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Press Pass | Brandon Scherff: "We're Not Making Those Excuses and We Want To Be the Best Unit Out There Each and Every Game" · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How difficult is it to get the running game going
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  Speaker 1: with so many changes in the offensive line because of
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  Speaker 1: the injuries? Is a continuity and communication that might be
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  Speaker 1: lacking at times? That affects that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, every time you're playing next to somebody
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  Speaker 2: who you have and I mean we had Ezra out
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  Speaker 2: there playing left tackle. He did a great job. You know,
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  Speaker 2: every time the communication is different. You know, their footwork's different.
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  Speaker 2: I played with a bunch of right tackles, a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of centers, and it's all just you know, just getting
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  Speaker 2: those practice reps. So uh and I think, uh, Phil
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  Speaker 2: does a great job at getting to that, but wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: expect Ezra to go out And I thought Blake stepped
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  Speaker 2: in into a good job. But uh, it's just about
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  Speaker 2: getting extra reps and maybe getting anx few extras with
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  Speaker 2: a few different combinations to so we know who's you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're if you like to go outside, if you're
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  Speaker 2: a short stepper, if you know what I mean. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just, uh, like you said, continuity and just just
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  Speaker 2: knowing what everybody else does.
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  Speaker 1: And last year the offensive line was pretty much intact, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the entire season, and you know, is is it? I
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  Speaker 1: guess every team in the NFL hits this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have years where you stay healthy and years
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  Speaker 1: where you're gonna get a bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely, you know, And like last year, Walker came in,
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  Speaker 2: did a great job, and then when Ben went out,
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  Speaker 2: Shat came in did a great job. And Walker and
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  Speaker 2: Chat played you know together for eight, eight or nine games,
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  Speaker 2: so they had that continuity there, and they played together
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  Speaker 2: before with each other. So you know, we just got
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  Speaker 2: to keep repping it and keep keep playing.
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  Speaker 1: Now that we're just deep into the season, how have
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  Speaker 1: you seen Anton really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he's being he's communicating a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the first couple of games he was quiet.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's playing a lot more physical, he's playing
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  Speaker 2: with a lot more what do you call it, swagger.
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  Speaker 2: So it's fun to see him, you know, knock people
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  Speaker 2: on his butt and celebrate. So, you know, he's he's
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  Speaker 2: got really good feet, he's really long, and he's only
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  Speaker 2: twenty one years old, which is absolutely crazy that I'm
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  Speaker 2: ten years older than him. But he's got a bright
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  Speaker 2: future for him and I'm excited to get to play
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  Speaker 2: next to him.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like he's like lining up against the pro
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  Speaker 1: bowler like every other week. How much does that kind
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  Speaker 1: of help a rookie kind of just realizes the NFL?
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  Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, I think that's the I mean I've told
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  Speaker 2: him a couple of times. You know that it's never
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  Speaker 2: gonna to get really easier. The best guys you played
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  Speaker 2: against in college you practice against every day in the NFL. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just continue to you know, if you if
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  Speaker 2: you uh lose a rep, you know, don't let one
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  Speaker 2: rep bad repturn too bad reps. Just continue to to uh,
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  Speaker 2: just fight and you know, get past it and move on.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what that's what the good players doing. That's
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  Speaker 2: what he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: How frustrating? How sorry? The second time this year the
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks played on a short week coming off an injury.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what does that do for the locker room? To
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  Speaker 2: see him fight through and go after It's great? You know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh when I saw him on crutches on Sunday out
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  Speaker 2: of the locker room, you know, I felt I felt
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  Speaker 2: terrible for him, and I mean, he's he's a warrior.
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  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden Wednesday, he walks in
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  Speaker 2: with the shoe and I said, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: And uh yeah, So I mean it's just it's cool
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  Speaker 2: to see you know, he's he's putting himself out there
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  Speaker 2: for us, and you know we're doing the same thing
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  Speaker 2: for him. So uh we have all all but nothing
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  Speaker 2: but respect for him. And he's a true warrior and
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  Speaker 2: we're we're glad he's right behind us.
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  Speaker 3: I was talking here a little while ago about a
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  Speaker 3: lot of it, I guess self inflicted issues that you
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  Speaker 3: guys are having overall, and he says he's seen them
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  Speaker 3: in practice too much this week. Where does that consistency
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  Speaker 3: have to I mean, how do you get that consistency
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  Speaker 3: back where you're not having those in practice as much?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just it all goes down to just, uh
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  Speaker 2: you know, Phil always talks about knowing what to do,
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  Speaker 2: know how to do it, and be the same guy
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  Speaker 2: every day. So uh, it's just going back and and
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  Speaker 2: just knowing your game plan, knowing the details, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the ins and outs, and what if what if you
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  Speaker 2: get this look, you know, the the if he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: if he's gonna kill a play, what's he killing it for?
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  Speaker 2: And just really just knowing your game plan and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we just got to continue to uh just
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  Speaker 2: improve on those been in the league.
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  Speaker 3: While you mentioned a little bit ago, how hard is
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  Speaker 3: it to keep the offensive consistency all year when you're
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  Speaker 3: battling through different defensive fronts and injuries and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: Is it is it almost impossible to be consistent the
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  Speaker 3: whole year because of all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say impossible, but it's hard, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the continuity between the offensive line. You know, it's hard,
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  Speaker 2: hard to be on the same page, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: if somebody's coming in coming out. But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're not making those excuses, and you know, we want
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  Speaker 2: to be the best unit out there each and every game,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what we're striving to be. So we're there's
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  Speaker 2: no excuses. So we just got to keep playing