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  Speaker 1: With the way McManus is kicking, you get to his
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  Speaker 1: spot and you know that he is you got three
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  Speaker 1: points in your pocket. Does that change your play falling?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean obviously our kick climb is probably a
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  Speaker 3: little further than most people just because he has a
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  Speaker 3: big leg. You know, we're always continuing to try to score.
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  Speaker 3: But it certainly helps influence some things. I mean, you've
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  Speaker 3: probably seen on third and fifteen. We're in that friend
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  Speaker 3: range where we know a six yard game, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you have a what is it a eighteen percent chance
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  Speaker 3: of converting third and eleven plus and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: if we can get ourselves six yards, he has a
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  Speaker 3: sixty percent chance to making a feel well, that's huge
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  Speaker 3: for us and the way we play and the way
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  Speaker 3: we operate. So there's certainly things that it influences how
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  Speaker 3: we do certain things or where we're trying to get
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  Speaker 3: what our kick line is. But uh, it's a good
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  Speaker 3: weapon to have. Are the times you'll be more aggress
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  Speaker 3: of the times you might be conservative, like you just.
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  Speaker 1: Walt to that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think everything's case by case, but yeah, there's
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  Speaker 3: certainly instances where you know, we're always kind of trying
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  Speaker 3: to play the odds, the odds of us converting on
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  Speaker 3: I think there's been a couple of times where we've
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  Speaker 3: had I think back to Pittsburgh at least, I know
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  Speaker 3: there's one we ended up in, like a third and
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  Speaker 3: sixteen situation where you just want eight yards, We get
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  Speaker 3: eight yards. We got a chance to kick a field.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's a catch and run, we get the first.
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  Speaker 3: But if we're sitting trying to hold the ball, get
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  Speaker 3: everybody past sticks. The odds of us converting are less
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  Speaker 3: than fifteen percent, but eight yards gives us three points.
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  Speaker 3: So now, yes, it affects that, and we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: call things that give us catch and run opportunities, but
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  Speaker 3: we're more willing to settle for just check down completions.
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  Speaker 1: So you might know the head coach on the other sideline, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit. Yeah, what's the tailor
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  Speaker 1: Brobol trophy mean to you?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing, nothing.
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  Speaker 3: It used to be it was something that was cool.
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  Speaker 3: We were both kind of quality controls or assistant position coaches,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it was, so it was kind of it was
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  Speaker 3: a fun way for our family to kind of be
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  Speaker 3: involved and us talk a little trash and yeah, now
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  Speaker 3: It's just kind of something that only gets brought up
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  Speaker 3: really this time of year. We may randomly think about
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  Speaker 3: it every so often and see if my dad updated it.
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  Speaker 3: But that's that's I mean, that's really all it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's just kind of a fun thing for our family.
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  Speaker 1: But any charge of tickets this week.
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  Speaker 3: I'm never in charge of tickets.
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  Speaker 1: Life is.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't necessarily tell you who's coming when they get
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  Speaker 3: here or anything like that. My wife is a saint,
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  Speaker 3: handles all that for me in season.
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  Speaker 4: So your kids go to that game too late?
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  Speaker 3: Two of them wall no, too late, all of them
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  Speaker 3: are no. There's no way.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to. We don't.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody wants them here past nine o'clock at night.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: How often do you and Zact talk during the season.
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  Speaker 3: I mean sometimes it'll be twice a week. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 3: won't talk for three weeks. I mean, it's just kind
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  Speaker 3: of we're pretty much on a very similar schedule. So
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  Speaker 3: we try to talk. On the drive home is kind
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  Speaker 3: of where we reach each other. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: gonna answer my phone when I'm at home because I'm
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  Speaker 3: at home. If I'm in a meeting, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 3: answer here. So he's the same way. So there may
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  Speaker 3: be times that just didn't work out. We didn't talk.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we'll text here and there, but if we get
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  Speaker 3: a chance on Fridays or something, driving home until we
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  Speaker 3: get to the house, we'll catch up or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But no talking this week, right, No no talking this week.
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  Speaker 4: What do you remember from your time as a GA
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  Speaker 4: at Tulsa, oh Man.
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  Speaker 3: I remember meeting my wife. That was probably my most
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  Speaker 3: significant thing. I remember I was in a house. I
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  Speaker 3: lived in a three bedroom house with three other gas.
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  Speaker 3: So there's four of us, so one guy just lived
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  Speaker 3: in the couch. He paid less. He probably paid a
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  Speaker 3: hundred bucks. We paid four hundred bucks. We would take
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  Speaker 3: the golf cart from work to our house and eat
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  Speaker 3: lunch there because nobody had money to eat lunch, so
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  Speaker 3: we just always go home, uh to eat there. But
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  Speaker 3: I remember working for Bill Blanketship was the head coach time.
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  Speaker 3: The way he treated people. You know, I knew I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to get into coaching. I love football, but being
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  Speaker 3: around him and the way he treated his staff and
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  Speaker 3: the way he built his staff just really stirred everything
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  Speaker 3: I thought or I hoped. What happened for me of
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  Speaker 3: wanting to get into a career in coaching. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I remember that, and we won a lot of games.
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  Speaker 3: We had some a lot of really good teams when
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  Speaker 3: we were there.
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  Speaker 2: So was he probably one of the more in full
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  Speaker 2: winter PRIs I would say so in one of the
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  Speaker 2: most important, one of the most important stops.
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  Speaker 1: Of your career.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably really on And honestly, I ever worked for
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  Speaker 3: four head coaches. If any one of those four ever
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  Speaker 3: called me today, I'd go work for him, because they're
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  Speaker 3: all great people. Not everybody can say that in their
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  Speaker 3: career of their boss. All the four bosses I've had,
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  Speaker 3: I would go work for in a heartbeat. I loved
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  Speaker 3: every single one of them.
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  Speaker 4: Third and eight and longer is obviously not a high
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  Speaker 4: odds for anybody to confront it. But you guys had really,
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  Speaker 4: really struggled incredibly bad, and last week it kind of flipped.
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  Speaker 4: You doubled the amount of third down conversions from ap
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  Speaker 4: gadger longer from the whole season. I'm just wondering about
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  Speaker 4: what was different last week or is it just happenstance
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  Speaker 4: and just one of those weeks you just hit it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think again, it's always case by case I
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  Speaker 3: mean there's plenty of times with this season, more so
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  Speaker 3: than we had last season, where we're in four minute
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  Speaker 3: mode and we're willing to run the ball. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we're in thirteen personnel running the ball in third and eight.
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  Speaker 3: We know we're not converting. I think we've had three
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  Speaker 3: or four of those we've had. Unfortunately, we've had some drops.
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  Speaker 3: We had to drop the other day on third and fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: We've had It's been a number of issues here and there.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, we look at everything case by case.
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  Speaker 3: So we had the right call, did we practice it
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  Speaker 3: against this, Look what happened? Why did things go wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Then's something we continue to address everything. If there was
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  Speaker 3: one glaring thing, we'll fix it. We'll get it corrected.
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  Speaker 3: We'll make sure whether it's scheme, whatever it may be.
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  Speaker 3: There's also times where like the Pittsburgh games third and sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: where if we get eight yards we have a seventy
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  Speaker 3: two percent chance to making a field goal. If we
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  Speaker 3: throw in complete, we have a twelve percent chance. So
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  Speaker 3: we're more willing to just put the ball in play,
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  Speaker 3: maybe not be as aggressive, to not get any chance
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  Speaker 3: at points where now we have the ability to get
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  Speaker 3: three and so there's certain times where you play based
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  Speaker 3: on the situation of the game, the weather, whatever it
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  Speaker 3: may be, where your decision making changes at times.
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  Speaker 4: When you look at it at the stat sheet after
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  Speaker 4: a game, what do you prioritize in terms of what
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  Speaker 4: makes an offense look good to you? Is it chunk plays?
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  Speaker 4: Is it third down conversions?
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  Speaker 1: What scoreboard start?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, it's honestly it's starts scoreboard. I mean, did we
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  Speaker 3: do enough to win the game? Do we help our
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  Speaker 3: team win the game? Where were the reason we lost
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  Speaker 3: the game? It's always that, so that that's honestly where
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  Speaker 3: we start. I mean there's some games where I could
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  Speaker 3: explain to you why we were one for three in
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  Speaker 3: the red zone. I mean there's games where you could
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  Speaker 3: explain why you're four to thirteen. You had a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of four minute runs and third down and certain things happen.
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  Speaker 3: There are certain barriers. I think there is some combination
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  Speaker 3: of explosive plays, negative plays, turnover margin that are always
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  Speaker 3: going to be factors and wins and losses. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you just win the turnover margin, you have a seventy
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  Speaker 3: percent chance to win a football game. That's a big thing.
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  Speaker 3: Then we go into how do we control the football?
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  Speaker 3: What does it just giveaways? Take away? We present this
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  Speaker 3: number to our players every single week of as it
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  Speaker 3: changes week by week across the season. What those numbers
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  Speaker 3: reflect score, turnover margin, explosive plays, inefficient plays or negative?
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  Speaker 3: That combination, I think is always kind of the key
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  Speaker 3: that we start with.
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  Speaker 2: So delicate is the balance to in the usage of Travis.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's on pace now for three d and
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  Speaker 2: thirty something touches. Is that an okay number?
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  Speaker 1: Number one?
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  Speaker 2: But now that you know or you have a good
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  Speaker 2: feel that you could be playing some extra games in anywhary.
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  Speaker 1: Like, how delicate is it that?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's like any player you don't want to
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  Speaker 3: You want to use them the right amount where they're still
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  Speaker 3: effective without hindering the long term I guess process throughout
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  Speaker 3: the course of the season. So you know, as guys
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  Speaker 3: accumulate some bumps and bruises as thing goes, you may
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  Speaker 3: see their uses get toned down a little bit. But
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, we got to do whatever we
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  Speaker 3: gotta do to win the game. So guys understand that,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, sometimes it is impossible to pull these guys
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  Speaker 3: off the field at times knowing all right, them at
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  Speaker 3: eighty percent is not as good as SO and so
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  Speaker 3: at ninety percent, whatever it may be. So we're constantly
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  Speaker 3: working with the training staff to evaluate where those guys are,
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  Speaker 3: but constantly working with the players to get them to
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  Speaker 3: be honest with us and for us to communicate with them.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of the biggest things I found with these
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  Speaker 3: players is you're able to communicate throughout the course of
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  Speaker 3: the week what the plan is, and then you stick
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  Speaker 3: with your word. They're all on board. So maybe, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we've noticed you're banged up a little bit. Based on
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  Speaker 3: what the run game looks like, past game looks like,
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  Speaker 3: we're thinking it's gonna be more of this type of
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  Speaker 3: stuff or that type of player, or here's your rotation,
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  Speaker 3: and then if we can stick to that, you get
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  Speaker 3: buy in and you continue to gain trust throughout the
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  Speaker 3: course of the season.
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  Speaker 5: If you and your brother, you guys have never coached either,
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  Speaker 5: would you want to coach together or would.
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  Speaker 1: That be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. There's also be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's my older brother. That's somebody I'll
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  Speaker 3: look up to. It'd be awesome to spend a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time with them, sit in a sit in a
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  Speaker 3: room and just talk football with that person all the time.
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  Speaker 3: But there's also some dynamics I think that would make
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  Speaker 3: it challenging, and that's you know it. Honestly, It's never
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  Speaker 3: come up with us, so we were never in a
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  Speaker 3: position where we felt like that was best for either
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  Speaker 3: of us at the time. And yeah, it'd be it'd
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  Speaker 3: be a fun thing to happen if it ever happened,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't think we'd ever force it to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Express where's the short yardage offense right now? And how
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  Speaker 1: do you see that improving in the final six weeks?
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  Speaker 3: It's been head and miss. Honestly, I mean we we
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  Speaker 3: there's things we could do better, whether it's scheme execution,
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  Speaker 3: play call, personnel usage. There's a lot of things that
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  Speaker 3: could continue to be better, and that's something we continue
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  Speaker 3: to work on. We spend a lot of time, We
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  Speaker 3: spend a lot of time in our game planning process
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  Speaker 3: of it of making sure we're trying to put the
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  Speaker 3: best people in the best position to do what they
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  Speaker 3: do really well. Uh, it's something I think we cantinue
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  Speaker 3: to try to improve on as we go. No matter
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  Speaker 3: where you are, and let's say you're one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 3: you want to continue to make that number as good
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  Speaker 3: as it could be. I do think over the course
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  Speaker 3: of the last couple of years, I think short yardage
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  Speaker 3: conversion percentages continue to go down across the league as
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  Speaker 3: teams get better at understanding win teams, quarterback sneak and
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  Speaker 3: different looks and present in different fronts, and then the
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  Speaker 3: compliments to the fronts you're That's the fun part of
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  Speaker 3: this game. Is it used to be if there's an
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  Speaker 3: open a gap, you're gonna sneak it. And that was
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  Speaker 3: the Patriot way. You know, everybody they were ninety two percent. Well,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't sneak it if it won the right look,
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  Speaker 3: so they snuck it versus primary looks. Then everybody started
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  Speaker 3: getting the double tight look, and now they started running
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  Speaker 3: off tackle. Now you're getting the double tight look to
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  Speaker 3: prevent quarterback snakes, but they're getting out charged where they're
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  Speaker 3: really playing b gaps from a gap position. So it's
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  Speaker 3: the cat and mouse game that continues to go into
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  Speaker 3: every single snap. That's the fun part of this.
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  Speaker 5: Is that what you saw from Trevor's putting the ball
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  Speaker 5: over the line versus the fourth and one right before
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  Speaker 5: or the first and one right before the Yai.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the front was different. I think on
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  Speaker 3: both of them. Obviously, you know the front that he
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  Speaker 3: snuck the first run, I think it was a jam
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  Speaker 3: front and he went over the top of the center right
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  Speaker 3: there and then we were gapped out. And the other
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  Speaker 3: one where they were in a goal line personnel because
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  Speaker 3: we were in a goal line personnel, they had us
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  Speaker 3: gapped out. We've tried to run a play that we've
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  Speaker 3: been pretty successful with here for two years that you know,
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  Speaker 3: they made a tackle on the goal line got stopped.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have any second thoughts on that play, like
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  Speaker 5: running that play.
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  Speaker 1: The one that you did run.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think our process of what caused us to
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  Speaker 3: call that play was a good process. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: understand we're always going to be judged off the results
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  Speaker 3: of every single play. If you run it and it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't work, you should have thrown it. If you throw
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  Speaker 3: it to that guy and he didn't catch it, you
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  Speaker 3: should have thrown it to that guy. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: we want to be process oriented and the results oriented
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  Speaker 3: business understanding the results matter. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: we can get back here and justify how we got
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  Speaker 3: to this call and what we thought and if we
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  Speaker 3: faced a certain look is there's something we can do
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  Speaker 3: better in the future, So continue to learn and grow
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  Speaker 3: as we go.
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  Speaker 1: Did you want a better blocking it go to the edge?
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  Speaker 3: Did I want a better blocking and go to the edge?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Did you want Travis to go for the pileline
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  Speaker 1: if you had a better place?
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  Speaker 3: We've seen it different ways we ran it. I think
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  Speaker 3: we ran it at Pittsburgh. We had one last year
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  Speaker 3: at Vegas, I think where he cut inside. So it's
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  Speaker 3: it's played out different times over the course of having
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  Speaker 3: run that play, I think, but we kind of let
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  Speaker 3: Travis b ballcarry and go as he goes, and ultimately
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  Speaker 3: we'd probably like to finish it a little bit better
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  Speaker 3: and then him be able to work the one guy
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  Speaker 3: a little bit cleaner. But I think everybody just we
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  Speaker 3: could do a little bit better. We can put him
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  Speaker 3: in a better positions. Play colors