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• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Zay hamstring. Uh week to week, Trevor's in the protocol,
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  Speaker 1: so you uh too were early to even hazard. I
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: can't not at liberty to speculate, uh with head injuries,
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  Speaker 1: So I can't. I can't say one way or the other.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you guys are point ways to play a little?
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  Speaker 1: I think it was obviously the the scramble play. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was the last one that he got hit on. Potentially. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to say, but you know, continue to play,
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  Speaker 1: you know the rest of the game. And then uh
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  Speaker 1: he self disclosed after the game to our to our
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  Speaker 1: docks and our trainers. Yeah, and did you.
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  Speaker 2: Did you think something was not right with how oft
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  Speaker 2: harder he was with those last four passes?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I you know, I felt like I well, even
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  Speaker 1: with the hit, I I because I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: more of his shoulder, you know, cause way the the
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  Speaker 1: way the the hit looked, and so it did. It
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  Speaker 1: did affect him, you know the next couple of throws.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there just wasn't a lot on it. But
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  Speaker 1: as he played through it, it it got a little got better.
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  Speaker 2: So does he have a shoulder eagery too?
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  Speaker 1: No? No, no, that was my observation.
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  Speaker 2: What is I is there any chance that had happened.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier or the end of the first I can't. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I I really don't know, cause he was
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  Speaker 1: fine throughout the whole game. So okay, yeah, after looking
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  Speaker 1: at it, W, what did you see went wrong on
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  Speaker 1: an offense? Just efficiency? W? What was the issue? We
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  Speaker 1: had fumble at the twenty, We didn't score before the half,
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  Speaker 1: we missed two field goals, and I think, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a handful of pre snat penalties. I mean, or to me,
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  Speaker 1: that's you put up one hundred and eighty one yards
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  Speaker 1: in the first half on a on a really good defense,
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, y, you do some good thing,
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  Speaker 1: you do some really good things, but then we do
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  Speaker 1: some dumb things. And to me, that's the ball game, right,
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  Speaker 1: or at least keeping us in the game.
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  Speaker 2: These are all correctively right, I mean, y, you guys
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  Speaker 2: have said the same thing of the past couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: But it feels like these are all the mistakes that
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  Speaker 2: you're all in control.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, you gotta hang out on the football, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta make your kicks. We can't jump off sides
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  Speaker 1: when we're we're at home. Yeah, So you know, those
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  Speaker 1: are all things that we can we can control.
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  Speaker 2: When it's going downhill. I mean, we got a week
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  Speaker 2: when you're talking about bad decisions, dumb mistakes. How do
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  Speaker 2: you great that?
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  Speaker 1: How any great the cycle that hows a coach?
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  Speaker 2: How do you approach where it seems like it's happening.
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  Speaker 1: We're still in first place, I think, fourth in the AFC.
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  Speaker 1: We got a chance to you know, accomplish a goal
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  Speaker 1: that that that we set out to do, and that's
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  Speaker 1: to to win the a FC South. Obviously we were
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  Speaker 1: making it hard on ourselves, but we have to stay
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  Speaker 1: focused on that, you know, I I think so much
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we focus on the negative all the time and
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  Speaker 1: and not the positive. We gotta we gotta find the
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  Speaker 1: good too, and and fill our players' heads with positive
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  Speaker 1: this time of year, because you know, we're we're we
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  Speaker 1: feel like we're still a good football team, and and
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  Speaker 1: we've we played like it at times. Right, It's just
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  Speaker 1: at times we we don't look very good, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and last night was offensively didn't look very good
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  Speaker 1: at times. But but there were moments of of you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of play with anybody you know out there,
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  Speaker 1: So it's all it's all things in our control. Control
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  Speaker 1: what you can control, right, and that's just what we
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  Speaker 1: have to do. And it's not a situation where I
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  Speaker 1: think one of the reporters last night asked me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: are you are your gripping the bat too tight? You
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  Speaker 1: know we can't do that, You know, we can't. We
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  Speaker 1: can't begin to panic, begin to press. We got to
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  Speaker 1: continue to play, practice hard, and make a conscious effort
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  Speaker 1: to correct the things we can.
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  Speaker 2: On the Monday morning and fill the players with some
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  Speaker 2: positive energy. How to give a challenge you that when you're.
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  Speaker 1: Watching the trust, it's it's hard. It's hard to fill
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  Speaker 1: myself with positive energy because you lose a game, and
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  Speaker 1: you lose it in the fashion that we've lost, say
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  Speaker 1: these last three. That's the disheartening thing, right. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my job is to point out the bad,
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  Speaker 1: but I think I have to flip it around too.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the message has to be positive
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  Speaker 1: and this is what's ahead of us. Our goals are
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  Speaker 1: still in front of us. Let's continue to work hard,
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  Speaker 1: Let's support each other, Let's lift each other up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: let's stick together. All those types of messages that the team,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everybody's everybody's hurting, everybody's disappointed. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, you know, our goals are still right in
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  Speaker 1: front of us. You talked about finding the positives. Did
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  Speaker 1: you like what you sawt of the defense last night
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  Speaker 1: for the most part after two previous kind of character
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  Speaker 1: I did. Gosh, you know, through three quarters, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a ten to seven ball game, and defense was
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  Speaker 1: playing really good. Now, I mean, that's a good offense too, right,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a dynamic quarterback, and they're going to make
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  Speaker 1: some plays, and you know they did. But I thought defensively,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we came away with three sacks, we had
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  Speaker 1: the one takeaway. You know, it wasn't until later in
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  Speaker 1: the game that the rushing yards began to kind of
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  Speaker 1: of course, Lamar had you know, ninety seven or so
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  Speaker 1: yards himself, and and that's that's who he is, right,
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  Speaker 1: And but the defense really kept us, kept us in
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  Speaker 1: the game. I thought, I thought we were physical upfront,
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  Speaker 1: the back end did a nice job of covering, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the receivers and and you know we were we
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  Speaker 1: were much more disciplined, you know, in in our in
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  Speaker 1: our gap, integrity, our gap, you know, assignment, so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I felt I felt good about the defense the last
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  Speaker 1: the first half.
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  Speaker 2: Did Parker run the route deep closer to the goal line.
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  Speaker 1: But no, it's just a it's a flat route right
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  Speaker 1: to the right to the flat. You know, in that situation,
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  Speaker 1: the intent is to you know, the intent is to
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  Speaker 1: if you can score, score, If not, you throw it
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  Speaker 1: away right and and you either give yourself an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to run another play if time permits, or you kick
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  Speaker 1: the field goal. And uh, just to it's a great
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  Speaker 1: teaching moment again for us to to go back through
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  Speaker 1: that situation and and and coach that up. And and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if Parker this season's been in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know Trevor has. It's the same play
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  Speaker 1: we scored against them last year when we hit Martin
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  Speaker 1: Jones in the back of the end zones, the exactly play.
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  Speaker 1: So you know that's you know, that's the intent you
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  Speaker 1: know of that of that play.
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  Speaker 2: Would when you have multiple weeks where you're getting back
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  Speaker 2: up in front of the team and you're saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're killing ourselves or doing precent penalties, would turn the
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  Speaker 2: ball over and it doesn't get through to them that
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  Speaker 2: maybe stop doing that or how I mean, how do
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  Speaker 2: you coach it to get 'em to stop doing that?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? When it's w what more
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  Speaker 2: can you do after.
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  Speaker 1: Two or three weeks of it? Keep coaching it, keep
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  Speaker 1: talking to him about it, you know, hold them accountable
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  Speaker 1: at practice, hold them accountable in the meeting rooms, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and just keep working it, you know, keep working
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  Speaker 1: the snap count and practice. You know, if I got
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  Speaker 1: to crank the noise, I crank the noise. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: find those ways of you know, keeping our guys locked in.
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  Speaker 1: And in moments like that, you.
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  Speaker 2: Run into like this before, you know, the fabillity where
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  Speaker 2: it's just not working because of the X and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, and what has to happen to get out
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  Speaker 2: of the bunk. You need like one great game for
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  Speaker 2: that out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that would be the ideal thing, right just
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  Speaker 1: to to try to play a clean game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's rare that you're gonna play a clean game.
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  Speaker 1: There's always gonna be things that come up, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: you want to play well and win, right and and
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  Speaker 1: right now we just we haven't we haven't done that
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  Speaker 1: enough consistently. But but like I said, I think I
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  Speaker 1: think the guys see, they see the mistakes. We we
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  Speaker 1: continue to point out the mistakes, but we also, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we also got to point out the good and and
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  Speaker 1: uh also let them know that there is a lot
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  Speaker 1: of positive out there, you know as well, and and
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  Speaker 1: show them that too, so that you know, as coaches
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  Speaker 1: were not always harping on the negativity. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: that's the that's the easy thing to do, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and you wanna make sure that your guys are
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  Speaker 1: engaged each week. They're energized each week, and and you
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  Speaker 1: know they've got hope and you're not. You're not trying
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  Speaker 1: to just squash that dream.
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  Speaker 2: You had only seven designed runs in the last three
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  Speaker 2: quarters for seven yards. Uh, even though the school wasn't
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  Speaker 2: out of hand.
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  Speaker 1: Do you do you feel in any way that you abandoned.
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  Speaker 2: The love or do you just feel like because of
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  Speaker 2: the matchup it was just more conducive to try to
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  Speaker 2: throw the ball.
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  Speaker 1: It was a little both. I think I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you could probably you know, if you're sitting here on
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  Speaker 1: a Monday and you know, armchair quarterback, you could probably
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  Speaker 1: say run the ball more. And then there's weeks you
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: sit here and you go, well, you should have thrown
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  Speaker 1: the ball more. But sometimes you get in the game
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  Speaker 1: and the personnel can dictate certain things. You know, how
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  Speaker 1: they're matching different personnel groups and it's you know, conducive
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  Speaker 1: to to throw or to run in those situations. You know.
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  Speaker 1: The other hard thing too, is when you when you
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  Speaker 1: do run the ball and you're not productive enough on
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  Speaker 1: first down, let's call it, and you're now you're second
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  Speaker 1: and eleven, second and twelve, you know, you're you're putting
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  Speaker 1: the ball in the air a lot more, and then
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  Speaker 1: you're hesitant maybe the next first down to come back
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  Speaker 1: to the run. So you know, there's there's I think
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  Speaker 1: a few things that kind of go through your mind mind,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as play callers, as coaches. But I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a little both. I think it's I think it's
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  Speaker 1: the matchups that you see and and yes, I think
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  Speaker 1: I think sometimes we can we can't get away from it.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody on the sideline after the intentional around me that
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  Speaker 2: Trevor might have had an issue with U with his
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  Speaker 2: head after he got taken him on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you tackle the game. They helped past rushing team
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  Speaker 1: football at Bay they played well and they played you know,
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  Speaker 1: they played hurt obviously, you know, Walker uh, Walker little
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  Speaker 1: you know, battled through you know, he was dealing with
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  Speaker 1: his hamstring, you know, and then played played tough, played
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  Speaker 1: through it. You know, Ezra coming off you know the
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  Speaker 1: week in Cleveland where he you know, tweaked his knee there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, battled through it. Both guys were kind of
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  Speaker 1: hobbling at the end of the game, but they're they're
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  Speaker 1: tough guys. And I thought they played, they played really well,
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  Speaker 1: they held up, they held up really good. And as
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  Speaker 1: as a whole in past protection, I mean, we gave
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  Speaker 1: up the one sack, but I thought they did a
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  Speaker 1: nice shot, pockets were clean.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about looking forward and what's out in front
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  Speaker 2: of you. How much the lift does it give you
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  Speaker 2: going these last three games, knowing that you offensive liked
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  Speaker 2: and play at.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of a level even back down, I think
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  Speaker 1: it gives you all the confidence in the world moving forward,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And and again we just we we've got
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  Speaker 1: a we got to lean on them, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what you do, you know, this time of year,
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  Speaker 1: and and we gotta we got to continue to find,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the good plays that we can come back
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  Speaker 1: to and in the run game. But yet still have
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  Speaker 1: you know, game plan specific things that we're going to do,
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  Speaker 1: and and we got to lean on them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: every every week now moving forward, come out of the game,
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  Speaker 1: person back up and off through the list. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Eggs did did a great job in the return game.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously the one sixty five yard I think reception on offense,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was just a it was a great
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  Speaker 1: play and on all that. But yeah, he played. He
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  Speaker 1: played physical in the return game, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: I thought his first first game back in a while
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  Speaker 1: was was very productive for him.
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  Speaker 2: Drag on Walford did he seemed like last night we
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  Speaker 2: were featuring him on TV, he had the big sack,
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  Speaker 2: seemed like maybe maybe his best game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought he played really well, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: he he. He was able to collapse the pocket, he
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  Speaker 1: was around the quarterback you know quite a bit, chasing
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  Speaker 1: some plays down from behind. I mean, I just thought
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  Speaker 1: he played the type of ball that you know, very
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  Speaker 1: capable of playing, you know, something to build off of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and and build from with him. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I even thought the whole D line as a group
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  Speaker 1: played played well, controlled the line of scrimmage, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for most of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Debone Hamilton, you know what, was this probably his best
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  Speaker 2: game back from you know, all of what he's been through.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously. Yeah, he's he's continuing to improve each week he can,
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  Speaker 1: he can he can still get better, obviously and he
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  Speaker 1: knows that. But yeah, I thought I thought he, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he was another one that you know, is making progress
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  Speaker 1: with his with his setback that he had earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the season. Okay, thanks question, all Right,