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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Presspass Podcast. It is Monday, January sixth.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens are gearing up for a wildcard matchup at

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Speaker 1: M and T Banks Stadium. It's gonna be on Saturday night,

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Speaker 1: eight pm against the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's Ravens geared up

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Speaker 1: for that game. We had a chance to hear from

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Speaker 1: head coach John Harbaugh and here's what he had to

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Speaker 1: say today during his time with the media.

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Speaker 2: Hey John, good morning.

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Speaker 3: Zay Flowers left with that knee injury on Saturday. What's

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Speaker 3: the latest information you have on him and what do

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Speaker 3: you think his availability will be for the wildcard game.

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Speaker 4: It's not a season season ending injury, so it's just

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Speaker 4: gonna be day to day. Try to do everything he

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Speaker 4: and we'll see where that takes us.

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Speaker 5: John, what do you see from Pittsburgh? Much has been

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Speaker 5: made about their losing streak, you know, heading into the playoffs,

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Speaker 5: So what have you seen from them the last couple

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Speaker 5: of weeks.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know.

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Speaker 5: You've had a whole lot of time to go over

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Speaker 5: the film from recent games because the game was you know,

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Speaker 5: because you guys have been on a limited time frame

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Speaker 5: and you didn't know who you were going to play.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've been studying them. And that's what we make

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Speaker 4: of what we study. What we what we look at

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Speaker 4: the football, what they're doing schematically, the players, how we

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Speaker 4: think that they're going to, you know, attack us, how

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Speaker 4: well we can try to attack what they do or

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Speaker 4: don't do. And we know them, they know us pretty well.

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Speaker 4: There's always that little uh, you know, chess game going on,

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Speaker 4: Game of Thrones, I don't know whatever with them because

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Speaker 4: it's always something different. There's always wrinkles thrown in every week.

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Speaker 4: So that's the part of it that we study really hard. John.

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Speaker 6: Two things real quick, just on on Dave Flowers, was

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Speaker 6: it can you just confirm whether that was a sprain knee?

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Speaker 4: No, I don't really have any confirmation on anything like that.

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Speaker 4: It's not really what we're required to do. It's his knee, yeah,

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Speaker 4: to tell you that.

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Speaker 6: So and the and the second thing, what's it's just

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Speaker 6: the challenge of playing a team like Pittsburgh third time

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Speaker 6: this time of year, played a few weeks ago. What

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Speaker 6: is the difficulty for that in terms of game planning,

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Speaker 6: particularly if you have to deal with injuries and so forth.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't think there's any specific difficulty in it.

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Speaker 4: You know, this process is still the same. You probably

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Speaker 4: have certain things that you're are understood. You know, there's

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Speaker 4: a lot of things that are kind of ingrained in

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Speaker 4: your knowledge of a team in the division like that.

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Speaker 4: You've already played twice that year, so you're jumping off

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Speaker 4: point is further down the road for sure. That's about

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Speaker 4: the only difference. Coach.

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Speaker 7: Following up on that, I believe it's the fourth time

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Speaker 7: you've done this.

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Speaker 6: So can you draw back on the experience of playing

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Speaker 6: this team, you know, for a third time in the postseason.

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Speaker 4: How many times have we done it? We did it

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Speaker 4: against them and eight I want to say eight, fifteen,

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Speaker 4: maybe fourteen fourteen? I think twice, that's all right.

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Speaker 7: I want to say eight to ten and fourteen.

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Speaker 4: Okay, maybe I can't remember. I don't really remember the

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Speaker 4: other time, to be honest with you that well, like specifically,

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Speaker 4: I think it's just part of the process. We played

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Speaker 4: the Bengals a couple of years ago, right, once or twice.

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Speaker 4: So a lot of our teams teams this division make

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Speaker 4: the playoffs, We've run into them. It's probably pretty normal, Hey.

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Speaker 7: John, just kind of to piggyback on the zave flowers.

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Speaker 7: You know, Rashad obviously made a bunch of plays after

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Speaker 7: they went out of the game. You know, I know

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Speaker 7: there's day still up in the air, but you know,

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Speaker 7: how do you feel about Rashad's ability to lead this

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Speaker 7: wide receiver group and about how he played against the

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Speaker 7: Browns in the second half.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just same as I've always felt about it. You know,

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Speaker 4: he's always been high, high on my list, my charts.

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Speaker 4: I think he's a tremendous player, tremendous athlete, tremendous competitor,

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Speaker 4: excellent receiver, brings us a tremendous skill set to it.

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Speaker 4: He's been playing at a high level all year, made

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Speaker 4: big plays for us in that game, this this past week,

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Speaker 4: he was a factor in those drives and getting us

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Speaker 4: into scoring position numerous times. So I just yeah, he's good.

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Speaker 4: And not just not just for shot. I mean, I

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Speaker 4: don't think it's just about one guy. It's everybody. We

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Speaker 4: have a lot of weapons. You know, we could move

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Speaker 8: Hey, Coach. Over the course of the season, the offensive line,

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Speaker 8: They steadily made improvements. Can you speak to just the

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Speaker 8: job that offensive line coach George Warhaup has done, especially

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Speaker 8: given the circumstances in which he came.

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Speaker 4: In, Yeah, yes, I sure could. Those guys have played

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Speaker 4: at a high level, and George has done a great job.

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Speaker 4: I mean knowing George, like I said, I think earlier

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Speaker 4: last week or the week before, since we were both

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Speaker 4: twenty five years old, you know, and he was working

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Speaker 4: for Mike Godfree to Cans, he played for coach Gottfred.

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Speaker 4: Coach Godfred and his family were actually here for the

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Speaker 4: game this weekend, so we got a chance to reminisce

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Speaker 4: a little bit about that and laugh a little bit.

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Speaker 4: We were two young, young guys back then. But uh,

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Speaker 4: you know, over the course of the years, I kind

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Speaker 4: of followed his career more pals or anything like that.

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Speaker 4: Those old line coaches, you know, they tend to kind

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Speaker 4: of they stick together. They call it. They're called the

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Speaker 4: mushroom Club, you know. They they say that they they

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Speaker 4: say that they get shoved in the dark and they

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Speaker 4: get fed crap, you know, like mushrooms. So they're the

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Speaker 4: mushroom Club. And he's he's a full fledged member of

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Speaker 4: the mushroom club, but one of the all time great

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Speaker 4: I think old line coaches. And uh, the fact he

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Speaker 4: was available to me was a god thing and it's

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Speaker 4: worked out really well. But he's just done a great job.

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Speaker 4: He's he's he's been able to pick up on, you know,

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Speaker 4: the offense in a short period of time right when

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Speaker 4: he came in, the calls, the line calls, the techniques

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Speaker 4: he had to, had to had to had to kind

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Speaker 4: of merge and then and also at the same time.

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Speaker 4: But coach is his way, according to his and I

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Speaker 4: think he's a really smart guy, very experienced, very talented teacher,

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Speaker 4: and he's done a great job with that.

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Speaker 9: Hey John, I know we've asked you kind of variations

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Speaker 9: of this question all season, but do you feel now

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Speaker 9: that you're going into the playoffs that Derrick Henry gives

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Speaker 9: you a different element than you've had in recent years

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Speaker 9: and really in your whole tenure here?

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Speaker 10: Yes, Hey John, we all know what Mark Andrews was

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Speaker 10: going through at this time last year, you know, trying

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Speaker 10: make it back, but we know he wasn't his you know,

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Speaker 10: his best self with the way he's played down down

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Speaker 10: the stretch, knowing how big he is on third down

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Speaker 10: in the red zone, and knowing how important those elements are,

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Speaker 10: you know, and magnified in January. Just how excited are

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Speaker 10: you for him to be healthy and what he does

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Speaker 10: for the offense in those areas.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Mark's playing a really high level for sure, Luke.

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Speaker 4: You know, he's been playing well all year, made some plays,

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Speaker 4: running fast. He's gotta be one of the fastest tight

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Speaker 4: ends in the league. I mean, it's just gotta be.

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Speaker 4: His ability to get open, make contested catches really showed

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Speaker 4: up in this last game. It's phenomenal catches. I mean

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Speaker 4: the one down the right sideline. I don't even know

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Speaker 4: catch it, and then Lamar's trusted Mark of course, all

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Speaker 4: those things just it's been really great.

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Speaker 2: We'll go Cordell Woodland and then Jameson Hensley, Hey John,

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Speaker 2: going back to Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 11: I know, earlier in the year it kind of had

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Speaker 11: the quote of you know, you didn't know how much

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Speaker 11: you guys wanted to use him. It wasn't the plan

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Speaker 11: to go twenty five to thirty carries a game. But

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Speaker 11: just looking at it, in the games that he has

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Speaker 11: gone one hundred plus ten total touchdowns. What's kind of

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Speaker 11: the What does that do for you for you personally

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Speaker 11: going into the playoffs knowing that you can kind of

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's exciting. It's great to have a great back,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean. He's obviously running really hard

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Speaker 4: and really physical and downhill. I think our guys are

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Speaker 4: blocking well, and you know, there's other elements to the

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Speaker 4: offense that you know, allows allows that he's if you

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Speaker 4: look at his career, he's he's definitely not getting a

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Speaker 4: first contact as early as he has oftentimes in his career.

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Speaker 4: That's been great. All those things have come together well,

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Speaker 4: and it's gonna be a big, big part of our

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Jamison don a big narrative of course this

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Speaker 2: week will be Lamar and you know his two and

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Speaker 2: four record in the playoffs. I know you've always used

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Speaker 2: the term a lot of times about how players kind

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Speaker 2: of get calloused, you know, how they get You'll have

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Speaker 2: to go through some experiences, whether physically. Do you think

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Speaker 2: the past experiences that Lamar has had will that serve

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Speaker 4: Jeff I answered, right, I like to elaborate, but there's

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Speaker 4: really no aberation. It's pretty clear that that's that's the truth.

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Speaker 5: Wrote to jeff'surreyback, John, I know they can't interview this week,

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Speaker 5: but have you gotten any slips on one of your

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Speaker 5: coordinators for a head coaching job?

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Speaker 4: If I had, I wouldn't probably announce it. Uh, maybe

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Speaker 4: on't they put that out like the NFL put that

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Speaker 4: out or whatever? The insiders. Yeah, so you can get

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Speaker 6: I guess, John, there was so much attention on zach

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Speaker 6: or early in the season, you know, DMPs brought in

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Speaker 6: Week five games in. Zach himself even talked about trying

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Speaker 6: to maybe do too much early on with substitutes and

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Speaker 6: substitution packages and so forth. Just what were those conversations

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Speaker 6: between you and him, you know, as the weeks went on,

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Speaker 6: And secondly, why in your view was he able to

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Speaker 6: navigate that and all of that and and you guys

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Speaker 6: able to continue to improve, you know, defensively to get

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Speaker 4: We stuck to it. You know, like you always do.

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Speaker 4: It's week to week, Brian. You stick to what you're

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Speaker 4: you know, the principles of what you try to do.

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Speaker 4: You try to solve the problems. I mean, so much

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Speaker 4: of everything in life is problem solving, you know, and

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Speaker 4: no more so in this kind of a deal. I mean,

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Speaker 4: football is a multifaceted game. There's just so many things

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Speaker 4: that go into it. There's a lot of scheme things,

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Speaker 4: there's a lot of personnel things, a lot of personality things.

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Speaker 4: There's there's a physiology matchups. There's just a lot that

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Speaker 4: goes into it. You know, there's day to day personality,

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Speaker 4: personal lives, there's psychology. I guess you'd say. So you

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Speaker 4: just try to do the best you can week to week,

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Speaker 4: day to day and try to improve and you have

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Speaker 4: a growth mindset toward all those things. And I stick

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Speaker 4: to your guns, not panic, don't overreact, don't bite like

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Speaker 4: what you were saying, a lot of talk that was

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Speaker 4: coming from the outside. Don't really bite on that. Say confident,

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Speaker 4: you can. And that's what everybody does. I think all

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Speaker 12: I don't know if this will list it an elaborate answer,

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Speaker 2: Is that sort of the team focus and your focus

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Speaker 10: Yes, hey, John, do you have an update on you

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Speaker 10: expectation for Justice Hill, Patrick McCarey and just those guys

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're trending well. They're trending well. They were illness

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Speaker 4: So those guys will be much stronger this week than

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Speaker 7: You know, we talked a lot about how the defense

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Speaker 7: How has winning the turnover battle in your view kind

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's all it's all like

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Speaker 4: it's big plays against, its penalties, whatever. They're all individualized.

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Speaker 4: You know, they're all. They come when they come, and

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Speaker 4: they're usually a result of, you know, a foundation of

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Speaker 4: again trying to improve in whatever area we're talking about,

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Speaker 4: which we didn't do, you know a few times early

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Speaker 4: in the year, costs us one game. Probably. Those kind

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Speaker 4: of things are very important. Running to the ball is

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Speaker 4: better defense. Even when you play great defense, sometimes they

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Speaker 4: All kind of goes together.

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Speaker 11: Hey, John, I feel like it's been a while since

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Speaker 11: we ask, but do you expect arthuram Alet to be

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Speaker 11: able to come back in the postseason?

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Speaker 4: I don't know that's up and I don't have a

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Speaker 4: great handle on that right now. Sorry.

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Speaker 6: Can you articulate just how having him, you know, impacts

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Speaker 6: the calculus, particularly in the playoffs when these games are

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Speaker 6: so much. There's always been so much focus on him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I know, I really can't articulate the

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Speaker 4: Maybe it is, but if it is, I really don't

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Speaker 4: have time to work it out. I don't have like

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Speaker 4: like that movie, what was it, Goodwill, Goodwill Honting. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so the calculus, Brian is like, I don't even know

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Speaker 4: what you're asking me for me, I think it's pretty

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Speaker 4: self evident the answer to your question, you know. And

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Speaker 4: that's why he's here, and he's done a great job,

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Speaker 4: and we're going to be leaning on a big time,

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Speaker 4: just like we all all of our guys. It's a

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Speaker 4: team game, and that's what we're going to try to

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Speaker 4: all of our firepower, try to execute as best we can,

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Speaker 4: try to put the best schemes together as we can

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Speaker 4: to make the calculus add up at the end of

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Speaker 4: the day, you know. So that's it, that's how it.

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Speaker 2: Works, Childs Walker.

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Speaker 4: John.

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Speaker 9: When you talk to the team at the beginning of

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Speaker 9: this week, do you talk at all in terms of

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Speaker 9: a four game mission or a five week mission, or

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Speaker 9: however you want to put it, or are you straight

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Speaker 9: week to week right now?

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Speaker 4: It's both. I've talked to them already about that, but

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Speaker 4: we're going to be focused on this game.

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