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Speaker 1: Do you anticipate being able to ramp up Christian Gonzalez

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Speaker 1: this week in hopes of being possibly playing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that that's the that's the plan, you know,

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Speaker 2: excited about his efforts and willingness to get back and

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Speaker 2: work hard and practice last week and then again made

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Speaker 2: a decision. I made a decision at the end of

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Speaker 2: bit more time. And that's what happens when you start

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Speaker 2: this return to play and you practice and you work hard,

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Speaker 2: and then you see how you respond, and then to

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Speaker 2: make a decision if you're you know, if that players,

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Speaker 2: you know, ready ready for a football game, and we

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Speaker 2: felt like that he probably needed a little bit more

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Speaker 2: time and uh, hopefully he'll be ready to go. Excited

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Speaker 2: to see him and everybody else practice today. Wait, wait

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Speaker 2: that Christian, you've only seen one film, really a little

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Speaker 2: bit stuff like hopefully and I back and you have

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think any of your we need

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Speaker 3: all our all our best players.

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Speaker 2: You know, you've said this numerous times here, You're your

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Speaker 2: best players have to play good in order for you

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Speaker 2: to have a chance to win. And so Christian would

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Speaker 2: be one of those players, and we just we need

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Speaker 2: to try to get everybody out there that we can

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Speaker 2: the week and he can help us.

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Speaker 1: Like what you see as the mood of the team

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Speaker 2: I think it's it's it's where it has to be.

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Speaker 2: You know, whether you win or lose, you have to

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Speaker 2: you know, remain consistent and get back to work and

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Speaker 2: prepare for a new opponent. You put a lot into

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Speaker 2: it every week. Disappointed that you lose, but that's in

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Speaker 2: the rear view mirror, and we have to be able

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Speaker 2: to attack each and every week. And you know, once

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Speaker 2: you make the corrections and once you point out the

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Speaker 2: things that we have to do better in order to win,

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Speaker 2: and then then it's onto the preparation and and the

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Speaker 2: new challenge ahead.

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Speaker 4: Like a saying that you can't win unless you learn

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Speaker 4: how not to lose. In terms of that, in terms

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Speaker 4: of learning how it got to lose. Can that be

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Speaker 3: I think it.

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Speaker 2: I think by building and doing things the right way

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Speaker 2: like as in an identity that that hopefully that will

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Speaker 2: take care of it. I mean, I think the more

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Speaker 2: that you put yourself in close games, and the more

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Speaker 2: to you know, be able to have some favorable outcomes.

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Speaker 2: You know, you have to be able to respond and

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Speaker 2: out as often as we possibly can. Like you mentioned,

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Speaker 2: you made the decision last week that need more time

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Speaker 3: What information do you use to to make a decision

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Speaker 3: like that?

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Speaker 2: Just revisiting this from previous conversations, was that a wink

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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 3: You know? One? Can they player protect themselves?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 2: Can they go out there in this game and and

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Speaker 2: they've set for themselves, and can they make it worse?

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Speaker 2: So those are the three things that I would probably use.

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Speaker 2: It think, you know, a lot goes into being able

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Speaker 3: So but those are the three things that I try

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Speaker 5: Are they doing from a movement perspective, double challenge gets.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're just they're very sound, you know, and they

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Speaker 3: Up very good interior. I think the secondary is very good.

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Speaker 2: I think that obviously Horn and Jackson and Mooring has

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Speaker 2: Brown is one of the best interior defensive linemen. But

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Speaker 2: they sound, they play with their hands, they tackle well,

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Speaker 2: and so they really haven't been you know, beating themselves

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Speaker 2: You know, body control for for such a long player,

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Speaker 2: good catch radius. It seems like Bryce certainly trust him

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Speaker 3: So that'll be a huge challenge your experience.

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Speaker 1: You know, how deep into a season do you typically

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Speaker 5: Still?

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Speaker 2: And so we're you know, we've got a bunch of

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Speaker 2: and then you know, things that got in us beat, right,

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Speaker 2: So I don't want us to to forget about all

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Speaker 2: the positives and the good things that have happened and

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Speaker 2: the very good winning snaps that we've played, and then

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Speaker 2: the X plays on defense, those types of things really phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: Kick kick cover's impressive.

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Speaker 2: Looked at it for two hours last night on that impressive.

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Speaker 2: They got good players, they got great speed. They change

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Speaker 2: be critical that we're able to, you know, protect the

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Speaker 3: To return them.

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Speaker 2: have to be prepared for that wherever they kick it.

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Speaker 2: Drills we've seen various throughout the off season.

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Speaker 3: When you have a game like on Sunday, did you

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Speaker 2: Comes to that, or well, it just puts more time

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Speaker 2: And then again, I'm going to remind you that that

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Speaker 2: and so we'll have to practice that too, because that

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Speaker 2: you know, we had three players fumbled the football, which

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Speaker 5: Has he been inactive because his injury is lingering or

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Speaker 2: Just my decision each and every week try to get

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Speaker 3: And he's he's working hard and working in.

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Speaker 2: Practice, and you know we'll evaluate that each week as

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Speaker 2: to what his role would be and how he can

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Speaker 2: help us. But you know that's kind of where that is.

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Speaker 2: You see Kyle Williams opportunities increase hopefully. I mean again,

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Speaker 2: I think arm angle, staring, staring the throw down. I

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Speaker 2: And then quarterbacks that you know have a tendency to again,

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Speaker 2: if it's over the middle and short.

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Speaker 1: Like everyboding, the game notes lists all the common kind

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Speaker 3: Week it's very thin.

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Speaker 1: There's almost no crossover between the Patriots and the Panthers,

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Speaker 1: between coaches and players. What's that like to game plan

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Speaker 2: Just watch the tape, you know what I mean. Just

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Speaker 2: idea of how to prepare the players that way, and.

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Speaker 3: Focus on those things. Focus on the things that you.

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Speaker 2: See, maybe things that they've done in the past, or

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Speaker 2: how what they may do to us situationally.

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Speaker 5: His playing time, how much of that number where we're

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Speaker 5: at right now through three games is tight to just

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Speaker 5: what he was coming back from intrigue wise.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's all going to change.

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Speaker 2: I think the through three games and seeing where it's

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Speaker 2: at and the packages that we've used, and you know,

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Speaker 2: the stuff that we've asked some of these guys to

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Speaker 2: do is just trying to find a role for each

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Speaker 2: every one of them.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think any of them are going to

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Speaker 3: play the snaps Ki. You guys, Oh,