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  Speaker 1: Yes, you look at a trajectory for for Trevor and
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  Speaker 1: then you went through a sixteen game stretch where you
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  Speaker 1: went thirteen and three.
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  Speaker 2: And that is lost as the last eight. How how
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  Speaker 2: hard is it for you to kind of wrap your
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  Speaker 2: head around how quickly that changed, knowing that in seven
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  Speaker 2: of those eight games he didn't have one of his
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  Speaker 2: big weapons.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's uh, it's kind of surprising, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and it's something you for me personally, you try to
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  Speaker 1: you try to pinpoint exactly what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Is it? Is it him? Is it the team? Is
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  Speaker 3: it injuries? Is it you know? Well? What is it?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 1: And and I think it's everything. I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a culmination of everything, and you know, something that
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  Speaker 1: we got to continue to work through. And and look,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have there's gonna be adversity in this league.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be faced with it, you know, year in
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  Speaker 1: and year out. But it's it's how you how you
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  Speaker 1: bounce back from it, fight through it, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: obviously know head coach, quarterbacker, you can get all the
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  Speaker 1: criticism and we have to we have to work through
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  Speaker 1: that together.
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  Speaker 2: How would you assess that he is fighting, because clearly
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  Speaker 2: this team, for whatever reason, has not responded well to
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  Speaker 2: adverse situations, at least in the last about almost in
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  Speaker 2: the last year or so. How would you say Trevor
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  Speaker 2: is responding to this very tough stretch.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think he's he's handling it really well.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's taken ownership in his play, which which he should.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's not pointing a finger or or he's
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  Speaker 1: if anything, he's pointing at himself. And that's where it
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  Speaker 1: has to start. And then and then you know, you
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  Speaker 1: work from there. And he's really embraced that, and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I keep just encouraging him to take
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  Speaker 1: the lead with the team, you know, and and and
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes you got to be vulnerable, right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as a leader, And and especially when you're going through
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  Speaker 1: stretches like we're going through right now, and be honest
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  Speaker 1: with your self and and can take, you know, take
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  Speaker 1: the criticism. But at the same time, I see him
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  Speaker 1: you know, working in practice, working with his players, working
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  Speaker 1: with us as coaches, the communication is always at an
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  Speaker 1: upmost high and you know, you just slowly dig yourself out.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like.
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  Speaker 2: He's pressing at all?
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  Speaker 3: During games? Just trying to make a big.
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  Speaker 2: Play too often rather than going with the easy ones.
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  Speaker 1: There's times I think you get you get kind of
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  Speaker 1: locked in there, you know, you want to make something
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  Speaker 1: happen so bad that you kind of force an issue.
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  Speaker 1: And even as sideways as a game got Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: I think sometimes you just got to continue to you know,
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  Speaker 1: if it's not there, put it in play. If it's
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  Speaker 1: not there, put it in play, you know, And and
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  Speaker 1: and try to try to work.
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  Speaker 3: Yourself back into a football game that way. And and
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to get it all back in one play,
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  Speaker 3: and and and and sometimes you can get caught up
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  Speaker 3: doing that.
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  Speaker 4: I know every week's important, but just looking for your
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  Speaker 4: first win a week four?
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  Speaker 2: Do you amp up the pressure this week?
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  Speaker 5: But you kind of, you know, treat it as another week,
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  Speaker 5: another football well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously our sense of urgency is heightened, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at zero and three.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's not where we want it to be.
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  Speaker 1: And now we're facing a really good Houston football team
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  Speaker 1: on the road, you know, And and it doesn't getting easier,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So I don't think I have to say much,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously about about these types of weeks. It's
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  Speaker 1: just it's a matter of you know, continuing to to
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  Speaker 1: you know, trust our process and the standard we've set
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  Speaker 1: here and and continue to work through it. On defense
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  Speaker 1: being a little bit in question obviously, Tyson and I
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  Speaker 1: are now POI potentially out on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: The hockey shift rotation that Ryan wants to run.
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  Speaker 5: How challenging is.
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  Speaker 1: It, Well, it probably doesn't get as challenging as much
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  Speaker 1: as now. It becomes a little more black and white.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the guys that are going to be in.
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  Speaker 1: The guys are going to be in. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think the rotation upfront has been really good for us, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as far as you know, giving guys opportunities
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  Speaker 1: and and much much needed rest throughout the game so
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  Speaker 1: they can be healthy in the fourth quarter and fresh
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  Speaker 1: than the fourth quarter. But yeah, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we know injuries are a part of the game. Next
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  Speaker 1: man steps up and performs and and you know, whoever's
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  Speaker 1: whoever's in has to play.
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  Speaker 2: Is that one of the things when you said Monday
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  Speaker 2: night that everything's on the table and in self review yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: I know you.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of hinted at yesterday, I'm assuming that this kind
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  Speaker 4: of you know, lent itself unfortunately for better or worse,
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  Speaker 4: that this was one of the things that would change.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's part of it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and you know, we look at we look at everything.
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  Speaker 1: I look at everything, and and you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you just go and you just make change to change.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's necessarily the thing you need to
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  Speaker 1: do because it's still early in the season. But but
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think I think we have to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: take a strong look at, you know, all the possibilities.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever they might be, and uh, go from go from there.
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  Speaker 5: Make any changes this week? I mean, after seeing the
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  Speaker 5: first couple of weeks of the season, do you make
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  Speaker 5: any change to try and I guess rattle the team,
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  Speaker 5: spark him maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Would you share those changes?
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  Speaker 6: Probably not, speaking of those rotations. On Sunday, sorry, Monday,
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  Speaker 6: Parker Washington seemed to have a few more snaps than
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  Speaker 6: in the game day is a little bit from Christan Kirk.
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  Speaker 6: Was that's a plan going into the game or did
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  Speaker 6: that just kind of happen in the blow of everything.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's it's part of the game plan.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we know who Parker is and
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  Speaker 1: and he you know, coming out of camp, felt comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with him having gone into that, you know, this year,
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  Speaker 1: so he he we got to get him in a
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  Speaker 1: game more, you know. And it's just like the you know,
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  Speaker 1: defensive rotations. I think it helps us offensively. But and
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  Speaker 1: then late in the game, you know, when when things
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  Speaker 1: got you know, a little crazy there, just giving him
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to go in and perform and play. Is
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  Speaker 1: easier to flush a game like that than maybe like
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  Speaker 1: a week one loss where you feel like.
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  Speaker 3: You should won.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because I just feel like it's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not who we are, you know, as a team.
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  Speaker 1: And and I think the guys feel that same way.
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  Speaker 1: And it's easier to flush games like that, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Then then sometimes those those hard fought, you know, losses
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  Speaker 1: that it could have gone either way.
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  Speaker 5: You said yes, and I assume a couple of players
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  Speaker 5: said the same thing, but you said no more, rod Ross,
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  Speaker 5: was that kind of your message to them, We're done talking.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind to go. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, it's it's good to have them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's good to have at times, you know,
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  Speaker 1: player only meetings, you know, which which teams do and
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  Speaker 1: players do, and but look, it's you know, it's that
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  Speaker 1: time too where you just gotta go play. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta go, coach, you gotta go play. And and
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  Speaker 1: you know you can talk after you.
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  Speaker 5: And Doug Art about the confidence of this group.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, no, no, uh, I think I think the
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  Speaker 1: confidence is still there.
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  Speaker 3: I think the confidence is high. I do. I do
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  Speaker 3: feel that we have to just focus in on on us.
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  Speaker 1: Internally and just keep things nice and tight, eliminate, you know,
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  Speaker 1: eliminate the the mistakes that are that are that are happening,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, try to play your best football a.
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  Speaker 2: Little bit off subject a bit.
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  Speaker 4: But next week, Tom Baltman's going in the Ring of
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  Speaker 4: Honor as a player or coach. When you face a
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  Speaker 4: Tom Caalflin coach team, regardless of what the talent level
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  Speaker 4: may or may not have been, was always a characteristic
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  Speaker 4: in a team to Tom coach, that this kind of
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  Speaker 4: standard every time you played them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've had the pleasure of obviously playing I was on
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  Speaker 1: teams that played you know when when when coach Coughlin
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  Speaker 1: was here, and then of course when he was in
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  Speaker 1: New York. They're gonna be physical football teams. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be tough minded football teams.
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  Speaker 3: And and you know, it was one of those one
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  Speaker 3: of those games to where.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as you say, you had to wear your
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  Speaker 1: big boy pants to work that day because it was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a it was gonna be a four quarter,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a battle out there on the field.
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  Speaker 4: And is Tom ever giving your conversation you've ever read
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  Speaker 4: with him any advice about.
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  Speaker 1: The job, Not so much the job, just I think
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  Speaker 1: from him and just putting things into perspective.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it's it's so you go through a tough
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  Speaker 1: stretch like this, and you know, he'll send me a
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  Speaker 1: picture of a sunrise, you know, the sun came up
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  Speaker 1: today type thing, you know, and just just little reminders
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  Speaker 1: like that, and you know he's gone through adversity as
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  Speaker 1: a coach, and it's it's great for me to you know,
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  Speaker 1: lean on lean on guys like that from time to
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  Speaker 1: time and and just kind of get a sense of.
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  Speaker 3: You know, how how they how they worked through it,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and I did the same thing with with coach
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  Speaker 1: from Meal, you know in Philly and and just too
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  Speaker 1: too great, too great coaches that have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: experience that it's been in the past, but those are
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  Speaker 1: just things that he'll do and just a little reminders
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 2: Surever said after the game that we're not good enough
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  Speaker 2: right now to survive, you know, or you know, opening
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  Speaker 2: up with a three and out and I'm just wanting
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  Speaker 2: to get you says that this team is at a
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  Speaker 2: stage right now whether they have to play from out front,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, it just seems like slow starts that just.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, yeah, any anytime you can
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  Speaker 1: get out to a faster start, you know, or score early,
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  Speaker 1: it helps. It helps with confidence, it helps with you know,
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  Speaker 1: just as you as the game unfolds, and anytime you
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  Speaker 1: can play, you know, with the lead early, it helps
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  Speaker 1: you in the second half. I mean, statistics will show
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  Speaker 1: you that if you can score early and often in
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  Speaker 1: the first half, it lends itself that you could win
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  Speaker 1: the game, you know, in the second half. So it's
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  Speaker 1: just not what we're able to do right now, and
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  Speaker 1: we've got to We've got to somehow, you know, fix
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  Speaker 1: that and and you know, try to try to score
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  Speaker 1: at least stay on the field in that first drive.
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  Speaker 3: Experience said, either you or someone else in that locker
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  Speaker 3: room has gone through.
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  Speaker 1: Like this that you guys can turn to.
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  Speaker 5: Is there any sort of inspiration that you give.
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  Speaker 1: Examples of, Well, two examples I've used in the past. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my first year in Philly, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: jumped out I think we started three and oh I
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  Speaker 1: think we were four and one at one point, and
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  Speaker 1: then lost like five in a row, you know, in Philly,
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  Speaker 1: and then back in Kansas City in twenty fifteen, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was fifteen or sixteen, No, it was fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: We won our first game of the year.
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  Speaker 1: And then lost our next five in a row, and
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  Speaker 1: then we went on a you know, a run.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think ten or eleven in a row
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  Speaker 3: after that.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, look at it's it's not the end
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  Speaker 1: of you know, anybody's he's and obviously it's week four.
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  Speaker 1: We just gotta we just gotta figure out a way
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  Speaker 1: to just play good football. And and you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: right now the tape shows that that were not and
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  Speaker 1: you know we've got to fix that.
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  Speaker 4: He's way ir candidates.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so not at this point.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then I assume that's the trials The next
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  Speaker 5: guy up, Yes, how does held in the time that
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  Speaker 5: he's played.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's played all three games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's you know, he's done really well. He's he's
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  Speaker 1: got valuable snaps, played played good the other night, played physical.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously he you know, there's some things we
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  Speaker 1: can clean up, but you know, he's he's really done
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  Speaker 1: a nice job.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he spoke about staying on the field on Monday
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  Speaker 6: two or thirteen on third downs one or four in
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  Speaker 6: the red zone. Uh, Based on your review of the film, like,
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  Speaker 6: is this something more reflective of something that Buffalo is
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  Speaker 6: doing and playing dominant defense?
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  Speaker 2: Is it something more flictive of us?
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  Speaker 3: What did you attribute that to? Yeah, I mean a
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  Speaker 3: little of both. I mean, you know, they're a good
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  Speaker 3: good defense in the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of times too, when you get in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone, it's just it's execution. It's just your
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  Speaker 1: your execution and doing your job. And right now we
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  Speaker 1: haven't been doing that well enough. We've settled for way
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  Speaker 1: too many field goals in the first couple of games,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got to find a way to flip that
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  Speaker 1: and score touchdowns. But you know, and then of course
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  Speaker 1: we've had we've had some some turnovers. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's more internally, I think, when when when
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  Speaker 1: you're looking.
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  Speaker 3: At yourself and and you know, what, what we can do.
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  Speaker 1: Better as coaches to help our players, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: those red zone situations?
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  Speaker 3: All right? So what else, Doug?
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned internally a couple of times to this set
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  Speaker 5: where you think the problems are there. This team has
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  Speaker 5: been together for a few years.
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  Speaker 3: You've been with this group for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 5: How frustrating is it when these sort of problems keep
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  Speaker 5: popping up. The offense hasn't really changed, and you're seeing
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  Speaker 5: these I guess internal issues where you're saying, we've got
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  Speaker 5: to communicate better the guys that have been here for I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, that's just that's just it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just we've been together, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: bulk of us have been together, you know for for
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  Speaker 1: a while now, and and just just things that we've
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  Speaker 1: got to we've got to eliminate in order to play
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  Speaker 1: good football. You can't you can't keep making those same
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  Speaker 1: you know, same mistakes.
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  Speaker 3: And and.
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  Speaker 1: As coaches too, I think I put it on coaches
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  Speaker 1: as much as as players too. I mean, we've got
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  Speaker 1: to do a better job of preparing our guys and.
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  Speaker 3: Showing them every look possible in practice. And you know, mistakes, listen,
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  Speaker 3: mistakes are going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's gonna happen, but we've got to
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  Speaker 1: minimize them in order to have success.
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  Speaker 2: Rad do you think this team Psyche is until yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 5: Like something bad happens that they don't automatically say here
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  Speaker 5: we go again.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean that that can definitely creep in. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think you don't. I don't think we're there, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I I still I still see glimpses of of good football,
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  Speaker 1: you know, out there from time to time, and we've
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  Speaker 1: got to lean on those moments. We got to learn
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  Speaker 1: from those. But it just takes It takes one play.
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  Speaker 1: We're real close to creating some takeaways. You know, defensively,
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  Speaker 1: we've done better protecting the football in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks. But it just takes you know, just finding
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  Speaker 1: that one play maybe that'll spark your team.
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  Speaker 3: Uh So, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Psyche is uh bad or in
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  Speaker 1: that in that frame of mind yet