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Speaker 1: And I think that's something that the more and more

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Speaker 1: this group has played together, that is just what's that

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Speaker 1: playing hard, playing with a ton of energy. Um, heck,

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Speaker 1: and that goes a long way in this game, especially

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Speaker 1: success they're having right now. And UM, we just keep grinding,

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Speaker 1: keep working each day, and they've learned the process. They

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Speaker 1: understand the process. And it's great to go to a

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Speaker 1: practice like today and see our guys flying around breaking

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Speaker 1: up balls. UM. Highly competitive at practice, and I think

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Speaker 1: that speaks to how we have been playing as of late. Um,

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Speaker 1: and you know what Coach Sherman's kind of done to

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Speaker 1: keep this thing going with our with our team overall.

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Speaker 1: So UM, with that being said, uh, a great opponent

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Speaker 1: this week. UH want it that that will run the

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Speaker 1: ball and they love to run the ball, and UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, I know that's that's a mindset of Mike. Um,

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Speaker 1: they're they're their head coach. Mike's you know his mindset.

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Speaker 1: He wants to be able to run the ball and

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Speaker 1: you can see that that's a point of emphasis with him.

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Speaker 1: Um had a really explosive game in the run game

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Speaker 1: a week ago, and UM, I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: And you know, the quarterback scrambling and creating plays that

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Speaker 1: are off schedule, UM, is certainly something we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to be great with the perimeter passing game, the screens

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Speaker 1: and the shots down the field. And m again, we

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Speaker 1: we stacked two really good days. I'm excited to go

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Speaker 1: to meetings with his group. I love coaching these guys.

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Speaker 1: I love working with him and I can't say that

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Speaker 1: enough about this group right now. And UM, they've just

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Speaker 1: been resilient and kept working and UM, you can't we

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see these guys go play Sunday. Is

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Speaker 1: that in a sense of coaches dream the following the

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Speaker 1: screen and say you want that to happen to you? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, we we UM. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: luck out when you say, you get to see that

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Speaker 1: the week before, but we've been fortunate two weeks in

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Speaker 1: a row. Adrian had one of those weeks, run of

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Speaker 1: those runs the week before we played him in Washington,

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Speaker 1: him a week So when that stuff on tape, it's

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Speaker 1: certainly great example about maintaining gap integrity, playing with great

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Speaker 1: great leverage. Then um, finding a way to get someone

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Speaker 1: because it looks like a lot of the guys were

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Speaker 1: trying to tackle a big guy high. Sure, I think

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Speaker 1: um one thing with him is he's a great stiff

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Speaker 1: And he's gonna stiff arm on the perimeter, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: stif arm and open space. I'm sure some of those

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Speaker 1: guys weren't high on him, but UM, at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, get him down and don't finish the

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Speaker 1: down blocked, and it's gonna gonna take eleven guys in

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Speaker 1: the run game to be successful. This week, there's a

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Speaker 1: Karam Martin done the last couple week seemed like he'd

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Speaker 1: he's playing fast. I think probably about three or four

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, Um, Cream and I had a conversation just say,

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Speaker 1: that leads the disruption. It's not just the third down

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Speaker 1: We're kind of disrupting the quarterback a little bit now,

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Speaker 1: just like when guys get hurt, it's opportunities for other guys,

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Speaker 1: and it's unfortunate, like we talked about a week ago

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Speaker 1: Landing knows that. And but it's an opportunity for the

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Speaker 1: just for Dalvin, but it's an opportunity for about three

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Speaker 1: You know, with r J coming back now, r J

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Speaker 1: know who whoever that is in that room, it's just

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Speaker 1: Number one is integrated in rush lings and that's first

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Speaker 1: and second down, that's third down. We have to be

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Speaker 1: Sunday we lost. We lost the edge and the quarterback

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Speaker 1: scrambles in when we really got a third down stop.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were great in coverage, but the rush

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Speaker 1: has gotta have great lane integrity. And that's both on

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Speaker 1: both places. Um. Then then really the second thing is

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Speaker 1: those off scheduled downs. You've got to cover a few

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Speaker 1: use the word plaster like a lot of people do.

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Speaker 1: We gotta plaster and coverages downs, extend themselves and understand

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Speaker 1: how and where different receivers are gonna break. You know,

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Speaker 1: everybody kind of has a scramble thought process to them

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Speaker 1: where they want to break and how they want the

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Speaker 1: of where those guys are gonna breaks, kind kind of loose.

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Speaker 1: What made that the right time to just say, like,

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Speaker 1: just this group again, they're playing with great energy, playing hard,

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Speaker 1: and we keep talking about that with them, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's time for you to play better. UM. And I

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