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Speaker 1: Hey Bill, Hey Greg, how you done doing well? Um?

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Speaker 1: I know this came up a little bit post game. Um,

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Speaker 1: frustrating way to lose that that game last night, and um,

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Speaker 1: you're not a moral victory guy, but are you able

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Speaker 1: to look at some positives this morning when it comes

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Speaker 1: to playing playing hard for sixty minutes and in getting there?

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Speaker 1: Uh oh sure, Yeah, I mean there were some good

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Speaker 1: things in the game, um, obviously, and just they as

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Speaker 1: I said after the game, they made a few more

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Speaker 1: plays than we did and ultimately that was a difference. Bill,

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Speaker 1: when you look at the game, I think there were

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Speaker 1: some situations in the game that you guys did a

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Speaker 1: good job. The goal line stance right before the end

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Speaker 1: of half, where you're able to kind of create a

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Speaker 1: turn over. Um, what was that like for you as

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Speaker 1: a defense to be able to create that create that

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Speaker 1: opportunity for yourself to keep points off the board, especially

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Speaker 1: going into the the halftime. Yeah, that was a big series. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: defensive lad this guys did a great job. Obviously, you know,

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Speaker 1: four chances from the one against a team like that, Um,

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Speaker 1: so you know that was that was good. And then

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Speaker 1: we just really couldn't just didn't didn't have a real

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Speaker 1: good third quarter as a team and then um, you know,

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Speaker 1: play competitively and and then you know, kind of miss

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Speaker 1: some chances there. Um, that are the points in the game.

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Speaker 1: But that was a big stop for us, the fourth

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Speaker 1: down stop early in the game. It was was you

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Speaker 1: know big two. We had some you know, good short

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Speaker 1: garage plays. A couple of them were you know close. Um,

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Speaker 1: but that was big. That was a big series, Bill

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Speaker 1: to see Mac Jones be able to go from a

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Speaker 1: pick six and turn it around and throw that touch down.

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Speaker 1: Kendrick Bourne said after the game that he's able to

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Speaker 1: forget and move forward as a rookie. How hard is

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Speaker 1: that to do? And how impressed are you with him

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Speaker 1: that he is able to do it? Yeah? I actually

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Speaker 1: a lot of boys, you know, ever since ever since

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Speaker 1: very competitive. But it shows a lot of pois and

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Speaker 1: like I said, it's done that all the way through.

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Speaker 1: We saw you go over to him after that pick.

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Speaker 1: What'd you say to him, Bill? I can't remember a

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Speaker 1: long way Togo or something like that. Yeah, Bill, what

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Speaker 1: makes it? You know when you think about a team

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Speaker 1: like the Cowboys and they have talent all over the place.

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Speaker 1: What makes them so difficult to defend? I know, you

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Speaker 1: guys did a good job against the run, where they

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Speaker 1: usually average about a buck sixty four game, and you

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Speaker 1: kept them down to one twenty two. Going into a

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Speaker 1: game like that defensively, are you trying to take away

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Speaker 1: one things, multiple things because they have so many players

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Speaker 1: explosive players on the football field. Yeah, well, of course

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Speaker 1: just one guy. And you know, I think the the

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Speaker 1: they didn't they didn't have a lot of explosive plays.

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Speaker 1: They had a couple of you know, ten yard type

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Speaker 1: have played a little better. But um yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: between the running game, UM, you know, two good backs.

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Speaker 1: Um quarterback who I thought played played extremely well last

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Speaker 1: night and extended some plays. Um you know, where we

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Speaker 1: had pretty good we had pretty good pass coverage, but

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Speaker 1: um he he got him off the hook with not

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Speaker 1: you know, in some cases, you know, pretty pretty good yardage. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, Lamb and Cooper are good receiver. Schultz is

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Speaker 1: a big catch form there at the end of the game.

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Speaker 1: hard to stop because they're they're very good players. They're

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Speaker 1: like I said, give him credit. They played well last night. Bill.

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Speaker 1: During the game, it seemed like you were bleeding on

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Speaker 1: I'll be all right about life threatening. No, people were

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Speaker 1: talking about it non stopped during the game, Um, Bill,

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Speaker 1: mentally that's taxi on players and coaches and to be

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Speaker 1: where you are recog wise two and four very similar

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Speaker 1: But also knowing that last year you guys had an

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Speaker 1: can you take anything from last year in the sense of, hey,

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Speaker 1: guys kind of stay in that mindset of hey, we

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Speaker 1: and we need to take it one game at a time. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: different challenges that present themselves the week prepping for a

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Speaker 1: team that you just saw a few weeks ago. Well, yes,

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Speaker 1: you can't think that it's going to be the same game.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think we see that in all sports,

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Speaker 1: and then the next game the other team wins by five.

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Speaker 1: You just can't you know, each game has its own

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Speaker 1: and they don't play it out. But there's the start

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Speaker 1: all over again. Um, same thing to do at the

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Speaker 1: through the process. Bill, you've had some not quite home

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Speaker 1: So you know, I think we all know it gets

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Speaker 1: secondary closer to the line of scrimmage, less space to throw,

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Speaker 1: you know, count on your your red area defense, No,

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Speaker 1: force them to run enough plays that and eventually you

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Speaker 1: concerned about the your your quarterbacks health rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: If he keeps taking some hits like he's been taken

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, well, yeah, pass protection is important

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Speaker 1: all those all those things are important. Bill when you

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Speaker 1: you know, keep working on that. We haven't done anything

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Speaker 1: I don't think he needs any help from me just

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Speaker 1: watching him. Well, you gotta get on that group text, Grad.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know I'd like to be on that.

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Speaker 1: All right, Bill, thank you, and we'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: again next week. All right, appreciate it, great, Thanks, thanks

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