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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,

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Speaker 1: October twenty eighth. The Ravens fell to the Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 1: twenty nine to twenty four on Sunday, and the Ravens

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Speaker 1: are now five and three on the season. Today we

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Speaker 1: heard from head coach John Harbaught during his standard Monday

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Speaker 1: afternoon presser.

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Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate everybody being here, getting ready for Denver, looking

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Speaker 2: hard at that team. A team has been playing really well,

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Speaker 2: been hot, and we're gonna have a hands full, but

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Speaker 2: we're looking forward to the challenge. You can't wait to

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Speaker 2: get back at it this week. So what question do you.

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Speaker 3: Have, John, You have made changes for a long defense,

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Speaker 3: adding Dean and Thelman personnel with Marcus. Do you foresee

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Speaker 3: making any other kind of changes to help the defense alone?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it depends what kind of changes are

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Speaker 2: available to us. We're going to continue to turn over

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Speaker 2: every stone with our defense and with every other part

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Speaker 2: of our team too, you know, to to get as

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Speaker 2: good as we can get it during the course of

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Speaker 2: a long season, ups and downs, challenges, you know, good

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Speaker 2: plays and not good plays. So it's a lot of

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Speaker 2: things we can improve on. We'll do whatever we can do.

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Speaker 4: You press confidence after the game, marks players and would

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Speaker 4: go on to player in football in years. Do you

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Speaker 4: anticipate when happen necessarily being a one game thing, and

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Speaker 4: do you expect him to play against enders?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, I'm not going to probably try to

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Speaker 2: not going to play in the game. But I'll just

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Speaker 2: reiterate what I said before. Marcus is a heck of

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Speaker 2: a player. I have the utmost confidence in him as

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Speaker 2: a player, as a person, as a pro. He's a

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Speaker 2: great person. He's a hard worker, plays hard, practice is hard,

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Speaker 2: does everything at the highest level. And I anticipate in

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Speaker 2: playing great football for us, you know, all season and

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Speaker 2: very soon.

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Speaker 5: Is there any any thogal him not being active yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we don't ever really probably getting too

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Speaker 2: much of the thought process and that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: It just it goes the way it goes. We make

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Speaker 2: the decisions that we make based on the best judgment

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Speaker 2: we can make, try to do our best to try

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Speaker 2: to do what we can go.

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Speaker 6: You gotta spend a lot of time with defensive facts,

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Speaker 6: catch the balls or practice one.

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Speaker 5: Why isn't this sort of was it translating the games

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Speaker 5: and what else can you possibly do?

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Speaker 2: That's a great question, you know, that's a really great question, Todd.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: There's probably a lot of factors that are pretty hard

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Speaker 2: to measure on that, but yeah, there's no doubt. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, we lead the league in those drops. They

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Speaker 2: are interception wise, that's it's no secret. And those are

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Speaker 2: those are huge plays. Man, there's a huge opportunity plays

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna choose to look at like those players are

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Speaker 2: going to get made, you know, and that's the upside

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Speaker 2: for us. Man, That's that's low hanging fruit way I

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Speaker 2: see it going forward. That's where you can make a

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Speaker 2: huge difference in your play. I mean, how many fewer

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Speaker 2: plays you have to play, how many fewer scoring opportunities

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Speaker 2: they have? The difference in points, it's massive, you know,

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Speaker 2: making those plays. So we'll make those plays. We'll work

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Speaker 2: hard at it, and we'll continue to work even harder

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Speaker 2: at it, you know, because because it's something that we

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Speaker 2: want our guys to have confidence. And you know, we

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Speaker 2: get guys with good hands, you know, they can catch

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Speaker 2: the ball. So I'm pretty I'm very confident that we're

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Speaker 2: going to do it. Going forward, but I'd like to

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Speaker 2: see it happen real soon.

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Speaker 3: On that slant.

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Speaker 7: Touchdown, Ropemont Smith is screaming the whole way to come

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Speaker 7: back across a lot of screwed.

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Speaker 3: He's still in motion getting with the ball a snap.

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Speaker 5: And are not ready.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they weren't.

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Speaker 5: What's happening there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it just that's what happened. It's every one of

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Speaker 2: a lot. It's not unusual with all the no huddle

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Speaker 2: Especially don't want to happen in the red zone, you know,

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Speaker 2: So it's it's it's what defenses face nowadays in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of moving parts to the offenses, and

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Speaker 6: John, I mean, I know that's something you're continuously trying

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Speaker 6: to improve it. But is it frustrated that it seems

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Speaker 6: that it seems like communication issues blar up pretty often,

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Speaker 6: it seems like to this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, like I said, I watch

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Speaker 2: the league, and so I'm not gonna single out our guys,

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Speaker 2: but I'm gonna we're gonna coach our guys. You know,

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Speaker 2: our guys are our concerned. So yeah, we're concerned with

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Speaker 2: can be. So we'll chase that. We're gonna get it

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Speaker 2: better and better and better. And uh, I don't know

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Speaker 2: if we'll get it perfect, but we're gonna try, and

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Speaker 8: Any Reds. Looking back at the fourth down decision, or

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Speaker 8: wasn't the lack of execution when.

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Speaker 2: You looked at the top, Uh, Well, I think if

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Speaker 2: you look that, that's a pretty clear cut go you know,

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Speaker 2: most of the time around the league, especially at the

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Speaker 2: there at the ten. That's why, That's why it's a

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Speaker 2: clear cut go. I think most of the time we're

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Speaker 2: It was more than that. It scored a touchdown on it.

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Speaker 2: So my only regret, if you want to call it

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Speaker 2: I'm not in love with the fact that we didn't

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Speaker 2: So that's the disappointment there, John can I I just

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Speaker 2: want to clarify something on Marcus Williams.

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Speaker 8: You said yesterday it was a personnel decision, but you

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Speaker 8: also said it was an internal type of situation.

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Speaker 3: I want to make sure I don't I.

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Speaker 2: Think I have anything else to say about that. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's what we do. It's what there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of things going on all the time,

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Speaker 2: you know, and a lot of it's kind of our business,

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Speaker 2: you know, it kind of belongs in house. It's between us,

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Speaker 2: and it's not something that we need to tell everybody

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Speaker 2: everything about. I don't think you're telling everybody about your

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Speaker 2: family business. I don't think everybody's asking about everybody's kind

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Speaker 2: so probably not gonna start doing that. Now.

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Speaker 3: You're fishing depth concern on the defensive line this coming

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Speaker 5: I mean, is a tough, tough situation right.

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Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, tough situation we have to be. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've got guys I would like to have those guys

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Speaker 2: and we're gonna have guys that are gonna be ready

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Speaker 2: to go and stopping the run. This this game is

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Speaker 2: gonna be really important, Chiles. It's gonna be huge. This

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Speaker 5: Here's here's possibly a longer term thing.

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Speaker 2: Or do you yeah, just like I don't know it's Monday,

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Speaker 2: we'll see.

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Speaker 5: That was your question along those lines, just in terms

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Speaker 5: you and Eric will will look out to trade deadline

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Speaker 5: approaching that you guys will look hard at whether it's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I think that we definitely will because

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Speaker 2: that's what Eric does, you know, Eric, and as guys

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Speaker 2: stretch to the best of their ability. You know. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I know we lost the game. It's disappointing, it's tough,

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Speaker 2: hate it. And we didn't play well enough to win.

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Speaker 2: We didn't make the plays we needed to make, we

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Speaker 2: the game. But that doesn't mean I don't love our players.

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Speaker 2: I mean our players and our coaches. Uh, they're they're

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Speaker 4: John here, Yesterday was kind of a unique circumstance with

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Speaker 4: your numbers on the he doesn't live with the injuries.

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Speaker 4: What the pass u In the second half, you guys

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Speaker 4: did blitz a little more than you typically have blitzed

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Speaker 5: Do you think that it's more mornings we got from.

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Speaker 4: The scheme standpoint as the guys with the World One matchups.

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Speaker 5: I know it's never just one thing, but.

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Speaker 2: What are you Yeah, I'm happy with it a lot

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Speaker 2: it's not as consistently there as you're gonna want it

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Speaker 2: to be. And I think some of that is the

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Speaker 2: fact that we played some really mobile quarterbacks. We've had

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Speaker 2: the kind of cage rush a little bit. That wasn't

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Speaker 2: the case yesterday. You know, that's one I would have liked.

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Speaker 2: You've gotten him off the spot a little more, a

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Speaker 2: little quicker. So we did blitz, and they were getting

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Speaker 2: But there's also times on play action, especially on first down,

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Speaker 2: maybe that's somewhere we've got to do more blitzing, you know.

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Speaker 2: And first and second down we did something you know,

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Speaker 2: is that called a couple edge blitzeres that got there.

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Speaker 2: So we'll be looking real hard at.

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Speaker 5: That giving the decision on Marcus would what's your takeaways?

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Speaker 5: Are theirs Washington's task to do a lot? And what

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Speaker 2: I thought they played solid football. You know, they were

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Speaker 2: Was really disappointed out the loss, you know, really disappointed,

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Speaker 2: And then what you have to do is you can't

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Speaker 8: Defense has been in the right spots majority of the time,

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Speaker 8: were just failed to execute on plays. They've been credited

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Speaker 6: But do you feel that.

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Speaker 1: They are I do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's we're we're we're contesting. You know,

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Speaker 2: But you know, we we were there, and I think

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Speaker 5: Yeah, along those lines, on third downs, you know haven't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and defense, we one thing we need to do

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Speaker 2: Let's get him in third and third and eight, thirty nine,

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Speaker 7: hear from your guys that the Cleveland Broughs did did

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Speaker 2: About I think I went back and watch the tape today.

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Speaker 8: Or does the team have an apprehension to use Lamar

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Speaker 2: What's yeah, that's probably it. I mean, we're not we

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Speaker 2: You know, you've got a bigger body and they're doing

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Speaker 2: That's really our thinking on it. We can still we

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Speaker 2: Those are things that we work on. Let our opponents

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Speaker 2: You know, if I'm saying it. But yeah, that's basically

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Speaker 8: On it limits your abilities on the third down to

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Speaker 2: Like six inches or foot you know, I think if

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Speaker 9: I think you guys are still you know, near the

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Speaker 5: All that executed well, And has any of that I think.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean sure, I mean it's absolutely, I mean

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Speaker 2: that's always been what we've done. We've been a big

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Speaker 2: blitzed from both sides. We've we've shown blitzeres one way

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Speaker 2: It's a big part of our defense. And you know,

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Speaker 9: I know that's an injured question, but was it illness

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Speaker 2: allowed to really disclose it. But he's doing okay, you know,

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