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Speaker 1: Three points, Steven, seemed like a great start. What would

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Speaker 1: be your sort of characterization of the way the defense

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Speaker 1: played tonight. I think we just did a good job.

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Speaker 1: I mean every time we play a good defensive performance,

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Speaker 1: it's because we kind of stuck to the game plan.

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Speaker 1: And I would say that's what we did today. And

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Speaker 1: I think I talked about during the week just being

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Speaker 1: able to adjust, and they gave us a lot of

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Speaker 1: different things. Whether it was a two back, you know situation,

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Speaker 1: if it was four wide, five wide, they did a

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Speaker 1: bunch of different things. And I think our ability to

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Speaker 1: adjust and communicate out there helped us out a lot

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Speaker 1: on defense. And I think that's something that we just

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Speaker 1: got to continue to work on and get better because

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Speaker 1: teams are going to do different things, you know. I

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Speaker 1: think it helps. We got a lot of guys that

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Speaker 1: could start on a lot of teams in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and guys are very selfless, come out here, prepare when

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Speaker 1: their numbers call it, to go out there and play,

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Speaker 1: and I think we just got to keep that that

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Speaker 1: mentality all throughout. It seemed like you guys were able

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Speaker 1: to substitute regularly, especially the front seven in front of you.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious when you guys are substitute shooting that frequently

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Speaker 1: this early in the season, what is that a you know,

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Speaker 1: a quality of in terms of defensive signal calling. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a credit to all of the guys you know,

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Speaker 1: on defense. Everybody's earned the opportunity to be out there playing,

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Speaker 1: and I think the coach is just doing a great

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Speaker 1: because everyone's played well. I mean, you guys have watched

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Speaker 1: throughout preseason. We've had a number of guys that have

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Speaker 1: been out there and played good football. I'm sure all

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Speaker 1: you guys do your your roster of projections and you've

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Speaker 1: changed it a bunch of times leading into this, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's a credit to the guys that have

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Speaker 1: been in this locker room. Guys that on other teams

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Speaker 1: now you know, since April, have worked their butts off.

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Speaker 1: So it feels good to come out here, you know,

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Speaker 1: opening night and have a lot of guys play for

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Speaker 1: us defensively and a lot of guys play well. And

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Speaker 1: mentioned that opening night the sideline is gonna come important

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Speaker 1: where you guys come off the field, and guys can

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Speaker 1: point out some things that you probably have never seen before.

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Speaker 1: Did Dad help tonight? Were you able to do that tonight? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And I think because of the experience we have in

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Speaker 1: a second, when we're over there talking, it's guys playing

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Speaker 1: so many different roles that we're just discussing whatever it was.

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Speaker 1: So when the next guy's in a different role and

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Speaker 1: we can talk about this so they know what to expect.

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Speaker 1: And I thought that showed up throughout the game of

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Speaker 1: us just continue to talk and try to get things

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Speaker 1: on the same page. And you know, they gave us

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Speaker 1: some things that you know, we kind of talked about,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe this would happen, and we just did

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Speaker 1: every plan. A lot of that comes from just being

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Speaker 1: able to talk on the sideline. And you'll see sometimes,

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Speaker 1: you know, like the whole coaching staff is still meet

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Speaker 1: and talking about the last series and you know, worl

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Speaker 1: over there, Jay's holding the surface and we're going over

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Speaker 1: it on our own because we have a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys that played here for a long time. DEVI were

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Speaker 1: used to seeing durn Harmon making that deep pick over

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Speaker 1: we're out there chasing a lot of these fast guys.

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Speaker 1: And Duran actually switched with me on that play, so

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Speaker 1: There's been a couple of times I've switched with him

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Speaker 1: and he's got an interception, so both of us just

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Speaker 1: what we think's best. So our group is selling selfish man.

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Speaker 1: We all enjoy everybody making plays and you saw that tonight.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of pass breakups, a lot of

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Speaker 1: good coverage, and that's it's a good outfit. You know,

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Speaker 1: lot of good receivers. Devin is one of the captains

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Speaker 1: that Antonio Brown is going to be joining the team.

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Speaker 1: I got told Majorariti earlier. We got plenty of time

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Speaker 1: great player, So we'll see how everything works out. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I was excited just to be out there with

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Speaker 1: defense coming back and going over the surface and things

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Speaker 1: like that. But when it comes to Mayo and Steve Belichick,

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Speaker 1: what did they add to the defense tonight in terms

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Speaker 1: I think the cool thing is they all they both

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Speaker 1: they're a lot closer in age. So all throughout the

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Speaker 1: week we're talking, you know, before drive, Steve's acting us

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Speaker 1: what we like. Um, you know, even earlier today, just

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Speaker 1: talking about different things that we like, same thing with Mayo.

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Speaker 1: So I think the thing that's been great, you know

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Speaker 1: we're all on the same page. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: how you play your best football is when the guys

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Speaker 1: that gotta make the plays. Questions. Appreciate it,