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Speaker 1: look back at the catch of the year in the

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Speaker 2: The offensive line is coming together. What does that mean

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the latest edition of the Booth Review podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Brahm Weinstein with London Fletcher and Logan Paulson. Were

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Microsoft Surface Copilot Plus PC and

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Speaker 1: we are in the Big Bear AI Command Center studio

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Speaker 1: after a close one against one of the hottest teams

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, a twenty seven to twenty six loss

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Speaker 1: to the Denver Broncos last night in overtime, second straight

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Speaker 1: game that Washington played in overtime. We're going to go

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Speaker 1: through the defense. We're going to go through the offense.

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Speaker 1: But I do want to start with one thought here

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Speaker 1: because we were in the locker room last night and

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Speaker 1: it's down because they lost, but it was up because

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Speaker 1: of the way they played and the way they fought.

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Speaker 1: So let me just ask you, as former players, are

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Speaker 1: there silver lightings in football?

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Speaker 3: I believe so I think obviously you want to win

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Speaker 3: games you want. The ultimate goal is to win, but

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Speaker 3: I think it matters how you play and losses too,

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Speaker 3: Like how do you look at a loss?

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Speaker 4: Because do you look terrible?

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Speaker 3: There have been times this season where we've looked terrible

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Speaker 3: a lot of really really good things and and ultimately

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Speaker 3: take from that game and build on. So I guess

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Speaker 3: quote unquote silver lining yes in this situation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's funny to me like as a as

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Speaker 2: time where I was like, oh man, like we played

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Speaker 2: I've kind of stepped back and I coach high school football,

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Speaker 2: like I can field a little bit more right, the

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Speaker 2: benefit of like how you playing a loss?

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Speaker 5: Is there something to that?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Like did you play physically? Did you play all four quarters?

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Speaker 2: In this case five quarters? And I think when you

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Speaker 2: And I think as a player, I was too like

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Speaker 2: stepping back. I think you can feel the benefit of it,

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure it's something you felt in the locker

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like you felt the contributions across the board.

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Speaker 1: There were some amazing moments which we'll talk about. There

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Speaker 1: were returners that obviously had an impact on how the

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Speaker 1: totality of the team played, and there's been a change,

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Speaker 1: it very clear, very quickly. The result is meant to win, yes,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and there they'll get back. Like last night I

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Speaker 3: they're going to watch the film and they'll be like, man,

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Speaker 3: they're just play here, one play there, we do this,

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Speaker 3: So they'll be some disappointment today once they when they

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Speaker 3: But man, those guys play their their tails off. A

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think one of the one of the good

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Speaker 2: This coverage principle, Like we win this football game, and

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Speaker 2: I think that's gonna hurt a lot, but I think

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Speaker 2: in some ways that hurt is good because it means

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Speaker 2: They have been close. The last couple of weeks are

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Speaker 2: Like those games were tough. Man, Like, I remember coming

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Speaker 2: to your point, that is a major silver lining moving forward.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think like I've spent my career as

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Speaker 1: I think that that is important moving forward here. I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, all this discussion about who should play, who

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Speaker 1: last night they showed you what they're about. And I

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Speaker 1: It is. That's what I got at a last night. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Now, it's just an effort man, the ability to move

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Speaker 3: I mean, you look at you, No, we stall, We

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Speaker 4: I thought they did a great job.

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Speaker 3: But a lot of stuff to build on, and hopefully

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Speaker 3: we'll get more guys healthy. Still Jaden still hoping that

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Speaker 2: But to your point, I think when you look at

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Speaker 2: But does is there a role for him and that

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Speaker 2: And is it helping the defense get better?

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Speaker 2: And so it's interesting, like thinking about all the offensive

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Speaker 1: The breakdown on the big plays was not occurring last night.

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Speaker 1: I think we've seen that adjustment. Hears is a couple

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a big difference what Deq calling the defenses,

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Speaker 3: Maybe they're doing some different things, just maybe they pair

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Speaker 3: think that's kind of his philosophy. Keep everything in front

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Speaker 1: The last couple of weeks to the red zone, defensive

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Speaker 5: But I'm not saying we should.

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Speaker 2: not capitalized on those vinments. And so to be again,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Panis stands out in the discussion that you're having,

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Speaker 2: And so again, like when you look at that play,

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Speaker 2: it's to me, it's just good defense. Right, there's a

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Speaker 2: He knows where the dig is, he's trying to rip

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna And again.

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Speaker 2: This is going back to what we were just talking about.

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Speaker 2: Do your job, get to your depth, get to your spot.

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Speaker 2: And does Bobby do anything tremendous other than be in

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Speaker 2: the right position where he's supposed to be in the coverage. No,

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Speaker 2: but you got to catch football. And I think those

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Speaker 3: So I was thinking about this before.

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Speaker 3: Play calling is a it's a science and an art

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Speaker 3: For the scientific part of it is, hey, we're gonna

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Speaker 4: Use his creativity.

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Speaker 3: If hey, when I want to dial up this pressure,

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Speaker 3: artistry part of d Q and making adjustments. Say it

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Speaker 2: It just and it just gives a moment of pause

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Speaker 2: And it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, Fletch,

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Speaker 3: they've hit me with a couple of slats in this

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Speaker 1: But whether they.

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Speaker 3: Whether they made this a crect adjustment on the sideline

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Speaker 3: like that is just those are the levels of playing

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Speaker 2: And FLTZ like I got a question I got for you,

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Speaker 2: You think just like you got.

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Speaker 3: You got different guys playing at the cornerback position now too,

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Speaker 3: You're not gonna take chances with all, You're gonna you're

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Speaker 3: gonna do it the way the coach wants you to

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Speaker 2: The way Cliff is calling the game. The number of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say this from a the yarns could have

438
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Speaker 3: been significantly less yesterday, and we play a couple of

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Speaker 3: those third downs a little bit better. I'm the one

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Speaker 3: the touchdown, I believe right before they have Yeah, they

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Speaker 3: converted three third downs yes on that play two minute

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Speaker 3: drive right if a memory started to me correctly, and

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Speaker 3: you know, we had opportunities good calls. Again, I talked

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Speaker 3: about maybe just dropping a hair tooo too deep on

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Speaker 3: his own coverage. One thing I noticed sometimes and and

446
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Speaker 3: this is just when when you're playing zone defense a

447
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Speaker 3: lot of times and maybe getting a little too technical

448
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Speaker 3: when the quarterback sets, you want to be set as

449
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Speaker 3: a defender, especially underneath the fender, because now you figure

450
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Speaker 3: he's about to throw that football, you want to be

451
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Speaker 3: at a plant drive, break on the ball, whatever if

452
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Speaker 3: he's if he's set and you're still kind of drifting

453
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Speaker 3: a little bit. Now when he throws, now you're gonna

454
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Speaker 3: have to gather, break down and go make a different

455
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Speaker 3: make a tackle. And that could be the difference between

456
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Speaker 3: stopping them a yard short or tackling them a yard

457
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Speaker 3: after they've already got the yard as they need to gain.

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Speaker 3: So there's still a couple of things that need to

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Speaker 3: be tuned up, and I'm sure they'll emphasize those things

460
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Speaker 3: in the met room and the practice fielding. We'll continue

461
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Speaker 3: to get better on defense.

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Speaker 1: So it was improving their offense is where this team

463
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Speaker 1: went all in the offseason. They acquired Laramie Tunsel, they

464
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Speaker 1: acquired Deebo Samuel for a bazillion different reasons, they have

465
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Speaker 1: not had this group on the field. They still didn't

466
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Speaker 1: even last night. They're waiting for their quarterback to come

467
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Speaker 1: back and play. But Terry mclaurin's return clearly makes a

468
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Speaker 1: massive difference in everybody's role on the team. And I

469
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Speaker 1: think you saw that in real time. This was the

470
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Speaker 1: first time he looked like himself the entire season.

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Speaker 3: Man, that that makes me think about that doctor Dre Song.

472
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Speaker 3: Y'all forgot about Drey. Y'all forgot about Terry Man. I

473
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Speaker 3: think the fan base and quite frankly a lot of

474
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Speaker 3: the media too, forgot how freaking good Terry McLaurin is

475
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Speaker 3: as a wide receiver. You realize he broke the franchise

476
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Speaker 3: at the franchise record and touchdown receptions last year.

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Speaker 4: He's been the ultimate pro.

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Speaker 3: He's put up numbers with Trash at the quarterback position

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Speaker 3: a lot of times. Just to be totally honest, when

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Speaker 3: you see a healthy Terry McLaurin, you saw he was

481
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Speaker 3: able to do. They got the Patrick's Sam raigning he

482
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Speaker 3: wanted defensive back last year. Yeah, you show how much

483
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Speaker 3: respect the Denver Broncos had against Terry his first game back.

484
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Speaker 3: They said, no, we're not gonna just let anybody come.

485
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Speaker 3: Patricks Twn you have him, and it was an absolute battle.

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Speaker 3: Brian Balddinger he did a breakdown where he shows those

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Speaker 3: guys battling Terry. He looked fast, competitive, his energy, being

488
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Speaker 3: able to win routes, gotta have it plays. He made

489
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Speaker 3: multiple plays like that in the ball game, so For

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Speaker 3: all you people that don't think Terry mccoin is a

491
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Speaker 3: number one receiver, you gotta be freaking kidding me. Did

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Speaker 3: you not watch that man last season? In this season,

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Speaker 3: he's I mean, and yesterday he showed while he's the

494
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Speaker 3: number one receiver and he showed what type of difference

495
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Speaker 3: maker he is on that football field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think it's like to your point, Fletch,

497
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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter like where ranks and the pantheon of

498
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Speaker 2: current wide receivers, like is he a top ten, fifteenth, whatever,

499
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Speaker 2: doesn't matter, but what he is for this team is significant.

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Speaker 2: And when you watch again, the confidence that the quarterback

501
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Speaker 2: has in him as a player right to be able

502
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Speaker 2: to rip a slant, tight windows slant right that maybe

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Speaker 2: my favorite throw of the day was that kind of

504
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Speaker 2: It was like a ten yard dig in the low

505
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Speaker 2: red where there's like a you know, Deebo's pull on

506
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Speaker 2: the Tampa two player.

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Speaker 1: Out he throws right in there.

508
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Speaker 2: Like those are timing, chemistry type throws that it takes

509
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Speaker 2: time to build that rapport with the quarterback, but you

510
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Speaker 2: can tell like his experience allows him to make some

511
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Speaker 2: of those plays. And then the other thing I think

512
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Speaker 2: is really important is like we talked about, We're gonna

513
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Speaker 2: talk about zach er Ittz more here in a second,

514
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Speaker 2: but Terry being in draws the Pats or ten matchups.

515
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Speaker 2: So then all of a sudden you get trailing Burke's

516
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Speaker 2: one one with Riley Moss for a goal line fade,

517
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Speaker 2: and then Deebo Samuel is on a safety and a

518
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Speaker 2: man and man situation running a speedout on first and

519
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Speaker 2: ten in a two minute drive, like because we've had

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Speaker 2: to allocate resources differently to cover people. And then all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, Whu Funga is now in a man

522
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Speaker 2: and man situation versus one of the best tight ends

523
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Speaker 2: in the history of the NFL future Hall of Famer

524
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Speaker 2: in zach ert it'z like, that's what it gives you,

525
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Speaker 2: gives you this cascading effect. So instead of being able

526
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Speaker 2: to be like, oh, Patzertan, you cover Traylon Burks, and

527
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Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, Raley Mosch You're covering zach Ertz,

528
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Speaker 2: And then think about how much more difficult the offense

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Speaker 2: would be here. It's like his addition just it slotted

530
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Speaker 2: everyone into the matchup that they should have had. And

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Speaker 2: I think that's the thing that I felt most significantly

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Speaker 2: in addition to the confidence they had, but that was

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Speaker 2: the thing that made the offense feel so alive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the versatility for Deebo Samuel is partially based on

535
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Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin being on the other side of the field.

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Speaker 1: It allows him the space to work. I think it's

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Speaker 1: hard for someone like Deebo Samuel to get the space

538
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Speaker 1: that they're looking for to make the plays with him

539
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Speaker 1: if the other side of the field is not accounted

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Speaker 1: for in the same way without McLaurin, Which is why again,

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Speaker 1: I think all of us want to see the glimpse

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Speaker 1: of the offense specifically that we thought we were going

543
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Speaker 1: to have in the summer down the stretch and you

544
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Speaker 1: started to see that Seventeen's a big, big, big part

545
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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, man.

547
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Speaker 2: But to me, like the bigger thing here, honestly is

548
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Speaker 2: like the way the offensive line has come together, like

549
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Speaker 2: quite honestly, Like again, Terry did a great job, Trailer

550
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Speaker 2: did a great job, Debo, great job.

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Speaker 5: Zach obviously had a huge day.

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Speaker 2: When you look at the offensive line, like everyone talks

553
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Speaker 2: about like what was promised to us right like you

554
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Speaker 2: were You're just making that reference like this is the

555
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 2: offensive was problem this offensive line, the way they've you know,

556
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 2: connected over the last three or four weeks since Cosme's

557
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 2: come in, Like, think about how effective they were run blocking.

558
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Speaker 2: Think about how effective they were in their nonverbal communication yesterday.

559
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Speaker 2: Think about how effective they were in pass protection. Right, Like,

560
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Speaker 2: this is supposed to be the best pass rushing defense

561
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Speaker 2: in the NFL, and I didn't really it is the best.

562
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Speaker 5: I didn't really feel.

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Speaker 2: I didn't really feel that way though, I think, you know,

564
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Speaker 2: that's what I'm like, Like they had a couple of pressures,

565
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Speaker 2: but it wasn't like, oh my god, yeah, Like think

566
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Speaker 2: about some of these games earlier this year where it

567
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Speaker 2: just feels like it's a it's a deluge of pass rush.

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 2: It didn't didn't feel that way like that, So I

570
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Speaker 2: think like that it's the group that I say, like,

571
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Speaker 2: if if Daniels comes back and that group's playing like this,

572
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 2: the one thing Jayden has a hard time with is

573
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Speaker 2: navigating tight pockets and pressure, and all of a sudden,

574
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Speaker 2: this group is playing lights out. Think about the playmaking prowess, yes,

575
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 2: that he will now bring. You've unlocked with him. So

576
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Speaker 2: to me, this is really exciting because that group's playing

577
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Speaker 2: so well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when you look at the office of line, Cosby's

579
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Speaker 3: healthier now, he's got his sea legs. I guess you

580
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Speaker 3: could say he's got them back. Connerley, he's had twelve

581
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Speaker 3: games under his belt now, so he's seeing a lot

582
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Speaker 3: of different dynamic rushers and things like that.

583
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Speaker 5: Expressive his improvement, Ben really, I mean, he's.

584
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Speaker 3: Him the provement Chris Paul coming in there, solidifying things,

585
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Speaker 3: continue to do a really nice job and larm me.

586
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Speaker 3: Tussin Man, we don't hear from him. We don't say

587
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 3: his name much because he's just exing people out like

588
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Speaker 3: there's they don't He doesn't give up pressures and you

589
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Speaker 3: see why they gave up what they gave to get him.

590
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Speaker 3: But when offense line is gone, they were physical at

591
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Speaker 3: the point of attack. I talked about, Hey, you have

592
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Speaker 3: to be the most physical team in his ball game

593
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Speaker 3: being I had a rust for one hundred and forty

594
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Speaker 3: three yards against that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, said Broncos defense.

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Speaker 1: There's and press. There's a couple of things that won.

597
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: Washington held the Broncos to a seventeen point nine percent

598
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Speaker 1: pressure rate. That's not just their lowest of the season,

599
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Speaker 1: it's their lowest since twenty twenty three. This is the

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Speaker 1: team that led the league in sacks coming into the

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Speaker 1: game with forty nine. I think that had won last night,

602
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: so they got up to fifty last night. Nick Benito

603
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: was erased numerous times by tunsel Jonathan Cooper, who's as

604
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Speaker 1: fast off the edge as anybody. Twenty six matchups against

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Speaker 1: Josh Connery, zero pressures. When I talked to Dan Quinn

606
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Speaker 1: late last week, he had said, we're going to be

607
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Speaker 1: patient with the run game, and we're aware because they

608
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Speaker 1: had the lowest yards per carry in the NFL coming

609
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Speaker 1: into the game that we're going to have to settle

610
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Speaker 1: for a bunch of short runs, but stick with it,

611
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Speaker 1: and we want to make plays in the pass play game.

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Speaker 1: I think if you ask him today to be honest,

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Speaker 1: did you did you run the ball better than you

614
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Speaker 1: thought you would? If he's being honest, I think he

615
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Speaker 1: would say yes, that the run game actually performed probably

616
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Speaker 1: above and beyond what they thought it was going to

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Speaker 1: be last night.

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Speaker 2: And I think the thing that was surprising to me

619
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Speaker 2: was a lot of that was from the runner. Like

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Speaker 2: I think the offensive line and the blocking serface did

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Speaker 2: a great job but some of those early explosives, like

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Speaker 2: they're creating pressure and there's a free runner to the

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Speaker 2: ball carrier and it's c rod great contact balance fighting

624
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 2: through something, or hey, we're running duo and you know

625
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 2: duo supposed to kind of go to that three man

626
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 2: service where you get those double teams. He's got great

627
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Speaker 2: vision and is scorting that out to the front side

628
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Speaker 2: of the run, which you very rarely see on BIO.

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Speaker 2: So I think he deserves a ton of credit for

630
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Speaker 2: a kind of maximizing money runs, utilizing a superpower in

631
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Speaker 2: terms of vision to keep the offense on schedule. And

632
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Speaker 2: then I want to just call attention to this because

633
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is the football nerdy part of me

634
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 2: is when you get first downs, you can run the

635
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Speaker 2: football more, right, So I think what they were they

636
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Speaker 2: were like fifty percent on third down or something like that. Crazy, yes,

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Speaker 2: and they can run a ton of plays, they get

638
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 2: guys a ton of touches, and so to me, the

639
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 2: story of the game and if this is what this

640
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 2: team wants to be going on long drive, you need

641
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Speaker 2: to execute on third down, and they found a way

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Speaker 2: to do that. I think zach Ertz was a huge

643
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Speaker 2: part of that, and the offensive line obviously holding up.

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Speaker 5: But to me, that's the story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll give you another number. They ran eighty five

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Speaker 1: plays last night, which is an enormous number of plays,

647
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Speaker 1: and against a defense like that that's relentless and gets

648
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: to the quarterback as often as they do. That figured

649
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: to be a death sentence to run that many plays

650
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Speaker 1: against a team like that, and it was not.

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Speaker 2: They threw the ball fifty times, that's right, well fifty times.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they ended up with two sacks, but I mean,

653
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Speaker 3: I don't even remember the second sack.

654
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: I don't remember the second one either.

655
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Speaker 2: It was the one late right in the in the

656
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 2: fourth quarter. On that they made that third and twenty five.

657
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 2: Remember they had that weird.

658
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Speaker 3: Oh then they take yeah yeah tripping, Yeah, yeah, a tripping.

659
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: But they didn't call it. I didn't call it a

660
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: tripping by no, No, they didn't.

661
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 4: Yeah it was a trip.

662
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it wasn't. I'm just saying, like Fletch,

663
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 2: you know, had the head was locked in on that.

664
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Speaker 1: So, going back to.

665
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Speaker 3: The run game, yards per carry obviously you want to

666
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 3: be and you would love to be at four yards

667
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 3: per carry, maybe a little bit more if possible. But

668
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Speaker 3: it's the volume of runs that I feel makes the

669
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Speaker 3: most difference, that makes the biggest difference, especially if you

670
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 3: want to run play action pass. If I'm a defensive

671
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 3: player and we don't feel like we respect your run,

672
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 3: we don't feel like you're gonna run the ball, we

673
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 3: don't think you're you don't give us a real play action.

674
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: You know, hand movement and all that.

675
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna suck up on the run. You're not

676
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 3: gonna be able to get those those end breakers of

677
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 3: where linebackers avoid those areas. You're not gonna slow down

678
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 3: the pass rush because one thing when you play action pass,

679
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 3: it slows down the rushers as well, because you're not

680
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 3: you got to kind of hold down, kind of anchor

681
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 3: down a little bit to make sure you're not getting

682
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 3: too far off the field and you're opening a crease

683
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 3: for a run and line.

684
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Speaker 4: So thirty three carries, thirty three attempts.

685
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 3: That's what you need, especially for defense like the Broncos,

686
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 3: because eventually you want to be able to get play

687
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 3: action pass. You want to be able to get some

688
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 3: carries that are going to break and just a great

689
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 3: job Russian football.

690
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Speaker 1: I want to go back to the offensive line for

691
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: a minute. I feel like this team has had three

692
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: preseasons with three different lines, and it's finally starting to

693
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: take hold at what this line is going to be.

694
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: When they started in the summer, we knew Cosmey wasn't

695
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: going to play early in the season, and because of

696
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: a number of injuries during the summer, Andrew Wiley was

697
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: playing like literally every position. They never had a consistent

698
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: five out on the field. They started with one guard tandem,

699
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: they switched it in the middle of the year, then

700
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: cosme comes back. Now we're about four weeks into what

701
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: is the settled group of the offensive line, and I

702
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: think that's why we're starting to see this turn and

703
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: it is one of the big parts of what I'm

704
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: excited about out for the last five games of the season.

705
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: What was the last six last night, is that you're

706
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: going to see the manifestation of the line we thought

707
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: we had in the summer, which goes back to we

708
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: get to look at the offense that we thought we

709
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: were going to have in the spring and the summer.

710
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 5: I mean one million percent.

711
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 2: I think like that's the thing is when we talked

712
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 2: about this offseason, what this offense could be like it

713
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 2: was that the offensive line was going to be significantly improved. Yes,

714
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 2: and we didn't get that version length and we didn't

715
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 2: get that version probably until two weeks ago.

716
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 5: Yes, And so I think that's part of it, right.

717
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 2: The lack of health on the perimeter has been a

718
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 2: big part of it, the lack of health of the

719
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 2: quarterback spot, so you know, going down the stretch. I

720
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 2: think the thing again that I'm most excited for is

721
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 2: that we are going to get a galvanized offensive line

722
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 2: with budding skill position players and returning skill position players

723
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 2: that allow you to slide in the right roles. And

724
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, Jaden is stepping into this

725
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 2: ecosystem where he can be because I think about the

726
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 2: Seattle game, right, and like that that Kurt Warner review

727
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 2: of his play, Yeah, and a lot of it was

728
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: just he was just accelerated because there was a ton

729
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 2: of pressure, the coverage was good. And now all of

730
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: a sudden, if the protection's better, the protections more sound,

731
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 2: we can he can do his stuff that makes.

732
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Speaker 1: Him special major on the outside.

733
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 2: Right, And I think, like that's the thing I'm like

734
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 2: this is this is a team that was supposed to

735
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 2: win ten games and be a playoff caliber team. And

736
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,959
Speaker 2: I think we're going to see that version of this

737
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 2: team heading down the stretch because again, like you would

738
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 2: you say at the top of the show, this, this

739
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: Broncos team is like the best team in the AFC, right,

740
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 2: And like this is.

741
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: This record of the AFC. Top three scoring defense, top

742
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: three total yards defense, super Bowl caliber defense, good at

743
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: every single level. All world player on the edge, all

744
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: world players rushing to quarterback. Name the weakness on them, Washington,

745
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: move the ball up and down the field on them.

746
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 3: Last night, I'll say this about the offensive line. Nobody

747
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 3: requires no position group requires more reps in practice, off season,

748
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 3: in season games in the offensive line.

749
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 2: And it's not just individual reps, it's as a group. Yeah,

750
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 2: they just needs so much time together.

751
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 3: You have to you have to have reps built up, stockpile,

752
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 3: hundreds of reps, thousands of reps over the years.

753
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 4: And if you.

754
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 3: Look at this the current five starting off as a lineman,

755
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 3: how many reps have they really really taken together.

756
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: At the unit?

757
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it a month, right, So they're.

758
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 4: They're continuing to learn each other.

759
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 3: Cosmey had never played with John Connerly like this is

760
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 3: first time playing with them first, and Chris Paul and

761
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 3: Laramie aren't.

762
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 4: They hadn't played with each other, so they're learning on

763
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:45,399
Speaker 4: the fly.

764
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 3: They didn't have all these reps built up during the

765
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 3: off season during training camp, where you're going through padded

766
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 3: practices every single day, where you're working games, you're practicing

767
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 3: against the New England Patriots, and you know you were

768
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 3: supposed to practice get to the Baltimore Ravens. You don't

769
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 3: have those those those reps built up. They're learning on

770
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 3: the fly now. If we've worked multiple we've seen defenses

771
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 3: run a bunch of different games against us. We've worked

772
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 3: on our communications, We've gone through some adversity as offensive line.

773
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 3: Now we on know how the side of it. We're

774
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,919
Speaker 3: better because of it, and we will continue to get

775
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 3: better because we'll have more experience as the season continues

776
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 3: to go.

777
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Speaker 1: As for zach Ertz first ten plus catch games since

778
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, he also last night pass Shane and Sharp

779
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: for the fifth most receptions by any tight end ever

780
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: in NFL history. He had a huge game last night.

781
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 2: Why, I think a lot of it's because Terry's back

782
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 2: quite honestly, and I think like you get to see

783
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 2: him play against people he's supposed to be playing against.

784
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 2: So what I mean by that is like he should

785
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 2: draw that U Funga matchup, and if he's on Hufunga

786
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 2: and Manda Man situations, like he should eat that. And

787
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 2: like he did, right, Like he just did a great job.

788
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 2: Like you know, even on both those play action sale

789
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 2: routs that he ran just the nuance of him right, like, hey,

790
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sell like I'm blocking the run. Who Funga

791
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 2: takes this crazy angle in a little jab step outside

792
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 2: release and I'm on the sale right or I'm on

793
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 2: the backside running at high cross. A lot of people

794
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,720
Speaker 2: just run straight across the field. The corner just matches

795
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 2: that kills it. He does a great job of pushing up.

796
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 2: He sells an out actually on a high cross, which

797
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 2: is diabolical, and then runs across the field and catch

798
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 2: the football.

799
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 5: So like you see all the skill set that.

800
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 2: He's cultivated in terms of running routes, and again he's

801
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 2: drawing the matchup that he should have been drawing since

802
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 2: week one. Theoretically, again, he had to do more because

803
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 2: again of the injuries on the perimeter.

804
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, now you when you look at this

805
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 3: Denver Broncos defense.

806
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: He talked about the pass rushers.

807
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 3: Cooper, benitol Alan, those guys can get out of the quarterback.

808
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 4: Talk about the corners, certain and Moss.

809
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 3: Where do you feel like you can get an advantage

810
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 3: from a Hey, got to have a play critical situation.

811
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 4: You know they gonna go man and man.

812
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 3: And as I was looking at this, I felt like

813
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,760
Speaker 3: it was their linebackers are safeties trying to cover Zach Hurt.

814
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 3: They were going to struggle with that, and our coaching

815
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 3: staff they knew it, and they scanned them up. They knew, hey,

816
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 3: it's the coverage we don't get Zach go win.

817
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 2: Also, I think they found some easy buttons to the

818
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 2: tight end. I think that's something else that we talked about.

819
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 2: The explosive plays. But like some of those what I

820
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 2: call like slam flats where you're blocking the end the

821
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 2: man coverage player's eyes getting the backfield or in the

822
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 2: flat for ten yard game. There's two catches like that,

823
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 2: the stick route that Zach runs versus zone twice in

824
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 2: this game. Those are easy completions for the quarterback. So

825
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 2: again the connection that Mariota has to Zach and those

826
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 2: moments is big. But also schematically, I think leaning into

827
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 2: some of that stuff was big.

828
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, last one on the offense, we have

829
00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: to do the catch. Oh, that was simple, incredible. He

830
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: caught the ball with the hand he has a broken

831
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: finger on, so he caught it with four fingers. It

832
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: was extended. It was obj against the Cowboys. Whatever. However,

833
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: many years ago, a couple somebody texted me, A couple

834
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: of people texted me last night. They're like, that's the

835
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: best catch we've ever had in that stadium, and I

836
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: believe that. I remember a few years back when Terry

837
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: made a wild one handed catch in the opener against

838
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: the Chargers, falling backwards. It's a crazy catch, but not

839
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: a touchdown and in a needed moment that was simply unbelievable.

840
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: What he did last night making that catch.

841
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 3: I won't have to see Terry's catching and Trey's catch

842
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 3: side by side, because that Terry catch.

843
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,280
Speaker 5: Was it was magnetic.

844
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 4: Said both on phenomenal catches.

845
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: But he had won in Indianapolis a few years back

846
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: to at the one yard line on Stefan Gilmour. That

847
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: was absolutely undeable. But in this stadium. I can't think

848
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: of anything better than what Treylon Burke's did.

849
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 4: The call budd right now, hold on, Jason Gott gave

850
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 4: me a call button. Yeah, drain is coming.

851
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 3: So as I look at that catch, Firks of all

852
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 3: the trust to go to him, all the stuff he's

853
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 3: gone through, go up, make that cat. I mean, that

854
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 3: was ridiculous. That's that would be. That might get an aspy,

855
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 3: It might get an aspy.

856
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: I think it's catch of the year in the NFL. Good.

857
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you saw the pooka

858
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: nakool one earlier in the day in the fourth quarter

859
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: where he made a one hand and catch. It set

860
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 1: up what should have been a game winning drive for

861
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: the Rams didn't end up being that he had an

862
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,399
Speaker 1: unbelievable catch in their game. This was hold my beer.

863
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: That was unbelievable.

864
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 2: With Berch, the cool one is crazy, like just like

865
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 2: they're like when you overhand, when you backhand those balls,

866
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like that's a really tough.

867
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 4: You got to have a massive hands.

868
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like that.

869
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 2: But but I think the thing with Burkes that felt

870
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,959
Speaker 2: so awesome is like we just haven't had a guy

871
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 2: here in a long time. To your point, that can

872
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 2: just go be like a physical freak, you know what

873
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Just go win physically, because I think Riley

874
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 2: Moss is actually a pretty good coverage. Like it's not

875
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 2: like he's like really separated, he's in bad position. Just

876
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 2: that dude Trailing Burks is a significantly better athlete than

877
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 2: the dude that's covering him. And I can't remember the

878
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,240
Speaker 2: last time that we've had a receiver like that. Obviously

879
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 2: Terry is a very good receiver, very unique, but that

880
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 2: just long armed, big vertical.

881
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, this reminded me what few years back, remember Justin

882
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: Jefferson made that crazy fourth down catch in Buffalo. He's

883
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: a freak athlete who made a freak play. We saw

884
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: one last night.

885
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, And again, like it was really funny watching the

886
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 2: All twenty two this morning because he probably should have

887
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 2: thrown the ball to Terry because that's why they got

888
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 2: like a double rub set up for Terry on the

889
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 2: slant underneath, and you're just like, you know, let me

890
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 2: rip this over here to Trailer Berks, which again I

891
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 2: think is one of those things that like is so

892
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 2: unique now about this team is that having a guy

893
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 2: like that, because you know, I think postgame you were

894
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 2: talking about or I was listening to your show, maybe

895
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 2: they were talking about how like he'd been making plays

896
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 2: like that all week in practice.

897
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: He told us that, Marcus told us that too last.

898
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 2: Like they're building confidence and just say, hey, go be

899
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 2: a freak. And I think again, like having guys that

900
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 2: can win that way. It's like a basketball team. You

901
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 2: want guys that can be your spot up shooters, the

902
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 2: guys that can win near the basket. He's a guy

903
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 2: that can win near the basketball, like throw them anoop.

904
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,439
Speaker 3: You talking about just the confidence. That's a third down

905
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 3: play right there, third and goal, third and goal situation.

906
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 3: As you mentioned, Marcus ces him one on one backside,

907
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 3: and you mentioned, you know, Terry was probably the should

908
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 3: have threw it to him, but he probably had Marcus

909
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 3: had made his mind a pre snap, Hey got one

910
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 3: on one back here, it might get a little dicey

911
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 3: over here. Let me give him a fadeball and give

912
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 3: him opportunity a great ballplace with two and I mean

913
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 3: just a ridiculous catch.

914
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 2: Though on the field, I thought that thing was long gone.

915
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I was standing like you know, right

916
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 2: in the end zone. I'm looking over there, sitting right

917
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 2: next to the camera, I'm leaning on the box and

918
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 2: I'm like, no way that that thing's two yards out

919
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 2: of bounds. Then you just see his big old mint

920
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 2: just rip up there, come down with that thing and

921
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 2: there's no oscillation of the football. That was the other

922
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 2: thing that really got me is no, you stop that.

923
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 5: You stopped that.

924
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 3: I told you about using I've told you about using

925
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 3: the big words on the show.

926
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: It just stuck to his hand right and that's the

927
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 2: one he broke the finger on or whatever, and like

928
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 2: it just was a tremendous play, like really really tremendous

929
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 2: and again like maybe best catch whatever, But in the moment,

930
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 2: uh it to me, it also signified something different about

931
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 2: the offense.

932
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 4: We hadn't seen what you say, isolation on the on

933
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 4: the next game.

934
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: During the broadcast, like I said, six seven, that was

935
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 1: pretty good. So everybody was very plean. All the young

936
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: people in my life were very pleased.

937
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 4: So here's the deal.

938
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 3: The other day, so my daughter was home from college

939
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 3: and they were about to take an uber to a party.

940
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 3: So I wasn't doing anything. I was like, well I

941
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 3: take you, I'll take her and it was two of

942
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 3: her college friends she went to high school with. So

943
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 3: I'm driving to the part, taking them to the party,

944
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 3: and somehow we get to talking about me doing a

945
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 3: broadcast in the games, and I don't know how six

946
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 3: seven came into play, and they're like, you should do

947
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 3: say six seven on the broadcast. I'm like, first of all,

948
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 3: I think it's so stupid. I don't even understand six seven.

949
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: Nobody does.

950
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 3: So I was like, you know what, we got an

951
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 3: opportunity to do this. I did it, and CJ gave

952
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:24,320
Speaker 3: me the clips, the audio clips. I'm gonna I'm gonna.

953
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 1: Send it to the girls. You did them well too.

954
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: You have the last thing about Burke's And again, this

955
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,760
Speaker 1: is I think goes back to It's why I'm excited

956
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: about the second. You know, I know they're not going

957
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,240
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs, Like obviously that's not going to happen,

958
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 1: but I do want to get a glimpse of what

959
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:40,760
Speaker 1: the future looks like and what I thought this season

960
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 1: could have been. And I think we can have that here.

961
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 1: And if you are curious does this stuff still matter?

962
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: Go talk the way we had that conversation with Trailing

963
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: Burks last night Terry McLaurin last night. You know, like

964
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: after a loss, it's it's tough to talk to some

965
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: of the players, especially when it's that closed and there's

966
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: that much you know, I think like obviously Rue's you know,

967
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: sensitivities are very heightened at that point, especially in a

968
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: loss like that where they were this close. There were

969
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,439
Speaker 1: a fingernail away from a win. That was a walk

970
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: in two point conversion, there were fingernail away from a

971
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: win when it ended along losing streak. But we got

972
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: to talk to Terry, who hadn't played in the month,

973
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: has had a very long ear. Listen to what he

974
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: had to say about why it mattered to him last

975
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: night to be out there due to the things he did.

976
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: And Burks, who was supposed to replace A. J. Brown

977
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 1: in Tennessee, has had a bazillion injuries, had one touchdown

978
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: before he made that catch last night. He got a

979
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,919
Speaker 1: fresh start. And if you want to hear someone talk

980
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: about why football matters to him, listen to what he

981
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: had to say after that game on three in nineteen

982
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: oh so he was just talking about my mom in

983
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: on it now whatever.

984
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it was just during that interview with him

985
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 3: the amount of respect perspective I had to him. That

986
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 3: was the first time we had an opportunity to interview him. Yeah,

987
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 3: but he I asked him about I say, hey, man,

988
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 3: you know you were drafted as a first route in Tennis.

989
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 3: He didn't kind of work out there. You get an

990
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 3: opportunity to be here in Washington. What does this mean

991
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 3: to you? And he said he was. He was very

992
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 3: thankful for his experience that he had in Tennessee. Like

993
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 3: great people there, you know, got nothing bad to say

994
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 3: about them. It's been a long journey, long long time.

995
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,959
Speaker 3: I've relied on my faith. He talked about his faith.

996
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 3: He like tore my a c L clavical injury, now

997
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 3: torn finger, torn ligament, and he say, man, God doesn't

998
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,280
Speaker 3: he puts the most on his Uh.

999
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,879
Speaker 4: I think he said best warriors or something something along

1000
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 4: those lines.

1001
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 3: And so he's like, I'm just thankful for the opportunity

1002
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 3: to be able to be in this situation and and

1003
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 3: you know, just be here and relied on my faith

1004
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,879
Speaker 3: and and but he was just it's a great it's

1005
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 3: a great interview, man.

1006
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: Yeah. He Terry as well. You could feel thetion of

1007
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: the locker room, which is Mike goes back to there

1008
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: were I know they don't want to hear it, but

1009
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: there were some silver linings last night. As we kind

1010
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,919
Speaker 1: of move forward here, all right, before we go, first,

1011
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: I want to congratulate your son, want to state championship, right,

1012
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: state championship, and Logan's team is in the semi finals

1013
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 1: of their state championship. So congratulations team, formal congratulations. Then

1014
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: hopefully two more.

1015
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 2: For you, hopefully we get those done. Yeah, that's awesome. First,

1016
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 2: they play like real football, and like he's showed me

1017
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 2: some clips of his son, the teams are playing against

1018
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:25,919
Speaker 2: and that looks like a borderline college team.

1019
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of tititle on we got the

1020
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 3: NL nil worker.

1021
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: How'd y'all celebrate a state championship? What did you do? Man?

1022
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 3: He hung out with his teammates, so I, you know,

1023
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,800
Speaker 3: curfew From a curfew standpoint, the game is over it

1024
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 3: like I don't know, nine thirty, ten o'clock or whatever.

1025
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 3: He usually goes and gets something to net with his friends.

1026
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 3: So I typically, hey, Man, be home by I might

1027
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 3: say twelve, I might say twelve thirty, depending on what

1028
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 3: it is. So this particular time, I like be home

1029
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 3: by like, I think maybe I said one on one thirty.

1030
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:00,240
Speaker 4: He's like, okay.

1031
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:02,720
Speaker 3: About a couple of minutes later, he's like, well, actually,

1032
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 3: can I spend a night over my buddy's house. It's like,

1033
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 3: all right, man, I go go ahead. They had a

1034
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 3: good time, they celebrated.

1035
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 5: That's cool.

1036
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 1: He psyched for this WEEKND I am psyched.

1037
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 2: I'm worried about travel, but my travel agent Fletch took

1038
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 2: me up. So ho if we get out and you know,

1039
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 2: call game and get a win and then get to Minnesota.

1040
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck to your crew, Thank you for sull right,

1041
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: that'll do it for us. Talk to you next week.

1042
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,640
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1043
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1045
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