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Speaker 1: After looking at the film of that game yesterday, you know,

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Speaker 1: guys not playing one hundred percent, about guys playing soft.

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Speaker 2: What did you see when you looked at it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, some guys said stuff out there. We got together

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Speaker 3: as a team, we watched most of the tape. I

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Speaker 3: don't think that's necessarily the case. I don't think guys

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Speaker 3: are out there soft. I don't think it's in anybody

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Speaker 3: in this building's DNA to play soft. I think there

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Speaker 3: was a strong lack of execution in certain areas, and

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Speaker 3: especially early on in the game. Speaking offensively, we kind

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Speaker 3: of we only ran seventeen plays in the first half,

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Speaker 3: and that's because we couldn't stay on the field, and

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Speaker 3: the execution i'd say was soft all day across the board.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it was for a lack of toughness

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Speaker 3: or physicality. I think guys coming here work hard and strain,

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Speaker 3: and to say that we played off I don't think

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Speaker 3: is necessarily true. I think there was just a huge

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Speaker 3: lack of execution translating over to the games on Sundays, and.

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Speaker 1: Jermaine got hurt obviously and was watching and he's one

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Speaker 1: of the players after the game, He's the one players

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Speaker 1: that he when he was watching he saw some players

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Speaker 1: not giving one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: Did you speak to him about that?

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Speaker 3: No, we haven't really spoken about that. He's kind of

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Speaker 3: been in and out. He's dealing with his with his injury,

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Speaker 3: he's got going on. From him looking on the sideline,

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Speaker 3: I don't necessarily know exactly what he saw. Haven't talked

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Speaker 3: to him yet about it. But I really disagree. I

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Speaker 3: think the guys out there are playing hard. They're given

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Speaker 3: everything they can out there. I mean, this is this

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Speaker 3: is our jobs. We get paid to do that. So

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Speaker 3: I don't think anybody's going out there with the soft mentality.

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Speaker 3: I think just the translation and the execution moving over

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Speaker 3: from the week and the preparation over to Sundays. What's

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Speaker 3: missing and uh, for whatever reason, we're trying to figure

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Speaker 3: do that for a couple of weeks now. So you're

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Speaker 3: going to keep chipping away how to figure and figure

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Yeah, Rock, John, you mentioned you know, it's been

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Speaker 4: We keep hearing the same message post game from from

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Speaker 4: a lot of the leaders on offense and defense, Why

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Speaker 4: do you think that that's not reaching the target audience?

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Speaker 4: You know, are is there a leadership void or is

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Speaker 5: Uh? Just the message and what exactly where you're referring to? Sorry, Well,

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Speaker 4: Of the guys on defense, you know, you hear about

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Speaker 4: execution and and getting the details down right.

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Speaker 2: So that's that's what seems to.

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Speaker 4: Be frustrating a lot of the leaders on this team

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Speaker 4: when they talk about what's going wrong? So why is

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Speaker 4: that not being fixed by the people who are following

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a tough question. Honestly, it's a

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Speaker 3: really good question. Leaders on this team try to set

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Speaker 5: The position rooms.

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Speaker 3: And for I mean, I'm not trying to call anybody out,

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Speaker 3: the detail isn't there. And whether that is on offense

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Speaker 3: try to take care of our own house, especially on

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Speaker 3: and I feel like everybody has to, you know, take

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Speaker 3: you know, the offensive defensive unit, and like, like you said,

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Speaker 3: those those details lack of execution kind of our it's

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Speaker 5: It's kind of something we've we've really been.

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Speaker 3: Trying to figure out for this past month plus and uh,

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Speaker 3: It's a really young core with a really good core

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Speaker 3: no quit in this team I have.

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Speaker 2: I have another another deep one on the same on

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Speaker 4: Though you've been around football teams your whole life, you

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Speaker 4: know some of some of the best teams, best coaches too.

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Speaker 4: What what do you think about this coaching staff and

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Speaker 4: and it's message is that are they still telling the

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Speaker 3: No, Yeah, we've had the same consistent message all year

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Speaker 3: and guys have bought in, guys believe in the scheme.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's necessarily the coaching message. There's the

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Speaker 3: end of the day, when it gets down to the day,

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Speaker 3: we're the ones out in the field and coaches are

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Speaker 3: the ones that are called in the place, and that

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Speaker 3: they try to do their best to put us in

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Speaker 3: it's the wrong call whatever. But then sometimes some guy

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Speaker 3: makes the play and makes a wrong call right, and

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Speaker 3: same thing goes for you know, being a player, you

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Speaker 3: could have the perfect play call set up for a

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Speaker 3: it looks like a bad play call. So I mean,

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Speaker 3: everything is give and take in this game, and UH

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Speaker 3: just got to do your best in preparation making sure

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Speaker 3: the things gets right.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, JOm, we'll take two more.

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Speaker 6: Mark Cannatho, Hey, John, thanks for doing this for the time.

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Speaker 6: I'm just curious, as these losses mount and obviously frustration

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Speaker 6: radar up about whether you know you know, day balls,

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Speaker 6: losing the locker room, guys are ticked off, that kind

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Speaker 6: of thing. How would you, as a guy who's in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the the energy leading up to these past couple

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Speaker 3: of weeks has always been good, whether it's in the locker,

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Speaker 3: it's been good. Guys, Uh, hanging out in the locker

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Speaker 3: you know, coming in here this morning, turning around on

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Speaker 3: everybody feels like we were embarrassed, and we spoke to

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Speaker 3: the feeling. And guys are in here that they're frustrated,

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Speaker 3: in about three days now, so there's not much time

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Speaker 3: left to dwell in that. Just about now we've got

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Speaker 3: to start moving on. Uh, got to go to Dallas,

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Speaker 3: and I mean that's go down bad. I mean, coming

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Speaker 3: off you know this, this loss is really bad loss,

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Speaker 3: and trying to flush that as best we can and

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Speaker 3: move on to Dallas and playing pretty much primetime game

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Speaker 3: on Thanksgiving Holiday. It doesn't get much better than that.

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Speaker 3: Try to get a win and feel good about yourself

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Speaker 3: going in this little mini bye week after that.

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Speaker 2: Thanks ya last one.

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Speaker 7: Art Stapleton, Hey John, thanks for doing I appreciate it.

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Speaker 7: Hi aright, Uh, just in terms of you know, you

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Speaker 7: struck me in the conversations we've had. You know, you're

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Speaker 7: pretty in tune with the sport. You've been a part

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Speaker 7: of a lot of different teams. You know, sometimes on

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Speaker 7: the outside people expect yelling and screaming, and that's how

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Speaker 7: people will get you know, in touch and get through

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Speaker 7: the teammates or coaches get through the players. But is

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Speaker 7: this a situation just listening to what you're saying where

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Speaker 7: it's almost like the honesty needs to be focused on

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Speaker 7: what guys aren't doing and what plays are not clicking

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Speaker 7: or the fundamentals aren't working, because it just seems like

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Speaker 7: you guys are focused and you're focused on, you know,

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Speaker 7: doing the right thing, but then on game day, for

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Speaker 7: whatever reason, those details are not carrying over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's well said. That's really the kind of sense

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Speaker 3: I get with this team. Everybody is attentive, locked in

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Speaker 3: the practice time we have, and just your independent study

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Speaker 3: that's what we're missing right now. We like I said, again,

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Speaker 3: we've been searching really long for how do we get

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Speaker 3: each other. But that's that has not been the message.

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Speaker 3: Everybody in this locker room knows, and you know, things

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Speaker 3: get like this, it's time to come even closer together

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Speaker 3: because more separated come the worst things get a lot

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Speaker 5: But I don't sense that in this locker room at all.

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Speaker 3: I feel like guys are still really into it, really

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Speaker 3: connected and trying to figure out how they get these

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Speaker 3: results on Sunday. No nobody in this locker room is

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Speaker 3: happy with how the season's gone. I mean, we all

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Speaker 3: We enjoyed and we we want to win at the

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Speaker 3: It hurts us just as much as it hurts all

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Speaker 3: but like I said, there's no quickness tame. We're doing

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