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Speaker 1: It was a big day at the podium. Today is

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Speaker 1: the Browns now just three days away from their big

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Speaker 1: matchup against the Steelers under the lights on Monday Night Football.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Gibbs and this is from the podium. Four players,

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Speaker 1: three coordinators talking to the media today to talk about

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Speaker 1: Monday's game. The players spoke in the locker room first.

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Speaker 1: It started with wide receiver a Marii Cooper, who talked

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Speaker 1: about what he sees in the Steelers defense on film

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Speaker 1: and how tough playing in Pittsburgh really is.

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Speaker 2: I guess just.

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Speaker 3: When you went down for a minute just batfooting, you know,

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Speaker 3: bad weather just slipped in, you know, kind of tweak something.

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Speaker 4: But it's all good.

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Speaker 2: Now, wouldn't you guys?

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Speaker 5: Kind of when you guys love back in the film,

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Speaker 5: what was kind of the biggest takeaway you had about

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Speaker 5: what you were able to do week one and what

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Speaker 5: you know, how you can build on that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, they were who we thought they were.

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Speaker 3: I mean, no, teams don't really changed much from who

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Speaker 3: they are. It's just all about who we go out

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Speaker 3: there ex execute their game, playing the best and you

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Speaker 3: know that's what we did.

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Speaker 6: You know, you guys didn't hit a big plays down

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Speaker 6: the field like you had helped to a lot of

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Speaker 6: voutles obviously leather and juice. But when look back in

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Speaker 6: the in the film room and you just looked at

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Speaker 6: those plays and how they developed, do you get excited though,

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Speaker 6: knowing that those plays are gonna be there in much

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Speaker 6: better conditions?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 3: I mean obviously, you know during the rain, it's much

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Speaker 3: more hard to pass the ball. The ball is heavier

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Speaker 3: as it's harder for the shun it's more slippery. You

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Speaker 3: don't know whether or not you should wear gloves. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's a lot of things that go on in the ring,

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Speaker 3: but you just have to endure and and fight through

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Speaker 3: and find and find a way to win.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's football at the end of the.

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Speaker 7: Day, right, I think you're five ninety eight catches, it's

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Speaker 7: getting six hundred, man, it seems like a milestone.

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Speaker 3: Does that mean anything to you? It's just numbers at

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Speaker 3: the end of the day. Uh, not really.

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Speaker 4: I mean if it meant that much to me, then

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Speaker 2: What's about ninety eight?

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Speaker 4: So you know, I at then of the day, it's

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Speaker 4: just numbers, you know, I just come do my job.

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Speaker 3: Uh, obviously I want a lot of catches, but now

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Speaker 3: a six hundred catch milestone doesn't mean much.

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Speaker 6: What do you see when you look at Pittsburgh's defense

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Speaker 6: after I mean, obviously they're coming off of growth, disappointment.

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Speaker 2: You know, but just what do you see when you

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Speaker 2: watch them.

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Speaker 4: On Folts same defense they've been running for years, you know.

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Speaker 3: Obviously have new a lot of new players in the secondary,

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Speaker 3: so that will be a challenge. But as far as

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Speaker 3: the structure, it's pretty much the same.

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Speaker 8: Cause since you go against them every day, how drastically

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Speaker 8: different is this defense, this Brown's defense whatever in the

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Speaker 8: last year's.

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Speaker 4: Al a lot a lot different.

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Speaker 3: Just this structure is different in the philosophy, offend a

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Speaker 3: lot more man and we have a lot, uh, we

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Speaker 3: have some good corners to do that. So I think

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Speaker 3: it's good. It's good for our defense. It's a good

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Speaker 3: challenge for them. Yeah, so that's pretty much it.

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Speaker 7: I know, you're one week at a time kind of guy,

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Speaker 7: but starting two and oh with two division wins and

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Speaker 4: Does that feel like you guys can really make it

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Speaker 4: Stavments this week? Of course?

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, that's one of the first goals of

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Speaker 3: every team to win a division. You know, you win

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Speaker 3: a division, you kind of put yourself in a good spot.

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Speaker 3: So obviously that would be a a great milestone for us.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And also being that we haven't wonted the B division

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Speaker 4: You know, of course did the.

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Speaker 9: Defense said that the Bangels were their first test for them?

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Speaker 9: You go against that defense?

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Speaker 10: Has that been a very good test for you guys

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Speaker 10: on offense to prepare for cards like this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it has been.

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Speaker 3: They even playing really well, even when we you know,

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Speaker 3: get the joint practices with Philly Dave, they played really well.

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Speaker 4: So and it's been a great challenge for us.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, those guys on the outside, there isn't

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Speaker 3: a a great challenge for us. That's why I received

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Speaker 3: it because they're they're such good corners. So yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 3: th they've been doing their job.

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Speaker 7: You get a lot of battles with Peterson throughout the years,

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Speaker 7: and if you see is seen his game change at all.

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Speaker 3: I honestly, I haven't really had that many battles with him.

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Speaker 3: I obviously I've gone against a couple of times, but

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Speaker 3: just never really been in his division.

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Speaker 4: Uh, never played against him that much.

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Speaker 3: But he is a player that you know, He's from

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Speaker 3: South Florida like I am, so you know, he was

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Speaker 4: Player when I was in high school. Uh, he was

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Speaker 4: in contact. I think he's like four years older than me.

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Speaker 4: So the player that I that I respect a lot.

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Speaker 3: You know, he still has you know, that speed and

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Speaker 3: I play making it uh ability out there.

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Speaker 4: So you know, it's gonna be a great challenge.

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Speaker 6: You've played in some tough environments. Just what makes that

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Speaker 6: stadium so tough to play?

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Speaker 8: You?

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Speaker 3: Uh, there is another situation where I haven't really played

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Speaker 4: I think maybe like.

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Speaker 3: Twice, maybe say times, who knows. But you know, obviously

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Speaker 3: with the history of the Steelers, uh, you know, they

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Speaker 3: always come to play. Like Mike Tomlin, he's he's never

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Speaker 3: been under five hundred in his career. So they they're

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Speaker 3: always they're alwa they they're always pretty much ready to play.

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Speaker 3: I think that's probably the biggest challenge that they present.

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Speaker 3: It's just a team that's that you know is gonna

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Speaker 6: In conversations with either Receison Core and Deshaun, did you

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Speaker 6: guys have to sort of wipe away s Sunday because.

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Speaker 9: Of the w the rain as you look ahead to

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Speaker 3: No, no, it's nothing that you wipe away because, like I

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Speaker 3: said that, at the end of it, it's football, and

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Speaker 3: those are the conditions that can occur at any game.

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Speaker 3: You know, we might be playing in the super Bowl

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Speaker 3: in the rain. So no, you don't wipe ap wipe away.

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Speaker 3: It's a learning experience. You have to learn how to play,

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Speaker 3: you know, in those conditions to be able to win.

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Speaker 4: So so nah, it's just a learning experience.

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Speaker 11: Did it help I guess in conversations this week talking

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Speaker 11: about like, Okay, this is what the.

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Speaker 12: Situation was like on Sunday, this we could be the

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Speaker 11: I guess when when you look.

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Speaker 13: At the passing game, did it help, like in what way?

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Speaker 9: J uh?

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Speaker 14: Just kind of in communication and and building that connection.

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Speaker 12: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, after every game, we come in

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Speaker 3: on Monday and we talk about the scenario, we talk

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Speaker 3: about the game, we talk about you know, the challenges

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Speaker 3: that were presented during that game. So you know, of

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Speaker 3: course people aren't from me.

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Speaker 1: Next up, guard Joel Botonio, who talked about the challenge

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Speaker 1: of playing in Pittsburgh and on his one hundredth straight start.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tough place to play.

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Speaker 15: You know, we haven't had too much success there as

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Speaker 15: an organization, and we know any time you go there,

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Speaker 15: especially on Monday night, they have a they have a

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Speaker 15: really good history of winning games there. So for us,

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Speaker 15: it's a gig challenge Division game. You gotta try and

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Speaker 15: get as many of those as you can. So we

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Speaker 15: know they're gonna be They're gonna be ready for the

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Speaker 15: challenge as well. But it's a big opportunity for us.

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Speaker 15: You know, we're really focused on reproving each day this

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Speaker 15: week and and going in and hopefully putting on a

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Speaker 2: Perform for ourselves.

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Speaker 15: It places itself field different than other stadium, the crowd,

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Speaker 15: everything they've kind of come to. But I mean, for me,

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Speaker 15: we play there so often, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 15: It's one of the three that we play every year,

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Speaker 15: so you get a differ feel for you know what

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Speaker 15: I mean. They have great, you know, great fans, and

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Speaker 15: they they get rowdy and they support their team, and

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Speaker 15: you know, they have a long history of winning there.

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Speaker 15: So it's it's definitely a tough place to play.

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Speaker 16: Joe think the one gets stepping in for Jack and

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Speaker 16: then obviously the challenge this week he's got to go

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Speaker 16: up against TJ and Wi.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very solid.

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Speaker 15: Anytime you get thrown in the fire like the mid

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Speaker 15: and White are just working out to communicate understand where

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Speaker 2: But he did a really good job.

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Speaker 12: You know.

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Speaker 2: I think he's focused this week. I actually a real focus.

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Speaker 15: And now he probably has one of the you know,

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Speaker 15: And we have a lot of respect for you know, TJ.

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Speaker 15: Watten what he does as a player, so it'll be

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Speaker 15: a big challenge for him, but he is very focused

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Speaker 2: He's winning seasons. I would love to win, you know,

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Speaker 15: I uh, you know, I really hadn't even thought about

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Speaker 15: it when you go through the season. You know obviously

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Speaker 15: as a team, we don't talk about that too much,

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Speaker 15: you know what I mean. We're just focused on the

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Speaker 15: Steelers and in ourselves and trying to be the best

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Speaker 15: version of ourselves this week.

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Speaker 2: How can you think not him? He was getting effected.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, he's you know, obviously one of their leaders, obviously

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Speaker 15: one of the you know, better D n D tackles

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Speaker 15: in the league. They have some depth though, you know,

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Speaker 15: we watched them in the preseason in this first game,

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Speaker 15: and they bring some guys in, but it's I think

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Speaker 15: it's gonna be a multiple guy effort to replace him,

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Speaker 15: Like you're not gonna have a guy that plays any

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Speaker 2: Them, so it uh, it changes things a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But they still have.

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Speaker 15: Some some very talented guys, you know, starting TJ and

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Speaker 2: They're very good.

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Speaker 15: I don't have an exact list, but they're both very talented.

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Speaker 2: The in the league defensive ties. It's gonna be flying

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Speaker 4: What does it mean to have it?

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Speaker 8: I know, what's your gonna have a rounds defense that's

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Speaker 15: if they can keep playing like that, it makes small

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Speaker 2: We've one.

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Speaker 15: Now he's got to keep carrying over, you know, one

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Speaker 15: Then you got to come back and play week two.

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Speaker 15: Which is it's consistency and this league is the key.

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Speaker 13: So we've talked a lot about you know defense, move

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Speaker 15: His sign some matchups and well, if you have a

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Speaker 2: But if he's moving around, you.

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Speaker 15: or you'd be like, yes, we'll give double team in

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Speaker 15: it definitely definitely makes you communicate. All I didn't.

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Speaker 2: As you saw in the game.

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Speaker 15: There's a few times where you're not gonna be able to

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Speaker 4: A one on one matchup. Prey notes, this will be

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Speaker 2: I guess season starts for you. That seems pretty soon,

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Speaker 17: After how your first started half of injuries.

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Speaker 2: Import to you to have this kind of running out. Yeah,

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Speaker 15: Good notes there, damn ye. No, it's it's uh. Anytime

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Speaker 15: And you know, I know early in my career I

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Speaker 15: probably still playing. So it's it's it is a lot

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Speaker 18: Would It's pretty cool, Joe, now that you guys have

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Speaker 18: a game in your good pocket, How would you compare to.

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Speaker 2: Shot his comfort going in Hisburgh this time versus Saty

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Speaker 15: Yeah, definitely more comfortable with offense. We've played in Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: It really work. Command of the offense, Like, did you

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Speaker 2: notice a difference, lad, Yeah, Yeah, we have a lot

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Speaker 15: We have a lot more you know, different run pass, pass,

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Speaker 2: Just kind of base stuff for the new guys like

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Speaker 2: Give him going into a game like m Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: Game and in and for us it's like we have

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Speaker 15: As an organization where we're truly, truly trying to focus

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Speaker 2: But I think if he's coming there and intrigat it

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Speaker 4: If we have that mentality, I.

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Speaker 7: If you saw somebody doing a crossover before, like when

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Speaker 4: What would be your thought processing.

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Speaker 2: The side left?

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: No, he's uh, you know, we always joke he has

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Speaker 15: That's what I call his like best passwords move anyway,

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Speaker 2: Maybe just gets him into his mindset.

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Speaker 15: You know, he's lined up over the left guard practice before,

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Speaker 15: on the football another team. No, I mean he's hero

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Speaker 19: I was gonna ask that hero step Blake. Is that

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Speaker 5: So how much is not having a dere impact their

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Speaker 13: Of what they what they do, what they like to do.

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Speaker 13: I think it definitely impact their game.

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Speaker 20: He's a great receiver, one of their impactful players they

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Speaker 20: So got a lot of capable receivers that are able

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Speaker 20: I said, BEYONCEA, he's a great player, and uh I

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Speaker 16: Like Jin Track butter than you guys know this week

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Speaker 16: he said, did the Corners won that game?

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Speaker 4: Uh in a against Cincinnati?

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Joe.

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Speaker 16: Burrow was complimentary to mean getting that type of from

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Speaker 13: Uh, I mean it, this is the greatest team game

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Speaker 20: I mean there no no one person could win the game.

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Speaker 20: Like I said, the whole entire defense did a great job,

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Speaker 13: So I mean, it wasn't just the Corners out there

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Speaker 20: The offensive line, our d line did a great job

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Speaker 20: a it's the greatest team game there is, and uh,

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Speaker 13: That executed and found a way to get a win.

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Speaker 9: You kind of making you also making if y'all, like

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, eh, every game is a new game.

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Speaker 20: A great job and uh they found a way to

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Speaker 20: So uh we're definitely gonna try to tack 'em as

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Martin was talking about Schwarts has loose or not

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Speaker 17: Still with that.

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Speaker 13: But I mean were just having fun out there.

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Speaker 20: We've been playing this game since we're a little kid,

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Speaker 9: What you like playing behind that do you?

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Speaker 12: I mean you know you.

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Speaker 9: Don't have to hold you.

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Speaker 20: Nah it it was great. I love those guys man,

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Speaker 20: Russian coverage go together. They did a great job of

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Speaker 13: Uh helped us out on the back.

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Speaker 19: End Tenzili and even when they were getting the sacks,

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Speaker 20: making plays.

448
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Speaker 2: Why is in Pittsburgh such a tough person to White?

449
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Speaker 17: Uh?

450
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Speaker 20: I mean just their history, just who they are as

451
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Speaker 20: a team. They're a tough team.

452
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Speaker 4: Uh.

453
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Speaker 20: Like I said, great Russian attack always had great receivers,

454
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Speaker 20: great defense. Uh, they're just a tough team, just the AFC. Uh,

455
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Speaker 20: they're gonna bring that competitive nature to the game, and

456
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Speaker 20: uh we're gonna have to go out there and match up.

457
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Speaker 2: Can you just turn.

458
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Speaker 9: About the magnitude at the step money lay football steal

459
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Speaker 9: Or is a chance for you guys to know che.

460
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Speaker 13: Or doll to the person ever since when nineteen ye.

461
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Speaker 9: And they have won twenty or twenty months Monday night

462
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Speaker 9: football since nineteen eighty one.

463
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Speaker 13: So just so many big.

464
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Speaker 9: Storylines in the skin.

465
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Speaker 13: Yeah, it's a lot of big story lines.

466
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Speaker 20: I think you just gotta kind of minimize it a

467
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Speaker 20: little bit and just focus on what you gotta focus on.

468
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Speaker 20: Uh we going down there and try to find a way,

469
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Speaker 20: uh to get a win, and uh that's all it is.

470
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Speaker 20: So I think the storylines will take care of yourself.

471
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Speaker 20: But we go out there executed our job and uh

472
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Speaker 20: everything else to take care of yourself.

473
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Speaker 2: M Jay said last week that it feels like they're

474
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Speaker 2: the best. You guys are the best trio of the league.

475
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Speaker 13: Where do you, guys, where do you feel like you

476
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Speaker 13: stand up in.

477
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Speaker 17: Terms of your trio?

478
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Speaker 20: Yeah, I'm I'm right there with when I I feel

479
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Speaker 20: like we're the best, uh best trio in the league

480
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Speaker 20: for sure. And uh, I mean we gotta go out

481
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Speaker 20: there every day, every game and show that. Uh we

482
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Speaker 20: start that now in practice and uh God, like I said,

483
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Speaker 20: go out there in the game and do that.

484
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Speaker 13: We gotta back up. We can't just say that, but

485
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Speaker 13: we gotta go back it up.

486
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Speaker 4: What is awesome Kelvin Aunsten maybe a number nineteen? Maybe

487
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Speaker 4: what does he add to there? What what does he at?

488
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Speaker 4: Or no, he he didn't play last year, but what

489
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Speaker 4: does he adding down to?

490
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Speaker 12: They're there? Uh their offense.

491
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Speaker 20: Yeah, he's a he's a speed receiver, speed guy, a

492
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Speaker 20: good vertical threat. And uh, like I said, one of

493
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Speaker 20: those guys that we're gonna have to eliminate, try to

494
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Speaker 20: eliminate out the game.

495
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Speaker 9: Does charl is saying yesterday that this is a chance

496
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Speaker 9: for you guys to show the world what you kill

497
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Speaker 9: it he's sort of.

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Speaker 20: Looking on it back too, quaking from Yeah, I th

499
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Speaker 20: I think every opportunity to be good, uh, to go

500
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Speaker 20: out there in front of the cameras, in front of

501
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Speaker 20: the fans. Uh, it's a chance to show showcase where

502
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Speaker 20: we're capable of. So uh, I think it'd be a

503
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Speaker 20: great opportunity.

504
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Speaker 22: Are you more excited you know with being on Monday

505
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Speaker 22: night the prime time game the only game on TV?

506
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Speaker 22: Like is there give to manage your emotions and the

507
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Speaker 22: excitement that you know coming playing in a game like

508
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Speaker 22: that brings.

509
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Speaker 13: Not for myself. I mean I could play.

510
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Speaker 20: I would rather play one o'clock, two o'clock, no matter

511
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Speaker 20: who eight o'clock. Uh, just going out there playing the

512
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Speaker 20: game I love to play.

513
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Speaker 13: Try to find a.

514
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Speaker 20: Way to get a win, regardless of when it is

515
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Speaker 20: is is it is fine with me.

516
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Speaker 13: But I said it's gonna be a great opportunity in

517
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Speaker 13: a good game.

518
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Speaker 9: So then so you guys only allowed two press.

519
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Speaker 4: I worked at Temps. You guys are understand the teeth in.

520
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Speaker 11: That area last year, and you guys are already being

521
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Speaker 11: right now the more games, so we think it's pretty.

522
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Speaker 9: The biggest, Like they're run the street dinners, they're done

523
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Speaker 9: with the rats. I'm stopping proach from last year right now.

524
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Speaker 16: Mm.

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Speaker 20: I think, Uh, it all started in training camp really

526
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Speaker 20: and just getting the guys together, just uh, every little detail,

527
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Speaker 20: just the camaraderie.

528
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Speaker 13: Guy's going out to eat, guys hanging out.

529
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Speaker 20: Uh, just uh, the close knit g Uh that we

530
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Speaker 20: the bonding that we build around here, I think uh

531
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Speaker 20: has been huge.

532
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Speaker 17: Uh.

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Speaker 20: But just also bringing guys like uh coach Schwartz and

534
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Speaker 20: just uh the defense he set in place and the

535
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Speaker 20: expectations that he set in place for this team and

536
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Speaker 20: defense UH has definitely.

537
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Speaker 13: Uh, I think set us in the right direction.

538
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Speaker 4: I know what's really do you be's most funny thim?

539
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Speaker 13: Oh?

540
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Speaker 20: Yeah it is I I I would say so. I'm

541
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Speaker 20: definitely having a lot of fun out there.

542
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Speaker 13: Uh, just being with the guys. Just just play, like

543
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Speaker 13: I said, playing a game of football, Playing this game

544
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Speaker 13: I I've been playing since a little kid. I think

545
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Speaker 13: you gotta see that out there.

546
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Speaker 20: Just the just the celebrations and everything that guys have

547
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Speaker 20: been doing so Uh, it's nothing been far.

548
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Speaker 1: To wrap up the day for the players, safety Grant

549
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Speaker 1: Delpit talked about the challenge of the Steelers offense brings how

550
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Speaker 1: excited he'll be when one thorn Hill is back on

551
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Speaker 1: the field and looking forward to Monday Night football.

552
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Speaker 9: Are your thoughts of heading into uh this big money

553
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Speaker 9: Nick and the national television Steelers chance to go to

554
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Speaker 9: and know and it's just the magnitude of the scale.

555
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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, prime time. You know, the guy's supposed

556
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Speaker 10: to shige. So we're doing we're putting the work with

557
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Speaker 10: need to put in right now. Okay, some momentium over

558
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Speaker 10: go over there and take care of business strengths.

559
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Speaker 7: You say, as well as you played against the ban,

560
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Speaker 7: do you think that's like your best game you played

561
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Speaker 7: against his name?

562
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Speaker 4: Uh, I don't know, maybe so far.

563
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Speaker 10: Maybe we didn't come away, we didn't takeaways or anything

564
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 10: like that, but it was a pretty solid game.

565
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Speaker 4: For myself and uh as a defense as a whole too.

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Speaker 10: So you building that what is meant for this group

567
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Speaker 10: to play with the freedom life short some else.

568
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Speaker 6: I know he's he's got you guys accountable on plays

569
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Speaker 6: as well, but just still now we need to to

570
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Speaker 6: play blusit and do your.

571
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Speaker 4: Family Oh yeah, no, we'll come fem for sure. Like

572
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Speaker 4: it just looks like you playing loose cause you got

573
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Speaker 4: you Yeah, cause cause everybody's locked in.

574
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Speaker 10: And you know, we we we did a lot of

575
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Speaker 10: good work in camp cause we had an emphasis on

576
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Speaker 10: starting fast. But you know, I think everybody's on the

577
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Speaker 10: same page for the most part. Try to keep stuff

578
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Speaker 10: Yeah simple souff. Guys can move fast and you know,

579
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Speaker 10: I think it's working out.

580
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Speaker 8: So what does it do for the group, And it's

581
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Speaker 8: confidence and it's trusted coach shwarts.

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Speaker 4: When things go as well as they did in the

583
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Speaker 4: first week. Uh, you know it, it it's gonna be okay.

584
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Speaker 10: But you know, nobody write a write a team on

585
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Speaker 10: or off of uh, off of one week, so you

586
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Speaker 10: know it. You know a week a team that we

587
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Speaker 10: think we are going into this week, prime time show

588
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Speaker 10: the whole world.

589
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Speaker 4: So you know we gonna see me great.

590
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Speaker 5: You guys talked all preseason of even about the versatility

591
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Speaker 5: of say uh at safety, just talk about in in

592
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Speaker 5: one game what y you know how you guys were

593
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Speaker 5: able to show.

594
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Speaker 10: That versus tell me in safety? Yeah, like you A,

595
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Speaker 10: that's the safety myself. I I pride myself on doing everything.

596
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Speaker 4: You know.

597
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Speaker 10: Uh, I was able to show like some man coming

598
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Speaker 10: jone receiver that was a that was a good third

599
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Speaker 10: down start.

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Speaker 12: Uh.

601
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Speaker 4: My tackling has been alright, and really get a chance

602
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Speaker 4: to the ball skills in the field. So you know

603
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Speaker 4: what I mean.

604
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Speaker 10: Uh, I try to work in every face than my

605
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 10: game and I think that as a three safety tanning

606
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Speaker 10: that we have and Rocket coming up be bail too,

607
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Speaker 10: Like we have.

608
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Speaker 4: A lot of talent that in that room. You know,

609
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Speaker 4: we we not a room that that everybody was too

610
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Speaker 4: high on coming into the season. So we we take

611
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Speaker 4: that with some with a brand of salting it.

612
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Speaker 10: We wenna bite down and we gonna work. So yeah, uh,

613
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Speaker 10: we won't show that we we wanted stronger groups on

614
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Speaker 10: the team.

615
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Speaker 2: You did that all one out one or on the field.

616
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Speaker 2: When he gets back in the wind up, Lee said.

617
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Speaker 4: Make such Yeah, it's gonna be scary.

618
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Speaker 16: Man.

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Speaker 4: You know, the one had a little preview of what

620
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Speaker 4: he could do in case he picked six, and so

621
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Speaker 4: you know, we we we trying to carry that momentum. Man.

622
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Speaker 10: He he's a they're great ball skills, smart guy, two

623
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Speaker 10: super Bowl rings, So yeah, I mean we have we

624
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Speaker 10: have a pretty deep room, so don't be surprised.

625
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Speaker 19: I think Bobo after the game was when he made

626
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Speaker 19: it kind of like in coach Schwartz, we trust like

627
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Speaker 19: as the defense. I guess what about Jim when him

628
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Speaker 19: coming in has allowed him to gain the trust of

629
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Speaker 19: his defense so quickly.

630
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean just as long as he been in

631
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Speaker 10: the game, his the se the success he's had, you know,

632
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Speaker 10: like with that it.

633
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Speaker 12: It's no easy.

634
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Speaker 4: Like he knows what he's talking about. So you know

635
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Speaker 4: we trust him. He puts him the right positions and

636
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Speaker 4: he left that d line go week and he lets

637
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Speaker 4: us what the uh showcase we could do in the

638
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Speaker 4: back end?

639
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Speaker 9: How about find how many pickle some kind of you

640
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Speaker 9: heys feel like you you say the same things, maybe,

641
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Speaker 9: but San Francisco did last week.

642
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 4: Yeah. You you know he beat us last year when

643
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 4: we played there, So he's seen him before we seen him.

644
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Speaker 21: You know what you can do.

645
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Speaker 10: It's a year or two for him. You know, he's

646
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 10: gotten better as a player. I'm sure got more familiar

647
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Speaker 10: with that scheme. You know, he he can make some

648
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 10: sideline throws, deep balls, stuff like that. You got a

649
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Speaker 10: good receive Hi at fourteen.

650
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Speaker 4: Or catch the ball. So they got weapons, man, So

651
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Speaker 4: it's gonna be a good challenge person.

652
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Speaker 14: You were able to be physical and with t Higgins

653
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Speaker 14: part of the reason White guys held him in the check.

654
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Speaker 14: So now you're going against George Pickens, who argu probably

655
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Speaker 14: a little bit even more physical.

656
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Speaker 13: Do you think you guys are prepared to handle that

657
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Speaker 13: physical Ben t Higgins?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, uh h, I don't know, if you know Uh,

659
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Speaker 4: you know it's gonna be a good challenge. Like he

660
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Speaker 4: go catch the ball, he got some broad talent.

661
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Speaker 13: Uh.

662
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Speaker 10: But you know we got going there the same mentality

663
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Speaker 10: that we always have. You tryna be the best in

664
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Speaker 10: the world, man, and you know it's team just next

665
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 10: our way to be honest. So we doing that with

666
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Speaker 10: that same mantality, take care of business together.

667
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Speaker 8: And we've heard the shorts toil you guys accountable what

668
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Speaker 8: something like when he's kind of after you go this

669
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Speaker 8: that you know after that hard coachre Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know he's coming from a good place, is what

671
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Speaker 4: I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, every great coach you don't

672
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Speaker 4: come from a good place. Man. It's it's not a

673
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 4: lot of he wouldn't be here if it if it

674
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 4: wasn't come from a good place. You know we talking about,

675
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 4: you know.

676
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,680
Speaker 10: Like stuff like played our leverage and that's some stuff

677
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 10: that he'll he might get on you for as a

678
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 10: dB for getting beat from the leverage or something like that.

679
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 4: But d be y'all there man, y'all, there's you gotta

680
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 4: make you gotta, you gott show what you can do

681
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 4: and makes a place that's a matter minute, especially.

682
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:53,679
Speaker 6: Coming off of.

683
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 9: You know, oh a week and did you guys are

684
00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 9: somewhat disrespected?

685
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 10: Right, this is a chance you showing to mention that

686
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 10: this is a chance for your guys national television to

687
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 10: show the world what you're all about.

688
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 9: And you do you sort of feel that right?

689
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 20: Table you pay now, you know, now.

690
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:11,479
Speaker 9: We can show everybody.

691
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, you know, I'm sure that not not a

692
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 10: lot of people had us high on that radar coming

693
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 10: to the season we did. That's all that matter really,

694
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 10: you know, I don't wanna pay too much attention to

695
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 10: what they say on the TV.

696
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 4: That they get paid to do that. So it's a

697
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 4: good it's a good opportunity for us to god each other.

698
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 4: So we could do.

699
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 10: Nothing too much else to say. You know, for myself

700
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 10: and I I do the same thing. I keep a

701
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 10: low profile. Uh just let my players be talking, to

702
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 10: be honest, I'll get for talking after that.

703
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 22: So being on that national stage and our prime time,

704
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 22: how do you kind of manage the emotions and the

705
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 22: excitement that can go into.

706
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 21: A game like that?

707
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 6: Uh?

708
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 4: Really, it's it's it's really the same man.

709
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 10: Like it's NFL, every game, every rep couse, every everything's

710
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 10: alf if the game is not in prime time. Is

711
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 10: on social media somewhere people have seen it, so and uh,

712
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 10: we're going there with the same with that same metality.

713
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 10: But you know, start start signing prime time game, so

714
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 10: somebody else step up wins.

715
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: At about that stadium gonna based it so hard to

716
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 2: win it.

717
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 5: M I don't know.

718
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 10: We haven't won in that stage two thousand and three

719
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 10: in the regular season.

720
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, the rest day. I didn't know that.

721
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 10: But man, yeah, Liliah, they got a great team. Obviously

722
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 10: they've had a number, I guess for a few years now.

723
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 10: So you knowing that take care of business, went up

724
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 10: to worried about that. They have a great team, great coaches,

725
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 10: is crazy fans, So it's gonna be a it's gonna

726
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 10: be a hat of atmosphere.

727
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: Just before practice, special teams coordinator Bubba ben Trone talked

728
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: about how important Anthony Walker is to the special teams

729
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: unit and what this rivalry meant to him growing up

730
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh.

731
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 8: You were confident Dustin would come through, and he did

732
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 8: tough conditions as well. Was that as good as start

733
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 8: as you could hope for him?

734
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 21: Yeah, it was a great start. I thought the operations

735
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 21: were excellent, timing operation was pretty good.

736
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 8: For how much more difficult it is on them. I

737
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 8: think we maybe don't appreciate all the nuance that goes

738
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 8: into that. Was that really challenging for them and those

739
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 8: kinds of conditions.

740
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 21: I think they handled it pretty well. We actually had

741
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 21: a few practices in training camp in the elements whenever

742
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 21: you know, it was raining out there, and that's good

743
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 21: times to to be able to practice and get that work.

744
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 21: So when it rains, I'm not I'm not upset at practice.

745
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 11: On moment having that that weather.

746
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 4: What was the message to him coming off the field

747
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 4: after he did kicking it and kick so successfully in.

748
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 21: That in those elements. Yeah, he hit the ball well,

749
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 21: good elevation, good rotation on all of his kicks. Timing

750
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 21: was good, Yeah, it was. It was great that we

751
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 21: were able to connect and are in those points.

752
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 12: Cool.

753
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 5: How did you feel How did you feel like the

754
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 5: coverage units and it seemed like you didn't give up

755
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 5: many yards you.

756
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 4: Know after you know, the return guy caught it. How

757
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 4: did you love those guys kind of green out?

758
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 21: You know, first ball the game we left a little short,

759
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 21: so we'll clean it. We cleaned that up as the

760
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 21: game went along on the kickoff, UH, and then on

761
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 21: the punts. I felt like we cover with pretty good leverage.

762
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 21: That's gonna be important this week and against a really

763
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 21: good returner in uh in Austin for them in Pittsburgh.

764
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:32,239
Speaker 3: UH.

765
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 21: But emphasis on on leverage and coverage and everyone doing

766
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 21: their job and playing complimentary coverage.

767
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 7: What are your thoughts and.

768
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 9: Memories of going into Pittsburgh and and trying to win

769
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 9: a big division game like this.

770
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 21: Yeah, it's a it's a It's a great environment to

771
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 21: play in. I'm born and raised there. I have a

772
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 21: lot of family that are that are from Pittsburgh that

773
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 21: are going to be at the game. So it's always

774
00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 21: fun to play and coach there for me and for

775
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 21: our team, and another opportunity at a division to hopefully

776
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 21: go in there and do what we can to get

777
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 21: a win.

778
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 12: What about the.

779
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 2: Steelers to you?

780
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 12: Say?

781
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,239
Speaker 13: Again, what was Brown Steelers to you when you were

782
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 13: a kid?

783
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 21: As a kid. As a kid, I was a Steelers fan.

784
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 21: And then once I once I became an NFL player,

785
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 21: I quickly became not a Steelers fan. So that being said,

786
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 21: you know, obviously we knew that it was a tremendous

787
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 21: rival back then. Uh, you know, I do remember Eric

788
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 21: Metcalf taking those two punts back. I think was it

789
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 21: a playoff game or what the end of the regular season. Yeah,

790
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 21: so I do remember that scarring me as a kid,

791
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 21: and now I can embrace that now that I'm a

792
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 21: part of this organization.

793
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 23: So will you share like your view of Steelers Week

794
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 23: with some of.

795
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 17: Your players this week?

796
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 16: Yeah?

797
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 21: And I haven't really talked much about you know, me

798
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 21: actually going back and how personal it is from you know,

799
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 21: my from my perspective. I'll probably talk about that a

800
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 21: little bit later in the week tomorrow and THENTO Saturday

801
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 21: and Sunday. What is today today's Friday?

802
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 12: Yeah?

803
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 21: I told Murph it felt like it was Thursday. But yeah,

804
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 21: so I'll definitely you know, expand on that with with

805
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 21: my players.

806
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: Well, how difficult is that stated?

807
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 5: You know, it used to be one of the tougher

808
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 5: places to kick field goals and especially to the you

809
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 5: open and has it as they've kind of been closed

810
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 5: it has it gotten Has that a change you know,

811
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 5: the conditions.

812
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 4: To kick him there?

813
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 21: I think it's always been a difficult place to kick.

814
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 21: Dustin's had a handful of games there to my knowledge.

815
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 21: You know, it is what it is. Whatever the conditions are,

816
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 21: will be ready for them. We'll test them out in

817
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 21: the pre game. It doesn't look like it's going to

818
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 21: be too bad on the elements. Maybe some rain earlier

819
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 21: in the day, so we'll see how that goes.

820
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 4: Bob as a just.

821
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 19: As a young coach kind of being around a guy

822
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 19: like Jim Schwartz, what have you sort of picked up

823
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 19: for him.

824
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,239
Speaker 2: In a few months together so far?

825
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 21: He's he's awesome. I like I like Coach Schwartz a lot.

826
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 21: I learned a lot from him.

827
00:32:58,680 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 6: Uh.

828
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 21: He holds players account countable. He holds coaches accountable. That's

829
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 21: you know, similarities that I feel like I have, you

830
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 21: know amongst my players and my staff. You know, he

831
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 21: is a funny guy. Uh, I really enjoy I really

832
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 21: enjoy him. He's super smart. I've learned a lot. We've

833
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 21: talked through a lot of situational uh things we're gonna do,

834
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 21: you know, collectively, whether it's you know, whether it involves

835
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 21: he or I or you know, our our units per

836
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 21: se on how we can work together to make them

837
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 21: the most efficient, most effective, especially in those critical moments

838
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 21: in the game when it involves defense to special teams,

839
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 21: and then some things we've implemented into our schemes and

840
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 21: really more into my schemes than than into his.

841
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 19: Can you hear him, like, can you hear him in

842
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 19: the building when he's holding those players and coaches accountable?

843
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 13: Oh?

844
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 21: Yeah, he's I mean, coach Schwartz is loud, probably a

845
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 21: little bit louder than me. Uh And I think that

846
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 21: I can be loud on the field at times, But no,

847
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 21: he's he's been great. I think that you know, everyone

848
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 21: has gravitated toward his personality and you can see that

849
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 21: that defense has taken on his his personality and you know,

850
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 21: his style play.

851
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 18: It seems like in some ways he's old school, but

852
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 18: then it on the other end, he was one of

853
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 18: the first guys out there to really embrace data and

854
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,280
Speaker 18: utilize it to his advantage. Is that something that you guys,

855
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 18: when you talk about things you've learned from him that

856
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 18: comes to mind?

857
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 21: Yeah, And Kevin did a good job of that this

858
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 21: this offseason, of getting the coaches together, working collectively and

859
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 21: really expanding our knowledge on all of those fronts. So

860
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 21: situational football is how you win and lose football games.

861
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 21: So we I think we've done a good job of

862
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 21: preparing ourselves for everything that we're about to encounter this year.

863
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 2: Did you feel like you guys came close to black

864
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 2: and one of those punts.

865
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 21: We had good pressure. Yeah, we had good pressure on

866
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 21: a number of them. The plans always going to dictate,

867
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 21: you know, how how we attack an opponent. Some weeks

868
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 21: we may pressure more than others, some weeks we may not.

869
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 21: You know, everything is factored in, know whether it's the

870
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 21: operation of the punter personnel, you know that we're looking at.

871
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 21: So that's a week to week thing. And yeah, I

872
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 21: thought we were able to get generally good pressure last

873
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 21: week and force a couple of mishits.

874
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 4: Of what's the.

875
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 2: Origin of the high school highlights on Friday's meetings?

876
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 21: The origin I just kind of started doing it when

877
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 21: I became a coordinator in Indie. I did it every Friday,

878
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 21: and the players kind of like took to it and

879
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 21: liked it a lot. I haven't yet chosen one for

880
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 21: this week, but yeah, I think I think it's just

881
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 21: something to lighten it up on a Friday. You know,

882
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 21: we're kind of like bringing everything together. I do more

883
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 21: situational type meeting on Friday amongst all really five units,

884
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 21: including our hands team. So yeah, I think the players.

885
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 21: I think the players enjoy it. It's always fun. I

886
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 21: usually do it at the end of the meeting.

887
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 2: And yeah, you too have been like find the clips

888
00:35:59,400 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 2: or did you ask?

889
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,760
Speaker 21: Fortunately, I would say fortunately for like nowadays, it's easier

890
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 21: to find players highlight film, especially younger players because of

891
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 21: like Huddle and all these whatever you want to call

892
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 21: it that they they you know, put them on on

893
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 21: the on the internet. Back whenever I was playing, they

894
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 21: don't could find my film. I think it was it

895
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 21: was on a VHS tape. Even my I want to say,

896
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 21: even my college highlight film was on VHS when I

897
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 21: was like trying to send it out to Scouts. So

898
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 21: I'm not that old. But yeah, in seeing Jerome Ford

899
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 21: is the best one I've seen. Yeah last week I

900
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 21: showed it.

901
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, basketball one this week?

902
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 21: What does that mean?

903
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 8: Oh?

904
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 21: Yeah, that's right, that's right. I could. However, the big

905
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 21: guys aren't my meeting on Fridays. It's really for me.

906
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 21: Why I do a big FOURIGN hands meeting on Fridays.

907
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 21: I used to save the big guys for early in

908
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 21: the week and then I get them on like a

909
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 21: Saturday meeting.

910
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 23: So, Bubba, last week, you know, you were talking about

911
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 23: how things happened in sports and you have to, you know,

912
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 23: respond the right way.

913
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 21: How much did the life you lived as a you know.

914
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 23: Core special teams guy kind of prepare you for what

915
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 23: you deal with now as a coordinator.

916
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 21: I think, I mean, you know, it wasn't like I've

917
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 21: I talked to my players a lot about, you know,

918
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 21: how I came into the league, how I felt like

919
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 21: I stuck into the league. I think at the end

920
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 21: of the day, it's, you know, it's it's how hard

921
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 21: you work and how much you put into it. Uh

922
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 21: that ultimately is going to give you the best opportunity

923
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 21: to be successful. So, you know, I was a back

924
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 21: end roster player that I feel like I had tremendous

925
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 21: work ethic and I was going to not be denied.

926
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 21: And I felt like that's why I was able to

927
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 21: stick because I was I feel like I was a

928
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 21: mentally tough and physically tough player that was going to

929
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 21: do everything I could to be on the field and

930
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 21: get myself a shot to succeed. I think that, you know,

931
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 21: with our players today, I think that if they can

932
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 21: take on that type of mentality, and that's kind of

933
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 21: how I've been as a coach as well. You know,

934
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 21: I just I try to do as best I can

935
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 21: to prepare myself and my players for any situation that

936
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 21: can come about in a game. That way, when you're

937
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 21: going into those situations, it's just like boom, you're not

938
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 21: even thinking about it. So it's an ongoing thing. Each week.

939
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 21: You have your process and my players are prepared in

940
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 21: everything that we're going to see, and I'll try to

941
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 21: review as much situational things as I can throughout the

942
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 21: year and rehit re and refocus them and get their

943
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 21: minds thinking the right way.

944
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 23: You get to the uncertain like kind of the uncertain

945
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 23: nature of your job now, Like I mean, I understand

946
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 23: like injuries hit every position or anything, but it seems

947
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 23: like special teams there can be a lot of movement.

948
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 21: You experience that recently, Yeah, you have to. I mean,

949
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,720
Speaker 21: there's times in a season where you're going to have injuries.

950
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 21: You're gonna have to adapt. H That's why I had

951
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 21: That's why I'm in the position that I'm in. I'm

952
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 21: trying to do the best I can with the players available.

953
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 21: If someone's not available in that instance, you got to

954
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 21: do your your best to figure it out. And you know,

955
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 21: I think that I've done a good job of that.

956
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 10: And the dominance of.

957
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 9: The defense and the intensity of the defense spill over

958
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 9: to the other units and something.

959
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 21: Yeah, we definitely fed off of what the defense was doing.

960
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 21: The third down stops were crucial and critical for our

961
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 21: ability to control field position. I felt like we did

962
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 21: a good job of that in the game. So give

963
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 21: our offense good fields to work with, good short fields

964
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,760
Speaker 21: to work with, which is which was a positive. Hopefully

965
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 21: we can get a lot of that this week, you know,

966
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 21: getting those stops. I came in on I came in

967
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 21: on Monday and I could barely speak because the stamp

968
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 21: stadium was so loud, and trying to get the communication

969
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 21: out to you know, your players what the call is,

970
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 21: because know, you could have one call up and then

971
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 21: you get a sack and now it's longer yarded situation.

972
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 21: You may want to get into something else. So being

973
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 21: able to get that communication out was definitely hard in

974
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 21: our stadium. Credit to the fans for that one.

975
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,919
Speaker 13: You know, he's been here captain this year despite being

976
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 13: gone for almost a year. What do you.

977
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 23: Appreciate about him?

978
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 21: Extremely hard worker, very very well prepared, super smart. You know,

979
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 21: in the classroom, he's one of the first ones in

980
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 21: the meeting room every day. And he doesn't play on

981
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,280
Speaker 21: all four units. He'll play on one or two depending

982
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,760
Speaker 21: on the game plan. And he's a tremendous note taker.

983
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,399
Speaker 21: He's very detailed. He helps the younger players out even

984
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 21: when he's not in in practice, he's coaching up the

985
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 21: younger players and bringing them along in that regard, I

986
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 21: feel like he's like he truly is a great a

987
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 21: great leader, you know, not even not just on the

988
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,240
Speaker 21: defensive side of the ball, but on the on special

989
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 21: teams as well. He understands that, he gets it. He's

990
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 21: just a guy that understands football and just gets gets

991
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 21: it well.

992
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 19: I know Mike Ford had that one really good stop

993
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 19: to give them bad field position, and then Cam had

994
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 19: the other one I think in the second quarter. Like

995
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 19: for a rookie to come in and get a play

996
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 19: like that, how much about confidence booster? I guess can

997
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 19: that be for for Cam in particular?

998
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 21: Yeah, it was great. I mean Corey gave us a

999
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 21: good both on both reps, give us good punts, to

1000
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 21: cover good leverage down the field. Both of those guys

1001
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 21: showed up in the first game. Looking for those guys

1002
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 21: to be very effective cover players for us this week.

1003
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 21: Like I said, we have a tremendous challenge in this team.

1004
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 21: They've got multiple returners that they have used in the

1005
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 21: past and we're going to be prepared for all of them.

1006
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 1: Next up on from the podium, offensive coordinator Alex van Pelt,

1007
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: he spoke about how confident he is in rookie Dwan

1008
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: Jones and what losing Cameron Hayward means for that Steelers defense.

1009
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 17: That's overkill. That's that's really you know, that's the result

1010
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 17: of our offseason studies. So hats off to coaching staff.

1011
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 17: We talked through different ways to exploit different looks and

1012
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 17: that was one of them. So that's some stuff we

1013
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 17: did and probably early March that that carried over.

1014
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 6: But it was your idea you uh ad to Saturday.

1015
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 17: Uh, I mean, we talk about it all all the

1016
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 17: situations that come up, especially Saturday. The good the good

1017
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 17: news is the game planning has never done to be

1018
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,280
Speaker 17: able to go in and install something on a Saturday

1019
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 17: morning with the guys and have it show up Sunday

1020
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 17: in the game is his it hats off to all

1021
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 17: the guys, but uh yeah, it was just something we

1022
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 17: we've we've seen from them and try to take advantage

1023
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:33,760
Speaker 17: of the situation.

1024
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 9: And we'll think you Shaun him Olten helped me plics.

1025
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 17: Man, it was it was rough, Mary kay, it was

1026
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 17: it was really it wasn't a hard ring, but it

1027
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 17: was a everywhere rain. It was just that mist. It

1028
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 17: was all over there everything. You know. He missed some

1029
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 17: throws he normally wouldn't miss because of the elements. So

1030
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 17: that's the positive. We had some guys that were open.

1031
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 17: I feel like we'd had more production had it not

1032
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 17: been such bad conditions. But both sides had to play

1033
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 17: under I thought he played admirably considering the conditions.

1034
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 6: Because of the conditions that when you move back into

1035
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:09,720
Speaker 6: room that those do you get excited knowing those plays

1036
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 6: weren't there to.

1037
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,720
Speaker 3: Be a more Keys was able to get separations.

1038
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 17: Yere into for sure. You know, I I we're doing

1039
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 17: good things. Uh schematically, I feel like and had a

1040
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 17: good feel going into that game. Uh know that opponent

1041
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 17: really well good defense obviously, but to be able to

1042
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 17: see the separation and the guys that were open feel

1043
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 17: confident that under good conditions, we'll be able to hit

1044
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 17: a few of those Oh looks.

1045
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,720
Speaker 5: I here's obviously a big loss for the for the defense.

1046
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 18: Is there.

1047
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 17: Do you quantify just what it means that have been

1048
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 17: on that Uh, I mean it's a perennial all pro

1049
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 17: I mean, just to take one of those guys off

1050
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 17: the field, Uh, it is is you know, tough for them.

1051
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 17: Obviously good for us. They'll have guys to step in

1052
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 17: and take that role over. But when you're talking about

1053
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 17: one of the elite defensive players in the league, that's

1054
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 17: not gonna be there at you know, n I'm not

1055
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 17: upset about it. I'm I I'm unfortunately. I know obviously

1056
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 17: you don't wanna see guys get hurt, but I would

1057
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 17: rather not play camp. I'd rather not play TJ. You know,

1058
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 17: those are just the realisms of the of the game.

1059
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 17: They're great players, and to take one of them off

1060
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 17: the field, it's gonna be tough for them. Obviously, that's

1061
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 17: what you see makes.

1062
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 2: You think he's ready for starting roll and then.

1063
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean it's a what a matchup he gets right,

1064
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,879
Speaker 17: first first draw out as a starter, But guys played

1065
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 17: a lot of football at a high level, UH, at

1066
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 17: a quality UH school, you know, played in big games before.

1067
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 17: You know, we gotta make sure we're we're We're not

1068
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 17: just leaving him out on an island. We'll take care

1069
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 17: of him. One of you know, I think one of

1070
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 17: the sort the the wan strengths is his past protection.

1071
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 17: Uh being so large, it is tough to get around him.

1072
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 17: So it'll be exciting to watch. It'll be a great

1073
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 17: match up, you know, And I know de Want will

1074
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 17: be up for the challenge. And it is a challenge.

1075
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 4: Played with.

1076
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 17: I mean just guys that were around when I came,

1077
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 17: but like Lincoln Kennedy as a guy that that he

1078
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 17: reminds me of just a massive man, you know. Jason

1079
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 17: Peters was as he got older, grew into that body,

1080
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 17: he was bigger. But de Want is you know, he

1081
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 17: he is a a mountain of a man.

1082
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:03,280
Speaker 12: When you're.

1083
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 22: How many.

1084
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean the great ones do I mean they

1085
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 17: they have the full gamut of moves and the counter

1086
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 17: moves off of that. I haven't studied the pass rush

1087
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 17: much like Scott Peters and those guys have, but I

1088
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 17: know he gets home. You know, I know that Uh,

1089
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 17: the San Francisco game when they he wasn't affected by

1090
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 17: an edge, whether they're chipping or at least getting in

1091
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 17: his way. He hit the quarterback and cause sack fumbles,

1092
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 17: had three sacks. So obviously he's a great, great player

1093
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 17: and we have to make sure we account for him

1094
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 17: at all times. Yeah, always evolving, just trying to find

1095
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 17: good matchups, trying to find plays where we could uh

1096
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 17: you know, give the defense a different look, do different things,

1097
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 17: hand it off to Elijah a few times, you know,

1098
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 17: and put Nick out wide and throw him the ball.

1099
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 17: So it's it's multiple and versatile. It's part of our

1100
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 17: identity as an offense, and we'll continue to grow that.

1101
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 17: It's definitely uh eight. Number one priority for us is

1102
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 17: to make sure we take care of the edges. You know,

1103
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 17: you can talk about Tjil you want, but high Smith

1104
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 17: on the other side is a pro bowler also and

1105
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 17: is an extremely good pass rusher. So not just one

1106
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 17: side we have to be uh on point on, it's

1107
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 17: really both sides. Development week, he's rolled with the punches,

1108
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 17: you know, he really has. He's just gone with the flow.

1109
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 17: You know. I see him this morning, he's sitting up

1110
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 17: in front of the meeting room and our protection meetings,

1111
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 17: and he's ready to roll. I think he's ready for

1112
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 17: the challenge. It's a huge opportunity, uh, you know for

1113
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 17: him to step in and play as a starter, as

1114
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 17: a rookie. So everything I've seen has been positive.

1115
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 5: How much.

1116
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 4: How much of the game have changed?

1117
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 17: Start it had a lot to do with it, you know,

1118
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 17: as we as we built the lead. Also, we wanted

1119
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 17: to uh lean a little bit on the run game,

1120
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 17: which we had success with, but uh, you know, the

1121
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 17: it definitely affected the past game. Early we were waiting

1122
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 17: for that break after halftime and it never really came.

1123
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,280
Speaker 17: But you know, we were both playing under those conditions.

1124
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 9: We wanted to hit a lot of those plays that

1125
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 9: if they if they don't hit the way that you

1126
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 9: wanted to.

1127
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 17: You just to keep going with that and know that

1128
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 17: you know, yeah, I mean it. It's uh they're they're

1129
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 17: really low percentage if you look at the overall completions,

1130
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 17: but they're huge explosives when you do hit 'em. You know,

1131
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 17: we'll take missus. We're gonna stretch the field. You know,

1132
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 17: we want to be explosive. The other part of that

1133
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 17: is if it's not there. It's one of the things

1134
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 17: we we talk about in the quarterback room if the

1135
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 17: shots not there, find a completion of the checkdown, so

1136
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 17: can't get greeting those situations. Just kind of take what

1137
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 17: they give you and just keep dialing them up together. Uh,

1138
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 17: just played against him mainly my time in Green Bay

1139
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 17: when he was in Detroit, but not nothing. On a

1140
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 17: personal level, what you thought of defense, very impressive. Obviously,

1141
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 17: that was a you know, it was a unbelievable performance

1142
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 17: by them. Uh their efficiency rating, I forgive us in

1143
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 17: the high seventies, which is unheard of. So they they actually,

1144
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 17: I mean they they dominated on that side of the

1145
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 17: ball and that that's great to see when you're an

1146
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 17: offense and you know you have a few three and

1147
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:32,879
Speaker 17: outs and you feel like, okay, our defense is gonna

1148
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 17: get us the ball back. That's a good feeling. So, uh,

1149
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 17: you know, really happy for those guys' success they had

1150
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 17: in that game and continue, uh moving forward to be

1151
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 17: a dominant defense. My first initial thought was, oh God,

1152
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 17: he were gonna get a penalty, because the te tend

1153
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 17: when he tends to do that, whether it's legal or illegal,

1154
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 17: and generally it's legal. It's just such a violent act

1155
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 17: that it gets called. So I was glad to see

1156
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 17: that the the ref didn't call it. I mean, he's

1157
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 17: had a many dominant blocks like that that have been

1158
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 17: called unfortunately that when you when you send them in,

1159
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 17: they come back as well. He had to you know,

1160
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:08,399
Speaker 17: it really wasn't a hold so out. My first fear

1161
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 17: was all, shoot, he's gonna get a flag, but UH

1162
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:11,359
Speaker 17: didn't see the flag.

1163
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 4: Is very happy.

1164
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 17: I mean, he's a he's a a strong, strong guy.

1165
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 17: His finishes is really good, so he's gonna have those opportunities.

1166
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 17: He was gonna be smart when we when we paying.

1167
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 4: Kick guys.

1168
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 9: Feet will help them.

1169
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 17: He's gonna have to use every tool in his toolbox.

1170
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 17: Uh to block that guy on the right side. There's

1171
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 17: no doubt but his his foot speed will help him

1172
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 17: in that regard, along with his size to get care

1173
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,720
Speaker 17: for the gas.

1174
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 16: Uh.

1175
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 17: I thought they were persistent with the run. I thought

1176
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 17: they stuck with it. They got some some looks of

1177
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 17: some you know, one two three yard games, and then

1178
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 17: they just kept running. And you know it's kind of

1179
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 17: a you know, you hang your hat on the run

1180
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 17: game and eventually you're gonna get some of those to pop.

1181
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 17: He had the big run obviously sixty five yards or

1182
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 17: whatever it was, but then y they started creasing them

1183
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 17: as they got going a little bit in the second half.

1184
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 17: You know again, when you when you take an all

1185
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 17: pro defensive tackle out, it's tough to replace that body.

1186
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 9: In the games.

1187
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 12: Right, how.

1188
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 2: Sure?

1189
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,800
Speaker 17: I mean anytime you could take the ball and basically

1190
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 17: handed to Nick Chubb five yards past the line of

1191
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 17: scrimmage is a good thing for us. Right doesn't have

1192
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 17: to get through the line, doesn't have to be blocked perfectly.

1193
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 17: So check down emphasis is is a big part of uh,

1194
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 17: the production that Nick can bring us.

1195
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 2: Alex, I know, you guys, you know.

1196
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 4: Things like that.

1197
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 2: How good is he?

1198
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 17: A really good I He's he sees it as well

1199
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 17: of got anybody I've been around. He could tell you

1200
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 17: exactly what happens on the play where each defender UH was.

1201
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 17: You know, He'll see stuff that I might not catch

1202
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:52,919
Speaker 17: on the sideline and I'll say, now the safety was there,

1203
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 17: and You're like, oh, shoot, he was there. So he

1204
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 17: sees it extremely well. It's one of his strengths, his

1205
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 17: ability to see and read defense.

1206
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: It was a big day for the defense Lands and

1207
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. Jim Schwartz was the final coordinator up. He

1208
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: talked about that big performance and what he sees in

1209
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: Steelers wide receiver George Pickens.

1210
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 24: I go, I got a hard one twelve stop, so

1211
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 24: I'll stop mid sentence when it comes up.

1212
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 2: But did that go about as well as you could

1213
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 2: have hoped? As far as.

1214
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 8: Alex said, you guys graded out really high.

1215
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 24: Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean efficiency wise, you know,

1216
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 24: they really couldn't get anything started or down all those

1217
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 24: all those percentage. It was a extremely high win percentage.

1218
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 24: But I think the thing I was most proud of

1219
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:44,800
Speaker 24: was the way the players played together and their spirit

1220
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 24: and the things that we've been talking about. You know,

1221
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 24: I thought, I thought, like you put the tape on

1222
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 24: and that stood out the most, not the efficiency or

1223
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 24: the run yards or the pass yards or you know,

1224
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 24: any of those numbers that went behind numbers.

1225
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 12: And it's what we've been you know, sort of of

1226
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 12: pointing towards.

1227
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 24: Since day one, is to operate as a cohesive unit too,

1228
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 24: you know, to to work well with each other. You know,

1229
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 24: I have a stupid saying that. You know, our job

1230
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 24: as a defense is to find a way to for

1231
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 24: one plus one to equal three, meaning that the some

1232
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 24: needs to be greater than our individual parts.

1233
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 12: And I thought we did that. That's what that's what

1234
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 12: I was most proud of, said, you.

1235
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 5: Off that, you know the loafs, you know that when

1236
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,839
Speaker 5: you don't see the guys celebrating with their teammates after

1237
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 5: a big play, when did you sort of.

1238
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 4: Kind of come up with that?

1239
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 5: You know what part you know, to to kind of

1240
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 5: implement that with your defense to get that, you know

1241
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 5: kind of you know.

1242
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 24: Well, first of all, Martin shouldn't be talking about what

1243
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 24: goes on in our meetings. So we'll just we'll just

1244
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,439
Speaker 24: stay We'll just just start with that. But I don't

1245
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 24: know every coach has, you know, different things like that.

1246
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 24: You know, like there's a lot of kind of loafs

1247
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 24: on a on a on a field. You know, you

1248
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 24: get passed by a teammate, that's a loaf. You know,

1249
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 24: there's there's all sorts of different you know, change of

1250
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 24: speed loaf. You get a guy that's running and all

1251
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 24: of a sudden change the speed, that's a loaf. But

1252
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 24: you know, we sort of added celebration loaf and that

1253
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 24: you know, we want to celebrate guys making plays and

1254
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 24: we want to have energy. And you know, it's easy

1255
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 24: when you play a game like we did. You know,

1256
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 24: sometimes it's harder when you're getting kicked in the teeth.

1257
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 24: But we still want to see that and we still

1258
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 24: want guys to play hard, play together, and we're going

1259
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 24: to find ways to get that done. And if it

1260
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 24: means something silly like that, then mission accomplished.

1261
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 19: How about Miles crossover dribble your you know, your thoughts

1262
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 19: on that and some of the things that he did

1263
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,280
Speaker 19: in terms of standing up over the center.

1264
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 17: And stuff like that.

1265
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 24: Yeah, I mean, you know, he's a great player and

1266
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 24: he's going to get attention wherever he goes. We're just

1267
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 24: trying to move around get good matchups. And you know,

1268
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 24: I think the thing I liked the most about him

1269
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 24: was just the way he was an unselfish rusher.

1270
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 12: You know, like on that play he didn't get the sack,

1271
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 12: you know, but if you watched him.

1272
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 24: He was celebrating obo and a walk and all those

1273
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 24: other guys that got in it just as much.

1274
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 12: And you know, up front, you know, we're trying to

1275
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 12: sack the quarterback.

1276
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 24: They didn't give as many opportunities that the ball was

1277
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 24: coming out so extremely fast. You can't really judge the

1278
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 24: way we rushed based on that. But it's all about

1279
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 24: what the group does. It's all about what the defense does.

1280
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 24: And when you get guys to buy into that and

1281
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,399
Speaker 24: they can celebrate their teammates and they can be unselfish,

1282
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:33,319
Speaker 24: I think that's the That's the thing that stood out

1283
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 24: the most about you know, the way we used him.

1284
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 13: You move him around and you go with the five

1285
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 13: d linemen and you moved to Darius all over.

1286
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 7: How much of that is about creating confusion for what

1287
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 7: the line and the quarterback.

1288
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 2: Are looking at.

1289
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 24: Well, yeah, I mean, but you know, when it's all

1290
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 24: said and done, they know Miles wears number ninety five

1291
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:53,760
Speaker 24: and he's you know, six foot five and two hundred

1292
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 24: and seventy pounds, and you know, I mean he's not

1293
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 24: you know, I used to say that about Calvin Johnson.

1294
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 24: You know, it's like, you know, you move them around. Yeah,

1295
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 24: but he still wears number eighty one and he's you know,

1296
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 24: six foot five, two thirty five and you know, so

1297
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 24: you know, I think that they know who our players are.

1298
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 24: But you know, I think if if we have the

1299
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 24: ability to have guys that are well, we have guys

1300
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 24: that are multi dimension have multi dimensional skills, and that

1301
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:22,800
Speaker 24: gives us the ability to move.

1302
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:24,240
Speaker 12: Guys around in different ways.

1303
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 24: And we talked about that when we signed or traded

1304
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 24: for z. You know, from the very beginning that was

1305
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 24: that was an important part of his profile. And you know,

1306
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 24: having guys flexible, guys like that allow you to you know,

1307
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 24: sort of move pieces around.

1308
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 19: I mean, or even mentioning that the sacks necessarily weren't

1309
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 19: there because of how quick the ball was coming out

1310
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 19: to still get the pressures, especially Miles and Ze, how

1311
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 19: valuable that ended up being, especially for those who come early.

1312
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:53,799
Speaker 24: Yeah, I mean, the whole idea is, you know, get

1313
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,240
Speaker 24: off the field on third down and keep the points

1314
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 24: down and things like that, you know, I mean, you know,

1315
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 24: I mean, if you or a power hitter, I'll use

1316
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 24: my tired baseball analogies, but if they're not giving you

1317
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 24: a pitcher over the played hard to hit home run, right,

1318
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 24: And you know, when when the ball was coming out

1319
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 24: so quick, they really the Bengals really couldn't get any

1320
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 24: you know, any kind of development to their passing game,

1321
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 24: and that had just as much of effect. And like

1322
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 24: I said, I was proud of the guys and the

1323
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,240
Speaker 24: spirit that they played with. There was nobody getting frustrated.

1324
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 24: They were getting third and fourth down stops and and

1325
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 24: you know, keeping the score down and you know the

1326
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 24: things that we talked about. And you know, the numbers

1327
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 24: will come, but you know, the whole idea is to

1328
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 24: play to team football, to have some camaraderie, to play

1329
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 24: with some spirit. And I think, like I said, that

1330
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 24: was what I was most proud of.

1331
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,319
Speaker 8: Easier to get guys to buy in on the selflessness

1332
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 8: when you have a talent like ninety.

1333
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 24: Five, I don't know, you know, I mean, I think

1334
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 24: that's you know, that's that's part of coach's job, that's

1335
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 24: part of a player's job. You know, a coach needs

1336
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 24: to sell his plan and his vision and he needs

1337
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 24: to come up with ways to put his players in

1338
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 24: the best positions. And then when you're doing that, then

1339
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 24: it's easier for players to buy in. But then players

1340
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 24: have to players have a responsibility to buy in. Also,

1341
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 24: it's a two way street. I don't know that it

1342
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 24: has anything to do with you know, a certain jersey

1343
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 24: number or anything else. It's just high school football, pee

1344
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 24: wee football, NFL, college, you know, playing together and everybody

1345
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 24: operating is one operating efficiently communicating, and those things are

1346
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 24: probably below the radar when it comes to People love

1347
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 24: to talk about the scheme and the chefs match and

1348
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 24: everything else, and you know, I mean that's important, but

1349
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:52,160
Speaker 24: that's pretty far down on my list.

1350
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 9: The team to lead the league in some intangibles like

1351
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 9: effort and passion.

1352
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 13: Did you see enough of that in week one?

1353
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 9: And how does that translate into Week two and another

1354
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 9: tough division?

1355
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 12: Yeah, week one's over with that.

1356
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 24: I don't know that, you know, I mean, week one,

1357
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 24: it was what it was, you know, I mean, I

1358
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 24: don't know. You say you've seen enough of it. You know,

1359
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 24: we have seventeen game season, and hopefully we'll play more

1360
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 24: after that. So our job is to go out and

1361
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 24: do it every week and to be consistent. And you know,

1362
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 24: I think we set a good standard for how we're

1363
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 24: going to play. And I think it wasn't just it

1364
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 24: didn't just stand alone. I think, you know, if you

1365
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 24: saw some of our practices in training camp, you felt

1366
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 24: some of the same thing. And if you saw our

1367
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 24: preseason game, I hope our preseason games, I hope you

1368
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 24: would see the same thing.

1369
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 12: But you know, it's just a start. Let's not let's

1370
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 12: not get ahead of ourselves. It's Pittsburgh and this is.

1371
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 24: A huge rivalry in away game, a primetime game. We'll

1372
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 24: keep the focus on not and not what happened last week.

1373
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 24: We want to carry over the effort and the toughness

1374
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 24: and the swag and the badass and all those things

1375
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 24: that we talk about. But you know, that game's over

1376
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 24: and our challenge is to do it again this week

1377
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 24: because this is a this is a big game for

1378
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:11,479
Speaker 24: our team, for our franchise, for our city.

1379
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 2: Heard a year ago he said he wasn't sure he'd

1380
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 2: make it back. So just how glad are you? What

1381
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 2: does he meant to the whole operation here?

1382
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 24: Well, I mean, I think it speaks from itself that

1383
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 24: he's one of our captains, you know, I mean, he

1384
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 24: was wasn't part of the whole most of the season

1385
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 24: last year, was wasn't part of most of the off

1386
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 24: season program, you know, sporadic in training camp, but he

1387
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 24: found a way to make his presence felt. He's an

1388
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 24: experienced player, He's super smart, understand situations. He's a really

1389
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 24: good communicator, makes life easy for the other guys around him.

1390
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 24: You know, I'm going to run out of time saying

1391
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 24: nice things about him, so but he better practice good today.

1392
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 4: A couple of problems were challenges.

1393
00:59:58,160 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 13: Can you pick a security defense?

1394
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 24: Yeah, he's a guy that you know, people talk about

1395
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 24: fifty to fifty balls, but you know, I don't know

1396
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 24: they're necessarily fifty to fifty balls. With him, he wins

1397
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 24: probably you know, seventy thirty of them. And that's going

1398
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 24: to be a big challenge for our guys. You know,

1399
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 24: I think our guys showed the confidence that they can

1400
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 24: play with on the outside part of the field against

1401
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 24: some pretty tough characters and Higgins and Chase. Every week

1402
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 24: it's a new challenge and I wouldn't just wouldn't just

1403
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 24: stop with with Pickens. Alan Robinson's an experienced player. Friar

1404
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 24: Mouth big target for the quarterback. We have a lot

1405
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 24: of one on ones that we have to win. And

1406
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 24: it's not just going to be you know, just one

1407
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 24: player one on one. We'll have zones, we'll have man

1408
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 24: But you know, if we can have a performance like

1409
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 24: we had last week, and we can, we can we

1410
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 24: can be confident on the outside part of the field.

1411
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 24: Now that being said, is the NFL. They're going to

1412
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 24: make plays right every week's you know. I mean these guys,

1413
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 24: these guys are real good and they're going to make plays.

1414
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 24: The thing that we're gonna need to see and we

1415
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 24: saw it the one one time on Denzel when he

1416
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 24: got the p I right, we bounced right back, stopped

1417
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 24: him right after that and held him to a field

1418
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 24: goal on that one, right. I think I think that's

1419
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 24: what it was, either that or the miss field but

1420
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 24: I can't remember. But you know, there's going to come

1421
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 24: times they're going to make, you know, great catches. That

1422
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 24: guy's made some insane catches, you know, and he's he's strong,

1423
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 24: he's he's got good, a good frame. That's going to

1424
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 24: be a great matchup for fans to watch on Monday night.

1425
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 7: The importance of tackling after the catch, and it felt

1426
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,800
Speaker 7: like Grant out made a bunch of those even had

1427
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 7: some third down town impress Were.

1428
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 2: You with what Granted that we do?

1429
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 24: Yeah, I've been watching Grant since college, watched pretty much

1430
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:44,520
Speaker 24: his whole career. I thought that was probably the best

1431
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 24: game I've ever seen him play, including college. You know,

1432
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 24: those safeties that can make everybody right, they can match

1433
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 24: up in Man did a great job with his disguise,

1434
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 24: you know, him and Rodney and even Hickman, they did

1435
01:01:57,800 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 24: a great job.

1436
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 12: We did disguise, you know.

1437
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 24: And has the ability to play down low, complaining the

1438
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 24: deep part of the field.

1439
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 12: You know, Grant.

1440
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 24: Grant's off to a great start, and you know, I'm

1441
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 24: excited for where he'll go this year if he keeps

1442
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 24: it up. But again, one game doesn't make a season.

1443
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 24: We need to be consistent, we need to keep putting

1444
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:18,919
Speaker 24: it on tape week after week. But I'm really proud

1445
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 24: to coach a guy like Grant.

1446
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 14: A lot of being made about your comment about not

1447
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 14: being everyone's cup of tea. We've heard Jim Donovan on

1448
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 14: the broadcast say I like tea, and Fancy say he's.

1449
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:30,439
Speaker 4: Our cup of team.

1450
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 2: How good is that for you?

1451
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 14: Does that kind of give you the no seatbelt mantra

1452
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 14: that you're preaching the defense and you know, how good

1453
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:41,920
Speaker 14: does it feel to have that city and the coaching.

1454
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 24: Staff behind you to pay attention a lot to it?

1455
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 24: I'd say, I'd say this like I expect players to

1456
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 24: play with their personality. I don't want to coach robots

1457
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 24: on the field. I expect them to have personality, and

1458
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:00,560
Speaker 24: every guy's different. We talked about a Walk and he's

1459
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 24: a little bit different to Miles, and we talked about Grant,

1460
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:05,439
Speaker 24: and we talked about you know, all these different guys.

1461
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 24: Everybody's got it a little different personality, and you can't

1462
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 24: like force feed everybody into those I am what I am.

1463
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 24: You know, I embrace it. You know, sometimes I can

1464
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 24: ruffle some feathers. Sometimes I can be a little tough,

1465
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 24: but you know, there's a there's a motive behind it.

1466
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 24: I've seen a lot of stuff in the NFL, and

1467
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 24: I have a good idea of what, you know, we

1468
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 24: want to accomplish and what we want to exceed, and

1469
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:33,439
Speaker 24: sometimes you've got to be willing to ruffle a couple

1470
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:36,440
Speaker 24: of feathers to to get that out. Our job is

1471
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 24: to inspire and motivate our players, and there's a lot

1472
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 24: of different ways to do that.

1473
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:42,360
Speaker 13: You know.

1474
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 24: Sometimes it's pat on the back, sometimes it's a bite

1475
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 24: in the ass, you know. So you know, I'm prepared

1476
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 24: to do whatever it takes to get our players ready

1477
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 24: to play and and really to like let the chips fall.

1478
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 24: I really, you know, I really don't care what's what's

1479
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 24: said or written about me.

1480
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:04,080
Speaker 11: A while back mentioned the emphasis on and then stopping

1481
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,200
Speaker 11: the third down how you guys at thirteen of them

1482
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:09,080
Speaker 11: on Sunday, even though we won, as you said, has passed.

1483
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 11: Has there been a certain emphasis that you've brought to

1484
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 11: this unit that rings seventeen at that last season and

1485
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 11: ringed up this season in the weeks to follow.

1486
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean we put a lot of time in today.

1487
01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 12: A lot of our stuff is going to be on

1488
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 12: third down.

1489
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 24: And you know, we talk about job at the defense

1490
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 24: is keeping points down and turning the ball over. And

1491
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 24: one of the best ways to get off with no

1492
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 24: points is to get off the field on third down

1493
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 24: or fourth down. Stop fourth down stops, turnover, you know,

1494
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 24: turnover on down set the offense up for a score,

1495
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:44,920
Speaker 24: which we did in that game. We'll keep eye on

1496
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:47,479
Speaker 24: those things. But you know, red zone stops we didn't.

1497
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 24: We didn't play any red zone snaps, but third down stops,

1498
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 24: you know, that's extremely important to keeping keeping the points

1499
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 24: down and keeping your guys fresh getting the ball back

1500
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 24: for the offense. You know, we have a pretty good

1501
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 24: combination of rush cover and some blitz looks and things

1502
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 24: like that. But again, last week is last week. You know,

1503
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 24: this week we're starting off zero for zero on third down.

1504
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 24: There's no carryover. You know, maybe you stats people might

1505
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 24: you know, feel like there's carryover whatever, But you know,

1506
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 24: this game's fresh, this game is new.

1507
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 12: We got to do the job. This week is a

1508
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:26,360
Speaker 12: big game on Monday Night. And you know, I know

1509
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 12: a little bit about.

1510
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 24: This history from my three years here before. And you know,

1511
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 24: this is a very important game for our defense, for

1512
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:35,919
Speaker 24: our team, for our organization, and for our city.

1513
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:37,720
Speaker 12: We got one more minute.

1514
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 7: Upgrade what defense has been in the past.

1515
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 2: Obviously, the Browns kind of getting mixed up in that,

1516
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:49,720
Speaker 2: and you know, are kind of forgotten about.

1517
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 14: Do you feel like this Monday night game is a

1518
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:57,400
Speaker 14: chance for your defense to stay acclaim and you know,

1519
01:05:57,440 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 14: potentially being the best defense in the NFL.

1520
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:02,560
Speaker 24: We don't worry about that. We're trying to be the

1521
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 24: best we can be on a particular Sunday. We'll let

1522
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 24: the chips fall where they may after that. You know,

1523
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 24: they have a great, great storied history of defense. We

1524
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:13,640
Speaker 24: have a lot of respect for what they've done and

1525
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 24: you know, and things like that, but none of that

1526
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 24: is going to mean anything on Monday Night. You know,

1527
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 24: it's going to be the two teams this year. These guys,

1528
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 24: you know, let me know if me and Joe and

1529
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 24: Jack Lambert are playing, because you know, if we need

1530
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 24: a plan for Franco Harris or Lynn Swann or John

1531
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:36,280
Speaker 24: Stalworth or Franco or Terry Bradshaw, we'll get that ready.

1532
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 12: But those guys aren't playing. This is a new year.

1533
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,440
Speaker 12: This is a new year. So what's happened in the

1534
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 12: past that doesn't mean anything to this game. We have

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Speaker 12: respect for them.

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Speaker 24: We always respect our opponents, but we're gonna accentuate us

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Speaker 24: and what we do well and try to give our

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Speaker 24: best performance and not worry about the rest of the

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Speaker 24: league or what's happened in the past or you know

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Speaker 24: what's going to happen ten weeks down the road.

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Speaker 12: Let's keep our eyes on today and Monday night.

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