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  Speaker 1: Years. Yeah, I mean, that's that's obviously tough. Anytime the
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  Speaker 1: face of the franchise, the leader your your team, the
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  Speaker 1: leader of our offense goes down, has to go on
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  Speaker 1: ir That's that's a tough blow for everybody. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm confident our guys will come to work and they've
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  Speaker 1: done a great job so far to this point, responding
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  Speaker 1: responding to Mac, but also just responding to the situation
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  Speaker 1: we're in. So a lot of confidence in our guys,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously we're crushed for Trevor and then for ourselves
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: What did you see for Mac this pass game when
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  Speaker 2: he when he came in.
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  Speaker 1: For Trevor, Yeah, he handled it the right way. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the life is a backup. You know, you're always
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  Speaker 1: one play away. You hope it's not that situation, but
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  Speaker 1: that's the reality of it. As a quarterback, you're you're
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  Speaker 1: probably going in off an injury in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a drive, in the middle of a game. You got
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  Speaker 1: to kind of get get yourself into the flow of
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  Speaker 1: the game at that point in time. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought Mac did a good job stepping the huddle.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of emotion, which is different than
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  Speaker 1: normal in those scenarios. But he did a good job
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  Speaker 1: of being where you're supposed to be at the right time,
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  Speaker 1: kind of let and everybody operate the way they already
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  Speaker 1: were within the flow of the game, and and then
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  Speaker 1: did a good job finishing out the game and kind
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  Speaker 1: of getting themselves in a rhythm as it went.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of debate on the quarterback slide in general.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody who played the position, just what's your take on
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  Speaker 1: how plays to kind of be bang bang and what
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks go when they do in that situation. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: always gonna be a little tough because everybody understands what's
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  Speaker 1: about to happen, you think, and you know there's been
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  Speaker 1: videos of people with the fake slide and stuff like
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  Speaker 1: that and issues like that. You know, it's always going
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  Speaker 1: to be about protecting the quarterback and understanding that and
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  Speaker 1: guys protecting themselves as plays like that go. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to get into that specific play with it,
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  Speaker 1: but it's always just gonna be a fine line. I
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  Speaker 1: guess there's not really I don't think you take out
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  Speaker 1: the ability for the quarterback to slide, But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, or were making sure we're putting everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the best possible position to play and make the best
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  Speaker 1: decisions as it goes there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, like re me it's not the right word,
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  Speaker 2: but like you know, it's going to be back, so
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about Trevor playing this week,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, you know what you've
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  Speaker 2: got going the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you can always try to engineer the
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  Speaker 1: game plan to best fit that player's skill set and
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback obviously a lot of revolves around him. So
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  Speaker 1: just understanding the communication throughout the course of the week
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  Speaker 1: of you know, here's here's our first second hand game plan,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think and Matt given feedback, providing feedback.
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  Speaker 1: We've built a couple of plans for him now, so
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  Speaker 1: we kind of understand things he does like. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: you can expedite that process a little bit more where
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  Speaker 1: it's maybe less communication because we've had this two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: three weeks ago, whatever it is as it goes So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think from that standpoint of knowing who you're building
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  Speaker 1: the game plan for and what he likes and doesn't
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  Speaker 1: like against certain things that can help.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, look we don't know where you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: next year. This is your chance to put some good
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  Speaker 2: stuff on tape for wherever you are. You have to
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  Speaker 2: audition for potential starting spots.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere, don't. I don't even know that that necessarily needs
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  Speaker 1: to be said. I think everybody just kind of understands.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is you know, Proferredtional Football League. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: gets that everything you do, your resume is your tape,
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  Speaker 1: and so I think everybody approaches it with that mindset.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody wants to do the best. And at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: I think guys do a great job of when you're
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  Speaker 1: in season. I mean, it's just it's weak to week.
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  Speaker 1: You don't ever really pick your head up and think
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  Speaker 1: about what's next or what happened and he I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you do that, you're gonna fall behind, and you
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  Speaker 1: can't do that with the game coming up Sunday. So
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of guys just kind of keep
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  Speaker 1: that narrow vision, keep that focus, and not much is
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  Speaker 1: said about it because I don't think. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: much needs to be said. I think everybody kind of
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  Speaker 1: understands what's ahead of us. Last week, Doug Peterson said
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  Speaker 1: that Parker was the guy that really needed to step
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  Speaker 1: up with Gabe out.
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  Speaker 2: You responded his first career one hundred yard game. What
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  Speaker 2: did you see from Parker?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how could he be for you guys down
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  Speaker 3: to stretch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's done a great job and you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of the comfort guy near two. I think
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  Speaker 1: the coolest thing is, you know how he's grown as
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  Speaker 1: a receiver outside. You know, he had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: wins in third down situations, two minute situations where he's
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  Speaker 1: one on one outside on a corner, did a great
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  Speaker 1: job getting himself open making plays. We certainly know he's
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  Speaker 1: capable of carrying the ball. I mean as a punt attorney,
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  Speaker 1: saw that in even New England and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So when he gets in space, he's tough to tackle.
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  Speaker 1: But he's done a good job of just winning within
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  Speaker 1: the structure of this scheme. The routes we ask he
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  Speaker 1: kind of everybody makes routes their own, and so we've
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  Speaker 1: kind of honed in on things that we think he
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  Speaker 1: does well, that he's very comfortable with. The quarterbacks are
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  Speaker 1: comfort with him running.
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  Speaker 3: So what are you guys getting in Josh Runolvers.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be fun to see. You know, Josh has obviously
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  Speaker 1: has a lot of experience in this league, just at
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  Speaker 1: least one year out in LA with my brother, So
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  Speaker 1: I've always kind of kept an eye on known him,
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  Speaker 1: have followed his career, just the type of player he is.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it's nice to add a experienced veteran
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  Speaker 1: receiver that's done a lot in this league. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's got range, he's got size, he's got all those
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  Speaker 1: things that he the experience that I think you see
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  Speaker 1: flourishing in an veteran receiver.
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  Speaker 3: I got his experience of reductions available for.
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  Speaker 1: The journey, right, Yeah, Yeah, that's true. So anytime you
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  Speaker 1: get to add talent to your roster, you're always excited
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  Speaker 1: to do that.
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  Speaker 3: To be able to run the balld back on Sunday
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  Speaker 3: against Jeffrey Simmons sweat on the inside as big as
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  Speaker 3: they are, and the running game hasn't been clicking in
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks, what would have to be different
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  Speaker 3: for you on Sunday?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you always want to do what you
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  Speaker 1: can to stay ahead of the sticks. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a big part of it. Runs on second ten, second nine.
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  Speaker 1: They're not always most exciting you may have a productive
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  Speaker 1: run that's still setting you up for a third and
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  Speaker 1: long situation. So just being able to mix and match
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  Speaker 1: of when we're trying to run the ball, making sure
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  Speaker 1: we're creating ideal looks, whether it's just matchups or the
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  Speaker 1: numbers in the box, or you know, staying in those
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  Speaker 1: manageable situations is always key to being able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's not an easy group to run on. It's a
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  Speaker 1: very good defensive line, particularly on the inside, and they've
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  Speaker 1: always done a very good job stop in the run,
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  Speaker 1: just personnel, and then you're adding the new scheme with
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  Speaker 1: coach Wilson, and they do they make it really hard
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  Speaker 1: on you. But the game script is a big part
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  Speaker 1: of that too, all right.
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  Speaker 2: It's short and sweet, thinks