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Speaker 2: What is your biggest reason for why the offense isn't

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Speaker 1: Well, you're seeing, you're seeing, you know, the drops, you're

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Speaker 3: Do you do you think there's any sense that this

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Speaker 1: You know, you know, I've been around this game too

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Speaker 5: Uh, Doug. In the locker room Wednesday after practice, they

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Speaker 5: What you said, it was a great week of practice.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've got to got ourselves in a you

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Speaker 4: Here, and we've got to work it out.

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Speaker 1: Whether we are reading our press clippings. We need to

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Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, go ahead offensively, Doug. Obviously you guys come

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Speaker 1: I'm coming from, because listen, I challenged this group quite

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Speaker 1: But right now it's not good enough. It's not good enough,

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Speaker 1: sure that that we're doing that we coach better, offensively, defensively, unspelled.

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Speaker 4: I do the right things. In practice, we're doing the

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Speaker 1: And you know, we put together a good week and

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Speaker 1: You know, today just is not it's not a reflection

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Speaker 6: I believe you said off the top, Doug, that you

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Speaker 1: If you can, it's a it's a you know, that's

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Speaker 1: That's why I say, you know, coaches have to look

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Speaker 1: You know, all those types of things to free these

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