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Speaker 1: The decision making behind Tommy as starter. How much input

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Speaker 1: did you have in that and what were those conversations

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Speaker 1: like with Dabs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, first off, I'm really excited for Tommy.

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Speaker 2: I think it's it's been fun working with him and

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Speaker 2: you know, continue to build the game. Playing with him

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Speaker 2: has been has been a really good process. So that's

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Speaker 2: really where our focus is at. And so I think

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Speaker 2: he's he's doing a good job. We are Thursday type

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Speaker 2: practice today, So that's where it focuses.

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Speaker 3: Like there's a you've been a player in locker rooms

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Speaker 3: and there's a perception in sports that like the locker

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Speaker 3: room always knows who the best player is. That's how you,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, gain or lose a locker room. Basically,

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Speaker 3: are you playing the best players? You feel like the

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Speaker 3: locker room backs Tommy as the best player over Tyron.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, I sure do, and I you know,

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Speaker 2: I think what Dave's made the decision, you know, I

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Speaker 2: fully support it, I back it, And that's really where

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Speaker 2: I focuses.

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Speaker 1: Mike.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes, when when you have a bye week that's a

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Speaker 4: lot earlier in the season, you know, you guys can

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Speaker 4: go in and really dig in and make sure changes

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Speaker 4: and say okay, we can do this now or that

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Speaker 4: now being late. Maybe not the wholesale changes, but the

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Speaker 4: fact that Tommy is now the quarterback and you really

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Speaker 4: haven't put together that offense consistently around him. Did the

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Speaker 4: buy We give you opportunities to I don't want to

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Speaker 4: say cater things to him, but to try to continue

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Speaker 4: to find what works best for him as quarterback.

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Speaker 2: And it really did, it really did. That time during

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Speaker 2: the bye week is invaluable for the staff for the players.

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Speaker 2: Don't number one get kind of rejuvenated just with some

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Speaker 2: off time, but also to kind of go back and

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Speaker 2: look at some of the things that we can improve on.

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Speaker 2: And we did that with you know, not just the

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Speaker 2: quarterback position, but every position and our unit as a group,

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Speaker 2: how we can get help, we can improve in the

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Speaker 2: run game, in the past game, all those kind of areas.

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Speaker 2: So you know, we dug down deep as a staff

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Speaker 2: and looked at a bunch of cutups as ourselves around

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Speaker 2: the league, what teams are doing and how we can improve.

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Speaker 1: One of the numbers that sticks out when you look

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Speaker 1: at Tommy is I think he's been sacked thirty times

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Speaker 1: and whatever is that just him holding the ball and

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Speaker 1: trying not to make a mistake.

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Speaker 2: I'd say an offense, it's really never one guy. It's

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Speaker 2: it's you know, eleven man operation. So we all got

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Speaker 2: to be clicking on the same cylinders and working to

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Speaker 2: improve all those things, whether it's passport up front, whether

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Speaker 2: it's getting the ball out, whether it's winning down, feeling

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Speaker 2: a route, whether it's play calling, like, all those things

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Speaker 2: work together, and so you know, we're we all got

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Speaker 2: to get on a better page and eliminate those things.

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Speaker 2: It was a report in one of the Chicago papers

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Speaker 2: that you like turned down Northwestern's interest in that head

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Speaker 2: coaching job.

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Speaker 3: Just curious, like why how much did you serious consideration

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Speaker 3: did you even give that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was just something that you know,

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Speaker 2: wasn't on my on my landscape at the time. Right now,

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Speaker 2: this is what I'm focused on being here and enjoying

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Speaker 2: the process with the players and the coaches and going

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Speaker 2: through this journey.

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Speaker 3: At the same time, there's another report that you guys

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Speaker 3: could lose Nixon in the same kind of things. Interest

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Speaker 3: from my college job. What kind of like what's the

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Speaker 3: plan B or whatever you have to make to get

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Speaker 3: that gob that in order if you do lose.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, whatever whichever decision Nixon makes, I fully support.

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Speaker 2: On the Roddy wants to go and I'd be happy

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Speaker 2: for him. I think as far as the staffing and stuff,

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Speaker 2: you have to ask the age about.

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Speaker 4: That kind of game like Hyatt had against the Patriots,

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Speaker 4: continue to open up his game moving forward, like the

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Speaker 4: show things that he hadn't been showing that that game

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Speaker 4: or is it just a matter of you know, things

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Speaker 4: kind of opened up in that game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I mean he's gonna He's done a

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Speaker 2: nice job, you know, as he's building out throughout the

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Speaker 2: throughout this season, and I think each week's is a

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Speaker 2: little bit different in the game plan how how kind

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Speaker 2: of formulates based on the defenses we're playing. But I

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Speaker 2: think it will continue to grow. And I think he's

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Speaker 2: he's feeling confident and confident with himself, confident with the offense,

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Speaker 2: and you can see that as well,