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  Speaker 1: First 100-yard game, just how did you feel out there
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  Speaker 1: in terms of running the ball?
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  Speaker 2: And then talk about the screen touchdown, if you could.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, I had a good practice all week,
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  Speaker 1: being intentional on the run game and my reads and
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  Speaker 1: my fits and that kind of stuff. We've been working
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  Speaker 1: on the screen game for a long time now. So
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  Speaker 1: just go out there, you know, and just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: make the plays when they come to me is my
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing. I think I played fast and physical today,
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  Speaker 1: and I played, you know, worry-free.
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  Speaker 3: Fajal, did you kind of feel like you'd been building
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  Speaker 3: towards a game like this as the season sort of
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  Speaker 3: progressed a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely think so. You know, each week has been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the up, doing something good. You know,
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  Speaker 1: either I'm running the ball good or I'm catching it
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  Speaker 1: well out the backfield. I know a big game was coming,
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  Speaker 1: and today was a great day to show it.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a sign going forward that this run game
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  Speaker 3: could do what? Could it carry this team in games
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  Speaker 3: that it's needed?
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  Speaker 1: I think it could definitely be explosive. Me and C-Rod,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're doing great. Mary get in. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a dual threat running back. He can catch the
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  Speaker 1: ball out the backfield, and he can run between the
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  Speaker 1: tackles as well. But I think our room is well-rounded,
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  Speaker 1: so whenever we have to beat a bell cow, we
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  Speaker 1: can definitely be explosive and make great plays.
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  Speaker 4: Basial, they trade away one of their top defensive linemen
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  Speaker 4: this week, and then you guys spend basically the entire
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  Speaker 4: first half in 13 personnel and six offensive linemen. How
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  Speaker 4: big a focus of this was that coming in, or
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  Speaker 4: was that just a function of what happened during the
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  Speaker 4: course of the week? What were you guys practicing on
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  Speaker 4: with that game plan-wise?
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  Speaker 1: Game plan, we're just going to come out and be dominant.
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  Speaker 1: I think you say, like you said, 13 personnel, just
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  Speaker 1: run the ball. You know, they got to stop us.
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  Speaker 1: That's been a mindset all week. You know, they had
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  Speaker 1: some things with trades going on. But I think it
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  Speaker 1: was the same game plan no matter what, if he
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  Speaker 1: was there or not. So we knew we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: play hard-nosed football. We knew it was going to rain.
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  Speaker 1: We knew it was going to run the ball. And
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  Speaker 1: we just went out and, you know, we opposed our will.
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  Speaker 5: Faisal, can you describe what you saw on the 39-yard
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  Speaker 5: touchdown run, how that opened up for you?
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  Speaker 1: We've been– keeping that one in the tuck for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. It timed up perfect. The O-line got out well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my landmark was pretty good. You know, Trev
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  Speaker 1: dumped it down and then, you know, just running and
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  Speaker 1: playing football at that point made a guy miss. It
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  Speaker 1: was just an explosive play. It started in practice all week.
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  Speaker 1: And throughout the season, we harp on those things. So
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  Speaker 1: just to go out there and, you know, perform, you know,
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  Speaker 1: make the play happen was the biggest thing for us.
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  Speaker 2: Basial, leading today in rushing yards and in receiving yards,
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  Speaker 2: What were some of the factors that really went into
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  Speaker 2: your success in today's game?
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  Speaker 1: I think with the run game, it started with my reads.
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  Speaker 1: I was much cleaner on it. And just harping on
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  Speaker 1: my details with my landmarks and that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And just playing fast and physical, not having to worry
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  Speaker 1: about anything. And then in the pass game, for me,
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  Speaker 1: just being where I'm supposed to be. And Trev did
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  Speaker 1: a great job dumping it down to me. And it's
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  Speaker 1: all she wrote from there when the ball's in my hands.
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  Speaker 1: So I think both running and receiving was great for me.
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  Speaker 2: 98-yard drive to get things going.
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  Speaker 6: How important was that, and what were you guys able
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  Speaker 6: to do executing at such a high level to start
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  Speaker 6: the game off?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think obviously backed up there to start the game.
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  Speaker 2: You want to get out of that situation and at
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  Speaker 2: least try to flip the field position, worst case, and
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  Speaker 2: we were able to put together a great drive. We
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  Speaker 2: ran the ball really well all day, started with that drive.
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  Speaker 2: I thought we set the tone. That was something that
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to do coming into today, and we did that.
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  Speaker 2: So the guys up front, I mean, facial, like you
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  Speaker 2: guys just talked about in here, I mean, he ran great. C.
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  Speaker 2: Rod Amir, all those guys that got opportunities, they ran
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  Speaker 2: it great in our line, did an awesome job moving people.
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  Speaker 2: So that was where it started.
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  Speaker 5: Trevor, touchdown to Borkature. Had to sort of move away
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  Speaker 5: from the rush there. Walk me through what you saw
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  Speaker 5: and why Nate was able to make that catch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had the play set up for Nate and
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  Speaker 2: kind of got lost in there and came out the
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  Speaker 2: back door and worked out great. Obviously, it was a
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  Speaker 2: tough look. Protection-wise on the edge, I thought the DN
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  Speaker 2: did a really good job, just went straight up the field.
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  Speaker 2: So I had to create a little space there so
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  Speaker 2: I had the time to hit Nate. It takes a
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  Speaker 2: little while for the play to develop. So just trying
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  Speaker 2: to make that guy miss and give him an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: He did a good job of being in the right
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  Speaker 2: spot at the right time and then making the play.
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  Speaker 4: Trevor, you're now part of the leadership crew, seasoned veteran.
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  Speaker 4: You've been on both sides of the equation now where
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  Speaker 4: teams have started with a big divisional lead and when
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  Speaker 4: they see it slip away at the end. You guys
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  Speaker 4: are three games up now, and we just passed Halloween.
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  Speaker 4: What's going to be your message to some of the
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  Speaker 4: younger guys in the locker room about not letting this
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  Speaker 4: advantage in the season slip away?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it's not really something that
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  Speaker 2: you pay attention to too much is the lead in
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  Speaker 2: the division. Obviously, that's a huge part of this game
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  Speaker 2: and the NFL, and winning your division is really important.
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  Speaker 2: But I think for us, it's really just going week
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  Speaker 2: by week. It's not really something we think about all week.
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  Speaker 2: We're a few games up. You know, we're in a
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  Speaker 2: good spot. We can relax. It's not really at all
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  Speaker 2: how we think. You know, we've got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: football left. We've got to take it one week at
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  Speaker 2: a time. We've got a good team in Baltimore that
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  Speaker 2: we've got to go play in four days. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's coming quick. So, like, we can't really– I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously we'll enjoy it tonight. And it was a great
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  Speaker 2: win by our team. But we've got to turn the
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  Speaker 2: page pretty quickly. And, you know, I think that's– good
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  Speaker 2: teams don't think about, you know, the division lead they
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  Speaker 2: have in, I guess it's November now, but there's so
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  Speaker 2: much football to play. The season is very young and
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  Speaker 2: we got to keep getting better.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of get the sense that the ground game
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  Speaker 3: and Basial in particular had kind of been building to
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  Speaker 3: a game like today all season. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think we've ran it really well or we've,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've ran it great pretty much all year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's been some times where we haven't run
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  Speaker 2: as good as we wanted to, but I think there's been,
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  Speaker 2: we've been really consistent. Obviously today was a huge day and,
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  Speaker 2: really big day in that department, but as far as
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  Speaker 2: just all year, we've been really consistent. We've been close
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  Speaker 2: to breaking some long ones, and obviously, Bachel had the
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  Speaker 2: big one today that he broke, a couple tackles and
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  Speaker 2: scored and took it the distance, so to see those
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  Speaker 2: plays where we've been seeing them the past weeks that
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  Speaker 2: were that close, you know, one broken tackle on the safety,
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  Speaker 2: and we're out the gate, and Bachel's been able to
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  Speaker 2: hit more and more of those, I think, as the
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  Speaker 2: season's gone on, and he's playing great. Searot had a
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  Speaker 2: big one as well. I mean, tough guy to tackle,
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  Speaker 2: so all of our guys are doing a good job,
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  Speaker 2: but we got to keep building on it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not something that just happens. That's a mindset and
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  Speaker 2: running the football is really important, especially as we get
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  Speaker 2: later in the season.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, Trevor first, congratulations on the wins. My, my apologies first,
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  Speaker 6: cause I just walked in here. Talk about how the
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  Speaker 6: 98 yard drive to start the game, just set the
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  Speaker 6: tone for everything that you guys did for today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just, we just talked about it, but I know
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  Speaker 2: you weren't in here, so, uh, I'll be quick.
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  Speaker 5: No, you're fine.
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  Speaker 2: Um, Yeah, we just started with running the ball. I
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  Speaker 2: think we got the run game going early. That's something
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  Speaker 2: that we wanted to do was establish the run, and
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  Speaker 2: we did that. Our guys did an awesome job up front,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that was when we hit a big
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  Speaker 2: one to Brenton too and play action. So there was
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  Speaker 2: a couple moving parts there, but it started with I
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  Speaker 2: think we ran it the first, I don't know, four
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  Speaker 2: or five plays in a row and were really effective,
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  Speaker 2: and that's really what got us going.
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  Speaker 5: Trevor, Thursday night is going to be here quick. How
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  Speaker 5: beneficial was it to not have to finish the game
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  Speaker 5: and also play? What have you found is your best
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  Speaker 5: process over the next couple.
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  Speaker 2: Days to be ready? Yeah, it comes quick. You know,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, I haven't played one in a while.
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  Speaker 2: It's been since I think 23 was our last Thursday
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  Speaker 2: night game. But, yeah, I think it's obviously trying to
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  Speaker 2: get as healthy as possible. We've got a couple guys
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  Speaker 2: banged up, but it did help that it wasn't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: deep into the fourth quarter where all of our guys
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  Speaker 2: were playing. So I think that is one benefit of today.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a quick turnaround. I mean, we'll start first
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  Speaker 2: thing in the morning. preparing for Baltimore. Usually Monday, you
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  Speaker 2: watch the film of the game you just played, and
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  Speaker 2: then you get Tuesday off, and then you really start Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you start watching tape before that, but it's
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  Speaker 2: going to start first day in the morning tomorrow. So
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  Speaker 2: I think just getting the plan underway as soon as possible,
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  Speaker 2: get all the information from the coaches as soon as
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  Speaker 2: we can to get a jump start on it, and then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously it's not going to be the most
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  Speaker 2: physical week of practice. So, you know, the coaches plan accordingly.
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  Speaker 2: I think both teams, that's something that you have to
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  Speaker 2: consider is The game plan has to reflect the amount
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  Speaker 2: of time that you have to prepare, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that's obviously something that we're going to prepare for.