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Speaker 1: The way field goal protection works. Everybody has to be

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Speaker 1: you get a little crease. And so our left tackle,

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Speaker 1: who has done a really good job for us so

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Speaker 1: far this season, just kind of got a little leaning forward,

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Speaker 1: didn't get his outside arm up our end. You know,

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Speaker 1: his job is a kind of interlocked in by that

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Speaker 1: tackle and make sure he has that heavyweight foot on

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Speaker 1: the inside foot so he doesn't get pried out, and

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Speaker 1: also get a good arm hook. When you get a

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Speaker 1: little crease like that, you know, a good rusher like

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Speaker 1: fifty one, he's able to get in there. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's a talented pass rusher. He's a really talented rusher

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Speaker 1: on field goal block as well. It was a guy

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Speaker 1: that we emphasized all week, you know, almost blocked on

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Speaker 1: the week before. So he's a talented rusher. But again,

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Speaker 1: just not great execution and that's on me. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's something we gotta be much cleaner. It's something that's

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Speaker 1: just something will work on a ton and it's been, uh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's been addressing.

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Speaker 2: We're moving forward with it. Before and then he gets through,

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Speaker 2: it gets on you. I'm sure almost blocked.

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Speaker 1: During the week, it's got a little frustrated. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean anytime something like that happens and you're an impact

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Speaker 1: in a negative way in a game, yes, it is

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Speaker 1: frustrating and and and everybody's frustrated. You know, it's not

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Speaker 1: just me, uh but that's ball, you know, It's like,

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Speaker 1: that's something that as a coach, I gotta make sure

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Speaker 1: it comes to execution. And if it's not executed completely correct,

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Speaker 1: that's not me.

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Speaker 2: In some ways ironic because.

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Speaker 1: The guy sometimes guys are just forgetting that one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent think that was the issue. And you talk to

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Speaker 1: those guys, their eyes are on the ball, and sometimes

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Speaker 1: you lose sight of the important of leverage, you know,

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Speaker 1: And we've done a fantastic job of, you know, covering

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Speaker 1: kicks with great leverage.

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Speaker 2: And really pinning them deep.

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Speaker 1: And even in that game, we had to tackle inside

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Speaker 1: the fifteen yard line on a kickoff coverage with great leverage.

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Speaker 1: So that's something we emphasize a ton. But sometimes when

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Speaker 1: that ball goes on the ground and all as you

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Speaker 1: can think is I'm gonna be the guy that makes

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Speaker 1: this play. I'm going to dive in there and get it,

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Speaker 1: and you know, and it didn't work out. You know,

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Speaker 1: obviously lost leverage, bad tackling, we lost our mind. And

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Speaker 1: it's the same thing, bad execution.

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Speaker 2: It's on me.

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Speaker 1: And the good part about it, I think is we

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Speaker 1: have a really good group. We were a top ten

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Speaker 1: group analytically last year. We've been fantastic this year is

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Speaker 1: you know, prior to this game, we've been an impact

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Speaker 1: and impact great plays in a positive way. Since we've

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Speaker 1: been here, guys have been fantastic and I don't remember

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Speaker 2: It just so happens.

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Speaker 1: We've had two tough plays in the same game. Feels

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Speaker 1: terrible that we were a big part of it. But

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Speaker 1: the cool thing is I've had more guys come to

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Speaker 1: my office and say, Coach, I gotta do better. That's

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Speaker 1: my fault. Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna I let our

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Speaker 1: guys down. I let you down. And so that's the

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Speaker 1: cool part is the guys are accountable, they care that

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Speaker 1: it's important to them, and the focus at practice this

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Speaker 1: week has been fantastic. It was just kind of a

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Speaker 1: we do. Let's get back to playing good ball that

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Speaker 1: we've done on special teams here and like I said,

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Speaker 1: I love our group. Our group's been fantastic. Two bad plays,

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Speaker 1: Because we've done that. You know, you go back to

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Speaker 1: You know, the Kansas City game, you know Ross had

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Speaker 1: but the way our kickoff coverage works is our two's

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Speaker 1: hundred percent job is to keep the ball on the inside,

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Speaker 1: So we have to keep it leveraged on the inside. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And then and then we had a mistackle you know

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Speaker 1: down right there? That got you know, the the fullback

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Speaker 1: made a fantastic play, but we gotta find a way

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Speaker 1: to get him down. Just find a way to get

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Speaker 1: him down. Yeah, And it's something you know, it's funny

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Speaker 1: And and and we actually show the tackle you know,

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Speaker 2: So it's something we have a lot of fun with.

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Speaker 1: They they they they love ross and so it's been

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Speaker 1: you know, what we do in our coverage, he's been fantastic.

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Speaker 2: At some point.

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Speaker 1: Though other coordinators are gonna probably start blocking him, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know and not treating him like a snapper, which

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Speaker 1: as far as away is coverage, he's covering fantastic. The

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Speaker 1: one kid just didn't hit it good, and he knows

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Speaker 1: right away It's funny as I've never had a kicker

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Speaker 1: that as he swings, you can hear him groan because

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Speaker 1: he knows it's not right. So I see it every

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Speaker 1: knows instantly just by his swing, without even looking up,

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Speaker 1: it goes in, and so he knows right away, and

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Speaker 1: He's been and he's been good. You know, it's it's

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Speaker 1: and so he missed the kick.

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Speaker 2: We let him down.

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Speaker 1: You know, I let him down as far as protection. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we got him in the off season.

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Speaker 2: He had a good training camp.

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Speaker 1: He's done a good job as a gunner, and we're

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Speaker 1: hoping to get him up more often. Unfortunately, he was

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Speaker 1: he's a guy that cares and he and he wants

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Speaker 1: it so bad and he was one of those guys

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Speaker 1: that was diving in there trying he just wants to

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Speaker 1: a long time. He hadn't played since he was with

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Speaker 1: the Rams, uh, you know, a million games ago. And

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Speaker 1: so he just trying to make a play. And and

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Speaker 1: and and that's part of coaching is getting these guys

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Speaker 1: settled down. Let the plays come. Hey, the plays will

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Speaker 1: come when we just let him come to us. One

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Speaker 1: play at put, one play at a time, will come back

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Speaker 2: Can't force it though,