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Speaker 1: Have you ever experienced what you're going through injury wise

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Speaker 1: as you have this season, Like it seems like, especially

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Speaker 1: on the offensive line, you just to keep losing somebody

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Speaker 1: each week. Yeah, you know, we've had a real mix

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Speaker 1: of guys playing for us. But again, the biggest thing

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Speaker 1: we have to do is focus on us and getting

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Speaker 1: everybody ready to play. And a real credit to the

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Speaker 1: to the players not on the alignment, but the receivers

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Speaker 1: and the running backs, all those guys who have come

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Speaker 1: in backup players having more of an extended role. They're prepared,

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Speaker 1: they're ready and uh, and they're trying to embrace the

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Speaker 1: opportunity and uh. The the guys who are banged up

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Speaker 1: are working hard to get themselves back as quickly as

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Speaker 1: they can. But when you have a different combination of

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Speaker 1: guys playing, you just gotta figure it out and try

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Speaker 1: to make it work. Obviously, playing change when you lost

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Speaker 1: ca Darius so early in last week's game. He was

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Speaker 1: off to a good start in the game. I think

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Speaker 1: you had three catches in in six plays and unfortunately

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Speaker 1: lost him. And we have some plays for him obviously

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Speaker 1: throughout the game plan and all the different situations that

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Speaker 1: go away. And then we have some plays where we

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Speaker 1: just put somebody else in and the and they do that.

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Speaker 1: And again, the biggest thing is everybody has to be prepared.

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Speaker 1: You have to be ready to respond. He look at

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Speaker 1: look at Daniel was obviously a rough day. I know,

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Speaker 1: you go over you know, every mistake and every good play.

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Speaker 1: But do you want him to take the approach of

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Speaker 1: just chocolate up as a bad day, you know, throw

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Speaker 1: it away or how do you guys approach that? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know Daniels played, He's played really well for us. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, again we've talked about he's improved greatly from

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Speaker 1: probably the middle of last year on. It was off

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Speaker 1: to a really good start this year. It's done a

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Speaker 1: great job taking care of the ball. Uh. He had

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Speaker 1: two uncharacteristic decisions, uh that that led to interceptions in

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Speaker 1: that game. The third interception, you know, the receiver slipped down.

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Speaker 1: That was gonna be a big chunk play for us.

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Speaker 1: But you know, you just have to learn from those experiences,

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Speaker 1: what was going through your mind, what you saw, and

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Speaker 1: then and then you and then you forget about it.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know that's something that he does a

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Speaker 1: really good job of. Uh. He's critical of himself and

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Speaker 1: then he's able to move on, and that's something he

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Speaker 1: has to do in this area decisions. Was he just

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Speaker 1: fooled on those kind You're not really, I just you know,

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Speaker 1: there were fairly simple basic plays and reads, and maybe

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Speaker 1: he got something into his head, he saw something that

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Speaker 1: wasn't there instead of just kind of going through what

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Speaker 1: the progression is and and making the right throw. And

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Speaker 1: again that happens that that happens to quarterbacks. They have

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Speaker 1: the ball in their hands every play, and I think

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Speaker 1: he's made great strides in that area. Unfortunately, had a

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Speaker 1: couple the other day they want they went the other way,

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Speaker 1: and again you learn from and you move on. What's

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Speaker 1: the best way to protect an offensive line that is struggling,

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Speaker 1: like as far as scheme was, Yeah, I think there

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Speaker 1: are a number of different things you can do. Running

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Speaker 1: the football certainly helps the protection, throwing a quick moving

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, having extra guys protect and getting guys out

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Speaker 1: to get them open quickly. There's a variety of things

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Speaker 1: you try to do every week to help your offensive line.

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Speaker 1: Teams do it all around the league, and then you

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Speaker 1: just gotta try to settle in with some of the

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Speaker 1: things that fit best for your team? What was your

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Speaker 1: approach in Dallas when you went through losing stretches and

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Speaker 1: adversity as a head coach? What was your approach and

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Speaker 1: what have you observed about Joe? Not not really my

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Speaker 1: place to comment on, coach judge, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing we all try to do when you

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Speaker 1: have some tough times to just kind of settle back

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Speaker 1: into what you need to do each day, uh, to

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Speaker 1: coach your best and to play your best. And each

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Speaker 1: day of preparation leads to an opportunity to play your

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Speaker 1: best on Sunday. And so if you can get everybody

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Speaker 1: focused on this what we need to do right now,

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Speaker 1: I think that's what gives you the best chance and

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Speaker 1: really applies to life too. I don't want to get philosophical,

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Speaker 1: Don't worry about what's next, focus on what you do

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Speaker 1: with the task at hand right now, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's what gives you the best chance to have success

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Speaker 1: individual and collectively. But what what have you observed about

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Speaker 1: Joe during this stretch? Again not my place, not not

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Speaker 1: my place to to make any comments on that, But

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Speaker 1: collectively is an organization. That's what we're trying to do.

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Speaker 1: Every coach, every player, and Joe's our leader, has done

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Speaker 1: a really good job of that effect of losing Andrew

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Speaker 1: Thomas because obviously it's I think anybody watches them can

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Speaker 1: than you helped him. In the New Orleans game, was

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Speaker 1: your most down field aggressiveness when he was shutting off

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Speaker 1: the pass rush. Show what's the rip effect? And not

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Speaker 1: having him? Yeah, the positive is Andrew was really developing

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Speaker 1: into a heck of a good player. And I think

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Speaker 1: we've all seen that he has a challenge every week

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Speaker 1: when you play left tackle. Every week you put the

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Speaker 1: play at a very high level. And you know what

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Speaker 1: a player like that goes out that that has an

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Speaker 1: impact on you. But again the mentality is the next

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Speaker 1: guy goes in. You know, Matt Perk goes in there

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Speaker 1: and plays. He's a young player. He's going to get

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Speaker 1: better the more he plays. So again, you're always trying

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Speaker 1: the deal. Andrew's been a good player for us. He'll

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Speaker 1: be back quickly. But we're excited about Matt and Nate

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Speaker 1: playing tackles force those guys that do a hell of

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Speaker 1: a job. How good is this front that Caroline and

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Speaker 1: brings really good? They're really good on defense. The defensive

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Speaker 1: lie is excellent. They got very good outside pass rushers.

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Speaker 1: They're strong and stout inside with playmakers. The linebackers can run,

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Speaker 1: they play fast. When you watch them play on tape,

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Speaker 1: all three phases. When you guys are prepping, obviously they

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Speaker 1: haven't had Gilmore yet, but a player of that caliber.

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Speaker 1: When you guys are putting together your plan, you have

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Speaker 1: to do a if he's here, this is what we

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Speaker 1: on the scheme. Well, they have a lot of really

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Speaker 1: And he's certainly been one of the best players in

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Speaker 1: and planning at a high level. But you certainly have

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Speaker 1: But got great respect for him. He's been a really

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Speaker 1: Penny given you a runner and are you going to

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Speaker 1: try to continue incorporating him? And you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: Eli has proven that that it can be a versatile guy.

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Speaker 1: His position is full back and uh, you know, whenever

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Speaker 1: he's been in that role, he's done a good job,

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Speaker 1: particularly some of the short yarded runs, He's done a

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Speaker 1: good job with that stuff. Um. But but you know,

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Speaker 1: Eli comes in and does a good job as a runner.

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Speaker 1: I think he's proven that at different times throughout his career.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of confidence him doing that. He's

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Speaker 1: a bigger back. Uh, he's physical, he finishes runs, but

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