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Speaker 1: Please David morning by uh we just start with the

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Speaker 1: COVID update. If there isn't eat for today, um we

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Speaker 1: have no uh no COVID updates for you today, okay.

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Speaker 1: And also you you've talked before about um, you know,

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Speaker 1: has a greater familiarity with an offense, you ever have

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Speaker 1: to thread the needle back or other quarterbacks as far

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Speaker 1: is that something you have to strike a balance with. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is, um, you know you

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Speaker 1: look at the ebb and flow of a football game.

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Speaker 1: You know you could take a broader stroke all that

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Speaker 1: the whole of a season, you know. I think that's

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Speaker 1: why you know it's important to being in tune with

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Speaker 1: the statistics and analytics and you watch the numbers. But

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Speaker 1: the most important part of self Scott, you know, whether

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Speaker 1: it's the self Scott of what you do scheme wise

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Speaker 1: just to make sure you're on top of what goes

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Speaker 1: on within um, you know, within the statistic and where

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Speaker 1: I'm going with this is no different than quarterback play

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Speaker 1: You know that there's more than uh, there's more evaluation

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to grow, because the result is you know,

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Speaker 1: doesn't make it a bad you know, a poor quarterback decision.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's important to always have to grade

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Speaker 1: every part of the particular play. We were talking about

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Speaker 1: passing plays. Obviously, you know as far as the quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: fundamentals the decision and just stay in touch with that,

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Speaker 1: because you know, you got you have to take out

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Speaker 1: the emotion of how the game is resulted. You've got

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Speaker 1: you're evaluating how your team performs, because if you don't,

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Speaker 1: you're really missing a lot of a lot of variables,

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Speaker 1: players to grow, for the play caller to grow. How

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Speaker 1: it affects your game planning the next day, and I

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Speaker 1: so you so you don't skip over things due to emotion,

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Speaker 1: we understand the results, We understand where the stats are.

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Speaker 1: such a long answer. Clearances, he's chumping the bed over there. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean just that, the numbers reflect that, history reflects that.

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Speaker 1: End of the day, we got we got a great

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Speaker 1: into these playoffs. Absolutely, And we talked with you Monday

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Speaker 1: outcome of how we perform, because we're definitely gonna get

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Speaker 1: on the edge, you know, I want our guys being

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Speaker 1: as physical as hell, playing a you know, a more

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Speaker 1: physical game than our opponent and so forth. And you know,

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Speaker 1: so with that, the aggressive this that comes with that

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Speaker 1: is a priority. But the discipline with that is is

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Speaker 1: is obviously a priority we need to continue to work with. Hey,

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Speaker 1: last question for you, what case could you make for

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Speaker 1: Michael Parsons to be Defensive Player of the Year. Well,

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Speaker 1: I may just just look at the impact. I think

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Speaker 1: it goes back to when I just says he's just

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Speaker 1: been as an impactful player. Uh, definitely, you know, not

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Speaker 1: only just for our defense, you know, I mean I

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Speaker 1: think it's clearly changed the view of how people look

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Speaker 1: at our football team. So uh, and he's, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's done a lot to to you know in

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Speaker 1: a short period of time, you know, and I think

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Speaker 1: not only the players that he makes, but also you

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Speaker 1: know the impact that he has for the one on

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Speaker 1: ones that he potentially creates for other players. Thank you