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Press Pass | Christian Kirk, Andre Cisco and Brian Thomas Jr. Speak on Throwback Week vs. Colts · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You know, we just want to you know, pay homage
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  Speaker 1: to everybody that has you know, paved the way for
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  Speaker 1: us to be here and to be able to play
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  Speaker 1: for this this organization. And you know what a better
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  Speaker 1: way to do it than you know, back home divisional game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in those uniforms too. So it'll be exciting weekend.
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  Speaker 1: But like I said, it's grateful to be able to
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  Speaker 1: you know, be a bar to that and pay pay
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  Speaker 1: homage to those guys.
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  Speaker 2: But BT getting nominated for a Rookie of the Week
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  Speaker 2: times in the first four game, Yes, how much has
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  Speaker 2: that got grown?
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  Speaker 1: Since he's got a ton he's coming out of the show,
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  Speaker 1: shown some more personality, but just his poise you know
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  Speaker 1: on Sundays has been impressive, just with what he's been
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  Speaker 1: able to handle, you know, everything that the coaches have
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  Speaker 1: thrown at him. You know, he's been able to just
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  Speaker 1: take it a round with it, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not only that, but just making plays when we've needed him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in in adverse situations. I think it's just shown,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how much he's grown, you know, from training
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  Speaker 1: camp toon now. So you know, I've always said he's
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  Speaker 1: just gonna keep on getting better, and you know he's
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  Speaker 1: he's he's grown quickly and he's gonna be really good
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  Speaker 1: player in this league for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Is he any good is the trash talky? Is he
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  Speaker 3: any good at it or not?
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's trash talking. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's just yelling. You know, he's just yelling a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of gibberish and you're making a bunch of hand signals
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But we love the energy.
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  Speaker 4: You were here in twenty two. You guys went on
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  Speaker 4: like a five game skit in the middle of the season,
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  Speaker 4: but then the light kind of came on. There's the
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  Speaker 4: season strong. Are there any lessons or parallels you can
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  Speaker 4: take from that season to apply to now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just that it's it's a long season, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think I said it before. Thankfully, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot more opportunities ahead of us than
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  Speaker 1: that are behind us, and we can't do anything about
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  Speaker 1: what's behind us. Only thing we can do is focus
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  Speaker 1: on what's in front of us, and that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: going want to know this weekend. Obviously there's been you know,
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  Speaker 1: some opportunities you know on our part that have been
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  Speaker 1: missed and that have led to you know, us losing
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  Speaker 1: football games. But you know, we just got to get there,
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  Speaker 1: put it all together and just get one and then
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  Speaker 1: you know, hopefully that'll accumulate to get more.
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  Speaker 4: When you keep talking about trying to get out of
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  Speaker 4: the hole and getting that first win, is it a
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  Speaker 4: delicate balance and making sure that you get guys don't
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  Speaker 4: put too much pressure on themselves to say, we got
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  Speaker 4: to get it this week kind of deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I don't you don't necessarily think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's necessarily the feel.
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  Speaker 3: You can definitely get there where you're just you're.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to play not to lose, you know, But right now,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a just go out there and let it
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  Speaker 1: all out, you know type of mentality. You know, go
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  Speaker 1: out play free, you don't think, and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: take it one play at a time, because I feel
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  Speaker 1: like that's when football played at its best, is when
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  Speaker 1: it's just reactionary. So guys just got to go out there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, focus on their job and just go out
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  Speaker 1: there and play free.
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  Speaker 5: We talked about it a little bit after the game,
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  Speaker 5: but it seems like the overwhelming, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know thought is that you guys are close.
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  Speaker 5: You know what signs of you guys, team that show
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  Speaker 5: you that you're it's not as bad as it seems.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, I think the controllables we're
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  Speaker 1: doing a good job of handling, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 1: you know, attitude or effort when we're out there playing
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  Speaker 1: efforts not a question with this team.
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  Speaker 3: Guys are out there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, laying it all out there and playing their
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  Speaker 1: hardest when we want to win obviously, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's never a question.
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  Speaker 3: You know, attitude's great, the leadership is great.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's bound together, and we all want to win football games.
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  Speaker 1: I think it just comes down to just discipline and
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  Speaker 1: making the plays that need to be made, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to win football games, because it's hard, and sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: comes down to four or five plays, and just those
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  Speaker 1: four and five plays the past couple of games we
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  Speaker 1: haven't made and so that's just got to be the
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  Speaker 1: key of making those critical plays and those critical moments.
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  Speaker 4: There's a report out there that Doug's lost the locker room.
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  Speaker 3: Just how much belief do.
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  Speaker 4: You guys having coach Peterson?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, that's never a question. I love playing
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  Speaker 3: for coach Peterson. It's the reason why I came here,
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  Speaker 3: and I know everybody else can say the same.
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  Speaker 1: We have so much fun coming in here, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he just creates an environment for us to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and you know own it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is our team.
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  Speaker 1: It's a player und team, and you know Doug has
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  Speaker 1: done a great job of just putting it in our
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  Speaker 1: hands and help facilitating that. And you know, we all
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  Speaker 1: know he wants the best for us. So you know
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  Speaker 1: that's that's one hundred percent false.
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  Speaker 5: Those those kind of meaning double So I mean we've
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  Speaker 5: only had one, so there's no reason to get down right.
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  Speaker 5: You got six and this is a number two. So
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  Speaker 5: we get this win. We're in a good spot.
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  Speaker 2: Place, see the more inficious speacause if you get it,
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  Speaker 2: you're back in the race in the AFC South.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's always part of the goal when we
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  Speaker 5: put our goals up at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 5: you gotta win the South. You know, it's a easy
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  Speaker 5: you know, bidd into the playoffs and you obviously want
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  Speaker 5: that one seed. But that's what later on to think about.
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  Speaker 5: So right now, just continue to focus on the South.
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  Speaker 3: You got a preference to your quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: One runs nah, Now quarterback is quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: We talked about the throwbacks back when they rolled him out.
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  Speaker 4: Still excited to wear them on Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, absolutely, trying to think if I'm a swag
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  Speaker 5: it and I'm trying to keep keep it classic and
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  Speaker 5: having old to the to the old guys.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 4: Doug said that he talked to you guys about some
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  Speaker 4: of the legends and Tom Coughlin that's going to the
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  Speaker 4: Pride this week. Is that add any anything extra to
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  Speaker 4: see some of the history and know you're wearing those
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  Speaker 4: jerseys and see a coach like coach Coughlin going to
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  Speaker 4: the Pride.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. I mean, I grew up, you know,
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  Speaker 5: watching coach Caughtland coach even just for the Giants growing
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  Speaker 5: up in New York, so got a lot of respect
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  Speaker 5: for him. He has a lot of ties to Syracuse
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  Speaker 5: as well, so I know it could be a great moment.
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  Speaker 5: I'm excited for you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Andre feels offbeat this week, even obviously giving the situation.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think Sunday in a weird way was almost
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  Speaker 3: like a reminder.
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  Speaker 4: Of Hey, we are a good football team and this
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  Speaker 4: this can be turned around. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, besides the Bills game we got, games
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  Speaker 5: are coming down the fourth quarter. So that's what this
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  Speaker 5: league is really about. You know, there's no moral victories,
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  Speaker 5: but you know it's about finishing in the fourth and
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  Speaker 5: finding a way to win. I think that's exactly what
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  Speaker 5: Sunday was. We're never gonna be surprised when we're in
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  Speaker 5: the league. But it doesn't really matter to you walk
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  Speaker 5: away with a doubt, right, Nobody goes back and talks
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  Speaker 5: about the lead unless it was a crazy comeback. But
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  Speaker 5: like I said, it's just about finishing and doing it
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  Speaker 5: the right way.
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  Speaker 1: Your ologies if you've been asked already.
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  Speaker 4: But their wide receivers, they're tight ends.
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  Speaker 5: What do you see from their playmakers, great threats down
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  Speaker 5: the field? Fourteen does a great job going down the field.
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  Speaker 5: Five has a really big arm, so he's been putting
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  Speaker 5: on him and definitely growing and confidence in that area.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 5: Those are the time the type of tests I like
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  Speaker 5: as a safety.
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  Speaker 4: You were here in twenty two during the middle of season.
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  Speaker 4: You guys lost five in a row, then like, which
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  Speaker 4: comes on make the run to the end.
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  Speaker 3: Of the season.
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  Speaker 4: Are there any parallels or lessons you can take from
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  Speaker 4: that to fly to to what's going on right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we just trusted the process. That's what it's about.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: You wanna just continue to hone in no panic, just
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  Speaker 5: continue to focus on your job. For me, you know,
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  Speaker 5: just choosing not to doubt that was always a choice
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  Speaker 5: and you don't wanna choose that. Just choose to have faith,
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  Speaker 5: have faith in your leaders, have faith in guys around you,
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  Speaker 5: and I think mostly start playing as one offensive defense,
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  Speaker 5: things will come together. Why sort of alluding to it
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  Speaker 5: a little bit, but we also as the offense kind
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  Speaker 5: of the overwhelm. We thought, you guys are close.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously wanna get the wings. But you know what signs
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  Speaker 3: have you guys seen? You show you guys are closer.
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  Speaker 5: It's guys as bad as you say like that, I say,
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  Speaker 5: I think there's a number of things to point to.
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  Speaker 5: Like you said, you can look at the scores of
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  Speaker 5: the games that we some of the games we lost
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  Speaker 5: close scores. Another thing is just you know, guy's putting
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  Speaker 5: on good performances out there, Like you know, that's that's
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  Speaker 5: a confidence build for everyone around us. So once we,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, play as one, not let two three
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  Speaker 5: guys have a good day, but all eleven have, you know,
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  Speaker 5: one of their best days. That's why you're gonna see
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  Speaker 5: is come to full fruition that you said quarterbacksquarterbacks a
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  Speaker 5: little bit different between five flat things that change corporation.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the approach is kind of pre pay for
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  Speaker 3: both kind of deal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, prepare for both.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there's a few phases of the offense that
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  Speaker 5: I obviously won't come out with Black on the game,
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  Speaker 5: but we know he's a great quarterback. You play him
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  Speaker 5: last year the Browns and he he did his one
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  Speaker 5: too against it. So yeah, prepare for both.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of just the way you operate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been like that moll all the life. Uh
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  Speaker 2: I'm not yet first get around people. I just I
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  Speaker 2: mean I just like to observe or whatever, just be myself.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'll start opening up a little bit more as
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  Speaker 2: I get used to people and start, uh getting closer
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  Speaker 2: closer to people and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: So what what was the information from the official about
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  Speaker 4: the celebration thing?
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  Speaker 2: There was that just the I ain't I ain't good one.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't know, I don't like, I have
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  Speaker 2: no clue what have. I didn't get that feeling.
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  Speaker 4: Have been fine yet. Nah, that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Where you yeah, probably just come up with a new
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  Speaker 2: one something I don't know. Yeah, I probably won't do
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  Speaker 2: that one no more for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Do your teammates still when you.
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  Speaker 4: Said some stuff to Jalen in that open room start,
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  Speaker 4: how many of your teammates came to you and like, well,
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  Speaker 4: you surprised the heck out of us and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we weren't expecting to see that because you've
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  Speaker 4: been just so quiet around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of them that even mph He came
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  Speaker 2: up to me, he was like, yeah, that surprised me
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  Speaker 2: that you went out there and did that. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's just me when I'm out there playing football. So
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  Speaker 2: I expressed myself that's how I'm amped up, just ready
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  Speaker 2: to compete, and that's just me competing at the highest level.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't do that to teammates in camp, though, right you.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just really playing football in general. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just going out there competing at the highest level game
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  Speaker 2: bags any any day really.
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  Speaker 3: And it's hard to look at too many Potts who
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  Speaker 3: were holding forward, But how are you.
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  Speaker 2: Playing you feel like you're playing I mean I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I'm playing decent, but I mean I always be better.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we haven't won a game, so it's as
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  Speaker 2: not good enough. Uh So I feel like it can
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  Speaker 2: always be better.
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  Speaker 3: You remember losing forward to Row in your life.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, not that I can think of.
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  Speaker 3: It's new territory. It's the league though, sometimes adjustment to
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  Speaker 3: battle for uh.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we're just gonna keep fighting and keep coming
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  Speaker 2: in each and every week, just trying to go one.
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  Speaker 2: And oh it's not keep fighting. I mean it's not nothing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just got to keep have the same mindset
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  Speaker 2: as you started the season with. Just come out and fight.
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  Speaker 4: You Jaden the league, I think nominated get it all
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  Speaker 4: together for like the second time.
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  Speaker 3: Who's gonna say to you? Just the individual success all fie,
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  Speaker 3: you guys are.
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  Speaker 2: Having, uh, just shows and that all the work that
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  Speaker 2: we put in together is just showing off, even at
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  Speaker 2: the highest level. I mean, we all come out each
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  Speaker 2: and every week and compete and compete to be the best,
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  Speaker 2: and we all we all want to be the best. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: that's just showing up.
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  Speaker 5: What does that meaning? You just see your form more teammates,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Are each other.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know what they can do. I know that,
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  Speaker 2: I know them, I know the league, I know Jayden's
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't surprise me at all what they're
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  Speaker 2: what they're out there accomplishing, and what they're out there doing.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, you guys think you are right now and
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  Speaker 3: here to making it all click.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we're very close, just even with the
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  Speaker 2: last game, I feel like we're right there. I just
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  Speaker 2: gotta finish, finish little the little things I used to
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  Speaker 2: get the little things. We're right there.
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  Speaker 3: M