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Press Pass | Doug Pederson on Titans Win, The NFL and Player Abilities · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Doug, how you doing today? I'm good? How are you?
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: How bad? We saw Brandon come out briefly a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: How's he doing?
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  Speaker 2: And?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, how anybody any other bumps and bruises had yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Brandon came out just because he had on on
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  Speaker 4: this one of the screen passes there. Uh, he just
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  Speaker 4: reaggravated his shoulder. That's been kind of bothering him all year. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: So we came out for a couple of plays. And
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  Speaker 4: then the other time he came out, the bridge of
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  Speaker 4: his nose was cut and was bleeding, so he had
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  Speaker 4: to come out to get that dressed and and uh
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  Speaker 4: and fixed before he'd go back in the game. Everybody
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  Speaker 4: else came out relatively clean, just our normal bumps and bruises.
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  Speaker 1: But everybody, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Actually quite honestly, knock on wood more of our healthier games.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thanks, you bet, please raise your hand.
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  Speaker 5: If you have a question for coach Peterson, we can
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  Speaker 5: move to Jamal.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, coach, Uh, I know it's kind of you're going
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  Speaker 3: into this last game. What would it say if you
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  Speaker 3: were able to go four and two in the division,
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  Speaker 3: even though I mean this hasn't been that Maybe the
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  Speaker 3: outcome of the year you want overall.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it says we need to need to do better
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  Speaker 4: outside the division. Quite honestly, you know, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 4: I we we would be we'd be proud, we'd be
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  Speaker 4: proud to be ford to. I think it'd be three
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  Speaker 4: years in a row that we were forward to in
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  Speaker 4: our division. But I think that uh, you know, is
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  Speaker 4: is sort of you know it, it would be great,
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, knowing the disappointment that that
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  Speaker 4: we've had, you know, this season, kind of kind of
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  Speaker 4: I think that overshadows the fact that that that we'd
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  Speaker 4: be FOURD too. But uh, I think I think it
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  Speaker 4: does mean that you know, we finished the see the
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  Speaker 4: finish the season the right way, like I said yesterday
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  Speaker 4: after the game, and that would be something to you know,
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  Speaker 4: really hang our hats on, you know, as as we
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  Speaker 4: move forward and.
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  Speaker 3: As you kind of go into this last week. Is
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  Speaker 3: there anything you can kind of I know, it's tough
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  Speaker 3: to look back at the season because you're still in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of it, but you had maybe over those
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  Speaker 3: first two years, felt like that things were moving in
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  Speaker 3: the right direction. This year almost feels like a step back.
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  Speaker 3: Was there something that you can feel that swung the pendulum.
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  Speaker 3: Was it just young players kind of learning about the
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  Speaker 3: league and needing to take some of those lumps.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's it's sometimes that's that's it's difficult
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  Speaker 4: to answer because you can you you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to put it all on you know,
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  Speaker 4: you don't put it all on the players. You don't
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  Speaker 4: put it all on the coaches. I think we're all
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  Speaker 4: in this thing together. We've got to look at this thing,
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  Speaker 4: I think big picture and and kind of see why.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know there were some mistakes made, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in game. There were mistakes made by by coaches in game.
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  Speaker 4: You know, so everybody has a hand in that, and
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  Speaker 4: those are things that we can you know, learn from
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  Speaker 4: and and fix moving forward. I think just you know,
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  Speaker 4: from my standpoint as the head coach, I think too,
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  Speaker 4: you got to keep educating your players. You got to
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  Speaker 4: keep talking to your players, you got to in the offseason,
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  Speaker 4: you got to put them in these situations, you got
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  Speaker 4: to put them in different scenarios throughout training camp, and
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  Speaker 4: and really you know, teach them and understand that everything
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  Speaker 4: that we do matters. I think yesterday is a great
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  Speaker 4: example of that. I think guys were in position to
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  Speaker 4: make plays. Yesterday, you know, Jordan Jefferson gets his hand up,
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  Speaker 4: tip pass, Devin Lloyd interception short field, what do you
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  Speaker 4: what do you know next thing?
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  Speaker 1: You know, offenses in the end zone or scoring points.
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  Speaker 4: So those are all that's just one one situation, but
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  Speaker 4: that's what that's what needs to take place, right that's
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  Speaker 4: the complimentary aspect of football, And I think when we
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  Speaker 4: look back on this season, I think it was kind
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  Speaker 4: of the offense and the defense, not you know, if
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  Speaker 4: the defense played great one day, the offense played poorly,
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  Speaker 4: and offense played great one day, the defense played poorly,
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  Speaker 4: and we didn't all put that together. And I think
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  Speaker 4: yesterday was a great example of everybody you know, doing
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  Speaker 4: their jobs and executing and was it perfect.
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  Speaker 1: No, it wasn't perfect.
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, I thought both sides of
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  Speaker 4: the ball played played well, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Think that's what you got to look at. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's something that.
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  Speaker 4: We can we can lean on and teach from, you know,
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  Speaker 4: moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Nice coach, but Mark followed by Brent my Doug.
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  Speaker 5: We talk a lot about culture and identity and those
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  Speaker 5: get probably enhanced or exasperated during in losing seasons. Do
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  Speaker 5: you feel like they are overrated and maybe are dictated
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  Speaker 5: by winning.
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  Speaker 4: I think winning has a part in it. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think it's everything, though, I don't think it is. I think, okay,
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  Speaker 4: take it. Take a look at our season.
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  Speaker 1: Not not what we wanted, right you know what four?
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  Speaker 1: What are we? Four wins twelve losses? Four and twelve?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you?
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  Speaker 4: But I okay, you take four and twelve and you
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  Speaker 4: would look at us and go, they don't play like
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  Speaker 4: a four and twelve team right there.
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  Speaker 1: They're still they're still fighting to the end. We got
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  Speaker 1: nine was it nine one.
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  Speaker 4: Score losses this year? You know which is which is?
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  Speaker 4: Which is extremely hard? So you know, it's a team
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  Speaker 4: that continues to compete. It's a team that continues to
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  Speaker 4: fight to the end. We've we've obviously suffered our share
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  Speaker 4: of losses. I mean injuries that have you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you lose your starting quarterback, you're tight end, your two
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  Speaker 4: of your top receivers.
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  Speaker 1: You just things just sort of compound just a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: But but I think winning winning helps it.
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  Speaker 1: But I think losing can.
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  Speaker 4: Magnify it, meaning meaning it can magnify it negatively, or
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  Speaker 4: it can magnify it positively, and I do believe that
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  Speaker 4: in this case it's it's actually been been more positive
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  Speaker 4: from that standpoint. Guys are still fighting, Guys are still battling,
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  Speaker 4: They're playing for one another, playing with a lot of pride,
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  Speaker 4: and and again I think.
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  Speaker 1: You saw that yesterday. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Better answer than the question.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that, you bet.
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  Speaker 3: What else is followed by d Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly? Doug? How much?
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  Speaker 6: How much has this season beat you up? And and
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  Speaker 6: where does it kind of come compared to You've been
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  Speaker 6: in this league a long time, just from an expectation
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  Speaker 6: to what you guys have gone through and delivered and
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  Speaker 6: how much is that way on on the guy in
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  Speaker 6: charge of it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'd be I'd be lying if I if
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  Speaker 4: I said it didn't if it didn't bother me. I
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  Speaker 4: really felt coming out of camp that that we had
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  Speaker 4: an opportunity that we had the makings to to be
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  Speaker 4: a really good competitive football team. A team and I'm
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  Speaker 4: not saying, you know, you're playing for the super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: anything like that, but I think you're playing for playoff spot,
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  Speaker 4: You're playing for the a FC South title. I think
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  Speaker 4: I think you're competitive that way. You're one of the
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  Speaker 4: top teams in.
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  Speaker 1: The a f C.
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  Speaker 4: That was my feeling, and that was our expectation coming
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  Speaker 4: out of camp.
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  Speaker 1: And and and then to have look back now to.
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  Speaker 4: You know, to see where we are and the struggles
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  Speaker 4: we've had. You know, it's it is, it's it's disappointing.
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  Speaker 4: And everybody. Everybody's disappointed. Everybody, everybody he feels it.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Obviously I'm the one in charge of it, so.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I I might take it harder than others,
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  Speaker 4: you know, because I feel like that. You know, if
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna put your hands on something, you want it
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  Speaker 4: to be you want it to be positive. You want
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  Speaker 4: it to be better than when you start it. Do
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  Speaker 4: I feel like three years in, I still feel like
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  Speaker 4: we've created something here that that is positive and it
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  Speaker 4: is heading in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: It just.
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  Speaker 4: I say that though, and it's it's it's tough because
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  Speaker 4: then it doesn't Why doesn't it translate on the field, right?
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  Speaker 4: And why doesn't these you know, why don't these losses
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  Speaker 4: that we've had translated into wins?
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  Speaker 1: And and so that's what you got to look at,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what you got.
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  Speaker 4: That's why, that's why you keep coaching, That's why you
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  Speaker 4: keep playing, you know, to to figure this thing out.
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  Speaker 4: I think together, go through, go through the good times
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  Speaker 4: and go through the bad times. This league can if
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  Speaker 4: you let it. I'm telling you that if you let it,
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  Speaker 4: this league can beat you up right. This league can
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  Speaker 4: can can burn you out.
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  Speaker 1: This league can.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's tough, it's tough to coach, it's tough to play,
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  Speaker 4: and I choose not to let it. I choose to
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  Speaker 4: bring energy every day, you know, with the team. I
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  Speaker 4: choose to be positive and encouraging and at the same
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  Speaker 4: time be hard. You got to show. You got to
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  Speaker 4: show the good, you gotta show the bad. And that's
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  Speaker 4: the only way I think we can work our way
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  Speaker 4: out of. You know, the situation we're in.
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  Speaker 6: You know, everybody in the league is searching for continuity.
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  Speaker 6: I mean we've been around this a long time too.
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  Speaker 6: How important is that? And do you think we're where
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  Speaker 6: this organization is that from Trevor to.
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  Speaker 1: You gonna have?
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  Speaker 6: I mean there's a bunch of guys that are under
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  Speaker 6: contract or that will be here in twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 6: as well. I know this is kind of like asking
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  Speaker 6: you what you is this a defense of coming back
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  Speaker 6: in twenty five for you. But I mean, is continuity
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  Speaker 6: important for this thing to get where it.
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  Speaker 1: Needs to go? Yes, I believe that continuity.
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  Speaker 4: Continuity is the only way that you can that you
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  Speaker 4: can only kind of get it fixed.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, sometimes, you know, you learn.
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  Speaker 4: Even as a player, go back to like when I
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  Speaker 4: when I was a player, and even players today. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you got to think when you're a free agent, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you have an opportunity to stay with your current team
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  Speaker 4: or go go somewhere else. You got to you got
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  Speaker 4: to weigh the pros and cons of both. Right, Am
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  Speaker 4: I going into a better situation than what I currently have?
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  Speaker 4: And I think I think you look at where we
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  Speaker 4: are and the type of players that we have and
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  Speaker 4: and the pieces that we have. Look do we do
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  Speaker 4: we need to improve in all areas coaches and play, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we need to improve and we need to continually enhance
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  Speaker 4: you know, this football team. And again that's coaches and players.
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  Speaker 4: That's not just all on players. That's that's coaches as well.
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  Speaker 4: And but at the same time, in order to kind
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  Speaker 4: of work out of tough situations, you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: the consistency, the continuity, you're in it together, you know,
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  Speaker 4: exactly how people think, how people operate, the communication level,
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  Speaker 4: all of that, all of that I think is positive
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  Speaker 4: in a direction that you're you're trying to go.
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  Speaker 1: I think it'd be different too, if if.
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  Speaker 4: You saw people throw in the towel a month ago, right,
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  Speaker 4: or say, you know, you always hear coaches losing a
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  Speaker 4: locker room, right, then I think that's a different situation.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a different story. I think that's a
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  Speaker 4: different set of circumstances. I still, personally, I just don't
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  Speaker 4: feel that here. I don't think that's the case here.
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  Speaker 4: It was evident yesterday by the way the guys fought
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  Speaker 4: and battled right to the end, the joy in the
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  Speaker 4: locker room at the end, the camaraderie, the high fives,
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  Speaker 4: the hugs. I mean, that's not a team that's quitting, right,
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  Speaker 4: That's not a team that's just thrown in a white
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  Speaker 4: towel or waving a white flag. It's a team that
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  Speaker 4: is trying to, you know, work its way out of
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  Speaker 4: a hole that they've dug.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate thanks yep, last one, d Rock, Hey, Doug, how
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  Speaker 2: do you view the one score games? Is there an
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  Speaker 2: element of these things eventually even out, Whether it's over
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  Speaker 2: two three four year period, and is that what makes
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  Speaker 2: them so tough to handle or to deal with this year?
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  Speaker 4: I I do think they tend to kind of work
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  Speaker 4: themselves out. I think as a football team, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we need to learn from them. We need to find
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  Speaker 4: the reasons why. If it's if it comes down to
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  Speaker 4: you know, as again it's coaches and players. So if
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  Speaker 4: it comes down to decision I make, I got to
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  Speaker 4: be better for that decision to help our team win.
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  Speaker 4: If it comes down to a player making a play,
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  Speaker 4: he's got to make that play to help our team win.
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  Speaker 1: So it goes hand in hand. So we got to
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  Speaker 1: look at all of that.
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  Speaker 4: And and yes, I do believe that those things will
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  Speaker 4: will flip. And when they do flip, and the other
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  Speaker 4: thing too, I think once our guys understand the importance
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  Speaker 4: of I think, what it takes, what it looks like
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  Speaker 4: to win, then there becomes consistency in that. And and
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  Speaker 4: then there becomes the fact that you're winning year in
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  Speaker 4: and year out, and and that and again that starts.
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  Speaker 1: That starts with me right as the leader.
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  Speaker 4: It starts with me, and and then that's my message
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  Speaker 4: to the team, and and then and then it goes
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  Speaker 4: to your quarterback and all your top leaders right on
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  Speaker 4: your football team.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think I think it can flip.
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  Speaker 4: I think it it can, uh, you know, turn into
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  Speaker 4: positive and and and you know make us better.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, that's everyone, Thanks coach,