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Speaker 1: All right, all right, we're gonna start with Mac. We'll

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Speaker 1: start with Mike Grease as the first question. Will I'll

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Speaker 1: ask others to raise a hand if you have questions

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Speaker 1: for Mac. All right, thanks Stacy. Mac. How are we

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Speaker 1: doing today? I'm doing great? How about you doing well?

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Speaker 1: Doing well? UM? Take me back, if you will to

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Speaker 1: the tip ball interception, UM and what you saw you

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Speaker 1: know to um to make that play? Um. Obviously it

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Speaker 1: was I can't remember what down it was, but UM,

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Speaker 1: they got off to h I feel like they was

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Speaker 1: driving the ball pretty well and it was a play

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Speaker 1: where it was a play action and I kind of

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Speaker 1: read the old lineman saw he wasn't climbing up to

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Speaker 1: the second level, and I kind of just sat there

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Speaker 1: for a minute, and then I saw and then that's

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Speaker 1: when I saw Trubisky. He dropped back with the ball,

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Speaker 1: and as I was dropping into my into my zone

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Speaker 1: on the field, I just started I was just looking

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Speaker 1: at his eyes and he was kind of looking at me.

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Speaker 1: But I'm like, dude, I just keep drifting back or

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Speaker 1: do I kind of like turn inside. So I kind

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Speaker 1: of felt kind of felt the receiver behind me a

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Speaker 1: little bit, so I got to turn it inside and

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Speaker 1: then that's when he threw the ball, and you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously I tried to make a play on it, didn't

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Speaker 1: come down with it, but Mills came down with it,

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Speaker 1: and you know, it was I feel like it was

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Speaker 1: a great play. We got a turnover, so and Mac

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Speaker 1: what was when the team? It was first down, by

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Speaker 1: the way, I was just looking over my notes. They

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Speaker 1: had converted a third and short and it reset reset

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Speaker 1: the clock there, I'm first down, game started, and I'm

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Speaker 1: charting who's on the field, and I said, wait, oh,

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Speaker 1: thirty you know, yeah, when when did you sort like

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Speaker 1: did you know, like when did you find out and

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Speaker 1: what was your reaction to sort of get in a

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Speaker 1: little bit more of an expanded role with the defense.

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Speaker 1: I was just, um, it was obviously up to the coaches.

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Speaker 1: I really didn't know, you know, just going into this week,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just was working hard, take advantage of

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Speaker 1: my opportunities at practice. Um, and you know, when we

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Speaker 1: got to the game, it's like thirty and eight gonna

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Speaker 1: start us off, and that's when I was. I was

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Speaker 1: excited obviously to go out there and you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of put some things together, go out there and try

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Speaker 1: to make plays and just go out there and play

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Speaker 1: for play for my teammates. I don't other people have

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Speaker 1: their hands up. Sorry, but you didn't really know until

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Speaker 1: the like literally the game was starting, that you were

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Speaker 1: going to be out there to start. Yeah, I didn't know,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was just ready whenever they say that.

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Speaker 1: Next question, Chris Ryan fall By Mike Charity a Mac

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Speaker 1: are you I'm great? How are you awesome? M What

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Speaker 1: is your feel for how good the past defense is

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Speaker 1: at this point and what do you think is contributing

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Speaker 1: to the success you've had through two games? Yeah, like

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Speaker 1: you said, there's two games, you know. Obviously we in

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Speaker 1: week two. We're just trying to keep building on what

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Speaker 1: we've been putting on display this far. So it's been

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Speaker 1: pretty good. But we can't get complacent, you know. We

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Speaker 1: just got to continue to keep screening things together, continue

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Speaker 1: to keep working hard, keep our head down, and just

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Speaker 1: control what we can control. Do you feel like you

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Speaker 1: guys are starting to build an identity? As you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: only two games, but you guys seem like you know ballhawks,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a guy catching the ball trying to rip

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Speaker 1: it out you obviously with that play that Mike was

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Speaker 1: talking about getting your hand on it and tipping it.

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Speaker 1: What's the philosophy on that and do you feel like

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Speaker 1: there is an identity building? Yeah, definitely, you know, first

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Speaker 1: and foremost playing this game, you know, you obviously can't

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Speaker 1: do it without forming some type of identity. And you

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Speaker 1: know as well, we've been been creating since the all season.

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Speaker 1: You know, Ota is always up to training camp into

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Speaker 1: the season, preseason into the season, and you know, we

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Speaker 1: just we just always talk about all you want our

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Speaker 1: identity to be as a defense, and you know that's

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Speaker 1: just playing hard, making plays, you know, causing turnovers, you know,

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Speaker 1: and not giving up explosive plays, no mental airs and

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Speaker 1: things like that. So we just try the best to

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Speaker 1: keep our foot on the on the gas pedal, you know,

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Speaker 1: take everything one day at a time, you know, one

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Speaker 1: w day at a time, and just continue to form

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Speaker 1: their identity with the way we pay for games. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Next question Mike Charity for recommend Stone. Hey, mac Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm curious. They were seven for nine at one point

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Speaker 1: that one of six to close the game. Were there

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Speaker 1: he adjustments made in those situations or is it simply

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Speaker 1: just like someone's just got to make a play and

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Speaker 1: you started making more plays. It was just one of

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Speaker 1: those deals where, um, we just have to have more

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Speaker 1: awareness of what's the down and distance and what's what's

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Speaker 1: the possibility of the players that they can run in

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Speaker 1: these situations, you know. And I feel like everybody just

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Speaker 1: got together and we just start you know, basically just

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Speaker 1: playing and playing hard and just really just you know,

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Speaker 1: focusing on you know, like I said, what can they

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Speaker 1: possibly run? You know, and not really just being too

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Speaker 1: the sticks and things like that. And I just feel like, um,

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Speaker 1: like like coach Belichick mentioned, we played great, you know,

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Speaker 1: second half, especially fourth quarters. So when he counted the

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Speaker 1: most who was rolling? Is that? Is it harder early

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Speaker 1: in the season, as she said, like you know, sort

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Speaker 1: of tendencies and what sort of players are gonna call

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Speaker 1: just because it's week two, you know, they had a

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Speaker 1: game Week one, Different things happen. You don't I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know you can go past this story, but you

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Speaker 1: don't have a ton of takee to sort of have

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Speaker 1: a deep well of knowledge about them yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's just all about being a football player,

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Speaker 1: you know, having that awareness, because how I look at it,

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Speaker 1: it can be second and thirteen. They're really not trying

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Speaker 1: to run the route at the sticks. You know, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna try to pick up five or six here and

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Speaker 1: you know, set theirself up for a manageable third down

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Speaker 1: or if it's third and long, thirty thirteen, third and

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Speaker 1: twelve plus, Okay, let me see that the sticks. They

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Speaker 1: trying to run round sat the sticks. You know, other

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Speaker 1: than that, he won't have time enough to get the

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Speaker 1: pass off with the guys we have upfront. So it's

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Speaker 1: just all about you know, having that awareness, bit of

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Speaker 1: that awareness, and just playing fast, trusting yourself. Thanks back.

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Speaker 1: Next question looks like the last question. Kevin Stone, Hey man,

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Speaker 1: how you doing? Man? I'm great? Are you good? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: So yesterday it was mister Krafts five hundreds game. You

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Speaker 1: obviously haven't been here very long, but in you a

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Speaker 1: short time here, Just what if your interactions with him,

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Speaker 1: Ben liking, what have you kind of learned about him?

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Speaker 1: Mister Kraft is a great guy. Um, he'd be all

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Speaker 1: through the build and walking around, come through the locker, room.

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Speaker 1: Never I catch him, I get a chance, I speak

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Speaker 1: to him, you know. And he's been doing an unbelievable job,

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Speaker 1: you know here with this organization, you know, even before

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Speaker 1: I was born. So just for me being a part

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Speaker 1: of his five five hundred win, you know what, it

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Speaker 1: means a lot to me as much as it means

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Speaker 1: a lot to him. So it's an honor. I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure that he was. He was super pumped, you know

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Speaker 1: after the game when he got the dub, and I

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Speaker 1: was just happy that we was able to do that

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Speaker 1: for him. Thank you, Thanks everyone, Thanks Mack. Yes, sir,