to you know, make the right mic calls,
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  Speaker 2: knowing where the hots and sites are, and then obviously
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  Speaker 2: getting the ball out. You know, you want to hit
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  Speaker 2: your back foot, get the ball out. Don't allow those
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  Speaker 2: guys to work their stunts, their games, their picks, uh
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  Speaker 2: where they can affect your tackles, your guards and get
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  Speaker 2: to the quarterback. So really just getting the ball out
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  Speaker 2: in rhythm, uh, throwing the ball on time and precisely.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, if I do have to go
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  Speaker 2: to my third or fourth read, you know, stepping up
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  Speaker 2: into the pocket, Uh, getting up and out and out
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  Speaker 2: just standing back there.
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  Speaker 3: With the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It's always a big emphasis. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Our our offense is you know, timing and rhythm based,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's always a big emphasis for us every
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  Speaker 2: single week is to get the ball out. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: especially against a really good pass rush, right, so you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna see those every single week, and it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: key for me and you know whoever's in there to
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  Speaker 2: get the ball out and to to be on time
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  Speaker 2: and for the receivers to run their routes crisp and
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  Speaker 2: get to the spots on time so that we can
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  Speaker 2: execute properly.
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  Speaker 4: Between what comes to wane. When kind of comparing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I would say, you know, I think, uh,
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  Speaker 2: just overall, you know, obviously the tempo helps, but I
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  Speaker 2: think overall, just uh the third downs, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that that's really what will help you. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: talk about those drives where we stalled out like midway
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  Speaker 2: through the game, we didn't uh, we didn't you know,
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  Speaker 2: succeed on third down, and so we we can execute
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  Speaker 2: better in those situations. That gives you more chances to
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  Speaker 2: extend drives and to have you know, more plays, more runs,
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  Speaker 2: more passes. But overall that's really it is just you know,
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  Speaker 2: you said, execution, That's really what it comes down to. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: they stopped us. You know, you gotta you know, tip
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  Speaker 2: your hats to them. Uh, that's their job to go
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  Speaker 2: out there and stop us. But you know, just overall,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one or two plays here and there, one
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  Speaker 2: or two mistakes here and there, and I think we
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  Speaker 2: execute a lot better.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, those kinds of situations could be frustrated when you
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  Speaker 4: go a couple of quarters whatever. I guess what's sort
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  Speaker 4: of the key to that, you know, when the games
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  Speaker 4: able to feel.
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  Speaker 2: Quickly like yeah, just overall, just you know, continue went
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  Speaker 2: to play. You know, you can't let the last drive
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  Speaker 2: affect the next one. You can't let the last play
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  Speaker 2: affect the next one, and so kind of just having
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  Speaker 2: a short memory putting those things behind you. Uh. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the guys do a great job of of always pressing
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  Speaker 2: forward and always you know, looking looking ahead to the
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  Speaker 2: next play, and so you know, I think that was
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  Speaker 2: an example of that. You know, I thought Tyler did
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  Speaker 2: a really good job at bringing guys up on the sideline,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just talking to us, you know, through the situation,
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  Speaker 2: making sure everyone was calm, understanding that we're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: another opportunity. And then uh, like I said, JP stepping
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  Speaker 2: in the huddle, Uh, you know, saying what he said.
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  Speaker 2: So overall, man, I just think, you know, as long
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  Speaker 2: as you put things behind you and you just keep
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  Speaker 2: pressing forward, uh, you you'll be able to make more
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  Speaker 2: plays down.
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  Speaker 1: The line adjustments because talking about that number of plays, different.
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  Speaker 3: Guys can run up.
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  Speaker 1: Adjustments to you to adjust to you in the way
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  Speaker 1: that you're.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna Yeah, I think you know, it's both, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's why we practice, you know, we get
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  Speaker 2: all those reps, you know, all throughout you know, Mini camp,
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  Speaker 2: OTA's training camp, you know, in the season.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, so we can adjust to each other.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's the route, you know, he might get bumped
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  Speaker 2: off this route a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I might have to adjust my throat. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I may throw the ball, you know, throwing them
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  Speaker 2: open to a different spot and they have to adjust
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  Speaker 2: the route in order to catch it. And so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a tandem type of thing. We all got to
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  Speaker 2: work together on that. No, Yeah, I agree, Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 2: all different, you know, I would speak to that, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, throwing the DK right, he's a taller guy,
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  Speaker 2: really fast, so I like to throw the ball a
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  Speaker 2: little bit higher for him so that you know, he
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  Speaker 2: can you know, reach and doesn't have to bend down
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  Speaker 2: for it. And then you have Tyler, who's you know,
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  Speaker 2: not the tallest guy, you know, not not the biggest guy,
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  Speaker 2: and so typically you want to throw the ball like
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  Speaker 2: near his body so that he doesn't you know, have
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  Speaker 2: to take a lot of contact.
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  Speaker 3: After he catches the ball.
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  Speaker 2: So there is an adjustment that you make, a subtle adjustment.
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  Speaker 2: But overall, man, you know, he's just throwing and catching,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just throwing the ball so they can catch it,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, trying to make plays.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, he's done it his whole career, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's something that he does that you know,
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  Speaker 2: no one else can do.
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  Speaker 3: Man. He just finds those open spots.
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  Speaker 2: He knows exactly when the scramble, never too early, never
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  Speaker 2: too late. And then uh, you know that little cornerback there,
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  Speaker 2: we got to call it Tyler's corner now because he
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's cast so many touchdowns back there and
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  Speaker 2: he continues to just find his way back there and
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  Speaker 2: somehow the ball finds him.
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  Speaker 4: We've seen him not practice or the last couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks anyway, and that game day doesn't seem to affect him. Amist.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there is a challenge, but you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think we do a good job in managing that. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Tyler is a guy who's really smart. He
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  Speaker 2: knows where to go, he knows uh the plays, he
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  Speaker 2: understands defenses, so you can count on him to always
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  Speaker 2: be in the right spot. And the key for me
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  Speaker 2: is just to trust it, drop back, read it the
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  Speaker 2: way I'm supposed to, and then throw it to the
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  Speaker 2: spots that I'm supposed to and and he usually comes
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  Speaker 2: up with those catches. He he's one of the better receivers.
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  Speaker 2: I've always said this in the league. And he does
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  Speaker 2: a great job. You know, regardless if he practices or not.
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  Speaker 2: He's always in tune with the game plan. He's always
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  Speaker 2: we're always talking through things, and so when we get
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  Speaker 2: in the game, we're always on the same page.
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  Speaker 3: Practiced no, not once, not once? Did you have time
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  Speaker 3: to No?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just trying to get it out as
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  Speaker 2: fast as I can. I'm not sure if I got
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  Speaker 2: the lacener on that one.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you guys, mhm