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Cooper Kupp: "We're All Responsible For Making These Plays Come Alive" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone?
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  Speaker 2: How's it going?
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic. My mustache is looking great, Brady.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I have the commitment.
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  Speaker 3: The Jets ran a five tight end set this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think it's going to take for the
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  Speaker 3: league to start moving back to even four receiver or
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  Speaker 3: five receiver sets, which you almost never see anymore?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just the flow of the league, man. Just the
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  Speaker 1: flow of the league. It's cool, though.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know that was a successful. I don't have
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  Speaker 4: that information on. Yeah, that's cool. It's crazy how it
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  Speaker 4: all changes, isn't it? It makes this league fun. I've
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  Speaker 4: talked about it before, just the constant adapting and changing
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  Speaker 4: of how offenses and defenses work against each other.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. He'll come back around.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the way Drew played, really not getting any
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  Speaker 2: reps with you guys last week. Are you excited to
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  Speaker 2: see what he can do getting this week of getting
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  Speaker 2: all the reps and getting used to that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that'll be really valuable for him. You're
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  Speaker 4: talking about a ton of reps between walkthroughs and practices
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  Speaker 4: and things like that. So just a lot of opportunities
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  Speaker 4: to ultimately still be able to go out there and.
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  Speaker 1: Just play, right?
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  Speaker 4: Like I think there's, you know, on one side of it,
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  Speaker 4: he has the opportunity to go out there like last
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  Speaker 4: week and you just have to let rip. There's no
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  Speaker 4: time to be thinking because you're out here going. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think having the opportunity to prepare hopefully
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  Speaker 4: allows anything that he would have carried out there with
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  Speaker 4: him that he felt slow on, that he felt like
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  Speaker 4: was behind on, giving him an opportunity to just really
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  Speaker 4: play completely free and let rip the way he was.
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  Speaker 5: How much chemistry do you feel like you can have
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  Speaker 5: with a backup, whether it's Drew or otherwise, when you're
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  Speaker 5: working with the number one 90% of the time and everything?
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  Speaker 5: What's that kind of dynamic like, and how do you
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  Speaker 5: try to keep yourself balanced out to know if they
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  Speaker 5: come in that you still are in a good place
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  Speaker 5: with them?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think there's always this constant communication, and
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  Speaker 4: I think the quarterbacks here have done an unbelievable job
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  Speaker 4: in terms of like, there's not a whole lot of
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  Speaker 4: conversations that happen with Sam that Drew's not right there
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  Speaker 4: having that same conversation. I mean, those guys work so
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  Speaker 4: well together. You know, so, you know, just like Drew
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  Speaker 4: has always been in Sam's back pocket in terms of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, bouncing things off of each other and collaborating together.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Sam's going to be that same exact thing
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  Speaker 4: for Drew this week. And, you know, so there's going
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  Speaker 4: to be some carryover just from that side of things, right?
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  Speaker 4: Like the amount of time that we've had conversating about
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  Speaker 4: these things and him seeing things the same way that
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  Speaker 4: we do at Receiver. And it's just about making sure
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  Speaker 4: we're dialing in, making sure that there's a great intent
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  Speaker 4: during the week here to make sure we're maximizing our time,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the time at practice. And hopefully, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're not just standing on the side. You're over there
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  Speaker 4: talking through what's coming up or what you saw to
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  Speaker 4: make sure we can be on the same page come Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: To give people an idea, how many passes or reps
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  Speaker 5: did you take with Drew Locke during last season, before
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  Speaker 5: this week?
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  Speaker 1: Last season? Yeah. The entire season? not, not very many. Um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in, somewhere in that region.
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  Speaker 5: When quarterback change happens, a lot of people are focusing
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  Speaker 5: on like the quarterback, but what does it require from
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  Speaker 5: receivers and like the rest of the offense to make
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  Speaker 5: that transition seamless?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, there's like a, a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: quarterbacks work happens before the snap, right? Like you're, you
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  Speaker 4: are the conduit by which all communication comes through for
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  Speaker 4: the entire offense. And, um, there's a lot of leadership
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  Speaker 4: and organizational part stuff that has to happen.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of communication has to happen.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, there's a, an element of being in
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  Speaker 4: the huddle and understanding, you know, the cadence of how
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  Speaker 4: Drew wants to get the play from Brian.
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  Speaker 1: To us, right? How does he want to communicate to
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  Speaker 1: us in the huddle?
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  Speaker 4: Um, guys just being locked in and then, you know,
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  Speaker 4: ultimately having, you know, not being so, um, fragile, being
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  Speaker 4: malleable to the point of being able to get what
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  Speaker 4: you need out of these things. Um, make sure that
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  Speaker 4: there's communication also going back up the chain in terms of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, hey, these cadences are good. They're jumping the
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  Speaker 4: snap counts or things like that. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of communication that goes back and forth. And I think
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  Speaker 4: it's really like during the week, guys being on top
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  Speaker 4: of it, guys being on top of, you know, the intent,
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  Speaker 4: not just sitting there and be like, oh, this is different,
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  Speaker 4: but being able to say, okay, how can we make
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  Speaker 4: sure that we're by Sunday all on the same page
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  Speaker 4: and operating the way we want to.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen's obviously now the backup.
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  Speaker 5: How have you seen him grow and.
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  Speaker 3: Progress, you know, the two years since he's been here?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I thought, you know, during training camp, he
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  Speaker 4: did an unbelievable job in terms of just slowing things down.
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  Speaker 4: It seemed like last year there were times where, like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it was just ahead of him. You know,
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  Speaker 4: there's a new offense, and there's a lot of learning
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  Speaker 4: that's going on, but he did a great job this
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  Speaker 4: year in terms of just slowing down and making throws,
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  Speaker 4: being able to get out of the pocket when he
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  Speaker 4: needs to. I mean, he's such an incredible athlete, you know,
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  Speaker 4: having a little bit more of just allowing himself to play.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's really what it comes down to is
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  Speaker 4: he's an incredible football player, so just allowing his natural
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  Speaker 4: abilities to come out, and, you know, he can rip it, so...
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm sure just like anyone would say, comfortable
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  Speaker 4: with whatever it ends up being. But you, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think Jalen's done a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Leo had said that one of his big takeaways after
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  Speaker 3: kind of watching week one was that the team had
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  Speaker 3: the bend.
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  Speaker 2: But don't break philosophy. How does that align with what
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  Speaker 2: you saw from the offense.
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  Speaker 3: And the overall effort?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think, you know, certainly from the defensive
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  Speaker 4: side of things, there was, you know, I think that
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  Speaker 4: last drive there is kind of a great example of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, back coming to life. Um, you know, offensive,
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  Speaker 4: I think there were times that we were bending ourselves
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  Speaker 4: a little bit with just, you know, pre-snap penalties, things
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  Speaker 4: like that. It's like, Hey, there's just, there's opportunities for
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  Speaker 4: us to stay ahead of the sticks. And we need
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  Speaker 4: to do that when, especially when it's things that we
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  Speaker 4: can control, um, completely on our own. And so, um,
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  Speaker 4: but there was the ability to overcome all that stuff
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  Speaker 4: to be able to find ways to get, you know,
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  Speaker 4: more points on the scoreboard than the other team. And so, um,
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  Speaker 4: There's definitely some stuff that we've got to remedy and
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  Speaker 4: want to be better at, but I think there's great
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  Speaker 4: examples of that happening on both sides.
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  Speaker 5: Speaking of those penalties, where do you feel like the
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  Speaker 5: root of that came from last week? Was it the
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  Speaker 5: greenness of Brian being there the first time, Drew hopping
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  Speaker 5: in mid-game week one and not having preseason action? What
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  Speaker 5: do you attribute.
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  Speaker 1: Some of that stuff to?
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  Speaker 4: I'd say every single person that stepped on that field
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  Speaker 4: offensively had a hand in it in some way. We
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  Speaker 4: are all responsible for making these plays come alive.
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  Speaker 1: You come in here.
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  Speaker 4: On Thursday last week and everyone's hands up. Who's responsible
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  Speaker 4: for it? Everyone here will put their hand up and
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  Speaker 4: say we can do a better job. It's not on
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  Speaker 4: one person to be better. It's on all of us
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  Speaker 4: to find a way to make these things come alive.
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  Speaker 4: When a backup quarterback comes in, do you guys have
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  Speaker 4: to adjust to his cadence or does the backup try
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  Speaker 4: to like mimic the starters? Yeah, I think you try
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  Speaker 4: to keep it as similar as possible. I think those
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  Speaker 4: guys do a good job of that, but there's going
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  Speaker 4: to be some differences. There's going to be some stuff that's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, some nuance to it that's different, but like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we've also, we've heard Drew call Cadence.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, we're going to go through this whole, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to go through this whole week and be able to
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  Speaker 4: hear his cadence. And like I said, it's not just
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  Speaker 4: the cadence, it's just the communication. all across the board
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  Speaker 4: that goes on before the ball's even snapped. Um, that's
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  Speaker 4: been great stuff for us, you know, getting those reps
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  Speaker 4: and making sure we're, um, like I said, very having
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  Speaker 4: intentional mindset, um, when it comes to practice.
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  Speaker 2: Coop, this is a unique situation. You're playing a team
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  Speaker 2: with a new head coach, but they've got the same
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  Speaker 2: defensive coordinator. Mike was mentioning, yeah, they've got some different
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  Speaker 2: coaches on that side of the ball, but they have
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  Speaker 2: the same coordinator. What did you see from this defense
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  Speaker 2: for Arizona and their opener and, How do you approach
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  Speaker 2: this when you've played against this defense before, but there's
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  Speaker 2: different coaches on that staff and it's not all the same?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, some of the stuff, some of that carryover from
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  Speaker 4: some of the stuff that Rallis has done before, I
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  Speaker 4: think that defense did a good job accentuating the talents
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  Speaker 4: of the people they had over there. So there was
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of an ability to morph and move
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  Speaker 4: based on the guys that they had, and I think
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  Speaker 4: they've kind of continued to stick to that mindset. You know,
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  Speaker 4: regardless of whoever the coaches are that are over there,
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  Speaker 4: you know, coaching the guys now, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: similar schematical pieces to the defense and present a lot
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  Speaker 4: of good challenges for us. So it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: fun getting out there and competing against those guys. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they run around and, yeah, they compete. So it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be fun.
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  Speaker 3: You won't be here this weekend, but thoughts on Eastern
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  Speaker 3: Washington coming as a 42-point underdog?
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  Speaker 4: 42-point underdog? I mean, that seems a little egregious. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, I think, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I really like Jed Fish. I obviously have
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  Speaker 4: to root for the Eags. But I think offensively they
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  Speaker 4: can do some stuff to make sure that 42 is
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  Speaker 4: not a situation that happens.
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  Speaker 3: You have some familiarity with the head coach in Arizona,
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  Speaker 3: and obviously you're focused on Arizona's defense, but any.
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  Speaker 1: Knocks on the door for Mike McDonald this week just
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  Speaker 1: to get in the mind of the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the play call? If he has any questions, he knows
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  Speaker 1: where to find me. Anything else? Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.