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Speaker 1: especially when the pandemic hit and it, you know, brought

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Speaker 1: the cap space back down, it doesn't change some things, though,

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Speaker 1: when you lose the first round as opposed, So let's

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Speaker 1: say you guys win the Nay Champion of game. I say,

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Speaker 1: you guys went to this hole, wouldn't it make it

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Speaker 1: more where you'd be like, let's we gotta do whatever.

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Speaker 1: We kind of bring this back. You're this close. Whereas

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Speaker 1: when you lose the wildcard round. Yeah, I mean all

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Speaker 1: these games, I mean our game was, you know, the

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Speaker 1: last play of the game, whether we win the game

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Speaker 1: or not. And then San Francisco gets eliminated on the

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Speaker 1: last play of the game. And every one of these

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Speaker 1: games came down to the last play of the game.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we kind of look at it that

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Speaker 1: way in terms of where this thing is, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we just feel like we've got a really good football

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Speaker 1: team that's got to clean some things out. Even how

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Speaker 1: you make the punt the safer play, the punt a

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Speaker 1: safer play, We're good. It's difficult. I mean, you saw

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Speaker 1: how we made the kickoff a more special play. We

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Speaker 1: took a lot of the returns out of the game, so, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, we hadn't gotten into the details of that yet.

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Speaker 1: We've just spent a lot of time this morning on

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Speaker 1: the injury debt. I know you said it's too early

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Speaker 1: to really make a con that overtime role, But do

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Speaker 1: you think it's accurate to say that the league and

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Speaker 1: its rules are more offensive favored than they were when

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Speaker 1: the overtime role was initially put in place. I would say,

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Speaker 1: in general, yes, that we're a more offensive league than

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Speaker 1: we've ever been. I think that's a fair statement. And consequently,

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Speaker 1: that's the unintended consequences of you know what that can affect,

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Speaker 1: which is overtime. So it's just stude observation, but one

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Speaker 1: will certainly take into consideration. How do you figured it

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Speaker 1: back too possible becoming a gallow How far long will

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Speaker 1: you guys in that process of reving up? Would you

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Speaker 1: want your proposal and the things that you can do

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Speaker 1: with Cristal long int and the discipality. Yeah, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: say we're way down the road. We're just in the

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Speaker 1: early stages, no presentations God made. How do you fix

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Speaker 1: the details that cimically in the passing game that just

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Speaker 1: seemed to be lacking early throughout the season. When we

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Speaker 1: down the stretch, that was a real differentiator about why

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Speaker 1: you guys, this season came to a conclusion when it did.

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Speaker 1: How do you do it? Oh? Do you get in

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Speaker 1: there and you roll up your sleeves. I mean we've

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Speaker 1: got real smart people, Kellen and his staff, and of

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Speaker 1: course Mike's backgrounds impackable in terms of his background on offense,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you just get in there and your

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Speaker 1: self scout yourself and then you figure, hey, we've got

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Speaker 1: to do this better. We got to do this better.

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Speaker 1: We got to do this better. We'll incorporate this and

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Speaker 1: you grind through it. Not unlikely did on defense last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's something and like you said, it's not

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Speaker 1: like we're we're starting at the bottom here. I mean

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Speaker 1: we had a very productive offense last year. We talk

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Speaker 1: a lot about hope players develop in this league year

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Speaker 1: to year, within the season. How true does that hold

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Speaker 1: for a young coach like Kellen, you know, getting another

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Speaker 1: year of experience and getting a chance to build up

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Speaker 1: last year I think any coach tells you, you know

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Speaker 1: that really work at it, they only get better with

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Speaker 1: each year. It's like a football player too. If you

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Speaker 1: continue to work at it, you continue to get better.

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Speaker 1: Guys said, this is Joe Bowden out of you, guys.

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Speaker 1: He has he joined you, guys. He hasn't joined us yet.

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Speaker 1: So that's the only place we're really missing right now.

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Speaker 1: But you never know, I mean, we never know if

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Speaker 1: you might add somebody who's not gonna have a job

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Speaker 1: this year that's getting paid by another staff. I mean

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Speaker 1: we've done that before, so we wouldn't totally rule that out. Yes,

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Speaker 1: at it, guys. Thank you, appreciate you, guys. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you guys. Thank you