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Speaker 2: lot of times they're in tight games things like that.

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Speaker 2: to lean within the game is how we'll play it.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's got a lot of pass rush moves

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Speaker 3: Yes, what have you seen Anton Harrison progression wise? Is

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Speaker 2: We two gotten better, I believe so. Yeah, and that's

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Speaker 2: But I think you've seen him grow every single week

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Speaker 2: So that's the growth that our offense takes. Everybody on

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Speaker 3: They got to the mental load that those guys rookie

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Speaker 2: So I think for young guys, it's just that process

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Speaker 3: How is the attention that Calvin Ridley's been getting from

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Speaker 3: Right, Trevor's timing through I think was like two point

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Speaker 2: Again, it's a case by case, Steele. If if that's

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Speaker 2: it's just it's kind of there's an EBB and within

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Speaker 3: Biggest thing you guys missed offensively when Day's not in there.

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Speaker 2: But again, Zay today is a huge part of our offense.

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Speaker 3: It's probably a bigger loss than a lot of people

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Speaker 2: You have to do the COMPI same, yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 3: Close is this offense to being where you want it

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know that we'll ever get there,

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Speaker 2: I mean where. That's kind of what we're chasing is perfection.

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Speaker 2: We want every single play call to be against the

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Speaker 1: Close?

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Speaker 2: Ah, I'm trying to think. I don't know. There's probably

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Speaker 2: there's just enough drives here and there, But that's kind

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Speaker 2: of it's like going to play golf. And I shoot

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Speaker 2: ninety five most times, but I part nine or Part eighteen,

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Speaker 2: and I want to keep coming back. So it's just

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Speaker 2: kind of that, no matter how bad you play, you

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Speaker 2: end up finding a way to win. And I want

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Speaker 2: to come back and do it the next week. I'm

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Speaker 2: eager to get started again. So it's just that's kind

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Speaker 2: of what you're always chasing.

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Speaker 1: So yep,