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Speaker 1: Welcome to the From the Podium Podcast. On a reaction

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Speaker 1: Monday edition of the podcast, I'm Jason Gibbs. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Coming up today, you'll hear from head coach

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski, safety Ronnie Hickman, and center Ethan Posik the

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Speaker 1: day after the Browns fall to the Cincinnati Bengals seventeen

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Speaker 1: to sixteen. First up, here's coach Kevin Stefanski after watching

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Speaker 1: the tape from yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Injury front Jack Conklin is doing better.

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Speaker 3: He got poked in the eye yesterday, but he's doing

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Speaker 3: it much much better than yesterday. Obviously, like we talked

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Speaker 3: about postgame, really frustrating to not come away with a

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Speaker 3: win in that game. But bottom line is, as we

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Speaker 3: all know, there's things that we have to do better.

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Speaker 3: You're not gonna win those type of games, so.

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Speaker 2: We'll learn from it.

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Speaker 3: Guys are in meetings right now watching this tape and

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Speaker 3: to learn from some of the stuff that we can

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Speaker 3: do better, players and coaches, and then get back to

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Speaker 3: work with another division game coming up on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: But with that, I'll take any.

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Speaker 4: Questions, Well, yeah, Kevin, just wondering have you been able

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Speaker 4: to give any more thought yet to what you guys

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Speaker 4: might do about Andre. Do you think you will stick

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Speaker 4: with him this week or will you kind of bring

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Speaker 4: somebody in or look around a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for me and Mary Kay, I'm still focused on yesterday. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: Andre knows we trust him, knows that he's got to

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Speaker 3: come through with us for us in those moments. You know,

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Speaker 3: I thought he had a really good warm up, banged

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Speaker 3: the couple early in the game, and you know, miss

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Speaker 3: those two at the end, and those are kicks that

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Speaker 3: we expect him to make. But I'm really just focused

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Speaker 3: on that game and we expect him to come through

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Speaker 3: for us.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Kevin, did was the plan to control the ball

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Speaker 5: as much as you guys did? I think there are

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Speaker 5: four drives of ten plays or more or was that

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Speaker 5: just a result of what Cincinnati was doing defensively?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just a result, Scott.

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Speaker 3: I think you know, you oftentimes go into games and

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Speaker 3: you think we got to keep the ball away from

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Speaker 3: the other team, But that only happens if you execute.

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Speaker 3: So I thought the guys executed, and we're pretty good

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Speaker 3: on third and fourth down extending some drives.

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Speaker 5: And when you went back and watched, what did you

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Speaker 5: think the biggest issues with the run.

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Speaker 3: Game were multifaceted. I think you have to give credit

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Speaker 3: to them. We can do a better job as coaches

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Speaker 3: and giving the guys a plan. There are one on

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Speaker 3: one matchups that we have to win, and that's the

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Speaker 3: run game. If you're not winning in one spot, that

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Speaker 3: person can fall off and make a play. If you

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Speaker 3: do when you're one on one matchup, those are where

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Speaker 3: big yards can be had.

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Speaker 2: So we will get back to work there.

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Speaker 6: Kevin, what is the plan this week with Queen Shawn

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Speaker 6: junk Judkins? Can he be ready for Sunday?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see. Tony got to get through this week

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Speaker 3: of practice. I don't know.

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Speaker 6: And my second question is I asked you yesterday about

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Speaker 6: the short yardage creativity you had back in the Owner's meanings.

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Speaker 6: You had mentioned that, like Bloomgren, it was kind of

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Speaker 6: like a pet project of his short yarded situations, and

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Speaker 6: yesterday you said you haven't emptied the playbook at all.

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Speaker 6: That could you expand on just your team's philosophy now

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Speaker 6: on the short yardage packages that you might have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I don't want to expand too much, as

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Speaker 3: you can imagine, but I think if you pulled every

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Speaker 3: line coach in the NFL. They would be very excited

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Speaker 3: and light light up when you talk about shortyardage and

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Speaker 3: goal line. So I think more what I'm speaking there

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Speaker 3: to Tony is coach Bloomgren's affinity for physicality and those

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Speaker 3: moments when you need one yard. And I think it's

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Speaker 3: coach Bloomgreen, it's Ben Wilkerson, it's Sanders Davis. Our offensive

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Speaker 3: line coaches as a group do a great job in

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Speaker 3: those areas, both by design and how that you design

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Speaker 3: because a lot of times it's not real complicated, but

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Speaker 3: it is something where it does become a mentality type

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Speaker 6: They also out of the point man for your two

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Speaker 2: I'd probably say less so, and I think that'd probably

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Speaker 7: Hey, Kevin, I want to ask you how Dwan Jones

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Speaker 7: held up After looking at the film at left tackle.

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Speaker 7: We saw some penalties, some that were negated, But how

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think there were good moments and some bad moments.

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Speaker 3: He needs to just be consistent for us and play

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Speaker 3: like I know he's capable of playing. And again there's

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Speaker 3: good moments out there versus a very good rusher, But

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Speaker 3: I do feel like he can play better.

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Speaker 7: What about those young guys behind Denzel and Greg knew

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Speaker 7: somehow they do in their first look, you know, in

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Speaker 7: the multiple sets in the secondary.

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Speaker 2: Specifically freel Harden, Cam Mitchell Ye sure, yeah, young guy wise.

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Speaker 3: You know, obviously Miles has played the least of those guys,

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Speaker 3: but I thought he acquitted himself nicely, was good in

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Speaker 3: Shawn I thought was good in his role as well.

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Speaker 9: Hey, Kevin, just after watching the film so far, how

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Speaker 9: did you think Greg did on the outside. It looks

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Speaker 9: like i'm the matchup data from PFF. They had him

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Speaker 8: You think he did on the outside?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he did really well. It was good to see

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Speaker 3: Greg out there competing. As you guys know, that's a

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Speaker 3: excellent team. It's an excellent offense, it's an excellent pass offense.

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Speaker 3: So our guys met the challenge and did a nice job.

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Speaker 9: And then just with the defense as a whole, a

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Speaker 9: couple of the guys talked about like, even though they

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Speaker 9: played obviously so so well in the second half, like

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Speaker 9: starting faster? What does that look like? I guess is

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Speaker 9: it as simple as game changing plays, takeaways, that sort

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Speaker 2: You define it in terms of starting faster? Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: know a lot of it.

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Speaker 3: We probably had more mental errors in the first drive

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Speaker 2: So it just weren't clean.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't a lot, but just too many things that

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Speaker 3: we didn't have clean early posts on that first drive

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Speaker 3: specifically settled into the game and I thought did a

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Speaker 3: nice job. But as we all know that this game

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Speaker 3: is a sixty minute game and minute one is as

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Speaker 3: important as minute sixty, so we certainly have to be

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Speaker 3: playing our best ball at the beginning and the end.

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Speaker 10: Thank Kevin, I hear you say what you did about Andre,

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Speaker 10: but with a kicker, not specifically just him. How difficult

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Speaker 10: is that to know when hey, yeah, we really have

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Speaker 10: to make a change on this guy.

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Speaker 2: I think, listen, we trust our guys.

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Speaker 3: We get to watch our guys work, We get to

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Speaker 3: watch them all offseason, all training camp, preseason practices, games,

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Speaker 3: all those things. So we trust our guys to come

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Speaker 3: through for us. And I know a lot of credit

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Speaker 3: and blame gets doled out after wins and losses, but

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Speaker 3: this is a team game and we'll own this one

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Speaker 11: Kevin Dylan Samson had twelve carries, but he was really

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Speaker 11: involved in that passing game a lot. So for you guys,

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Speaker 11: did that have a lot to do with what you

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Speaker 11: were able to see from him with that maybe increased

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Speaker 11: workload over the summer with him being so featured with

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Speaker 11: injuries and quinch On being out, And how did you

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Speaker 11: think that he looked in that one, especially as the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought Cam he did a nice job.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've all talked about these young players or

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Speaker 3: and all those type of things that go with it.

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Speaker 3: And I expect all these guys, the young guys in particular,

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Speaker 3: the pass game to affect the game.

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Speaker 2: But it's all things like you mentioned that we've seen

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Speaker 11: Asked you about that defensive end opposite of Miles Garrett,

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Speaker 11: whether it be Isaiah McGuire or Alex Right. Isaiah obviously

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Speaker 11: made a big sack there in that game. What have

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Speaker 11: you seen from him in his development that led you

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Speaker 11: to go with him and have him out there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's just been his body of work.

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Speaker 3: Cam going back to last season and into the offseason program,

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Speaker 3: into training camp, he's been a very steady player for us,

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Speaker 3: a very physical football player, and he did a nice job.

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Speaker 12: Kevin, Just going back to the kicker again, just with

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Speaker 12: you and Bubba looking at the film, what do you

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Speaker 12: think of the holding a snap on the two miskicks?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, again, we'll just keep coaching our guys up. You know,

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Speaker 3: we're looking for everybody just to do their job in

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Speaker 3: every phase, but anywhere where we feel like we can

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Speaker 12: Okay, And then next Gen had you in one two

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Speaker 12: personnel a little more than half the time. Think it

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Speaker 12: was your highest rate since your first year in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 12: Just how effective did you think those packages were? And

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Speaker 12: you know Harold had a couple key catches, but would

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Speaker 12: you think of his blocking?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think every game's going to stand on its

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Speaker 3: own in terms of what personnel groupings you feature, and

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Speaker 3: there's reasons to be in a bunch of different personnel

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Speaker 3: groupings based on the opponent, who your players are, those

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Speaker 3: type of things. And I thought Harold very similarly to

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Speaker 3: the conversation about Dylan. It's a lot of these young

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Speaker 3: We're not perfect, but I thought really did a nice

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Speaker 3: I thought, really competed hard. That's one of the things

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Speaker 3: you love about him out there, whether it's the balls

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Speaker 3: in his hand or not, He's giving you everything he's got.

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Speaker 13: Kevin another young guy, Raheem being able to get that touchdown,

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Speaker 13: punch that touch on in for you guys, what did

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Speaker 13: you just see from him and especially in that set

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Speaker 13: just his acclamation to the team since he's gotten here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a guy that we're getting up to speed

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Speaker 3: Kelsey every day. Feel like with his size, he was

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Speaker 3: the right person for our short yard goal line package,

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Speaker 3: and that's a week to week type of thing. But

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Speaker 3: I thought he ran behind his pads both on the

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Speaker 3: fourth and one. I guess it was and that and

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Speaker 3: I guess the fourth down down to the goal line

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Speaker 14: Hey, coach, after getting a chance to watch a film,

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Speaker 14: it's kind of rare you put so many rookies and

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Speaker 14: pivotal roles like this. So you know, how impressed were

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Speaker 14: you with their performances of kind of going down the

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, justin we've spent a lot of time

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Speaker 3: I made the comment. I can't remember if it was

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Speaker 3: to you guys or not, but I've made the comment.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a in volume. It's a lot of rookies,

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Speaker 2: They're guys that were counting on. They're guys that that really.

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Speaker 3: Work at their craft, and that's been the case since

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Speaker 2: Down the line with all of them.

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Speaker 3: They all are very serious about their job, they all

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Kevin, I actually have two questions if you don't mind.

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Speaker 4: Feel like that even creates it's going to create even

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I watched it this morning, Mary Kay. Obviously we

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Speaker 4: And then my second question is when you went back

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Speaker 4: But are these two picks where you kind of cut

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm not going to get in the specifics necessarily

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Speaker 3: Not all interceptions are created equal. Sometimes the defense makes

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Speaker 2: We have to just learn from them.

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Speaker 3: There are definitely things that we can do better on

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Speaker 3: completion plays both will result in a first down and

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Speaker 3: keep our offense on the field. That's that's one of

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Speaker 5: Hey, Kevin, was Jack the only injury coming out of yesterday?

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Speaker 8: Yes?

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Speaker 5: And you know after the game, Joe Flacco said he

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hard to say.

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Speaker 3: We certainly were not perfect yesterday, and I myself included,

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Speaker 2: So we'll learn from those. But hard to say.

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Speaker 6: You having a couple of players after the game, notably

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Speaker 6: Was that the message you carried after the game to them,

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Speaker 6: and do you agree with that?

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Speaker 3: Well, there's a lot of messages after a game like that, Tony,

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Speaker 3: but it's obvious and it's true. You want to come

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Speaker 3: the disappointment is real. The other thing that's real is

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Speaker 2: And that's what we'll do as a football team. We'll

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Speaker 3: But it's Ravens Week for us once once we get

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Speaker 6: And the other thing was the first drive by Cincinnati.

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Speaker 6: It seemed like either they were double team in Mason

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would tell you there's certainly a lot of

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Speaker 3: But I thought Jim and the staff did a great

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Speaker 2: A good game. I thought he was disruptive.

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Speaker 3: There's a couple of plays that I know he wants

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Speaker 4: Hickman, Hey, Ronnie, I'm just wondering when you see those

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Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 15: I think as you can see for that game, all

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Speaker 9: Hey, Ronnie, I guess like holding them to seven yards

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Speaker 8: Do you think.

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Speaker 15: We made a lot of adjustments coaches, players, and I

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Speaker 15: you know how we need to play, you know, all

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Speaker 9: It seems like the message coming out of this one

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I think with every you know, loss comes a

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Speaker 8: Here, Ronnie.

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Speaker 5: After the game, Burrow said he thought Denzel and Greg

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Speaker 15: For the whole outstanding, we call that corner room, specifically

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Speaker 8: So it looks good for the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 15: You know, challenge those guys and all week, really every week,

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Speaker 5: And did it feel like the Bengals kind of operated differently.

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Speaker 11: And the first drive was probably a self motivating factor

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Speaker 15: Yeah, one thousand percent us playing and you know, having

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Speaker 8: And we loved that as a defense.

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Speaker 11: the summer. So for you, like coming into this week

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Speaker 11: and moving through the season, what has your approach been

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Speaker 11: to maybe have a leap this year this season and

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Speaker 11: make as much of an impact as you can.

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Speaker 15: I think mentally first, you know, being in the system

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Speaker 15: with coach Schwartz for three years now has allowed me

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Speaker 15: to you know, kind of look at other things on

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Speaker 15: a on a deeper level now instead of just you know,

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Speaker 15: the initial what's my job? But what is my corner's job?

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Speaker 15: What is my linebacker's job? You know, how is he

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Speaker 15: going to see this?

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Speaker 8: Which call? Can you know help him play faster?

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Speaker 15: And just things like that because at this level, you know,

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Speaker 15: talent kind of equates, it's more so the mental things

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Speaker 15: that can give you an edge on you know, your opponent.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Ronnie, just wondering. People always talk about trying to

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Speaker 4: get takeaways and increase takeaways, and I know that's a

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Speaker 4: point of emphasis for you guys this year, but really,

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Speaker 4: I mean, what can you do and what are you

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Speaker 4: doing personally to try to increase your ability to get

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Speaker 4: that ball?

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Speaker 15: You know, I always say it's it's like a certain

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Speaker 15: percentage of luck that goes involved, and then there's certain

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Speaker 15: percentage of you know, just going out there and taking

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Speaker 15: the ball out the air because you can't call it

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Speaker 15: on defense when you're gonna get your opportunity. But in practice,

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Speaker 15: you know, no dropballs, catch extra passes on the jugs,

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Speaker 15: just any opportunity you get, try to seize it because,

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Speaker 15: like you said, or like I said, a little bit

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Speaker 15: being luck, you can't really control when that moment's going

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Speaker 15: to come, but you want to be able to seize

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Speaker 15: the moment when it does come.

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Speaker 16: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: Finally, today on the podcast Center, Ethan.

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Speaker 11: Posik Ethan, I know, you guys, obviously you can't predict injury,

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Speaker 11: and you guys, but you guys have been through it before.

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Speaker 11: So when Jack goes out and Corney Lance Luthers comes in,

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Speaker 11: what did you see from him coming in there? And

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Speaker 11: then how much is depth really maybe preached to you

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Speaker 11: guys in practice, especially for some of the guys looking

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Speaker 11: to be ready for their numbers.

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Speaker 2: Called.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I thought he did a great job.

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Speaker 16: You know, being a you know, being in the number

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Speaker 16: two role in the NFL is hard sometimes because you

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Speaker 16: don't get all the reps during the week. And I thought,

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Speaker 16: without him getting a lot of reps, even if if

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Speaker 16: you know, even if he did, he did amazing. And

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Speaker 16: but without him getting all those reps he did, he

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Speaker 16: did great, and uh so I just thought, you know,

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Speaker 16: he stepped up to the play. He's a veteran and

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Speaker 16: he did a great job.

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Speaker 11: And we talked about the offensive line is like one

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Speaker 11: big unit and you guys moved together. So how difficult

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Speaker 11: is it though, just to step in You guys have

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Speaker 11: learned how to do it, But how difficult it does

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Speaker 11: that really become?

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Speaker 16: Yeah, it's the next man up mentality, and UH coach

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Speaker 16: Boom and UH coach Ben and coach and are doing

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Speaker 16: a great job coaching us up.

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Speaker 8: So you know, I think he was prepared for it.

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Speaker 5: And Ethan, what did you think the issues were with

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Speaker 5: the run game yesterday?

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Speaker 8: I think we just got to execute better.

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Speaker 16: You know, everybody had a piece in it, so you know,

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Speaker 16: you got to learn from the mistakes and then move forward.

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Speaker 16: And I think just just owning your individual part in

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Speaker 16: it and then get it, get it corrected.

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Speaker 5: And how much what did you see how to quinch

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Speaker 5: on when he was here in the offseason and what

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Speaker 5: kind of a boost can he provide when he's able

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Speaker 5: to get back on the field, whether or not at

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Speaker 5: that Sunday.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, he looked amazing in the spring and you're looking

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Speaker 16: forward to it whenever he comes back.

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Speaker 8: He's a great kid, and.

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Speaker 16: UH you know, we're just we're really looking forward to

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Speaker 16: whenever he comes back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Ethan, just wondering did you get a chance to

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Speaker 4: watch maybe the end of the Ravens Bills game last

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Speaker 4: night or catch up to it today or whatever the

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Speaker 4: case may be. And if so, do you feel like

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Speaker 4: when you guys head into Baltimore that you're going to

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Speaker 4: meet up with a team that has an even greater

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Speaker 4: heightened sense of urgency from what happened to them last night.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I heard, I saw the highlights and heard some

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Speaker 16: about it. They're a great team. They're gonna come out

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Speaker 16: ready no matter what happened yesterday. So for us, we

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Speaker 16: just got to correct our mistakes and move forward.

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Speaker 9: Hey, Ethan, just I mean along those lines, the fact

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Speaker 9: that you guys start the year off with two AFC

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Speaker 9: and ORTH opponents, Like, how much of a test is this?

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Speaker 9: And I mean, I guess the fact too you have

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Speaker 9: to have a pretty short memory right after after yesterday

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Speaker 9: to start getting ready for Baltimore.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 16: We we love the divisional games and we look forward

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Speaker 16: to them. They're a lot of fun, super chippy, and

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Speaker 16: that's how you know, that's you know, every team in

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Speaker 16: this division loves those games, so we look forward to

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Speaker 16: it and uh, you know, we we like them.

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Speaker 9: And then just how did you think about Dwand and

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Speaker 9: his performance yesterday? And obviously that was a tough matchup

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Speaker 9: with how much trade lined up across from him.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, Dwan's been doing great, you know, just growing as

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Speaker 16: a player and learning and everything, and switching sides in

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Speaker 16: the NFL is not easy. That's something that like a

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Speaker 16: lot of people, I think it's kind of like Madden.

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Speaker 16: You could just like put a right tackle at left tackle,

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Speaker 16: but it's not the case, and it takes it takes

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Speaker 16: some time. And uh, but I think he's he's he's

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Speaker 16: so open to learning and getting better that that's helping

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Speaker 16: him even as.

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Speaker 11: You guys look to clean some things up and get

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Speaker 11: that offense really gelling. As the season goes on, how

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Speaker 11: much do you think you guys will lean on the

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Speaker 11: defense being able to get it going as quickly as

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Speaker 11: they did, especially in that fourth quarter, getting you guys

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Speaker 11: the ball back in your hands, getting those third down stops.

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Speaker 11: How much do you lean on their fast start in

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Speaker 11: week one to get.

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Speaker 8: You guys going?

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I think defense played great yesterday obviously, like they

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Speaker 16: you know, they played great, and uh, you know on offense,

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Speaker 16: we just got to clean a few things up.

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Speaker 5: Ethan, How did me feel and when it when you

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Speaker 5: got hurt in that RAMS game where you worry that

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Speaker 5: it was going to keep you.

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Speaker 8: Out, It's good.

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Speaker 16: No, I wasn't too worried, especially after I got the

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Speaker 16: MRI results and everything, you know, more so just worried

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Speaker 16: about getting prepared. I knew I was gonna play, you know,

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Speaker 16: taking a week off and everything when you you know

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Speaker 16: you're feeling good in camp and everything is like the

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Speaker 16: last thing you want to do right for your first game.

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Speaker 16: So I was more focused on the preparation, like physically

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Speaker 16: because I had to do.

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Speaker 8: Some rehab and treatment and recover for the week. Gotcha. Thanks.

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