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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on His Mindset Heading Into Chiefs Game · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Last time you guys played the Chiefs, there is a
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  Speaker 1: video of you waiting in the tunnel over all your teams.
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  Speaker 1: Can you remember what you were kind of thinking in
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  Speaker 1: that moment, and will you revisit that game at all in.
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  Speaker 2: Your perfect this week?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you've watched. Of course, you go back
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  Speaker 3: and watch the game. When the team that you're playing,
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  Speaker 3: if you've played them in the last year or in
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  Speaker 3: the same season or whatever it is, of course we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna go back and watch those games and you know,
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  Speaker 3: see what we can use for preparation and preparing for
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  Speaker 3: this game. Yeah, And I think obviously the emotions of
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  Speaker 3: just obviously season ending and feeling like you left something
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  Speaker 3: out there and you missed opportunities and all that. But
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  Speaker 3: right now we've kind of obviously turned the page and
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  Speaker 3: it's a new year and get another opportunity to play
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  Speaker 3: these guys. Obviously didn't have a lot of success last year,
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  Speaker 3: played them twice and didn't win either of those games.
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  Speaker 3: So but it's a new year. We both got different teams,
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  Speaker 3: it's a new season, all those things, so there's a
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  Speaker 3: different set of challenges. So I think you use that
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  Speaker 3: to prepare for this game. Sure, you got to use
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  Speaker 3: the the tape from you know, the previous meeting. But
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  Speaker 3: obviously you're not carrying those emotions those feelings over like
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  Speaker 3: this is a new season and we gotta we gotta
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  Speaker 3: prepare it and put our best foot forward to win
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  Speaker 3: this game.
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  Speaker 4: Awesome question A negative.
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  Speaker 5: Tanks touchdown run, You're like riding.
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  Speaker 6: The backup all the way through the hall and everything
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  Speaker 6: like that?
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  Speaker 3: Was that? And then yeah, it wasn't planned. It looked
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  Speaker 3: like it was choreographed. No, it wasn't planned. Uh, just
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  Speaker 3: off the I guess, off the you know, action in
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  Speaker 3: the backfield just kind of happened to be right behind
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  Speaker 3: him and he split the two defenders and I just
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  Speaker 3: followed him, and then he threw it behind him like
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  Speaker 3: he was obviously celebrating, not thinking. I'm like, he's probably
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  Speaker 3: gonna want this ball, so caught it, kept it for him,
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  Speaker 3: took it to the equipment guys, and he was asking me,
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  Speaker 3: like twenty minutes later, he was like, did you keep it?
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  Speaker 3: Where's that ball out? Like they got it? You're good,
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  Speaker 3: you got it. So obviously first touchdown, you're gonna remember
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  Speaker 3: that one. You want to keep that forever?
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  Speaker 2: Who dug press have mentioned that when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: game planning, you know, you get the quarterbacks, got a
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  Speaker 2: happy important you gotta know kind of what he likes.
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  Speaker 2: So my question to you is, do you do you
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  Speaker 2: really feel like the look of the game, of the
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  Speaker 2: game plan or the calls on a week to week
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  Speaker 2: basis will be that much different with the press call
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  Speaker 2: and place as supposed to do?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's I think that's a really
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  Speaker 3: hard question to answer because every week is different already
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  Speaker 3: if with the same play caller, you know, and of
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  Speaker 3: course there's things that we do that we're good at
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to continue to do a week after
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  Speaker 3: week and maybe find ways to dress it up and
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  Speaker 3: make it look a little different. But it's stuff that
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  Speaker 3: we that we do. Everyone does that. But I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is our offense. It's the same offense. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: we have a few new wrinkles over the off season,
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  Speaker 3: but this is the offense that we've had. You know,
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  Speaker 3: our core stuff is similar obviously. So I think that's
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  Speaker 3: a tough question to answer because every week is going
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  Speaker 3: to be called differently depend on who you're playing, and
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  Speaker 3: then as the game goes on, you make adjustments as well.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if I can really answer that,
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  Speaker 3: but I think that the process is similar though throughout
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  Speaker 3: the week as far as getting ready for the game
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, lad and press give you the latitude every once
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  Speaker 2: in a while to be able to change a play.
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  Speaker 2: You see something, you see a look or whatever, and
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  Speaker 2: you might do on the third and two in the
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  Speaker 2: Indianapolis game where you had the two consecutive sneaks, did
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  Speaker 2: you change on the third and two? Did you specifically
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  Speaker 2: kind of go to seeing the gap between the center
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  Speaker 2: and the left hat and the left guard and think,
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  Speaker 2: I think I can get this just seeking it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean short yardage is a time where obviously
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  Speaker 3: that can happen at any moment. You're kind of on
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  Speaker 3: a high alert for a lot of teams will play,
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  Speaker 3: they'll they'll kind of jam up the A gaps and
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  Speaker 3: don't give you that opportunity, and some teams don't win.
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  Speaker 3: The Colts didn't, but obviously they had a plan to
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  Speaker 3: trigger that backer from two or three yards behind the
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  Speaker 3: D line. So everyone does a little different obviously. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: those are looks that you're just ready if you see
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  Speaker 3: it and you can take it, that's that's an option.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we surprised you didn't get fourthed down because yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean obviously you fourth and one and you sneak it.
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  Speaker 3: You feel like you gotta get it, so cam up
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  Speaker 3: a little short. They made it. The backer made a
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  Speaker 3: good play, really just filling the a gap right downhill
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  Speaker 3: and he made a great play and they got a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a push on us and just kind
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  Speaker 3: of lost my footing, but you know, they did a
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  Speaker 3: good job.
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  Speaker 7: Some of your teammates have been throwing around words for
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  Speaker 7: this week like playoff peel.
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  Speaker 3: And this game's personal.
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  Speaker 6: How do you feel about this match up?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just the next game on our schedule.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Obviously there's of course it's a big game,
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  Speaker 3: and this is you know, the you know, the raining
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  Speaker 3: super Bowl champs, whatever you want, whatever you want to say,
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  Speaker 3: and this has been a you know, the last however
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  Speaker 3: many years, this has been the best team in the league.
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  Speaker 3: So I think there's that added. You know, let's let's
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  Speaker 3: go get this one. Let's kind of show who we are,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but it's the next game for us. We're
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  Speaker 3: just trying to go want to know, this week, you
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  Speaker 3: can't I mean, you can go one to know. I
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  Speaker 3: want to know this week. That's all you can do.
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  Speaker 3: You can't go any further, you know, then we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have fifteen more after that, So you don't make it
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  Speaker 3: bigger than it is. But it is a big game.
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  Speaker 3: It's an AFC game, It's Kansas City coming into our place.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, we lost to him twice last year,
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  Speaker 3: lost to him in the playoffs, So of course there
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  Speaker 3: is a little bit of that added edge for us.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, at the end of the day, you
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  Speaker 3: gotta go play on Sunday and doesn't change the game.
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  Speaker 3: But of course we're gonna prepare our best to go
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  Speaker 3: win this game.
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  Speaker 4: Them having played them twice less than a calendar year,
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  Speaker 4: and do you feel like you know this team pretty well?
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  Speaker 4: It's almost like a divisional game where you win him
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  Speaker 4: to two times in a year, you kind of have
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  Speaker 4: what it takes, or at least you understand what the
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  Speaker 4: breaks up taper.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think you get definitely you
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  Speaker 3: get more of a feel playing them twice in one
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  Speaker 3: season of what they what they do really well. You
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  Speaker 3: know what they want to do defensively, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: vice versa offensively for our defense. But of course, you
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  Speaker 3: get more of a feel the more you play someone,
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  Speaker 3: and we've had the opportunity to play him twice, so
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  Speaker 3: now going on a third time. But again, some of
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  Speaker 3: the guys have changed. Obviously, they get Chris back this week.
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  Speaker 3: He'll be up front. He's always going to be a
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  Speaker 3: big part of the play. You gotta know where he's at.
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  Speaker 3: He's a great player. And they got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: other guys too on the d line that are playing
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  Speaker 3: really well, and their secondary is playing great. I think
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  Speaker 3: obviously SPAGS has a great scheme for those guys, does
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  Speaker 3: a great job in the back end, and they can play.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of challenges that they present and
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  Speaker 3: we kind of know what they like to do, what
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  Speaker 3: they want to do, but they also do a really
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  Speaker 3: good job of mixing it up and keeping you on
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  Speaker 3: your toes. So and it's all like I said last week,
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of tough. First couple of games this season.
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  Speaker 3: You're still trying to get a feel for and and
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  Speaker 3: teams are trying to get a feel for what they're
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  Speaker 3: good at too. But obviously you kind of go off
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  Speaker 3: what you've done in the past and what you've seen.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of got to go with that, how much
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  Speaker 3: did you watch.
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  Speaker 7: When you've got back and watched all the tame from
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  Speaker 7: last year, how much did you watch those two meetings,
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  Speaker 7: those two games in particular compare dollar games a.
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  Speaker 3: Few times, especially you know in the Austin, especially the
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  Speaker 3: last one of the playoffs. Obviously, watched that game a lot,
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  Speaker 3: just stuff to learn from all over the board really,
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  Speaker 3: and then I think maybe not as much the first game,
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  Speaker 3: having that most recent game against some kind of watch
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  Speaker 3: watch that more, but watch the other the first game
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  Speaker 3: a couple of times as well. So I've seen those
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  Speaker 3: games plenty of times, and then now watching them again
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  Speaker 3: that's where we're preparing to play them again. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you watch all that tape and try to take something.
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  Speaker 6: From it, at least what's the biggest thing you've taken
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  Speaker 6: away and watching it recently, is there something you looked
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  Speaker 6: at and you were really proud of what you guys did,
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  Speaker 6: Maybe something.
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  Speaker 4: You regret not doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think I think you're ever necessarily don't
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  Speaker 3: ever really feel great about not winning, because we're at
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  Speaker 3: the point where we feel like, no matter who we play,
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  Speaker 3: we should win, and that's the expectation, and and that's
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  Speaker 3: a great thing to be at that point. So there's
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  Speaker 3: not that feeling of necessarily, you know, kind of made
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  Speaker 3: a tight game. There's not any of that feeling. But
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  Speaker 3: I think just looking at how close we were to
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  Speaker 3: some opportunities that we missed, you know, whether it's a misthrow,
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  Speaker 3: a drop, a turnover, like just things throughout each game
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  Speaker 3: that really when you're playing. I think the thing that
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  Speaker 3: sticks out is when you're playing a team like the
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  Speaker 3: Chiefs that is that good that's been there before, that
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  Speaker 3: executes in critical moments, and especially with Patrick on the
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  Speaker 3: other side, in that offense, you gotta take advantage of
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  Speaker 3: your opportunity. So there's that, there's you know that, and
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  Speaker 3: I think we have learned that the hard way now,
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  Speaker 3: and you gotta take advantage of the opportunities when you
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  Speaker 3: have them. You got to make the plays, You got
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  Speaker 3: to be great in critical situations. And I think those
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  Speaker 3: are all things that we've gotten better at. But we
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  Speaker 3: just got to keep keep getting better because that's what
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna do on the other side. So you know
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  Speaker 3: who you're playing and you really got to execute.
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  Speaker 7: The last meetings were in case c doesn't make a
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  Speaker 7: difference that the one's here in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be awesome
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  Speaker 3: home opener here. A lot of energy obviously this offseason
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  Speaker 3: about you know, about us, about our team, about the season,
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  Speaker 3: and it's gonna be exciting to see the bank filled
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  Speaker 3: up and just encourage all the fans to come out
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  Speaker 3: and be loud. I mean, use, let's use our home
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  Speaker 3: field advantage that we have that we saw kind of
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the season last year, because that
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  Speaker 3: was incredible. Makes it harder for teams to come in
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  Speaker 3: here and play. And obviously Kansas City has a great
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  Speaker 3: home field advantage when when you play there, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we want to be the same way here and our
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  Speaker 3: fans have done a great job. So I'm excited for
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  Speaker 3: That's just a game.
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  Speaker 4: Where you just go into the wink now and you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have score a lot of points.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the Yeah you think that that's
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  Speaker 3: where that's the expectation just with this offense. But I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I got a lot of faith in our defense, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say that. I just expect us we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to score well forty or whatever. Put a
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  Speaker 3: number on. I would never say that. I think our
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  Speaker 3: our defense is gonna do a great job. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: put a great plan together and corral you know, Patrick
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  Speaker 3: and those guys as much as they can. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I got faith in that. But you do understand that
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  Speaker 3: even if it the final score isn't thirty plus points
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  Speaker 3: or whatever it is, you you understand the firepower they
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  Speaker 3: have that they can answer at any moment. So I
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  Speaker 3: think that's something like I said, you got to execute
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  Speaker 3: in situations. You got to score off turnovers, you gotta
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  Speaker 3: score in the red zone, specifically touchdowns. You know, all
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  Speaker 3: those things are heightened awareness of that based on who
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  Speaker 3: you're playing. But yeah, I mean, I'm excited to see
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  Speaker 3: our defense. You know, they've get another crack at them.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna it's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 2: Like this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're you're never gonna be far away from
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  Speaker 1: them to better how far away you are and seem
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  Speaker 1: from after my home.
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  Speaker 2: How about the mental.
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  Speaker 3: Side of just finishing, Yeah, just finishing. I think that's
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  Speaker 3: something that we've gotten better at going all the way
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  Speaker 3: back to last season and especially in the I mean
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  Speaker 3: the game this past weekend against the Colts of being
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  Speaker 3: down in the fourth quarter and find a way to win.
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  Speaker 3: Ended up winning by ten points. I mean that's something
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  Speaker 3: that we had to do. Obviously didn't play clean and
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  Speaker 3: kind of the middle two quarters, but finding a way
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  Speaker 3: to to I guess, forget about the plays that had
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  Speaker 3: happened and go finish the game and find a way
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  Speaker 3: to win. And we gotta we gotta do that on Sunday.
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  Speaker 7: Remember maybe he noticed this in the moment how I
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  Speaker 7: wanted done the interception, we're up through Tank's hands and
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  Speaker 7: he's on the ground. Did you notice that he got up?
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  Speaker 7: Guy had about fifteen yard head start. He caught her
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  Speaker 7: from behind? Or did when you guys saw that film,
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  Speaker 7: was that he needed more impressive?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw. I didn't know it on the field
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  Speaker 3: and I was on the on the ground, so I
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  Speaker 3: didn't notice on the field, But in film, yeah I
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  Speaker 3: saw that. And we had a couple of plays where
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  Speaker 3: just high effort, you know, and then obviously that's a
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  Speaker 3: you never want that to happen, you know, with with
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  Speaker 3: the situation and going off Tank's hands, going to the guy.
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  Speaker 3: But to get up and make the play to I guess,
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  Speaker 3: you know, make it right, you know, go make don't
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  Speaker 3: let the guy score. Go make a play, give our
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  Speaker 3: defense an opportunity. And I can't remember. I think our
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  Speaker 3: defense gotta stop there. I'm trying to remember. Pretty sure
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  Speaker 3: we got to stop there. So I mean that's that's
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  Speaker 3: huge when you can do that, that takes off, however
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  Speaker 3: many points off the board from them. So just making
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  Speaker 3: making a bad play better, and he did a great
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  Speaker 3: job with that. Travis had a great effort played down
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  Speaker 3: there blocking for Calvin. There's stuff like that all over
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  Speaker 3: the tape of guys being unselfish and that's the culture
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  Speaker 3: that we got here.
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  Speaker 5: Is easier said than done. But do you guys take
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  Speaker 5: a lot of encouragement in terms of it was sloppy
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  Speaker 5: and you still one by ten or do you feel
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  Speaker 5: like or and do you feel like a lot of
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  Speaker 5: the stuff that you guys did are easily cleaned up
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  Speaker 5: between week one and week two?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think yeah, I mean yes, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: easy to I wouldn't say easy. I think it's simple
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  Speaker 3: to make the adjustments. It's sometimes harder to execute, but
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  Speaker 3: I do think that the most pretty much all the
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  Speaker 3: things are self inflicted that we did on Sunday to
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  Speaker 3: put us in these bad situations, so should be able
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  Speaker 3: to clean those up, and we have to. You gotta
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  Speaker 3: play cleaner than that if you expect to win. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: our defense had some huge stops, but you know that's
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  Speaker 3: putting a lot of pressure on them time after time
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  Speaker 3: to do that and and kind of bring us out
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  Speaker 3: of that hole. And we don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, you got to you gotta play cleaner,
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  Speaker 3: especially like we talked about playing against a team like
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  Speaker 3: the Chiefs this this Sunday, you know, you got to
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  Speaker 3: you got to execute better than that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeap, when your share of offensive coordinators. You've heard stories
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure other quarterbacks in the league about their offensive coordinators.
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  Speaker 6: What is it about Press that stands out to you?
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  Speaker 2: And think in particular like a trade of his that
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  Speaker 2: you find positively unique.
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  Speaker 3: I think he communicates really well with the players. You know,
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  Speaker 3: in every position group. He's very involved, and he always
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  Speaker 3: having separate conversations with different guys and trying to get
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  Speaker 3: a feel for what guys like, you know, trying to
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  Speaker 3: make sure guys understand what we're doing. And that's the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing he's great at conveying, like big picture what
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to do, Like we get our installed today
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  Speaker 3: and our game plan for you know, normal down distance,
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  Speaker 3: and he's showing us this is this is what I
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  Speaker 3: was thinking when I built this plan, and he explains
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  Speaker 3: all that to us. You know, I've had You've had
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  Speaker 3: coaches in the past really at all levels where it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of like, this is what we're doing, and you
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  Speaker 3: just go out there and do it and you learn it,
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  Speaker 3: and you might not always know exactly why every little
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  Speaker 3: detail is a certain way, but he has a thought
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  Speaker 3: process and a plan for everything, and there's a reason
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  Speaker 3: why this formation's here, this motion's here, this route adjustments here,
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  Speaker 3: this way we block the run, you know, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: He's very calculated and all that, and I think that's
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  Speaker 3: really cool to watch him just kind of you know,
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  Speaker 3: brainstorm and think about things and come up with a plan.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously I have a part in that, and he's
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  Speaker 3: really you know, open to any ideas that I have.
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: We talk a lot during the week, just you know,
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: pretty much every day about different parts of the game plan.
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: Whether it's today, or it's third down or it's red zone.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: We're always talking about things that I like, things I
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: don't like. Maybe I want to add this in this situation,
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: and he's very receptive of all that, and I think
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: he goes about it in a great way.