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Speaker 1: Great challenge this week. You know, the top offenses in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League, and really an offense that collectively

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Speaker 1: has been one of the top five offenses for for

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Speaker 1: a while. Um. They've been together for over a decade,

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Speaker 1: and you know, they've called a lot of plays and

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Speaker 1: is able to get up and do and change protections,

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Speaker 1: change routes, change formations at the line of scrimmage. So UM,

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Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be a great challenge. UM the

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Speaker 1: running back is is there. I think he's a really

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Speaker 1: special player, UM guy that they use in the backfield

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Speaker 1: to carry the ball UM heavily in the screen game,

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Speaker 1: or they split him out and use him as a

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Speaker 1: slot type receiver, and he's gonna They're gonna find ways

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Speaker 1: to target him and get in touches. And Thomas's is

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Speaker 1: another really really talented receiver on the perimeter. Um has

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Speaker 1: really strong hands at the point when balls are up

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Speaker 1: and some of those fifty balls. He's a really good

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Speaker 1: player in their scenario. So I like our guys again,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think it's been the same thing as

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Speaker 1: the last three weeks, we've had really good Wednesday practices

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Speaker 1: and we've had good meetings and we just we just

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Speaker 1: have to stay with that process. Um. Really looking forward

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Speaker 1: to getting back home and playing here on defense this

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Speaker 1: weekend and having our crowd in the game and part

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Speaker 1: of it. Um, and uh, we just got to go

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Speaker 1: in and have a good meeting in here and come

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Speaker 1: on and have a great practice afternon just to help that.

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Speaker 1: I haven't running that kind of similar except the bar

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Speaker 1: that summer that healthy guys to great. Hevery sure, I

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Speaker 1: think to a degree, I would say yes, Um, I

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Speaker 1: think each and every week, Um, whether it's the same

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Speaker 1: type of player, the systems a little bit different and

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Speaker 1: some of the things are a little bit different that

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Speaker 1: he does and he does well. Um, so yeah, I'd say,

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Speaker 1: if you're defending our offense, you've gotta be really aware

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Speaker 1: of the matchups you create with our running back and uh,

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Speaker 1: I'd say the same same with Stints. How much of

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Speaker 1: the challenge and take constantly in the slots up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's you know they're gonna move and put him all

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Speaker 1: over the field. And um, there's special plays that are

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Speaker 1: designed to get him touches, just like Kamara and it

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Speaker 1: might be in a slot, it might be the X

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Speaker 1: and the backside of three by one A few times

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Speaker 1: is the Z outside to the three receiver side. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think anywhere they put him, you've got to be

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Speaker 1: aware that he's he's a focal point and um there's

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Speaker 1: some things designed for him. They're gonna come in the game.

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Speaker 1: Is defending the middle of the field the real challenge.

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Speaker 1: It's this team because of the multitude of drop off screens,

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Speaker 1: all the looks to the middle. Yeah, you know, we

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Speaker 1: were talking about this last night as a staff watching tape,

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Speaker 1: and you see um receivers that are coming through the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field, whether it's a screen game, in

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Speaker 1: the underneath passing game, or even in man coverage where um,

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Speaker 1: you if if you're if you're covered on your guy,

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Speaker 1: you getta still expect the ball to come there. And

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Speaker 1: he's gonna try to put it on your back shoulder

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Speaker 1: as a defender, He's gonna put it over the top

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Speaker 1: he as a defender, and um, that's that's just why

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Speaker 1: he's a special player where he is and his accuracy

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Speaker 1: speak for itself. Speaks for itself. Twenty times last week

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Speaker 1: in the pasting game, like there something, move him around

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Speaker 1: a little bit. How difficult is it for you then

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Speaker 1: to get the matchup that you won against him, to

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Speaker 1: fight a fight with them moving and get a fro

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Speaker 1: the backfield of the spot. Sure, I think the first thing,

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Speaker 1: and we talked to the defense about this yesterday when

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Speaker 1: we started to install first and second down, is at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, we have to play fundamentally

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Speaker 1: sound football. There's there's no perfect world where you have

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Speaker 1: one guy on is. In terms of running backs. You

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Speaker 1: can do it on the perimeter with the receiver and

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Speaker 1: you can match guys up, But in terms of running

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Speaker 1: back because the multio of places he can align in

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Speaker 1: motion to and shift too, there's no perfect quality get

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Speaker 1: whoever's on him got to play fundamentally sound. Gotta understand

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Speaker 1: the routes you're gonna get from the places he's aligned

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Speaker 1: and um get your eyes in the right place and

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Speaker 1: play fast and make sense and thoms connecting gun the

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Speaker 1: fight per sea. Yeah, no, a guy. That's I think

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Speaker 1: that's an unbelievable number, and I think the other numbers

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Speaker 1: completion percentage, you know in the National Football League, that's

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty rare and special thing. Um. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think one is the timing. I think the quarterback gets

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Speaker 1: the ball vertically down the field, which they will do

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Speaker 1: at times, but it's about precision and timing. Guy that's

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Speaker 1: a great route runner, guy that has really strong hands

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Speaker 1: at the point of catch, and a quarterback that that

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Speaker 1: puts it puts it in there so we can't catch it.

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Speaker 1: Offense pretty confused in the first half. It looks like

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Speaker 1: when they started to move the ball. How encouraging was

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Speaker 1: it that your defense courses those two turnovers, you know,

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Speaker 1: as as Houston really is gaining Yeah, yeah, uh. One

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Speaker 1: thing I love about this group is that we're we're

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Speaker 1: kind of starting to work ourselves into one play mentality

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Speaker 1: is a defense and whether you get of up a player,

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Speaker 1: you make a great play, that cannot determine the success

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Speaker 1: or failure of the next play. Every play is independent

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Speaker 1: of itself. And if we do that for sixty minutes

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we'll have a chance

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Speaker 1: to play play good defense at the end of the game.

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Speaker 1: And I think we're starting to build that confidence and

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Speaker 1: that identity in the room. And Um, I think putting

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Speaker 1: a defense together is is a process. And when there's

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Speaker 1: new guys in the system, with a new system, with

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Speaker 1: some guys that haven't played a lot of snaps, Um,

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Speaker 1: those guys are all growing out on the field. And UM,

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Speaker 1: it's just like both the two minute scenarios during the game.

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Speaker 1: We have to play better in those scenarios. But to

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Speaker 1: play better sometimes we need to be in those scenarios

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Speaker 1: where we gotta go out and get a stop and

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Speaker 1: got to be stressed out and have to communicate when

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Speaker 1: it's going fast and have to get aligned. I have

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Speaker 1: to know when we can play more off or when

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Speaker 1: we can play when we need to challenge receivers more.

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Speaker 1: And um, because you can meet on that, you can

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Speaker 1: talk about it in the meeting room, and you can

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Speaker 1: coach it, and you can go out and walk it

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Speaker 1: through and all that stuff. But when things are really

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Speaker 1: happening on Sundays, that that's when you kind of start

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Speaker 1: to build your resume. Is a defense and uh, I

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Speaker 1: really like the direction our guys are going with that

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Speaker 1: and help from you know, offense in the sense of

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Speaker 1: ball control, scoring points there after. Yeah, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: The only thing we worry about is on the defensive

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Speaker 1: get some three and outs, We gotta we gotta create

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Speaker 1: some turnover some you know, we we do not. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter where the ball is put down on the field,

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the score is in the game, whether

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Speaker 1: you're up three down three. In my mind, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter we play. You know. It's kind of that identity

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Speaker 1: I was talking about that we've been working to build

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Speaker 1: is a defense. It's one play at the time and

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Speaker 1: nothing else matters. We don't judge how did look? Sorry,

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Speaker 1: how did you look yesterday? And what does he give

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Speaker 1: you with me come back this? Yeah, I think Ovi's

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Speaker 1: you know, trending. And then we'll see at the end

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Speaker 1: of the week where he's at. You know, Kurch Coach

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Speaker 1: Schremer always answered questions about injuries. Um, but I I

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Speaker 1: think you know, you're talking about a very special player

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Speaker 1: playing on the edge and would love to have him.

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Speaker 1: And when we do end up getting him back, that's

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Speaker 1: this week or in the future, we'll be excited to

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