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Press Pass | Liam Coen Previews Week 6 Matchup Against Seahawks · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: That crowd on Monday night like helped you guys throughout
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  Speaker 1: the game. I mean how big the home building vanity?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just moving forward, I mean that was an unbelievable atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: Had so many people comment on just how cool it
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  Speaker 2: was to be at that game, the impact that they
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  Speaker 2: had towards, especially the end they had the delay and
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  Speaker 2: they had obviously they had to take them back to
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  Speaker 2: back time out situation. You could feel it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it was a really cool atmosphere. The place was going mental.
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  Speaker 2: We need that as much as humanly possible moving forward,
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  Speaker 2: as much as we can get the fan base uh
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  Speaker 2: In community continue to show up similar to that. That
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  Speaker 2: would be a fantastic home field advantage for us moving forwards.
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  Speaker 3: The challenge going to be just a replace for Insurane.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's on my arm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Hunter Long has stepped up in a
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  Speaker 2: major way. Thought Johnny Munt, you know, did did a
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  Speaker 2: couple of good things the other night as well. And
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  Speaker 2: then Quint Morris has played better and better for us
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  Speaker 2: on special teams. And I do think that when his
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  Speaker 2: numbers called in games, he won't flinch either.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he was in on the third down.
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  Speaker 2: And I think two down to the low red zone
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  Speaker 2: got in on a play that he had not repped
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  Speaker 2: all week and goes in and executes it on the
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  Speaker 2: speed option.
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  Speaker 3: But I have.
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  Speaker 2: Confidence in that room to be able to continue to
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  Speaker 2: ascend and help us out. You know, in the past
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  Speaker 2: game and in the run game, both those guys.
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  Speaker 3: In terms of the run game. How much of a.
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  Speaker 2: Challenge is that just yeah, the physical presence for sure,
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  Speaker 2: the way that he plays the violence just he can
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  Speaker 2: pry some stuff open on his own just by playing
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  Speaker 2: the way he plays. And but you know that that's on.
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  Speaker 3: Us as coaches.
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  Speaker 2: We have to get creative and continue to try to
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  Speaker 2: put those other tight ends and matchups that are favorable
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  Speaker 2: and even if they are putting a tough position having
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  Speaker 2: a block, maybe a big or defensive end that I
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  Speaker 2: do trust those guys that they can get some of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff done win start for the year.
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  Speaker 3: Do you worry about how the team will handle the success?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean I think I don't want to say
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  Speaker 2: with the most pissed off four on one team, But
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  Speaker 2: like there there's definitely some feelings in the in the
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  Speaker 2: building over the last few days of knowing that we
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  Speaker 2: have not still put out sixty minutes of our best football.
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  Speaker 2: I think specifically on the defensive side, there was some
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  Speaker 2: frustrations in some of the things that we gave up,
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  Speaker 2: and specifically in the run game that we didn't probably
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  Speaker 2: have our best efforts, uh and stopping the run something
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  Speaker 2: that we had been doing at a at a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good level there, and you know, and then same thing offensively, right,
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  Speaker 2: we punted twice, but we had you know, in the
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  Speaker 2: fumble at the at the end, you know, at the
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  Speaker 2: goal line there, and then the turnover that we got
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  Speaker 2: to continue to try to take care of the football
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  Speaker 2: at a higher click. And I think they just know
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  Speaker 2: that there was some meat left on the bone even
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  Speaker 2: after a really cool win.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I was just talking to Tony and James about that earlier.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the first especially in the first half of games,
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  Speaker 2: like those guys come out and nobody's running the ball
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  Speaker 2: on those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Really, their front is so deep.
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  Speaker 2: They've got eight guys up front that have played high
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  Speaker 2: level football in the NFL and have all been impactful
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  Speaker 2: starters at some point in the National Football League at
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  Speaker 2: one point.
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  Speaker 3: So they're very active.
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  Speaker 2: They move a lot upfront, they stunt them, they move them,
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  Speaker 2: they'll pressure. Their movements are very well coordinated up front,
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  Speaker 2: and they have good players. You know, they have good
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  Speaker 2: players that have created havoc. They have definitely played on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive side of the line of scrimmage often this year.
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  Speaker 2: They don't stay blocked long on double teams. So huge
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  Speaker 2: challenge for us both schematically and you know, personnel wise
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  Speaker 2: for us to have to go, you know, move the
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  Speaker 2: ball and run the football effectively.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna need to.
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  Speaker 1: Talk before about how you're really emotional, and Trevor kind
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  Speaker 1: of helped bounce that out.
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  Speaker 3: You see.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the team is.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of kind of adopted your personality or got close.
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  Speaker 2: No, you know, I think that it was weird because
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  Speaker 2: when I got here and had a lot of conversations
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  Speaker 2: with the guys individually, there was a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a chip on the shoulder and a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a frustrated but eager mentality, and so I think that
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  Speaker 2: was pretty innate with some of the guys where that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of been my approach in general and where a coach,
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  Speaker 2: So that just naturally I think connected maybe with some
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  Speaker 2: of the guys, or that I connected to them because
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  Speaker 2: I felt that from them as well, and so you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was probably my most calm the other night in ways,
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  Speaker 2: and it was cool to see then Trevor like take
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  Speaker 2: over some of that and you saw some of the
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  Speaker 2: swagger that that he had after he made the throw
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  Speaker 2: to BT and Dami and just you know, you just
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  Speaker 2: saw some confidence in grit and toughness that you want
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  Speaker 2: your teams to display. Not because it's about my personality
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  Speaker 2: or me, it's more because I think that that helps
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  Speaker 2: have an edge, and ultimately I do would like our
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  Speaker 2: team to have an edge.
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  Speaker 3: As a quarterback too, Yeah, a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of personal fouls as a player as a quarterback. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So I probably was in a lot of ways. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't really a trash talker that necessarily, but I
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  Speaker 2: think as so I was pretty limited athletically and so
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  Speaker 2: had to use the mind as a weapon as well,
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  Speaker 2: and to try to get yourself in competitive mode to
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  Speaker 2: play and come from a small school a small state
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  Speaker 2: where football is not really that important in ways, or
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't at the time maybe in terms of recruitment
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  Speaker 2: and exposure, and you go play FCS ONELA football and
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  Speaker 2: you feel like you're better than that and go and
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  Speaker 2: try to win as many games as humanly possible while
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  Speaker 2: probably feeling like you were maybe a little underrecruited. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: that that's where that comes from. But no, I had
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  Speaker 2: it was a good I had a great experience. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I had a great experience times.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think he unless I'm missing one out
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  Speaker 1: slid once it's He had a conversation about that. He doesn't,
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  Speaker 1: he said, given his history, he doesn't want to size yet.
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  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, we did.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about it downstairs after the game. We did,
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  Speaker 2: like in the lobby. We were talking about it, and
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  Speaker 2: I said, dude, you know, I just want to protect
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  Speaker 2: I just want you to protect yourself. Is whatever that
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  Speaker 2: is for you. I can't truly tell you what that
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  Speaker 2: looks like because I haven't been in your shoes and
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  Speaker 2: at this level.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, we we we talked.
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  Speaker 2: I was just like, dude, he does frustrate as well.
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  Speaker 2: It will frustrate the defense more when you do run
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  Speaker 2: and now they don't even get to touch you know that.
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  Speaker 3: Now they don't hit you when you slide.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it can frustrate and irritate the opposing team,
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  Speaker 2: the opposing defense when you're you're you're able to get
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  Speaker 2: out still remain a passor but then you do take
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  Speaker 2: off and now they can't touch you, and it's like
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  Speaker 2: that can become frustrating for them. So that's the little
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  Speaker 2: game within the game that we were talking about.
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  Speaker 3: But he didn't he didn't really.
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  Speaker 2: Have much of an answer. You know, it was just like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this is that's kind of how I was. I'm running
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  Speaker 2: and I respect and appreciate it, so but we do
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  Speaker 2: need to keep them healthy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, maybe maybe so I can.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I can kind of sympathize based on what
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  Speaker 2: did occur last year, and I can't say that he
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  Speaker 2: has never mentioned that play. So that's the cool part
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  Speaker 2: about it is that he doesn't even talk about that
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  Speaker 2: as being something that's in his head or that he
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  Speaker 2: thinks about. I mean, the guy was running like a
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  Speaker 2: crazy man out there, so you know, I think he's
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  Speaker 2: just being a football player trying to go play and
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  Speaker 2: compete as a quarterback. Just how much he appreciates sat
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  Speaker 2: Garn's journey and what does it kind of say just
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  Speaker 2: about that position surrounding? Yeah, I got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: respect for Sam, you know, getting I don't know him personally,
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  Speaker 2: but obviously through Grant and Kevin and then obviously Sean
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  Speaker 2: Surrette being here having stories and watching him throw the football.
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  Speaker 2: He's very talented. There's a reason why he was the
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  Speaker 2: top five pick. I remember all the comebacks that he
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  Speaker 2: had at se And to see guys so much to
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  Speaker 2: play in this position I think in this league is
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  Speaker 2: timing and circumstance, and there's so many talented guys that
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  Speaker 2: people end up saying can't do it or it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: work in that timing and that circum stance. And now
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  Speaker 2: look what has happened to him and his career. Baker
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  Speaker 2: and him are on the same team and couldn't quite
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  Speaker 2: play on that team. So it's just so much of
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  Speaker 2: it is not giving up on these guys and knowing
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  Speaker 2: that as time goes and they accumulate more reps, not
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  Speaker 2: just in games, but in practice calling plays. Guys coming
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  Speaker 2: from spread systems, no huddle, shotgun like that whole operation
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  Speaker 2: is new. It's different. It's a different mode of operation
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  Speaker 2: for those guys. So really cool to see guys like Sam,
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  Speaker 2: you know, continuing to get better as they go throughout
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  Speaker 2: their career.
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  Speaker 1: The wide receiver targets that will be coming here from
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  Speaker 1: Seattle this weekend. How would you evaluate coverage usage opposite Tyson,
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  Speaker 1: how Tyson's been used so far.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean obviously in Jigba, Cooper, those guys and
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of respect for them as well. Sam
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  Speaker 2: can put it in in tight spots and Jigba's got
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  Speaker 2: great body control and hands at the point of contact.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's faster than maybe people give him credit for.
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  Speaker 2: And Cooper still, you know, the guy that can go
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  Speaker 2: and compete with the best of them. He's gonna block
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  Speaker 2: his tail off, he's still getting open. He's a great
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  Speaker 2: person in that room to have, I think for probably
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  Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jigba as well. And they're not afraid
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  Speaker 2: to push the ball down the field. They're pushing the
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  Speaker 2: ball on the play actions. They're able to get it
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  Speaker 2: down there. So we've we definitely have to be better
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  Speaker 2: than we were the other night in terms of we
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  Speaker 2: had some communication errors in the back end. We did
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  Speaker 2: have a few you know, one on one opportunity, you
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  Speaker 2: know type plays that we didn't end up coming down with.
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  Speaker 2: But I do have a lot of confidence in those
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  Speaker 2: guys back there. What that looks like from a rotational standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: I think we'll know a little bit more in the.
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  Speaker 3: Next day or two.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Travis makes a good play on Kelsey on
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  Speaker 2: the third. Now monterk makes a huge deflection on a
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  Speaker 2: big time play. Jarion Jones gets in at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the game, makes a tackle at the end of eve.
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  Speaker 2: So all those guys I think are going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to play and get reps and opportunities and what that
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  Speaker 2: looks like from a rep coount standpoint, I think we'll
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  Speaker 2: know a little bit more throughout this week.
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  Speaker 3: You use Van as that.
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  Speaker 2: Jumble of life at one time Double started shoot the
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  Speaker 2: other night. What do you like about having that extra
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  Speaker 2: big body. Well, especially with Brenton, you know now being
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  Speaker 2: out a little bit, it's like just you're always trying
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  Speaker 2: to look for opportunities to take something off the tight ends, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like they have so much on their plate from the
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  Speaker 2: past game and the run game, and when you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to get them matched up specifically maybe in pass protection
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  Speaker 2: or in the run game, you're trying not to match
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  Speaker 2: them up with a defensive end all the time, right,
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's probably where the Jumbo can come
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  Speaker 2: in and help you just take a couple of those downs,
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  Speaker 2: hard downs off off of a tight end to where
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  Speaker 2: that matchup is a little bit more uh favorable for
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  Speaker 2: us in ways. So I think that's something that we'll
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  Speaker 2: continue to build off of. And it's great to know
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  Speaker 2: that those guys can go in and handle it mentally
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  Speaker 2: because they're not being tagged as an offensivelignment and they
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  Speaker 2: have to know the why formationally, you know. And now
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  Speaker 2: we try to keep it pretty simple, so it's not
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  Speaker 2: multiple per game plan, but I do think that we
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  Speaker 2: can use it more and more as we got.
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  Speaker 1: A chance to hear the areas did and you're wrapped
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  Speaker 1: up in is there.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea what that is, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: really the only thing said was just that he practiced
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  Speaker 2: more a little bit more on defense than offense. So
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  Speaker 2: not really too sure where that's going.
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  Speaker 3: Came in the league.
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  Speaker 2: You're the same, how much you stand with you.
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  Speaker 3: He's Cooper.
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  Speaker 2: I almost named my son Cooper, so in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of yeah, that's how much respect I.
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  Speaker 3: Have for him. We are.
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  Speaker 2: He has sent me texts throughout my career, whether I
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  Speaker 2: was with the Rams at Kentucky or here in Tampa
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  Speaker 2: or here randomly all the you know, at different points
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  Speaker 2: of just thinking about you.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you're doing great. Proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely more than just a player coach relationship. I learned
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  Speaker 2: so much more from him than and like guys like
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  Speaker 2: Matthew and Guy, I learned so much more from them
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  Speaker 2: than I think I probably ever could have given them
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  Speaker 2: as a coach. His understanding of all eleven on the field,
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  Speaker 2: his understanding of the run scheme, blocking assignments in the
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  Speaker 2: run game, his understanding of the quarterbacks timing and rhythm progressions, reads, coverage.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that he's the smartest football player him and math.
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  Speaker 2: You know that I've ever really truly worked with that
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  Speaker 2: for an extended period of time. Right, I've obviously worked
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of really good pros, but can't say
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  Speaker 2: enough good things about Cooper and the type of man
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  Speaker 2: that he is.