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Mike Macdonald: "We Are Going To Get This Thing Rolling" · Seahawks Press Pass

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Speaker 1: All right, everybody ready. Yeah, So, first of all, good
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Speaker 1: to see everybody. Not much really, I mean in terms
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Speaker 1: of like updating after we left the game last night
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Speaker 1: confirms a lot of what we felt like duringut the
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Speaker 1: game is, Hey, you know, we faced a really good
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Speaker 1: football team. We did not play our best football by
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Speaker 1: any stretch, all three phases and you go back and
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Speaker 1: go kind of the series of events. It felt like
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Speaker 1: in order for us to win that game, you have
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Speaker 1: to capitalize on the opportunities when they present themselves. We
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Speaker 1: didn't do that on offense or defense earlier in the game.
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Speaker 1: Special teams didn't have as many opportunities to affect the
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Speaker 1: game until later, and you know, we got out of
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Speaker 1: whack there at the end. So that's how you know
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Speaker 1: a game ends up thirty one to ten. So disappointing obviously,
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Speaker 1: you know, being at home, being two and three at
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Speaker 1: home throughout the year, disappointing. Where we're at. We definitely
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Speaker 1: expect better. But meet with the staff this morning and
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Speaker 1: watching the tape and have another plan of attack this week,
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Speaker 1: you know, just optimistic and just want to everybody's there's belief.
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Speaker 1: There is belief and a faith in the men that
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Speaker 1: we that normally sit in this room and on all
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Speaker 1: of our coaches, and we're going to attack the heck
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Speaker 1: out of this week and we're gonna have a great
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Speaker 1: week and be ready to play the Rams.
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Speaker 2: How do you feel about to connect between your second
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Speaker 2: level of the linebackers with the front line and how
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Speaker 2: they go to the pre snap movement as well with
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Speaker 2: the gaps, especially yesterday's game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you look at it that the yesterday's game,
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Speaker 1: the on defense, the run game was a function of
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Speaker 1: edges and tackling, So things that can be fixed and
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Speaker 1: need to get fixed in a hurry. But that's that's
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Speaker 1: if you were to try to dial it down, that's
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Speaker 1: that's where we need to improve.
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Speaker 3: Mike, with you with your own running game, it's been,
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Speaker 3: you know, a problem at some points throughout this year.
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Speaker 3: What do you kind of see is a common read
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Speaker 3: when when it's not working for you guys that things
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Speaker 3: are kind of similar along with things Well, it feels.
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Speaker 1: Like, you know, when we're carrying a bunch of run schemes,
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Speaker 1: some of the details and the targeting and where we're
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Speaker 1: ideing it, trying to get the run off the ground
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Speaker 1: is really where we fall in short, So we need
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Speaker 1: to do a better job at getting Ken going. Just
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Speaker 1: give him some more space and and let him do
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Speaker 1: his thing. When we've had a productive run game, which
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Speaker 1: has been inconsistent, but it has shown that's been productive
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Speaker 1: throughout the year. I think that's the common denominator right
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Speaker 1: now is where we can get a hat on a hat,
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Speaker 1: account for everybody in the box, keeping it simple and
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Speaker 1: uh and getting the ball to nine as quickly as possible.
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Speaker 4: He's like a lot of that on his shoulders on Sunday,
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Speaker 4: felt really responsible for that.
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Speaker 1: How much of that is Kim Walker?
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Speaker 5: Kim Walker, Yeah, how much of.
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Speaker 6: That is him helping or giving time to set up
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Speaker 6: those blocks.
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Speaker 5: Versus the guys up here.
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Speaker 1: That's everybody, And I'm I'm not surprised by Ken taking responsibility.
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Speaker 1: But we're all in this thing together and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: we're gonna get the We're gonna get it figured out.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna we're gonna be a good run team.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna haveving a offense. I do feel like it's
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a broken record every week, but
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Speaker 1: I do feel optimistic talking to the coaches watching the tape,
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Speaker 1: I thought I thought that our guys actually played really
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Speaker 1: hard last night or excuse me, yesterday afternoon. So these
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Speaker 1: these things, you know, at some point we're gonna get
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Speaker 1: it ironed out. We're gonna get this thing rolling. I
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Speaker 1: think you can once you compliment getting the run game going,
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Speaker 1: with all the other mechanisms we have in our offense
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Speaker 1: and our system and all our skill guys, and the
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Speaker 1: way Gino's throwing the ball, I think that could be
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Speaker 1: a really potent attack. Mike, just looking at the numbers.
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Speaker 2: It didn't seem like the run struggles yesterday were a
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Speaker 2: function of like running into a lot.
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Speaker 5: Of stack boxes. Is that how you saw it?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's getting the run
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Speaker 1: off the ground is what we need to do a
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Speaker 1: better job of. So, I mean, Buffalo plays a lot
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Speaker 1: of split safety where they are still kind of gapped
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Speaker 1: out even though they are in you know, more of
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Speaker 1: a quarter structure. But they do a good job of
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Speaker 1: hiding their shelves and things like that, and they're just
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Speaker 1: a really they're a sound defense, and you know, we
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Speaker 1: just got to play it better.
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Speaker 6: You feel the run defense has obviously been a little
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Speaker 6: bit of an issue throout most of the year. Do
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Speaker 6: you thout the issues are the same or is it
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Speaker 6: new stuff?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's some new things that keep popping up.
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Speaker 1: And I think you know, having some consistency now in
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Speaker 1: the back end, and you know a linebacker is going
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Speaker 1: to help us moving forward. But we need to play
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Speaker 1: those runs better. We're going to continually see them and
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Speaker 1: other offenses know that too, So I mean, we gotta
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Speaker 1: we got to fix the problem because it's gonna we're
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Speaker 1: gonna keep seeing the same place.
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Speaker 3: I think done during the week to get you guys
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Speaker 3: prepared for stopping those run issues that have come up.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think I think you look at our the
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Speaker 1: whole operation right now is not good enough. So and
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Speaker 1: that's showing up on tape. And uh, that's my job
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Speaker 1: to make sure our process is good. I think our
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Speaker 1: guys are ready to play. I think we try to
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Speaker 1: prepare them the best we can, and but all things
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Speaker 1: are kind of on the table, and when things aren't
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Speaker 1: going the way you want it on Sundays, you have
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Speaker 1: to say, okay, Monday through Saturday, process wise, are we
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Speaker 1: doing some things? So we'll continue to tweak our process
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Speaker 1: and how we put guys in different positions and front
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Speaker 1: structures and personnel groups, all those things will be uh,
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Speaker 1: will be on the table to look at its first. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's a good thing is we've made a lot of
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Speaker 1: tackles and made some tackles on the perimeter that clean
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Speaker 1: some stuff up for us, which was good. There's always
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Speaker 1: going to be some things anytime you're a new player
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Speaker 1: is coming into the system that uh, you know, we'll
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Speaker 1: have to iron out as we go. But he's a
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Speaker 1: heck of a player. I thought I thought he did,
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Speaker 1: you know, I thought he did well considering, you know,
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Speaker 1: the short week of prep.
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Speaker 6: Brady said in the broadcast that the shotgun that you
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Speaker 6: guys are.
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Speaker 4: Running a lot on offense kind of limits some of
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Speaker 4: the options and makes the.
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Speaker 1: Things a little easier for the defense.
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Speaker 4: Uh do you ever, we want do you agree with that?
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Speaker 4: And too, do you ever self scout with grub or
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Speaker 4: vice versa about where you guys see advantages or disadvantages.
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Speaker 5: With your approaches?
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Speaker 1: Second part? First, absolutely, I mean we're we're constantly doing that.
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Speaker 1: It's not just me, it's we've got a host of
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Speaker 1: smart guys that are are well versed on both sides
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Speaker 1: that that are doing reports on a consistent basis how
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Speaker 1: we do it kind of lead that on a DL.
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Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna publicly disagree with Tom Brady. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's definitely accredited in his opinions. But you know, our
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Speaker 1: identity does revolve a lot of doing a lot of
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Speaker 1: stuff out of the gun as well, So we've got
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Speaker 1: to continually, you know, improve our run game out of
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Speaker 1: the gun, moving the back things like that, being able
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Speaker 1: to give Geno some more time to push the ball downfield,
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Speaker 1: which I felt like we've actually done a better job
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. But under center will
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Speaker 1: be a big part of our offense as well, and
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Speaker 1: and we'll continue to grow and evolves like that.
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Speaker 5: What are the traits and needed to play good Red
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Speaker 5: Song defense?
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Speaker 1: Well, the first thing is you have to play really
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Speaker 1: well against the run the top run offenses across the
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Speaker 1: league consistently to run the ball in. So that's the
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Speaker 1: first thing. And then everything happens faster, seeding to match
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Speaker 1: routes faster and get on people because the space is limited.
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Speaker 1: And then you know, I think I don't know the
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Speaker 1: official stats on it, but it does feel like in
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Speaker 1: the in the past game the majority of success people
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Speaker 1: have aren't extended plays when they're throwing the ball. And uh,
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Speaker 1: I know we gave up the fade ball yesterday, but
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Speaker 1: the other touchdown I felt like in the in the
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Speaker 1: throw game was on an extended play where we didn't
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Speaker 1: plaster well enough. And uh, and those quarterbacks will make
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Speaker 1: you pay in those situations. So we gotta we got
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Speaker 1: to play that better.
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Speaker 5: On physicality, how much is that a mindset and.
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Speaker 1: Practice and all the above, all the above.
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Speaker 4: Feeling almost like a road game at times. The Bill's
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Speaker 4: fans and there's a lot of Niners fans last time.
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Speaker 4: What's your perspective on why that's happening and what needs
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Speaker 4: to change for it to change?
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Speaker 1: Well, we got to we have to win. We got
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Speaker 1: to win, period. So you know, opposing fans won't want
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Speaker 1: to show up if if we're contestently kicking butt and
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Speaker 1: doing what we're supposed to do, and and our fans
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Speaker 1: are our fans I think are doing a great job,
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Speaker 1: and they're sticking with us all the way through, you know,
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Speaker 1: at the end of the game, and I know we're
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Speaker 1: fighting and they're fighting with us, and we have to
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Speaker 1: do a better job of putting a product out there
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Speaker 1: that they want to, They want to really hard for
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Speaker 1: it seems like.
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Speaker 2: In these home games that it's been tougher sledding to
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Speaker 2: get started on offensive defense. Fact, I think you guys
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Speaker 2: are averaging eight point four points a game at home
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Speaker 2: in the first half, and it's thirteen point six in the
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Speaker 2: road games in the first half. Can you put a
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Speaker 2: finger on why that's?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an interesting stat. I wish I knew the
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Speaker 1: answer to that. It's definitely a point of emphasis, so
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Speaker 1: and it could be such a weapon for us at home,
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Speaker 1: starting with the lead, force them to throw the ball more,
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Speaker 1: all those things. So I know, I wish, I wish
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Speaker 1: I had an answer for you. But we'll get it going.
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Speaker 1: You know, beginning part of those games are really electric,
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Speaker 1: and I know our guys are really excited, and the
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Speaker 1: emphasis will be you know, we'll tailor some practice things
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Speaker 1: around it, and definitely to point of conversation. But uh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's an interesting stat.
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Speaker 5: We're almost the midway point.
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Speaker 1: Depending on how you calculated big picture question, are.
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Speaker 5: You liking the communication and the flow.
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Speaker 3: Of information on the sideline, particularly on defense with you
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Speaker 3: calling plays and leaving position coaches there.
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Speaker 1: I think we're doing a good job communicating. We kind
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Speaker 1: of know what we can handle at this point in
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Speaker 1: terms of volume in the call and things like that. Uh,
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Speaker 1: but trying to get calls in quickly in the in
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Speaker 1: the streamline of communication, continue to work our sub patterns
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Speaker 1: and that A lot of that is revolved around how
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Speaker 1: the offense operates as well, but something that we're still
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Speaker 1: growing in that in that process and trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out when guys need to be out and wear and
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Speaker 1: getting calls in. But overall, I think there's a sense
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Speaker 1: of urgency. We're all on the same page. We're not
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Speaker 1: We're not really we're not having any communication bus on.
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Speaker 1: I thought I heard that, or I thought I heard this.
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Speaker 1: That's been pretty clean.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned this morning at the point of the season
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Speaker 3: of identifying sunk costs and also what you're honing in
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Speaker 3: on something.
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Speaker 5: What are you good at to hone in on right now?
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Speaker 1: What do you what do you think you can hang
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Speaker 1: your head on as a football team. Well, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think you got to talk about in different phases.
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Speaker 1: I mean, start with offense. I think think one thing
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Speaker 1: that gives us an edge is is how we move
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Speaker 1: and shift in formation and very tempos and so I
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Speaker 1: think I think that's something that we need to double
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Speaker 1: down on and and uh, and we'll do that. I
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Speaker 1: think the run game can come alive in some of
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Speaker 1: those things. Uh. Special teams. I think we're a heck
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Speaker 1: of a heck of a coverage team right now. We've
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Speaker 1: got some really good tape of guys making a lot
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Speaker 1: of great plays in the coverage areas and defensively situationally,
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Speaker 1: I think we have done some good things. It just
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Speaker 1: does seem it's a little hot and cold right now
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Speaker 1: on a per play basis or a per game basic
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Speaker 1: excuse me, I mean the red zone and third down
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Speaker 1: stats last game. But on the whole I feel like
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Speaker 1: we've made it made a jump in those areas. So
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of good stuff on tape. But you know,
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Speaker 1: you come off a loss like that and you got
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Speaker 1: you know, you get punched in the chin. You gotta
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Speaker 1: you gotta take it, and you got to move forward.
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Speaker 1: I Uh, there there's I wouldn't I wouldn't get in
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Speaker 1: specifics right now. I probably can't give them, give them
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Speaker 1: all to you. But that's something we're gonna be looking at.
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Speaker 6: Yesterday, when you asked a big picture about where the
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Speaker 6: teams are right now.
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Speaker 5: You did reference a division.
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Speaker 1: How you guys are right in that?
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Speaker 4: Is that kind of use the players of whether it's
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Speaker 4: to motivate or whatever. You say, Hey, like this is
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Speaker 4: still out there and we're in it.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's it's to give you the reality of
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Speaker 1: the situation. I mean, everyone wants to be eight and
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Speaker 1: o at this point, and uh, I don't believe anybody
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Speaker 1: is so, but we're right there and you kind of
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Speaker 1: look at me if you do want to look at
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Speaker 1: it's kind of kind of it's kind of the first
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Speaker 1: game of the season here, you know, second half of
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Speaker 1: the season, an opportunity going into the by to feel
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Speaker 1: optimistic and positive about where we're at. And there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of good things going on out there. I thought,
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Speaker 1: I thought, I thought the team played hard. It's just
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Speaker 1: we're just we're just it's just not connecting right now,
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Speaker 1: and so we'll get it to connect. That's that's the
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Speaker 1: will be the idea, Like with a couple of players.
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Speaker 3: Getting on the goal and focus is going to be
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Speaker 3: on connoring. But how'd you feel like you played overall
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Speaker 3: in those couple plays down with there, with the snap.
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Speaker 5: And the stuff.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean those are those are some pretty high
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Speaker 1: leverage plays. So I know that's going to be a
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Speaker 1: tough pill a swallow from Connor, but uh, it's just
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Speaker 1: it's just it can kind of goes. Those are the
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Speaker 1: plays that kind of let the if those goes the
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Speaker 1: other way, I think the game's a little bit differently
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Speaker 1: on how it unfolds. Is it good enough to win
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Speaker 1: the game? You can't answer that. But in order to
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Speaker 1: win a game like that against a team like that,
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Speaker 1: you got to be able to execute in those situations.
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Speaker 6: Where's the right tackle spot? I guess going into the.
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Speaker 1: Week, Uh, we're still we're still figuring out George's situation
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Speaker 1: and uh, but right now playing is with Mike Durrell
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Speaker 1: and then we'll see where George ends up by the
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Speaker 1: end of the week. A second, it's tough coming off
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Speaker 1: the game being like really like super excited about anybody.
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Speaker 1: But I think you say, if you're looking for positives
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Speaker 1: that I think Mike's really playing hard for us right now.
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Speaker 1: And he missed a couple of plays as with the
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Speaker 1: rest of the offense, and but guy's playing really hard.
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Speaker 1: I thought he played a sound football game.
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Speaker 6: A lot was made obviously the one incident between Derek
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Speaker 6: and and chair, but I know they kind of got
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Speaker 6: that resolved and it looked like did But did you
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Speaker 6: feel like emotions or anything we're an issue with your
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Speaker 6: team yesterday at all? Is that you know it's kind
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Speaker 6: of this the score guy out.
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Speaker 1: Of hand or anything or well, I know guys are
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Speaker 1: frustrated towards the end, and you'd like us to be
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Speaker 1: more poised in that situation. But you know, it goes
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Speaker 1: both ways. I mean, if the guys didn't care and
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Speaker 1: they and they and they weren't upset about it, then
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Speaker 1: you know, you get a host of other issues. So
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Speaker 1: I'd rather be living in this where you know, you'd
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Speaker 1: rather tell him woe than than go. So Derek, Derek
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Speaker 1: and I talked this morning and Derek was great. He's
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Speaker 1: more upset at himself about the penalty than how you know,
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Speaker 1: the interaction with the with Jaren and an armor we go.
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Speaker 4: So you're going through adversity like he went through yesterday
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Speaker 4: and through some of these other games. How do you
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Speaker 4: how do you keep the muzzles pointed out of the
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Speaker 4: fox hole and and you know the team motivated and
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Speaker 4: and find some joy and the jobs that they're doing
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Speaker 4: every day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's an easy trap right to just
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Speaker 1: you know, get down in the dumps. But we got
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Speaker 1: to stay on the roller coaster. Man. Like it's it's
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Speaker 1: up and down season. It's a long season, and again,
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that we can be
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Speaker 1: building off of. I think I think the players feel
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Speaker 1: that we got the right guys for the job. We
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Speaker 1: just got to make it come to life on a
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Speaker 1: consistent basis. So I think it starts. It starts with me,
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Speaker 1: starts with the rest of the coaches, our leaders seeing
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Speaker 1: the things that we're doing well and let's just go
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Speaker 1: attack it man, you know, with a great enthusiasm. And
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we are playing the
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Speaker 1: game of football, game that we love to your point
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Speaker 1: and uh and as much as we can enjoy it.
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Speaker 1: We talk about like having fun and like is it fun?
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Speaker 1: It's like, what's fun? What's fun to me and what's
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Speaker 1: fun to art. It's like when it's grooving and you're
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Speaker 1: talking ball and you're on the same page and you're
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Speaker 1: a line and you're player and it all comes together.
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Speaker 1: That's fun. That is that's what it's about. And it's
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Speaker 1: coming to life in front of our fans or on
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Speaker 1: the road taking over to that's that's what we're shooting for.
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Speaker 1: And so when it's moving and grooving like that's that's
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Speaker 1: fun stuff The process behind it, like the needy, the gritty,
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Speaker 1: the details. It's not easy to do those things all
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Speaker 1: the time consistently to be a championship caliber team. And
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Speaker 1: our guys will give them a lot of credit. They're
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Speaker 1: they're focus, they work extremely hard. It's just not hasn't
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Speaker 1: hasn't kind of the puzzle pieces just haven't come together.
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Speaker 1: And and a lot of that is my responsibility as
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Speaker 1: a coach. And uh and we just keep chasing until
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Speaker 1: it comes to life. So and when it does, then
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Speaker 1: it'll be a lot of fun. Also, blasts were missing
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Speaker 1: Dk Metcalf yesterday. Uh I just I mean Dk is
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Speaker 1: a heck of a player and he can take the
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Speaker 1: top off of the defense. He can catch a catch
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Speaker 1: and run and score like we've seen him throughout the season.
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Speaker 1: But we knew this pat this game was going to
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Speaker 1: be kind of a win, a per yard type of game.
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Speaker 1: Buffalo does a good job of eliminating explosives. If you
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Speaker 1: can kind of whittle away at it, the explosives can
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Speaker 1: kind of come to life. So we need to do
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Speaker 1: a better job of staying on the field offensively, keep
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Speaker 1: the ball moving forward, you know, keep getting first downs
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Speaker 1: and then ultimately being able to knock it in in
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Speaker 1: the red zone. And uh, you know, our third drive
16:11
Speaker 1: we went two three and outs. Our third drive kind
16:14
Speaker 1: of looked like what we wanted it to play, and
16:16
Speaker 1: then we didn't. We didn't we didn't convert down in
16:18
Speaker 1: the red zone, and then we had another opportunity, and
16:21
Speaker 1: I just felt like at that point, you know, it's
16:24
Speaker 1: tough sledding at that point once you don't convert those
16:26
Speaker 1: things and then you're not getting necessary stops on defense.
16:29
Speaker 6: Any idea whether DK where DK is kind of helpwise.
16:33
Speaker 1: Looking optimistic, I mean, it's he hasn't practiced yet, so
16:38
Speaker 1: let's let him practice and see how he feels before
16:41
Speaker 1: we start making judgments on the week. But we're optimistic
16:44
Speaker 1: for this week.
16:46
Speaker 5: How do you feels about the blocking from the guys that.
16:48
Speaker 1: Aren't the line, Well, it's really important. I mean, tight
16:52
Speaker 1: ends are blocking the sea gap a lot or the
16:54
Speaker 1: second level. And then based on how you deploy your
16:56
Speaker 1: white outs, you're either answering problems with perimeter throws which
17:02
Speaker 1: we got a block well on the perimeter, or they're
17:04
Speaker 1: blocking at the point of attack. So based on the
17:07
Speaker 1: state of where we're at in the run game, I
17:09
Speaker 1: think I think again it's an all eleven type of
17:11
Speaker 1: type of a solution, So they're gonna be part of
17:14
Speaker 1: the solution just as well as the old line in
17:16
Speaker 1: the backs.
17:17
Speaker 5: What's your evaluation of Dean Williams.
17:21
Speaker 1: Well, I'm assuming you're referencing the end of the game
17:24
Speaker 1: or the end of the game catch and you're looking
17:26
Speaker 1: at it he slips. I mean, it's a slick it
17:30
Speaker 1: was a slick surface we can look at, you know,
17:33
Speaker 1: what he decided to wear and all that. But I
17:35
Speaker 1: think you're looking at an unfortunate event at the end
17:37
Speaker 1: of the game where he was in position to make
17:40
Speaker 1: the catch and and fell down. But I think D
17:43
Speaker 1: has gotten significantly better since the start of the decision
17:46
Speaker 1: and the decisions that he's made, you know, bouncing the
17:49
Speaker 1: first NFL game against Denver, a couple of plays where
17:53
Speaker 1: you definitely want back, uh, But we got faith in
17:56
Speaker 1: D and I think he's made I think if you
17:57
Speaker 1: look at his continuous improvement throughout the year going to
18:01
Speaker 1: last year, I think there's a lot of good stuff
18:03
Speaker 1: going on, and I think we're close to, you know,
18:05
Speaker 1: possibly getting an explosive return.
18:07
Speaker 3: What did you make a week of practice last week?
18:09
Speaker 3: Because he got back to work.
18:11
Speaker 1: For you seen him time, it's solid and there's a
18:13
Speaker 1: there's a progression there, and you know, the first time
18:15
Speaker 1: you're doing these things coming out coming back from an injury,
18:19
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a little bit of a leap of faith.
18:20
Speaker 1: And so we expect him to make a pretty healthy
18:23
Speaker 1: jump this week. Excited about his progress, and uh, you know,
18:27
Speaker 1: we're on pace for kind of making a decision where
18:29
Speaker 1: we're at. During and after the buye.
18:31
Speaker 5: You obviously enjoyed, I'm asserting you enjoyed the process of
18:35
Speaker 5: your team getting better. How important is it in times
18:38
Speaker 5: like this to have players around that awesome embrace that
18:41
Speaker 5: process from day to day that you talk about stacking practice,
18:45
Speaker 5: stacking wins.
18:46
Speaker 1: Oh, it's incredibly important. It's incredibly important, and the guys
18:49
Speaker 1: want to do it. I mean it's fun, it's fun
18:51
Speaker 1: to like well talked about, fin but it's great. Like
18:52
Speaker 1: the reason you become a football coach is to see
18:55
Speaker 1: your players succeed and get better. So when you see
18:59
Speaker 1: growth in your ball team is extremely exciting and so
19:03
Speaker 1: in order to do that, you got to put the
19:04
Speaker 1: work in. You've got to grind it out, and you
19:06
Speaker 1: got to attack it. And that's what makes games like
19:09
Speaker 1: Sunday or yesterday really really frustrating because you because you
19:14
Speaker 1: you feel the growth, you feel like we're taking some
19:16
Speaker 1: some steps in the right direction, and then you kind
19:18
Speaker 1: of get a you know, you get you get punched
19:21
Speaker 1: in the mouth, and so how are you going to
19:23
Speaker 1: respond to that? And it doesn't mean this is the
19:25
Speaker 1: end of the journey, just means, hey, this is a
19:26
Speaker 1: this is a something that we have to go through
19:28
Speaker 1: as a football team to uh to get to that
19:31
Speaker 1: next level. So it's never it's never the road that
19:35
Speaker 1: you expect. It's always but it is going to keep
19:37
Speaker 1: going up.
19:39
Speaker 5: Shifting and motioning stuff. Is there something that you sacrifice
19:42
Speaker 5: when you do that?
19:42
Speaker 3: I mean, you said it works well for you.
19:44
Speaker 5: Imagine there's a reason you don't do it every time?
19:46
Speaker 1: Well, sometimes you don't. You don't need to do it
19:48
Speaker 1: based off the looks that you think you're going to get.
19:51
Speaker 1: If you do it every snap, it becomes a little
19:54
Speaker 1: defense is just kind of sit and wait for you
19:55
Speaker 1: to shift and move and then finally make their call.
19:57
Speaker 1: So you kind of have to keep them honest on
19:59
Speaker 1: both of those things. But that's part of who we are.
20:03
Speaker 1: So we're that's what we're gonna do. We believe in
20:06
Speaker 1: in the reasons why and what we're and what we're
20:08
Speaker 1: looking to, you know, the reasons why we're doing it,
20:10
Speaker 1: and so we'll continue to do it. But you have
20:13
Speaker 1: to do you have to keep modest. Sometimes you just
20:15
Speaker 1: have to go up there and snap it.
20:16
Speaker 4: Something that was different yesterday than the rest of the years.
20:18
Speaker 4: You guys gave up your lowest pressure rate on offense
20:21
Speaker 4: and you had I think your lowest total pressures on defense.
20:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, why do you think those were different? Yes, well,
20:27
Speaker 1: I think that's a probably shout out to our offensive line.
20:30
Speaker 1: I thought they I thought they played really hard, you
20:33
Speaker 1: know up front, especially when in the drop back game.
20:35
Speaker 1: There's some really good pockets. Uh, protection calls were sound.
20:39
Speaker 1: There's a couple where I felt like we could have
20:40
Speaker 1: directed it a different way. So, Uh, that's GENO included
20:44
Speaker 1: ball being out on time. Defensively, I think you know,
20:49
Speaker 1: you look at creating past situations the second down, it
20:54
Speaker 1: was a lot of the ball out was fast and
20:55
Speaker 1: screens and balls on the perimeter quickly, so you know
20:59
Speaker 1: the that's that that attributes to that. And then we
21:01
Speaker 1: weren't able to get the ball down quickly enough to
21:03
Speaker 1: generate some of those third and longers where you know
21:06
Speaker 1: most of those most of those pressures really come to life.
21:10
Speaker 1: So now instead of looking at a third and eight,
21:11
Speaker 1: you're looking at a third and four maybe in plus territory,
21:13
Speaker 1: and now you're looking at a whole different host of
21:15
Speaker 1: plays where the balls out quicker. So and it's a
21:17
Speaker 1: tribute to the Buffalo. They thought they called a good game.
21:20
Speaker 1: I thought Josh Josh played an excellent game as an
21:22
Speaker 1: excellent player. So you got to give them their kudos
21:25
Speaker 1: to get.
21:26
Speaker 4: His job, the starting job back this week.
21:29
Speaker 5: Or is that a competition?
21:30
Speaker 1: That's competition. It's competition with all the staff.
21:34
Speaker 3: There was optimism coming out of those meetings, specifically with
21:37
Speaker 3: the defensive staff.
21:38
Speaker 5: What was the source of that optimum?
21:40
Speaker 1: Who are the guys in the room? Who are I
21:43
Speaker 1: mean these guys. We've seen it on tape, I've seen
21:46
Speaker 1: our coaches coach and I think we coach it. We
21:50
Speaker 1: can coach it at really high level. We're putting some
21:52
Speaker 1: great stuff out there, and then we kind of and
21:55
Speaker 1: we also believe in the players that are going to
21:57
Speaker 1: be showing up tomorrow. So it's pretty sense right there
22:01
Speaker 1: on that screen.
22:01
Speaker 2: That Gino got picked on yesterday. Some coaches in that situation.
22:05
Speaker 2: Obviously game flow impacts that some coaches would have wanted
22:08
Speaker 2: the quarterback to just eat.
22:09
Speaker 1: And take a sack.
22:10
Speaker 2: But what were your thoughts on the way the decision
22:13
Speaker 2: making process was there because of the where the game is.
22:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, and from my perspective in real time, I thought
22:18
Speaker 1: that it was just like kind of a bad luck
22:21
Speaker 1: looking back on tape. And I haven't talked to Geno
22:23
Speaker 1: about it yet, so it might not be fair to
22:24
Speaker 1: make a judgment. But you know, if you if you
22:28
Speaker 1: want to dirt it in that situation to kind of
22:29
Speaker 1: live to fight another day, I wouldn't be a bad decision.
22:33
Speaker 5: Anything else.
22:34
Speaker 1: Thank you.