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Speaker 1: Guys, appreciate your time today. I'm gonna start out real quick,

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Speaker 1: just offering our thoughts and prayers to coach Parkins family. UM.

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Speaker 1: Coach is a guy who touched a lot of lives

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Speaker 1: in the Nation Football League as well as college football.

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Speaker 1: UH personally, I've had some you know, cross over with

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Speaker 1: prayers go out to this family. Um being said, we've

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Speaker 1: moved on over. Our focus today past Seattle. We're onto

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals now. UM, this is a team that's very explosive.

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Speaker 1: This is a very talented team. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: Cliff does a great job in terms of scheme, using tempo,

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Speaker 1: really creating matchups for his players and letting them play

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Speaker 1: their strengths. You know, this quarterback is obviously, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think these are very different players, but both are

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Speaker 1: it really starts with the running game with them. You know,

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Speaker 1: His units are always very well prepared and he calls

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Speaker 1: be on our toes and all three phases. We've got

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Speaker 1: a lot to prepare for this week. We have a

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Speaker 1: set all open up to any questions you may have.

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Speaker 1: Yle older Gard Hey coach Kyloe gard from Easy Cardinals

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Speaker 1: I'm glammer, Joe. You mentioned Ray Perkins before. Are you

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Speaker 1: Kind of Joe, when when you look back and when

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Speaker 1: You know, I think with me, I've always had a

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Speaker 1: Your game was flexed in Week fifteen, the Browns game.

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Speaker 1: lot of situational football, third down, red area, two minute.

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Speaker 1: You know, Friday is gonna be a red zone day force.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of review force from throughout

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Speaker 1: the week. We just keep our focus and media on

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Speaker 1: what we have to do that day to improve and

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Speaker 1: get ready for Sunday. That's all that really matters, you know.

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Speaker 1: Right now, there's a lot of talk about hypothetical games.

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Speaker 1: You know, we can't sit here and live in some

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Speaker 1: you know, imaginary world about things that don't exist yet.

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Speaker 1: The Cardinals are very real. They're getting on a plane,

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Speaker 1: they're come into play, as you know, at Medlife, and

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Speaker 1: that's what to get ready for. Than that, we've got

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Speaker 1: time for two more. Tom Rock and Doug Tom Rock, Joe.

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Speaker 1: There was a stat that the last time the Giants

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Speaker 1: had a defense that was as productive as you've been

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Speaker 1: of the last four games where the two Super Bowl years,

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Speaker 1: you through the rest of the season, and and bey on.

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Speaker 1: I like the way they're improving. I love the way

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Speaker 1: they're working every day things. Team is really playing is

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Speaker 1: what we say as a team, and this unit's really

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Speaker 1: come together nicely. I think they're building on their ability

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Speaker 1: to play with a lot of multiples. They're building on

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Speaker 1: their position versatility, which allows pat to put together creative

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Speaker 1: some disguise. But also it ultimately comes down to the fundamentals.

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Speaker 1: Just play straight ahead and beat the man across me.

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Speaker 1: And I think our guys have really improved fundamentally as

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Speaker 1: well as schematically, you know, in terms everything else. I

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Speaker 1: just you know, we're trying to get this team good

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Speaker 1: enough to play against the Cardinals this week. Anything after that,

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Speaker 1: you know, we haven't discussed or thought about her talked

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Speaker 1: about we have ways to go as an organization. We

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Speaker 1: have a lot of improvement we have to make. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of things I have to do better. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of things we have to do better, playing

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Speaker 1: and coaching wise. So today is gonna be a good

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Speaker 1: focus on getting a step forward and we have to

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Speaker 1: focus on that every day and then just on the defensive.

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Speaker 1: Blake he'll be back this week, you know. Again, I

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Speaker 1: gotta be fair to Blake and see where he's at.

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Speaker 1: I hope so. Um he's in a meeting with us today.

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Speaker 1: I had a smile on his face and he's laughing.

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Speaker 1: So you can always cut it with Blake. But there's

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Speaker 1: obviously guys are coming out of games, they're bang up,

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Speaker 1: their sore. Today being a walk through day is really

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Speaker 1: part of the recovery from our trip going out west. Um,

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Speaker 1: so that should allow some guys with some nix and

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Speaker 1: in terms of guys that are dinged and bumped up

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Speaker 1: last one here, Douge. Hey Joe, you know things are

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Speaker 1: going well where I don't think you've had a question

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, but special teams, So I'll be that guy.

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Speaker 1: What's kind of going wrong in that phase the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks and how do you fix it? Yeah, look,

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Speaker 1: we just go back to work and work on the

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Speaker 1: fundamentals and make sure we're communicating as a unit alright

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Speaker 1: moving forward. So again, that's obviously a phase that we

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Speaker 1: put the large empstis on here. We have good players

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Speaker 1: on there, we have good coaches working with it. Um,

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Speaker 1: we'll play against good teams. They're gonna have a chance

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Speaker 1: to make plays. It's our duty and our responsibility to

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Speaker 1: make sure they don't make plays. So we've got to

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Speaker 1: do a better job coaching and playing. It starts with meat.