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Press Pass | Mac Jones on Jaguars' Opportunities in Season Finale · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Last week of the year, getting a chance to kind
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  Speaker 1: of try and.
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  Speaker 2: Get back to back wins.
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  Speaker 1: What would it mean to close out the year with
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  Speaker 1: two wins in a row. Yeah, that's a big thing
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  Speaker 1: to do in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: If you can stack some good practices and games and
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  Speaker 3: carry that momentum, you know wherever it may go.
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  Speaker 1: So, uh, we're definitely working for that. You believe that
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  Speaker 1: momentum kind of going to the off season in.
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  Speaker 3: The next year. Yeah, you know, this is my fourth season,
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  Speaker 3: so I know how this goes, and you definitely want
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  Speaker 3: to put your best foot forward and control what you
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  Speaker 3: can control.
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  Speaker 1: And for me, just keep it simple this week.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of distractions, a lot of this and that,
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  Speaker 3: But a challenge for everybody and for me is to
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  Speaker 3: focus on doing my part and then from there should
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  Speaker 3: take care of itself. That could.
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  Speaker 2: Could you make a case for Brian Thomas winning the
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  Speaker 2: Rookie the Year Award?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I mean I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a voter for that, but I definitely have
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  Speaker 3: been a part of that award and obviously didn't win it,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he definitely is deserving of it, and
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  Speaker 3: he's a great player. He's meant a lot to the
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  Speaker 3: team this year specifically, and to do it as a
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  Speaker 3: rookies pretty much insane. So hopefully we can just finish
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  Speaker 3: strong in this last week and he can also carry
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  Speaker 3: that momentum into the next year and for his whole career.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited for him.
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  Speaker 3: How are you.
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  Speaker 1: To say yourself even in the midst of a game,
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  Speaker 1: like bullets.
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  Speaker 2: Are flying, prey just the same, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think the more jokes I tell in
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  Speaker 3: the field, the better I play. So if I can
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  Speaker 3: just talk talk back to the other team or you know,
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  Speaker 3: keep it loose with the refs, I think that gets
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  Speaker 3: me in my zone. And you know when I when
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  Speaker 3: I can get there and play on my zone, I
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  Speaker 3: think you can see, you know, the good stuff happens.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like we've done that as an offense
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  Speaker 3: at times. You can see it the personality of the team,
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  Speaker 3: Guys playing together, you know, when I'm out there, guys
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  Speaker 3: playing hard. So got to continue that this week, and
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  Speaker 3: that's a big challenge to to do it a few
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  Speaker 3: weeks in a row. Think, Yeah, I mean the ref
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  Speaker 3: on Filmy he grabbed his flag twice, but he never
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  Speaker 3: never pulled it out. So I'll take two touches of
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  Speaker 3: the flag but uh no, no penalty. But yeah, that
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  Speaker 3: was that was funny.
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  Speaker 2: Mitch was talking about you the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I hated him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we talked about that a lot. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's like I just I wanted to hate you, but
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  Speaker 3: then I met you and you're just like such a normal,
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  Speaker 3: nice guy, and I was like, yeah, that's nice. And
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  Speaker 3: somebody showed me the video of him talking about me,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, I mean I paid you
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  Speaker 3: to say that, so thank you.
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  Speaker 1: For saying that. So I'm glad. I'll venmo him his
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  Speaker 1: money and we'll move on from that. It's obviously been
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  Speaker 1: a long season.
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  Speaker 3: How do you balance, you know, wanting it to be
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  Speaker 3: over with the fact that there's just one more game
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  Speaker 3: left for you?
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  Speaker 1: Guys? Yeah, play because you love the game and you
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  Speaker 1: love the competitive like for you. Yeah, it's it's it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: You're, like I said, trying to be where your feet are,
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  Speaker 3: trying to keep it simple, trying to take it one
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  Speaker 3: play at a time and not thinking about the outcome
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  Speaker 3: of the game or the season, or what's going to
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  Speaker 3: happen next day. It doesn't matter because at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, We're out there playing because we love
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  Speaker 3: the game. We want to have fun, and I know
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  Speaker 3: both teams are gonna do that this week. It's a
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  Speaker 3: great great defense we get to go against always is
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  Speaker 3: a tough defense, got a lot of good players, well coached,
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  Speaker 3: and so it's it's an opportunity, really is.
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  Speaker 1: How I look at it.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to control what I can control and
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  Speaker 3: let the chips fall start.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about this last week a little bit, but
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  Speaker 2: how weird is it to not know what is next
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  Speaker 2: for you and is already chance in your mind that
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  Speaker 2: you're back here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's always the million dollar question for everybody
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  Speaker 3: you you're either under contractor or not. And for me,
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  Speaker 3: it's like I said, eliminating the distractions and taking it
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  Speaker 3: one day at a time, one play at a time,
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  Speaker 3: and it'll take care of itself. And I've I've had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun here and I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 3: really practice today and we had a good walkthrough, so
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  Speaker 3: carry that over see if we can get another win.
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  Speaker 2: How tough do you think it'll be starting Monday? To
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  Speaker 2: balance the joy that you have that you yourself have
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  Speaker 2: said you have gotten from coming here versus probably your
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  Speaker 2: priority next year of being in a situation where you
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  Speaker 2: would like to compete.
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  Speaker 1: For a job.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I got a chance, Like I said
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  Speaker 3: this Sunday, So you don't know how many games you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get a chance to start and said the same
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  Speaker 3: thing last week. I knew I had one opportunity that
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  Speaker 3: was last week, play well enough to win, and hopefully
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  Speaker 3: we can do that again this week. So it's tough,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, every year, whether you're in the playoffs
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  Speaker 3: or you're fighting to get in the playoffs or whatever
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  Speaker 3: it may be, or you're in our situation where you
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  Speaker 3: know you got one left, you just try to put
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  Speaker 3: your best foot forward.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, the.
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  Speaker 3: Chips will fall how they fall, and I have confidence
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  Speaker 3: in myself and all the guys around me.
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  Speaker 2: It is it unrealistic that that Brian can get the
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  Speaker 2: kind of touches he's been getting in the last month.
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  Speaker 2: When you guys have your full compliment, I meant Ingram's
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  Speaker 2: hurts hurt, you do that in an offensive game play
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  Speaker 2: and get him fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he looks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's tough. Those are like hypothetical right
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  Speaker 3: questions where you know this guy's here or not. I
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  Speaker 3: think it definitely helps pull coverage, but from a football
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  Speaker 3: schematic standpoint, but he's done a great job getting open
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  Speaker 3: when he's got two guys on him, when he's got
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  Speaker 3: one guy on him, when he's got three guys on him.
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  Speaker 1: So he does a great job just doing his part.
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  Speaker 3: And we've done a good job moving around Press and
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  Speaker 3: Doug and everybody moving them around and stuff. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna definitely try and take them away from the game.
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  Speaker 3: And that's where it all starts.
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  Speaker 2: How much better you play now, maybe the last two
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  Speaker 2: weeks compared to I don't know, six weeks ago or
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  Speaker 2: whatever it was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean talked about this challenge myself to play
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  Speaker 3: better post bye week, didn't know if I was gonna
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  Speaker 3: get a chance to play again.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the challenge for me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at that way for this week as well,
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  Speaker 3: So trying to stay turnover free and take those completions
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  Speaker 3: and keep moving the offense and like I said, control
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  Speaker 3: what I can control. Take it one play at a time,
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  Speaker 3: and the chips will fall.
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  Speaker 1: How they may get thrown it well though, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like you makes you throws, Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: throwing it well, but you gotta keep doing it each week.
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  Speaker 2: Tape, not not not trying to count how many throws
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  Speaker 2: you wish you had made better?
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  Speaker 1: Whether we throw row, but how many plays do you
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  Speaker 1: see where you thought were you thought?
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  Speaker 2: Truly thought yourself, I should have gone there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, two or three or yeah. I always try and
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  Speaker 3: I call it like the attempt, Like what was the
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  Speaker 3: attempt of the play? So like maybe I was attempting
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  Speaker 3: to go to the right guy. I just missed the throw.
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  Speaker 3: But I can live with that when hey, it's one
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  Speaker 3: on one, it's your best player, he's open. Maybe he's
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  Speaker 3: not open, but you give him a chance. It's a
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  Speaker 3: low risk throw. But yeah, I think it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: about percentages, and really in the NFL, it's more about
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  Speaker 3: moving the ball as best you can based on the
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  Speaker 3: play and taking what they give you. They can give
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  Speaker 3: you the the deep, they can give you the short
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  Speaker 3: or the medium, but you just have to be real
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  Speaker 3: discipline and I gotta continue to do that this week.
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  Speaker 2: Is it really hard to go through a game tape
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  Speaker 2: and not find at least one play where you you
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  Speaker 2: you knew you shouldn't have gone there.
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  Speaker 1: How hard is it to.
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  Speaker 2: Make the right decision is not good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the right decision on every throw, Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 3: I mean coach McCoy obviously a quarterback. Coach talks about it,
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  Speaker 3: just do the next best thing. So if that's throwing
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  Speaker 3: it away or you know, going to the check down
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  Speaker 3: or taking the shot, that might be the next best thing.
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  Speaker 3: Like they maybe take away the shorts, you have to
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  Speaker 3: throw the deep. But that's kind of how I view
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  Speaker 3: it as a quarterback. When you're reviewing things, you obviously
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  Speaker 3: look at it very critically, but you don't wanna overanalyze
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  Speaker 3: every little thing like, oh, my foot was six inches
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  Speaker 3: to the left. Here, I need to move it two
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  Speaker 3: inches to the right. You're kind of just not nitpicking
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  Speaker 3: but looking for big themes that you can fix.
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  Speaker 1: Cool, all right, thanks,