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Speaker 1: Talk about Jalen Hurts in his development this year. I

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Speaker 1: got a lot of respect for Jalen. Um. Tremendous person

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Speaker 1: the reason why he's probably at the top of the

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Speaker 1: go on and on about Jalen. It means a lot

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Speaker 1: to me for a while. So in terms of leak

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Speaker 1: development as a player, how in particular have you seen

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Speaker 1: him grow? Uh, in terms of maybe where he is

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Speaker 1: been really good. Um one a lot. Wherever he's been,

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Speaker 1: I think he can galvanize a locker room, which obviously

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Speaker 1: he's done. He's made every throw he's had to make.

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Speaker 1: He's tough to bring down when he runs, whether it's

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Speaker 1: just gotten better and better. Like you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: They just you know, it's gotten better and better. Statistically.

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Speaker 1: When you look at a team, they usually have a

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Speaker 1: good offense and so so defense. You look at this team,

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Speaker 1: statistically and it's good on both ends. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: the biggest statistic is eleven and one, and usually that

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Speaker 1: correlates for the most part. So I think how he's

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Speaker 1: done a great job of putting together a really good team.

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Speaker 1: And I think Nick Um, you know, Nick's a fantastic

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Speaker 1: high level. It's why they're the best team in the league.

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Speaker 1: What hatches your attention when you watch everything the defensive line,

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Speaker 1: the receivers, their quarterback, their offensive line, and their offensive

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Speaker 1: line is as good as gets starts with Kelsey Um

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Speaker 1: really long time. I think jalen Is is operating at

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Speaker 1: extremely high level. And throw a j DeVante. You know

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Speaker 1: is really good. Their defense, their corners there, I mean

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Speaker 1: reason why they're eleven and one. We're well rounded team.

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Speaker 1: When you when you present this to the team this week,

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Speaker 1: you know they know the challenge. They know if you

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Speaker 1: can playing the one and eleven team and eleven and

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Speaker 1: one team, how do you present you without gushing? Uh,

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Speaker 1: the same way I present every team. You know, here's

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Speaker 1: here's things that that we got to make sure we

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Speaker 1: handle on our end. It's always about us first, and

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Speaker 1: then here's tendencies or here's key players or key situations

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Speaker 1: that we got to be dialed into. Um consistency. I

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Speaker 1: would say, whether you're planning Philadelphia or last week Washington

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Speaker 1: Is it important? But with every with every game, you're

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Speaker 1: giving him a plan to how you can win. Is

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Speaker 1: it important with a team like this that's only lost

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Speaker 1: they know you believe if this plan can work. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think you believe every plan can work. That's why

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Speaker 1: you spend all hours here. You try to do the

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Speaker 1: and practice, and then you go out there and play

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Speaker 1: the game. All right, What stands out to about a J. Brown? Strong,

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Speaker 1: excellent hands, can make contested catches, run after catch, complete receiver.

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Speaker 1: You know he was that way at at Tennessee, and

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Speaker 1: he's certainly that way now. You know him and Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brad Brown film. It's tough and all to know that

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Speaker 1: if it could be here. No, I mean that's the NFL.

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Speaker 1: watching the Eagles and you don't see many weaknesses, if

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Speaker 1: any how much more difficult does it make for you

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Speaker 1: You know, every team has um, you know, strengths in

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Speaker 1: The players, the personnel they have are are really good.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, as a coaching staff. Just again,

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Speaker 1: I've said this before Nick and I was with Nick

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Speaker 1: what is it about Hurts that enabled him to respond

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can let one game be bigger

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Speaker 1: because it's the next one. On top of that, it's

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Speaker 1: same mentality in your players. Sorry I've lost you with this. Sorry.

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Speaker 1: Do you find it difficult to impart that same mentality

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Speaker 1: I think that's what you you know, That's how I've coached, Um,

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Speaker 1: There's things to learn from every game, whether you win

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Speaker 1: You do everything you can do, you put everything you

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Speaker 1: Give him a limited full Darnay will practice, Um, you

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Speaker 1: he has the pins in his hand. Okay, so when

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