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Speaker 1: Like it's everybody's playing for something. It kind of splits

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Speaker 1: You know. I've been in that situation one time in

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Speaker 1: I think when you watch Connor run downhill, aggressive runner

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Speaker 1: usually makes more yards uh than what's there breaking the

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Speaker 1: first tackle or you know, falling forward. So we got

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Speaker 1: to do a good job of not thinking like, hey,

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Speaker 1: every play is going to be a pass, like they

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Speaker 1: have a good amount of runs in there, and if

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Speaker 1: it gets going, we got problems. I think, you know

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Speaker 1: what Connor also, you got to think about Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: in that situation where some of the design quarterback runs

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Speaker 1: they have for him. Um, you know, the spread is

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Speaker 1: one thing, but I think it doesn't tell the whole story.

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Speaker 1: It's not like every time it's spread it is going

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Speaker 1: to be passed. So we gotta do a good job

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Speaker 1: of reading our keys. And I think watching film and

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Speaker 1: being prepared, that's what you