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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past Podcast. It is Thursday,

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Speaker 1: December twenty first, and the Ravens are gearing up for

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Speaker 1: a game on Monday against the San Francisco forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 1: Today we had a chance to hear from the coordinators,

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Speaker 1: so let's kick things off with Special Teams coordinator Chris Horton.

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Speaker 2: Good to see everyone. What questions do you have for

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Speaker 2: many day?

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Speaker 3: I love that, Chris. And the plans to Christmas going

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Speaker 3: out to San Francisco, I know, but you got any

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Speaker 3: plans to still do anything with the family.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know. The way the schedule is set

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Speaker 4: up for so we'll get an opportunity to be at

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Speaker 4: home with our families one day before we leave on Saturday.

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Speaker 4: So just looking forward to that. You know, it's that

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Speaker 4: time of the year, just to be at home with

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Speaker 4: the family and then you know, my wife under understands.

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Speaker 4: You know, we got to go take care of business

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Speaker 4: and then you spend time out west with the other family,

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Speaker 4: your football family. So just looking forward to that and

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Speaker 4: really just focus on the game.

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Speaker 5: You've had a lot of the guys playing gun or

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Speaker 5: you had to.

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Speaker 6: Use a lot of different guys because of an injury

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Speaker 6: is it has that almost been a beneficial this late

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Speaker 6: in the year because you have guys who have done it,

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Speaker 6: You have guys who are ready to.

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Speaker 4: Jump dating as injury than I of course, Jeff, you

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Speaker 4: know it's it's always good to have guys that are

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Speaker 4: on your team that can play those positions where you

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Speaker 4: don't really feel like you gotta go ahead and start

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Speaker 4: from scratch bringing guys in and working guys out in

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Speaker 4: order to fill those roles.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 4: But uh, you know, like I've said before, man, when

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Speaker 4: we get those guys due to certain situations, whoever we

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Speaker 4: can put out there, and those guys go out and

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Speaker 4: just perform to the level of which we expect them

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Speaker 4: to play.

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Speaker 1: At a special teams coordinator Chris Horton. Next up is

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Mike McDonald.

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas. How are we doing when you looked back

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Speaker 2: at one of those Jacksonville.

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Speaker 5: Are you more proud of some consistent habit that that

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Speaker 5: your guys showed in a game like that, like you know,

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Speaker 5: the the amount of you know, pass rushes you win

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Speaker 5: or something, or you're more proud of an individually great

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Speaker 5: play like the one Marcus made at the end of

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Speaker 5: the half would kind of last with you longer.

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Speaker 8: I think you're always looking at how we play and

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Speaker 8: when we play the right way and our focus is

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Speaker 8: in the right spot. Those are the things you're proud of.

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Speaker 8: How you handle situations that come up throughout the game.

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Speaker 8: We can help, we can deal with all the rest.

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Speaker 8: You know, to win a game like that, you got

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Speaker 8: to be great in situational football. So proud of how

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Speaker 8: we recognize those situations. You know, obviously the play at

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Speaker 8: the end of the half, but just any you know,

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Speaker 8: any given third down, red zone, every play in and

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Speaker 8: of itself is a different situation. So you know, those

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Speaker 8: ended up being in our favor and helped us win

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Speaker 8: the football game.

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Speaker 4: When you have to.

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Speaker 6: Plan for a team with as many of the playmakers

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Speaker 6: as this one, figure out what to do or is

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Speaker 6: it more anxiety.

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Speaker 2: And that sounds weird?

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Speaker 8: They're all the same, I mean, it's ever every team

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Speaker 8: presents challenges because it's the NFL.

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Speaker 2: And everybody's really really good.

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Speaker 8: Uh as we know these guys are really really good,

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Speaker 8: So different challenges than you normally see on a week

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, But yeah, approach is the same. How unique

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Speaker 2: is Christian McCaffrey.

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Speaker 8: Well, I mean he's just he's uh, he's obviously a

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Speaker 8: great player, and uh, I think the way that they

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Speaker 8: use him is a little bit different than how you know,

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Speaker 8: times he's playing a receiver role for them, so you know,

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Speaker 8: he's part time receiver, part time running back, blocker, lead blocker.

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Speaker 8: So the way they're able to inter make those guys

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Speaker 9: Mike.

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Speaker 3: What we've seen at times, this is an offense that

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Speaker 3: has had guys, some of those premier guys you mentioned

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Speaker 3: running open. I saw a couple of times against the

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Speaker 3: you watch them schematically as to why they're aiding to

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Speaker 2: Well, there's a few things.

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Speaker 8: One, sometimes there's an extended place where they're running away

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Speaker 8: from people that I had matched them. The quarterback does

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Speaker 8: a good job of finding them, and they got good

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Speaker 8: chemistry light in the down. So that's one thing I'd say.

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Speaker 8: On another hand, diagnosing what defense you're in and having

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Speaker 8: certain routes concepts that that put stress on it on

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Speaker 8: on those on those coverages.

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Speaker 2: That's another one.

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Speaker 8: And then just the way they operate through their progressions

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Speaker 8: and running away from leverages and things like that, and

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Speaker 8: everyone's on tune with you know, the windows they're trying

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Speaker 8: to hit in the spots on the field sometimes seem

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Speaker 8: like guys are you know, consistently open. So they got

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Speaker 8: a great scheme obviously really well, you know, well coached,

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Speaker 8: and the guys are executing a high level.

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Speaker 7: You know, if you were just identifying some things that

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Speaker 7: San Francisco does with the quarterback, I mean people are

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Speaker 7: talking about Rock Perdy is a game manager and sort

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Speaker 7: of a pejorative sense.

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Speaker 5: Is there something about what you've seen on film that

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Speaker 5: you think that could could sort of compliments of the

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Speaker 5: offense is trying to.

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Speaker 2: Accomplish in San Francisco. Yeah, I'm not gonna get on

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Speaker 2: all that.

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Speaker 8: He's he's a great player, man, He's he's a great player.

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Speaker 8: I mean, he's a great quarterback. Is in charge of

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Speaker 8: what they're doing on offense, fully in control as all

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Speaker 8: the great quarterbacks are. So I'd put them up there

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Speaker 8: with all the great quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: Mike.

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Speaker 6: Everything that they do before the snap is obviously kind

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Speaker 6: of a headache to deal with. How does that kind

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Speaker 6: of interplay with like how narrow performation relative to a

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Speaker 6: lot of other Apple offenses are. Does it just kind

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Speaker 6: of create more traffic for you guys as you're trying

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Speaker 6: to you know, handle covers, executions and get off on

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Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I mean a lot of the formations are condensed,

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Speaker 8: so you know how you count and who you relate

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Speaker 8: to and things like that. Definitely testing your eye discipline,

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Speaker 8: Definitely testing your communication, which is obviously one of the

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Speaker 8: reasons that they do it. Changing the run fits. I

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Speaker 8: mean there's every play, every motion really has should has

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Speaker 8: a rhyme or reason on why they're doing it based

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Speaker 2: You just don't know in real time till after the play.

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Speaker 8: So, but yeah, having the condensed formations make it easier

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Speaker 8: because the numbers change faster, whether rather than being spread out,

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Speaker 8: you have longer time to react.

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Speaker 6: Like, uh, when we talked to Christy a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 6: he said, you know that you guys try to lie

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Speaker 6: to the quarterback as much as possible. Was there someone

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Speaker 6: or some game, some team or whatever that was kind

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Speaker 6: of you know, seminal for you and teaching you that

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Speaker 6: that was of utmost important, utmost importance in house coverage

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Speaker 6: in the secondary. Was it something you got from wink

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Speaker 2: What right for that one?

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Speaker 8: Gentas Now that I'm thinking about it.

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Speaker 2: I think I think you're trying.

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Speaker 8: I think it came from I guess actually introductory press conference,

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Speaker 8: ask about aggressiveness.

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Speaker 2: You know you're you're trying to be I'm trying to

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Speaker 2: put pressure on on the defense.

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Speaker 8: That's that's are on the offense, excuse me, And that's

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Speaker 8: something that's seminal to hear. That's a raven principle on

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Speaker 8: how we want to operate. And I think the way

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Speaker 8: you see that the game has evolved being so pass heavy,

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Speaker 8: you know, especially in critical situations, and the court and

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Speaker 8: the office are so good, the quarterbacks are so good.

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Speaker 8: How do you can how do you consistently put pressure

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Speaker 8: on them to make them make great decisions in real time?

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Speaker 2: I think that's kind of what what the thought process was.

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Speaker 1: That was defensive coordinator Mike McDonald and last but not least,

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Speaker 1: his offensive coordinator, Todd Munkett.

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Speaker 3: Todd, how excited are you for this challenge? Your offense

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Speaker 3: going up against a pretty good Niner defense.

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Speaker 9: They're really good. It's a heck of a challenge. But

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Speaker 9: it feels that way every week. Every week. I feel

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Speaker 9: like when you coach, when you play at this level,

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Speaker 9: it's the ultimate challenge against the best coaches and the

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Speaker 9: best players in the world. So the guys are excited.

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Speaker 2: I know you didn't want to lose Keith Mitchell.

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Speaker 6: But being able to bring up Melvin Gordon, what can

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Speaker 6: he bring beyond just experience to add, you know, potentially

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Speaker 6: a new wrinkle to your offense.

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Speaker 9: Well, I think if you go beyond experience, it's first

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Speaker 9: of all, he's made plays for us. I mean at

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Speaker 9: obviously he had a big run early in the game.

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Speaker 9: So over his career he's made he's made plays, He's

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Speaker 9: been a powerful downhill runner, and he does show flashes

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Speaker 9: in the past game. So we're excited. You know, that's

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Speaker 9: one advantage of you know, last time I was in

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Speaker 9: the NFL, like a guy like Melvin Gordon, you couldn't

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Speaker 9: have on practice squad who knows where to be. That's

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Speaker 9: one of the advantages of whatever that role whenever it

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Speaker 9: came into play, when you can have some experienced veteran

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Speaker 9: be able to help you win games.

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Speaker 7: I know you've obviously seen so much of Lamar kind

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Speaker 7: of improvise, make players in the run, But what have

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Speaker 7: you kind of learned about him and the way he

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Speaker 7: runs an offense and kind of manifests.

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Speaker 9: Through team Expect the unexpected. I guess you know, is

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Speaker 9: I've said this a lot. You know, he's a highly

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Speaker 9: competitive loves football, hates to lose, is an elite player,

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Speaker 9: wants to be an leade player, wants to grow as

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Speaker 9: a player. He has a unique ability to see the

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Speaker 9: field and a unique ability to make plays off schedule.

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Speaker 9: That's just all the things you see. And so now

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Speaker 9: you're just trying to you know, every day he's trying.

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Speaker 9: We're all trying, is you know, how do we get

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Speaker 9: the ball out on time? How do we do a

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Speaker 9: better job of schematically system wise to not have him

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Speaker 9: take some of those hits, you know, and not put

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Speaker 9: himself at that in that position. But he's unique, that's

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Speaker 9: for sure, and it's fun to watch.

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Speaker 5: Is there anything about you that has surprised you.

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Speaker 6: You know, he obviously knew his talents just beauts.

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Speaker 1: Theres anything that's protect.

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Speaker 9: Oh, I don't know if there's anything that's really surprised me.

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Speaker 9: He's been awesome to work with. You know, he, like

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Speaker 9: I said, he's highly competitive, you know, strong willed, loves

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Speaker 9: playing football, loves his teammates, wants to be coached. And

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Speaker 9: it shows up.

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Speaker 5: Much of a worry, is it that both of your

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Speaker 5: front of talent as this one.

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Speaker 9: Well, the guys have been playing all year, you know

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Speaker 3: So what's it like for you when you're when we

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Speaker 9: Well, the first thing when he extends plays when you're

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Speaker 9: How do you like to plan? Where we're at? What

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Speaker 3: Ton What have you've seen it from Lamar in terms

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Speaker 9: Demonstrated No, he wants the ball. I mean he wants

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Speaker 9: That's what he's done his whole life. It makes sense

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Speaker 9: And those are the things you coach off of, you know,

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