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Speaker 1: Hey, Zach, can you talk about now that this outsite

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Speaker 1: kind of being concentrated in uh, in the offensive line room,

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Speaker 1: just just the difficulties of working through that with what

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Speaker 1: you have with the coaching staff here and and what

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Speaker 1: especially you and the rest of guys in the offensive

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Speaker 1: line room. How what precautions are you taking from this

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Speaker 1: point over on since it's kind of concentrated there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously tough situation with the two coaches. But

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Speaker 1: coach Lunda has don a nice job this week. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's got some offensive line background and um he's veried

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Speaker 1: doubt into the run game. So he's had a nice

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Speaker 1: job this week. He just keeping us on track and

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Speaker 1: obviously for us, you know, being smart, taking care of

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Speaker 1: ourselves this week, make sure no other guys end up popping. Fine,

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Speaker 1: do that? Jack Well, I mean we were virtual today,

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Speaker 1: we were came in for practice. I think we're doing

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Speaker 1: the same thing tomorrow. So just trying to limit the

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Speaker 1: amount of exposed you're around big groups. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a big good thing kind of kind of some of

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Speaker 1: the stuff we did last year, so all things we've

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Speaker 1: done before. Just um, you know, got to try to

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Speaker 1: stay focused and concentrated in our preparation this week out

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Obviously, playing next to Lyle is no

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Speaker 1: new experience to get them plenty of snaps between you.

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Speaker 1: What just give me your comfort level about him stepping

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Speaker 1: in with tearing out on Thursday. Yeah, I think that's

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Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of been something We've been fortunate

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Speaker 1: We've you know, going back to even the spring, We've

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Speaker 1: had a lot of different combinations of line it's gotten

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Speaker 1: some good work together. So, um, you know, like you said,

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Speaker 1: I've done a ton of refs next to Lyle over

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Speaker 1: the course of our career, and um, it'd be big

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Speaker 1: for us this week to just to keep refining that

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Speaker 1: communication and play style next to each other to get

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Speaker 1: ready to go into you know, obviously a big game

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Speaker 1: for us in a in a tough environment. From the

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Speaker 1: line advantage or aligne vantage. Why has the run game

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Speaker 1: a bit less productive over the past month or so

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Speaker 1: than it was at the start of the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think you know, I think you got to look

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Speaker 1: first and foremost at our room. We took a lot

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Speaker 1: of pride in that run game and over the last

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Speaker 1: few weeks that it hasn't been what we wanted it

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Speaker 1: to be, so we just gotta get back to the

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Speaker 1: basics and the fundamentals, and um, you know, it's not

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Speaker 1: it's not a quick fix. It's it's coming out every day,

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Speaker 1: going to work and and really preparing, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: to be successful there. So um, we're we're well aware

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Speaker 1: to getting better and getting back out there and and

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Speaker 1: uh you know, starting to kind of establish ourselves in

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Speaker 1: the run game again. That the line movement has been

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Speaker 1: something that has contributed had you says how the movement

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Speaker 1: you know pretty well, that's always the defensive adjustments and

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be no different this week. You know. I

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Speaker 1: think New Orleans, um, you know, getting into our prep

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Speaker 1: they obviously they do it a lot of line movement.

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Speaker 1: That's something they do every week, so it's it's not

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Speaker 1: specific to to us. Um, So that's something we definitely

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Speaker 1: have to work on, but it does make a challenge

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Speaker 1: and it's definitely. You know, the first thing a defense

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Speaker 1: will do is if they're sitting in there getting blown

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Speaker 1: that have that has given you guys issues. That stuff

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Speaker 1: you've all seen before. Yeah, I mean I've over the

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Speaker 1: course of our everyone's careers. I think everyone's seen line movement.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's obviously you know, it's more difficult at times,

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Speaker 1: but uh, you know, it's something that that all offensive

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Speaker 1: we're just hoping they get better, um, you know, as

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Speaker 1: Loon has done a nice job this week. He's got

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Speaker 1: but is it I don't know if you allow yourself

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Speaker 1: H Yeah, I mean obviously, uh, you know you want

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, I think guys have gotten accustomed to,

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Speaker 1: that that's something we've got to be good at this

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Speaker 1: not going to have our the two guys that are

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Speaker 1: in their running meetings always as a as an old lineman,

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Speaker 1: are there any differences based on if it's Zeke back

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Speaker 1: executing your concepts one way or another. Do you have

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Speaker 1: to have any sort of a feel or sense of

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Speaker 1: which back it is behind you or just your job

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Speaker 1: regardless I think, um, you actually your job, your job regardless.

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Speaker 1: I mean you obviously see him switching it out of

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Speaker 1: the huddle. But um, you know, to answer your question,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't change anything for us as far as what

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Speaker 1: we do. UM on the line. Yeah, it's not mindset

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Speaker 1: right now. Oh god again, sorry, Zach. What's it? Zach?

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Speaker 1: What's what's the team's mindset right now? Losing three to four,

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Speaker 1: you have this COVID stuff going on? What's it like? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we're in a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: you know, I've been a tough, little little stretch for us.

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Speaker 1: But you know, the great thing about this team is

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Speaker 1: still love our team. I still love our group, and

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Speaker 1: you know, are still and still very confident to be

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Speaker 1: able toccomplish all the goals we want to. We just

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Speaker 1: it's a boring answer, but that's really the truth. There's

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Speaker 1: But I think one thing we've done this year and

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Speaker 1: all the all the good teams that I've been a

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Speaker 1: part of, have taken that week by week approach. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna sit around and think what's happened over

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Speaker 1: the last month or so, it's it's it's not going

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Speaker 1: to be a good result moving forward. It's just we

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Speaker 1: talk a lot about stay in presidents, staying in the moment,

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Speaker 1: and that's what we're gonna do. That's what I know

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Speaker 1: the older guys as leaders we got to do is

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Speaker 1: just keep reminding those young guys it's a long season.

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Speaker 1: We just got to keep taking it one week at

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Speaker 1: prepare and the guys we have in the locker room,

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Speaker 1: we should have all the confidence that we're gonna be successful.

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Speaker 1: You've obviously been around Seek for a while. He's been

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Speaker 1: dealing with this knee issue for almost two months. What

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Speaker 1: the team what he had. Yeah, I mean, he he's

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Speaker 1: the ultimate competitor, and I think, you know, we see

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Speaker 1: great pride and being there for his teammates and doing

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Speaker 1: whatever he can in his power to help his team win. So, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, for me, he's one of the top guy,

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Speaker 1: doing that. Anything else for Zach, excuse me, anything else?

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Speaker 1: All right? Thanks Zach exactly, Thanks guys, Speci, thank you

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