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Press Pass | Morse, Thomas and Harrison on Resetting During the Bye Week · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Long road up to the bye week by week kind
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  Speaker 1: of come at a good time.
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  Speaker 2: Or is it after a loss like that one where
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  Speaker 2: you kind of want to play another game? I think
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  Speaker 2: you ask everyone around this building, this bye week has
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  Speaker 2: come at the perfect time some not only just time
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  Speaker 2: away from the building, but self reflection, getting your bodies back.
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  Speaker 2: But I think the biggest thing is a mental and
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  Speaker 2: physical reset. And then we get to come out of
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  Speaker 2: this with six weeks of being able to just push
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  Speaker 2: and see what we can do. See you know, we
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  Speaker 2: put our foot in the gas. We have nothing to lose.
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  Speaker 2: Be professionals and do that to the best of our ability.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you've ever experienced a coach and change
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  Speaker 2: or even like.
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  Speaker 3: Had a coach on a hot seat.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 1: What does it feel different for you to have that
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  Speaker 1: sharing the day?
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  Speaker 2: Well, to be honest, it's not something that I tend
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  Speaker 2: to worry about. Those decisions I have no part of
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  Speaker 2: and uh, and you know it's just, yeah, it's not
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  Speaker 2: in my mental wheelhouse, to be honest, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my left powers to be decide who is and who
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  Speaker 2: isn't here and that goes with players too. And not
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  Speaker 2: to say that that means anything. I'm just saying that
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  Speaker 2: that's not on my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Dog talk yesterday about how you guys, the players and
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  Speaker 1: maybe the coaches too, are just tired physically. How tough
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  Speaker 1: has this season been on you guys physically just going
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  Speaker 1: through the ups and downs?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think, yeah, it's football is a war of
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  Speaker 2: attrition at times, it feels like and our team has
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  Speaker 2: been no exception to that, both the offense and defense.
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  Speaker 2: But that's part of the gig.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: You go in and you got to battle with who
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  Speaker 2: you got and right around guys, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think when you ask anyone in this locker room,
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  Speaker 2: no one's uh no I expected to be in this position.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's how you respond to that, and
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna be a great challenge. And we'll all have
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  Speaker 2: our moments this week to just really take a step
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  Speaker 2: back and see how we want to attack individually and
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  Speaker 2: as a team these next six weeks after we get
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  Speaker 2: back from UH.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just praying for him, uh, praying that he gets better. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, he was one of the veterans I
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  Speaker 5: looked up to, Uh, just him and Kirk when they
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  Speaker 5: when I first came in. They uh, they took they
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  Speaker 5: took me in just uh taught me a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So I just uh, I mean, yeah, I'm missing for sure.
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  Speaker 2: With the injuries he's had this season, we never never
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  Speaker 2: really saw how.
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  Speaker 3: Much he could contribute if he'd stayed healthy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, uh yeah, I mean he uh, he fought through
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  Speaker 5: a lot of injuries this season. I mean it just
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  Speaker 5: shows how much he's willing to give for his team
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  Speaker 5: and how much of a team player he is. He's
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  Speaker 5: fighting and battling each and every week through injuries. Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he's just a great team player.
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  Speaker 3: You're lostless many games in the season before. Uh No,
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  Speaker 3: I haven't frustrated, is it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it guess very frustrating when you feel like
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  Speaker 5: you should have won some of the games. Feel like
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  Speaker 5: some of the games, uh with all being like one
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  Speaker 5: score games, you could have had a different outcome. If
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  Speaker 5: only some one playoffs something like would have went better.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I guess really frustrating. But you got to
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  Speaker 5: keep our head down, keep fighting, stay focused.
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  Speaker 4: You can bang up there towards the end.
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  Speaker 5: What happened there, he just knocked the win me, caught
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  Speaker 5: me and hit me, and my stomach knocked the win.
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  Speaker 1: It was nothing been on teams when the coach got fired,
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  Speaker 1: right with coach?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? What's that like?
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  Speaker 4: Going through the uncertainty of not knowing what's gonna happen
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  Speaker 4: or just kind of kind of waiting for.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff to happen. I try not to leave and look
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  Speaker 3: at that stuff like that.
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  Speaker 5: I try to just keep my head down, stay focused
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  Speaker 5: on the task in hand, just keep pushing, get better
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  Speaker 5: each and every day, be one percent better each and
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  Speaker 5: every day.
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  Speaker 4: Bye, we coming up.
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  Speaker 3: What do you planning on doing just to sort of
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  Speaker 3: reset your mind?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe, Yeah, just getting away for a little bit, giving
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  Speaker 5: recharged and refocused to come back and finish these last
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  Speaker 5: six games.
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  Speaker 3: I was strong.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, just come back, come back more focused than ever,
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  Speaker 5: and just finish the season.
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  Speaker 3: I'm strong. Is it another point where the season starting
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  Speaker 3: to feel like a grind? Just physically knowing how much
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  Speaker 3: longer this year can.
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: No, not really.
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  Speaker 5: I'm still I'm still feeling good, still feeling great. Just
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  Speaker 5: ready to finish out the season.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I'm ready. Uh it's been it's been good so far.
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  Speaker 5: As just want to keep getting better each and every
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  Speaker 5: week and uh, just be the best that I can be.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about this team needs a break right now. So
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  Speaker 4: how tired physically do you think this team is? Eleven
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  Speaker 4: straight weeks?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we all fighters.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we're not gonna show that we tired, but I
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  Speaker 5: mean it gets to a point where your body just
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  Speaker 5: starts wearing down a little bit. So you need like
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  Speaker 5: a little break to get recharged and uh just get refocused.
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  Speaker 3: So this break is coming in.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, this by week is coming in, uh much needed time,
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  Speaker 5: and I feel like it's good for the old team
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  Speaker 5: just to get us refocused and recharged.
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  Speaker 4: Way though after a loss like that, is it kind
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  Speaker 4: of not what the kind of I mean, you don't
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  Speaker 4: want to go into buy We can have two weeks
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  Speaker 4: to dwell on that, right Is that Is that sort
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  Speaker 4: of a negative you know for a coming right now?
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  Speaker 3: At this point, I wouldn't say as a negative.
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  Speaker 5: I mean just gotta We watched the film and they
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  Speaker 5: just flesh it and uh come back ready to play,
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  Speaker 5: come back, ready to play next week, just knowing that
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  Speaker 5: we got to get better and if we want to
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  Speaker 5: do what we want to.
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  Speaker 3: Do, still gotta come out and play hard.
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  Speaker 4: Doug said yesterday, this seems like a really tired team. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: break coming at the perfect time obviously, but how can
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  Speaker 4: you tell you guys as a group are pretty physically
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  Speaker 4: exhausted at this point after eleventh straight week.
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  Speaker 3: H Yeah, it's tough.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, be tough for anybody eleven straight weeks. So what
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  Speaker 6: we do is hard, but it's what we signed up for.
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  Speaker 6: So it's never real an excuse, but it's definitely something
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  Speaker 6: that is true. That's something that we have to just
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  Speaker 6: have as bad come back stronger and better.
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  Speaker 3: Is a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: There's uncertainty around the coaching staff in their futures.
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  Speaker 6: For US players, we just try to do our job,
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  Speaker 6: do we told and try to tune everything out outside
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  Speaker 6: of what we do in playing football, so trying to
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  Speaker 6: think of that. We try to just come here every day,
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  Speaker 6: same mindset and whatever happens happens. How uh, everybody it's
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  Speaker 6: different for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: For me, it's pretty easy, Uh.
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  Speaker 6: I everybody had their only own opinions. For me, I
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  Speaker 6: I believe what I see, so I kind of try
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  Speaker 6: not to pay attention to it, just come ahead and
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  Speaker 6: do my job.
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  Speaker 3: Physically, it's important to recharge, but mentally, how do you
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  Speaker 3: do that.
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  Speaker 6: In the week, try to just get away a little
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  Speaker 6: bit Uh. For me personally, I just try to get away,
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  Speaker 6: get to myself. Uh, just refocus in my body. Right,
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  Speaker 6: I said it was a tough eleven weeks. Definitely didn't
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  Speaker 6: what didn't go out, we expected it. Both got six
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  Speaker 6: games left, so to try to come back with a mindset,
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  Speaker 6: try to go see and all these next six games.
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  Speaker 3: Ever, He's gonna keep fighting for whatever happens. That way
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  Speaker 3: you see it.
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  Speaker 6: Too, Yeah, definitely I'm fighting for my coach, my team
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  Speaker 6: organization or whatever. So uh when I come back when
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  Speaker 6: he's coached, I'm just fighting one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: What do you need to show personally the last six
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  Speaker 2: weeks of the season, your second go around here in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL.
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  Speaker 6: For me personally, I feel like this year so far
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  Speaker 6: has kind of been up and down, inconsistent. So me
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  Speaker 6: just coming out lescens game, try to be consistent as possible,
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  Speaker 6: dominant as possible, to really assert my name up there
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  Speaker 6: with the best of the best.
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel like this team needs to do
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  Speaker 1: and that was final six weeks. How do you sort
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  Speaker 1: of put the mentality with the identity around and sort
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  Speaker 1: of get back on track.
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  Speaker 6: So when I said we all gotta have that mindset, No,
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  Speaker 6: matter the record, we gotta all go out there and play.
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  Speaker 6: Be the most physical, most technical, most sound team out there.
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  Speaker 6: Try to limit all mistakes. Like you said, we're coming in,
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  Speaker 6: it's gonna be Week twelve. Were thirteen, so it shouldn't
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  Speaker 6: really be. No, it made things like that, so you
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  Speaker 6: got to go up there and try to go one
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  Speaker 6: hundred percent and win games.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thanks, thanks, thanks