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Speaker 1: Right back here on OMF it is Patriot, it's Monday.

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Speaker 1: We're live down here at Julette. Statement's time for us

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Speaker 1: to talk to the coach. Are you doing Bill? Congratulations? Thanks, yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Always always good to get that first one.

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Speaker 1: Sure is right out of the gate. You never know

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna get on that first one, I would

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Speaker 1: think him. Yeah, Well, there were some unusual situations in

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Speaker 1: the game, ended up with some good situational football, and

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Speaker 1: they threw's some things out us that we hadn't seen

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Speaker 1: and had to make some adjustments too. So, um, that

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Speaker 1: was a good you a good experience in the opening

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Speaker 1: game for all of us. So, Deshaun Watson, the first

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Speaker 1: time you guys saw him, had an unbelievable game. Um,

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Speaker 1: obviously coming back off the injury. Were you surprised, Um,

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Speaker 1: he looked a little nervous, maybe be a little skittish

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Speaker 1: at times. We did you were you were you surprised

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Speaker 1: to see that? How easily? Not easily, but how you

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Speaker 1: guys were able to corral him for the most part. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he's a hard guy to handle. You know. He made

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Speaker 1: a made a good play on the third and short scramble. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've we've seen him in preseason on a

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Speaker 1: few plays. I think he's back to full strength. I

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Speaker 1: just think we put a lout of emphasis and trying

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Speaker 1: to contain him and you know, his stuff got to

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Speaker 1: handle it. I think he'll have his place before it's over.

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Speaker 1: You know, Bill, in years past, it almost seems that

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Speaker 1: guys like that to get out of the pocket. It

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Speaker 1: almost seems like you're just looking to contain him and

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Speaker 1: keep him there. But you guys put a lot of

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Speaker 1: pressure on him as well, and without blitzing at all.

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Speaker 1: Was it part of it? Was it just winning one

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Speaker 1: on one battles, no blitz in your front four. You're

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Speaker 1: surprised how much pressure they put. Uh, yeah, that's what

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Speaker 1: you know. You always try to do. You always try

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Speaker 1: to put pressure on him and keep him contained. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: that's a little easier said than done, but m yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what we tried to do, and I thought we

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Speaker 1: you don't want to just let him stand back there

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Speaker 1: and not run. You're gonna you want to force the issue,

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Speaker 1: but still not let him run. You know a big

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Speaker 1: part of that, it seems like, um the interior defensive

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Speaker 1: linemen how important there there. I guess their pushes and

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Speaker 1: you know, being sound in that area. Seemed like they

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Speaker 1: got a good push and then the guys on the

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Speaker 1: defensive tackles kind of get overlooked when it comes to

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Speaker 1: rushing the past. I may not get there, but it

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Speaker 1: seemed like those guys who are affecting the play right,

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Speaker 1: No question, You've got to have both components of that.

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Speaker 1: If if the defensive the inside players don't get into

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Speaker 1: the pocket, then the quarterback steps up and there's space.

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Speaker 1: And if they outside guys run passed and that great

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Speaker 1: space too. So essentially you have six gaps with five

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Speaker 1: linemen right, and so you have four rushers and six

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Speaker 1: gaps to cover, so you can't get them all covered.

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Speaker 1: Um So you just have to be able to try

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Speaker 1: much space in the gap that you don't have covered

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Speaker 1: and don't keep a guy like that from running picking

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Speaker 1: up it easy first down. You know in the past

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Speaker 1: with with um mobile quarterbacks that can run, sometimes it

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Speaker 1: looks like you guys, you know, have a good blitz

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Speaker 1: package that that's specific to that guy, and sometimes you

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Speaker 1: just rush three, rush for and you play coverage. Was

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Speaker 1: there anything that you saw with Watson maybe in the past,

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Speaker 1: from the last time you guys played him that decided Okay, listen,

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna rush four and we're not gonna blitz

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Speaker 1: as much. Well, I think we did a little bit

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Speaker 1: O'Brien the same look on every single play? So we

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Speaker 1: but we we did a lot of that. We certainly

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Speaker 1: other side. Um, you spent a lot of time this

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Speaker 1: Better than what you thought you were going to get,

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Speaker 1: They're hard to block. They did a lot of good players,

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Speaker 1: pretty well. So Trent did a good job, Marks did

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Speaker 1: for you for going up against a guy like Romeo,

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Speaker 1: someone you've known for so long respect him. Is it

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Speaker 1: he knows you as well? Is that a different type

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Speaker 1: that's that's a different story. But he's hard to go

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Speaker 1: up against because you don't he'll change from week to

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Speaker 1: some of their coverage. So it's it's always a challenge

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Speaker 1: at Runny as one of the best defensive coordinators in

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Speaker 1: Billy O'Brien's taking some beeat in Houston for not calling

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Speaker 1: New York initially with the Gronk catch. And we were

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Speaker 1: talking about this earlier when you had the process the

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Speaker 1: way it works now, Bill, in the old days I

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Speaker 1: you guys smartly came right up to the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: while before they do it. Well, in that particular case,

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Speaker 1: be looking at multiple games as opposed to we're an

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Speaker 1: official could decide they want to look at it again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well you'd have to talk to the officially in department

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Speaker 1: you can't throw the Challenge flat challenge flag inside two minutes.

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Speaker 1: If you do, it's a penalty. UM. I can easily

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Speaker 1: see you know, some coaches just you know, throwing it,

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Speaker 1: maybe just because they're emotional. Do you have somebody just

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't even want that thing near me, just in

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Speaker 1: So which is okay? I don't think it's too much,

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Speaker 1: there either kill it or run a play. I mean

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Speaker 1: But again I don't know what the mechanics are on that.

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Speaker 1: it looked at me so so so Bill, we look

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Speaker 1: at the draft. He's been some you know, unluck stuff

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Speaker 1: was as far as injuries go. But Joan Bentley, UM

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