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#UNC offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey ahead of Saturday's game with Wake Forest.
Nov 11, 2024
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all right y'all ready to
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roll go ahead with the uh with that
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second by we being so close to the first
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one I guess uh how much of a benefit did
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you see it being in I guess from a a
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PlayOn standpoint offens standpoint are
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there any you know new things that you
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kind of add in there that's yeah it's
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been good I mean it's you know never I
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don't know that I've ever been a part of
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two by weeks and it's refreshing I think
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a little bit for sure you get a chance
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to catch your breath a little bit um
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probably did a way more self- scouting
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during the first by week because really
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we've just added two games and uh but I
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think our season the way it's gone uh
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you know different quarterbacks early in
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the season trying to figure out what's
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best what's the best fit for him and our
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offense I think that's helped us and in
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the last couple weeks I think we've done
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a better job of getting in that Groove
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with with jacobe and uh I think the bye
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gives you a chance to catch your breath
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and do that and and um just kind of self
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self assess and uh make sure that we're
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uh still you know doing those things as
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we move forward each week's different
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when the scheme's different but at the
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same time you want to be you want to
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have some continuity for your players
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and I think we've worked really hard at
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trying to keep that when you first
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started that the decisions made you C
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was going to be the start you talk about
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the Baseline of where you had to start
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and was it a lot of video work early or
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yeah um you know I think with just his
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late arrival that that was part of it
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but I think what I mentioned this I
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think a couple weeks ago that I think
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what what you saw was when he went from
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being the third guy to like all of a
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sudden I'm the I'm I'm playing and I
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think his sense of urgency increased I
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don't I don't know that you know we
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approached it any different because we
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were always trying to you know get those
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hey you're one play away you know we
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even talked to our next guys down the
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line at every position and then it
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became reality for him and I think you
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saw his sense of urgency where really
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pushed and tried to dive into into into
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the nuances he knew he knew the plays
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but all the nuances of the play Hey vers
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this coverage what does it look like
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this coverage this pressure and so forth
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and what do we need to get to protection
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wise and um I think youve just seen an
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increase uh like I said um an increased
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sense of urgency with him and uh
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Testament to him and how he's tried to
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prepare each and every week CH ma said
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that uh Marlo is hurt again in Al this
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week and that you guys want to try to
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red shirt T Hood yeah I was going to ask
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you where does that leave you a running
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back I guess that means bullet is your
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solid number two is that is charlon
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French your third guy now in that
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rotation yeah I think you'd have to say
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that I mean you know we want to get you
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know we're trying to do the best thing
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for the players each individual player
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based on you know it's a different world
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this day and age and um Caleb's fought
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some injuries in his career and you love
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to him to really get an opportunity for
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a full season and be one of the guys and
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so forth so if we can do that I think
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that's great opportunity and then Barlo
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you know poor guy's he's really worked
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hard and he's got a skill set and then
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you know against Florida State he goes
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down so tough luck for him but you know
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we got a lot of confidence in bullet
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bullet's done a really nice job on the
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times he's played and and Charleson you
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know French has done a good job too he's
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he's going to be fine he's just getting
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here he got here late but I like him
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he's a great kid he plays really hard
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and plays fast and a little bit
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different dimension to the tail back
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position or the running back position
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but yeah I think I think probably that's
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where we'd be right now and then um
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hopefully we can salvage um you know
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Caleb's year and and hopefully he'll get
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a CH chance to have a full year would
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there be a fourth guy I know Mar cares
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the ball 30 times a game I understand
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yeah most the time he does um um yeah I
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think we'd be those three would probably
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be and then we you know we could there's
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some guys we could probably bring up you
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know from that that help the defense out
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some but yeah really I think those would
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be the three guys we we really have to
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focus with I
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think has one left he played three games
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so he's got one left and
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then so the ball game doesn't
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count games with the play two the
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last
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yeah yes yes chip when you look at uh
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wake fors and their defense what what
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stands out about them and what have you
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seen of them on I tell you they're
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they're really well coached their WEA
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they're supposed to be all the time you
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don't see a lot of busted assignments I
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think um you know I've heard a lot of
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great things about that that coaching
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staff from Coach Brown and and not being
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not played these guys before but they
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play really hard they're very well
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coached um uh they make you earn it I
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think that's what sticks out to me is
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you're going to have to put plays
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together uh don't see a just ton of
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explosive plays over the top or or long
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runs and I think they're in position
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where supposed to be and you know we've
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got to do a good job of trying to create
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some of those too um sometimes we we've
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not done a ni a good job of creating
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those explosives um like we should and
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so you know but I think they're going to
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play extremely hard and uh very well
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coached and they're they're an
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impressive group I think really when you
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look at them they do some things
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internally to toh cause you some
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problems moving and doing some stuff
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like that and uh again I think it goes
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back to they know where their weaknesses
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are in their defense and they do a good
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job of covering those things up if you
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were to look at the um can maybe itemize
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a few things areas the offensive lines
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progressed since Minnesota maybe one two
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three what would be those three things
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yeah I think number one would be just um
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ID in it ID in the fronts and and things
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the right way I think uh when you have
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inexperience tackles and and a new
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center you're trying to get that that
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communication piece so I think just
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iding uh the front in the Run game and
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the pass game was probably the number
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one thing that sticks out uh because uh
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and with that when you feel comfortable
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with that then you play faster you play
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more physical you run off the ball
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better and so I think early on there was
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probably a little bit maybe some
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indecisiveness which caused them not to
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play as fast as they can and they're
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doing that now so I think that's that's
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better um I think that group I always
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believe that oons they gel as a unit the
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more they play together and and because
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you know the guy next to them's the same
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guy over and over and over you know we
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had a little spell there where Aiden was
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out we had a left guard we were playing
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but you know Willie's played most all
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year with Trey last he's played most all
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year at center next to Willie and and
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Howard's been our left tackle most all
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the year so I think that builds that
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cohesive unit that you're looking for
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those those those guys there's there's
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tons of communication in there that
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maybe the average fan doesn't know about
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and it's not just hey we're we're
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running this play to the right you know
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they've got to make sure they call the
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combos right and and the protections the
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right way and who we ident as the mic
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and so forth and then I just think that
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group's the confidence would be the
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third thing they they have played uh
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better because they're more confident
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with their doing they're more confident
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in in themselves I think and um I think
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that's what you see the last couple
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weeks is they've played faster more
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physical and last week was it we
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challenged those guys as a unit because
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Florida State's got a really talented
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defensive front seven and you know the
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the challenge all week was um you know
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we we we we played against a pretty good
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front in practice you know let's go
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answer that Bell and try to be physical
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and I think our guys did a nice job of
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that how the first two things you
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mentioned kind of connected to the
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quarterback the quarterback different
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they have to be synced with the other as
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well how much did that maybe slow the
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progress and how quickly have they
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gotten in sync with yeah I think you're
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that's a great point I think when you
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when you play multiple quarterbacks um
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that communication between the center
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and the quarterback's huge and uh you
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know it's not like it takes a long time
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to to say it or anything like that but
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just understanding that you know we're
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we're in this look so we want to you
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know we want to make this call for the
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protection now they gave us a little
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different look that maybe the center
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can't see so the quarterback gets it
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right because there's a safety down or
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whatever the we're trying to do and that
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goes back those guys knowing it doing it
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over and over and over and obviously
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early on jacobe wasn't getting that work
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right he was kind of do observing and I
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think the more he's become comfortable
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the more confident jacobi's become than
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that unit has has jailed with him and um
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that's what I'm hoping really is going
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to pay off the last few weeks one more
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question on that the increase in jacobe
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running the last few games is that in
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concert with the offensive line being
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better and more comfortable so you're
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kind of
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he can make the yards that he needs to
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make because the old Line's been doing
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better is there something you know if
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you know there's been not as not as
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really a whole lot of design quarterback
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runs I would say more about him
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understanding the coverage you know
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they're in a man coverage and they don't
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have a guy for the quarterback and him
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taking off after a drop or getting him
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on the perimeter on some of the seal
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stuff that we've done um I I think it
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goes back to jacobe having confidence in
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himself and what he's seeing and that he
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what he's seeing is is accurate and uh
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those guys when they play with
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confidence they and they feel like they
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know what's going on the game slows down
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a little for them and I think that's
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what you're seeing more than
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anything obviously Jobe was here before
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you know I've seen in the backup roll
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and so some of the guys did know him
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from that but with the you know early
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quarterback you know shuffling and
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things like that I know we asked a lot
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about Jacob's you know comfort in the
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offense but did you feel there was a
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point where the running backs tight ends
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receivers like got comfortable with him
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as the you know kind of permanent Q be
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one you know as you you know continue
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being there you know I don't know if
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there was a point there's a couple
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things that stood out even even the
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James Madison game you know in the
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second half we we really had to throw it
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a whole bunch which not really what we
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want to do but you saw I think him
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building that continuity uh and then
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Georgia Tech I think was another one
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that stands out in my mind especially in
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that fourth quarter uh you just felt
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like okay they're jailing a little bit
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there were some guys that broke routes
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off and and he was on time with him and
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so forth and you know I just think for
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him uh anytime you have that
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relationship with your white outs and
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you keep growing that that relationship
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uh just from going out and playing with
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them every day I think that's it's it's
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that simple and um you know I think he's
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really you know he stayed after with
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those guys and thrown some extra and and
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I think it's Unique in the transfer
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world that he was already here so there
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was some familiarity there for sure but
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some of the guys he's playing with now
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weren't here so um a combination though
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of hard work with that with those two
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units and then again I think it's a lot
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of confidence with him if you can take
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your coaching hand off for just a second
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maybe just do it from a fan perspective
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or college football appreciator
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perspective what amarian did the other
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day in callah the five touchdowns 265
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total yards like what what did you like
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the most what what culture out the most
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about all the different things he did
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you know it's it's it's one of those
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games where we we were determined we
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were going to run the ball and and try
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to try to do a good job of staying on
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the field and having drives and and what
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a better guy to put it in the hands of
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right then amarian and and you know the
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thing sticks out to me is he's the same
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guy every day I mean there's no drama
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with him he's not up and down he barely
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said anything in after the game when
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they tried to get him to give a speech I
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don't know if y'all were told all about
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all that so good job yeah yeah good job
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o line all about all he said I think but
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you know he's just a very humble guy and
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I think that's why he's so well
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respected there's there's not a lot of
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ego and uh he's a warrior I mean he's
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he's a guy that can handle the load he
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wants it he wants to play all the time
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he's very unselfish there is no if he
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does if he does get the ball there's no
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complaining I mean the guy does
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everything you ask him to do and I think
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that's why he's going to be a great Pro
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because he he can pass protect he can
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catch the ball and he's unselfish and
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obviously his talent running the
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football is is pretty good too was the
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shovel pass like an exciting thing for
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you I mean is that is that design your
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score on that is that what is that
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designed to score well every play is
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designed to score right so um I ran that
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play all the way back in high school I
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love that play um it's just a play that
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I thought was safe for the time because
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you know we we had the lead and hey if
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we hit this and get 15 20 yards we'll
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kick a field goal that was kind of the
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thought and then it's always nice when
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it when it goes to the end zone so yeah
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it's good but it was another deal we
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talked about with jacobe great
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confidence and him playing more
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confident is that he would didn't Panic
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you know they had a pressure coming from
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the field he hung in there and last
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minute flipped it and uh I wouldn't say
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he's always been that smooth doing that
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I would think that's something he's
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worked into doing and it's hard to stand
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back there knowing you're getting
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pressure and trust your guy and amarian
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is also a testament to the running back
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cuz they if they Rush that play then the
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Twist and things you know they don't
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happen they he goes too fast and you
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don't know where the hole is going to be
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so really good job by both those guys of
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execut and then the guys blocking down
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field I think JJ and um don't remember
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exactly who was in but they did a nice
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job blocking down field and that's what
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it takes you know every every play is
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designed a score believe it or not even
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though sometimes my daughter says we
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just run up the middle every time it's
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um I tell there is a method to the
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madness so but yeah I don't know who
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knows you know if we don't if we don't
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make it on third down she's on me too
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so challeng when you play a team like
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white far they vulnerable through to the
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air and um their defense is probably
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weaker than that aspect for you is there
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a challenge to not take that cheese and
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just stay with I think we I think we
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have to play this to the strengths of
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our team for sure uh now with that being
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said you know I've seen him play a lot
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of of three deep a lot of a lot of soft
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coverage where they keep things in front
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of them and uh so you know I think for
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us we always have to be um we always
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have to know who we are but at the same
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time there are adjustments I think you
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have to make and you know I think we're
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focused on trying to play to our
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strength and hopefully that fits well
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with who we're playing there's always
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some some little things you can tweak
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each and every week but yeah to answer
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your question there really not that
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Temptation we got to do what's good for
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our team and we got to make sure we
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played our strengths with jaob his
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development I mean how exciting is it
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knowing that he has another year left
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and that you will have that continuity
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that you guys didn't really have a
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quarterback at the beginning of the
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Season yeah I mean really I'm thinking
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about the you know the next week right
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now but um I think I think that is nice
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you always like a guy playing well
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that's got extra years right to play and
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you know I think you know you always add
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to the mix in recruiting and that's what
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you try to do is bring good good good
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players in so you can have great
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competition and but I think for him uh
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getting some playing time getting some
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experience is huge and uh I think it
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will pay off for sure you know Jacobi
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told us in tah has the game that he kind
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of looked over to see if amarian saw
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what he saw about the way they were way
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they were playing up front to see that
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the shovel pass play and he said he just
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kind of looked over and he says yeah
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he's got it so he knew to play before
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the snap was going to work yeah right I
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tell you what I don't know if that's all
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that's true or not but if he says that
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uh I it
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was you know what I'm up in the box so
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maybe maybe that was good it's a good
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story no I think I think you know like I
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mentioned before on every play there's
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different looks based on the defense and
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I think he felt like hey that guy's not
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accounted for for sure we're not
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blocking him so it's on me and I think
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you know he probably felt like uh you
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know he hoped Omarian would see it the
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same way he did and he did but no again
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those two guys great execution in the o
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line too I mean and uh that's what it
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takes to score touchdowns everybody
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executing all right all right all
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right e
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