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Speaker 6: Over the years, we've heard like a lot of stories

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Speaker 4: I think I've always tried to use everything that I've

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Speaker 9: They move him around pre snap and then it's a slot.

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Speaker 3: Tonight, Josh McDaniels.

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Speaker 9: He's up for Assistant Coach of the Year.

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Speaker 8: What would it mean to you if he was, you know,

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Speaker 10: Right, Hi, Mike. Most coaches would want their players to

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Speaker 10: Why is that important to you and how do you

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Speaker 12: A lot of people idolizing you guys in the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 4: You know, it's just a you know, a big sports

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Speaker 9: Mark Daniels in the front.

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Speaker 1: Time.

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Speaker 12: Mark, You're working with a lot of coaches you've been

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Speaker 12: What does it mean for you to go through this

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Speaker 1: Time in with. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Again, just try to put a good staff together for

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Speaker 4: that make connections. I think they've all done that. I

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Speaker 1: And that may or may not happen.

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Speaker 4: And that group has provided us a lot of production,

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Speaker 4: It wasn't just steph Uh. Everybody contributed and I think

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 4: The strain that sometimes has put on their families, and

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Speaker 13: It's you've had a you have a lot of young

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's gone really fast.

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Speaker 4: it's gone really it's quickly, and you have seen them mature.

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Speaker 1: I think you've seen them become more comfortable.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think you see Trevion talk yesterday about

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Speaker 4: And you see Will developing, you know, in this team

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Speaker 4: will tell you that they're going to still be rookies

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Speaker 1: Here back roll right good more than Mike Hi.

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Speaker 2: After your time with Tennessee, in your time with Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: And how do you think you've evolved as a head coach.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to win more than what we did.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I just the only the biggest thing that

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Speaker 4: I learned is that I wanted nothing more than to

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Speaker 4: important the connections are with the players and not losing

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Speaker 4: sight of that. Even as a head coach. When I

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Speaker 4: I had a lot of time to spend with assistant coaches.

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Speaker 4: I had a lot of time to spend with players,

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Speaker 4: My office wasn't upstairs where the coaching staff was or

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Speaker 4: kind of got back to the basics of just what

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Speaker 4: maybe it wasn't something that I wanted to do differently,

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Speaker 5: Mike, there's been a shift over the last decade or

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Speaker 5: It's it's kind of drastically changed. How is your view

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Speaker 5: on that change through the years? And how do you

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Speaker 5: weigh the numbers, that's the percentages versus other factors in

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's just what you have to do.

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Speaker 4: You have to decide what type of game this is,

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Speaker 4: how well you know what the offenses is doing, what

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Speaker 4: you think about the play call, where it is on

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Speaker 4: to require.

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Speaker 1: Is it going to require.

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Speaker 4: Some field goals, it's going to be a low scoring game,

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Speaker 4: or is this going to be a game that we're going.

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Speaker 1: To have to score touchdowns in?

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Speaker 4: And you know sometimes that's you know, it kind of

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Speaker 1: I think we've tried to be.

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Speaker 4: Aggressive when when we should probably just doing the best

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Speaker 11: Mike, both of you guys in the Seahawks like to

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Speaker 11: use stunts games up front. How big of a factor

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Speaker 11: the teams handle that? And also how have you seen

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Speaker 11: those evolved since you were a player.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think they've won. It'll be a huge factor

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Speaker 4: I'm not not pretty good. They are really good at it.

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Speaker 4: That's the strength of what they do. That's how they

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Speaker 4: is you know, they can straight rush and guys work

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Speaker 4: that that gets free. They pick and they drive to

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Speaker 4: the quarterback and you know, they make it difficult on you.

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Speaker 4: So that'll be a huge factor in the game, our

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Speaker 1: So they've probably evolved.

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Speaker 1: And you know, based on who you have.

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Speaker 4: The personnel, I think it's driven by the style and

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys,