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Speaker 1: Like, honestly, you guy, you invested defense, take great pride

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Speaker 1: how much did that hurt you guys? And and what

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Speaker 1: was the what what did you see as the main

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Speaker 1: issue yesterday in defending to run? Um? Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: to be kind of gap sound assignment sounds. Uh, just

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Speaker 1: because they use every aspect of their offense. Obviously the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks able to running backs able to run, were able

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Speaker 1: to do multiple things, motions, shifts, all these types of

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Speaker 1: ways to out leverage you. Um. And when you went

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Speaker 1: back and looked at the film, Um, it basically just

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Speaker 1: came down to assignment football. UM don't know. The way

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Speaker 1: I look at it was you have eleven on eleven.

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Speaker 1: One guy has to be holding the ball, so there's

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Speaker 1: ten against eleven to block. Um, if we can fit

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Speaker 1: it right, Uh, one guy should be free. And we

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Speaker 1: just didn't do our assignment on each one of those

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Speaker 1: I don't mean to sound like a smart ATK or something.

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Speaker 1: But there are people who look at the record and

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Speaker 1: say six and uh, you know five, five and ten,

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Speaker 1: and you know you possibly can finish six and ten.

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Speaker 1: No team deserves to be in the playoffs six and ten.

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Speaker 1: How do you react to something like that? UM, I

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Speaker 1: don't think the records the biggest thing to look at.

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Speaker 1: I think you look at a team as how they

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Speaker 1: progress throughout the season, how they're improving, um, the style

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Speaker 1: continue to when you keep going. You can be a

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Speaker 1: team at six, ten and oh and lose the first

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Speaker 1: that's like you said, six and ten and win all

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Speaker 1: the way through and you you keep going. UM, and

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Speaker 1: so at that point, once you're once you're in that position, UM,

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Speaker 1: it's the best team wins. I like your Your head

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Speaker 1: coach mentioned after the game yesterday that he thought you

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Speaker 1: You know when something's not going your way, as a defense,

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Speaker 1: whether it's in defending the past against Cleveland or defending

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Speaker 1: urging maybe the coaches to say, listen, you know, I

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Speaker 1: that advantage on that play and you couldn't scrape over

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Speaker 1: think our coaches hit the best. I think they said,

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Speaker 1: you always want to have December meaningful December football games.

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Speaker 1: Obviously this game will be in January meaningful January games. UM.

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Speaker 1: And so to be able to have that, Uh, every competitor,

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Speaker 1: take two more. Tom rock Dully, Uh, two years ago

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Speaker 1: Coach Judge told us, you were guys around the train

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Speaker 1: all right, Lake, it's a nice to face a team

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Speaker 1: their past game, they're starting to kind of fire on

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Speaker 1: these games are on different days this year. UM, it's

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Speaker 1: just all about execution. UM. I think as long as

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Speaker 1: where we need to be, UM, what spots to defend

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Speaker 1: in the past game of the on game, Um, we can.

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Speaker 1: We can go out there and play against anyone. Quick

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