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Speaker 1: How great is it to be playing in a meaning,

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Speaker 1: meaningful game here in December? And uh, I think we're

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Speaker 1: right where we want to be to go play this game.

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Speaker 1: All we're doing is just picking it up where we

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Speaker 1: for us. Well that I'll open it up to questions.

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Speaker 1: Do you look at this as the sixth quarter? I

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Speaker 1: mean you can, you know, I mean it's every every

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Speaker 1: game is a new game, and I know you know

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Speaker 1: you're trying to be wanting no end of this week,

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Speaker 1: but that's what you felt like afterwards, you know, coming

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Speaker 1: out there, and you know, a matter of fact, I

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Speaker 1: said that Ron, I said see you in two weeks,

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Speaker 1: you know, and uh, uh have great respect for the

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Speaker 1: team and you know, especially that offense are very talented.

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Speaker 1: Uh there's got talent skill, talented up front and talent

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Speaker 1: running back. So we got we got our work cut

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Speaker 1: out for us. I think in your past you've always

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Speaker 1: had really strong run defenses. Why do you think that's

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Speaker 1: been such a struggle this season. I think we're gonna

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Speaker 1: continue to working on it. You know, you know when

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Speaker 1: you understand that the process of building a roster and

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Speaker 1: what we needed to do, and uh, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's been a struggle. We've we've played with some

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Speaker 1: you know, more dbs and we ever have this year, uh,

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Speaker 1: just to change things up. So I think that's that's

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Speaker 1: part of it. And uh, you know, I think teams

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Speaker 1: are just running the ball more. And we've played three

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Speaker 1: really good mobile quarterbacks that you know, as a what

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Speaker 1: they call them five tool players in baseball, they're five

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Speaker 1: tool players as quarterbacks, and uh, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: that that had has a lot to do with it.

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Speaker 1: What do you attribute to the lack of success for

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Speaker 1: you guys stopping teams from running at your edges? Um,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a multitude of things that we're working on,

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Speaker 1: you know, to try to remedy that. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's just always on the edges. I think there's some

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Speaker 1: right up the middle too that you know, we've had

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Speaker 1: some some issues with. So it's like one of the

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Speaker 1: things when you start working on it, you're plugging the

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Speaker 1: dike and I'm running out of fingers and toes, you know,

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Speaker 1: to plug the dike. So we're just gonna continue to

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Speaker 1: work at it and try to get better and and

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Speaker 1: play better defense. Coach better defense and go attack this

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Speaker 1: team just like we do every Sunday. Think one of

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Speaker 1: the things you do is you probably show teams something

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Speaker 1: they haven't seen before on film. Like you know, when

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Speaker 1: you're devising your game, you play a team two weeks later,

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Speaker 1: what's the balance there? I mean, you're trying and come

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Speaker 1: up with them totally different. You lean up something to work.

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Speaker 1: I think that's you know, there's a little bit of both,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I think both teams look at it

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Speaker 1: that way. But you know, that's that's a great part

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Speaker 1: of our scheme itself, as we can give multiple looks

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Speaker 1: and uh and try to confuse your opponent and and

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Speaker 1: same thing you know, the back end wise and everything else.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's it's a it's a challenge, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: I've never done this before my career. Play a team

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Speaker 1: that's you know, playing us back to back. They're playing

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Speaker 1: us back to back. So did you think that I

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Speaker 1: think I'm corrected and that you were a big Dexter

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Speaker 1: Lawrence fan before you got here to coach him. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering under your coaching under Patterson's how how

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Speaker 1: have you seen Dexter kind of either blossom or or

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Speaker 1: almost emerged more than we had seen m I think

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Speaker 1: it's all credit to Decks because he you know, he

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Speaker 1: had a really good offseason. He was here all during

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Speaker 1: the installs. He's smart. I think he enjoys playing in

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Speaker 1: this defense. And you know, I said it when I

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Speaker 1: was when I took the job here, that he should

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Speaker 1: be a pro bowler. I mean you can just see

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Speaker 1: it in the kid himself. And then after I got

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Speaker 1: to know him, I should. I could have guaranteed you

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Speaker 1: he's going to be that type of player after I

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Speaker 1: got to know him, because how much he loves football,

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Speaker 1: how much he loves his teammates. He's selfless, and uh,

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Speaker 1: he's very count to everybody in the room. Last last year,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you remember it this way, but

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Speaker 1: body in between your guys two games? It might have

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Speaker 1: been Pat, it might have been I don't I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember it. Well. No, I was just gonna

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Speaker 1: ask you if you remembered, like been handling the second

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Speaker 1: game a certain type of ways of all. No, No,

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Speaker 1: that that's you know, the thing that was probably like

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Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't remember it that way. It's

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Speaker 1: it's one of those things that it all becomes a

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Speaker 1: differently in the first game knowing that you were going

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Speaker 1: to be there next to point too? No, that would

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Speaker 1: have been really smart though. I should have said yes.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're just trying to play that game and

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Speaker 1: win that game. And you know what I mean, you

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Speaker 1: always try to hold something back during a game, you know,

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Speaker 1: like and and bring it out in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about each individual game, not just this this game,

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Speaker 1: but every game. So I wish I I wish I

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Speaker 1: could tell you yes, but I'm too honest. What is it?

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Speaker 1: I'm too dumb to lie? So did you go down

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Speaker 1: to that sheet, like you said, you had stuff? You

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Speaker 1: usually take have stuff in the fourth quarter that you

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Speaker 1: stuff that you didn't use, and you try to put

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Speaker 1: that at the top exactly exactly. It's exactly right, and um,

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Speaker 1: you know it's it's one of those things that you

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Speaker 1: know the players know it too. You know, Hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: holding onto this. I'm holding onto this, you know. And

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Speaker 1: had some things different that we turned on him in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter that helped us. Just for an example, sorry,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, it seemed like Fabian Moreau got

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Speaker 1: playing more than he was expected to in a bigger role,

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Speaker 1: I think he's been a great surprise for this organization,

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Speaker 1: for the for the defense, for the team. I think

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Speaker 1: what you just described right there. And uh, I'm just

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Speaker 1: expecting big things out of him, not only this game,

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Speaker 1: but the next next four games. And um, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're just out of your control. We don't we don't

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Speaker 1: make the rules. We just try to play by. Forced

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Speaker 1: to wait to see zs and together for seemingly felt

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Speaker 1: like months, years, years seeing them together the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks. Is that kind of what you envisioned? And

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Speaker 1: how much can you build off of that? Yeah? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know it's you. You can't help to sit here

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Speaker 1: and wonder what would it be like if zes was healthy,

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Speaker 1: healthy all season? When has it been four games? He's

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Speaker 1: got four sacks, So you know, I think he's done

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Speaker 1: a great job of coming back and and you know,

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Speaker 1: just these next four games are gonna be obviously very

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Speaker 1: important to him and us. Offensive guards have particular trouble

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Speaker 1: against edges. It seems like sometimes you've scheme that up

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Speaker 1: and it's it goes game by game. There's there's guards,

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Speaker 1: there's different tackles, there's you know, you know, there's different

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Speaker 1: ways that you that you attack them, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: so it's it goes game to game. But you know,

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Speaker 1: guards are usually not as good in space because they'd

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Speaker 1: be tackles if they were, you know, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean seriously, So, oh yeah, bigger, longer, faster. That's

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Speaker 1: that's what I like, have no doubt. What does what

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Speaker 1: does R. Darius Williams have to do on the field

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Speaker 1: in yourn I think it's you know, it starts at

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Speaker 1: practice and uh, you know he's he's got who be

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Speaker 1: be consistent and in the way practices, and he's done that.

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Speaker 1: He had a real good practice yesterday, much better practice yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what he does today and and uh we'll

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Speaker 1: go from there with having us. He's back and now

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Speaker 1: came on together. I guess how does that help you

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Speaker 1: scheme the overall defense as a whole? Knowing that those

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Speaker 1: two are there every time you get a good, good

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Speaker 1: easier because then you can either do more things with

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Speaker 1: And you know, you can give them different looks to

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Speaker 1: he's done a really nice job, and so's Cava