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Speaker 1: All right this week, UM, you know, a great challenge

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta team that's that's moving the ball well. That

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Speaker 1: as much as anything, UM, a team that in the

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Speaker 1: red zone is scoring at a really high efficiency rate, UM,

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Speaker 1: extrating well on third downs. And if we go back

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Speaker 1: to Thursday night, one of the things we didn't do well.

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Speaker 1: Two of the things we didn't do well, so we

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Speaker 1: didn't execute well and third down, we didn't get off

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Speaker 1: the red zone. And earlier in the season, those are

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Speaker 1: things that we had we had done pretty well, and

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Speaker 1: we got to get back to doing those things well

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Speaker 1: for us to have a chance, um to play good defense.

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Speaker 1: Uh this coming Monday night. UM, you know, we went

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Speaker 1: we went to the meeting room on Friday before we

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Speaker 1: left for a couple of days, and we talked to

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Speaker 1: we talked to him today about some things that each

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Speaker 1: position group, what do we need to do better? Nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with Atlanta, what do we need to do

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Speaker 1: better at each position group? And and we kind of

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like, um, sometimes you go to the

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Speaker 1: you know, go to the doctor, you go see them.

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Speaker 1: What do they give you? They give you a prescription

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Speaker 1: for what you need, and we look at it that way.

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Speaker 1: It's a prescription. Here's the things we need to do

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Speaker 1: better at each position group, and in some places it's individually.

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Speaker 1: Then what we focus on in our individual as we

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Speaker 1: focus on those things, and to play better defense, that's

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Speaker 1: what it comes down to. And to execute better, that's

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Speaker 1: what it comes down to. And to call games better,

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Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. Is focusing on the

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Speaker 1: small details, the fundamentals, the techniques that play it takes

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Speaker 1: to play good defense. And you know that's not coach talk.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about with our guys and that's

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Speaker 1: what we're showing them on tape as things that we

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Speaker 1: can improve on at each level, first level, second level,

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Speaker 1: third level of the defense. And UM, I love that

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Speaker 1: our guys are all in on that. I love that

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Speaker 1: our guys know that the game is won by executing

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Speaker 1: and playing good fundamentally and just playing hard. And if

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Speaker 1: we do those three things, we'll be all right, and

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Speaker 1: we'll be we'll make the plays that are necessary to

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Speaker 1: win the game and finished games. UM do love that

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Speaker 1: about this group. Great challenge this week, UM, excited. You know,

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Speaker 1: our guys are excited to play on on on a

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Speaker 1: stage like Monday Night Football. James, do you evaluate Lane

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Speaker 1: in Collins season because the tackles are there, but part

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Speaker 1: of his career has been interceptions and sacks and game

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Speaker 1: changing plays that aren't there this year. Sure. Um, I

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Speaker 1: think one thing Landon is doing really well is he's

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Speaker 1: playing with a ton of energy. You see him running

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Speaker 1: around the field. You see see him in position to

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Speaker 1: make some plays. And he's just gotta keep playing hard

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Speaker 1: and those game changing plays are gonna come, and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna come in a bunch for him. Um. He we're

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Speaker 1: keeping him and and he loves being close to the ball.

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Speaker 1: Wherever the ball is, he wants to be close to

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Speaker 1: it because he's a playmaker. Um who When he's playing

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Speaker 1: with great eyes and when he's playing as hard as

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Speaker 1: he has been, he is disruptive. And I know this.

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Speaker 1: I know the other teams when he's on the field,

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Speaker 1: they recognize where he's at and I know that I

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Speaker 1: know they recognize where he's allowing mind and um, he's

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Speaker 1: just gotta keep playing hard in those plays that you're

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Speaker 1: talking about are gonna come. As creative with a defense

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Speaker 1: as you would have liked. I think that, Um, anytime

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Speaker 1: the same way when I was in Arizona. UM, we

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Speaker 1: build up in terms of whether it's the volume or

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Speaker 1: the type of things we do, we build up. And

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Speaker 1: that's part of a building process. As part of building

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Speaker 1: a defense that's not going to be a flash in

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Speaker 1: the pan, that you're gonna build something that's gonna stand

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Speaker 1: the test of time. I think that's part of it.

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Speaker 1: And I think the second thing is in regards to

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Speaker 1: each and every week, we're gonna put together, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna put together a plan that we think is

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Speaker 1: gonna help us win the game. So do we ever

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Speaker 1: short change ourselves? No, but I think it is there

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Speaker 1: is a growth process when you come in year one

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Speaker 1: and you're and you're starting working through things. We want

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Speaker 1: want to build it on playing with good fundamentals and

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Speaker 1: playing hard, and those things are much more important in scheme.

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Speaker 1: So I guess kind of a vassy is you know,

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Speaker 1: to the two things I said. You know, it's every

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Speaker 1: you're you never you never go to Z before you

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Speaker 1: hit A. You know, you work through the process. The

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Speaker 1: number two. But again, each and every week, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: us the best chance for our team to win that

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Speaker 1: we can. When you see Obi play the way he

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Speaker 1: played against the Eagles, is it I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: see what's next? Where is there also a part of

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Speaker 1: you and says that we really couldn't used that the

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Speaker 1: first five weeks. Yeah, you know, I never looked back.

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Speaker 1: I love I love the way he'll trand I like

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Speaker 1: how he's working. I loved how he played during the

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Speaker 1: course that game. I think he rushed both with speed

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Speaker 1: also more importantly had disruption and change the pocket a

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Speaker 1: said is what I look forward to is is what's next?

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Speaker 1: And I'm excited to see how he plays this coming

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Speaker 1: Monday night. Do you know where Jenkins is shown in

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Speaker 1: ability to take away the side of the field really dominate.

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Speaker 1: How do you explain a game like the other night

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Speaker 1: and against the Eagles just seems so far away from

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Speaker 1: there's any one guy that I'll ever stand in front

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Speaker 1: of your point that, hey, this guy is not playing

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Speaker 1: and I might look at and say that's someone else.

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Speaker 1: I might look at and say that's the rush. I

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Speaker 1: might look at the ball, quarterbacks holding the ball too long.

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Speaker 1: I might look at it a different way. So, um,

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Speaker 1: No one has the expectations that they have themselves. No

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Speaker 1: one has an expectation that he doesn't already have for himself.

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Speaker 1: He has high expectations. He wants to be the best

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Speaker 1: one of the most disruptive players on the perimeter in

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Speaker 1: have a chance to be that with his skill set,

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Speaker 1: and um, well, he's gonna keep working the process and

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Speaker 1: working and play better. But there's other guys around him

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Speaker 1: that also have to play better, and we gotta play

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Speaker 1: collectively better as a group. And I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: cover him by saying that, but that's that's the truth.

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Speaker 1: What do you think specifically, I think, just like all

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Speaker 1: the other guys, there's there's plays in the game where

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Speaker 1: he's playing really well. I think he's on top of

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Speaker 1: the balls like he needs to be. And I think

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Speaker 1: there's some plays in the game where he wants back

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Speaker 1: and he wants to play better. Um, just like there's

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Speaker 1: other guys on the field that need to play better.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I need to coach better. What are you

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Speaker 1: looking for at that second linebacker spot? I just quality

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Speaker 1: wise that maybe you're not getting consistently enough. Um, you

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Speaker 1: know with you know to that fact, with Ray Ray

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Speaker 1: you see some ta in there in a mix. Um,

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Speaker 1: those guys are all excited to get get snaps and play.

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Speaker 1: I think the thing you're most looking for is whatever

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Speaker 1: the job is, get the job done. Whatever to call is,

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Speaker 1: get the job done. And that's that's simply put. And

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Speaker 1: that's how simple we are with the expectations of it.