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Speaker 1: Josh mcgams is here with us. Now we'll start with

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Speaker 1: Tom Kerran. Go ahead, Tom, Hey, Josh, Um, just curious

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Speaker 1: last week or Sunday. Overall, it seemed to the late

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Speaker 1: don't know, I don't want to say getting the ball

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Speaker 1: What was your overall feeling on his performance? I agree

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Speaker 1: with that, there's no question he worked hard at that

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Speaker 1: last week. And look, our our goal, our number one

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Speaker 1: goal right now as an offense, you know, into this

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Speaker 1: week of practice and moving forward is gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: is going to continue to be uh, you know, playing

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Speaker 1: a turnover free game, which we haven't done yet. So um,

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Speaker 1: you know that's kind of a unique situation for us.

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Speaker 1: We haven't been in that much, but this you know,

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Speaker 1: this year's and a little different for us, and we

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Speaker 1: really stressed that hard last week in practice. UM. I

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Speaker 1: think there were some really good examples of you know,

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Speaker 1: the bills taking some things away down the field that

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Speaker 1: we were trying to trying to look for, and then

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Speaker 1: him using whether it's the tight ends or the backs

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Speaker 1: on the checkdowns, and then there were some also good

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Speaker 1: examples of him throwing the ball away, you know, and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think we've ever lost a game

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Speaker 1: because we threw an incomplete pass. And you know, those

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Speaker 1: are the kind of things where we're trying to build on.

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Speaker 1: I know that. You know, it sounds like it's a

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Speaker 1: it's a negative thing. It's not. It's a positive thing.

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Speaker 1: You know. There's there's gonna be times in a game

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Speaker 1: where people take away the deeper options, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we need to make smart decisions, and I thought he

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Speaker 1: did that for the most part in the game on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: One quick follow too, is how different is it for

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Speaker 1: you to have occasions when you go in and because

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Speaker 1: of his juriads or personnel or just where this offense

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Speaker 1: is at this time to see things that the defense

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Speaker 1: might be giving you or might be weak at, and

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Speaker 1: just say, hey, we just can't do that right now.

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Speaker 1: We're just not there to attack that spot that I

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Speaker 1: have been familiar with attacking in the past, or whatever reason.

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Speaker 1: I think that's I think that, honestly, that's that's a

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Speaker 1: process every year. Um, I really believe that, regardless of

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Speaker 1: what the team is that you're that you're discussing or

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Speaker 1: talking about. Um, you know, there's there's things that each

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Speaker 1: team comes out of training camp, UM, you know, being

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Speaker 1: pretty adept at you know, and you you've you know,

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Speaker 1: may maybe you didn't start the seasoning doing them as well.

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Speaker 1: And there are a number of examples of different things.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, um, you know, for for this team

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Speaker 1: this year, UM, you know, I think we're continue to

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Speaker 1: try to grow. There were some positive steps we took

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Speaker 1: that's what we have to focus on, is is what

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Speaker 1: Lazar Than Doug Kind and Josha just wanted to ask

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Speaker 1: it's you know, just things we felt like we could make, UM,

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Speaker 1: some positive plays with UM. You know, those plays aren't

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Speaker 1: based on the opponent, the way they're defended. UM. But

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Speaker 1: Rex is kind of lead blocking for James on those plays.

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a number of things that could occur

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Speaker 1: to Doug Kite and crisp Ryan and Joshua I was

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Speaker 1: we move forward. Chris than Bob Suci, Josh, you're mentioning

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Speaker 1: You guys have dealt with a number of circumstances this year,

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Speaker 1: same each week. I understand what you know there there

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Speaker 1: don't think my formula as a coach has ever changed.

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Speaker 1: You know, we always have variables. I've always talked to

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Speaker 1: The people, the variables and the buckets may change, but

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Speaker 1: What do we do well and how can we apply

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Speaker 1: include a mic rease in you'll fee chan Josh two questions.

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Speaker 1: Josh Yep, thank you,