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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Presspass Podcast. It is Monday, November eleventh.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens had the weekend off after beating the Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: Bengals on Thursday Night Football. Now they're gearing up for

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Speaker 1: a matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's a week eleven

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Speaker 1: showdown between the top two teams in the AFC North.

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Speaker 1: As the Ravens prepare for that game, Today we heard

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Speaker 1: from head coach John Harpball.

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Speaker 2: With Lebar.

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Speaker 3: You know he's increased his passing yards, Well, it's really

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Speaker 3: decreasing this interceptions.

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Speaker 4: I mean he has two interceptions and now in ten games.

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Speaker 4: Why do you think he has been able to protect

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Speaker 4: the ball, especially interception wise so well this year?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think Lamar has just been intentional about playing

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Speaker 5: as well as he can across the board, you know,

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Speaker 5: and that's a big part of it. There's so many

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Speaker 5: things that going to play in the quarterback position and

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Speaker 5: then so many things that go into the thing you're

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Speaker 5: talking about as well, So across the board. I think

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Speaker 5: he just tries to be the best he can do

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Speaker 5: the best he can every aspect of it, whether it's

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Speaker 5: whether it's huddle communication, uh, pre snap making, sure everybody's

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Speaker 5: in the right spots. We've improved, We've improved greatly in

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Speaker 5: those those pre huddle, pre snap communication areas. We got

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Speaker 5: to continue to get better at that and then operating

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Speaker 5: the place at a high level. So all those things

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Speaker 5: go into it, and I think all of us would say,

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Speaker 5: we just gotta we have to continue to improve, you know,

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Speaker 5: the sense of urgency and everything we're doing.

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Speaker 6: That's the latest. And Kyle Hamilton, I know you said

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Speaker 6: that the game wasn't serious an any further update there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's Monday. You know, he's he's been here

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Speaker 5: all weekend getting treatment and stuff like that. So we'll

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Speaker 5: see how it looks on on Wednesday.

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Speaker 7: Going forward, a look at the film, some impressions from

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Speaker 7: from the Cincinnati game, and most importantly, how does Jamoar

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Speaker 7: Chase Able'll get open so frequently after over that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Jamar Chase is pretty good. So that's

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Speaker 5: one reason if you're looking for the house. You know,

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Speaker 5: I think he does a good job. And uh that's

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Speaker 5: where it starts. As a talented person, but way too much,

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Speaker 5: way too many, And it really comes down to how

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Speaker 5: we're how we're playing, you know, it comes down to us. Uh,

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Speaker 5: we've got to play our coverage is better in those

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Speaker 5: situations deep deep part of the field, especially the deep

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Speaker 5: middle and the intermediate middle part of the field, or

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Speaker 5: the areas that are have been a problem for us,

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Speaker 5: just very inconsistent back there in that sense, and we're

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Speaker 5: going to be attacking that. It's probably the one major

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Speaker 5: thing if I was going to put a priority thing

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Speaker 5: on it, obviously probably everybody would agree with that. That's

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Speaker 5: the one number one target that we have to get

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Speaker 5: better at. Is that that aspect of our past coverage.

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Speaker 5: So you know, we we worked at it through the

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Speaker 5: weekend and we'll continue to work at it, and everybody's

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Speaker 5: determined to get better, and we have a growth mindset

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Speaker 5: to get better at everything, but you know, with a

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Speaker 5: high sense of urgency to get better at everything, but

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Speaker 5: that one area has to get better.

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Speaker 3: John Marlin Humphrey said that what's happening in practices and

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Speaker 3: always translating to the field, that you're playing certain coverages

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Speaker 3: certain ways in practice and then two is later it's

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Speaker 3: breaking down. Is that what you're seeing from the film,

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Speaker 3: And obviously.

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Speaker 5: That happened, Yeah, I mean it's not across the board.

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Speaker 5: You know, we've had we've had really good practices, especially

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Speaker 5: the last couple of weeks in terms of coverage, but

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Speaker 5: it hasn't translated to the feel consistently. I mean, I

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Speaker 5: think they had sixty four pass calls in the game,

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Speaker 5: so that's a lot of passes to defend against good players.

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Speaker 5: But you know, you can't have those long touchdown passes.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's one thing. It's one thing to give

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Speaker 5: up you know, nine yard completion seven yeard completions on

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Speaker 5: checkdown and low routes and go tackle them. It's another

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Speaker 5: thing even to hit a sail router or any breaking

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Speaker 5: route and tackle it. But to not tackle it or

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Speaker 5: to let it get behind us. Those are just things

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Speaker 5: that are just those are below the line, you know,

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Speaker 5: those are not okay. Not that you don't get beat

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Speaker 5: every now and then. Teams get beat here and there,

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Speaker 5: but it's just happened way too much with us right now.

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Speaker 2: The last one to jam Chase where it was kind

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Speaker 2: of I believe it's a one play drive where they

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Speaker 2: responded to you guys at score, but was there miscommunication

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Speaker 2: on the back and then was there mississiundate he kind

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Speaker 5: Yeah, just the techniques were played wrong. They weren't played

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Speaker 5: the way that they're designed to be played. So whether

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Speaker 5: it's just something wasn't seen the right way or it

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Speaker 5: was misunderstood, you know, we'll look at it from a

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Speaker 5: coaching standpoint that we didn't coach it well enough. You know,

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Speaker 5: we've got to coach it better, make sure they understand

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Speaker 5: it more clearly, you know. And that's a type of

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Speaker 5: situation that same route has been covered before. That wasn't

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Speaker 5: the first time it's been run against this, So again

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Speaker 5: we've got to be consistent with it. We've got to

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Speaker 5: be on point every single play. We have to have

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Speaker 5: a clear understanding of what we're doing, and we've got

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Speaker 5: to be urgent about it.

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Speaker 6: Marlin also said that you know something's got to change,

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Speaker 6: you speaking broadly, obviously, when you look at it, do

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Speaker 6: you anticipate or wily you look at any potentially you know,

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Speaker 6: personnel changes, moves, et cetera, including responsibilities.

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Speaker 8: And things like that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, of course you consider everything. So there's everything's on

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Speaker 5: the table always. So I don't think that's any news story.

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Speaker 5: It's not definitely not headline worthy because that's what you do.

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Speaker 5: That's what I spent the weekend doing. So our coaches

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Speaker 5: spent the weekend doing, and that's what our players spent

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Speaker 5: the weekend doing in the back end. So we'll look

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Speaker 5: at every aspect of it and you know, pursue the

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Speaker 5: best path that we that we can think of and

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Speaker 5: that we see going forward with a great sense of urgency,

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Speaker 5: like I said, and we'll be pointed toward the Pittsburgh

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Speaker 5: game in terms of what they do and who they

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Speaker 5: have doing it, and go out there and play good football.

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Speaker 4: Lamark Jackson his lowest passer rating against any teams against Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 8: Now, I know he missed a couple games with injuries,

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Speaker 8: but what has it been about Pittsburgh that has kind

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Speaker 8: of signing him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that that they played well against us

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Speaker 5: and we haven't played well against them, you know, in

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Speaker 5: that sense, you know, as far as moving the ball

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Speaker 5: and scoring points and all that. So this is a

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Speaker 5: new game. You know, we don't live in the past,

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Speaker 5: and we're moving forward and trying to We don't live

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Speaker 5: in the past game. We don't live in the past record,

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Speaker 5: None of that matters. It's the next game, no matter

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Speaker 5: what happens. You got to you get ready for the

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Speaker 5: next football game in National Football League. So but we'll

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Speaker 5: look at it, you know scientifically, you go back and

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Speaker 5: watch all the games and try to make sure that

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Speaker 5: we that we're doing the things we need to do

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Speaker 5: to win this particular game.

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Speaker 9: I know they're focused on point and the improve the

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Speaker 9: coverage in the back end of pass rush. Thows the

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Speaker 9: night might have been the best team wide pass rush

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Speaker 9: that you've had on here. You know, some people pointing

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Speaker 9: to the traps shows being back healthy would play the

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Speaker 9: season high and stats. What does he bring for you

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Speaker 9: in the front, whether we're talking pass rusher, was stopping

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Speaker 9: the run and then you know, he's not someone who

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Speaker 9: shows up on the sets sheet a whole lot of

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Speaker 9: the traditional sets.

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Speaker 5: What makes him so valuables what you guys do up front, right,

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, the inside pass rushes are really important,

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Speaker 5: is a big deal, and it doesn't always show up

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Speaker 5: with sacks. You know, a lot of times it shows

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Speaker 5: up with just pressing the pocket, shallowing the pocket out

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Speaker 5: for the quarterback if his depth of the pocket and

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Speaker 5: he's got room to step up and make throws and

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Speaker 5: you know, you know, in the game, you know Burrow

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Speaker 5: did step up and had a couple of throws, but

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Speaker 5: a lot of times he didn't wasn't able to step up.

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Speaker 5: And that was the that was, that was, That was

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Speaker 5: all those guys, And of course Travis was who you mentioned.

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Speaker 5: I thought he did a great job of that and

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Speaker 5: he always has.

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Speaker 8: John. I guess if people look at the if you

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Speaker 8: at look at the numbers, a lot of the big

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Speaker 8: players that you've given up in coverage have been been

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Speaker 8: in zone looks. If you desert of explain to people

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Speaker 8: what you think are the fundamentals of playing zone coverage? Well,

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Speaker 8: what what are What are the key things?

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Speaker 5: Uh? The basic thing is to keep the ball inside

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Speaker 5: and in front. It's most fundamental level. I think whether

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Speaker 5: it's zone applies to run defense as well. I got

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Speaker 5: to keep the ball in front of you. We believe

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Speaker 5: in top down principles for sure. Sometimes we're in spot zone,

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Speaker 5: sometimes we're in match zone. Sometimes we're in fire zone.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes we're in two deep, sometimes we're in three deep.

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Speaker 5: All those things are different, and they have different ways

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Speaker 5: of playing routes. But the bottom line is that you

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Speaker 5: want to keep the ball in front of you and

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Speaker 5: you want to be able to see your threats and

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Speaker 5: the ball. That's important and maybe that's sometimes that stayed

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Speaker 5: in terms of playing where now you can't if you're

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Speaker 5: running with a route downfield or you're impressed coverage, that

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Speaker 5: can be zone as well. And it looks like man,

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Speaker 5: it's kind of a man version of zone. You're still

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Speaker 5: gonna be able to find the ball. And uh that's

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Speaker 5: kind of where it starts.

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Speaker 7: Became official.

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Speaker 4: How do you see him fitting in and what do

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Speaker 4: you like about what keep bring?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, just a first of all, high level human being,

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Speaker 5: great guy. Uh, everybody that's been around him says that, uh,

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Speaker 5: high level competitor, a tough, tough guy, you know, willing

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Speaker 5: to uh to get out there and play hard like

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Speaker 5: we like. So we respect that about him. Uh, we

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Speaker 5: expect him to get in there and start taking snaps

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Speaker 5: in the rotation, you know and at corner. So, uh,

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Speaker 5: that's why we traded for him. So we're looking forward

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Speaker 5: to it. I know he's excited.

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Speaker 2: John with that, Deontay Johnson, it seems like his workload

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Speaker 2: is starting to increase. Do you imagine this week kind

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Speaker 2: of maybe looking a little more in terms of his workload,

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Speaker 2: like what you expected to be throughout the rest of to.

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Speaker 5: See absolutely absolutely see same kind of conversation. And he's

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Speaker 5: been here now for somewhat of a number of practices.

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Speaker 5: I mean last week wasn't We only had one practice

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Speaker 5: that was really where he has got a chance to

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Speaker 5: move around. But I would expect that to ramp up.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Uh is do you guys see babies player as

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Speaker 7: an outside.

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Speaker 5: Corner in this you guys not around as an outside corner. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: that's where he's played mostly.

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Speaker 8: John, You look at the division, Raven Steelers have kind

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Speaker 8: of separated himselves a little bit down of the division.

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Speaker 9: How big do you think Sunday's game could be determining

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Speaker 9: who gets the division title?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know it's it's if you want

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Speaker 5: to win the division, you gotta win division games, you know.

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Speaker 5: So that's that's the that's the deal.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 5: They've had a great season. I mean, they've done a

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Speaker 5: great job against the people they've played against, you know,

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Speaker 6: And Keith Mitchell obviously came back. What do two things

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 5: It's got some special teams elements to it for sure.

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Speaker 5: him back there and kickoff, kickoff return. I'm sure he'll

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Speaker 4: You said after the game, describe the Tucker mission.

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Speaker 5: That's how I would describe it. I really rather lean

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Speaker 5: In your own division.

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Speaker 7: Do you relate that to the guys?

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Speaker 2: You know, does your speech change this week considering how

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Speaker 5: I think it's really important to understand. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 5: And you know, it's not like basketball or baseball where

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Speaker 5: that's not that many in terms of what they mean.

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Speaker 5: Every game is really super important, and then when you

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Speaker 5: you know, so that becomes become part of the part

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Speaker 5: not what matters. What matters is how we play. We

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Speaker 5: you know, the brand of football that we're used to playing,

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Speaker 7: Wilson earlier, I don't know.

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Speaker 9: How much you got into the opinion game, but how

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Speaker 9: have you seen him elevate the Steelers' offense or just

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Speaker 9: win few green for what you know of him to do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he's making plays in the passing game

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Speaker 5: the boots to play action drop back passes. Uh, he's

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Speaker 5: he's always been known for throwing the throwing the Russell

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Speaker 9: Roger Nay and Siny say, if you haven't seen too

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Speaker 5: I think class is doing a good job, developing very well.

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Speaker 5: You know, you have to go buy guy by guy

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Speaker 5: Some guys have had some injuries they've had to deal

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Speaker 7: He coached us.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of the division, when did the HBO cameras start

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Speaker 9: After the Chargers?

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Speaker 7: Have you thought about how you're gonna handle that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we're not gonna do anything different, you know,

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Speaker 5: We're just gonna be us. That's how That's how we're

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Speaker 8: I'm very genuine, pretty real.

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Speaker 4: As you look at things secondary, do you see Brandon

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Speaker 4: Stevens halls and a guy who can move around and

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Speaker 4: perhaps play some safety if you need HI there Brandon

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Speaker 5: No, that's not really on the table right now. It's

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Speaker 5: a it's a he's got a big job right now

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Speaker 5: he's trying to take care of If you're talking about

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Speaker 5: deep safety, you know, now we move guys around underneath

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Speaker 5: all the time. All right, all right, great.

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