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Speaker 1: What do you like about to do offensive line line? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think overall offensively, um, including the offensive line, I

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Speaker 1: think we were we played more consistently last week and

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Speaker 1: still made some mistakes, still had some We've gotta have

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Speaker 1: to continue to improve on our communication. That's probably one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest areas of of of improvement we need

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Speaker 1: to continue with and m you know, uh, but there

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Speaker 1: were some good and there were some good enough to win,

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Speaker 1: but there were some other things that we got to

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Speaker 1: get better at. What do you look at the first

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Speaker 1: half and say, I think did this really well? It's

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Speaker 1: kind are more successful. Yeah, it's hard to kind of

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Speaker 1: if you could put your finger on it exactly, you know,

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Speaker 1: we'd all be winning a lot more games. But I

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Speaker 1: think one of the things was the the effort, the

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Speaker 1: ability to stay kind of move on from one play

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Speaker 1: to the next. We had a couple bad plays in

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Speaker 1: that early drive, and yet we just we just made

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Speaker 1: a play to get a first down and then kind

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Speaker 1: of kept it going. I think we did that, um,

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Speaker 1: can you know pretty well in the first half and

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Speaker 1: the drives UM this year that we've that we've moved

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Speaker 1: ball some of them. We had score touchdowns on we've

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Speaker 1: done that. You know, we've been pretty good on second

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Speaker 1: and long. We're trying to get better efficiency wise on first,

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Speaker 1: on the on the early downs on first and ten second,

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Speaker 1: one to six. Um, we definitely are working on that

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Speaker 1: as well. But um, in the meantime, you know, just

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Speaker 1: whether or not it's Eli making good decision good decisions

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Speaker 1: or us just you know, trying to play on their

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Speaker 1: side of the line of scrimmage in the running game

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Speaker 1: eliminating penetration. We've been able to do some things that

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Speaker 1: to get first down, to keep us on the field. Mike,

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Speaker 1: what did you see an increasing stamps the other day

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Speaker 1: went down? You know, we saw about what we expect

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Speaker 1: that this is my first year with him, but he's

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Speaker 1: been very steady. Um, he's a true veteran. He understand

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Speaker 1: as the game. He's smart, he's a fast thinker, he's versatile.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, then when Evan went down, obviously his reps

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Speaker 1: And you know, Eli as as you saw, has got

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Speaker 1: complete confidence in him, and UM, you know, so, uh,

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Speaker 1: he's we need to continue the way we uh we

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Speaker 1: finished last week with him and some of the other

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Speaker 1: guys that came in and played well. Evan is kind

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Speaker 1: of unique in the sense that he gives you the

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Speaker 1: deep option. Could you lose that with him out already

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Speaker 1: think so. Maybe on certain things that you might um

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Speaker 1: kind of go out of your way to feature Evan on.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, no, I mean think Red is

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Speaker 1: really I think he's very valuable because of all the

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Speaker 1: things I mentioned earlier, dangerous receiving. Do you can you

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Speaker 1: get that production from Red review? You need something that

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Speaker 1: from your wide receivers sterling to go more from that?

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Speaker 1: How do you? Yeah? I think yes to both questions.

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Speaker 1: I think you can get that production out of rhet Now,

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Speaker 1: it might not be in the exact same way you

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Speaker 1: where you can you know he's gonna make He's gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to have the ability to give you a

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Speaker 1: chunk play. Um, it might be just in a different way.

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Speaker 1: But yes, also to the other guys, anytime there's somebody

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Speaker 1: that goes down, other guys have to step up. And

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Speaker 1: we did that as well, uh last week, and you

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Speaker 1: know we're gonna have to definitely do it this week,

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Speaker 1: Mike is it's safe to say though, you know, even

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Speaker 1: if you lose that deep ball thread with Evan, as

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Speaker 1: long as Rhet and the other guys are getting chipping

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Speaker 1: away into and moving the chain, see, you'll take that

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Speaker 1: as close to the bay, sure, I mean we'll we'll

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Speaker 1: take it any just any way we can just to

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Speaker 1: make first down. Stay on the field. I think the

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Speaker 1: big thing is if we do stay on the field,

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Speaker 1: those those big plays are gonna come. We had some

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Speaker 1: explosive plays last week where they were, you know, just

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Speaker 1: short passes that turned into explosive plays. So there's a

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Speaker 1: the play. Decision making and completion percentage was obviously really high. Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Cat Shermer said that on the ball that went to

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Speaker 1: Red to the touchdown, Odell was the first option. Heli

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Speaker 1: seen Ellie's decision making in this offense improved wink to

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Speaker 1: week or has that been something that you've been pleased with. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been very consistent. I mean he has he's a

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Speaker 1: very good decision maker, um, and he gets and then

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Speaker 1: decision just kind of like I've always seen before I

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Speaker 1: got here, he gets the ball there quickly and accurately.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the big things for

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. If you know, we if number one is

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Speaker 1: not open, then you get to number two or number

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Speaker 1: I think he's really good at that. Um. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: just think we just got a little bit better and

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Speaker 1: continue to get better. I think I think everybody just

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Speaker 1: just got a little bit better, played a little more consistently.

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Speaker 1: I do think, you know, I mentioned communication needs to improve.

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Speaker 1: I do think we did communicate better. Um. But it

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Speaker 1: wasn't just you know, it wasn't just those guys. I

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Speaker 1: think they helped h our receivers, um by allowing our

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Speaker 1: helped them. I think it was you know, when you're

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Speaker 1: other out. Like, how do you balance the high percentage

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Speaker 1: of past completion with trying to make more productive plays?

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Speaker 1: Down with you? Yeah, I think you just um, you know,

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Speaker 1: you trust your quarterback and you you give him enough

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Speaker 1: options to be able to do both and make good decisions.

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Speaker 1: And you know it's about the end result is getting

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Speaker 1: an explosive or catch a ball forty yards down the field,

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Speaker 1: make an explosive play that way,