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Speaker 1: Hey, well, what would you say with the primary emotion

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Speaker 1: in the offensive line room this week with an anger frustration? Uh,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Thomas was telling us their coaches obviously they pretty

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Speaker 1: pretty honest with you guys, and they called you out

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Speaker 1: a little bit for the Rent game. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: of course, you know, anybody who put that um that

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Speaker 1: And we definitely learned from it. We had an attitude

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Speaker 1: of we're gonna practice hard and we're going to show

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Speaker 1: it on the next opportunity we get, which is a Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I have a question regarding the communication at the different

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Speaker 1: levels of offensive line play. Obviously, you know you've got

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Speaker 1: three new guys. You've got, you know, a new center

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Speaker 1: to one side, a new tackle to your other side.

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Speaker 1: It's the communication become any different when you're blocking at

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Speaker 1: the point of attack versus stay at that second level.

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Speaker 1: And do you think, you know, maybe that might have

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Speaker 1: been some of the reason why there were some issues

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Speaker 1: between you guys. No, I mean, we got five guys

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Speaker 1: on an offensive line that all are capable and all

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Speaker 1: are willing to make the calls and have the calls down.

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Speaker 1: Everybody has it down. You know, it's just a matter

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Speaker 1: of coming out, going out and doing your job and

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Speaker 1: everybody doing it, not only not only just doing your job,

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Speaker 1: of doing at a high level. And that's something that

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Speaker 1: we all need to to step up for sure, including

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Speaker 1: myself starting with me, and go out there and just

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Speaker 1: be in sync. And what about in terms of your technique.

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Speaker 1: I know you're very self critical of yourself. You're always

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Speaker 1: looking to get better. You know, did you feel that

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Speaker 1: your technique was consistent throughout this game? Yeah? I mean

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Speaker 1: anytime you come out and uh, you know, there's always

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Speaker 1: gonna be good and bad and good. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I think that it can always get more consistent. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about for me and for everybody on the team specifically,

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Speaker 1: you know, everybody. You know, everybody can get better at something.

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Speaker 1: We know even if the perfect game doesn't exist, you know,

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Speaker 1: So the answer to that will always be yes, it could.

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Speaker 1: It could definitely be more consistent. Hey, well, what are

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Speaker 1: the challenges of working with the new center? Like, what

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Speaker 1: did you what did you find to be the case?

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Speaker 1: I mean, Nick, he really hasn't played center much in

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Speaker 1: his career at all, So are there ways that you

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Speaker 1: can help him with calls and stuff like that. I'm

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Speaker 1: just curious how that how that goes during the game. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Neix's awesome. Man, You're talking about somebody that can do

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Speaker 1: it all from tackle to guard a center. He's definitely

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Speaker 1: a guy that you know, has put in there for

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Speaker 1: a reason. He's not there to see if he can

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Speaker 1: do it, but because he can do what he's there

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Speaker 1: and so he definitely, you know, knows how to direct

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Speaker 1: the huddle, helps us out, helps the tackles out, and

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Speaker 1: he definitely takes charge and he handles the huddle and

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Speaker 1: the play calling very well. Was there a lot of

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Speaker 1: calls at the line of scrimmage during that gave me?

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Speaker 1: And I know the Steelers like to bring a lot

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Speaker 1: of different looks and bring guys from different areas. So

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Speaker 1: what was that like during the game? Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: every game you have a lot of calls, and and

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Speaker 1: every play you're making calls. Um, Yes, there is a

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Speaker 1: lot of calls that are made. They were made right,

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Speaker 1: they were made you know, properly when they needed to be.

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Speaker 1: Now it's all the matter of executing them, you know,

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Speaker 1: and executing them more consistently. That's exactly what what we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do this Sunday has taken a lot of heat

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Speaker 1: publicly this week. What what do you make of that?

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Speaker 1: You know the fact that he's coming off that game

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Speaker 1: I mean everybody always is gonna have something to say,

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Speaker 1: you know. And I'm not worried about Quan because you know,

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Speaker 1: he's mentally tough. You know, he doesn't let that kind

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Speaker 1: exactly the first time he's he's gotten heat. UM, So

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not I'm not worried about s Kuan.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's mentally focused, he's mentally tough, and you

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Speaker 1: know he's all I know he's gonna do with all

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Speaker 1: that is. He's gonna use his motivation and it's just

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Speaker 1: it on. Uh. Coach talks a lot about um, you know,

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Speaker 1: A lot of coaches talk about that too. What if

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Speaker 1: you've seen this week that makes you makes you optimistic

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Speaker 1: that that's actually going to happen. Just attitude and everybody's eye, Uh,

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Speaker 1: the look in everybody's eyes during practice, every day, Um,

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Speaker 1: the past three practices that we've had since our last game.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's just it's just the difference in energy.

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Speaker 1: Guys coming out there doing specifically what they need to do,

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Speaker 1: paying attention to small the smallest details, um, and just

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Speaker 1: all this you know, with all this purpose, and you

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Speaker 1: know it's all all that's gonna happen is you practice

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Speaker 1: how you play, and all it's gonna do is we're

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Speaker 1: gonna carry it over to Sunday. That's it. Do you

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Speaker 1: think those attitudes came from Monday night's performance? I mean,

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Speaker 1: was there a little embarrassment from from what happened? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're always motivated by by as nobody likes to lose,

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Speaker 1: you know, so exactly that's what. That's not only that,

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Speaker 1: but I mean we're already we're already motivated as it is.

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Speaker 1: Now you get something like that that happens, of course

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Speaker 1: we're gonna come out even more with a chip on

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Speaker 1: our shoulder. You know, that's not us. That's not what

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Speaker 1: what we want to put out there. So of course

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Speaker 1: it motivates us. And you know, we're more motivated than

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Speaker 1: every No, there's some degree of credit where credit is

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Speaker 1: due to write like, I don't know that you'll face

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Speaker 1: better Front seven's all year than the Steelers Bears and

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Speaker 1: next week the forty niners. Do you like that the

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Speaker 1: idea that you face the very best from the start

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Speaker 1: or is it better for a for an offensive line

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Speaker 1: that's new to playing together to be like eased into

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Speaker 1: the situation. Give us the best, give us the best.

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Speaker 1: We want to play against the best. We want to

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Speaker 1: be challenged. We didn't come out here to you know,

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Speaker 1: want to play the best guys. You don't go out

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Speaker 1: there matchup and you know, um kill it. You know,

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Speaker 1: as an offensive line altogether, you know, we're not dugging

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Speaker 1: from anybody. We're not watching who we're playing this week

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Speaker 1: and not next week. You know we're bringing on whoever

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