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Speaker 1: just amazing to me. Um. We had a lot of

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Speaker 1: situations and a lot of situational football during that game.

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Speaker 1: And there might be a time that I told our

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Speaker 1: used that many situational calls in a game, just one

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Speaker 1: game by itself. Now we've used them throughout the years,

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Speaker 1: but you might not see us in those type of

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Speaker 1: and then happy for all of them. With that, I'll

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Speaker 1: put it up questions. I'm paraphrasing a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: and you said something to the effect you went to

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Speaker 1: the player is always remain that yes, or on you

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Speaker 1: remaining yeah. I think it's a composure and experience. The

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Speaker 1: reason why you can be composed, you know on Thursdays

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Speaker 1: is a staff. We have our win the game Thursday

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Speaker 1: meetings and you know, we talk about all these different

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Speaker 1: situations and what defense we want to play. You know,

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Speaker 1: you saw the one that we did at the end

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Speaker 1: of half there with Tomorrow making the hit. You know,

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Speaker 1: because we look at things and just because it's some

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Speaker 1: people say this is the standard way to play it,

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Speaker 1: put our guys in those situations and they execute it.

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Speaker 1: But you know, at the end of the game, we

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Speaker 1: I'll even tell them, hey, we might not ever use this,

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Speaker 1: And like I said, I give all credit to the players.

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Speaker 1: They executed it and it worked out for us. Do

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Speaker 1: you think of another quarterback who's had a career like

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Speaker 1: so long there and the back of people's minds and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll make a movie with Gino,

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Speaker 1: but they I'm as as a football fan and in

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Speaker 1: respect of the game, I really respect what he's done

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Speaker 1: with his game, and it's you know, besides playing against him,

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Speaker 1: it's it's fun to watch the success that he's had.

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Speaker 1: What's the difference about this version of him? I just

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Speaker 1: and he's worked well with uh Shane and talking about,

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Speaker 1: you know, how to manage the game, how they're gonna

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Speaker 1: attack each game. Um. And you can see it the

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Speaker 1: you know, he's worked hard. I think he's a really good,

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Speaker 1: any on Sunday. For all the good things on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: you guys give it more ys and you had all season. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that you know, you have to tack, you know,

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Speaker 1: each game to win to win the game. Uh do

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Speaker 1: we want that many yards? No? But sometimes it's it

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Speaker 1: builds character in your defense. And like I said, they're

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun to see this Sunday where we're

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Speaker 1: at with him for all. It's just like I said,

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Speaker 1: They take it one play at a time. Uh, there's

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Speaker 1: And uh that that's the biggest thing that you know,

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Speaker 1: And that's how they attack each week. What's that I'm

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Speaker 1: right interception that wasn't what what do you see from him?

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Speaker 1: You know, we have spectacular organization alignment from the ownership,

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Speaker 1: Mentioned before, I mentioned before the yards per play, you know,

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Speaker 1: how sustainable is that? I don't know anything about how

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Speaker 1: And that's the name of the game defensively, is try

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Speaker 1: it all depends where that edge is at, because that

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Speaker 1: so it's eleven man job. It's not. It's not just

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Speaker 1: And that's what we're working on. When I've when I've

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Speaker 1: I don't expect you go after officiating, but when you

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Speaker 1: have a young player like that, do you Guys have

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Speaker 1: it's like I said before, we don't make the rules.

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Speaker 1: We just try to play by them. And he's usually

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Speaker 1: think he knows that. The thing that impresses me about

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Speaker 1: Kavan is, you know, he he is playing up. He

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Speaker 1: knows the standard. Um. You know, the play that he

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Speaker 1: if you have a guy that's gonna be a leader,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be a leader. He's already establishing a leader,

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Speaker 1: but puts that kind of thing on tape. I mean,

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Speaker 1: here's how you do it. But he's he understands the standard,

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Speaker 1: and he's been playing up to him. Defense. You have

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Speaker 1: a defense that has had contributions from so many different

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Speaker 1: different places. Fourth and one play comes to mind, comes

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Speaker 1: up with a big stuff that really doesn't even knows.

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Speaker 1: But it seems like you try to get all those

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Speaker 1: really can't remember, uh, or have thought of about all

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Speaker 1: the different guys making plays as far as different people

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