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Speaker 1: All right, good morning.

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Speaker 2: You know said this last night, obviously disappointed in our

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Speaker 2: performance overall. You know, we just got to play better.

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Speaker 2: We got to coach better. We you know, we gotta

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Speaker 2: win a turnover battle. We gotta do a better job

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Speaker 2: with penalties. Early in the game, had a lot of

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Speaker 2: penalties that just you know, nothing good comes from that.

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Speaker 1: I would say, sit in the second half, it kind

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Speaker 1: of settled.

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Speaker 2: Down as far as the penalties were concerned, but we

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Speaker 2: just can't play that way. Defensively, I would say it

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Speaker 2: just big plays. Big plays killed us. You know, they

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Speaker 2: had two runs that you know, we're over fifty yards.

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Speaker 2: You take those away and it looks a lot better.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, like that's what the NFL is.

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Speaker 2: You got to limit those big plays and then offensively

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Speaker 2: we have to make big plays. I thought yesterday overall,

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Speaker 2: Drake did a good job with his reads and getting

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Speaker 2: the ball out.

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Speaker 1: Was it perfect?

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Speaker 2: No, Will he get better, absolutely, but we got to

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Speaker 2: do a better job, you know, supporting you know, a

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Speaker 2: rookie quarterback. Yesterday, the run game, something that we've been

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Speaker 2: good at for the majority of the year, was not existent,

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Speaker 2: and we just got to get back to the.

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Speaker 3: Basics and what that will open up for questions. We'll

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Speaker 3: start with Christopher Gasper, followed by Doug Kaye. Chris christ

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Speaker 3: can hear.

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Speaker 4: Christopher Price is here now? I don't know if Christopher

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Speaker 4: Gasper's here. Oh jeez, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: That's my fault, Chris Price.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, Thank you, Stacy. I appreciate that Girod's specific to

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Speaker 4: Drake's performance. I'm curious to get your opinion on what

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Speaker 4: you might have seen from him after rewatch of the game,

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Speaker 4: what you might not necessarily been cognizant of or aware

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Speaker 4: of in the immediate aftermath of Sunday's contest.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we knew he could make plays with his legs.

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Speaker 2: We knew he had a good arm and can really

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Speaker 2: push the ball down the field. I would say the

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Speaker 2: thing that was a pleasant surprise. He did take some

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Speaker 2: shots yesterday. I think there were one two where he

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Speaker 2: got up a little bit slow. But just his overall

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Speaker 2: toughness I think was on display yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Good morning. Draw questions for you, Uh, what made Ben

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Speaker 5: Brown uh the right guy to start at center in

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Speaker 5: that game yesterday? And then also how do you feel

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Speaker 5: like he performed?

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Speaker 1: Look, this is one of those things.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen it before, a guy being able to

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Speaker 2: come in here, you know, after four or five days

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Speaker 2: and become a starting center. So he did a great job,

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Speaker 2: I would I would say he probably was our best

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Speaker 2: lineman uh yesterday and he did a good job for us.

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Speaker 1: He did a good job all.

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Speaker 2: Through the week during practice uh, and then went out

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Speaker 2: there and performed for the.

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Speaker 5: Work y quick one on Joe Cardona, I think he

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Speaker 5: was listening with a calf injury on the injury report,

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Speaker 5: but then I think I was updated to a personal reason.

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Speaker 5: Just want to get some clarification on why Cardona missed

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Speaker 5: the game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to talk about the exact incident.

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Speaker 2: He had a family matter that he needed to attend to,

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Speaker 2: and we allowed that to happen.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Next question, Mike Greese, and hold for good second. Guys,

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Speaker 3: there's some background noise. I'm gonna viewe all lines and

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Speaker 3: then we'll come back on. We'll try that again. Mike

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Speaker 6: You mentioned the two runs over fifty yards when you

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Speaker 6: went back to watch them on the tape. What did

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Speaker 6: you see that contributed to allowing those runs?

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Speaker 2: Poor run fits, poor tackling, and then we couldn't catch them.

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Speaker 6: And in a game situation question that worked out for

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Speaker 6: you at the end of the second quarter on the

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Speaker 6: illegal shift penalty, when you I think you didn't decline

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Speaker 1: We declined.

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Speaker 2: We declined it because it was a seven yard We

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Speaker 2: thought those two yards would be beneficial if we had

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Speaker 2: to kick the ball.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha.

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Speaker 6: I just wanted to follow up on that, and they

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Speaker 6: end up missing the field, right, Yes, got it?

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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, Mark Daniels, Steel Adrian, good morning.

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Speaker 7: But some shuffling going on with your receiver s depth

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Speaker 7: chart of late I mean Taekwon Thornton healthy, scratch kJ

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Speaker 7: Osbourne didn't play any snaps and obviously Kishon Boody played

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Speaker 1: I just wondering if you could sort of, you.

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Speaker 7: Know, tell us, you know what what's going on to

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Speaker 7: some of the shuffling and changes over the first six

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Speaker 7: weeks off with your receiver group.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you could put it on. It's the same thing

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Speaker 1: that we're going through with the offensive line.

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, when I look at the film,

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Speaker 2: it's Boody, it's Pop, it's Osbourne, and we need the

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Speaker 2: rest of those guys to step up and make puss.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, you steel more than Girod. I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry sorry that I'm at born. That's a born, Sorry

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Speaker 1: you said Osborne. I'm I'm at boorn, sorry about that.

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Speaker 8: To clear it up, you need everyone else to step up, Yeah, gotcha.

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Speaker 8: Talking to Pop Douglas in the locker room yesterday, kind

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Speaker 8: of to the point about the receivers, Pop mentioned that

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Speaker 8: he understands that the offense is young and that they

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Speaker 8: all need.

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Speaker 1: To grow together, so to speak.

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Speaker 8: Is that something that you the coaching staff are cognizant of.

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Speaker 8: And what's it like to just hear from a player

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Speaker 8: taking kind of accountability looking around the room and you know,

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Speaker 8: taking those steps together as a group.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen have you seen that before? Maybe in

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Speaker 1: your career.

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Speaker 2: Look, you want to go out there and be able

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Speaker 2: to play, you know what a certain set of guys

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Speaker 2: for the season. Obviously, through injuries and things like that,

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Speaker 2: stuff pops up. That's why I always preach to you know,

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Speaker 2: the starter. But I understand you know, whether we're talking

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Speaker 2: have that level of being comfortable with the guys out

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Speaker 2: there with you, and you know, we gotta we got

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Speaker 2: to study this ship at some point in time, whether

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Speaker 2: we're talking about the offensive line or the receivers, but

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Speaker 2: we definitely need to settle the ship.

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Speaker 1: And you know, having Drake out there, but you can

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Speaker 1: throw him in the same bucket.

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Speaker 2: You know, he needs to get on the same page

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Speaker 2: as the receivers, the tight ends and the backs, and

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Speaker 2: that comes to just playing playing alongside each other.

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Speaker 5: Next question, Doug Kaine, do you have any update on

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Speaker 5: the severity of Vederian Lowe's injury talking about the offensive one.

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Speaker 1: He's supposed to get an MRA this morning.

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Speaker 5: So how do you feel like obviously Zach Thomas hasn't

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Speaker 5: played a lot of tackle for you guys, I think

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Speaker 5: we've seen him in guard and practice. How do you

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Speaker 5: feel like he was able to go in there and perform?

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Speaker 1: You know, I would say there were some ups and

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Speaker 2: Once again, just like you said, he hasn't done it

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Speaker 2: a lot for us, but just being ready on the

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Speaker 2: I think he did okay.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, Thanks Sophie, rolland followed by Mike Greese.

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Speaker 9: Hi Gerrod, I wanted to ask you were very critical

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Speaker 9: of the defense last night, now that you've had some time,

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Speaker 9: was specifically was kind of the biggest issue last night?

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Speaker 2: Did you see one thing I would say is, you know,

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Speaker 2: the turnovers and the field position they were put in

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Speaker 2: some tough situations. I would say our red area defense

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Speaker 2: was poor. And then really just a big place after that, your.

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Speaker 3: Final questions Mike Grease and the Quotterina.

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Speaker 6: They gave you opportunity to return quite a few picks. Gerrod,

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Speaker 6: I wanted to get your thoughts on what you do.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if you get the chance to watch

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Speaker 6: a special teams tape, but how did you feel like

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Speaker 6: you guys handled that? And was that something that was

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Speaker 6: a surprise that.

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Speaker 2: I always watch all the film Offensive Defense and Special Teams,

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Speaker 2: and I would say, that's just Houston saying, look, we're

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Speaker 2: tougher than you guys. That's that's the that's the reality

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Speaker 2: of the situation. If they kick it like that, they're saying,

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Speaker 2: all right, you're not going to get past it. You're

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Speaker 2: not going to get past the thirty yard line. And

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Speaker 2: we just didn't show up in that in that phase

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Speaker 3: Last question to Code ring.

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Speaker 8: Drod, just wondering what you've seen from Jalen Polk early

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Speaker 8: struggles he's had early on.

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Speaker 2: I think he just, you know, he needs to get

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Speaker 2: over this mental hump. You know, you got to you

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Speaker 2: got to eliminate the drop passes. You got to be

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Speaker 2: better blocking, which he did a great job in college

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Speaker 1: At times throughout the season. He just has to continue

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Speaker 1: to grow.

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Speaker 2: He has to work harder, he has to pay more

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Speaker 2: attention to the details, and we fully expect him to

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Speaker 2: grow into a receiver that's dependable on the run and pass.

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Speaker 1: NOWS think it makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Jod