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Press Pass | Liam Coen Recaps Win Over Chiefs on Monday Night Football · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, what do we got Liam down fourteen nothing?
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  Speaker 2: What did the team show you in terms of overcoming
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  Speaker 2: adversity and where does this one hold a spot for
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  Speaker 2: you in terms of just its thrilling nature.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Really that's the theme I think, and that was what
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  Speaker 2: we talked about as a team. Although we would like
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  Speaker 2: to make things very interesting, and it wasn't perfect by
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  Speaker 2: any means, but the resiliency is really what I think
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  Speaker 2: this team has and has continued to show. There was
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  Speaker 2: really no flinch or blank when you're down fourteen nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I think early on we might have had a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of bright eyes and in a kind of big
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  Speaker 2: game that you know you can understand a little bit
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  Speaker 2: in some ways, but got down early, made an effort
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  Speaker 2: to come back, the guy stuck with it. Halftime, Devin
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  Speaker 2: Lloyd shows up again with a huge play.
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  Speaker 1: Really took all three phases.
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  Speaker 2: I thought all three phases really impacted the game. You know,
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  Speaker 2: a ton of stuff to correct, but the toughness in
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  Speaker 2: resiliency is really something I'm proud of.
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  Speaker 3: What's going through your head on that last touchdown?
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  Speaker 1: Throw it away? No?
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  Speaker 2: I mean because you know when he got stepped on
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  Speaker 2: and he's coming out of it and you're like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, throw it away so we could have another down.
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  Speaker 1: Man, what an individual effort.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously a tough moment where I can only
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  Speaker 2: imagine where he was at in that moment on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: But to get up, break what three tackles or whatever
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  Speaker 2: it was two tackles, and shed some dude off and
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  Speaker 2: go running in the end, I mean, that's an unbelievable
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  Speaker 2: individual effort.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd love it to be.
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  Speaker 2: Cleaner, uh, and just making a nice executed play, But
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's about winning, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud of the toughness that he showed at the
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  Speaker 2: end of that game.
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  Speaker 3: It just last one you mentioned Devin, Just what does
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  Speaker 3: he meant to this defense over the last games?
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  Speaker 1: A playmaker?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, a guy that has just gotten better and
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  Speaker 2: better every day and he is He's put it on
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  Speaker 2: tape through training camp, he's putting on tape throughout the season.
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  Speaker 2: Really proud of Devin as a competitor, as a leader.
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  Speaker 2: He's somebody that is walking around the facility, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with a chin up and really confident. Right now for
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  Speaker 2: a reason, he popped out, I mean, that was one
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  Speaker 2: of our zero blitzes that he was one of the
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  Speaker 2: guys that shows to get the old line to kind
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  Speaker 2: of squeeze and then he pops out to the passing
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  Speaker 2: strength over there and just had another unbelievable play and
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  Speaker 2: a critical moment for us.
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  Speaker 1: Really proud of Devin.
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  Speaker 3: Haleam, What did tonight show you about Trevor that maybe
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  Speaker 3: you didn't know or weren't sure about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the competitor.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I've known the competitor in terms of being
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  Speaker 2: with him for a short time and then obviously going
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  Speaker 2: back to some of the games where he's made comebacks
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  Speaker 2: and have a lot of respect for that. But to
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  Speaker 2: see him tonight use his legs the way he did
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  Speaker 2: take some shots while he was running, makes him make
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  Speaker 2: a critical throw down the sideline to put us in
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  Speaker 2: a position and made a huge throat to Diami on
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  Speaker 2: the left sideline to again put us inside I think
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  Speaker 2: the ten yard line. So you know that's a huge Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a goof you finished. But what a what a
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  Speaker 2: tough moment for him to be able to say, like
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  Speaker 2: he just he wasn't going to lose, and that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of really what it comes down to. He wasn't going
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  Speaker 2: to lose, and he made an unbelievable individual effort that
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  Speaker 2: hopefully can continue to springboard us.
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  Speaker 1: Does it win like this over the Chiefs?
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  Speaker 3: Tell the rest of the league you guys are legit
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  Speaker 3: or are you worried about putting too much on it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a we won today, you know, tonight it's
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  Speaker 2: a huge moment for our team, our organization. We have
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  Speaker 2: yet to play clean for sixty minutes, not that you
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  Speaker 2: always play one hundred percent clean, but we did cut
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  Speaker 2: down on some of the penalties. We still had a
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  Speaker 2: few operational issues that frustrates you, but I do think
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  Speaker 2: we did play a little at times. Tonight wasn't perfect,
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  Speaker 2: as we'll know. We got to go clean up a
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  Speaker 2: lot from the tape to go and be ready on
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  Speaker 2: a short week, especially, so I think this week will
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  Speaker 2: kind of show us a little bit more about where
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  Speaker 2: we're at. But huge win, huge win for us, especially
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  Speaker 2: with the one score game thing. Right that team is
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  Speaker 2: historically won the majority of their one score games, something
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  Speaker 2: that obviously was a struggle for this team last year.
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  Speaker 2: And proud of the guys.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you mentioned the wide eyes right out of the
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  Speaker 3: right out of the gate. Do you think there was
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  Speaker 3: just a little bit too much of thinking about the
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  Speaker 3: moment and maybe the opponent he's got.
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  Speaker 1: No, they were just juiced.
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  Speaker 2: Like you should have heard our locker room pre game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was mental. I didn't really have to
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  Speaker 2: go in and say anything before the game. Foyer did
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  Speaker 2: that for me.
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  Speaker 1: They were very juiced.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a little bit more to do
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  Speaker 2: with maybe over excitement, over enthused for the moment, rather
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  Speaker 2: than looking around scared. I don't feel like it was
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  Speaker 2: that by any means. I think we were maybe just
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit too much juice going.
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  Speaker 1: And you saw us.
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  Speaker 2: Miss more tackles than we had in weeks past. That
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  Speaker 2: speaks to guys just a little bit out of control.
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  Speaker 1: He Trevor Thomas, the old quarterback, and you how good,
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  Speaker 1: how high level was that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a high level throw. That was a double move,
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  Speaker 2: kind of an under pump to BT. We put him
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  Speaker 2: to the field that you know, put the formation of
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  Speaker 2: the boundary motion across so you could kind of see
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  Speaker 2: the coverage gave us single high safety. Trevor did a
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  Speaker 2: great job holding the post middle with his eyes and
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  Speaker 2: then and laid a diamond there, I mean over the
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  Speaker 2: shoulder exactly where that ball needs to be. It's him
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  Speaker 2: or any or nobody in that moment, really big moment
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  Speaker 2: for Trevor and for our offense. Something obviously we hadn't
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  Speaker 2: shown the ability to be extremely explosive through the pass
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  Speaker 2: thus far. I did think we took some steps in
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  Speaker 2: some ways, but you know, the throw to him, the
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  Speaker 2: throat of Diami, I didn't think he was not nothing
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  Speaker 2: but cool. And that last drive, I'll say that did
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  Speaker 2: you have to choose You sort of have to pick
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  Speaker 2: him up on all in that first half when he
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  Speaker 2: crosses No, you know, look, it's sometimes it goes your way.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think the sneak, obviously, that's something that's
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  Speaker 2: a learning moment for us because we had the kind
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  Speaker 2: of the tush push going and you don't really want
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  Speaker 2: to go over the top when you got somebody pushing
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  Speaker 2: you there. Uh, that's a good learning moment for us.
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  Speaker 2: But I didn't ever really see a worry in him.
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  Speaker 2: I think I actually saw a fiery competitor throughout the day. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: on the sidelines, I saw a guy that was kind
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  Speaker 2: of pissed off at times. For Uh, some of the
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  Speaker 2: things that went down the way they went down. There
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  Speaker 2: was no blaming, there was no point in the fingers.
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  Speaker 2: I just thought that he stepped up in a critical
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  Speaker 2: moment at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: There, coach, what does Monday night mean to you? And
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  Speaker 1: did you did you watch a lot of Monday night
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  Speaker 1: football growing up? And who are some of your favorite
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  Speaker 1: commentators over the years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember the Brett Favre game specifically is one
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  Speaker 2: that always think in my mind. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: the one right after his father passed away. It was
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  Speaker 2: Monday Night football where he throws that one on the
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  Speaker 2: sideline that somehow gets caught. And I grew up watching
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  Speaker 2: Monday Night football NFL obviously my entire life, and have
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  Speaker 2: been fortunate enough to coach on minda and Night a
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  Speaker 2: few times, but had not won in a while on
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  Speaker 2: Monday Night football. So, you know, last year we played
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  Speaker 2: this same team in Tampa last year, you know, on
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  Speaker 2: a primetime game, didn't come out with the win. And
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  Speaker 2: so to have this moment personally is phenomenal. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: really proud of this coaching staff and these players. Good
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  Speaker 2: Brian obviously a big catch at the end, drawing the
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  Speaker 2: penalty and end zone, coming back for the ball, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what can you just say about him his resiliency.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was locked in all day.
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  Speaker 2: He made a couple of plays early, and then we
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  Speaker 2: just didn't really have a rhythm to keep getting.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys touches.
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  Speaker 2: I thought a bunch of guys made a play though,
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  Speaker 2: if you look at that whole crew, I mean beat
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  Speaker 2: specifically making that play at the end of the game,
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  Speaker 2: drawing the penalty in the end zone. Huge made a
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  Speaker 2: big one for us Earlier. Travis Hunter makes plays, Parker
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  Speaker 2: Washington score is touchdown, Deami makes a catch. So that
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  Speaker 2: whole group did make plays in this game to help
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  Speaker 2: us go win.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's about taking the.
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  Speaker 2: Next step as a receiving corps in a quarterback in
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  Speaker 2: the pass game in general, to go take some confidence
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  Speaker 2: from this and keep building.
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  Speaker 3: We passing offense. Brent went down, but I guess season
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  Speaker 3: high seven for nine to Hunter into Thomas Junior for
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and forty four yards. Yeah, yet you're down
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  Speaker 3: fourteen enough and you didn't panic. Twenty six pass attempts,
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  Speaker 3: twenty five rushing attempts to shore overall thoughts on this.
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  Speaker 2: Offense, Yeah, try to like everything we do is to
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  Speaker 2: try to stay balanced. Now, sometimes the run, you know
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  Speaker 2: versus the passes starts going in different directions for different reasons.
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  Speaker 1: But we did try to stay the course.
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  Speaker 2: They did a nice job stopping some of our mid
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  Speaker 2: zones and so we tried to get the ball on
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  Speaker 2: the perimeter a little bit. You know, ended up getting
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  Speaker 2: over one hundred in the game rushing, which was which
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  Speaker 2: was a benefit.
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  Speaker 1: We did need to keep.
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  Speaker 2: Running the football, but you know, our line has continued
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  Speaker 2: to protect at a high level. They've continued to be
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  Speaker 2: able to allow us to run the football when we
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  Speaker 2: need to. Trevor obviously helped us out big time with
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  Speaker 2: us using his legs. So, you know, I think, although
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  Speaker 2: not perfect, you know, again the offense, I'm proud of
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  Speaker 2: the red zone and the third downs. We had the
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  Speaker 2: one red zone obviously over the top, but we would
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  Speaker 2: have been four for four and then we were our
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  Speaker 2: best I think this year on third down, which was
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  Speaker 2: something we really wanted to emphasize going into this game.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, thanks guys,