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Speaker 1: and continue that today and just get back on the

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Speaker 1: talking about how there was a lack of energy. How

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Speaker 1: energy moving forward? Well, think about it? Is you noticed it,

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Speaker 1: uh watching the film about we have saying that when

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Speaker 1: and you didn't see that on Sunday for whatever reason.

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Speaker 1: So we just, uh, you know, we're gonna dig deep

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Speaker 1: and find out, you know, go back and let this

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Speaker 1: game be a youthful game. Enjoy the game when you're

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Speaker 1: out there, have smiling your face, to go out there

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Speaker 1: and make plays and have fun with it. What can

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Speaker 1: you do sort of to put the players in a

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Speaker 1: better position to succeed really just uh just go back

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Speaker 1: and look at what they do well and give them

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Speaker 1: opportunities to do it. And you know, we study weekly

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Speaker 1: on what rushed this guy, what match up is best

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Speaker 1: opportunity to do what they're good at. Jackson made some

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Speaker 1: pretty big investments in the defense. Do you have the

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Speaker 1: I think the talent is here. We're happy with the

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Speaker 1: and over again. You'll see times where we're right on point,

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Speaker 1: then other times we're not. So that's part of coaching

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Speaker 1: and we all own that we gotta get those guys playing,

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Speaker 1: uh the way they need to play over and over

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Speaker 1: and over. Well, what's the key to Derrick Inter getting

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Speaker 1: multiple guys around him? We have to be good at

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Speaker 1: standing in our gaps. And once you're in your gap

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Speaker 1: free gap, make the taple and we need a lot

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Speaker 1: of effort getting to the ball, and that's the way

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Speaker 1: you try to slow him down. Is this offense a

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Speaker 1: lot and they played a lot of games together. You

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Speaker 1: can tell on tape that they're really cookies of Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is a group that they understand the scheme they

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Speaker 1: like to run, and it's harder to really practice it.

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Speaker 1: But once you get out there, you tell them and

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Speaker 1: you haven't watched film and try to make them understand

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Speaker 1: the speed of which they try to run their outside

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Speaker 1: get into and have their mindset ready to go try

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Speaker 1: to stop it. Doug said yesterday that he thinks the

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Speaker 1: preference would be to, you know, have one guy that

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Speaker 1: their cornerback spot, as opposed to keep trying a couple

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Speaker 1: other guys. Do you feel like you guys are closed

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Speaker 1: to maybe faking out who that could be. Well, you're

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Speaker 1: always that uh, wanting just one guy to take the lead,

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Speaker 1: But right now we're just trying to find a guy.

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Speaker 1: We're out there and putting guys there, doing good job

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Speaker 1: of coming in here, working extrafter practice, trying to understand

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Speaker 1: their deficiencies and what they need to get better at,

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Speaker 1: which we all do, and just trying to continue to improve.

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Speaker 1: If or if Chad MoMA can't go on Sunday, you

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Speaker 1: gotta turn back to Devon Lloyd. How do you go

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Speaker 1: thing about Devin when we ended up playing Chad, you know,

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Speaker 1: We're trying to give you a chance to sit back

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Speaker 1: played early on in the season. And Devin's handled a

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Speaker 1: great He's come back, He's worked real hard and had

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Speaker 1: like we're going back to Devon. Devon has played the

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Speaker 1: see him go back out there. How much not having

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Speaker 1: multiple roles. He did a great job of handling that role.

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Speaker 1: But there's a kind of comfort when you have a

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Speaker 1: and you know, we didn't have Cisco and hopefully we'll

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Speaker 1: get him back soon. The pass rush hasn't exactly been

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Speaker 1: frustrated about it. The players are frustrated about it. And

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Speaker 1: what we can do is go back to third out

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Speaker 1: pass rushing. And that's what we did the last couple

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Speaker 1: him heading in the direction you want him to be? Oh? Definitely, definitely,

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Speaker 1: he's uh heading in the right direction and we'll please

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Speaker 1: with what he's playing. And like giving your personal family

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Speaker 1: connection to w n B A, when's basketball? What's your

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Speaker 1: feelings on Britney Grinder getting released today? Really? Once I

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Speaker 1: heard about it, I was like, Wow, that's a that's good,

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Speaker 1: in general. So, uh guess a couple of players we

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Speaker 1: What have you learned about being a defensive coordinator that

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Speaker 1: you maybe you you didn't know when you first started.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is your first kind of season in

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Speaker 1: the role. What would you have told yourself going into

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Speaker 1: the year. Really, the main thing I would just probably

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Speaker 1: Like you have so so much time but then so

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Speaker 1: little time, And that's probably the big thing. Being able

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Speaker 1: to understand setting up meetings, being able to get the

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Speaker 1: we had a great offseason and I thought we got

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Speaker 1: the process. But once the season gets get picked up,

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Speaker 1: understanding of how much information they really need and how

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Speaker 1: vision was maybe before the season. Really, the vision hasn't changed.

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Speaker 1: I want the defense to be a certain I have

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Speaker 1: a vision for an attacking defense. At times we've been

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Speaker 1: able to do that, but at other times we needed

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Speaker 1: to not be attacked as much based on what offense

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Speaker 1: we're going up against. And this it'll be a weekly thing.

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Speaker 1: Whatever we need to do on defense will get in there,

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Speaker 1: find it out, get it to the players, and come

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Speaker 1: out here and try to execute it. You know, that

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Speaker 1: second corner solidified shock being in there has that sort

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Speaker 1: of changed how you guys need to approach the defense.

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Speaker 1: Not really, it's just guys that get opportunities to play.

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Speaker 1: You have to go out there and make plays and

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Speaker 1: we're and that's everybody. Well it's not just one position group.

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Speaker 1: That's everybody. Coaches need to coach, players need to play,

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Speaker 1: and you get opportunity to do it. That's your job

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Speaker 1: when you go out there and do it. But it's

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Speaker 1: far from my ideal situation. When you're searching for a

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Speaker 1: starter at a cornerback position at this point the year, right, well,

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Speaker 1: really I wouldn't say, searching for starting. We have guys

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Speaker 1: that we understand, our younger guys, and those guys, given opportunity,

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Speaker 1: will we develop into good players. We just need to

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Speaker 1: give them more opportunities and let them continue to progress. Good,

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Speaker 1: all right, thank you,