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Speaker 1: Do you think your guys are getting enough separation? Um? Yes,

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Speaker 1: when you look at the tape um, which we do

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Speaker 1: quite a bit. Um. I think separation is as we

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Speaker 1: do it by scheme, Um, we can get gas separation. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a accumulation of a lot of things

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Speaker 1: as far as in separation and round technique, you speed,

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Speaker 1: how you set guys up, where you put guys everything.

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Speaker 1: But we look at the tape, I think there is

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Speaker 1: you know, enough separation at times. Obviously we could be better,

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Speaker 1: you know, like we could be bead as a whole

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Speaker 1: unit as as an offense. But but one of the

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Speaker 1: things we try to prode ourselves and is having good

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Speaker 1: techniques in separation. M. But you gotta look at the

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Speaker 1: other side of it too. I mean, those guys are

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Speaker 1: getting paid pay professionals to to cover. So you know,

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Speaker 1: is there separation all the time? No? But no where

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Speaker 1: it is so, but I think that's a work in

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Speaker 1: progress progress to continue to get separate. Should or getting enough?

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Speaker 1: I would say yes. Variously handled a pretty big workbo

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Speaker 1: last week. Big What has he done to earn your trust? Well?

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Speaker 1: I think, uh, since he's been back from Miss hampstring injury,

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Speaker 1: every time he gets on the field, his reps continue

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Speaker 1: to get more and more and more, and he's getting

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Speaker 1: more confidence. He was extremely confident at the end of

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Speaker 1: the last spring when we ended up with the summer

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Speaker 1: and we came back, he pulled up his hampling so

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Speaker 1: early and it was tough to get back. But once

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Speaker 1: he's been back, his confidences continue to grow. So as

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Speaker 1: his confidence continue to grow, he making more plays. And

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Speaker 1: when you make more plays, ever a tendency to be

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Speaker 1: on the field longer. Um. I like having playbackers on

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Speaker 1: the field, so it's hard to get him off the field.

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Speaker 1: And he's making plays, um and getting separation, so we'd

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Speaker 1: like to happen category. He's one of the yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's good one of the things. Yeah, he's his fair

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Speaker 1: shaff getting open. When you look at the tape, it's

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Speaker 1: a lot of times, a lot of us it was

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Speaker 1: open a lot of times, but the ball don't come

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Speaker 1: their way. So it's kind of hard to say, well,

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Speaker 1: he's getting separation, he's getting open. We look at the tape,

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Speaker 1: the tape, we always say that this guy don't lie.

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Speaker 1: So um, there he said. Slave is doing a good

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Speaker 1: job of that. I know it hasn't been exclusive against

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Speaker 1: these guys, but you know, Darius has gone up against

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Speaker 1: I think it was Rhodes than Gilmore that Patrick Peterson

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Speaker 1: saw a good deal of him on Sunday. What kind

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Speaker 1: of lessons has he learned? Have you seen over the

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Speaker 1: course of the three weeks against guys of that caliber,

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Speaker 1: against the rookie who's really just trying to find his

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Speaker 1: way so far, Well, I think it's a credit to

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Speaker 1: him because of a lot of film study that we do.

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Speaker 1: So we'll make a dB tape every week of each

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Speaker 1: dB and how they cover particular guys and what techniques

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Speaker 1: they use, how they use press, how they play off man' zone,

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Speaker 1: and they studied and stuff really really well. And he's

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Speaker 1: studying that stuff and he's going, uh and running around

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Speaker 1: against those guys with the kind of a cheek sheet already.

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Speaker 1: Have you know looked at him, you know for a

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Speaker 1: week or so. Um. But the guys we've been going against,

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Speaker 1: they've been pretty good guys obviously, as you mentioned, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I remember the first four losses at the time we

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Speaker 1: played those teams, you know, the defense. I think I'll

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Speaker 1: check two weeks ago they will ranked one, three, four

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Speaker 1: and six in the league. So we've been playing some

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Speaker 1: really good defenses. Um, you know last week I was

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Speaker 1: obviously with Arizona it wouldn't rank that high, but Patrick

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Speaker 1: Peterson me and I got there. You know, he's made

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl every year he has been in the league.

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Speaker 1: So talking about a good experience cover guy, um so.

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Speaker 1: But Slayton, because he's playing against those good guys and

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Speaker 1: which is a good thing for us, and I just

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Speaker 1: can go back to the Vikings scheme for a sect,

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Speaker 1: because that's the only time we've seen Shepherd and Tate

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Speaker 1: again sometime in the second How did they do out

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Speaker 1: that preseason that they were similar players, like the slot

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Speaker 1: there together? Oh, it's fine. I mean there have I

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Speaker 1: mentioned before. Those guys are playmakers. So again, anytime you

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Speaker 1: there are Bob Letting team within in the same car.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're all doing their own different things whatever,

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Speaker 1: us as coaches to put those guys in positions to

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Speaker 1: to make players on the ball. You have a preference,

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Speaker 1: sound of me, I think all all the catches, I

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Speaker 1: someone's gonna have to go like which what would be

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Speaker 1: your preference and how would you in an ideal world

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Speaker 1: like to juggle that when that time comes, ideally is

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Speaker 1: um get them all on the field and where ad

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Speaker 1: they line up? What's where they lined up and make

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Speaker 1: plays because like I mentioned in previous press conferences that

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Speaker 1: when we teach systems, we teach the whole concept, not

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Speaker 1: just a position. So they can line up an X,

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Speaker 1: F or Z and go on any spot and make

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Speaker 1: plays from anywhere. It just so happened that sometimes in

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Speaker 1: in third down and so Golden's inside, chef could be outside.

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Speaker 1: When chef comes back, chef can be inside and Golden's outside.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter. We just put those guys out

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Speaker 1: there in the field and buy them knowing the concept

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Speaker 1: of how we want to run things they can get

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Speaker 1: open wherever they are inside or outside. You know, think

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Speaker 1: one of their skill sets maybe lends a little bit

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Speaker 1: more than being successful on the outside. I think their

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Speaker 1: skills set it lends more to being a playmaker wherever

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Speaker 1: they are inside or outside. UM. You know some guys,

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Speaker 1: you say, the outside guys, inside guys. You know, we

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Speaker 1: don't like to buy in them that so much because

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Speaker 1: you limit guys on what they can do, so you

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Speaker 1: never know what the guys inside or outside. You put

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Speaker 1: them in both spots and see what they are. So

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Speaker 1: in our system, we move guys all over the place

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Speaker 1: so they can play and make plays wherever they are

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Speaker 1: on the field. Why is Golden so successful? It seems

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Speaker 1: like in contested in traffic, especially last week, it seem

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Speaker 1: like some of the players that he made, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was that was huge for us. He converted some

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Speaker 1: third downs for us in traffic and caught the balls

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Speaker 1: on contact. Golden has always been able to do that.

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Speaker 1: You look at him on take from his years in

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Speaker 1: the league. UM, and we thankfully we were able to

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Speaker 1: get him here and do the same thing that he

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Speaker 1: can make plays in traffic. Yours out to the catch,

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Speaker 1: you know, make those tough catches. He has good hands,

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Speaker 1: he has good vets, sevens, knows how to get open

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Speaker 1: versus his own man, know how defenses are trying to

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Speaker 1: play him, so he has ad advance. When you have

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Speaker 1: been in the league for I guess ten years, like

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Speaker 1: he's been in the league, you have a sense of

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Speaker 1: how guys are trying to play you and get open

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Speaker 1: and and sometimes you don't get open. You don't get

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Speaker 1: the separation that that you that you want. So you

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Speaker 1: have to be able to make players in traffic. And

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Speaker 1: when you make players in traffic, that separates some guys.

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Speaker 1: I understand Evans in the tight ends meeting rooms and all,

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Speaker 1: but do you ever work with him as receivers coach

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Speaker 1: and such a big part of his game is receiving. No.

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Speaker 1: I think was lund the Wells As a great job

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Speaker 1: with Evan, and he's with Lunda Wells all the time.

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Speaker 1: And Lunas coached him up hard and he does a

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