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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Friday, November ninth edition of

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Speaker 1: Between the Horns. Well, we'll give you the biggest headlines

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Speaker 1: from the practice week as the Rams get ready to

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Speaker 1: take on the Seattle Seahawks for the second time in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. So when you look at LA and Seattle,

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Speaker 1: these are two teams who have a lot of familiarity

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Speaker 1: with one another because their division rivals. But then there's

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Speaker 1: also those little tweaks here and there that come with

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Speaker 1: each individual matchup. Head coach Sean McVay said on Monday

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Speaker 1: that the Seahawks had done some things differently on defense

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Speaker 1: than they'd seen on film in Week five, and quarterback

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff mentioned the same during his Wednesday press conference.

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Speaker 1: When we played on last game, they did some stuff

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Speaker 1: that they hadn't really shown on film much. And so

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Speaker 1: this game may be the same, maybe different. We don't

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Speaker 1: know yet. You know, we'll go off of what we've

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Speaker 1: seen so far, but they could very well mix it

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Speaker 1: up like they did last time. And it is worth

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Speaker 1: noting though that Jared Goff through for three hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty one yards and a touchdown in that victory over

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. That came even though both Brandon Cooks and

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup had to exit the game due to injury,

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Speaker 1: so turning it over to the other side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks have really found their identity as a run

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Speaker 1: first team on offense. Over the last five games. They've

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Speaker 1: rushed for at least one hundred and fifty yards in

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Speaker 1: each of those contests, including that matchup against La where

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Speaker 1: they racked up a season high one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 1: yards on the ground. After that game, defensive lineman Dominican

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Speaker 1: Sue called the Rams run defense terrible, and it's been

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Speaker 1: a lot better since then, for sure, But this week,

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Wade Phillips and defensive tackle Aaron Donald both

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Speaker 1: detailed what the Rams have to do better against that

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Speaker 1: vaunted Seattle ground game. Each game is his own entity,

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Speaker 1: like I've said, I mean, you know, they had a

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Speaker 1: big game Russian the last game. We're going to try

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Speaker 1: to stop him from doing that. We've had games where

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Speaker 1: people have had good yards Russian they've had none, so

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Speaker 1: we got to get them down to none. So that's, uh,

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Speaker 1: that's where we are. We're doing things, try and do

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Speaker 1: too much at time, and you know it's a part

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Speaker 1: of the game. But you know we we we corrected

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Speaker 1: them things, we fixed them things, and you know it

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Speaker 1: ain't gona happening again. Then there's cornerback Marcus Peters, who

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Speaker 1: has taken some heat for his performances as of late,

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Speaker 1: and he understands why, like after Sunday's game where he

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Speaker 1: took accountability for what he essentially called when I'm cleaning

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Speaker 1: up the language a bit here, some very poor play

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Speaker 1: over the last few weeks, like the seventy two yard

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Speaker 1: touchdown by Michael Thomas that effectively ended that Saints game,

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Speaker 1: but defensive coordinator Wade Phillips also said that as a coach,

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Speaker 1: he should have put Marcus Peters in a better spot

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Speaker 1: for that play, the last play. I know everybody's gonna

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Speaker 1: say Marcus Peters, but I'm I'm putting that on me.

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Speaker 1: Anytime that, uh it's third and seven, it's the end

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Speaker 1: of the game and you've got one on one with

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Speaker 1: no help with our best player, than that's on the coaches.

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Speaker 1: That's on me. I love you being my coach. We

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Speaker 1: often be back, we could be critical of or what

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Speaker 1: what what we can get exactly done? And like I said,

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Speaker 1: I just know I'm gonna have been putting on me regardless,

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Speaker 1: because regardless of what Coast called, we got to go

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Speaker 1: out there and make lace, and we just didn't. I

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Speaker 1: didn't execute really, you know, so I said, you just

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Speaker 1: move on, next play next week. As Marcus Peters works

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Speaker 1: to improve on that back end, the Rams are still

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Speaker 1: integrating a new player into their front seven, and that

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Speaker 1: is Dante Fowler. So last week, the Rams acquired him

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Speaker 1: from the Jaguars for a pair of draft picks. He

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Speaker 1: ended up actually playing sixty two percent of Los Angeles'

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Speaker 1: defensive snaps in New Orleans, pressuring quarterback Drew Ber he

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Speaker 1: isn't making a tackle for loss. I got a chance

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Speaker 1: to catch up with Fowler after Thursday's practice, which will

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Speaker 1: play for you now in this week's interview. After I

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Speaker 1: just kind of going through the process for your first game,

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Speaker 1: just how do you feel everything went and how much

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Speaker 1: you're looking forward to getting back on the field Sunday.

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Speaker 1: The whole thing that was bad, but you know it's

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Speaker 1: really good just being able to get out there play

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Speaker 1: with elite group of guys and just being able to

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Speaker 1: get a feel of you know how you know the

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Speaker 1: rest of the season is going to be you know,

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Speaker 1: just being able to get a true game or just

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Speaker 1: being able to play with those guys. You know, rush

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Speaker 1: with those guys. You know, just Seattle to feel you know,

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Speaker 1: those are small things that you know that matters the most. So, um,

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Speaker 1: I took a lot out of it. You know, got

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Speaker 1: a lot of confidence coming out with these guys, and

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Speaker 1: you know, can't wait to play against Seattle my first

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Speaker 1: home game here, so it'd be really funny. Did you

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Speaker 1: feel like you played maybe more than you even expected

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Speaker 1: last week? Um? Kind of sort of yeah, Um, you

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Speaker 1: know that's the most I played the season. So I

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Speaker 1: mean at the end of the day, I was very happy,

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Speaker 1: very very happy with my reps and what I got,

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Speaker 1: and you know, just just getting warmed up. Honestly, look

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Speaker 1: at Seattle playing Russell Wilson. What kind of things stand

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Speaker 1: out when you look. Um, you know, just a very

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Speaker 1: great mobile quarterback, got a good arm, you know, still

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Speaker 1: a top topic part of back in this league. So

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Speaker 1: you have to respect him and you know be ready

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Speaker 1: to play him. Um when we're playing again. Something. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's has really good legs. Uh, Like I said, mobile

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Speaker 1: can get out of the pocket and stuff. So you

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Speaker 1: just gotta come out with the right rush plan and

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Speaker 1: you know executed on sending it obviously a different scheme

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Speaker 1: and everything that having played him last year, does that

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Speaker 1: to help just getting the feel for what he's gonna be, Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: You know you can't you know, you can't not play

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Speaker 1: get a feel. So luckily last year and I was

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Speaker 1: able to play against him, we came out with a

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Speaker 1: great rush plan and you know we was able to, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, hold them down while we could and we

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Speaker 1: got to win. So, um, now I want to go

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Speaker 1: out there and do the same thing. I'll send it

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Speaker 1: the run game though, because obviously that's a big, huge

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Speaker 1: part of what they do, what makes it so effective. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, they have really two good backs Mike Davis

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Speaker 1: and the Ricky that they have, so um, you know,

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Speaker 1: guys have really good visions at footwork. You just gotta

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Speaker 1: play played he's and h standing gaps because you know

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Speaker 1: they can't make you guess and then make you missing

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Speaker 1: then you look crazy. So you know, two great bats.

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Speaker 1: You know, got to respect them. You just gotta come

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Speaker 1: out there, play physical and start to run before we

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Speaker 1: finish out here. On this edition of Between the Horns,

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Speaker 1: all of us at the Los Angeles RAMS would like

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Speaker 1: to extend our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to all of

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Speaker 1: those affected by the tragic shooting this week in Thousand Oaks.

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Speaker 1: Left tackle Andrew Whitworth will be leading the charge on

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Speaker 1: a player response and it'll be something that will impact

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Speaker 1: the community in a positive way. The way really that

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Speaker 1: I believe and operate, I just don't believe it's sitting

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Speaker 1: there and wondering is the best way. I believe you

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Speaker 1: find a way to put your feet on the ground

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Speaker 1: and take action and getting involved in some way. And

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Speaker 1: if it's standing beside some money through a tragedy, if

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Speaker 1: it's helping them through it, if it's you know, finding

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Speaker 1: a way to encourage people around the tragedy, just finding

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Speaker 1: a way to put yourself with the opportunity to look

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Speaker 1: back and say you know what, and a time that

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Speaker 1: people are going through a city, I didn't sit there

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Speaker 1: and wondering what I do. I just tried to find

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Speaker 1: somewhere to make good A close that will do it

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Speaker 1: for us. For this Friday edition of Between the Horns.

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Speaker 1: We hope to see you Sunday at the Coliseum for

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Speaker 1: ram Seahawks, but if you can't make it, kickoff is

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Speaker 1: at one twenty five Pacific. You can catch that game

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Speaker 1: on CBS the NFL apportune into the call on ESPN LA.

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Speaker 1: Have a great one, everybody,