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Pete Carroll: "Geno Smith Really Has Our System Down" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Okay, So extra day in here for us to help
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  Speaker 1: us get a little bit of a recuperation, which is good.
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  Speaker 1: And I know they've got a couple on their side too,
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  Speaker 1: but it's good for our guys.
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  Speaker 2: We try to take full advantage of that.
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  Speaker 1: So coming back today is a really crucial day for
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  Speaker 1: us to really get back to back to action. So
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  Speaker 1: it's really a Wednesday for us and and we'll be
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  Speaker 1: battling on the practice field today.
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  Speaker 2: This is a.
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  Speaker 1: Classic opportunity here for us UH to go against a
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  Speaker 1: team that's it's got to have a win, against the
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  Speaker 1: team that's got to have a win. We got to
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  Speaker 1: have one too, and matching up in the setting of
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  Speaker 1: for Monday night, UH is always fun and so we're
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to that. We should be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: healthier this week. We'll see. We got to make it
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  Speaker 1: through the week. But we do have some guys coming
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  Speaker 1: back to action.
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  Speaker 3: Charles Cross one of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: He's uh, he's running around a little bit. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: he's out there.
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  Speaker 3: Phil Hayn's gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we'll see. I don't know that. We'll see. How
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  Speaker 2: about dre Hell Taylor, Darryl.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor, he was in the walkthrough today and we'll see
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  Speaker 1: if he makes it. Draymond Jones some guys that are
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  Speaker 1: coming back, so I can kind of have Hey, he
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  Speaker 1: looked pretty good. I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he went through everything. He's gonna practice this week.
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  Speaker 3: Ramon Jones anymore, he's making improvement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was This was an encouraging day. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see how it goes.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly it's going to be a big week for Jamal.
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  Speaker 4: He's familiar with that stadium, and so is Julian.
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  Speaker 2: Love speaking of the mirrors, speaking of the Mariners. Big
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  Speaker 2: finish coming up here, right, big finish.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're leading the charge out there. Jen, We'll
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  Speaker 1: make sure we get our shot in there for the fellas.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: And Jake Bogo had a great first pitch.
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  Speaker 4: The other night.
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  Speaker 1: I heard, Yeah, I heard it was out of the
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  Speaker 1: strike zone.
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  Speaker 4: Though you can talk so much about Jamal returning, that's
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  Speaker 4: a big thing, But for Julian, he's going to be
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  Speaker 4: going back to a stadium that he's really familiar with.
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  Speaker 4: What if you said to him and what is he
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  Speaker 4: brought to the team.
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  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, Julian's brought a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of really good stuff, really bright leader, terrific effort,
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  Speaker 1: guy helps.
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  Speaker 2: Guys around him.
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  Speaker 1: They've been making plays, knocking balls down and doing stuff
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  Speaker 1: for us, So he's he's off to a great start
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  Speaker 1: with us. We haven't talked yet about going back specifically,
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  Speaker 1: but that's that's coming up. It's always the challenge, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you you know you played for the place that
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  Speaker 1: you're returning to, it always can be a challenge. Guys
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  Speaker 1: take it differently, so we'll talk it through. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's in pretty good shape. He's heard us talk to
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  Speaker 1: other guys, you know, about the same kind of situation,
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  Speaker 1: So I think we'll be all right. You come out
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  Speaker 1: of Sunday, Okay Sunday, Yes, Yes, guy going back and
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  Speaker 1: playing his whole team.
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  Speaker 2: Can that be magnified when it's a primetime game?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think primetime can magnify everything. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of going back to. You know, if you think
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  Speaker 1: about it, Pet, when you talk to the players, is
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  Speaker 1: there a certain day that you talk to them?
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  Speaker 2: What does it depend.
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  Speaker 1: On the player in this situation, each guy's different. Treat
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  Speaker 1: the guys differently.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, safe one.
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  Speaker 5: Bartie's obviously big thing, and it sounds like he's a
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  Speaker 5: little questionable.
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  Speaker 3: But how big of a difference does that make?
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  Speaker 2: I guess if he plays and he's.
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  Speaker 1: A great player, you know, he's a great player that
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  Speaker 1: makes stuff happen out of the ordinary is very unique
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  Speaker 1: and what he can do, so he does make a
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  Speaker 1: big difference.
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  Speaker 2: So here he's practicing, so we're counting on him going.
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  Speaker 4: Daniel Jones hasn't had the same offensive numbers I think
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  Speaker 4: that some would expect. But what can he do as a.
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  Speaker 2: Dual threat for well, yeah, he is a true dual threat.
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  Speaker 1: I mean of the you know, you look at the
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  Speaker 1: start of our season, we've we've seen three pocket guys.
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  Speaker 1: This is different and he has the dynamics to to really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, break you because he doesn't just get out
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  Speaker 1: and make some yards.
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  Speaker 2: He can make big yards.
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  Speaker 1: He's got really good long speed and he can he
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  Speaker 1: can be a factor. So and they know what we
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  Speaker 1: see it in the run style. You know, they're using
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  Speaker 1: him in the running game too, So we know that
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  Speaker 1: they you know, they respect that and as part of it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a different challenge for us this week.
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  Speaker 5: The pressure numbers quarterback hits all that's been up the
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  Speaker 5: last game and a half.
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  Speaker 3: For you guys, what do you see him getting better
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  Speaker 3: in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Rush, It's it's working together that we're covering guys a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better. You know, we're getting better, getting tighter.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then just the efficiency of our games, which means
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  Speaker 1: the guys working together. And it's not just we're running
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  Speaker 1: this stunt, it's they're running the stunt in this manner,
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  Speaker 1: in this and they have a sense and a feel
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  Speaker 1: for one another. We're just we're just growing together. It's
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  Speaker 1: it takes time. Then we're we're still working on it.
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  Speaker 3: How was how is Trey Brown doing?
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  Speaker 2: He's he's still in the protocol.
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  Speaker 4: When it comes to the Run game and ken Walker
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  Speaker 4: getting Player of the Week, what indications do you have
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  Speaker 4: that that is evening now becoming more consistent.
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  Speaker 2: It's too soon.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you that yet. We got we got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of work to do. We had a nice
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  Speaker 1: game last week and you know, both guys contributed in
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  Speaker 1: a big way. But you know, we have we have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of work to do in the Running game.
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  Speaker 5: Gino Smith's play action numbers are really I think he
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  Speaker 5: leads to the NFL and the way they tabulate and
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  Speaker 5: play yards off to play auction.
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  Speaker 2: Just what is he kind of done well or what
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  Speaker 2: have you guys kind of done well? He's really done
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  Speaker 2: well with play actions. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I think anything we call for Gino he can do well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he really has our system down. He can
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  Speaker 1: take full advantage of the opportunities. He's really clear about
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  Speaker 1: going through his progression. So he's taking full advantage of
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  Speaker 1: the opportunities in the playpass game. And he'll see it
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  Speaker 1: if we get you know, if we get some big space.
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  Speaker 1: And he's also really connected to checking the ball down.
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  Speaker 1: He realizes if we can continue to make positive uh
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  Speaker 1: in the progress in that aspect of our game, then
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  Speaker 1: we'll call another one, you know, and we'll get another
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  Speaker 1: shot at it. So, you know, he's just pretty darn
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  Speaker 1: fishing and everything.
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  Speaker 5: You know, former opponents going home all that. This will
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  Speaker 5: be Geno's first starback in New York a long time.
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  Speaker 5: The way he's handled everything over the last year, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: do you have any concern at all?
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  Speaker 1: And we we have already talked about that a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And so when that conversation is who you
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  Speaker 1: guys were asking about, you know, when do you do
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  Speaker 1: we've already started that talk. He's fine, He'll be fine
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  Speaker 1: about it. It's a long ways back, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: probably doesn't have as much of a thought about it
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  Speaker 1: as I do.
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  Speaker 5: So he's he's so many different scenarios that could have
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  Speaker 5: been distractions put them off over the last year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what has he shown you just in the
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  Speaker 3: way he deals?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he continues to be He's so he's so routine
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  Speaker 1: now about how he prepares and his expectations of what
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  Speaker 1: it takes to prepare well that it kind of overrides.
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  Speaker 2: The issues, you know. And and he he and we.
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  Speaker 1: Got I'm always on him and watching them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and wanting to see that he's he's balanced and on track.
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  Speaker 1: But there's not much critique in there. He's he's doing it,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So, I mean, he knows how to do
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  Speaker 1: this as well as anybody. You know, he'd been through
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  Speaker 1: it all and and so and his respect for preparation
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  Speaker 1: is really.
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  Speaker 2: Just an all time high, you know. So, he's he's.
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  Speaker 1: Maxing out every opportunity he gets. Every rep counts for him,
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  Speaker 1: and he's competing like the plays and the practice or
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  Speaker 1: the plays in the game. And you can't ask for
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  Speaker 1: more than that that's he's doing everything.
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  Speaker 3: Obo feels like he's just risen to every challenge. He's
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  Speaker 3: mets all the way back to rookie camp. What is
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  Speaker 3: it about his makeup.
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  Speaker 2: That well, he's got one touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know that it's called for risen,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a pretty big statement. He's just really capable.
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  Speaker 1: He's really comfortable with the role. He's comfortable with his
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  Speaker 1: everything we ask of him, and he really handles it
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  Speaker 1: really well. And he's a real detailed player also, so
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  Speaker 1: his routes are clean and crisp. He's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff in the running game too, he's blocking the
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  Speaker 1: lit he's doing a lot of things for us. So
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  Speaker 1: he's just a very very gifted player, and so the
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  Speaker 1: game comes to him pretty, you know, pretty comfortably, and
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  Speaker 1: you give him a chance. I mean, just look at
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  Speaker 1: the on size kick, you know, you know, that was
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  Speaker 1: a great smooth play. Kind of goes unnoticed, but that's
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  Speaker 1: a heck of a play in that situation. He just
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  Speaker 1: nailed it, you know. So he's a very trustworthy guy
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  Speaker 1: and we're leaning on him in that way.
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  Speaker 2: He's rolling. Really I don't know how he made it
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  Speaker 2: through it, but he did, and he's rolling.
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  Speaker 1: He was out and walked through today's practice of the
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  Speaker 1: today he'll be out.
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  Speaker 4: There have a very distinct defense of the run.
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  Speaker 3: What do you know you could expect from that outside
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  Speaker 3: of blitzans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're very aggressive, you know, like you said, they're
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  Speaker 1: very aggressive. They they take risks. You know that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of coaches don't aren't willing to do. And they've
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of background. They're very comfortable with it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, coach does a nice job calling and stuff
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  Speaker 1: and mixing and stuff, and he's very aggressive and is
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  Speaker 1: trying to be disruptive and he is you know, so
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  Speaker 1: there you got to get over the hump.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how how aggressive can you be and can
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  Speaker 2: you live with you know.
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  Speaker 1: The chances that you take, And he's living with it
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  Speaker 1: in a big way.
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  Speaker 5: See a little bit of Reek and where they spend
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  Speaker 5: on the field together because of Turkey getting injured.
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  Speaker 3: Just how agree you to see what that pairing can
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  Speaker 3: look like.
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  Speaker 2: I am excited to see that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited to see if we can make through
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  Speaker 1: the week and both guys get to play, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and Jamal getting out there too, you know, because we've
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  Speaker 1: had this image of what it could be and how
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  Speaker 1: we could play and all that.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not setting the expectations off the charts.
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  Speaker 1: So I want our guys to get out there and
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  Speaker 1: play and come back and help their team, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And that's all really I'm asking of them. But it
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  Speaker 1: is exciting, you know. And and uh, I'm so happy
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  Speaker 1: for Jamal. He gets to get back to football, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he gets to playing again. So I did make a note.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan was sitting with Jamal here as we're getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for the walk through, and those two guys really fed
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  Speaker 1: off each other throughout the time when we got back
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  Speaker 1: to camp here and competed and challenged and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: went head to head to make it back. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a yeah, it's it's a good moment that these guys
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  Speaker 1: get to play together this week.
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  Speaker 3: How's Will Dishly doing.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing pretty pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: He's encouraged, you know, he's hoping he can play. No
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  Speaker 1: is Kobe Branker practice the Kobe's I'm not sure he was.
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  Speaker 2: He's trying to get out there.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, well, both of them are trying to get
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  Speaker 1: on the practice field today.
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  Speaker 3: What is your I go back to New York and
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  Speaker 3: and kind of brought it up a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: You know, well, like anybody's ever coached there or ever
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  Speaker 1: worked there and in New York, and you've been there
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  Speaker 1: long enough for you, you know, you kind of got
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  Speaker 1: the feeling for what it's all about. It's it's an
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary place, and it's an extraordinary memory. To be part
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  Speaker 1: of that, you know, and to have had a chance
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  Speaker 1: to you know, to be on top of it for
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  Speaker 1: a short while matter of months, that was really, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's significant to represent that that town. To me,
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  Speaker 1: it's an amazing place and so it's fun to go
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  Speaker 1: back and to see it.
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  Speaker 3: Again ten years ago. Pretty good memory in that stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a nice, nice night there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, so that that's something that these guys
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  Speaker 1: don't know. You know, there's only a couple of guys
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  Speaker 1: would even relate to that. So, but there's the staff
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we've been there before, and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: fun to go back, kind of coming off last week
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  Speaker 1: with our guys all around all of that.
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  Speaker 4: Everything else.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you