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Speaker 1: How you doing that, Mike, I don't actually really good.

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Speaker 1: That was a beautiful day out there was that one.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't nice today. It was You can't complain this

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Speaker 1: time of the year. If it's good, what you gotta take.

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Speaker 1: It won't last forever, right, So let's just listen to

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Speaker 1: your podcast before you came in here. You're pretty hard

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Speaker 1: on yourself for the performance, Like how are you sort

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Speaker 1: of I don't know how are you because you've done before,

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Speaker 1: but like, how do you sort of take that? I

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Speaker 1: guess and roll into this week and correct that. I

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Speaker 1: guess what you were talking about. Yeah, it was just

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Speaker 1: a bad performance. And I think, um, as a leader,

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Speaker 1: you go out there like it. It starts with your performance,

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Speaker 1: you know, And I think, Um, I wouldn't say it's

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Speaker 1: hard to move on, Like I'm twelve year vet, Like

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Speaker 1: I understand what it takes, good bad, how to move

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Speaker 1: on to the next week. So it's just going and

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Speaker 1: doing it, you know. I think every guy in the

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Speaker 1: locker room knows, you know, preparation and being ready to go.

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Speaker 1: So it's just going to executing. It's it's making sure

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Speaker 1: it doesn't look like last week. And um, you know,

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Speaker 1: even talking to Brian, like you set a standard as

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Speaker 1: a player, like you gotta you gotta bring that every

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Speaker 1: week and when you don't, um, it creates a sense

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Speaker 1: and not put that performance, you know, back out there

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Speaker 1: and put it behind you. So um, that's what you

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Speaker 1: gotta do. It was just asking Jakobe about the game

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Speaker 1: here against Dallas two years ago. Brain Cole, what do

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Speaker 1: you remember about that? You guys have to play really

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Speaker 1: long defensive Yeah, I mean just I would say a

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Speaker 1: competitive games. It's different like when you play teams like Dallas,

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Speaker 1: teams that you don't play a lot, so a lot

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Speaker 1: goes in. I would say to the week of like preparation, um,

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Speaker 1: because you're watching film. But it's a team that you

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Speaker 1: don't know. Well, it's skill guys that you don't know well.

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Speaker 1: Skill guys obviously you know, but like we don't study them.

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Speaker 1: You know often it's every four years. And I would

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Speaker 1: say in this the league, when you play a team

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Speaker 1: count every four years, the team you probably last played

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Speaker 1: doesn't look much like the team you're now playing. And

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Speaker 1: I would say even this team, you know, with Mark

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Speaker 1: McCarthy there, it doesn't all look the same even though

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Speaker 1: we played them two years ago. And in addition to

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Speaker 1: cde lamb Um and Schultz like two guys that are

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Speaker 1: you know, two of their better weapons on offense. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's a little different. So you know, I would say

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Speaker 1: that game was was super competitive back and forth, one

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Speaker 1: of those kind of ugly games that I would say

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Speaker 1: didn't really look like the games they played. You know,

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Speaker 1: in a dome at home, it kind of changes. You

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Speaker 1: come here as Cole Wendy Rainey. So I think you

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Speaker 1: have to be prepared, I would say, especially when we

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Speaker 1: play at home, for how games can easily change due

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Speaker 1: to weather. Um. So I don't know. I don't think

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Speaker 1: the forecast is projecting what we got last year. So

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Speaker 1: but it's one of those teams that I think you

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Speaker 1: really have to dig in during the week because you

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Speaker 1: just you don't know a lot. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: think as a as a defense, and I think overall

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Speaker 1: as a team. That's what we're trying to do right

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Speaker 1: now is just locking on what they do from a

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Speaker 1: be ready to go by Sunday. How dangerous are they

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Speaker 1: when things kind of hit these guys wherever they are. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're just I mean, I think anytime you put their

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Speaker 1: to keep plays alive, arm strength, armed talent um. The

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Speaker 1: more you watch them on offense, it's tough. Like they

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Speaker 1: you talk scrambled players, you basically talk about like a

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Speaker 1: that's what makes it really hard. You know, whether it's

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Speaker 1: like the Carolina game where you know, Dak's two seconds

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Speaker 1: they get the ball in their hands, Pollard Um in

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Speaker 1: So how would you sort of classify how you play that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's a mobile guy, but to me, like you watch

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Speaker 1: him like he's a he's a drop back passer. He's

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Speaker 1: let them, like if you don't get any pressure, um,

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Speaker 1: and you're not mixing coverages and he can come out

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Speaker 1: Like he'll he'll pick you apart up and down the field.

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Speaker 1: And I think the added bonus for him is his

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like he's slowly going down and he's

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Speaker 1: able to flip the ball. So UM, I would say,

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Speaker 1: the nine route. He threw the CD lamb where he

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Speaker 1: it was a perfect pass against a giant. So really

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Speaker 1: has the ability to do a lot of different things

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Speaker 1: he's a very like he's like a security guy for him.

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Speaker 1: Obviously he gets a he gets a lot of targets UM,

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Speaker 1: UM and how he runs route is how he reads

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Speaker 1: the defense, how he gets in holes in Zoe, how

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Speaker 1: he sets guys up in man and man um, whether

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Speaker 1: it's like a shaker out in the red area, UM,

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Speaker 1: he does a really good job. I think of just

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Speaker 1: being in a spot that Dak knows Um at any

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Speaker 1: and targets and catches um receive Like in receiving statistics,

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Speaker 1: he's not a guy I think the media probably talks

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Speaker 1: about a lot, but within their offense, when you start

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Speaker 1: watching the film, you're breaking down the stats and stuff.

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Speaker 1: He's a huge part of their offense. Uh, making plays

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Speaker 1: and targeting the red area. So uh, as we watched,

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Speaker 1: he's a really good player. I would say, not a

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Speaker 1: huge name around the league. What you turn on the film, Um,

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Speaker 1: he's getting a job done at a high level. Devillard fast,

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Speaker 1: I would say when he gets into the secondary, whether

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Speaker 1: he just looks like he's gaining on guys in a

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Speaker 1: I would say getting around him, game, tackling him and

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Speaker 1: trying to get him down. The combination between him and

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Speaker 1: Zeke is tough, you know what I mean. I think

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Speaker 1: Bill said today they're both two top ten rushers right

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Speaker 1: now on the same team. So there's no you know,

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Speaker 1: like there's some teams you play when you know that

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Speaker 1: start running back like Ezekiel Elliott is out, You're like,

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Speaker 1: all right, it's a break not with Pollard in there.

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Speaker 1: And he's a guy that we saw back in nineteen

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Speaker 1: two who I would say was you know in nineteen

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Speaker 1: more of like a change of pace with being there

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Speaker 1: here and there where. I would say, Now, he's a

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Speaker 1: big part of their offense, one of their their better

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Speaker 1: weapons when he's out there, And I say, he has

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Speaker 1: the ability to do a lot of different things, whether

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Speaker 1: they go with him and Zeke in the game, put

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Speaker 1: him in a mistle motion, split him out, why, Like,

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Speaker 1: he can do a lot of different things, both him

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Speaker 1: and Zeke. Um that makes it tough on the defense

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Speaker 1: when they do go what we call out personnel with

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Speaker 1: both those backs in the game. All Right, appreciate it.