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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "Job's not finished." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: You know, I think just yeah, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: I think coach a hundred percent should should be in
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  Speaker 1: the conversation and and could win the award. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you look at what he's done here and just the
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  Speaker 1: the energy, not only the XS and o's football stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but just the energy the culture that we've created here.
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  Speaker 1: Um that really obviously he's had a huge part in
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  Speaker 1: bringing here. I mean, that's it's it's tough to do,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the first year and a bunch of new people,
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  Speaker 1: and um, I mean, I just can't say enough about
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  Speaker 1: what he's the job he's done, and how much you know,
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  Speaker 1: love playing for him and appreciate him. So I think
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  Speaker 1: you should be in that conversation. Do you think it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be you maybe a little bit of a carbon
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  Speaker 1: copy a few weeks ago, they're going to load up
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  Speaker 1: against the run and make make you beat him? Or
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  Speaker 1: you know, do you Is it tough to know what
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  Speaker 1: to expect because they've had so many injuries. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's tough exactly, like you don't really know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. Um. And I think especially when
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  Speaker 1: you're playing a team for the second time, a division opponent,
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  Speaker 1: the second time you play them, usually there's some adjustments
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  Speaker 1: they're saying. So you know, you go off of you
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  Speaker 1: go off of the tape that you have and and
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  Speaker 1: kind of what you put together and what you think
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  Speaker 1: is a good plan, and you make adjustments as the
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  Speaker 1: game goes on. You know, I would think that they're
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  Speaker 1: a team that's really really good at stopping the run anyways,
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  Speaker 1: without loading the box, they have a really good front seven. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's something where I don't know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna do. It's hard to say, so we'll just
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  Speaker 1: have to see, um, see what they do and adjust.
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  Speaker 1: But definitely got a challenge for us. I know they'll
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  Speaker 1: have some guys back and some other guys in there,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll just have to see who suits up on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday and um, no matter who it is, we just
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  Speaker 1: have to execute on our end. That's the biggest thing. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, games the last seven weeks for the big games,
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  Speaker 1: but this is like the big Honestly, it's to feel
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  Speaker 1: good you be playing these kind of games. You get
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  Speaker 1: like a back clubs and like it was back then
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  Speaker 1: and that game everyone watching that t Yeah, it feels good,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it feels good knowing you know what we
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  Speaker 1: had to do to get here, but also job's not finished.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have we have we have to win
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  Speaker 1: this game to get in and then moving forward, we
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  Speaker 1: kind of we kind of get what we are in
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  Speaker 1: every week. So you know, we're embracing that. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of how it's been for us. Like I
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  Speaker 1: said before, it's been like that for us for the
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  Speaker 1: past month really, So the team's responded well to that.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I'm proud of the situation we put
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in. It's it wasn't easy to get in this spot,
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  Speaker 1: especially the way we started the season. Um, and here
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  Speaker 1: we are with an opportunity to win the division and
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  Speaker 1: this is the only game that matters right now, and
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  Speaker 1: we were just putting everything we have into just scoring
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  Speaker 1: one more point than them. That's all that matters is
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  Speaker 1: winning the game. So, um, that's what we're that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're focusing on. And like you said, I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: feels good to be in a big time game like this.
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  Speaker 1: Just you know, the city has a lot of energy
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's excited, so you know, we're we're excited for that.
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  Speaker 1: But the end of the day, it's uh, you can't
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  Speaker 1: make it bigger than it is. We still got to
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  Speaker 1: go out there and execute and play well to watch us. So, like,
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  Speaker 1: how do you determine what you're gonna every year? Like
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  Speaker 1: we need it's like anyways or whatever. No, you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, you know, you think about things like I
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  Speaker 1: try to think about a little bit before you know
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  Speaker 1: the season, and the season it's crazy, so we you know,
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  Speaker 1: try to think about what would they like. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't there's so many of them too, like you
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  Speaker 1: gott you can't go too crazy. But also you can't
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  Speaker 1: get them like a like some flip flops or something.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta get them because especially the job
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  Speaker 1: they've done this year, they've done a great job protecting me.
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  Speaker 1: So um, either way, I'd get them something nice, but
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  Speaker 1: they've done a great job. So but yeah, last year
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  Speaker 1: and they got him golf clubs, something they can use.
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  Speaker 1: I try to get them something that everybody would like,
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  Speaker 1: no matter who you are, like just they're all different.
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  Speaker 1: So I go watch everybody could use a nice watch
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  Speaker 1: golf clubs. I mean maybe a few guys don't golf,
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  Speaker 1: but everyone probably goes out at some point, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get invited somewhere to play or whatever. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't you can't win them all. But I think
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  Speaker 1: I think, I think they liked it. So it's goods
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  Speaker 1: to watch the guy. I mean, the guys loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I think Shatley was good. BArch always BArch is always
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  Speaker 1: a you know, his reactions are always great. So he was,
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  Speaker 1: he was pumped up. And Koi Kronk is a um
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  Speaker 1: a surprising one maybe for you guys, but his his
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  Speaker 1: his reaction was good too. So I expected said on
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  Speaker 1: Good Morning Football and this morning that yesterday was a
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  Speaker 1: really tough day for you guys that you guys really met,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as a group. Um, I have one thing
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  Speaker 1: that you know we've kind of talked about, I know
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  Speaker 1: as media members, is like all the quote unquote healing
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  Speaker 1: that Doug talks about in the spring that you guys did,
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  Speaker 1: and then the trust that you guys built during that
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  Speaker 1: five game losing streak. How critical was that then and
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  Speaker 1: having those tough conversations following the tragedy on Monday night. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean obviously it's just speaking on that. It's uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's scary for everybody to see that, and um,
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  Speaker 1: you just hate that something like this happens to to someone,
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  Speaker 1: especially a guy like Damar, guy played against in college
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  Speaker 1: I think twice. So, UM, just just a tragedy obviously.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously our prayers and our thoughts are with with
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  Speaker 1: him and his family, and UM, it's scary for us
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  Speaker 1: that play the game, and and even like coaches and
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  Speaker 1: everyone that that has played the game, UM, and even
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  Speaker 1: people like the stadium full of people that had you know,
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  Speaker 1: that witnessed that, and it's just it's scary. It really
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  Speaker 1: puts things into perspective. And UM, I think it's just
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  Speaker 1: like that's the main thing it's puts into perspective, and UM,
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  Speaker 1: life is fragile and you just you just never know
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  Speaker 1: what could happen, and UM, it is scary, so I think.
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  Speaker 1: But just the like you you asked about, just our
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  Speaker 1: group being close, I think that helps when you go
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  Speaker 1: through things like this. You know, coach talked about um
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  Speaker 1: even talking about his brother passing away last year and
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  Speaker 1: just what got him through it was the people around him.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of kind of how we look at
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  Speaker 1: it is when things happen like this, you just rally
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  Speaker 1: around each other, and UM, you just look at you
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  Speaker 1: you seek that comfort of the people around you. That's family, friends,
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  Speaker 1: and luckily here we have a bunch of teammates and
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  Speaker 1: coaches that care about you and that are in this
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  Speaker 1: with you. And um, definitely definitely a tough situation. I
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  Speaker 1: think everyone that is involved in any way in football,
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  Speaker 1: and even if you're not, is feeling what happened on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: So um, definitely an easy thing. But yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: that that relationship part of it is huge when dealing
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  Speaker 1: with something like that. I mean, that's that's really never
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  Speaker 1: been something that people have had to deal with before,
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  Speaker 1: so even that is but still, yeah, definitely the relationships
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  Speaker 1: you you you appreciate and makes you realize how much
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  Speaker 1: you appreciate those people around you too, because you just
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  Speaker 1: you just never know what could happen. And um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is this group like the togetherness of this group when
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  Speaker 1: you look at it now week eighteen, you look back
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  Speaker 1: at the journey you guys have taken. But I Dove
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  Speaker 1: always talked about the journey is is how connected this
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  Speaker 1: group is together? Is that different than other groups you've
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  Speaker 1: been a part of? Like? Is it extra special this one?
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  Speaker 1: For whatever the reason? You know? I I do, I
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  Speaker 1: really do think it is. You know, I've been on
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  Speaker 1: a lot of teams, obviously two in the NFL, but
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  Speaker 1: just you know, the way this group has has gotten
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  Speaker 1: tighter and tighter, regardless of the circumstances, you know, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's adversity or or winning, whatever it is. I think
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  Speaker 1: just the way we've gotten closer and closer and really
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  Speaker 1: have kept our focus the whole season has been impressive,
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  Speaker 1: and just you know, it's it's somewhere where I think
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  Speaker 1: everyone can say they love coming to work every day,
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  Speaker 1: love being around each other. The coaches, you know, Coach McCoy,
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  Speaker 1: Doug Press, just everybody. You know, we love being around
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  Speaker 1: each other. We're appreciative of each other, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's something that we recognize too, and all the work
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  Speaker 1: that goes into it, and it's nice to see some
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  Speaker 1: some benefits from it and to be in the position
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  Speaker 1: we are um this week. But um, yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 1: really fun group and it's just been fun to get
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  Speaker 1: to work with them every day. Did you feel like
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  Speaker 1: this team had something even after the horrible October because
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  Speaker 1: of the way you handled October, Because it just didn't
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  Speaker 1: seem like oh and five created any any kind of
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  Speaker 1: fracture any kind of discontent frustration, sure, but yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: just seemed like you guys handled it the right way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we you know, I always thought this group
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  Speaker 1: was was really really good, just obviously like on the field,
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  Speaker 1: talent wise, but also just the way we work, the
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  Speaker 1: way just how resilient everyone is. And that was really
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  Speaker 1: tested earlier in the year, you know, after that, after
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  Speaker 1: those those games without a win, with whatever five five
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  Speaker 1: game losing streak, and nobody nobody panicked, nobody pointed to
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  Speaker 1: the finger. And I think that's something where and we
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  Speaker 1: talked about it too after you know, three probably three
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  Speaker 1: or four of those games, just this is where a
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  Speaker 1: lot of teams start to divide and you start pointing
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  Speaker 1: the finger and people start looking for ways out. And
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  Speaker 1: we never did that. You know, we knew how closely
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  Speaker 1: were you look at all those games, one score games,
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  Speaker 1: um and really just a lot of them. It was
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  Speaker 1: our own mistakes where we gave away the game. So
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  Speaker 1: we knew how close we were and that that rock
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  Speaker 1: would eventually break and it and it did. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a testament to just the consistency and the
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  Speaker 1: work we put in. It doesn't always show right away,
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  Speaker 1: but eventually it will. So Yeah, I think you're think
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  Speaker 1: you're right, think that that was also a reflection of
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  Speaker 1: the mindset that probably there are the and the messaging
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  Speaker 1: from Doug as well. It starts from the top down.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you're not aligned with with what's your
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  Speaker 1: leaders saying, it's kind of hard to it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: go somewhere, it's hard to go far, especially so um
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  Speaker 1: the leadership that he's brought and just the consistency. I've
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  Speaker 1: said that before, just he's the same person every day
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  Speaker 1: whether we won or lost. We we lost five in
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  Speaker 1: a row, we've won, however many in a row. He's
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  Speaker 1: the same way every day. And I think that's something
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  Speaker 1: that we've all rallied behind and we've kind of adopted
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  Speaker 1: that as players. You know, we're just just go put
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  Speaker 1: the work in, trust your process, Um, show up, play
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, and that's all you can do. And and
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  Speaker 1: that's what we've done every week and got ourselves in
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  Speaker 1: a position of a rule has Marvin Jones played and
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  Speaker 1: helping with the league supposed to be like but the
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  Speaker 1: leaves supposed to look like kind of what how do
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  Speaker 1: you pro need? Yeah? And Marvin, you know, we're really
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  Speaker 1: close obviously spending two years together now and just have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of experiences from last season two to draw
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  Speaker 1: from that are like we just we got close. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we sat by each other on the plane from playing
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  Speaker 1: right home on all those away games last year and
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  Speaker 1: where I sit by CJ this year. But um, so
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  Speaker 1: we had a lot of conversations and just talking to him.
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  Speaker 1: A guy with that much experience that's played that much football,
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  Speaker 1: seen a lot of things. Um it's kind of invaluable
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  Speaker 1: just all the things that you can learn from them,
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  Speaker 1: and then just the the experience too for the receiver room.
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  Speaker 1: Now you have some younger guys and then you bring
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  Speaker 1: in Christian and z and and all those guys and
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  Speaker 1: how they work together and communicate and talk. And he's
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  Speaker 1: a guy that's just um that I've always trusted, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially on the field and off the field obviously too,
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  Speaker 1: but just a guy that I always I've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of trust in since really day one last year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we built that relationship and I think that shows,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of he's my security blanket when when
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  Speaker 1: all else fails, Marvin's always always there and making the
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  Speaker 1: play a little bit when he first got here, he
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  Speaker 1: obviously want to super Bowl not too long ago than that,
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  Speaker 1: when I guess he had been beast incredibility, instant trust
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  Speaker 1: from you guys, or he still still have to get
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit before you really kind of all
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  Speaker 1: blong in. I guess yeah, I think you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a not really. I mean, I think everyone really bought
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  Speaker 1: in pretty quick. But I do think that he did
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  Speaker 1: a good job of just because you know, we all
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  Speaker 1: really respect that. I think that's something that that's obviously
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  Speaker 1: something that is easy to respect if someone that just
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  Speaker 1: want a super Bowl, especially recently one one as a
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  Speaker 1: as a coach and as a player. So you respect that.
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  Speaker 1: You know he knows how to do it, he's been
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  Speaker 1: there before. But also you know he never he never
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  Speaker 1: like assumed anything about that. He earned the respect from
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  Speaker 1: us by the way he came in every day was consistent.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he really started from the ground up. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't come in talking about his super Bowl. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's not how he addressed us and how he started
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  Speaker 1: off that relationship. He came in talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what our culture was going to be, what we needed
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  Speaker 1: to do to get to where we want to be
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  Speaker 1: all those things, and UM just took it step by step.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously everyone knows he's won a super Bowl. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really have to he didn't have to say it.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's something you know, you don't really
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  Speaker 1: have to say when you've done something like that. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: knows it and respects it. And that's not really something
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  Speaker 1: that he's used at time. But you know, he has said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some some similarities of like what great teams have,
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  Speaker 1: because he's been on some great teams, so he talks
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  Speaker 1: about a lot of that. But he's done a great job.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll ask you what's more managing last week what
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  Speaker 1: many were calling a meaningless game and preparing for that,
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  Speaker 1: versus preparing for a game this week where everyone is
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  Speaker 1: saying it's alreadably the biggest game in regular season history
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  Speaker 1: for this franchise. Um, I mean I think there, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's the same. It really is. I mean, to us,
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  Speaker 1: last week's game wasn't meaningless. I think you see the
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  Speaker 1: way we the way we played and controlled the game.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, obviously, I mean we've known that that
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  Speaker 1: this game was coming for a while and that that
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  Speaker 1: this is where we wanted to be week eight teen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean coach Coach Peterson said it a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: You know, He's like, I got a crystal ball. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna this thing is gonna come down to week eight
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  Speaker 1: teen and we're gonna have a shot. And we we
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  Speaker 1: just all we jumped on board. We believed it. We
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  Speaker 1: kept putting the work and look we're here now. So
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  Speaker 1: we've we've we've known this was coming, um, but we
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  Speaker 1: had to take care of business every week to get here.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the same same thing this week. We have
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  Speaker 1: to stay in the moment. We have to do what
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing, prepare the same way. UM, put together
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  Speaker 1: a great game plan. Um, you got to know it obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and then UM go out and play the game. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we've been able to do, and we've been
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  Speaker 1: able to execute and the same things that one of
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  Speaker 1: the other ones are gonna win this one. We just
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  Speaker 1: gotta play well and would execute them. So, David correct
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  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, But I think thirty eight of
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  Speaker 1: you guys roster hasn't been in a playoff game. How
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  Speaker 1: important have some of those veteran voices like Marvin and
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  Speaker 1: Brandon guys have been in the situation before. How important
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  Speaker 1: have they been this week? You know, I just think
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  Speaker 1: that that experience of them playing for so many years.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they've been through so many seasons, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: playoffs or whatever. Um, the same thing is we have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of even keel, level headed guys that no
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  Speaker 1: matter the occasion, well you know there and two I'll say,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, like guys like them and Marv like
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  Speaker 1: they rise to the occasion. That's when they play their
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  Speaker 1: best when the games on the line. You've seen that
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  Speaker 1: with Marvin just throughout this year and in the past
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  Speaker 1: and in his career too. But the same thing with Brandon.
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  Speaker 1: But that's because they're they're the same guy. Their level
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  Speaker 1: headed there Um, they don't get too high or too low,
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  Speaker 1: no matter at the moment. And I think all of us,
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  Speaker 1: you know, younger players and especially like rookies this year,
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  Speaker 1: we can all learn from guys like that that have
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  Speaker 1: had a bunch of success in their career year um,
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  Speaker 1: and have played really well in big moments. So you
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  Speaker 1: were only three months old when the Jaguars played the
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  Speaker 1: Titans of championship game. How much have you have you
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  Speaker 1: do you really know much even anything about that? Game,
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  Speaker 1: or the heartbreak that it caused for the older members
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  Speaker 1: of the fan base. What year was that nine night?
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  Speaker 1: I was two thousand, I was it's like three months old.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember watching that one. No, I don't. I
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: don't know. I wasn't familiar with that game, so I
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: need to go do some research. I'll look it up though. Gene,
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate it. Awesome, Thank you all.