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

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Speaker 1: December second. The Ravens fell to the Philadelphia Eagles on

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Speaker 1: Sunday and it's now the team's bye week. The Ravens

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Speaker 1: are sitting at eight and five going into the bye week.

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Speaker 1: They've got four games left in the regular season, and

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Speaker 1: head coach John Harbaugh today talked about the team's focus

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Speaker 1: and approach during this bye week.

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Speaker 2: All right, good to see everybody here. Appreciate it. I

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Speaker 2: had a good day to day, met with the guys.

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Speaker 2: They were in watching the tape and going through the game.

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Speaker 2: They'll be coming back Monday for practice and for meetings,

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Speaker 2: and we'll be focusing on the Giants in the meantime.

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Speaker 2: Coaches will be here all week and we're gonna go

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Speaker 2: through really every aspect. It's a little different, you know,

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Speaker 2: with a late bye like this. I don't think it'll

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Speaker 2: be so much geared toward mid season reviews and things

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Speaker 2: like that, because we kind of pretty I think we

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Speaker 2: have a good idea. I know we have a good idea,

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Speaker 2: and where we're at, we're gonna be looking for ideas

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Speaker 2: and adjustments and watching our opponents that we're gonna be

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Speaker 2: playing the next three to four weeks and doing everything

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Speaker 2: we can to be ready for those games and create

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Speaker 2: as many you know, opportunities for our players, put them

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Speaker 2: in position to make plays as we can. That's what

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Speaker 2: we'll be searching out the next you know, five days. Well,

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Speaker 2: questions you.

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Speaker 3: Have, John I know we asked about the Anthony Johnson

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Speaker 3: after the game. Is there any other clarification to give

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Speaker 3: with that?

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Speaker 2: Right at this time, I'm gonna have to wait just

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Speaker 2: to clarify it. There's there's some moving parts there that

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Speaker 2: that we're gonna have to figure out and explore and

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Speaker 2: just see where we're at. I know it's not the

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Speaker 2: question the answers you want, but it's the best I

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Speaker 2: can do in fairness to everybody.

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Speaker 4: Right now, I expecting to continue to be a team.

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Speaker 2: I think, like I said, we'll just work it out,

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Speaker 2: see where we're at over the next few days and this.

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Speaker 5: Week with the buyer, we what are some of them?

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Speaker 5: And what have you seen in this first part of

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Speaker 5: the thason that and you are freezed with and what

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Speaker 5: kind of adjustments would you want to see before or

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Speaker 5: we just.

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Speaker 4: Before a game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, such a big question and a good question, I

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Speaker 2: think that's all encompassing the answer really because it includes

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Speaker 2: every aspect of our team. I mean, there's certain things

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Speaker 2: we want to look at, you know, special teams. There

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Speaker 2: are things on offense and things on defense that we

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Speaker 2: want to look at in terms of, you know, what

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Speaker 2: we can create to be ready for what's in front

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Speaker 2: of us. I mean, I'm happy with the first part

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Speaker 2: of the season. It's not perfect. I like to have

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Speaker 2: a few more wins, but I'm glad we have the

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Speaker 2: wins that we have. You know, everything that we every

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Speaker 2: goal that we have is in front of us, and

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Speaker 2: we have the team to do it. So what can

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Speaker 2: we do to Bill parselves had a great quote he said,

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Speaker 2: the season starts after Thanksgiving. Wow, what a truth for

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Speaker 2: the teams that you know are still in it. And

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Speaker 2: we're one of those teams. So we have an opportunity

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Speaker 2: now the season starts now. I think I'm proud of

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Speaker 2: our guys. I feel like they've fought through a lot

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Speaker 2: of things this year. It's been it's been thirteen straight weeks,

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Speaker 2: had a lot of tough games, had a lot of travel.

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Speaker 2: We've gone against teams kind of in situations where they

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Speaker 2: were you know, they were hot they were at they

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Speaker 2: were at their best, they were in good they were

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Speaker 2: they were playing good football, they were healthy, and it's

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Speaker 2: a challenge and I think our guys handled all those challenges,

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Speaker 2: handled all those challenges really well. So that forges you

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Speaker 2: for what's ahead. It's made us a team that we

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Speaker 2: are and I think recognizing with some rest this week,

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Speaker 2: their legs back under us, we'll have a chance to

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Speaker 2: do really well going forward.

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Speaker 5: Take us kind of you thought process as you figure

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Speaker 5: out how to deal with a situation you probably didn't

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Speaker 2: And the kicking issues. So what's the question though.

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Speaker 5: Just kind of your thought processes you try to figure

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Speaker 5: out how to fix this, you know, Tougher's issues or

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Speaker 5: however you kind of approach.

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Speaker 2: It right now. Yeah, you do. You rack your brain,

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Speaker 2: you think about every thing because that's a big deal,

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Speaker 2: you know obviously, and we all know it. Justin knows

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Speaker 2: it too. I mean points, we're at a premium in

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Speaker 2: the game. They have been a few of these games

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Speaker 2: score points because you know, you're making kicks and so

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Speaker 2: and Justin expects to make every kick, no matter how

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Speaker 2: far it is or what the situation is, and those

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Speaker 2: are makable kicks for him. So yeah, we're racking our brains,

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Speaker 2: talking to Justin, talking to looking at every looking at

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Speaker 2: what we're doing. I'm very confident that it's going to

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Speaker 2: get fixed. I believe it will. It has to, you know,

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Speaker 2: and he's he's the guy to get it fixed. So

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Speaker 2: you know, sometimes you respect the player and you respect

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Speaker 2: his ability to get it worked out. And with help

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Speaker 2: from the coaching from Randy and from Chris, I feel

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Speaker 2: confident that I will get done.

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Speaker 6: I feel like, is it a physical thing or a

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Speaker 6: mental thing, or maybe a combination of both, or maybe

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Speaker 6: missing an extra point maybe that leads into.

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Speaker 3: The next kick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean all those things are I think, Oh,

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Speaker 2: he's a part of it. Sure, it's like not simple.

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Speaker 2: It's not a comp it's not a it's not it's

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Speaker 2: not like a one. If it was a one fixed thing,

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Speaker 2: it would be easy. You know, it's definitely not. He's

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Speaker 2: kicking really well in practice. You know, he's kicking really

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Speaker 2: well in practice. He's kicking really well in pregame, so

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Speaker 2: you know that the physical ability is there. It's just

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Speaker 2: a matter of doing it. It's just that's that's what

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Speaker 2: he said to me this morning. I know what I

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Speaker 2: have to do. I just have to do it in

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Speaker 2: those situations. So that's what it really boils down to.

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Speaker 4: You've continued to send him out there for longer kicks.

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Speaker 4: Would you say that your decision making process and when

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Speaker 4: to use Justin has a coach games?

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Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't say it hasn't really changed. I mean

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Speaker 2: when he was hitting the you know, the you know,

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Speaker 2: three or four years ago, hitting the bombs, we were

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Speaker 2: we were going, you know, fifty seven, fifty eight, fifty

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Speaker 2: six pretty regularly. That's tightened up a little bit, you know,

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Speaker 2: circumstances and games field conditions too, But fifty two to fifty,

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Speaker 2: you know, those are kicks he's very capable of making.

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Speaker 3: You you've mentioned your your approach with Justin that you

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Speaker 3: believe it's wise to sit with him. Do you believe

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Speaker 3: there's any merits to bringing in another kicker, at least

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Speaker 3: to have him on the practice squad, maybe to work

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Speaker 3: out guys, and you know, because you guys haven't had

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Speaker 2: On one time, right, Yeah, I don't think of anything

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Speaker 2: wrong with that, you know, it wouldn't. I wouldn't want

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Speaker 2: the fact that you want to turn over every stone

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Speaker 2: and make sure you've seen all the guys at every position.

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Speaker 2: If there were guys out there that Randy looked at

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Speaker 2: and our scouts looked at and said that was something

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Speaker 2: that that you know we should do, we would do it.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think that's the answer, knowing you know,

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Speaker 2: from what I've talked, I've talked to Randy in the scouts.

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Speaker 2: Knowing who's out there right now. It's not to say

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Speaker 2: the darn guys capable, but there's nobody nearly as good

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Speaker 2: as Justin Tucker out there with Justin.

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Speaker 7: As a video and giving him a hug after gingness,

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Speaker 7: I think his star king.

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Speaker 3: Did you feel like it was important for him to

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Speaker 5: What was your mind that there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did see a picture of that. To me,

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Speaker 2: I just said, hey, you know you're gonna make the

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Speaker 2: game winner. Get ready to make the game winner. That

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Speaker 2: was the conversation, so and I was confident that he

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Speaker 4: Lamar May mentioned that the conversation ever with his mom

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Speaker 4: that she was saying they were running lady for him,

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Speaker 4: and he was kind of agree. In retrospect, have you

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Speaker 4: said seen anything from film that shows Lamar and is

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Speaker 4: passing on an official run that maybe he should take.

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Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't generalize it like that. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: think every place stands on sowing. Lamar is such a

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Speaker 2: creative player. You know, he'll scramble out there and he'll

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Speaker 2: he made a couple of throws too, didn't he. You

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Speaker 2: know where he hit Zay once or twice, hit some guys,

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Speaker 2: so hit Mark for the touchdown, you know, instead of running.

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Speaker 2: So I really trust Lamar. I trust his mom too.

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Speaker 2: This mom is a good judge. She's she's seen more

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Speaker 2: of Lamar ball than anybody, you know, so I'm sure

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Speaker 2: she has a great handlot. So let Lamar and his mom,

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Speaker 2: you know, talk through all that stuff. But I trust

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Speaker 2: Lamar to make good decisions. I mean, he's he's too good.

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Speaker 2: He's he's he's just too productive, move around the pocket.

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Speaker 2: He's too much of a problem for defenses, and I

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Speaker 2: think he makes a lot of good decisions doing that.

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Speaker 3: John Keith Mitchell was in active history. Is he is

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Speaker 3: he dealing with any unexpected physical challenges as he kind

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Speaker 3: of works his way back in or kind.

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Speaker 2: Of where is he right now? Great question. No one

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Speaker 2: expected physical challenges, but there's definitely physical challenges with what

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Speaker 2: he's gone through. It was a very serious knee injury,

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Speaker 2: and he came back quick as you possibly could from it.

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Speaker 2: I also wanted to give Rashid a chance. You know,

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Speaker 2: he's been working hard and you saw it on the

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Speaker 2: kickoff returns, how explosive he looked on that. So it

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Speaker 2: just made sense to kind of, you know, give give

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Speaker 2: Keaton a little rest, give a rasheta chance, and I

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Speaker 2: like those two guys, you know, so we'll just kind

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Speaker 2: of they'll both be in the mixic going forward.

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Speaker 7: They always napcount was quite low.

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Speaker 8: Was it a physical thing?

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Speaker 6: Was a matter of being playing with the personnel?

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Speaker 2: Well, it was a run game, a run defense game

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Speaker 2: for sure, and you know, t Rob's been doing such

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Speaker 2: a good job and those kind of personnel groups where

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Speaker 2: we're defended against the run, and it kind of it

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Speaker 2: came up a lot in the game, and that's that's

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Speaker 2: why we did that. It was more of a run

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Speaker 2: game decision.

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Speaker 4: Also among the Swims and Only Scratch today is there

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Speaker 4: a way word for him to find a.

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Speaker 2: Way up for the season. There is, there is. You

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Speaker 2: know right now he's the third safety. In terms of

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Speaker 2: filling in, you have to make a decision in a

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Speaker 2: game based on personnel and who's up with special teams.

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Speaker 2: So you know, we got the young guys who play

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Speaker 2: special teams. He's not really a special teams guy. Marcus

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Speaker 2: I said before, I feel like when Marcus gets back

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Speaker 2: out there, and you got to assume over the course

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Speaker 2: of these games, he's going to get back out there,

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Speaker 2: he'll be ready to play. He and I had a

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Speaker 2: great conversation this week. He's a pro. He worked hard,

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Speaker 2: he's he's ready for when his opportunity comes back to

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Speaker 2: get out there to play his best football. And that's

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Speaker 2: why he's valuable to our football team in that in

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Speaker 2: It is for the coaches, absolutely, We'll definitely be looking

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Speaker 3: John, Is we didn't get a chance to ask you.

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Speaker 3: If I'm Malette, I know you can come back twice

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Speaker 2: It remains to be seen. I think there's hope remains

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Speaker 2: Too far ahead to look around? You know, that'll be determined,

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Speaker 4: Last night, there was you know, Za Flowers looked a

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Speaker 9: I think Patrick McCarey is now over his career high

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