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Press Pass | Jourdan Lewis and Brian Thomas Jr. on Forcing Turnovers, Offensive Resilience · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Good was such defensive effort today with the takeaways and
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  Speaker 2: just hanging in there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it was really good.
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  Speaker 4: There's some things that we stef we used did definitely
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  Speaker 4: still need to clean up, but it was a good win.
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  Speaker 3: We we fought and that's all you could ask for.
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  Speaker 4: The when when you wanna play a division rifle, I
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  Speaker 4: mean a rival in your division, Uh, just go out
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  Speaker 4: there and fight.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what we did and came out with it done.
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  Speaker 2: Been that division game that's not gonna all go right.
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  Speaker 2: How much did you sort of learn about each other
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  Speaker 2: today to grind it out?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I knew like our our training.
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  Speaker 4: We just leaned on our training and then we saw
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  Speaker 4: that that that that training is is what we we
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  Speaker 4: We thought it was a big gonna be and that
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  Speaker 4: was you know, hard nose, grind it out and you know,
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  Speaker 4: believe in each other. So I I I just fell
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  Speaker 4: back on you know where coach Camp taught us and
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  Speaker 4: looked good Today?
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  Speaker 2: Was this kind of a retribution off of what happened
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  Speaker 2: last week again Cincinnati, where you bunuely challenging themselves.
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  Speaker 4: Nah, we don't think about what we did last week.
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  Speaker 4: Just think about what we can do better. Going into
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  Speaker 4: the next week. So, uh, we knew that we had
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  Speaker 4: it heard. You know, it was gonna be a hard
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  Speaker 4: fall game coming in here, playing in Texas. Just have
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  Speaker 4: to clean up some of the things, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: so they don't want to take advantage of some of
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  Speaker 4: the things we did bad last week.
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  Speaker 3: And just keep stacking those days. I know you're most
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  Speaker 3: turnover game. Jordan.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about how you guys are continuously get your hands
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  Speaker 4: on the football. It's just our training. That's what we
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  Speaker 4: talk about every day. Camp talks about getting the ball
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  Speaker 4: back every single day. And when you think like that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you just manifested like that, and they come
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  Speaker 4: in bunches when you go and attack. How we do
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  Speaker 4: when we run to the football and get the ball out,
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  Speaker 4: you know, good things happen. Another iront for you this week.
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  Speaker 4: Now you're playing at a really elite level right now. Man,
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  Speaker 4: talk about your preparation week the week and how does
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  Speaker 4: it turned out.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, just making sure that I have all my
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  Speaker 3: bases covered.
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking at every game that I can, you know,
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  Speaker 4: through the week, seeing the tennessees and different things like that,
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  Speaker 4: even if I haven't seen it from this certain team.
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  Speaker 3: Because you don't see it from the certain system, different
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  Speaker 3: things like that.
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  Speaker 4: So making sure that I'm fully prepared to go out
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  Speaker 4: there and play confident if.
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  Speaker 5: You already do what let's getting one back and forth
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  Speaker 5: for you you felt like you guys were in total control,
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  Speaker 5: but not on the scoreboard. Just how huge is it
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  Speaker 5: for the culture for everything else you just get on
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  Speaker 5: the right side of this week.
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  Speaker 3: It's just really about our process. Our process was right.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna get those.
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  Speaker 4: Things cleaned up to where we're gonna you know, get
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  Speaker 4: teams on the ropes and we're gonna finish them off.
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  Speaker 4: But it's a good thing to know that our process
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  Speaker 4: is working and that you know, what we're doing during
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  Speaker 4: the week is really you know, getting shown on some ofdays.
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  Speaker 3: Sides to do. Can it propel you guys?
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  Speaker 1: You know, getting to.
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  Speaker 3: Win like this?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, we're just taking it one that, one game at
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  Speaker 4: a time. Honestly, Like I said, our preparation is, you
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  Speaker 4: know the same if a win loser draws, go out
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  Speaker 4: there and prepare our hardest, go out there, practice our hardest,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, watch film as hard as we can.
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  Speaker 4: So that's what we do every single time we come
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  Speaker 4: out here and you know, the results.
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  Speaker 3: Are gonna be what they are.
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  Speaker 4: But I know we have a really good team and
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  Speaker 4: I think our results are.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna be really good.
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  Speaker 5: Challenging on the sideline at times, I mean through some
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  Speaker 5: some of those things are really deflating.
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  Speaker 3: What was it like for you guys to stay together.
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  Speaker 3: It's not my job. My job is go out there
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  Speaker 3: and create turnovers, get the ball back for him. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's calling defense.
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  Speaker 4: That's not my job to go out there and you know,
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  Speaker 4: tell them what they're doing wrong.
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  Speaker 3: With things like that.
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  Speaker 4: My job is to stop offenses, and that's what we
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  Speaker 4: That's what I told the guys on the sideline. Our
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  Speaker 4: job is go out there and stop guys and make
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  Speaker 4: sure we get the ball back to give more opportunities
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  Speaker 4: to our offense. And when the offense, when we needed
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  Speaker 4: the offense, they came up really big for So that's
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  Speaker 4: just you know, complimentary football, and that's what we we
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  Speaker 4: we pride ourselves on doing.
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  Speaker 1: How much can those takeaways just re energize the sideline?
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, that's our that's our carling kart. Go out
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  Speaker 3: there and take the ball away. We've been talking about
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  Speaker 3: that since OTAs.
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  Speaker 4: We just want to go out there and and force
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  Speaker 4: turnovers and make it a bad day for the offense
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  Speaker 4: and you know those quarterbacks that we're facing. So we've
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  Speaker 4: been doing a pretty good job of that. You just
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  Speaker 4: have to stay on the screws and you know, keep
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  Speaker 4: preparing coming into this.
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  Speaker 6: When you guys were leading the NFL and takeaways, you
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  Speaker 6: got two more today.
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  Speaker 3: What's been a difference between this year and last year?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: We got three more? Oh three, we got three more. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's honestly, it's our process.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, it all goes back to that when
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  Speaker 4: you have success, and you can you have sustained success,
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  Speaker 4: it just goes back to the every day that you
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  Speaker 4: train and the things that you do in practice.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what we've been doing. We've been practicing getting
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  Speaker 3: the ball back and you can see it's it's coming
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  Speaker 3: to fruition on Sundays.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson's the end of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Good man. It felt really good man.
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  Speaker 4: Me Antonio was talking on one of those third down
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  Speaker 4: and he came up really big for us. So him
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  Speaker 4: just being ready, like I said, being prepared, making sure
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  Speaker 4: that we have all of our you know, our are
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  Speaker 4: we our we don our t's, you know, dot in
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  Speaker 4: our eyes and pressing our te's and making sure that
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  Speaker 4: you know, everybody's on the same page.
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  Speaker 3: It was really good to see him, you know, come
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  Speaker 3: up with a turn of Jordan.
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  Speaker 5: I know it too, really, but is it satisfying to
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  Speaker 5: come through a new team and deliver the way you're delivering.
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  Speaker 5: I gonna say, you're playing a really good football.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, man, that's this. This is what I
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  Speaker 4: do every day. I think about, you know, getting the
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  Speaker 4: ball backs every single day. And That's what I've been
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  Speaker 4: doing since I've been in the league, you know, trying
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  Speaker 4: to get the ball back and prepare. My heart is
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  Speaker 4: to make sure that I can affect winning. So I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter week the week. That's what that's what
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  Speaker 4: my mindset is gonna be. How come were you guys
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  Speaker 4: during that last drive of Houston, springing it right down
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  Speaker 4: your throat?
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  Speaker 3: Just really just you know, leaning back on our training.
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  Speaker 4: Just go out there and understand, you know what we've
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  Speaker 4: been doing, our two minute stuff, Understand what they want
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  Speaker 4: to do in two minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Understanding that you know, these are.
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  Speaker 4: The pressure situations that we go and you know, we
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  Speaker 4: get paid for it. So we went out there and
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  Speaker 4: delivered and I'm really proud of the guys that you know,
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  Speaker 4: went out there and played.
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  Speaker 2: Hard for a forty six year cat trip and saw
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  Speaker 2: the right You said what I saw?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I know. I had like a little skinny
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  Speaker 6: route Ranmond Rouse saw to safe to shoot down, Trevor
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  Speaker 6: throwing the wall, took up with it.
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  Speaker 4: Was it.
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  Speaker 2: To the sideline pretty hard as you did?
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  Speaker 3: Was that kind of like a statement?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was a pretty big play, and it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of like Betj's back and he knows he is.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, just trying to get going. Man, just keep
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  Speaker 6: fighting to the end. Yeah, I would say that was
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  Speaker 6: a statement for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously things weren't going You're way throughout the game. How
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  Speaker 2: did you stick with it to make that big point?
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  Speaker 6: You gotta keep fighting. Sixty min games a long game.
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  Speaker 6: You gotta keep fighting. My teammates had my back the
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  Speaker 6: whole game, and I feel like I just gotta keep fighting.
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  Speaker 6: Go out there. I mean, everything's not gonna go away
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  Speaker 6: all the time. You gotta keep fighting. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: that's that's what happened.
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  Speaker 3: When you keep fighting.
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  Speaker 2: How much should you lean on those guys today, your
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  Speaker 2: fellow receivers, other players at offense. Hey, keep your eye up,
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  Speaker 2: keep keep sticking.
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  Speaker 6: With him big time. I mean it's after every every play.
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  Speaker 6: We always lean on each other. That's what we uh,
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  Speaker 6: that's what we're here for. Just to be each other's
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  Speaker 6: when each other's better and take up for each other,
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  Speaker 6: help each other out when we're going through uh, when
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  Speaker 6: we going through stuff out there, but just out the field,
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  Speaker 6: on the field, just being there for each other and
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  Speaker 6: picking each other up when we need it.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, there had been a lot of frustrations for you
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  Speaker 4: guys just couldn't quite click.
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  Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden, you guys had a breakthrough.
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  Speaker 5: What what changed?
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  Speaker 3: And would ship them?
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  Speaker 6: Like I said, I just gotta keep fighting. We put
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  Speaker 6: the work in engine every day and it's gonna it's
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  Speaker 6: gonna pay off. We just gotta get all the drops
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  Speaker 6: and stuff cleaned up and just be better, be better
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  Speaker 6: for the offense. Uh yeah, it'll it all clicked with.
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  Speaker 6: We gonna keep working, keep coming out, playing our artists
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  Speaker 6: and just giving it everything.
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  Speaker 3: We got on the other side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: To see the defense continuously show up big leading the
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  Speaker 1: league and interceptions, how much you know, how much does
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  Speaker 1: that healthy offense and just free energize you guys.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he says, our live helps that's our big time
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  Speaker 6: and give us a motivation to go out there and
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  Speaker 6: they getting stops and stuff. We knowing we gotta go
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  Speaker 6: out there and put put the ball in the end zone. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: your scores off the turnoffs and that's how you that's
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  Speaker 6: how you win games. So yeah, I would say that
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  Speaker 6: helps us out a lot and motivates us and it
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  Speaker 6: keeps us going.
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  Speaker 2: I think you fight the frustration when the crowd is
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  Speaker 2: being so vocal in the first half going into the
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  Speaker 2: second half.
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  Speaker 6: Just keep fighting. You can't really pay that no mind.
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  Speaker 6: Just got to go out there and know what you
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  Speaker 6: know what you can do. Just keep fighting and you
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  Speaker 6: can't really pay that in my mind, just keep keep pushing.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry to jump in the late, but puts your media
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  Speaker 5: to make that play at that time.
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  Speaker 6: It means a lot just being able to go out
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  Speaker 6: there and make a play for my team and help
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  Speaker 6: us get to win. So yeah, I would say it
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  Speaker 6: means a lot. Just gotta keep keep fighting, keep going.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see you're doing something.
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  Speaker 3: Not a lot of folks get the chance to do.
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  Speaker 5: How hard and challenge you is it to stay of course,
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  Speaker 5: to stay confident in those moments when your numbers called.
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  Speaker 6: Just knowing that you're doing the things that a lot
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  Speaker 6: of people want to do but not able to do
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  Speaker 6: or can't do. So, I mean, you gotta gotta have
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  Speaker 6: that mindset and that'll help you go out there and
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  Speaker 6: stay focused and stay confident, just knowing that not everybody
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  Speaker 6: can do this. So yeah, you gotta go out there
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  Speaker 6: and make the play when the numbers called.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's lost a lot of these games last year.
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  Speaker 5: What's it means end up on the right side of
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  Speaker 5: this scoreboard even though things did work pretty.
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  Speaker 1: All the time.
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  Speaker 6: It means a lot. It means we're headed in the
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  Speaker 6: right direction. Hopefully're gonna keep keep pushing and keep working
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  Speaker 6: to keep going in the right direction.
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  Speaker 5: Can you give us to an idea of what happened
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  Speaker 5: on the play?
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  Speaker 3: Wells, can you take us through it? Forty six yards.
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  Speaker 6: Shred cannon plays. I had like a little five yard
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  Speaker 6: I mean a ten yard en route and safety ended
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  Speaker 6: up driving on it and I was able to catch
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  Speaker 6: the ball and go make a play.