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Speaker 1: Right, how're we doing?

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Speaker 2: Feeling good?

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Speaker 3: Out to be an error repeater a simple question or

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Speaker 3: phrase it properly. The challenge of facing quarterback has led

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Speaker 3: regular season games since twenty twenty three for.

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Speaker 1: Your defense, you know, I don't know if it's so

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Speaker 1: much the challenge of that he hasn't played in a while.

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Speaker 1: I mean more than just the whole team as a challenge.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's very capable of being a starting quarterback.

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Speaker 1: He could be a starter for a number of teams.

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Speaker 1: Very talented, athletic, smart, you know, like I said, athletic,

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Speaker 1: he can run better than what most people think. Strong arm,

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Speaker 1: very accurate when you watch his film, But I don't

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Speaker 1: think it brings some added level of difficulty as far

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Speaker 4: Yep, that's good. That's good.

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Speaker 3: Sat there any tape and specifically of Jared saying you

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Speaker 3: guys have focused on whether it's preseason twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Eight, I wouldn't say specific but watching all of it,

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Speaker 2: Our study of him valuable at all?

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Speaker 1: And you know preseason has different factors to it, but

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Speaker 1: still just you know, to see him as a player,

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Speaker 1: how he operates.

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Speaker 2: It's good to watch that from time to time.

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Speaker 4: I know he's a question right this week. We saw

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Speaker 4: him out there at the Rich Jersey in the last

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, if he's out there, obviously he's a playmaker.

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Speaker 1: He did last week, physical shows up in the run,

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Speaker 1: game challenges and coverage. You know, anytime a player can

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Speaker 1: build momentum for the team like that, it's always good

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Speaker 1: to have that back out there. For sure.

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Speaker 4: It seems like your guys blitz rate has gone up,

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Speaker 4: especially in the postseason, as much as you can or

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Speaker 4: were there any reasons behind that? And how have you

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Speaker 4: felt about the effectiveness of those kinds of packages.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I truly don't know the stats or

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Speaker 2: whatever games for that, But every new opponent brings different

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Speaker 2: challenges which might lead to different you know, philosophical schematics

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Speaker 2: that week and every week is different.

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Speaker 1: So to say you know, this is who we are

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Speaker 1: now or anything like that, I wouldn't agree with that.

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Speaker 1: But just seeing what they do well, what we do well,

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Speaker 1: and how do we blend both and is that fun

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Speaker 1: At least on the opendent, I would I say it's

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Speaker 1: more fun that I think every week no matter what,

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Speaker 1: and you know, collaborating and that stuff. He doesn't have the.

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Speaker 3: Sack numbers, but what be seeing from court Jodan's improvement

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't want to get past either the

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Speaker 1: run game stuff with him because his technique over these

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Speaker 1: last I was talking about there practice today, how is

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Speaker 2: He's truly done that.

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Speaker 1: You know, you look at his pad level, you know

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Speaker 1: gotten better. I'm proud of him for that. One of

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Speaker 1: the themes that we've heard talking to coach Rabel some

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Speaker 3: Challenge, Like what makes.

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Speaker 4: It the challenge?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he does a great job of mixing things up.

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Speaker 1: The one thing you can tell about Sean Payton, you know,

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Speaker 1: he does a great job just of mixing up run pass.

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Speaker 1: Not a lot of tendencies Hey, well this personnel or

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Speaker 1: he's pretty balanced. So we just got to line up,

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Speaker 1: you know, know our rules, know our matches, know our fits,

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Speaker 4: Dak, You's mentioned that piece of trying to uncover the

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Speaker 4: disguises that you guys will have coverage wise, and the

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Speaker 4: challenge of that Sunday, you know, aside from the basic

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Speaker 4: what are the ways that they do get to opposing defenses?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, different motions to see how you react to motions.

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Speaker 1: Obviously I like the the non skill at number one

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Speaker 4: It sounds kind of like your own system on the offenses.

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Speaker 4: That's something that's uncommon.

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Speaker 3: In the NFL to be able to mix up packages

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Speaker 1: You're saying offensively, Uh, you know, some guys stick to

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Speaker 1: I think we played them twenty twenty one and they

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they did really pitch and efficient thing. It's too

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Speaker 4: high coverage and I know oh plays a big role

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Speaker 4: Can you count on that same efficiency with Stida or

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Speaker 4: Hows today, it's good.

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Speaker 1: Good energy. Guys are flying around. You can tell they're

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Speaker 4: How do you deal with the uncertainty around a guy

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Speaker 4: like JK. Dowins is just coming back. They just open

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Speaker 4: like I if he use.

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Speaker 1: An help, Yeah, I mean, I think it's important to

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Speaker 1: But you know, guys, just knowing what his running style is,

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Speaker 4: I'll do you assess their offensive line?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, obviously they got all pro guys out there.

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Speaker 1: great job up front. They have, and it's shown in

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Speaker 2: It all shows.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, going back to that game of twenty one, I

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Speaker 2: I really don't remember.

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Speaker 1: I was just more unlike staring at the Siglin making

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Speaker 4: Is there something that is pacient of the rhythm of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say he's outside the normal with that.

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Speaker 1: That's how to use his tempo, the timing of substitutions,

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Speaker 1: all of it. A lot of Ponder is the guy

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Speaker 4: his growth this season, what he's brought to the defense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm proud of Ponder because usually once you hit that,

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Speaker 1: some position flex and versatility which is only going to

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Speaker 1: help them in the years to come. Yep, thanks guys,

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