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Speaker 1: Tim twenty minute and like always Mike, you know, we

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Speaker 1: let's start with on the injury front for the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 1: Practice Tuesday, practice Thursday. No Brian Branch, no Aman Ross

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Speaker 2: A big loss. They've lost their biggest target on offense

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Speaker 1: The Lions do get one big target back and Jamison Williams, Now, Look,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know he runs in all but there's more

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Speaker 1: The word revenge game has been brought up a few

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Speaker 2: That's part of it too. We got to we'll have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've given up seventy one yards rushing in the

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Speaker 1: And that's a team that wants to run. Now, Carolina

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Speaker 2: Listen, Miles Sanders was a really good player for four

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Speaker 1: Little bit running behind Carolina's offensive line and offensive line

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Speaker 1: All Right, you're a radio TV expert, I know you

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Speaker 2: I would love to if I knew it. In other words,

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Speaker 1: And that translates to to the edges, right, when a

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Speaker 2: This absolutely and get back to this trust thing, and honestly,

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, since you you're full of teases today,

431
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Speaker 1: we're going to get into the other Montgomery. Now, let's

432
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Speaker 1: do David Montgomery obviously, who's been terrific. And you could

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Speaker 1: have put a number of guys on Carolina's defense in

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Speaker 1: this matchup, But to me, I put Von Bell, who's

435
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Speaker 1: a veteran guy, a leader of that defense. He's been

436
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Speaker 1: doing it at a high level for a long time.

437
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Speaker 1: He leads them in tackles with twenty four. He's kind

438
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Speaker 1: of their guy, their leader, also their last line of defense.

439
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Speaker 1: Were you a little bit surprised with David green Bay

440
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Speaker 1: thirty two carries, one hundred and twenty one yards, three touchdowns,

441
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Speaker 1: the thirty two carries in particular, Yeah, I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Really realize it. Went back and looked at it, you know,

443
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Speaker 2: because you know, as you're covering the game, you're writing

444
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Speaker 2: things down and all that and then go, whoa thirty two.

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Speaker 2: I didn't, but you know, he never slowed down. One

446
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Speaker 2: thing about him is not the one thing, but one

447
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Speaker 2: of the things about him is he just changes directions

448
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Speaker 2: so effortlessly. And then he's what he's five ten, five

449
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Speaker 2: nine whatever, it's two hundred and twenty pounds, But he

450
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Speaker 2: doesn't play like a heavy, you know, just a pounder.

451
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Speaker 2: He's a guy who can move, He can read and

452
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Speaker 2: recognize and react, and that's those are tremendous qualities for

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Speaker 2: a guy who runs as hard as he does and

454
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Speaker 2: can accelerate the way he does well.

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Speaker 1: That guy who's as physical as he is too, Mike,

456
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Speaker 1: he's one of those guys I see that always falls forward.

457
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Speaker 1: You know, you talk about that being a trait, but

458
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Speaker 1: he carries guys with him. He's always getting positive yards.

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Speaker 1: And now you mentioned the elusiveness and to go along

460
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Speaker 1: with the physicality and the vision to be able to

461
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Speaker 1: jump step into a different hole. And I just think

462
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Speaker 1: he's really loving playing behind this offense. I would think

463
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Speaker 1: he has been in Chicago for four years and look

464
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Speaker 1: nothing against the Bears, but that that's been an area

465
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Speaker 1: they've continued to try to build over the years. Has

466
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Speaker 1: been a weakness of their football team. And now all

467
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you get a guy who's experienced, who

468
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Speaker 1: can break tackles. He's been among the league leaders and

469
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Speaker 1: broken tackles for a number of years. Part of it

470
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Speaker 1: he's had to playing in Chicago. But now he can

471
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Speaker 1: use that at his benefit. Now he can make second

472
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Speaker 1: level guys miss not first level guys.

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Speaker 2: And there's a big difference, you know, And you only

474
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Speaker 2: have a great, great impact on the young you running

475
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Speaker 2: back Jubior Gibbs because he runs with patients. And look,

476
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Speaker 2: when you're a young player, you just want to run

477
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Speaker 2: as fast as you can.

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Speaker 1: Get there, get to the hole where am I supposed

479
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Speaker 1: to run? Get there? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, this he's sort of sort of like a dancer,

481
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Speaker 2: you know. He looked at it. Now, it's now is

482
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Speaker 2: the time, that's it's it's it's sort of the opposite

483
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Speaker 2: of something that Lem Barney once said, the great cornerback.

484
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Speaker 2: He said, a little voice says now, Well, that same

485
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Speaker 2: voice talks to the offense too, and that's for Montgomery.

486
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Speaker 2: A little voice says now.

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Speaker 1: The part of the thirty carries too is you know,

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Speaker 1: part of just the way that game went right, having

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Speaker 1: a four minute offense and needed to kind of waste

490
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Speaker 1: that game away with that last drive, that nine minute

491
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Speaker 1: driving for the fourth quarter. But we talked to Ben Johnson,

492
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Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator this week, and he said, look, he's

493
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Speaker 1: built for that kind of role. I would have no

494
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Speaker 1: reservations giving him thirty plus carries again, just because of

495
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Speaker 1: the way he runs, how physically he is, just how

496
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Speaker 1: he's built. I trust him to do that. Well.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he gets thirty every week, but he'll

498
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Speaker 2: get what it takes. What it takes. Yeah, so this

499
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Speaker 2: is a good ballplayer, really good ball player.

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Speaker 1: He's really good. Well, those are the key matchups for

501
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Speaker 1: this week. It's always a plever pleasure to be joined

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Speaker 1: by the Hall of Famer. I'm glad you could work

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Speaker 1: me into your schedule here. We are going to have

504
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Speaker 1: Tracy Walker on the show as well, and then obviously,

505
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Speaker 1: as always PJ Clark and I will be breaking down

506
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Speaker 1: everything from the Carolina game at for Field, and hopefully

507
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Speaker 1: me and Pja are talking about when Thank you Mike

508
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Speaker 1: for joining me. I appreciate you and We're gonna have

509
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Speaker 1: fun Sunday.

510
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Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate having him. Looking forward to Tracy Walker.

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Speaker 2: There is a ballplayer who another thing just is just

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Speaker 2: be He sounds like Tommy hearns with that, On to Tracy,

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Speaker 2: On to Tracy.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the twenty in the Huddle podcast presented

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Speaker 1: by Microsoft, and I am very happy to welcome vetteran

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Speaker 1: safety Tracy Walker. Trace, Welcome to the pod.

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Speaker 3: How you doing.

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Speaker 1: You've been on before, but I think you haven't seen

519
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Speaker 1: the helmet yet. What do you think of the of

520
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Speaker 1: the alternate helmet there? Man, I love it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely think it definitely honors of it. You

522
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Speaker 3: know that was before us, and like I said, man,

523
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Speaker 3: it's a cool design. So you know, I'm excited to

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Speaker 3: put it on.

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Speaker 1: So let's start with this Trace. Obviously devastating injury for

526
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Speaker 1: you last year. You work so hard to get back

527
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Speaker 1: and obviously started the season. Isn't probably what you had

528
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Speaker 1: hoped for. You kind of have a backup role. But

529
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Speaker 1: it's not a matter of if injuries happened this league,

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Speaker 1: it's when and to be right there, to be able

531
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Speaker 1: to step in, to have a guy who's made thirty

532
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Speaker 1: seven starts played in sixty some games to be able

533
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Speaker 1: to step into that lineup and you guys don't even

534
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Speaker 1: miss a beat. Just how rewarding has that been for

535
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Speaker 1: you for everything that you've been through over the last

536
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Speaker 1: year to then just all of a sudden play such

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Speaker 1: an integral role in this defense and be playing so

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Speaker 1: well well.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, like you said, it was a tough situation with

540
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Speaker 3: my whole injury and throughout the process, I just had

541
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Speaker 3: to learn and understand that you got control your control.

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Speaker 3: And that was a very similar situation that came in

543
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Speaker 3: the beginning of the year. I said, I was expected

544
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Speaker 3: to come back in the start, and it just was

545
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Speaker 3: unfortunate that it didn't turn.

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Speaker 1: Out that way.

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Speaker 3: But I had to control with out of control. And

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Speaker 3: I looked at it as I just got make sure

549
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Speaker 3: I'm ready, like you said, because this game of football,

550
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Speaker 3: it's one hundred percent injury rate, and it's a matter

551
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Speaker 3: of when I was gonna be needed. And I said,

552
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Speaker 3: you know, things turned out to come faster than we expected.

553
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Speaker 3: But you know, like I said, at the end of

554
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Speaker 3: the day, I just had to make sure I was ready.

555
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Speaker 3: And you said, with my playing experiences, with the comfortability

556
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Speaker 3: that I give my teammates, you know, they're they're very

557
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Speaker 3: excited to have me out there, and they, like I said,

558
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Speaker 3: is it go both ways? You know, I'm excited to

559
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Speaker 3: be back out there, and I said, to be able

560
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Speaker 3: to help my team in that aspect, and I said,

561
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Speaker 3: We're only gonna get better.

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Speaker 1: So and it goes beyond YouTube, Like guys like if

563
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Speaker 1: I to are you know, he's been dealing with injuries.

564
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Speaker 1: His career needs to step in, you know, Will Harris

565
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Speaker 1: has had to step in. You're just having veteran guys

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Speaker 1: who've been around Hi can do it. How important is

567
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Speaker 1: that for the depth of your football team and just

568
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Speaker 1: being able to not miss a beat when injuries do happen, because,

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Speaker 1: like you said, it's one hundred percent, it's very hard

570
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Speaker 1: to have that.

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Speaker 3: Definitely, Like like in our situation right now, we were

572
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Speaker 3: very blessed to have the depth that we had this

573
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Speaker 3: year because a lot of teams right now will be struggling.

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Speaker 1: Just look at us.

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Speaker 3: Prims off yesterday even though we had depth, you know,

576
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Speaker 3: but at the same time we started off struggling and

577
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Speaker 3: compared to this year, we came back and we just

578
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Speaker 3: kept on going. You know, the train kept on rolling.

579
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Speaker 3: So in our head right now, we just want to

580
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Speaker 3: get to you to just drive each other to get

581
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Speaker 3: better each and every day. And which, like I said

582
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Speaker 3: before the injuries, that was all our mindset was because

583
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Speaker 3: we all we got you know, and said, it's a

584
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Speaker 3: long year, so we're all gonna we're gonna need everybody

585
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Speaker 3: in there. So and that's how all the young guys

586
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Speaker 3: and vents look at it.

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Speaker 1: It looks like it's so much fun to play football

588
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Speaker 1: on this defense right now. The way you guys are

589
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Speaker 1: flying around, the way the front seven is playing, the

590
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Speaker 1: way you guys are playing in the back end. I mean,

591
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Speaker 1: you talked about a little bit. You started this kind

592
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Speaker 1: of thing on on Twitter, this Hitsville and the way

593
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Speaker 1: you guys are coming up and delivering hits as a

594
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Speaker 1: secondary everybody, I mean, trace how fun are you having

595
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Speaker 1: right now? Man?

596
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Speaker 3: You say, welcome to Hitsville.

597
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Speaker 1: You hey, that's got to pick up by the way.

598
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Speaker 3: Between them blue between them lines, you know, the white lines.

599
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Speaker 3: Like I said, once them pass on, you better be

600
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Speaker 3: ready because we're gonna fly around. And like I said,

601
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Speaker 3: that's what we're gonna we that's our identity as a

602
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 3: defense we're a physical, violent defense. And so, like I said,

603
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Speaker 3: and we're gonna nickname myself, but you know, like I said,

604
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Speaker 3: Hitsville because the way we comeing to hit you, the

605
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Speaker 3: way we come to hit you, you gonna realize, okay,

606
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Speaker 3: you're getting hit. And now hey you're in the city.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, how much how bunch fun is that atmosphere?

608
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Speaker 1: Ben at Ford Field? Now you've had you've been here

609
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Speaker 1: a while, you've sinceed that kind of brewing in this

610
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Speaker 1: fan base so hungry first something to cheer about, and

611
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: now they've got it. You guys have given it to them.

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00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:04,719
Speaker 1: And just what's that atmosphere been?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 3: At for amazing my first five years, just me being

615
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Speaker 3: here and like I said, just seeing it this year

616
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Speaker 3: is incredible And like I said, for us, it gives

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Speaker 3: us a little bit of more more, a little bit

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Speaker 3: more motivation to go out there and like I said,

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Speaker 3: to make keep our fans happy, you know, like I said,

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Speaker 3: because we need that support, you know, vice versas when

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Speaker 3: it's away at home. You know, it's like I said,

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Speaker 3: it's incredible just to even have them going on away games,

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Speaker 3: just to travel and to come out there and just

624
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Speaker 3: support us, you know, like I said this, our friends,

625
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 3: is will we go out here and play this game?

626
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Speaker 3: For obviously we play for the name on our back

627
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Speaker 3: of our jerseys. But I said, if we ain't have

628
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Speaker 3: our fans, who we're doing is well, you know, so

629
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Speaker 3: for us, we want to get go out there and

630
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Speaker 3: put on the show. And like I said, we're gonna

631
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Speaker 3: have all the support we can get.

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Speaker 1: You look at Carolina Young team. I talked to some

633
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: other guys. Obviously you didn't play in the game Week

634
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: sixteen last year, but three hundred and twenty rushing yards,

635
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, you guys got your butt kick. I mean,

636
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: it's kind of just the kind way to pay you.

637
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: Guys would probably say the same thing. It leaves a

638
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: little bit of bad taste your mouth. I know it's

639
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: a new regime, a new thing, but does that something

640
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,959
Speaker 1: like that carry over from one year to the other.

641
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: Is just hey, this is a new year, new coach,

642
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: new team over there. We don't remember that or is

643
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Speaker 1: it a we remember what these guys did Week sixteen

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Speaker 1: last year.

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Speaker 3: We're definitely not gonna forget that. They ran it down

646
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Speaker 3: our throat. But at the end of the day, also,

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Speaker 3: this is a new year.

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Speaker 1: This is a new team.

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Speaker 3: Also, like you said, I was not there so but

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Speaker 3: obviously I watched it at home. I was very disappointed.

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Speaker 3: So for me, honestly, and like I said just last week,

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Speaker 3: we gotta go out there each and never week and

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Speaker 3: just do what we do best and play our type

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Speaker 3: of football and said the rest of take care of itself.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're a physical, violent team, you know, and

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Speaker 3: it goes on both sides. So as long as we

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Speaker 3: execute and we handle the jobs that we need to handle,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna be find how rewarding is.

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Speaker 1: That to being a football team that's top ten in

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Speaker 1: the NFL and rushing and top ten in the NFL

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Speaker 1: and rushing defense. Because that's mentality, isn't it. Trace. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's just what it's about. Playing physical and being tough

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Speaker 1: and having dedication to ground and pound and defending ground

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Speaker 1: and pound. It's gotta be fun to see your guys

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Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball having success running

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Speaker 1: football too and playing a similar style that you guys

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Speaker 1: playing defense.

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. This is when you step on

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Speaker 3: the field, you're playing the Detroit lines, you better put

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Speaker 3: have it on your mind. You've come into hits vild

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Speaker 3: and like I said, because on both sides of the ball,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna get smacked right in your mouth, you know so?

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Speaker 3: And for us, like I said, that's that's the objective,

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Speaker 3: that's the idea, and that's the mindset we have. We're

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Speaker 3: gonna hit you rid in the mouth. Like you said,

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Speaker 3: or Dan said, we're gonna too unique, caps off. Yeah, nah,

677
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Speaker 3: we gonna smack you right in your mouth and let

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Speaker 3: you know how we coming so And like I said,

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Speaker 3: and that's that's how mindset. On both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 3: We just want to establish that identity because we got

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Speaker 3: a lot of violent guys with great guys, but between

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Speaker 3: the whistles, yeah, you don't want to see us.

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Speaker 1: It's an identity that fits with the city too, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: And I think is that part of why maybe so

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Speaker 1: many people have embraced this brand of football that you

686
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Speaker 1: guys are playing to because it fits the mantra of Detroit,

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Speaker 1: n trapail, physical, go to work, hit you know yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, Like I said, what this team right now is

689
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Speaker 3: definitely the epitome of what this city is all about.

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Speaker 3: And so can say, and it all comes down to

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Speaker 3: one word.

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Speaker 1: Great.

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Speaker 3: Great, That's what we're own and like I said, we're

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Speaker 3: gonna go out there.

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Speaker 1: So at East every week, all right, Sunday comes in,

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Speaker 1: Sunday's coming quick. They're a desperate team looking for their

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Speaker 1: first one, zero and four. Maybe just quick scout and

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Speaker 1: report what you see. Bryce Young Young quarterback, number one

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Speaker 1: overall pick. Haven't run it very well, but they're stubborn

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Speaker 1: with wanting to do it. Adam Thielen a guy that

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Speaker 1: you guys are very familiar with on the outside. Just

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Speaker 1: what kind of challenge just just Carolina present to you

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Speaker 1: guys on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: They have a good team over there. Obviously they have

705
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Speaker 3: a lot of weapons. And for us, like I said,

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Speaker 3: we gotta go out there. Obviously, we got to stop

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Speaker 3: the run. We can't let the run the ball like

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Speaker 3: they did last year. And like I said, in the secondary,

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Speaker 3: we gotta go out there stop stop the past game. Offensively,

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Speaker 3: we gotta be atter run the ball. You know, we

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Speaker 3: got to test their run defense. And like I said,

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be a great, great balance and a great

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Speaker 3: battle between two good teams, two physical, hard those teams who,

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Speaker 3: like I said, we're gonna go out there, We're gonna compete,

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Speaker 3: and like you said, we owe them, you know, not

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Speaker 3: not not seeing it in a bad way, but we

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Speaker 3: owe them, you know. And so like I said, in

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Speaker 3: our head, we gotta go out there and just compete

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Speaker 3: and control.

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Speaker 1: We control well, it should be a fun game. You

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Speaker 1: guys look to go for and one. Keep this thing rolling,

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Speaker 1: staying right there top of the NFC. You guys have

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Speaker 1: looked great. It's a great atmosphere there. Thanks for joining me.

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Speaker 1: Good luck on Sunday and go hit Somebody.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate you too.

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Speaker 1: Appreciation