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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "We say block out the noise." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: We've got a team that's kind of on track of
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  Speaker 1: the you know, on top of the storm, and it
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  Speaker 1: just appears right now that you know, things are a
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  Speaker 1: little more favorable, you know, for Friday and Saturday, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for us. So yeah, we're staying. What's the kind of
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  Speaker 1: a statue it yourself? Outside state then before you get
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  Speaker 1: a team personally, I've never seen it in person. Um,
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  Speaker 1: And you know, obviously it's a it's a great honor
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  Speaker 1: to to have you know, me and Rocky Balboa, I
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  Speaker 1: guess in the city of Philadelphia, UM, and Nick Foles.
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  Speaker 1: But but no, I mean it's it's it's an honor,
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  Speaker 1: it really is, you know, something that we accomplished, you know,
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  Speaker 1: UM as a team is an organization, you know in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand, seventeen eighteen and and UM, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's just a nice reminder. You're wanting to
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  Speaker 1: visit the statue, you know, maybe one day after I
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  Speaker 1: retire or something like that. But I have no plans
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  Speaker 1: to anytime soon. And they were going to do it,
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  Speaker 1: what would you react, that's up to them. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really care, Honestly, I just really didn't care. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what they did that was that was you know, the
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  Speaker 1: people involved with that so um, but it's definitely an honor,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to to have something like that represent you know,
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  Speaker 1: what we did you know back then that I think
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  Speaker 1: that yes, I think I don't really know. Yes, maybe
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  Speaker 1: the guys that were last years team and even before that,
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  Speaker 1: the guys who under what a couple of coaching changes.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you've kind of gotten into this transition everything,
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  Speaker 1: what was the Were they very very open minded about
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  Speaker 1: what you were trying to sell? The guys who have
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  Speaker 1: been on the team for four or five years, even
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  Speaker 1: they were, Yeah, did they make it a little bit
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  Speaker 1: easier for you to me in here and kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know, do that healing processes? You know. And they
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  Speaker 1: were the ones that I leaned on, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: to really kind of get a sense and a feel
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  Speaker 1: for where they were mentally, Um, you know, coming coming
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  Speaker 1: off the last couple of seasons, and UM, I just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to reassure them that we were going to work
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  Speaker 1: hard to try to get things turned around. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and um, they bought into that. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're starting to see I think the fruits of their
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  Speaker 1: labor by by the way they practice and obviously by
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  Speaker 1: the way they're playing guys like Josh and Shady Cam
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  Speaker 1: and Cook exactly. We did the map, we were looking
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  Speaker 1: at the depth chart before you got here. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's like four guys on each side of the ball
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  Speaker 1: for Philly, we're there before you left, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of guys in the trenches. What sort of advantage does
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  Speaker 1: that give you as you're scouting that and having known
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  Speaker 1: guys like Kelsey, having known guys like Graham and the
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  Speaker 1: rest of them, all the defenses. I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: good to know kind of who they are, how how
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  Speaker 1: they think, how they play. You know, Um, you've got
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  Speaker 1: all those insights that way. It's much like you know,
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  Speaker 1: Press a couple of weeks ago with the Colts obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, but at the same time, it's
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  Speaker 1: a different scheme, so they're in a different different system now.
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  Speaker 1: Um you know, obviously the offensive line. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: the same with Jeff Stoutlin, so that we're seeing the
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  Speaker 1: same things there, you know, in the run game. But um,
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  Speaker 1: you know it having familiarity is nice, But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, you know, they're trying to execute their plan
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  Speaker 1: just like we're trying to execute ours and and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know focus on that night book players, Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 1: He really seems to be coming into his own this season.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Um, I've obviously from afar, you know, watching
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  Speaker 1: him and seeing his progress. I it's everything that I
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  Speaker 1: think back then we saw when when Eagles drafted him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is coming, is coming to the forefront. This
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  Speaker 1: guy extremely hard worker, he's dedicated, he's a proven winner.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's everything has been thrown at him, adversity wise,
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  Speaker 1: and he's overcome it, you know, Um, and you're seeing it.
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  Speaker 1: You're seeing it in the way he plays, in the
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  Speaker 1: way the guys rally around him and support him, and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, it's just uh, you know, I think for
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  Speaker 1: him being in you know again, having stability, I mean
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing it, right, You're the second year stability around
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback, stability around the team. Talking about the coaching staff. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's where you see that jump and and he's uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they've added talent around him, and you know
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  Speaker 1: he's using that. And of course he's a he's an
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  Speaker 1: athletic guy himself. He's hard to bring down. Um, just
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  Speaker 1: doing the things that we all thought he could do
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  Speaker 1: when challenge. You know, you just gotta stay disciplined. Um
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  Speaker 1: as you rush. It's a he he can break an
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  Speaker 1: arm tackle pretty easily, you know, he can. He can
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  Speaker 1: make you miss pretty easily. You just got to be
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  Speaker 1: under control and disciplined and and um you know, try
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  Speaker 1: to try to tackle him and maybe get four hands
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  Speaker 1: on him and bring him down when you can. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a challenge, you know, very very much
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  Speaker 1: so because you know, if you get out of your
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  Speaker 1: rush lanes, he can he can make you make you
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  Speaker 1: pay with his legs. You look at the touchdown pass
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  Speaker 1: that to day Jones, is that sort of an example.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Trevor gets a little bit of pressure coming
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  Speaker 1: up the middle, so he rules it right by more time.
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  Speaker 1: But it seems like Zay did a good job of
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  Speaker 1: adjusting as well. And you know, because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times when a quarterback rules the right by side, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it ends up throwing the ball the way when you're
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  Speaker 1: in a in a box that small. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And it's something that we you know that we work on.
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  Speaker 1: We work on red zone scramble and the rules that apply,
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  Speaker 1: you know, um, in a tight condensed area of the
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  Speaker 1: field and every team, Every offensive team goes through it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and just having a having a plan for
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  Speaker 1: when the quarterback, you know it's starts to run and
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  Speaker 1: and Zay and Trevor we're on the same page and
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  Speaker 1: they did exactly what we asked him to do and
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  Speaker 1: it worked out. Follow up, you guys are obviously getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot more love, attention, whatever you want to put
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  Speaker 1: on it from from the national BEGIA this week. I
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  Speaker 1: would how would you expect your team to handle something
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  Speaker 1: like that to make sure it doesn't become any kind
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  Speaker 1: of a distraction or you know, I expect the team
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  Speaker 1: to handle it, you know, one with class and one
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  Speaker 1: with with just you know the fact that okay, you
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  Speaker 1: know that's fine. You know, um we still have to
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  Speaker 1: go to work every day and prepare for another football game.
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  Speaker 1: And um, you know that starts with me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: during the week and setting the tone that way and
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  Speaker 1: just keeping us keeping us focused on task. Last week
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  Speaker 1: against Washington when you watch it back on tape, what
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  Speaker 1: led to that for that? It's a great pass rush.
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  Speaker 1: They can do it with four, they can do it
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  Speaker 1: with five. Combination of the two. Um, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think you know, you know, Fletch is still fletch and
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  Speaker 1: and he he can he can push the pocket. They've
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  Speaker 1: got edge guys that can still you know, bend and
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  Speaker 1: Josh wedb is playing good and he's long and kind
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  Speaker 1: of slithery and um, you know b G You watch
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  Speaker 1: him and he's he's a guy that can get under
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  Speaker 1: your pads and and and push the pocket. So all
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  Speaker 1: these guys have have talent to do that, and so
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're seeing. Um and you know, um a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them to the secondary covering the receivers and
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  Speaker 1: nowhere to go with the football. That's part of it. UM.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's a challenge. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: challenge is to defend you know, four possibly five guys.
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  Speaker 1: And that's said knowing that Luke took a significant step
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  Speaker 1: forward this past week as a rookie, you know, starting
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  Speaker 1: at center for a third straight week. UM, knowing he's
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  Speaker 1: going up against a guy like Flesh, Um, what sort
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  Speaker 1: of challenge is that going to present for him? It's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a big challenge, huge challenge. You know, you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about a guy that's been in this league for
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  Speaker 1: a long time and knows how to knows how to
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  Speaker 1: rush and and uh, he's crafty at it. He's smart,
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  Speaker 1: very skillful, and um, he's calculated. And Luke's gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to just just watch a lot of tape you know,
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  Speaker 1: this week, and just you know, we're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: help him when we can, um, whether we slide to
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  Speaker 1: him or use it back or whatever we can do
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  Speaker 1: to disrupt some timing. I mean, that's what you do
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  Speaker 1: with good pass rushers right in this league. We did
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  Speaker 1: it last week with with Bosa, Bosa and Max. So
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  Speaker 1: each week, you know, you never know who that guy
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  Speaker 1: is this week it just happens to be an interior linement.
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  Speaker 1: Any coincidence of why or is it a quincidence? You've
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  Speaker 1: been so good in the third quarter these three weeks,
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  Speaker 1: So the numbers are staggering what you're doing to kind
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  Speaker 1: of put games away? How woul do you attribute that?
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's a credit to the guys. Really
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  Speaker 1: just understand, we make we make subtle adjustments at halftime,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then and then come out and really,
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  Speaker 1: um still try to execute the game play, you know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I think the guys feel some energy when you have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a lead at halftime. You know, there's some
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  Speaker 1: of that and and really um, you know, again leaning
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  Speaker 1: leaning on the run game a little bit has helped
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  Speaker 1: opened up some things. But we talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sort of that middle eight right of the game, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's the end of the second second quarter to the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the third, and it's important that the offense
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  Speaker 1: gets points where the defense gets off the field, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And those are things that we talked about and and
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  Speaker 1: uh and stress all the way back to you know,
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  Speaker 1: the off season. One of the reasons, I'm sorry, one
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  Speaker 1: of the the reasons you decided just to stay put and
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  Speaker 1: not I'd go north and get away from the storm.
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  Speaker 1: Assume you learned something those years in in my ending
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  Speaker 1: when you were a player from what don shula do you?
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  Speaker 1: What's your what's your philosophy with the hurricane and how
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  Speaker 1: you're handling It's really the families. I mean, if we leave,
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  Speaker 1: the families are still here, you know, kind of fending
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  Speaker 1: for themselves. And and and we gotta you know, as
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  Speaker 1: husbands and dads, and we want to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: they're well taken care of. And the organization can help,
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  Speaker 1: you know, take care of the families. And and then
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  Speaker 1: just monitoring the storm too, and just seeing you know
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  Speaker 1: where the impacts are going to be. And um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would say if it was more of a direct
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  Speaker 1: hit and things were going to be a little bit worse,
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  Speaker 1: we'd probably consider leaving. But I think things are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: other than some wind and some rain. I think Friday,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna be okay, and and just stay here.
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  Speaker 1: Were you there when Andrew was there? You were on
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  Speaker 1: and off the roster and here I was there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was there. My wife, My wife had to leave,
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  Speaker 1: she evacuated. Um, she was in the car heading north,
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  Speaker 1: and we had to get as far north as a
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  Speaker 1: team as possible. Um, so you know, obviously it hit
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  Speaker 1: South Miami down in there, and and we got as
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  Speaker 1: far up as you know, Fort Lauderdale and and in
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  Speaker 1: that part of town away from the facility and tried
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  Speaker 1: to just ride it out. Talking about this team's maturity,
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  Speaker 1: you think this is something they handle us and attraction
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  Speaker 1: as well. I mean, yeah, you know, this is something
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  Speaker 1: that you know, I talked about this morning. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we know that the storm's coming, right and it can
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  Speaker 1: disrupt lives and the order of business. Each week. We
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  Speaker 1: just kind of gets you out of your routine a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, but you know, the biggest, the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: is just just maintaining you know, focus and concentration. We
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  Speaker 1: we've got people in place to help, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: players and the coaches and their families, and and let's
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  Speaker 1: let's stay on task, you know, game plan today and
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow and and Friday. Um, and look, if we have
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  Speaker 1: to adjust, we adjust. That's just just part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Your emotions. How much of this week is the test
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  Speaker 1: of your emotions? Uh, obviously going back, but even on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday in the locker room in l A, we had
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  Speaker 1: guys talking already they want to go play and win
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  Speaker 1: this one for you type of thing. I mean, do
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  Speaker 1: you suppressed? Yeah, I mean that's great, you know, and everything,
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  Speaker 1: and and I appreciate that, you know, from the team.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, look, this is a good football team,
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  Speaker 1: and we understand. And that is still week four. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of football ahead of us, and and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we just gotta we just gotta prepare, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and do do the right things during the week.
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  Speaker 1: And that that includes me, you know, And I gotta
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  Speaker 1: I gotta stick to my routine and and stay diligent
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  Speaker 1: with that and the study and the planning and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, prepare myself just like the players do. So
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  Speaker 1: you know it starts with me and and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'll keep relaying that message to the teams. Struggle a
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  Speaker 1: little bit here, any roller coaster? What is it about?
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  Speaker 1: Did two defensive guys? Walker and Lloyd? They really on
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  Speaker 1: the suscension of and I've really played well. Um. I
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  Speaker 1: believe some of it can be the fact that they've
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  Speaker 1: played a lot of football, you know, on a big
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  Speaker 1: stage in college. Some of it. Um, So it's it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's not unfamiliar you know, territory to them. But these
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  Speaker 1: guys are both just tremendous workers, and they prepare so
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  Speaker 1: well during the week, practice hard. They want to be
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  Speaker 1: great players in this league. Um, and that's what you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing with both of them, and and it's paying off
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  Speaker 1: in the games of the league. Amazon. Yeah, exactly what
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  Speaker 1: does that say about progress? What does that say about
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  Speaker 1: his progress and and sort of where you've seen him
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  Speaker 1: grow over the past couple of weeks. Well, it just
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  Speaker 1: shows that he is progressing. Number one. Number two, I
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  Speaker 1: think the guys around him, you know, are playing extremely well,
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  Speaker 1: meeting the offensive line and really everybody on on offense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and just it's it's it's part of
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  Speaker 1: our you know, the progression of of our offense and
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  Speaker 1: the steps that we need to take to be a
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  Speaker 1: to be a great offense in this league. You know
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  Speaker 1: we're not there yet. But but that's a that's a
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  Speaker 1: step in the right direction. And um, you know he
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  Speaker 1: understands too that he can't get that type of recognition
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  Speaker 1: without the guys around him. Sariously what type of players
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  Speaker 1: he and he gets back to him the shadow Christian
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  Speaker 1: Kirk this week. It'll be interesting, he I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I had him, you know, we brought him,
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  Speaker 1: brought him to Philadelphia, and he's playing extremely well right now. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a top defender corner in this league. He's
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  Speaker 1: creating some turnovers and takeaways and um, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: matched receivers the last two weeks. Um. The only thing
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  Speaker 1: that I would say is he doesn't necessarily go inside,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as a as a not a nickel, but
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  Speaker 1: a corner that would go inside if Christian were inside.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that's something we've got to be aware of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and understand where he's going to be. Um,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe lean towards a a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: possibly on the outside, but um, great player. Gotta understand
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  Speaker 1: where he's at and how they how they want to
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  Speaker 1: use him. Shack Griffin and if you could evaluate Trey
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  Speaker 1: Herndon stepping in for him this past weekend. Um, Shock's
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  Speaker 1: doing good. Um, I'll be back out on the practice
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  Speaker 1: field today. And Trey played well. He played really well,
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  Speaker 1: and um, it was good to see Trey. It was
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  Speaker 1: great probably for him to get back out there and
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  Speaker 1: really have you know, meaningful snaps and and he did
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  Speaker 1: a really nice job for Uce. Any other injuries coming
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  Speaker 1: out of Sunday's game, Van Lannon Cole is the one
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  Speaker 1: that has a hamstring coming out of the game, So
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna miss today and and and potentially
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  Speaker 1: you know, this week, So he's the only one. Tough
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  Speaker 1: of an environment can it be in Philly for the
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  Speaker 1: visiting team, It's tough. It's extremely tough. I mean the
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  Speaker 1: second you pull into that stadium, you know, the fans
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  Speaker 1: are cheering and fans are bowing and fans are yelling,
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  Speaker 1: and um, it's a great environment, you know for a
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  Speaker 1: football game, but it's it's loud. Um, it's it's the
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: stadium is kind of right on top of the field,
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  Speaker 1: and and um, it's it's a challenge. It's a challenge
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  Speaker 1: to be able to handle crowd noise and and um
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  Speaker 1: try to you know, try to keep your composure. And
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  Speaker 1: you learn a lot about a young team going into
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  Speaker 1: an environment like that. Certainly, certainly that's something that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk a lot about that this week. Uh, just
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  Speaker 1: how to how to handle that, try to you know,
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  Speaker 1: we say block out the noise, but it's gonna be loud,
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  Speaker 1: but you do have to block out the noise, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and just focus on your job. And and we'll try to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, try to simulate that some this week in practice.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the injuries, I'm just curious, in a while
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  Speaker 1: your years of coaching and playing, have you ever had
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  Speaker 1: five straight days of no one on an injury report.
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  Speaker 1: I can't say I've had that many days. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that might be a first, you know, it might
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  Speaker 1: be a first. And again, I just think it's a
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  Speaker 1: credit to the players and obviously our medical staff for
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  Speaker 1: keeping those guys on the field a right guys, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you.