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Cooper Kupp On Preparing For Week 1 vs. Patriots · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone? I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: The video you sent out that said, don't try this
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  Speaker 2: at home, how often do you have to, when did
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  Speaker 2: you first come up with that, being able to catch
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  Speaker 2: all those balls like that?
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  Speaker 3: I believe it was like Andre Johnson and those guys back,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Fantasy Files. Remember the Fantasy Files commercials? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so it's just, that was the inspiration.
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  Speaker 2: How many takes was that?
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: When you look at week one, it means I would
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  Speaker 4: think of something a little bit different as a Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowl champ.
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  Speaker 5: But what are you telling the guys on offense and
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  Speaker 5: how to approach this?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess, I mean, one, I'd say no one
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  Speaker 3: really takes that approach, you know, right? Like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're going into this thing, it's week one of 2026. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for all of the stuff going on outside
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  Speaker 3: of the game, you know, we're going to be in
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  Speaker 3: the locker room getting ready to go play a football game.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's just kind of where we are. We
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  Speaker 3: live in a different world than a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: outside world. Here's all the noise and all the different stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We've been in these chairs preparing to go out there
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  Speaker 3: and play a football game. And so our expectation is
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and be able to let loose
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  Speaker 3: all the things that we've been working on for the last.
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  Speaker 1: Five months.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's where we're focused. That's where our mindset is.
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  Speaker 3: And so it doesn't hit us the same way, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: You talked about being a problem.
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  Speaker 6: Solver, trying to get from point A to point B
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  Speaker 6: on the field. What do you like about the particular
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  Speaker 6: challenge of week one when you're not exactly sure what
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  Speaker 6: that tendency or game plan is?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good question because it is.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, week one and really like the first couple
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  Speaker 3: weeks are really, you don't have tendencies to go off of.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have new film of a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: guys that, you know, they have a lot of guys
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  Speaker 3: play in the preseason. So you got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: stuff from last year that you're going off of. But that's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, everyone's playing with that same, you know, that
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  Speaker 3: same problem and you go out there and you.
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  Speaker 1: Just play ball.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure there's going to be for every team stepping
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  Speaker 3: out on the field this next week, there's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a great opportunity for people to be able to
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  Speaker 3: adapt and move, figure things out, problem solve, and hopefully
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  Speaker 3: make things come alive.
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  Speaker 5: Do you and Chisholm have an Eastern Washington group chat?
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  Speaker 1: No, we don't. I've reached out to Efton.
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  Speaker 3: We kept in touch a little bit while he was
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  Speaker 3: at Eastern Washington, but It's been really cool to see
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  Speaker 3: what he's been able to do and make some really
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  Speaker 3: good plays for them.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope he's doing well.
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  Speaker 6: Going back to the adjustments that you have to make
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  Speaker 6: in the season opener, being a veteran now, what do
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  Speaker 6: you think is the biggest key at this level, being
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  Speaker 6: able to do that? Because you have to be able
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  Speaker 6: to do it on the fly and trying to pivot
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  Speaker 6: in-game that way. What do you think is the biggest
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  Speaker 6: key to being successful at that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a– you know, I think it's–
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  Speaker 3: the ability to not have too much rigidity in kind
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  Speaker 3: of how you operate, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like, you know, coaches do a good job of giving
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  Speaker 1: rules so you can go out there and problem solve
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  Speaker 1: on your own.
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  Speaker 3: And it's being able to come to the sidelines and communicate.
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  Speaker 3: I think the amount of work that gets done on
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  Speaker 3: the sidelines in terms of your meeting with your coaches,
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  Speaker 3: you know, defense is out there for a little while,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is, how can we communicate to make sure
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  Speaker 3: everyone's on the same page of how we want to
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  Speaker 3: get things done. And there's also an emphasis on like, Hey, there's,
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  Speaker 3: there's plays that don't go right that you know you're
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  Speaker 3: not coming back to, right? And so it's like an
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  Speaker 3: element of, you know, are you wasting time on these
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  Speaker 3: plays or the ones that are, like, what are the
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  Speaker 3: things that are going to come up again for today?
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  Speaker 3: You know, so it's kind of, you know, a specialized
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  Speaker 3: way of, you know, coaching, too, for how, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the coaches go into this game plan and understand that
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be plays that get called a few
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  Speaker 3: times that we want to make sure that we can
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  Speaker 3: make the adjustments and exercise those things.
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  Speaker 5: What's the challenge of, Your entire starting offense haven't played
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  Speaker 5: since February.
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  Speaker 1: Have you had a game rehearsal with your new play caller? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's certainly, I guess, there's challenges there, but
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  Speaker 3: I think the coaches have done a great job in
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  Speaker 3: terms of how we structure practice, even, in terms of
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  Speaker 3: how we want to operate, in terms of having call-up periods,
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  Speaker 3: things like that, where we're simulating as close as we
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  Speaker 3: can to what a game is. It's a very cliche thing,
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  Speaker 3: but you try to make practice more difficult than games.
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  Speaker 3: We did a great job of that during camp, and
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  Speaker 3: At the end of the day, we've been playing football
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  Speaker 3: for a long time. Brian's obviously a first-time play caller,
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  Speaker 3: but he's called a few times this preseason. We get
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  Speaker 3: out there and we're all working towards the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: So it's going to be part of that collaboration, working
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  Speaker 3: together to bring these things alive. We haven't played maybe
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  Speaker 3: together in a real game this year that you guys
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  Speaker 3: have seen, but we've played a lot of football together.
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  Speaker 1: This year still. And so guys are excited about being
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  Speaker 1: able to go out there and let it rip.
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  Speaker 4: Can you explain what a call-out period is and how
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  Speaker 4: that's different from another.
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  Speaker 1: Period of practice?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, most of the time you end up getting script practice.
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  Speaker 3: The offense wants to run these. We want to work
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  Speaker 3: on these 10 plays, so we want to make sure
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  Speaker 3: we get these 10 plays called. And you get the
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  Speaker 3: script the night before whenever it's like, hey, this is
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  Speaker 3: getting called. Call-out periods are as much as a game
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  Speaker 3: sim as you possibly can. You're more calling off of
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  Speaker 3: a play sheet. And as a player, you might be
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  Speaker 3: given that call sheet the night before that morning. These
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  Speaker 3: are the plays that could possibly come up. This is
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  Speaker 3: just like a miniature call sheet. And then you're just
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  Speaker 3: playing against the defense. The defense is calling it situationally
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  Speaker 3: on what comes up. Offensively, you're calling it in that
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  Speaker 3: same way. And so for us, it's simulating that same thing.
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  Speaker 3: You don't go into the huddle and know, OK, well,
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  Speaker 3: I know I read on the script that these three
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  Speaker 3: plays are coming up. There's a little bit of a feel, understanding,
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  Speaker 3: down and distance. what the situations are, you're anticipating things
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  Speaker 3: from the defense, and then being able to make plays
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  Speaker 3: come alive. And even some things that maybe weren't on
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  Speaker 3: the call sheet, but, man, like, Brian wants to get to,
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  Speaker 3: let's go make it happen.
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  Speaker 5: Is that unique to here, or is that common across
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  Speaker 5: the experience?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've only been two places, but of the
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  Speaker 3: two places, that was, you know, call-up periods were a
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  Speaker 3: common thing.
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  Speaker 5: You guys were 27th in turnover differential through, like, week
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  Speaker 5: 11 last year, and then you were first after that.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't turn it over in the playoffs. Do you
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  Speaker 5: feel like that was just a good period, or did
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  Speaker 5: you guys figure out a little bit of a different
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  Speaker 5: way to operate on offense?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It was so long ago.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember if there was a button that was
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  Speaker 3: found that was pushed and flipped it, but it's something
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  Speaker 3: you're always working on. I think there's always that intention,
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  Speaker 3: and all you can do is you dive into your process.
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  Speaker 3: There's plays that come up, things that happen in football
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  Speaker 3: that it's like, man, it didn't matter what happened here.
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  Speaker 3: The ball just bounced the wrong way. Something just didn't
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  Speaker 3: go the way you want it to. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so there's an element of that, but you dive back
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  Speaker 3: to what the process is. Is it an emphasis in practice?
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  Speaker 3: Are we making sure that their habits are being formed?
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  Speaker 3: Are they going to give us the best chance to
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  Speaker 3: minimize those things? And at the same time, defensive players
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  Speaker 3: have gotten so good at creating turnovers, being able to
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  Speaker 3: have the peanut punch and things like that, the way
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  Speaker 3: the guys are taught to tackle now, attacking the football.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of the game.
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  Speaker 3: And so, you know, for us, it's about our energy,
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  Speaker 3: our effort, running to the football our offensive line i
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  Speaker 3: think does a great job of running to the football
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  Speaker 3: so if something does happen they're there to be able
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  Speaker 3: to jump on the ball and um you know so
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  Speaker 3: it truly is a and all of us were all
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  Speaker 3: a part of it and i thought we kind of
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  Speaker 3: helped bring that alive as the season went on but
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  Speaker 3: it was something that was definitely intentionally worked on throughout
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  Speaker 3: that time.
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  Speaker 4: The emphasis on the 70 instead of the 50 you
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  Speaker 4: talked about this a little on hard knocks that captured
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  Speaker 4: a scene with that but like The way Mike and
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  Speaker 4: John do that here, I mean, they're probably going to
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  Speaker 4: be guys brought up for Wednesday's game off the practice squad.
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  Speaker 4: What does that do for the team when it feels
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  Speaker 4: like everyone's part of it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think there's a confidence and a belief
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  Speaker 3: in the 70, and there's an expectation that there's not
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  Speaker 3: going to be a drop-off. It's like those guys are,
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  Speaker 3: it's called a ready squad because you're anticipating those guys
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  Speaker 3: being ready to come in and do what they need
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  Speaker 3: to do. And we've seen it over and over again,
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  Speaker 3: just the belief in those guys. You're continuing to coach
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  Speaker 3: those guys as well that aren't, If you gain this
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  Speaker 3: many reps, there's still an onus on them to be
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  Speaker 3: able to go out and understand the game plan. And
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  Speaker 3: if a number is called, we need you to come
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  Speaker 3: up with expectations. No matter who you put out there,
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  Speaker 3: like in the receiver room, whoever runs out into the field,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't change our expectation, our standard for how we operate.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what it needs to be. I think they've
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  Speaker 3: done a great job here of being able to Operate
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  Speaker 3: under some– like understanding the waiver wire is a huge thing.
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  Speaker 3: Understanding how do you talk to people and make sure like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's some people that are subjected to the
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  Speaker 3: waiver wire, some people that aren't. So there's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: how do you make sure that you get guys that
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  Speaker 3: you can build that 70 as best as you possibly
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  Speaker 3: can and allow as much flexibility as possible because you
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  Speaker 3: never know in this game what you're going to need,
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  Speaker 3: who you're going to need.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's something that we take a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pride in.
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  Speaker 6: I know we've asked you.
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  Speaker 2: About Brian before, but just from day one to now,
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  Speaker 2: how have you seen his personality evolve with you guys
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  Speaker 2: and kind of that working relationship?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's been great. And, you know, it's super cool.
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  Speaker 3: He's done an unbelievable job. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's cool to see, even just as the coaches, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not an easy thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's not missed. I think, you know, you have an
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  Speaker 1: OC come over. He didn't bring anyone with him, right?
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  Speaker 3: He had to install his vision to the coaches so
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  Speaker 3: they could go out and install it to the players.
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  Speaker 3: That's a tough thing to do, but it's been really
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  Speaker 3: cool to have that collaboration piece where you see the coaches,
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  Speaker 3: you see the players, you see Brian all working together
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  Speaker 3: to make sure we get the best plays out there,
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  Speaker 3: putting guys in the best situations possible, and he's done
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  Speaker 3: a great job.
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  Speaker 6: Mike's talked about it. Every play caller has their first opportunity.
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  Speaker 6: This is going to be his first chance at a
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  Speaker 6: regular season game, but What have you seen even early
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  Speaker 6: on that showed you this guy is ready for.
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  Speaker 2: This as a player?
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  Speaker 3: He definitely has an understanding of what's happening out in
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  Speaker 3: the field. like being able to see it feel it
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  Speaker 3: and um you know i think a huge part of
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  Speaker 3: being a good play caller i've never been one but
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  Speaker 3: just from my standpoint is guys that can visualize what
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  Speaker 3: they want to get done right like your head's not
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  Speaker 3: down on the call shoot your head's up seeing what's
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  Speaker 3: happening and you're calling it based off of i know
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  Speaker 3: i want to get our offense into this because of
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  Speaker 3: what I'm seeing. And I think, you know, he's someone
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  Speaker 3: that can, he does that on a regular basis, his
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  Speaker 3: understanding of the offense, how to set things up, how
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  Speaker 3: to get guys in places where they can execute and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, be able to attack, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the vulnerabilities that he's seeing defensively. So I think that's
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  Speaker 3: early on, seeing how he can do that, his visualization
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  Speaker 3: on that side of things. I mean, he'll call it
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  Speaker 3: off the top of his head. That's difficult to do and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of shows you his understanding of what
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  Speaker 3: he's trying to get done.
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  Speaker 5: Jadar Price has earned a lot of respect from the
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  Speaker 5: veterans on the team already. What does a rookie do
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  Speaker 5: to make that kind of impression that quickly?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you just show up ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: You show up, you know, knowing what you've got.
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  Speaker 3: And then when you aren't making the same mistakes over
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  Speaker 3: and over again, there's like anything that you do, I
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  Speaker 3: think he's done a great job. Just the effort that
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  Speaker 3: he brings every single day is consistent. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to get the absolute maximum effort. Every rep
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  Speaker 3: is going to finish with a burst, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: he's going to get coached and he's going to come
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  Speaker 3: back and he's not going to make that mistake again.
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  Speaker 1: And that shows you a lot. And, you know, I think.
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  Speaker 3: That's what you want. That's the expectation for everyone, right?
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  Speaker 3: I think that's ultimately what you do. If you want
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  Speaker 3: to earn respect, you operate under our standard operating agreement
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  Speaker 3: of what we do. And he's done a great job
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  Speaker 3: of embodying that.
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  Speaker 4: What do you like about the way Mike seeks feedback
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  Speaker 4: from veterans? We saw, you know, in Hard Knocks, that
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  Speaker 4: clip of the council and all that and the group
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  Speaker 4: that is involved every, I guess, maybe weekly talking to
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  Speaker 4: him about it.
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  Speaker 2: What do you like about that opportunity for feedback from players?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think it's, you know, he's trying to
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  Speaker 3: get a feel, you know, on what's happening in our,
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  Speaker 3: you know, environment, in our atmosphere, and I think what happens,
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  Speaker 3: you hear coaches talk about all the time that as
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  Speaker 3: you move out of the, as you move farther away
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  Speaker 3: from the position rooms, you have less of a feel
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  Speaker 3: on what's happening, you know, in the locker room with
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  Speaker 3: the guys, and I think that's part of it, is
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  Speaker 3: just making sure he's keeping a feel on what we,
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  Speaker 3: who we are as a team, what we're about, what
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  Speaker 3: we need, and making sure things are moving in the
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  Speaker 3: right direction. So, It's just another layer of that communication
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  Speaker 3: that's from the top down, but also from the bottom up.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else?
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. Thank you, guys.