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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "Just missed too many opportunities." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, it was. It was. It was a rough
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  Speaker 1: day offensively, and UM just frustrated, Like obviously, UM, it's
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  Speaker 1: frustrating to watch the tape and like I said, like
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  Speaker 1: I always say, watched the tape for I say too much,
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  Speaker 1: but really obviously, you know, I had a few plays
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  Speaker 1: out there that I went back, UM missed a few.
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  Speaker 1: That one play in the red zone obviously just a bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad decision put us in a bad spot, and then
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  Speaker 1: just didn't capitalize as a unit. We didn't take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the opportunities that we had and really played into
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  Speaker 1: what they wanted us to do, you know, make those
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  Speaker 1: mistakes and get in third and long and then um
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  Speaker 1: get us to punt in or whatever a couple of times,
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  Speaker 1: turn it over on downs. It's just didn't play our
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  Speaker 1: our style football. Um didn't play well. Um, this one,
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  Speaker 1: this one stings, and everybody feels it in there, and
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  Speaker 1: um as as you should. It's a division game, it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a game where you know, we feel confident
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  Speaker 1: and I thought we had a good plan and just
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  Speaker 1: didn't execute it and we gotta be better. So what
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  Speaker 1: did you Yeah, I mean honestly, just just forced it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the field shrunk down there we were to
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  Speaker 1: the boundary and UM didn't have James in the flat
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  Speaker 1: and then I thought I might have had a shot
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  Speaker 1: at the back baseline and just Stingley fell off the corner.
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  Speaker 1: There is just bad, bad decision, you know that that's
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  Speaker 1: one you just throw away. Maybe try to run it in.
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  Speaker 1: We live to play another down. We were so I
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  Speaker 1: think it was the first or second in goal. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's just I just can't can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, our defense defense held him was thirteen points.
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  Speaker 1: Like you gotta just score more than thirteen points if
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  Speaker 1: you want to win it for us, you know, offensively,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the standard. You know. We gotta we gotta
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  Speaker 1: play better, help them out, UM. And then just we
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  Speaker 1: didn't finish drives. You know, we got in the red
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  Speaker 1: zone multiple times most of the game, and we had
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  Speaker 1: a couple of three notes. We were driving the ball successfully,
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  Speaker 1: We hit a lot of big plays and it was
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  Speaker 1: just we'd stall out. You know, we just gotta we
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  Speaker 1: gotta fix that. We gotta all look in the mirror
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  Speaker 1: and be accountable myself, you know, I gotta look at
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  Speaker 1: the things that I gotta do better. Obviously, the turnover.
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  Speaker 1: I can't can't let that happen. And then just beyond that,
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  Speaker 1: though a couple of throws that were that were close,
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta make the play, you know. That's like
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  Speaker 1: we talked about the locker room. Told the guy, we
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  Speaker 1: can't all have an off day on the same day.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can have one guy and you can
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  Speaker 1: pick them up and you can go make a play
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  Speaker 1: for him, and that's fine, but we all just gotta
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  Speaker 1: we gotta be better collectively, Trevor, I did you don't?
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  Speaker 1: Did you know who the beat decisions? Just at least
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  Speaker 1: the sting was like in front of say when you
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  Speaker 1: release the ball, and that that's why I see, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just just bad. I mean, like I said, just just
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  Speaker 1: forced it, try to do too much there and just
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  Speaker 1: a bad decision. Like like I said, seven turnovers in
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  Speaker 1: the last seven quarters. How do you keep from pressing?
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  Speaker 1: How do you not those a little confidence moving for
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I don't, I haven't lost any confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Just like I said, does that one really in the
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  Speaker 1: last player of the game, wasn't it wasn't a good throw,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trying to scramble around by some time? Let
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  Speaker 1: him get down there and obviously that's a turnover. But
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  Speaker 1: the one, like I said early, is the one that's
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  Speaker 1: just you can't let that happen, especially in the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: The type of game it was, points are really valuable, um,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got to get something out of there. We
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  Speaker 1: we need to score, but you know, we gotta field goal.
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  Speaker 1: We're down there inside the tin and but we should
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  Speaker 1: we should we should score on that possession. But um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's I haven't lost any confidence. You look at some
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff we did. We move the ball great, Um,
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  Speaker 1: guys made plays down field. I thought I was confident,
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  Speaker 1: ripped a few in there, had some had some good plays.
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  Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter if you don't win. So at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, we gotta finish finished games,
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  Speaker 1: and um, we're gonna learn from it. It's it hurts,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is a division division game, it's a
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  Speaker 1: big game. UM, so it's it's frustrating, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get better. And that's the thing we can't we can't panic.
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  Speaker 1: You know. We we're a good football team and we
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  Speaker 1: believe that and we just gotta play like it. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't play like one to day. We played bad. So
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  Speaker 1: not a great day today for you guys. Offensively one
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  Speaker 1: third down and hit in the brand zone. Did the
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  Speaker 1: Texans present anything different to you than which we saw
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  Speaker 1: a week in your films. Done that gave you particular
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  Speaker 1: difficulty in those situations? Um? Not necessarily. I think just
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  Speaker 1: they played. They played a lot of two show a
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  Speaker 1: lot of to Tampa, and that's what they did to
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  Speaker 1: us last year. So it's not necessarily surprised they did
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  Speaker 1: it more to us this game than they have in
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  Speaker 1: the four games prior to this season. Um, So I guess, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they played a little bit more shell. But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, we have plays you know that
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  Speaker 1: we're we feel great about that put us into position
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  Speaker 1: to succeed against that, and just missed too many opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Early in the game, Um, I think I was,
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  Speaker 1: I was forcing a few downfield and instead of just
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  Speaker 1: taking the underneath throws that they were giving us. And
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  Speaker 1: then I think I settled in, you know, late in
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  Speaker 1: that first quarter, especially late in the second quarter. In
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  Speaker 1: the second quarter. Um, but like I said, we just
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  Speaker 1: didn't finish drives. You know, we kept stalling out. We
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  Speaker 1: had a couple I think we we we didn't convert
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  Speaker 1: on a fourth down early in the game, and then
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  Speaker 1: we didn't convert on a fourth and half a yard
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  Speaker 1: later in the game that it was right at midfield.
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  Speaker 1: Those are huge players. We got to convert some of those. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff that we gotta do better.
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  Speaker 1: But that's definitely definitely one UM coming into the game,
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  Speaker 1: did you did you guys feel like that were particular
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  Speaker 1: personnel matchups that you'll be able to take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: against that team? And then on the flip side of
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  Speaker 1: the day, during the game, did you find that they
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  Speaker 1: were any particular personnel matchups that you guys had difficult
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  Speaker 1: to deal with? It? Not necessarily, you know, we had
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  Speaker 1: some iviously don't want to get a necessarily the whole
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  Speaker 1: game plan, but just we we had some things that
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  Speaker 1: we thought we had schemed up. And um, really from
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  Speaker 1: their side of the ball, they just played a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of Tampa playing covered too most of
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  Speaker 1: the snaps. They mixed it up towards them when we
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  Speaker 1: started to move the ball more and more and hit
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  Speaker 1: some place, so they adjusted a little bit. But that
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  Speaker 1: was really I think their game plan and they stuck
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  Speaker 1: to that, and like I said, we kind of played
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  Speaker 1: right into it. We put ourselves in second and third
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  Speaker 1: and long and then when you get in that situation,
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  Speaker 1: that defense is that's kind of what it's built for.
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  Speaker 1: Keep everything in front of you, rally, make the tackle,
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  Speaker 1: get you in fourth down. And they did that and
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  Speaker 1: did a good job of that. And really, I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think we shot ourselves in the foot too much, um,
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  Speaker 1: all the way around, and you gotta that's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta play well to winbviously, and I just didn't
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  Speaker 1: think that. We definitely didn't play well, but just weren't
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  Speaker 1: consistent enough throughout the game. Obviously we had some plays
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  Speaker 1: here and there. But you gotta play a complete game
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  Speaker 1: to win in this league, no matter who you're playing.
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  Speaker 1: And didn't do that mentioned just need to do. And
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  Speaker 1: you know you're on part trying to get into games
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, Betterer, Why do you think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe some of the stars longer this year? Um? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I can't, you know, I can't. I really can't answer
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  Speaker 1: that question, right. I don't want to try to just
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  Speaker 1: think of something right now to say that, do you guys? So, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's been times where we've started we've started well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, we're only five games in, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna blanket we're not starting well this year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'd have to go back and look at
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  Speaker 1: all that. There's definitely been some games where we haven't,
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  Speaker 1: so I'd agree with that. But I think it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's always a combination of multiple things. It's yes, of
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  Speaker 1: course it's a it's a little coaches, but it's us
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  Speaker 1: players too. We all and I think our team does
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  Speaker 1: a good job of looking in the mirror. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: hold yourself accountable. And and you can't point fingers. We're
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  Speaker 1: all in it together. And um, coaches aren't always gonna
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  Speaker 1: call a perfect play. You know, we gotta make them right.
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  Speaker 1: They do a really good job of putting us in
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  Speaker 1: good positions and um, you know, getting us in the
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  Speaker 1: right play a lot of time and and and when
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't happen, you're never gonna go a d percent.
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  Speaker 1: But we gotta make them right, and we gotta make
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  Speaker 1: the play and um, or don't make a bad play worse,
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  Speaker 1: like for instance, on the goal line. You know my
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  Speaker 1: play that the turnover. So there's there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things and um, like I said, we all just gotta
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  Speaker 1: look in the mirror and hold ourselves accountable and get better.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's the fifth game of the year.
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  Speaker 1: We got what twelve games left, no panic, but we
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  Speaker 1: gotta get better for sure. You can't play like that
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  Speaker 1: and expect to win. So you get a sense even
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  Speaker 1: you know, after five games that there's still kind of
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  Speaker 1: a sense arden see that, you know whatever. Definitely, definitely
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  Speaker 1: and there there there should be now for sure. You know,
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  Speaker 1: last last two weeks games that we feel we should
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  Speaker 1: have won and we did it. Um, so that that
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  Speaker 1: definitely stings. And um, yeah, I mean it's it's there,
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  Speaker 1: definitely a sense of urgency, and um, we gotta we
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  Speaker 1: gotta have a great week of prep. You know, another
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  Speaker 1: division game this week, and Indy they're gonna be they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be fired up to play us after you know
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  Speaker 1: the first game um here a few weeks ago. So
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna be ready and we're gonna get everything they have,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll be prepared and we just gotta have a great,
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  Speaker 1: great Wednesday. That's that's our main focus. Coming here tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: clean it up and then start the week off grade
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and um get ready for them, Um, compared
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  Speaker 1: to where you were a year ago too. Now, how
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  Speaker 1: do you feel you are in going up against that
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  Speaker 1: you personally in terms of reading that defense and then
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  Speaker 1: exploiting it. I mean, I think just specifically on that,
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  Speaker 1: we did some good things today. You know, we had
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  Speaker 1: some some plays down the field. Um, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, they did the same thing to us last year,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought we settled in earlier this year. I know,
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  Speaker 1: the first game of the season we played there really
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  Speaker 1: just being a young player, I think I forced a
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  Speaker 1: lot down field, just kept making the same mistake, played
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  Speaker 1: into what they wanted us to do. And I thought
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  Speaker 1: this this year or today, Um, we settled in and
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  Speaker 1: you had a couple of those early, but instead it
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  Speaker 1: in and started taking what they were giving us, finding
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  Speaker 1: our matchups, finding our holes in the zone, and but
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  Speaker 1: just didn't put those together consistently enough. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'd hit those and then we'd stall out, and Um,
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  Speaker 1: so the end of the day, that's it's not good
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  Speaker 1: enough to win. But I think you know we we
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  Speaker 1: handled it better than we had in the past. How
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  Speaker 1: do you how do you maybe lean on dub is it?
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  Speaker 1: Press is it? Mike? Is there someone that you lean
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  Speaker 1: on when the going is getting tough and there is
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  Speaker 1: the inconsistency out there. Um, I mean coach McCoy is
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  Speaker 1: obviously it's our quarterback coach, so we're we're always talking
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  Speaker 1: around the sideline together and he does a really good
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  Speaker 1: job of just of not panicking, you know, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how good or bad it's going. He's he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: always the same. So he's a guy you know, I
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  Speaker 1: trust and has has helped a lot just as far
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  Speaker 1: as the confidence in the mindset of myself and the
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  Speaker 1: offense and everything. So, um, he does a really good job.
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  Speaker 1: And coaches are the same way. You know. After that play,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, in the red zone, bad really bad
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  Speaker 1: decision by me, Coach Pearson came out to be and
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  Speaker 1: he's he's like, yah, you're better than that, but let's
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  Speaker 1: move on next play. And you know, so everybody does
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  Speaker 1: a good job of that. But like I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, still it was gotta be gonna be better.
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  Speaker 1: So Trevor Duck was in here earlier and said, you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing it on the field, that's not the issue. It's
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  Speaker 1: just from that point on sometimes here and there can
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  Speaker 1: you kind of talk us through maybe so why there's
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit of I guess just being off there.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean, UM, what exactly? Often which way
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  Speaker 1: where you're supposed to go and stuff. You know. Really
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  Speaker 1: obviously there's there's always a few plays that you go
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  Speaker 1: back and look and you wish you would have gone
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else with the ball, you know, taking a throw
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  Speaker 1: here or there, or I think, really, I think I
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  Speaker 1: missed a few throws a day more so than anything.
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  Speaker 1: I think early, like I said, I forced a couple
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  Speaker 1: downfield that I could have you know, just kept us
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  Speaker 1: on schedule and you know, got settled into the game.
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  Speaker 1: It could have done a better job there. But really
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  Speaker 1: seeing the defense, I thought I did a good job. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I think I just missed a few throws. Um. And we,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, we just didn't make the plays that
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  Speaker 1: were there all the way around. Um, I just there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot out there. When you watch the tape, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be frustrating because you leave a lot out there.
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  Speaker 1: And like you said, you know, I'm seeing it. Feel
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  Speaker 1: good about that. You know. I work hard during the
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  Speaker 1: week to be prepared and to see the looks and uh,
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  Speaker 1: to be able to react whenever I see certain coverages,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, for the most part, I saw him.
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  Speaker 1: But gotta be maybe a little quicker in some of
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  Speaker 1: my progressions and just be more accurate overall. Trevor on
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  Speaker 1: the fourth and tent, not not on the last possession,
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  Speaker 1: but last possession, it looked like you looked at at
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  Speaker 1: at Travis very briefly. He's kind of the check down
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  Speaker 1: in the right flat uh. And then but you then
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  Speaker 1: you decided to go to Avon deeper. Did you just
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  Speaker 1: feel like Travis couldn't It was it was too far
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  Speaker 1: back at the sticks to be able to Yeah, um yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that was that was a play. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's kind of the flat control guy there and
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  Speaker 1: we're it's fourth and tent and the one thing you
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  Speaker 1: can't do is is throw it short and get tackled.
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  Speaker 1: Shot and I give yourself a chance. So in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to try to give us a shot down field.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Derek Stingley played it pretty well on Evan.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't throw a necessarily a catchable ball there, which
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  Speaker 1: is which is a mistake. Again, you know, I got
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  Speaker 1: to give him a chance to go make the play.
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  Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I mean, I just didn't. I mean, Travis,
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to I'll have to go back and watch.
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  Speaker 1: I saw it on the tablet obviously on the sideline,
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  Speaker 1: and that's something you know, if I get it to him,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he makes the play. But in my mind it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a risky decision there on fourth and
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  Speaker 1: tent if he gets tackled short. You know, that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of that's the one rule as you want to try
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  Speaker 1: to get give yourself a chance. So, um, that's not
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  Speaker 1: really necessarily one that I'm that I'm kicking myself over,
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  Speaker 1: but definitely wish I would have gave Evan a better
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  Speaker 1: shot to make the play down field. Trevor, it felt
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  Speaker 1: like all we've long the story was that this was
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  Speaker 1: a statement game for you guys, you know, a chance
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  Speaker 1: to show that you had taken a step forward. Did
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  Speaker 1: you feel that? And and what statement because people will
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  Speaker 1: tend to make a statement of their own after this,
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  Speaker 1: Which statement do you think it does say, if anything,
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  Speaker 1: about where this team is. We've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: a lot of room for improvement. Um, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we've we've played some really good football this season. We've
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  Speaker 1: we've played some bad football too. So um, the only
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  Speaker 1: thing that says is we've gotta get better. And that's
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  Speaker 1: that's the message, whether we win or lose, but especially
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  Speaker 1: when you lose a game like this and you don't
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  Speaker 1: play well, especially offensively, so we we gotta like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta hold each other accountable, hold ourselves accountable, and
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  Speaker 1: we gotta get better. And um, we all just have
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  Speaker 1: to do our part. And like I said, our our
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  Speaker 1: team does a good job of staying together. No one's
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  Speaker 1: gonna point fingers, but we do have to step up
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  Speaker 1: and and make the plays that are there and and
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  Speaker 1: really just be more consistent all the way around. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the that's the message. Is just it's early. We
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  Speaker 1: have we have plenty of time, but we gotta make improvements.