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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "You Can't Waste Opportunities." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: And taking chances, being aggressive.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how do you go into it this week?
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  Speaker 3: No one has been a problem the last five years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think this whole season, really, I think
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  Speaker 4: I've only had a couple of plays where I feel
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  Speaker 4: like I was careless with throwing the football. There's been
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  Speaker 4: there's been a number of times in the pocket, escaping
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  Speaker 4: the pocket, running in space, all those things. I need
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  Speaker 4: to be better at securing it, have better ball security,
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  Speaker 4: not not give up the fumbles. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 4: throwing the ball. I've probably had three this year that
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  Speaker 4: I think were really bad decisions.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: One on Sunday was a fourth down you know, that situation,
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  Speaker 4: like I said after the game, just sucks being that
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  Speaker 4: situation for all of us, you know, for the guys
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  Speaker 4: up front, blocking, for myself, for the receivers, the defense
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  Speaker 4: is just backing up. They know, you gotta throw it
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  Speaker 4: past the sticks on fourth down. You can't take a sack,
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  Speaker 4: all those things. So things like that, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: don't harp on too much those fourth down situations like that,
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  Speaker 4: But the other ones, you know, go back to Pittsburgh game,
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  Speaker 4: the one in the end zone. Go back to I
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  Speaker 4: think there was one against Indy, there's one against Houston.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the ones that I can think of where
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  Speaker 4: I felt like I didn't make a great decision. So
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  Speaker 4: I think more more the issue personally individually has been
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  Speaker 4: hanging on to the ball, you know, in the pocket,
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  Speaker 4: getting stripped, if I am taking a hit, keeping two
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  Speaker 4: hands on it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I got to do a better job of that.
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  Speaker 4: And then collectively as an offense, you know, we we
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  Speaker 4: have to do a better job as a whole of
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  Speaker 4: just not giving the ball away.
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  Speaker 2: We've had too many this season. During the week you're
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  Speaker 2: prepare for that or all just.
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  Speaker 4: Don't mean, oh, you definitely can prepare, you know. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that we we do. We make it a
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  Speaker 4: point of emphasis, you know, we we talk about it
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  Speaker 4: a lot, We practice it. We have guys on the
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  Speaker 4: scout team punching at the ball all practice. We do
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  Speaker 4: a ball security circuit every Thursday. So, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: something that we've talked about. It's not like we just
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  Speaker 4: haven't addressed it. You know, We've addressed it, and it's
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  Speaker 4: something we got to fix. And it's definitely right in
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  Speaker 4: front of our face, and it's cost us, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and really definitely this game, but you look at other
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  Speaker 4: games and if if our defense didn't make some big stops,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we could be looking at a different situation.
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  Speaker 4: And then we're in right now, sitting at six and three.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's a couple of games we might have
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  Speaker 4: could have lost because it's some turnover. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: we we own that and we know we have to
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  Speaker 4: get better and that has to be something that we
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  Speaker 4: fix if we want to get to where we want
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  Speaker 4: to go deep into the postis and all that. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: we're focused on this week, but just big picture wise,
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  Speaker 4: you can't turn the ball over a lot if you
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  Speaker 4: want to be a really good team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm the.
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  Speaker 3: Back of third down success. Is there any thing you
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  Speaker 3: can point to as to why the offense isn't functioning
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  Speaker 3: the way you want it? You know, it could be
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  Speaker 3: something like that, just the feel of the game. Throw
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  Speaker 3: your plays that you didn't like, and other guys had
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  Speaker 3: the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think, excuse me, I think Sunday is
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  Speaker 4: Obviously it leaves a bad taste in our mouth and
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  Speaker 4: it gives it gives us and I think everyone I
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  Speaker 4: don't think a totally accurate picture of this offense. You know,
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  Speaker 4: that was a really bad performance and we own that.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we put out there. So that's who we
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  Speaker 4: were this beast Sunday. But I think from the season, yes,
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  Speaker 4: we need to be better third downs. That's been very inconsistent,
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  Speaker 4: and you gotta be better at that if you want
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  Speaker 4: to be a great offense. I think we've gotten better
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  Speaker 4: at being consistent first and second down minus Sunday. You know,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, that was a just a really really
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  Speaker 4: bad showing all the way around. But you know, I
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  Speaker 4: think there's it's just those plays that kind of swing
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  Speaker 4: the momentum where we finally get something going. Thinking about
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  Speaker 4: on Sundays, we finally get something going and then we
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  Speaker 4: turn it over and that happened I think four times
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday, and it's when you're playing a good team
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  Speaker 4: that's going to go score some you can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: You can't put yourself in a hole.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, I think that's the biggest thing, is turning
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  Speaker 4: it over at you know, in general, and then at
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  Speaker 4: the wrong time as well.
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  Speaker 2: On the plus side of the fifty.
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  Speaker 3: You guys talking amongst yourselves about, gosh, we are so
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  Speaker 3: overdue to have an explosive game. Like even in the
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  Speaker 3: Colts game where you scored thirty seven points, it didn't
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  Speaker 3: have an explosive.
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  Speaker 1: Feel to it. Even the Bills game had more of
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  Speaker 1: an explosive field.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you only scored twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: N Yeah, I mean it's definitely something I wouldn't say. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we've talked about it, and we we we talk about
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  Speaker 4: it on Mondays after games, and we talk about the
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  Speaker 4: things that we need to do better in the areas
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  Speaker 4: where we've got to improve on, and part of that
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  Speaker 4: is being more explosive, creating more big plays, eliminating the
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  Speaker 4: negative plays, eliminating turnovers, all those things. You know, I think,
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  Speaker 4: but we all, we all feel that sense of urgency
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  Speaker 4: as well, because we all want to we all want
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  Speaker 4: to play great, you know, we want to be successful.
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  Speaker 4: We want to show the type of offense and the
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  Speaker 4: type of players that we have, and I feel like
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  Speaker 4: we really haven't this season, you know, minus a game
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  Speaker 4: or two or a series or two.
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  Speaker 2: Here and there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think we all have that confidence in
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  Speaker 4: in who we can be, but we haven't done it yet.
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  Speaker 4: So we can't say that that's necessarily who we are
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  Speaker 4: yet because we haven't done it. So I think that
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  Speaker 4: we feel that urgency and we know, we know what
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  Speaker 4: we're capable of, but you know, we gotta we got
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  Speaker 4: to figure out how to transfer all that and translate
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  Speaker 4: it to Sunday. And you know, I got all the confidence.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not I'm not concerned about us not doing that,
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  Speaker 4: but we do need to do it. You know, we
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  Speaker 4: need to play better offensively. We need to we need
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  Speaker 4: to take over games. We need to not just rely
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  Speaker 4: on our defense to make the plays. We gotta start
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  Speaker 4: taking over some of these games and putting teams away
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  Speaker 4: and on all those things that we've talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 4: from weeks prior, but continuing to be an emphasis me.
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  Speaker 2: Doing and has that one that send you at all.
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  Speaker 1: I know the injury happened like a.
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  Speaker 2: Month ago, but.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's feeling better. It's it's finally, I feel like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, finally getting to where not gonna really think
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  Speaker 4: about it as much and it won't be as much
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  Speaker 4: of an issue. I feel like I'm starting to move
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  Speaker 4: pretty fluid and it's not bothering me when I do much.
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  Speaker 4: You know, obviously it's still a little bit here and there.
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  Speaker 4: It'll get a little aggravated, But I'm really it's a
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  Speaker 4: good question. I mean, I'm starting to feel comfortable and
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy about that the progress I've made and we've
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  Speaker 4: been able to you know, protect it the last few weeks,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm excited to you know, hopefully finally kind of
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  Speaker 4: get going and just just play play normal, move around
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  Speaker 4: all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready to take the braceaw not yet.
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  Speaker 4: You'll see it again this week, so it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: week to week with that. Just just being cautious.
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  Speaker 2: There is that something.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna open the offense for you guys, just being
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  Speaker 1: able to play the way you like to play or
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  Speaker 1: I know you like to be able to run things
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  Speaker 1: of that nature.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think we we've started to kind
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  Speaker 4: of do some of that stuff, and last week we
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  Speaker 4: kind of had plans for that and then, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, after the game, the the the game
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  Speaker 4: and the way it was going kind of dictated some
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  Speaker 4: of that, and you know, we kind of got in
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  Speaker 4: some some tough situations. But yeah, I think that gives
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  Speaker 4: me confidence in playing and moving around. I think that's
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  Speaker 4: a big part of this game. No matter who you are,
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  Speaker 4: you gotta be able to move and it feels good
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  Speaker 4: kind of getting back to that point where I feel
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  Speaker 4: like I can so whether that's you know, on the
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  Speaker 4: perimeter or or it's just escape in the pocket, whatever
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  Speaker 4: it is, making plays outside of the pocket off schedule.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's stuff that really a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: the good offenses in this league do, and something that
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  Speaker 4: we were doing earlier on in the season and kind
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  Speaker 4: of get back to some of.
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  Speaker 1: That dogs were talked about beneath the players and coaches
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  Speaker 1: to do a little bit more maybe going into games.
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  Speaker 1: You know, are you doing enough?
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  Speaker 2: What does that sort of look like for you?
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  Speaker 1: And have you guys as a team sor are.
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  Speaker 3: Talked about that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think that this group, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 4: we work. We work really hard, you know. I mean
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  Speaker 4: it would be hard to find I think a team
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  Speaker 4: that that practice is harder than we do. So I
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  Speaker 4: think we checked that box. I think there's something obviously
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  Speaker 4: maybe carrying over from practice or something that's not carrying
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  Speaker 4: over from practice to game day. Maybe it's a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a loss of focus.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely on this Sunday, you know, I think in the
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  Speaker 4: games prior, obviously we haven't played perfect, but we've played.
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  Speaker 4: We've played clean enough, we found ways to win, but
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  Speaker 4: this Sunday kind of was just a disaster. So we
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  Speaker 4: gotta kind of look at all, right, what did what
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  Speaker 4: did we do? What did we maybe do wrong? Was
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  Speaker 4: was our focus not there? You know, I thought we
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  Speaker 4: had great energy. I thought we were ready to play.
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  Speaker 4: It certainly felt like that throughout the team. So I
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  Speaker 4: don't think it was guys not ready to play, but
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  Speaker 4: maybe there was just, you know, a lapse of focus
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  Speaker 4: from collectively, from the whole team on Sunday. So I
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  Speaker 4: think that's something where you know, we just gotta we
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  Speaker 4: gotta focus on the details. You have to carry that
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  Speaker 4: to game day. This is a game, this is a
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  Speaker 4: mental game. It's all details, and you know that's how
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  Speaker 4: you that's how you win. The game is up here,
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  Speaker 4: it's not just about the physical part. So I think
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  Speaker 4: that something where definitely we need to focus on carrying
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  Speaker 4: that to Sunday and being more detailed and not making
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  Speaker 4: as many mistakes, because when you play really good teams,
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  Speaker 4: it's hard, it's hard to find ways to win.
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  Speaker 1: I know everybody's trained to move on from games pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Is it maybe easier to move on from a game
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  Speaker 3: like that, knowing you have a divisional conent and a
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  Speaker 3: big game this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think that helps.
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  Speaker 4: But I also think that you know, at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day, we're all professionals, and that's part of
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  Speaker 4: our job is to move on. And like I said
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  Speaker 4: after the game, you know, I meant that is, whether
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  Speaker 4: you lose by thirty or you lose by three, it's
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  Speaker 4: still a loss. It counts the same, and it obviously
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  Speaker 4: feels feels worse in some ways because you get embarrassed,
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  Speaker 4: and especially at home, that's not a good feeling, but
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  Speaker 4: still goes as a loss. You still got to play
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  Speaker 4: the next week. Either way, Even if we won that game,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's one win and we still got you know,
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  Speaker 4: eight eight more games or yeah, eight more games left
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  Speaker 4: in the season. So it's it's part of that, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I think the more you deal with that, and the
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  Speaker 4: more you deal with some adversity, you get used to
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  Speaker 4: being able to turn the page because you have to.
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  Speaker 2: You want that to sit.
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  Speaker 4: You want that feeling of frustration and that drive to
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  Speaker 4: go and play better. I think we all have that
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  Speaker 4: today and throughout the week. We're gonna carry that. But
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  Speaker 4: you also have to turn the page and can't be
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  Speaker 4: thinking about San Francisco anymore. We got to play real,
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  Speaker 4: a good division team. This is a big game for us,
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  Speaker 4: So this is this is a this is a big one.
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  Speaker 3: They've had a lot of different movement pieces and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: What have you seen from Tennessee's defense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like you said, they've they've had uh, they've had
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  Speaker 4: guys moving around a lot. You know, they've they've done
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  Speaker 4: some really good stuff. I think their front is really physical,
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  Speaker 4: really good. Obviously, Jeffrey Simmons, he kind of he kind
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  Speaker 4: of makes it go up there, and he's a he's
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  Speaker 4: a great player. Have a lot of experience playing against
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  Speaker 4: some of the past, you know, two years, so we
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  Speaker 4: understand how good of a player he is. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Denico Autry on the edge is playing, is playing really well.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously Arden was here, so a guy that we're familiar
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  Speaker 4: with who's a good player. They got Harold Landry back
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  Speaker 4: who's also a good player. Some guys in the inside,
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  Speaker 4: so they're they're pretty loaded up front. Their backers do
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  Speaker 4: a great job of flying around, you know, good athletes.
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  Speaker 4: They can they can move sideline to sideline, diagnose things well.
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  Speaker 4: In the back end. Obviously it's changed a little bit
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  Speaker 4: since you know, Kevin got traded to the Eagles, so
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  Speaker 4: got some new safeties in there. But those guys that
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  Speaker 4: they're playing well, you know they're there, they do a
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  Speaker 4: good job of disguising there. Guys on the outside, you know,
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  Speaker 4: have been a little banged up as well, but when
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  Speaker 4: they're when they're going there, they're playing really well. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that that's something like I said, they do
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  Speaker 4: well is disguise and give you a lot of different
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  Speaker 4: presentations and different looks and kind of keep you off balance.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll have to do a great job this week
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  Speaker 4: in our preparation and getting ready for all the different
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  Speaker 4: looks in the back end and up front on the
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  Speaker 4: d line and kind of the different you know, fronts
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  Speaker 4: they can present. Any idea and why this team has
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  Speaker 4: struggled on the home field this year, I mean three
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  Speaker 4: losses and they've come at the bang. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't and I don't have a I think we
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  Speaker 4: would have fixed it if we had a clean answer
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  Speaker 4: on it. You know, I think it's yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to say coincidence, but I don't. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think there's anything in there that we feel like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: this is why we're losing at home. I think we've
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  Speaker 4: just for some reason we have not played we have
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  Speaker 4: when we're playing at home, we haven't played great. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we played pretty well against the Colts and our defense
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  Speaker 4: got a lot of takeaway and kind of ran away
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  Speaker 4: with that one. But yeah, I mean, it's a it's
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  Speaker 4: a fair question. It's something that we've talked about and
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  Speaker 4: something that we have to do better here if we
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  Speaker 4: want that home field advantage. We want, you know, our
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  Speaker 4: fans to pack the stadium. You gotta play well. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we haven't given them much to to I guess to
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  Speaker 4: come out for.
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  Speaker 2: So we gotta we gotta play better.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we've had all of our wins on the
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  Speaker 4: road or in London, so we understand and we we
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  Speaker 4: we want that as bad as the fans do too.
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  Speaker 2: We want to win here.
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  Speaker 4: That's there's nothing better than winning at home. So you
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  Speaker 4: know we're gonna we're gonna fix that. But no, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's definitely something that we gotta we gotta fix. That
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  Speaker 4: hasn't been good Tennessee.
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  Speaker 5: Last year I think really kind of sparked that run
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  Speaker 5: at the end of the season. Does this team need
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  Speaker 5: something to spark it again this year or you know,
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  Speaker 5: because you're the expectations were higher and you guys are
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  Speaker 5: in better shape than you were at this point last year.
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  Speaker 5: Is that not something you need.
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  Speaker 4: No, I think it's always something you need, especially coming
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  Speaker 4: off a loss, especially being a division game. You look
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  Speaker 4: at our division and it's it's a pretty tight it's
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  Speaker 4: a pretty tight race right now. You know, we're we're
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  Speaker 4: technical first, but we're I mean, the Texans and the
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  Speaker 4: Colts are right there. So and then the Titans they're
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  Speaker 4: still I mean they're they're three and six, so they're
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  Speaker 4: still We're still so early in the season. We were
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  Speaker 4: in their position if you think about it, last year,
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  Speaker 4: so we understand their sense of urgency. On the on
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  Speaker 4: the flip side of that is they know how big
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  Speaker 4: this game is too, so we're gonna get.
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  Speaker 2: Their best shot. They're a good team.
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  Speaker 4: You look at you know, how they played against Cincinnati
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  Speaker 4: earlier in the year and they beat LA. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: they've beat some good teams this season and and they're
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  Speaker 4: playing well. So we gotta we gotta keep all of
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  Speaker 4: our attention on this one. But yeah, it can definitely
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  Speaker 4: give us a spark, and that you want to use
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  Speaker 4: every opportunity you can to get a spark, especially at
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  Speaker 4: this point in the season. But again it's it's it's
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  Speaker 4: the next it's the most important game because it's the
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  Speaker 4: next one, and because it's a division game. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's a huge one. But we we understand kind of
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  Speaker 4: the importance of it, and down the stretch as well
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  Speaker 4: as some other teams, especially in our division and throughout
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  Speaker 4: the league are playing. You know, every game, every game
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  Speaker 4: counts and every game matters from this point on, especially
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: because you only have got eight more. You don't get
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: any more, so you can't waste opportunities.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: That's