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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "We never lost faith..." · Press Pass

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, what's up, hey, Trevor. Uh, I gotta ask you
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: about post game midfield Dougs hugging you, whispering in your year.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, what what was that? What was that moment
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  Speaker 1: like for you? I mean, seriously, Um made it sound
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: a little weird, but but uh no, it was. It
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: was great. Just just the excitement that obviously you know
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: I had and still have right now and coach, and
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: just how how this year has gone and um, the
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  Speaker 1: ups and downs and just the belief that we've had
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  Speaker 1: the whole time is you know, it kind of saw
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  Speaker 1: it all come together today and even just how we
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: had to win the game is you know, it wasn't
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: always pretty, but just found a way to win. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, just told him, told him I loved him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm appreciative him. You know, just what he's done for it,
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  Speaker 1: for this place obviously takes more than just just a coach,
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  Speaker 1: but what he's been able to do for this organization,
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  Speaker 1: UM has been incredible and just excited for the future.
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  Speaker 1: And we get another opportunity to play next weekend. And
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  Speaker 1: that's all that means is we get to play again
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  Speaker 1: next week. And there's not many teams that get to
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  Speaker 1: say that at this point, So, um, I guess after
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow night at that point, but um so, just just
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  Speaker 1: excited these guys, you know, you know, we earned it.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was a tough year as far as
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  Speaker 1: just having to climb out of that hole. We dug
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  Speaker 1: ourselves and it was it was awesome back to that whole.
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  Speaker 1: Does that make it more special that you want it
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  Speaker 1: this way after falling two and six, three and seven
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  Speaker 1: at that point, Yeah, just what we had to do
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  Speaker 1: to you know, clawl and fight our way back into
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  Speaker 1: the hunt and give ourselves a chance to win the
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  Speaker 1: division tonight. We had to do a lot, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had to win a ton of games down the stretch,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we were able to do it. We
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  Speaker 1: never lost we never lost faith or belief, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in ourselves, and um really how we got here was
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: just taking it one week at a time and that's
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  Speaker 1: and that's I mean, that's the message, especially this week.
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  Speaker 1: You only get one week at a time, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's that's exciting for this group because we've been
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  Speaker 1: we've been so good at that the last two months
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  Speaker 1: of just one week at a time, just keep putting
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  Speaker 1: one foot in front of the other keep stacking great days,
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  Speaker 1: and um, we gave ourselves a shot and we went
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  Speaker 1: and took it tonight. So it feels really good. Trevor,
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  Speaker 1: where were you on Josh's touchdown? And emotionally, where were
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  Speaker 1: you at that point? I was sitting I was sitting
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  Speaker 1: there really getting ready for you know, I think that
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna punt it or get the ball back, and
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  Speaker 1: just getting ready to have to go win the game,
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  Speaker 1: our offense to go down the field and and go
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  Speaker 1: score to win the game. So I was just kind
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  Speaker 1: of get in my mind right thinking about that. And
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  Speaker 1: then you know, I think I was looking at that
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  Speaker 1: play when it happened. I saw ray Sean coming off
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  Speaker 1: the edge, and I mean just honestly, like just some
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  Speaker 1: jaw dropped. It's kind of speechless, like just defense boat up.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, it's we're in it together, and it's us.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about everyone. It's not about one specific guy
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  Speaker 1: one side of the ball, but defense one us the
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  Speaker 1: game to night, and I think everybody everybody saw that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, offensively, we struggled at times, you know, didn't
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  Speaker 1: really get in a great rhythm. It was year and there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we made some plays and but we gotta
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  Speaker 1: we gotta play better to give us a shot every week.
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  Speaker 1: But our defense, it's just that's what good teams do, though,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're not always gonna be clicking on all cylinders.
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  Speaker 1: And our defense really had our back tonight and they've
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  Speaker 1: been they've been flying around playing great. So it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's fun to watch Trevor with what last year was.
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  Speaker 1: Does that make being at this moment that much more special? Definitely?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I just think the whole just this whole journey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from from where we were to where we
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  Speaker 1: are now, and um, to to earn this opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: go play in the playoffs, um, it's special. And you
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  Speaker 1: ask a lot of guys that have played for you know, five, six, seven,
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  Speaker 1: eight plus years, and a lot of guys have only
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  Speaker 1: been to the playoffs you know, once, twice, three times
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  Speaker 1: in their career. So it's just when you think about
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  Speaker 1: that too, it really puts into perspective that it's not
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  Speaker 1: easy to win in this league, and especially to to
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  Speaker 1: do what we've been able to do the past five
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  Speaker 1: games and give ourselves a chance, that's really hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just proud of of the team, game of
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  Speaker 1: the staff, just everybody. You know, all the work that's
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  Speaker 1: been put in to be here. That's taking a lot
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  Speaker 1: of work, and um, it's gonna take more to keep
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  Speaker 1: going and and we're excited for that and ready for it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it makes it special for sure. Bruce Hope, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: started newspaper. Trevor, I know you probably haven't had an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to really give this too much thought yet, but
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  Speaker 1: you've played in a lot of high level, uh, high
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  Speaker 1: leverage football games in your life so far. Now you're
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  Speaker 1: onto the playoffs in the NFL, probably the highest yet.
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  Speaker 1: Where are your thoughts on that kind of how do
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  Speaker 1: you feel about, you know, stepping into the arena for
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  Speaker 1: another really huge opportunity. I'm excited just you know, for
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  Speaker 1: for this team to get to get that opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: continue to show who we are and um, just like
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  Speaker 1: I said, just to get a chance to play again,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the field gets whittled down next week and
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  Speaker 1: get a shot to to play whoever. It is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a good team coming in here, So I'm just
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  Speaker 1: excited for that. And you know, like you said, played
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  Speaker 1: in big games and um, so it'll be a good
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  Speaker 1: good challenge for us, But I'm really excited just to
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  Speaker 1: get another opportunity. And you know, we got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, like I said, to clean up, and definitely
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  Speaker 1: didn't play anywhere close to our best ball, especially offensively, tonight.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited to kind of you know, watch the
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  Speaker 1: tape and get back to it and clean up some
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  Speaker 1: some things. Trevor, You've played on a lot of big
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  Speaker 1: games before, big atmospheres we did tonight. You know what
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  Speaker 1: the fans showed you just how they failed everything out.
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  Speaker 1: What did that kind of tell you about the fan
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  Speaker 1: base here? It says a lot, just you know, just
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  Speaker 1: how the fans have rallied around us this year as
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  Speaker 1: this season has gone on, and you know, obviously late
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  Speaker 1: in the year like like we've been playing. And to
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  Speaker 1: see the stadium pack tonight was was awesome. One of
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  Speaker 1: the best game environments I've I've been in, honestly, so
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  Speaker 1: it was it was special. They were loud all game. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's really really cool. It's a cool experience that I
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  Speaker 1: always remember that. So hopefully we'll do the same thing
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  Speaker 1: next week. We're gonna need it, so it'd be fun. Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you all. I appreciate