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Speaker 1: Bill shifting the head to the Cowboys. UM. I heard

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Speaker 1: you on the radio a little bit yesterday talking about

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Speaker 1: Rod Marinelli and their defensive scheme. How prevalent is this

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Speaker 1: scheme in the NFL now? And and have you noticed,

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Speaker 1: ten years ago. Well, I think it, um, I think

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Speaker 1: You know, it just depends on who the head coach

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Speaker 1: there are some definitely some similarities to the Seattle three

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Speaker 1: scheme from a front standpoint, not so much from a

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Speaker 1: coverage standpoint. The coverage element is a little bit different,

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Speaker 1: but it's still you know, a heavy zone based So yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's still it's still there. Certainly we saw a lot

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Speaker 1: there there are other teams that use it, and certainly

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Speaker 1: there are elements of it. And then there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of teams that use Tampa the Tampa two coverage,

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Speaker 1: and even some of the Seattle three teams that started

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Speaker 1: incorporating that. But maybe not necessarily with the same front

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Speaker 1: that um, the overfront that you know the Cowboys like.

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Speaker 1: But the Cowboys get into some different looks on third

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Speaker 1: down and you know it's not exclusive to that, but

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's based on that certainly. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think coach Barronelli has changed too much fundamentally from

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Speaker 1: you know where he was went or some years ago

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Speaker 1: And it's sure the fundamentals and the all which really

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Speaker 1: which is it's the most important part of the dec

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Speaker 1: I'm sure those are the same. Yeah. And I had

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Speaker 1: one one other questions when we got the Cowboys coming

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Speaker 1: like and their personnel, Like it would be easy to

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Speaker 1: Tom will say, Okay, Gil brains right, like and you've

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Speaker 1: talked about him before in terms of building that team

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Speaker 1: when they went on a great run. Um, I want

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Speaker 1: to like, how for you guys, for your personnel and

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Speaker 1: the structure you've set up with the Patriots where like

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Speaker 1: where would how would you describe that? Like it doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like it's as easy it's to say, like Gil

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Speaker 1: Brandt with the Cowboys, like is that the Fairbank stuff

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Speaker 1: person like, what is the personnel structure that you have

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Speaker 1: mean it's different, but it's you know some Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: variation of what we did in Cleveland. Thank you well.

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Speaker 1: My next question Michael chev right, I mean the last

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Speaker 1: question we have, so, UM, go ahead, Mike, all right.

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Speaker 1: Stacy Bhil, good morning. You say it's quarterback, right, so

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Speaker 1: you say great quarterback running back tandems in the past before.

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Speaker 1: But I'm curious if there's something about zig Elliott and

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Speaker 1: Dak Crushout that sticks out to you in terms of

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Speaker 1: that running back quarterback tandem and that makes them unique

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Speaker 1: in terms of a one two punched to cover defensively.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're both really good being with poll

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Speaker 1: whichever back in the game is a problem, press about

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Speaker 1: the problem. Um, they're all good and they they're just

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Speaker 1: they're hard to deal with. Prescott can obviously run, but

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Speaker 1: through for almost four and fifty yards last week. So

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Speaker 1: UM does a good job reingcoverages accurate at all three

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Speaker 1: levels of the defense, finds the right matchups in the

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Speaker 1: passing game. Um, they have a good scheme, they have

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Speaker 1: good offensive line, so it's all a problem. The backs

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Speaker 1: passing game. They can kill you there the world coach.

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Speaker 1: They have a good scheme. So you take one thing away,

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Speaker 1: they'll they'll kill you with something else. Just that's you know,

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Speaker 1: they lead a league in third down conversions. That that

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Speaker 1: multi purpose threat quarterback. Well, you know, we we evaluate players,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you know, you wouldn't spend odd time evaluating him.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we track the guys that we play

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Speaker 1: Mike Lee. Good morning Bill. Um. Yeah, their defense uh

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Speaker 1: has good pass rush techniques, which Rod is obviously one

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Speaker 1: So they get off their pass level, their hand used,

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Speaker 1: So there's some scheme issues, but there's just a lot

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Speaker 1: catch a gap on you, and and they could do

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Speaker 1: a lot of damage there too. So it's all the

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Speaker 1: players are a problems. Schemes are a problem, and the

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Speaker 1: Benjamin Watson, Um seems like both getting maybe a little

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Speaker 1: more comfortable. What have you seen from both of those guys?

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Speaker 1: I think you put it well, Mike, Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: but he's he's shown a good level of performance and dependability.

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Speaker 1: um improving and we're still say we're there yet, but

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Speaker 1: it's improving and it's been productive. So UM. And you know,

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Speaker 1: Ben Watson has been kind of the same same thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's you know, miss him miss several weeks

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