WEBVTT - George Kittle: ‘We’re Going to Get Better from This’ | Press Pass

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<v Speaker 1>What are you guys doing back there? I love.

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<v Speaker 2>That.

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<v Speaker 1>How's your left knee doing? What do you when do

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<v Speaker 1>you do that? Turf?

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<v Speaker 2>Last week in Minnesota got me those terf snakes man, goodness, gracious,

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<v Speaker 2>that's slit turf.

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<v Speaker 1>Pretty sure.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like one of four slit turf fields left and uh,

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<v Speaker 2>statistically the most dangerous turf to play on.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's right though, I'll be all right.

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<v Speaker 2>What's your uh your thumkern on?

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<v Speaker 1>What what's going on with this offense? Seven seventeen points

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<v Speaker 1>three games in a row.

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<v Speaker 2>Is there a common element why you're not scoring more

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<v Speaker 2>points turnovers?

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<v Speaker 1>I would say I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I like, I don't read the stats every single week.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't feel like as an offense we're running the

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<v Speaker 2>ball a lot or very much or very well. I

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<v Speaker 2>think is one number one thing just doesn't feel like it.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, we might. I don't know what the stats are.

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<v Speaker 2>I know that ever since I've been a forty nine er, uh,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, outside zone has been like our umber one thing,

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<v Speaker 2>and I just don't know. We know we've penalties the

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<v Speaker 2>last three weeks, so it's kind of hard to run

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<v Speaker 2>the ball when it's first and twenty second and fifteen, Like,

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<v Speaker 2>it's hard to run the ball in those situations, so

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<v Speaker 2>we have to rely on the pass. And when you

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<v Speaker 2>have to rely on the pass, it makes you one dimensional.

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<v Speaker 2>And one of the best things that we do is

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<v Speaker 2>run the football, and we just put ourselves in situation

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<v Speaker 2>where we can't run the football, and whether that's turnovers,

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<v Speaker 2>whether that's penalties, whether it's getting down in the fourth quarter,

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<v Speaker 2>there's no.

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<v Speaker 1>Like, hey, what are is going to fix this? Right?

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<v Speaker 2>We have a very good, talented football team, we have

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<v Speaker 2>good coaches, and we're just not winning the game right now.

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<v Speaker 2>And to me, you know, just being you know, a

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<v Speaker 2>tight end that usually like tip the spear, we had

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<v Speaker 2>to run the football outside zone. I just hopefully we've

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<v Speaker 2>been able to do that because of penalties and turnovers

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<v Speaker 2>and us being a one dimensional football team isn't very good.

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<v Speaker 2>Well several of those turnovers. What do you seek for Brock?

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<v Speaker 1>What do you see for Broc today?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, broxs the reason we're in every single game.

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<v Speaker 2>Brocks a reason we win football games. He's our quarterb.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a very skilled football player. I think Kyle probably

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<v Speaker 2>said it his first interception, that's a shovel place, so

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<v Speaker 2>it's either pitch it to me or hand it off.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, I think he might have predetermined it

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<v Speaker 2>and tried to, you know, give me a you know,

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<v Speaker 2>give me a shot at the shovel, but it wasn't there,

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<v Speaker 2>and then you try to make a play and hey,

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<v Speaker 2>they made a better play. I mean, I I don't

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<v Speaker 2>sit back there. Quarterbacks. There's two positions of football I

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<v Speaker 2>would never want to play, and that's quarterback and cornerback.

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<v Speaker 2>So you know those are uh, you know, two tough

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<v Speaker 2>positions and I don't want you know, the only thing

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<v Speaker 2>I'd ask for Ick to do is, hey man.

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<v Speaker 1>Trying to throw interceptions. I don't know. Turnovers are hard,

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<v Speaker 1>Like I'm.

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<v Speaker 2>Not gonna put myself back in that in his shoes

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<v Speaker 2>and say, oh, I wouldn't have made that throw.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what it takes to play quarterback. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't play that position.

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<v Speaker 2>All I know is that it's hard to win football

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<v Speaker 2>games when you lose a turnover battle, which we've done

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<v Speaker 2>two weeks in a row. And we obviously just have

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<v Speaker 2>to play better, and we had to put our seven

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<v Speaker 2>situations where we can run the football more and we

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<v Speaker 2>don't throw the ball so many times. Rock after the game.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, one thing I love about Brock is he's

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<v Speaker 2>very hard on himself and he's very like he can

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<v Speaker 2>look in the mirror and say, hey, I know I

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<v Speaker 2>need to play better. I'm not gonna say that he

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<v Speaker 2>needs to play better. We needed to turn the ball

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<v Speaker 2>over less, and you know he was. He's gonna be fine.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not worried about Brock. He's the reason that we

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<v Speaker 2>win football games as an offense. You see the thirty

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<v Speaker 2>points the game in the first five weeks, that's Brock

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<v Speaker 2>purty and that's it's Kyle Shanean scheming us up and

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<v Speaker 2>doing a bunch of stuff. But that's Brock making plays.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, then you see Brock, was that the drive

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<v Speaker 2>to get us you know, get it kind of close?

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<v Speaker 1>It was?

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<v Speaker 2>He makes all these awesome rollout plays and he's throwing

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<v Speaker 2>it back across his body, giving us an opportunity to win.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, That's that's what Brock does.

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<v Speaker 2>And he's gonna get better from this. I think we're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna get better from this. I know we're gonna get

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<v Speaker 2>better from it. And you look back, Hey, last year,

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<v Speaker 2>I think we're sitting at three and four we had.

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<v Speaker 2>Christian McCaffrey added that we still lost and we're like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>what do we need to fix? We just seem to

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<v Speaker 2>play better. And that's the overall theme. We just seem

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<v Speaker 2>to play better. And I also, losing your third game

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<v Speaker 2>going into a bye week, Ah, that's not really fun.

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<v Speaker 2>But the good news is is it kind of you

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<v Speaker 2>sit on that. It's kind of faster and it's going

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<v Speaker 2>to be really annoying. And am I gonna be able

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<v Speaker 2>to enjoy.

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<v Speaker 1>My bye week?

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<v Speaker 2>I will, but the back of my head is just

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<v Speaker 2>going to be like, let's stop stop losing, and how

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<v Speaker 2>am I going to be better? What can I do better?

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<v Speaker 2>And there's like three or four plays that I probably

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<v Speaker 2>could have been better in that football game. And you know,

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<v Speaker 2>we'll come back and we'll look at the film and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna play better.

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<v Speaker 1>Over Confident Dallas thirty two. No, I don't think it's

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<v Speaker 1>a confidence thing.

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<v Speaker 2>You look at the like we going to Cleveland, and

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I wouldn't say overconfident. We should be confident

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<v Speaker 2>because of the players and the staff that we have. Like,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not worried about that. I think it's a you

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<v Speaker 2>look at Cleveland what do we have fifteen penalties? You

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<v Speaker 2>can't win a football game with fifteen penalties and multiple turnovers, like,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you can. It's just really, you know, we

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<v Speaker 2>had an opportuny to win at the end, we didn't.

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<v Speaker 2>And I don't think it's an overconfidence thing. I think

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<v Speaker 2>it's a grant. I can't give you an answer on

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<v Speaker 2>why we're losing sides turnovers. I don't think we're running

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<v Speaker 2>the ball enough, and situationally, I don't think we can

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<v Speaker 2>run the ball because of where the situation we're putting

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<v Speaker 2>ourselves in. And well, I mean also I think you know,

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<v Speaker 2>we have an offense with explosive players all over the

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<v Speaker 2>football field, and you know we can win these games.

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<v Speaker 2>And we had an opportunity down there. We're seventeen to

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<v Speaker 2>ten and hey, we have a turnover. Turnovers really hurt you.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, I'm not gonna there's no point of

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<v Speaker 2>fingers like that. Like there's players that the players that

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<v Speaker 2>we made all over the football field. But it's hard

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<v Speaker 2>to win football games when you have three turnovers.

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<v Speaker 1>Usually this is uh, when you when this team is rolling,

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<v Speaker 1>keep it going.

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<v Speaker 2>Is it weird to start so well and didn't have

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<v Speaker 2>this it's supposed to maybe start slow.

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<v Speaker 1>And finish withrow. I mean, Losy is weird in general.

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<v Speaker 1>I hate it. It sucks.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd much rather win. But you know, years past, like you,

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<v Speaker 2>we backed ourselves into a corner, you know, backs against

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<v Speaker 2>the wall, whatever it was, and you know, we dug

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<v Speaker 2>down and we went on runs and we're able to

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<v Speaker 2>put ourselves in positions to get into the playoffs. And

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<v Speaker 2>you know, what's football without a little adversity. And you

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<v Speaker 2>don't want it to be easy all the time. You

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<v Speaker 2>want to go through these grimy games, these crappy games.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess you know you'd prefer to win them. But

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<v Speaker 2>I think we have the team. We have the man

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<v Speaker 2>on this team that are gonna respond well to adversity.

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<v Speaker 2>We're gonna do our best and we're gonna out there

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<v Speaker 2>and we're gonna play at a high level. We wanna

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<v Speaker 2>play better the outside zone. Our team, you know, our

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<v Speaker 2>defense is selling out to stop that more so than

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<v Speaker 2>they have in the past. I mean, first play the

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<v Speaker 2>game is outside zone with eight yards, you can sell

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<v Speaker 2>out against it. There's certain plays that we run, we

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<v Speaker 2>run better than anybody else. It's a copycat league. You

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<v Speaker 2>see people run them all over the league, and they

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<v Speaker 2>don't run them nearly as well as us. You don't

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<v Speaker 2>have the offensive line, the tight ends, the full back,

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<v Speaker 2>the running back that runs like we do, the wide

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<v Speaker 2>receivers a block downfield like we do. Like I said,

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<v Speaker 2>it's I love running outside zone because when you have

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<v Speaker 2>outside zone, you get to run play action, boot legs,

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<v Speaker 2>keepers all off of it. And when you have turnovers

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<v Speaker 2>and you have penalties and you're playing behind sticks and

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<v Speaker 2>you're playing down on, it's hard to run the football

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<v Speaker 2>and get access to all those plays. And so we

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<v Speaker 2>need to be cleaner up front early on, so then

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<v Speaker 2>we can continue to run the football, run outside zone,

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<v Speaker 2>run some gap scheme, and be the physical four nine

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<v Speaker 2>ers offense that you know we know in love.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks guys, no, thank you