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Speaker 1: It's the Tamiko Rimes Podcast, brought to you by Amagy Bank,

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Speaker 1: the official business bank of the Houston Texans. Coach. Great

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Speaker 1: to see a congratulations.

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Speaker 2: To see you guys as well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you heading into the buy. Let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: win the last two wins, maybe because I wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about process. You mentioned this a lot,

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Speaker 1: focusing on the process more than the outcome. Can you

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Speaker 1: talk about that a little bit?

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Speaker 3: The main thing I speak on the process is how

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Speaker 3: are you as a player as a coach? Like Monday

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Speaker 3: after a game, like, what's that process?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 3: How are you going back through figuring out the things

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Speaker 3: where you need to improve just seeing it on the film,

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Speaker 3: And then you come in on Tuesday? What's your preparation

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Speaker 3: like for the next opponent? Like in Wednesday? How are

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Speaker 3: you practicing? Are you really dialed in on those things

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Speaker 3: you saw you need to correct and fix on Monday

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Speaker 3: and Tuesday?

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Speaker 2: Are you doing them? On the field? Coaches?

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Speaker 3: Are you designing drills specific to your players and what

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Speaker 3: they actually need to get better at, not just doing

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Speaker 3: everyday drill just because you do it, but putting the

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Speaker 3: guys in position that you want to see them in

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Speaker 3: on Sunday and players, are you just dialed in on

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Speaker 3: your process of taking care of your body the right way?

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Speaker 3: Are you getting the reps that you need to get

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Speaker 3: throughout the week all those things, and as you're going

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Speaker 3: through it, are you working in a deliberate manner through practice?

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Speaker 3: I spoke about Kamari Lasserter and just how he's practiced

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Speaker 3: the past two weeks, Like there is just a heighten awareness,

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Speaker 3: a heightened sense of deliberateness when the ball is up,

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Speaker 3: like he was trying to actually put himself in position

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Speaker 3: to take the football away.

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Speaker 2: In practice, it's easy.

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Speaker 3: Some guys can get in position and just be there

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Speaker 3: and you may let the guy catch the ball.

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Speaker 2: You may not finish all the way.

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Speaker 3: But if your process is writing, you're really focused on

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Speaker 3: your process. Like, how are you as an offensive lineman

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Speaker 3: working your hat placement to be perfect? When we're practicing

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Speaker 3: in a walkthrough your hands are perfect? Your communication is

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Speaker 3: Like if you do all those things right and deliberate

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Speaker 3: for three four days of practice and you know you've

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Speaker 3: done it right, you know you've poured everything into that

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Speaker 3: process throughout the week, you know you've winning checked in

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Speaker 3: the training room to get any little thing you're feeling,

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Speaker 3: You checked it out, you working on getting your recovery,

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Speaker 3: your your massages, you're stretching. If you've done all those

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Speaker 3: things throughout the week, when you step out there on Sunday,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna do that again and those results therefore will

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Speaker 3: take care of themselves. Where you you play winning ball

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Speaker 3: all throughout the week, where you're gonna play winning ball

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Speaker 3: on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Cause when, at what point did you kind of feel like,

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Speaker 4: you know what, because we've never won in Baltimore. I

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Speaker 4: know that was something that you talked about after the game.

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Speaker 4: We talked about it all week long. We talked about

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Speaker 4: reliving some of the moments going to Baltimore. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 4: it felt like early on, even we get the touchdown,

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Speaker 4: like okay, this is different, like we just there's a

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Speaker 4: different mindset that you kind of feel that as well,

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Speaker 4: like Okay, we're gonna be okay today.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I know games can change. You get a

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Speaker 5: lead and then.

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Speaker 4: Somebody comes and gets it from you all that, but

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Speaker 4: did you feel early on as you're watching it, like

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Speaker 4: we're playing physical, we're running the ball, well, we're taking

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Speaker 4: care of the ball, no mistake, Okay, I think we

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Speaker 4: can have a pretty good day today. Did you kind

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Speaker 4: of have that feeling early on or we're like, well, no,

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Speaker 4: I'm not totally sure yet. What did you think about

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Speaker 4: how the game kind of started and how it then

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Speaker 4: unfolded as it.

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Speaker 3: No, I felt it in our warm ups. For me,

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Speaker 3: I feel it in our warm ups, how our guys

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Speaker 3: come out they're ready to go, And then it gets

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Speaker 3: solidified on that first drive, first drive of the game,

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Speaker 3: and see our offense drive down the way they drove

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Speaker 3: guys are ready to drive the football. They were doing

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Speaker 3: the things we already spoke about doing throughout the week.

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Speaker 3: We're running the ball efficiently, we're winning first down like

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Speaker 3: we're winning third down, playing physical. So when I see

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Speaker 3: all those things get done on the first drive, I

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Speaker 3: know we're in a really good spot for the game.

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Speaker 4: Did you sense defense too, with the way that Derek

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Speaker 4: would get to the line of scrimmage and you talked

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Speaker 4: about this, you can't get him runway and you get

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Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage and you see those feet kind

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Speaker 4: of pitter padd because he didn't really know where to go.

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Speaker 4: You kind of sense that early on with the run game, like, okay,

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Speaker 4: we're dialed in on them running the football.

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Speaker 2: Oh for sure.

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Speaker 3: My main focus is I told the defensive guys that

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Speaker 3: I wanted to build a wall, like I want to

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Speaker 3: build a wall and make sure everybody's playing with square

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Speaker 3: pads making him stop his feet first couple of runs.

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Speaker 3: When I saw that, and the thing that impressed me

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Speaker 3: body on body tackling, like we know we need to

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Speaker 3: get better at it, and they showed it from the

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Speaker 3: first couple snaps. Guys were swarming. It was three and

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Speaker 3: four guys at the football. So when I saw that

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Speaker 3: wall being built and guys actually taking our techniques and

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Speaker 3: the coaching points taking it to the games, like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: our guys are locked in. We're in a really good

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Speaker 3: mental space, Like it's going to be a really good

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Speaker 1: I was going to bring this up later, but speaking

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Speaker 1: of tackling Jail and Peach Trees tackle Henry, that has

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Speaker 1: to fire up the whole time.

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Speaker 2: That fired everyone up.

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Speaker 3: You're standing there on the sideline and you just see

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Speaker 3: you know Derrick Herring six three, and you see Petrie.

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Speaker 2: Just uncool and not like wow, what a hit man.

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Speaker 3: That was impressive, and that was in Petree played with

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Speaker 3: that confidence and that swagger of the entire game, which

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Speaker 3: led to him making a couple more big plays for

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Speaker 3: as taking the football away. Man, it's just for me,

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Speaker 3: and I got to know you guys are watching as well.

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Speaker 3: Like watching Jalen Petrie play football. It's it's exciting like

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Speaker 3: when you when you see your kids playing ball andever,

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Speaker 3: you want them.

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Speaker 2: To have fun.

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Speaker 3: And that's the main thing I always tell my kids.

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Speaker 3: Make sure you have fun whenever you're doing when you're

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Speaker 3: playing sports. But watch Jalen Petrie like he is having

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Speaker 3: fun out there, and no better play. When I take

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Speaker 3: the starters out, Uh, Kamari has to go back in

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Speaker 3: for the last play because Damon Arnette is cramping up.

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Speaker 3: So Kamari goes back in and the ball is thrown

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Speaker 3: up and you see, I'm watching a sideline cop. I

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Speaker 3: see Jalen Petrie on the sideline and he's just he

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Speaker 3: takes off as soon as the ball is up. He

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Speaker 3: on runs to the end zone to celebrate. I just

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Speaker 3: I just love watching Jalen play football.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he is.

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Speaker 4: I always wonder about this coach with Jalen when somebody

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Speaker 4: asks you what position does he play? With you, man,

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Speaker 4: I mean really like, well, you know, he's kind of

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Speaker 5: He's he just does and looks like and you talk

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Speaker 5: about the smiley's face.

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Speaker 4: It feels like the joy playing football has definitely been

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Speaker 4: there for at least last year going on to this year.

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Speaker 1: McLean says, he plays defense.

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Speaker 2: Think John Gruden calls him with the buzzsaw.

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Speaker 3: So he's he's all over the field, whether it's I mean,

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Speaker 3: he plays really all three levels that we want to

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Speaker 3: blitz him. He's on the line of scrimmage playing a

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Speaker 3: defensive line role, he's at his nickel position playing a

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Speaker 3: linebacker role. We put him back at deep safety. Like

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Speaker 3: he is literally all over the field. He plays every position.

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Speaker 1: For us outstanding all right, offensively, a lot went right.

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Speaker 1: Basically everything went right, it seems, what did you like

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Speaker 1: and is this the result of weeks of work and

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Speaker 1: just ramping up. Maybe that's not the right term, but

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Speaker 1: just developing along the way. Here. You weren't seeing it

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Speaker 3: And for us, the thing I liked about the offense

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Speaker 3: again the second week in a row is just our

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Speaker 3: commitment to the run game right for Kaylee to continue

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Speaker 3: to stay committed to it. And the more you start

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Speaker 3: the running you start to pop a few right, Nick had.

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Speaker 2: A really nice run there.

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Speaker 3: We're getting some two three yards run and there you go, man,

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Speaker 3: there's a seven nine yard run a Nico getting the

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Speaker 3: jet sweep runner. There's so many different ways that we

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Speaker 3: ran the football yesterday and that allows us to open

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Speaker 3: up the play action game. And you see CJ play

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Speaker 3: So everything starts there. And I know I say it

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Speaker 3: all the time, but to actually see it, you just

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Speaker 3: see how it opens up our offense. Now you get

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Speaker 3: Second level guys, they have to bite up for the

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Speaker 3: over the field. But that's because of Kaylee's commitment to it.

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Speaker 3: The way our old offensive line, tight ends and receivers

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Speaker 3: are running. It's all eleven mentality, and guys are doing

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Speaker 3: a great job of it.

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Speaker 4: It feels like great offenses always have wide receivers that

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Speaker 5: And on Chubbs run, you know, X has a great block.

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Speaker 4: It just feels like when wide receivers are out there

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Speaker 4: and I've talked about no block, no rock like, they

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Speaker 4: go out there and they do.

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Speaker 5: A pretty solid job.

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Speaker 4: The flip side of that is they got to make

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Speaker 4: plays catching the football. It's seven pass catchers yesterday that

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Speaker 4: caught two or more passes during the game.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't just dominated by one guy.

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Speaker 4: You know, we got this star and he catches twelve

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Speaker 4: and everybody else gets one maybe, but he had I

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Speaker 4: think three or four guys with four or more. What

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Speaker 4: do you think that says about the passing game at

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Speaker 4: this point coaching?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's for us on in front of

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Speaker 3: our offense, right. You make a defense have to defend

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Speaker 3: all eleven, all right, and that's the key. You can't

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Speaker 3: if you want to focus in on Nico, which I

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Speaker 3: know a lot of people will.

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Speaker 2: They focus on Nico.

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Speaker 3: He draws a lot of tension, and he should because

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Speaker 3: he's such an excited, I mean, exceptional player. But then

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Speaker 3: the rookie Higgins, like he's done an outstanding job of

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Speaker 3: catching the football and the huts I mean, Kristin Kirk,

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Speaker 3: you have so many different guys j No are tight.

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Speaker 3: Dalton is playing really well, I think in the passing game,

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Speaker 3: and you know what we expect from Dalton. He's doing

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Speaker 1: Grow along those lines. Guys like CJ not necessarily just him,

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Speaker 3: But man, how are you bouncing back? What are you

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Speaker 3: learning from that loss? And understand, all of our games

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Speaker 3: You learn from it, You get better and you move on.

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Speaker 3: You don't dwell on the loss, and you don't want

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Speaker 4: Cause one of the I was on the bus watching

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Speaker 5: And the paarabox mics are really really good.

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Speaker 4: But there's a moment in which I think it's the

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Speaker 4: And it was a really cool moment because it was like, man,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the communication is mean, it's vital for us to

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Speaker 3: For our offensive line, we expect them to be on it.

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Speaker 3: We try to put them through as many different looks

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Speaker 3: But they have a lot on their plate and they've

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Speaker 4: It was cool to hear it just to hear them

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Speaker 5: Man, those parabolics picked it up and I was like,

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Speaker 1: Coach. Last year, the bye was really late in the season.

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Speaker 1: This year, the buy is really early in the season

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Speaker 3: It feels a little weird having a buy right now.

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Speaker 3: It's like I'm not I'm not tired enough to help.

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Speaker 3: But uh, it's it's uh how we handle it. We

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Speaker 3: Wednesday didn't give the guys some time away so they

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Speaker 3: to just recover that. That's always my main goal is

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Speaker 3: we need to be, We're as healthy as we need

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Speaker 4: Going to Seattle, how about you? How about you getting

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Speaker 2: For a little bit? That sounds great.

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Speaker 3: We'll see what happens. I see, I gotta go check

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: I said, whatever, you guys playing, I'm up for it.

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Speaker 2: So let's go. So I let them play it. We'll

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as far as self scouting goes a lot of

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Speaker 3: Right, correct, We're always self scouted. I like to see

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Speaker 2: You know, what are the.

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Speaker 3: So that's always been huge for me with self scout piece,

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Speaker 4: Coach, I know there's a bye week, but to help

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Speaker 3: So there are a lot of similarities we know. You know,

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Speaker 3: And then you just look at it from a player perspective, right,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll talk more about this next week. But the

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Speaker 1: but you've been there a lot because you were in

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Speaker 3: At Seattle, first and foremost, it is loud. It's very loud,

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Speaker 3: There's gonna be a guy standing there with a sign

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Speaker 3: and he's gonna Yeah, he's probably one of the best.

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Speaker 2: And when you come out of the tunny, you gotta

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Speaker 2: see him. Man.

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Speaker 3: He always has something great and something personal with something

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Speaker 3: really geared toward that team or towards that player. So

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Speaker 3: he really gets under a lot of guys scamming, but

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Speaker 3: it's always it's always fun.

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Speaker 4: He did that the Baker yes year and you know Baker,

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Speaker 4: Baker was firing back and then they had an after

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Speaker 4: the game shot and he was, you know, Baker was

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Speaker 4: doing his thing, pointing up at him. So yeah, there's

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Speaker 4: I've been warned about that guy. Yeah, we're seeing him

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Speaker 4: at twenty seventeen. I guess it's the same guy. He's

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Speaker 4: got the same spot, right, same spot.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: Fireman ed with a sign, that kind of thing. The

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Speaker 1: Amagey Bank asked coach question of the week. All right,

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Speaker 1: bye week, coach, So now you can kind of get

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Speaker 1: off your diet a little bit. I'm just kidding. Last

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Speaker 1: week we asked you about the pizza hut question. But

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Speaker 1: but what is the cheap food if you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: I want to have a meal and just go all

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Speaker 1: out here. What is it gonna be? Something that might

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Speaker 1: not be on the regular Tamiico Ryan's diet schedule.

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Speaker 2: Not on.

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Speaker 1: Exactly what are we doing?

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Speaker 2: The lemon pepper chicken wings.

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Speaker 1: That will be my go to there very bubble of

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Speaker 1: wild special going out here. You go, coach, thanks a lot,

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Speaker 1: have fun during the BI We'll talk to you next week.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys,