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Press Pass | Cisco, Oluokun, Etienne on Mindset for MNF vs. Bills · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's you don't want to approach things as
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  Speaker 2: if the ship is already tanked. I think that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of that makes it worse, you know, making that feeling
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  Speaker 2: kind of expanded to even today. It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: look at the film and take from it what you will,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's how you get better. That's the
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  Speaker 2: point of all this is approaching Thursday or Fursday practice like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like we're gonna win a game, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just in in the building this week. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of noise outside of here right now, but this
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  Speaker 3: seems like a good opportunity for everybody to kind of
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  Speaker 3: come together and go on the road and play well
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  Speaker 3: this week.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: How do you guys do that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean every week in NFL is the championship opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: and so you're never mad on the Monday of the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl, like so just you know, approaching it with
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  Speaker 2: the mindset that, like, you know, we have opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: change things. And it's a week's weekly, you know, everybody,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some teams start owing to and finish fifteenth
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  Speaker 2: to It's just that type of that type of league.
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  Speaker 2: And I tell people it's like the NBA like nobody's
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  Speaker 2: saying anything after ten games and NBA of who's gonna
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  Speaker 2: win the chip, So it's just approaching it, taking the
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  Speaker 2: day by day and like like uh Kirk said, we
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  Speaker 2: got the type of group that's resilient enough, and we've
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  Speaker 2: seen it. I think the past two years with Doug,
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  Speaker 2: you know, our starts haven't been a reflection of where
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  Speaker 2: we finished.
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  Speaker 1: So just you know, taking the day by day as.
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  Speaker 4: You look for that spark in the season. Can Monday
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  Speaker 4: night football bright lights be the spark the team needs?
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  Speaker 2: Depending on who you are, I know, for me is
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  Speaker 2: I I know I I understand the implications of Monday
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  Speaker 2: night and what that is to a lot of other people.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, as we tune the noise out, you
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  Speaker 2: kind of wanna tune that out for a little bit
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  Speaker 2: as well. When you get into the admosphere too, it'll
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  Speaker 2: definitely take over. After what's the where's the balance between
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, early early in the season, things out
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  Speaker 2: over obviously, but what do you kind of find that
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  Speaker 2: balance between that and sort of picking up a sense.
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  Speaker 1: Of urgency to kind of get things rolling.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I think just take it personal, right, Losing games
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't feel good. So you know, take it personal and
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  Speaker 2: allow yourself to to allow to fuel you to be
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  Speaker 2: more detailed. I think that's the biggest thing for myself
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  Speaker 2: as a leader on this defense, it is I gotta
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  Speaker 2: be a lot more detailed our preparation. You always think
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  Speaker 2: that you know you're done enough, and so you know,
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  Speaker 2: losses can show you that you got a lot more
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  Speaker 2: to do. I think, and then remember in this feeling
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  Speaker 2: when we do get our wins, to say there's always
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  Speaker 2: something to get better at, you know, not to be content.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you start fast and think, oh, I've done everything
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  Speaker 2: right this whole off season, so I'm getting the results.
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  Speaker 1: So it's early. It's it's good to expose it now.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, do you feel like the locker room has taken
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  Speaker 4: it personal?
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  Speaker 2: I think it is v It's always personal. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's hard not to take it personal. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're wearing this the Jaguar emblem, it should be it. It
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  Speaker 2: should it should hurt, you know what I mean. I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of guys kind of that feeling is
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  Speaker 2: is lingering. But I think as long as you can
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  Speaker 2: flush it the right way and take from it what
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  Speaker 2: you will, it could give your results.
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  Speaker 5: Josh mentioned the turnovers on Sunday.
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  Speaker 6: Is there a fun long term being aggressive and not
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  Speaker 6: kind of fortunate it trying to get takeaways being too aggressive?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the opportunities are always there, it's just a
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  Speaker 2: split second and understanding the moment. So I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we just continue to to highlight those things and the
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  Speaker 2: takeaways will come.
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  Speaker 5: How do you get a spark without I mean everyone
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  Speaker 5: always talks about, you know, somebody has to make a play,
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  Speaker 5: somebody has to do something for the spark to happen.
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  Speaker 5: Why can't that be before anything anything happens. Why can't
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  Speaker 5: it be able to start to get How do you
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  Speaker 5: sort of get it to start right away?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Like you s like just taking care of the moment, right, So,
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  Speaker 2: like I like saying, like in the beginning of the game,
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  Speaker 2: understanding how important that first third down is, for example,
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  Speaker 2: you know, give you give the offense a lot of
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  Speaker 2: life when they feel like they can convert our third
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  Speaker 2: down with the things they've been drawn up all week,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So just understand the moments
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  Speaker 2: when we get into those situations, not waiting and just
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  Speaker 2: striking first and then from there, you know, just you
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  Speaker 2: get the crowd into especially at the home game. But
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  Speaker 2: if not, you're just the energy of us making plays
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  Speaker 2: and being on top of our stuff. It gives confidence
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  Speaker 2: and then kind of goes from there.
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  Speaker 3: Guys beat this team in Buffalo last year in London,
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  Speaker 3: so d is there early look at Buffalo? How different
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  Speaker 3: are they from a year ago?
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  Speaker 1: From what I know?
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  Speaker 2: I would just say like the Titans are are huge
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  Speaker 2: part of the offense now versus you know when they
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  Speaker 2: had Gabe and Stefan last year. But and then also
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  Speaker 2: James Cook has got going a lot, So I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a great matchup for us. It's it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: they've had some success early in these two weeks and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully we get out in a punch 'em in the mouth.
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  Speaker 7: Just what kind of quarterback is Josh Allen?
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  Speaker 2: I you does everything, makes every throw. I played him
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  Speaker 2: a few times and last year definitely learned that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he he might seem like he can't get the ball there,
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  Speaker 2: but it's gonna get there.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna get there fast. So I'm excited to play him.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's the next game. I think, uh, when
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  Speaker 7: we put on the field in the past two games,
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  Speaker 7: there's definitely a lot to approve from. So for us
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  Speaker 7: just having a season we want, uh this year, it's
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  Speaker 7: the next game and I wanna I wanna win it.
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  Speaker 4: I know we talked early on and you said that
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  Speaker 4: early in the season, it's the recipe.
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  Speaker 1: You thought you had the right recipe.
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  Speaker 4: M After two losses, how hard is it to not
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  Speaker 4: look at it and say, okay, we have to change this.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the first two games.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: If you look at the film and then see where
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  Speaker 7: players were open or or things that we we could
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  Speaker 7: have executed on plays here and there, drive extensions for
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  Speaker 7: the defense here and there, the recipes there. We just
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  Speaker 7: gotta keep executing all the way through the game.
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  Speaker 5: What did you feel went wrong maybe in that first
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  Speaker 5: half against the Browns, and just how have you guys
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  Speaker 5: sort of taken to correct it this week?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, a couple uh drive extensions, Uh would have held
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  Speaker 7: him either off the field or to a field goal early.
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  Speaker 7: I mean they didn't score that much. There was a
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  Speaker 7: lot of opportunities for us to get off the field earlier. Uh,
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  Speaker 7: get the ball better back to the offense, and better
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  Speaker 7: field position put them in scoring positions. So uh, obviously
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  Speaker 7: we still want that takeaway, So there's opportunities for us
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  Speaker 7: to get a takeaway. Even on my sack at the ball,
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  Speaker 7: I missed the swipe, should have reached, not swipe. Keep
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  Speaker 7: being opportunistic, drilling things and executing the right way.
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  Speaker 3: There's a balance, right. There's a lot of football left. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but at some point that's down the road away. Still
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  Speaker 3: you gotta get something done here pretty soon. So how
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  Speaker 3: do you balance that and not panic too much? As
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  Speaker 3: a football team.
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  Speaker 7: I think you always focus on the now. Obviously it
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  Speaker 7: was two games. There's a lot of games left, like
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  Speaker 7: you said earlier, but I gotta keep on saying each
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  Speaker 7: game is a race in itself when I'd like to
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  Speaker 7: win races. So let's win the next game.
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  Speaker 1: That's we have on our.
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  Speaker 7: Plate, doing everything it takes to uh come out with
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  Speaker 7: the right energy against Buffalo. Stay in our books, stay
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  Speaker 7: on our film. We know we have all the talent
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  Speaker 7: in the in the locker room to win games, so
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  Speaker 7: let's go on awaymen, kind of focus on ourselves on
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  Speaker 7: the inside. Obviously the outside has a lot of noise
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  Speaker 7: going on out there, but they don't know what goes
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  Speaker 7: around the locker room on the practice field, So we
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  Speaker 7: know what we're capable of, but we got go out
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  Speaker 7: there and prove it every week.
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  Speaker 1: From the jump, this group's still together. Oh yeah yeah, H.
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  Speaker 7: Had a little adjustment for you, having to come off
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  Speaker 7: a no, A no adjustment. I got all the faith
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  Speaker 7: in the linebackers and stuff, and now I came in
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  Speaker 7: this league not playing every snap. I've been blessed to
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  Speaker 7: be able to play every snap for what my third
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  Speaker 7: year all the way to my seventh year. Uh, whatever
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  Speaker 7: the coach needs. But the the goal here is to
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  Speaker 7: win games down the road. I want to win the
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  Speaker 7: games now. Obviously don't look right when we're not winning
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  Speaker 7: games right now. So let's get to winning the games
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  Speaker 7: now and you'll see a payoff down the road. But
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  Speaker 7: let's focus on the now. Don't worry about the snapcots
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  Speaker 7: and and stuff. Let's worry about wins.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: How the linebackers look at a unit, Everything's gonna work
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  Speaker 7: out we if we execute our ga our players were're
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  Speaker 7: supposed to. What kind of quarterbacks Josh Allen a good one.
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  Speaker 1: What does he do well?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 7: He's just a playmaker really Uh. Big guy can use
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  Speaker 7: his feet. Uh has been trying not to use his
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  Speaker 7: feed as much.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: Think he's been documented saying that. But he got all
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  Speaker 7: the arm, talent and stuff. Just bending the ball out
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  Speaker 7: more this year in the past two games. Uh, from
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  Speaker 7: the years I played him in the past. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 7: then when things break down and when the game gets
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  Speaker 7: on the line, I've seen him use his feet, lower his.
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  Speaker 1: Shoulder and stuff. He's a big guy.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: He does escape the pocket and throw the ball or
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  Speaker 7: run the ball like. He's just a good quarterback, good
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  Speaker 7: football player in general.
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  Speaker 3: Really look overall, Buffalo. I don't know how much you've
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  Speaker 3: looked at him yet, but tight ends of running game.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I've seen him last year, right, Yeah. They they
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  Speaker 7: got good faith in the running game. I mean yeah,
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  Speaker 7: uh last year when we played him, I think they
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  Speaker 7: ran the ball that much at all. So they are
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  Speaker 7: good faith in the running game. Now, know four runs
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  Speaker 7: the ball well. Think what twenty two twenty they they
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  Speaker 7: run the ball well, and you gotta stay in their gaps.
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  Speaker 7: He got a little bit of his older brother in
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  Speaker 7: him now. Uh, a little square through the line. He's
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  Speaker 7: streaking down the field. So that's how Dalvin looked at
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  Speaker 7: his prime, and that's how he's looking now. So I'm
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  Speaker 7: excited to play against him.
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  Speaker 4: You guys were a good road team last year. Can
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  Speaker 4: go into a hostile environment and Buffalo be something that
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  Speaker 4: helps get the juice.
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  Speaker 7: I definitely think we're excited for it.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 6: We have a a great group of guys who just
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  Speaker 6: want to go out there and show the well who
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  Speaker 6: he really are. And I feel like this is a
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  Speaker 6: great opportunity to go out there and show that you
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  Speaker 6: guys were a good.
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  Speaker 4: Road team last year, and going on a road to
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  Speaker 4: a hostile environment in Buffalo be something that helps get
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  Speaker 4: guys going.
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  Speaker 6: Ah, for sure, cause I feel like, uh, like you said,
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  Speaker 6: we were a good road team. I feel like cause
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  Speaker 6: whenever our basking against the wall, we kind of just
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  Speaker 6: locking and just be together. And uh, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 6: us out there versus everybody, and we're gonna have that
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  Speaker 6: same feeling, uh Monday, And now I feel the guys
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  Speaker 6: going to locker and we all want to respond the
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  Speaker 6: right way.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously the panic in the locker room, But how do
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  Speaker 2: you balance that in moments early in the season versus
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  Speaker 2: kind of needing to get that sits a virtue.
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  Speaker 1: To get things rolling.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, just just just keeping that sin mindset and keeping
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  Speaker 6: trying to get one to know each and every week
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  Speaker 6: and understanding this is the biggest game because it's the
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  Speaker 6: next one. I feel like, uh, whether you want to lose,
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  Speaker 6: the preparation shouldn't change.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: I mean it sucks after the loss, cause you got
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  Speaker 6: the extra pain.
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  Speaker 3: To deal with.
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  Speaker 6: But I mean, we gotta face we gotta face adversity
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  Speaker 6: and I fight the only way to go forward is
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  Speaker 6: through and that's what we're facing with right now. And
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  Speaker 6: I feel like we're gonna the only way we're gonna
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  Speaker 6: get better is by locking with each other and understanding
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  Speaker 6: the reality situation and understanding that whatever we're doing, just
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  Speaker 6: do a little more and uh see what that text us.
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  Speaker 6: And I feel like we got a great group of
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  Speaker 6: guys in here. Like you said, there's no panicking here. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: we're on too, And I feel like it's we still
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  Speaker 6: got the rest of season ahead of us, so we're
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  Speaker 6: uh excited about the future. You said it's a chance
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  Speaker 6: to show people who you are.
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  Speaker 3: Did do you guys have an identity?
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  Speaker 6: Does the offense have an identity at this point or
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  Speaker 6: is it still kind of being formed now? I feel
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  Speaker 6: like I feel like we have an identity when we
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  Speaker 6: run the ball, but run the ball, you know. Uh
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  Speaker 6: I feel like we do that. We we we we
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  Speaker 6: find ways to move the ball downfield. Uh just they
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  Speaker 6: don't feel help our defenses out, don't put out, don't
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  Speaker 6: have our defense out there hanging the dry. Uh just
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  Speaker 6: get first downs, get first downs, and uh just be
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  Speaker 6: a fishing in the red zone. You know, I feel
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  Speaker 6: like we just be a fishing in.
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  Speaker 1: The red zone.
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  Speaker 6: We're not even having these conversations. Uh we just kind
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  Speaker 6: of be a u A a poorly red zone team
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  Speaker 6: right now. We uh leaving with three instead of instead
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  Speaker 6: of six, and uh that's the difference in these games
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  Speaker 6: that we've been having.
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  Speaker 2: Doug said that he thought going up tempo, hope you
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  Speaker 2: guys on Sunday from your perspective, what does going up
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  Speaker 2: tempo kind of do to you know, help you guys
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  Speaker 2: get over it?
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  Speaker 6: I we we we did take the pace of the game.
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  Speaker 6: We don't let uh them get set, don't let them
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  Speaker 6: uh dial up whatever they wanna dial up. Uh we
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  Speaker 6: kind of catch him on their toes and uh we
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  Speaker 6: control the pac And I feel like I remember im,
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  Speaker 6: I remember, uh we had that long drive and uh
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  Speaker 6: though those guys out there tired, you know, and then
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  Speaker 6: I feel like it's a offense when you sense that's
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  Speaker 6: kind of like a like we sort of like a
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  Speaker 6: shark of blood in the water. Uh that's when you
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  Speaker 6: gotta go out there and attack and uh make the
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  Speaker 6: most out of it.