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Pete Carroll: "This Is A Big Matchup Opportunity For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Momentum coming off their year last year and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of positive stuff going on. Big up for them to
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  Speaker 1: come back home, you know, opening game and all that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. So it's going to be a real
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  Speaker 1: challenge environment, which is great. We need to get in
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  Speaker 1: those situations and see how to handle the noise and
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  Speaker 1: how to handle just the just the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: rockets of it all. So it's a really good matchup
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  Speaker 1: for us coming up. We need hard ones, we need
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  Speaker 1: tough ones, and so they here they come. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good balanced football team. The way they play in their style.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Coach Campbell's done a great job getting these guys
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  Speaker 1: rolling and they got a good, really good.
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  Speaker 2: Format to them.
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  Speaker 1: And so we're we're getting our game tuned in and
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  Speaker 1: we've got to get ready to play a really good.
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  Speaker 2: Football game for four quarters. You know, we looked last week.
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  Speaker 1: First half was one way and second half was another way,
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  Speaker 1: and so we have to finish better than we did.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what's the hand.
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  Speaker 3: They're both hurt. They're both hurt, and uh.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see how this goes. You'll see
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  Speaker 1: this be a little bit active. We've already worked to
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  Speaker 1: get Jason Peters in here and uh, which is a
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  Speaker 1: remarkable thing in itself going into his twentieth season.
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  Speaker 2: So you'll see us. You know, we're gonna respond to
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  Speaker 2: how how they wind up doing this this week? Do
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  Speaker 2: you did you say yet.
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  Speaker 3: How realistic it is?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how soon Peters could help you or no?
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  Speaker 2: I me I we just had to walk through, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Let let's see.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta see how how he is and it it
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  Speaker 1: it should I you know, you would think you give
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  Speaker 1: him a couple of weeks to get ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if we can afford to
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  Speaker 1: do that. We'll see what happens here as we get
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  Speaker 1: one day at a time here and and Uh, I
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  Speaker 1: work with him.
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  Speaker 2: He's a really.
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  Speaker 1: M interesting guy and we're lucky to have a guy
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  Speaker 1: like this to come to us at a time like
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  Speaker 1: this at THISK. It's gonna be hard for him, that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a challenge for him. There's a report that
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  Speaker 1: you're signing uh Raykwan O'Neill off Tampa Bay's practice squad.
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  Speaker 4: Is that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's on his way. He's on his way.
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  Speaker 3: What were your first impressions of what close to game shape?
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  Speaker 2: Jason Peters might be after. I can't tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. He looks great. Yeah, he looks.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like he's he's ready to go. But that's
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's got to go out there and work
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  Speaker 1: and and get moving and all that.
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  Speaker 3: He's not obviously like a left tackle with forty one
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  Speaker 3: it said.
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  Speaker 1: I he's uh such a remarkable player. I mean, l
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  Speaker 1: they look at his film from last year, you can't
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  Speaker 1: tell how old he is. Uh, he played really well
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  Speaker 1: and and uh played a couple of different spots and
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  Speaker 1: showed flexibility there. He's you know, he's a long term
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  Speaker 1: uh left tackle, you know, and and uh, but the
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  Speaker 1: flexibility is there.
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  Speaker 2: And I and the people were beautiful, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, he's said about a handful of plays out of
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  Speaker 1: he looked pretty darn good today. I mean, just tell
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  Speaker 1: you he looked quick in and light on his feet
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  Speaker 1: soon And.
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  Speaker 4: I mean if they have to play or start, I
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  Speaker 4: mean kind of having the week with that helped, Uh, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, both guys got thrown in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, late in the game, but they'll and they
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  Speaker 1: both know our system really well and they'll work better
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  Speaker 1: when they put a whole week behind him, knowing that.
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  Speaker 2: They're out there and communicating and all that would be better.
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  Speaker 3: With that Uh Lion's offense. What what do they do
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  Speaker 3: that makes us so challenging?
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  Speaker 2: And well, that's really good. Jeared's really good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's really i mean obviously as efficient as
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  Speaker 1: you can be right now with the streak he's got
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  Speaker 1: rolling and and uh he's got all the throws.
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  Speaker 2: They have.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a good intricate system. They do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different things and and they're good at it. Timing
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  Speaker 1: is really good. They've worked well with the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: Does get the ball out of his hands. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's not a runner, not gonna run around much, but
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  Speaker 1: so they rely on on a real quick rhythm to
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  Speaker 1: get the thing, you know going. He's got really nice receivers, so, uh, sat.
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  Speaker 2: Brown's really a good player.
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  Speaker 1: And then they feature the heck at him as they
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  Speaker 1: found him, you know a little bit of go and
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  Speaker 1: realize he's a great player, and it really is.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great producer. So he's got a real sharp
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  Speaker 2: target to go to all the time. But his other
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  Speaker 2: guys were good too.
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  Speaker 4: You guys had a kind of a wild game against him.
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  Speaker 4: Last year shootout back there. What do you see from
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  Speaker 4: that offense? Their ability to be explosive on Mona being
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  Speaker 4: a part of that in what they've done now of
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  Speaker 4: Jared's yet another year into what they're doing offensively.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they they looked sharp, you know in the open
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  Speaker 1: or too against a really uh a real random attack
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  Speaker 1: that that case he had ready in the open, they
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  Speaker 1: threw all kinds of stuff out him.
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  Speaker 2: They handle it pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: They have a good balance, you know, and they want
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  Speaker 1: to run the football yet they'll you know, the play
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  Speaker 1: action game is complements well and they still have a
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  Speaker 1: good dropback scheme.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's one that is really solid in the league
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: The principles and the concepts are you know, we see
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  Speaker 1: him week in and week out, so they're really good
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  Speaker 1: and solid, solid.
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  Speaker 2: And he's in command of all of it.
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  Speaker 1: He gets the ball out of his hands really well
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  Speaker 1: to in the PLAYPAFS game, which has always been even
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  Speaker 1: back to his Ram days, there has always been a
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  Speaker 1: feature of him. And so you've got to be on
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  Speaker 1: your stuff, you know, and we always have to play
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  Speaker 1: the running game first to not let them do that.
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  Speaker 1: And but that doesn't mean you've got these guys, he's
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  Speaker 1: got enough throws in them and enough accurate decision making
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  Speaker 1: and all of that that he can get you. So
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  Speaker 1: he's playing like a really well equipped veteran quarterback. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's got all the stuff right now. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a nice we've seen him through his whole career.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice assent for him.
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  Speaker 4: Montgomery and Gibbs in their running.
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  Speaker 3: Game ad that may Montgomery's really tough.
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  Speaker 1: It's really a physical, aggressive guy. He's always been that way.
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  Speaker 1: And they look like they're leaning on him first, and
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  Speaker 1: you know he gives you. He's gonna give you everything
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  Speaker 1: he's got.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Gibbs looked looked really special. You know, like we saw
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  Speaker 1: him in the in the draft. We thought he was
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic, uh potential athlete and guy to do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things. You can catch the ball out of
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  Speaker 1: the backfield, he can, uh, he can run all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So they you know, he used him a handful of
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  Speaker 1: plays this last week. You know, we maybe we see
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit more. I'm sure that you know
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  Speaker 1: they they could see it too. You know, he he's
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  Speaker 1: he's really special. So that's a good one two punch
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  Speaker 1: for them.
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  Speaker 4: How different does their defense look from what you guys
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  Speaker 4: saw last year.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're a little different.
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  Speaker 1: They've they've adjusted some of their focus on some stuff
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  Speaker 1: on the back end. They got new guys back there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm still got the good, good dudes up front.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that that kind of give them a special push
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  Speaker 1: and uh, but they have adjusted coverage wise, some of
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  Speaker 1: the things that they're featuring.
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  Speaker 3: You do you have to do anything. They're differently when
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  Speaker 3: you're praying to play in a dome or a lot
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  Speaker 3: of stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're cranking it, you know the whole time. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you have to operate in silent count. You know, I've
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  Speaker 1: been there a lot over the years, and it's because
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  Speaker 1: it's the dome effect.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it's just legit, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So you know Genos is well experienced, data and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but we gotta we gotta make sure everybody's tuned in
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  Speaker 1: because we got to not let that be a factor.
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  Speaker 2: Is he more right side? Left side?
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  Speaker 1: Raequan O'Neil, He's he's played around some different spots, believe
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  Speaker 1: in a little center as they've prepped him at Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: But we're we see him as a tackle and left
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  Speaker 1: tackles where he looks most at home.
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  Speaker 3: It said in particular, just kind of what's the challenge
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  Speaker 3: with him eight It's a fantastic effort.
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  Speaker 1: Guy Imy just totally gives it up, run and pass,
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  Speaker 1: and he's really on the attack at all times. And
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  Speaker 1: so if you slip at all, you take a false step,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be in the backfield and be causing problems.
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  Speaker 1: They're moving him around a little bit. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: plays on both sides. Some in their schemes than he
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  Speaker 1: played inside last week. Some, so they're just trying to
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  Speaker 1: find more ways to make him a factor and he
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  Speaker 1: is that.
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  Speaker 2: So he's a good player.
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  Speaker 3: Be first Row game and they able to Green Bay.
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  Speaker 3: So how much do you take that to prepare the
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  Speaker 3: team to go on the road. See at the start
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  Speaker 3: of the question, please your first row game of the season. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: yet you played obviously you had the preseason at Green Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The messaging around that and how you prepare, Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is this is the legit deal. We're leaving on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get our two day process going. We really talked
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  Speaker 1: all about the Packer game in preparation for this game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the timeframes and how things work and all
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  Speaker 1: of that, the sleep issues and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So we're we're on it, you know, and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: but it's still the first official time with the smaller group.
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  Speaker 1: And also but there's principles to it, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and how you focus and how you prepare and all
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  Speaker 1: that and how we work together and hang together, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And it's gonna be seventy something thousand against the rest
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  Speaker 1: of us, so all of those those elements are the same.
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  Speaker 1: So we've we've at least we've got one under our belt.
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  Speaker 3: You got to know Dad Campbell much, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, really admire the way he works.
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  Speaker 1: So he he's he's a uh, he's got a great
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  Speaker 1: heart and you can see that in this fire that
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  Speaker 1: he brings.
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  Speaker 2: It's legit.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh, I I love to see that his
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  Speaker 1: team's got a style, you know, he's like to seeing
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  Speaker 1: that from guys, and his team has a definite style
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  Speaker 1: about him.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, it's real credit to him.
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  Speaker 3: The plan still to get them all Adams out there today.
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  Speaker 1: He's practicing today, Uh, Witherspoon practicing today, going full go.
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  Speaker 1: And so uh, this is the it's important day for
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  Speaker 1: those guys, you know, important day for us to get
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  Speaker 1: those guys back out. We'll be uh uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: careful with uh Jamal's reps. It's the first time on
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  Speaker 1: the field, so but we'll get him out there. He'll
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  Speaker 1: work a service team today and and all that and
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  Speaker 1: uh start start his way.
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  Speaker 2: Back spend this week just to know he is ready
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  Speaker 2: to go. I'd like to make it through the week,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: I have a good practice today and then we'll go
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  Speaker 1: to the next day and see how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: But I would love him to be comfortable, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on game day. And this is his first chance, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so this is his opener, legit opener, and.
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  Speaker 1: So excited to see him. He's got such a great
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  Speaker 1: spirit that he adds to our club. We can't wait
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  Speaker 1: for him to be contributing on the field so they
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  Speaker 1: can feel and the players can can play offen because
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  Speaker 1: he's got a real, real way about him.
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  Speaker 4: How did your past Rush guys respond after they watched
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  Speaker 4: the film kind of assessment?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Frustrated, frustrated, Yeah, we we we we need to be
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  Speaker 1: more more pointed on some of the stuff that we
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  Speaker 1: were trying to do. We didn't get the game plan
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  Speaker 1: carried out the way we would like it as well
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  Speaker 1: as we wanted to and and UH communication is always
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  Speaker 1: part of that, you know. And in first time out
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  Speaker 1: where they really got a lot of plays, we weren't
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  Speaker 1: as as clean as we could be, and we will be.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get better.
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  Speaker 1: J Re does a lot of that work, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and makes UH runs the show up there, and so
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  Speaker 1: it's just you know, getting together with him in game
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  Speaker 1: situations and responding. Well, he's really good at it and
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  Speaker 1: his experienced shows all the time. We need to play
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  Speaker 1: off of him and you know, get a benefit out
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  Speaker 1: of him communication to me.
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  Speaker 3: Like j to the other guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how's the psyche of your team, some of the
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  Speaker 1: younger players who may the.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of deal with guys I think, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And so UH we start with with me and and
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  Speaker 1: then work my way through the staff. You know that
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  Speaker 1: we've got to be the attitude first and make sure
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  Speaker 1: that we we demanded of everybody and we get everybody
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  Speaker 1: on board. We've got a way that we practice on
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  Speaker 1: this day, in particular that UH is designed to jump
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  Speaker 1: back regardless of what happened on the weekend before, and
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Challenge them today. What are you emphasized this week.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, we're emphasizing getting back to basics and the
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals that we do on on Wednesday's practice.
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  Speaker 2: We're competing today.
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  Speaker 3: That heart was kind of an issue or I mean
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  Speaker 3: he said the Rams played order or did you see that?
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  Speaker 2: Or since that?
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  Speaker 1: I I felt like at the end of the game,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't play very well on offense. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: thought we we got in trouble a little bit defensively.
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  Speaker 1: I was I I pointed out how hard we played
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the game. So it wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: you know, like a conditioning issue. You know, we get
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  Speaker 1: a little distracted, you know, didn't go very well. We
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  Speaker 1: need to we need to find her a rhythm better
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  Speaker 1: on offense.
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  Speaker 4: People, do you think of what are what did you
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  Speaker 4: think of Jackson's first scheme last week? And how much
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  Speaker 4: better is he going to be another?
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  Speaker 3: He was comfortable with it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was not too big for him at all.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine, you know, this is three weeks or something from
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  Speaker 1: his surgery or whatever it was, and he didn't even
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  Speaker 1: he didn't even flinch, So he's ready to go. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: get as many balls as we like, and he had
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  Speaker 1: one that maybe could have handled, you know, the better.
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  Speaker 1: I'll throw that was behind him a bit. But other
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  Speaker 1: than that, he was in the game and ready to
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  Speaker 1: go and.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be a factor.
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  Speaker 1: We just got to get get him used to being
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  Speaker 1: out there and us used to throwing it to him.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone else, okay, come out of the game. Yeah, everybody else.
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  Speaker 3: She's been pretty good shape.
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  Speaker 2: As one guys, I got ridly on the list that
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  Speaker 2: they go to.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to especially little bit, What's what was specific
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  Speaker 4: problem does Detroit's talented old line present.
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  Speaker 1: They're a good solid group, you know, they're they're a
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  Speaker 1: good solid group, and they mixed their protection as well. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they'll use different guys you know, on the edges of
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  Speaker 1: the protections, and so we have to be really astute
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  Speaker 1: and take advantage of the looks and make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we can maximize with the one on ones opportunities that
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  Speaker 1: you get, you know. And that's what that's where you
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  Speaker 1: know talking about. Uh, Jay Reid you know, comes in
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  Speaker 1: and he he knows how to read it and make
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  Speaker 1: the calls and he has the game plan.
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  Speaker 3: So put a quite a bit of responsibility on him
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  Speaker 3: on that.
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  Speaker 1: On the field, if you need to take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: her ops. And that means when you get to one
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  Speaker 1: of the ones, we got to be effective and be
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  Speaker 1: a factor, and we didn't get that done.
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  Speaker 3: He had sacked or is golf played and keeping himself
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  Speaker 3: clean just not getting sacked. GOP doesn't take a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of them. They go and got sacked once against Casey.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the ball's out, you know, And he's really smart.
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  Speaker 1: You can't fool him. You know, he knows where the
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  Speaker 1: ball should go. His reads are you know, are excellent,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's maximizing the calls that that he has.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's not he's not random in anything.
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  Speaker 1: He is very guided and very very governed well and
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  Speaker 1: so and he didn't he didn't want to get hit either.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's had some some issues over the years
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  Speaker 1: about when he gets banged around.
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  Speaker 2: So he knows to get the ball out. He's really
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  Speaker 2: smart about it.
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  Speaker 3: Anything else, thank you and picking out the thanks coming