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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "It Takes a Lot of Perseverance To Go and Finish Those Games." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Rest of the league at all or anything.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how other people will take it, but
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. I think it's this was a
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  Speaker 1: huge division game. You look at you know how well
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  Speaker 1: Houston's been playing. They're kind of they're kind of nipping
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  Speaker 1: our at our heels in the division.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a big game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they win this game, we're all square, and
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  Speaker 1: they they beat us twice to their first place in
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  Speaker 1: the division, and we don't really control our own destiny anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you do what other senses, you know, wild
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  Speaker 1: card and all those things big picture, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: for us to be able to continue to control our
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  Speaker 1: own destiny, and it's up to us and how we play,
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  Speaker 1: and we just keep winning, we don't have anything to
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  Speaker 1: worry about. We're gonna find ourselves in a good spot.
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  Speaker 1: So I think in that sense, it's a huge game
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  Speaker 1: and send a message you. I don't really know about that,
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  Speaker 1: but I just think that to take more control of
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  Speaker 1: this division and to take that next step and solidify ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a huge game, and we did a
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  Speaker 1: great job of find a way to win.
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  Speaker 2: Don talked about how you guys did learn how to
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  Speaker 2: finish games.
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  Speaker 1: Is this an example of that and sort of what
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  Speaker 1: was it like kind of going back and forth throughout the.
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  Speaker 2: Game for that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, this is a that's a really good team,
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  Speaker 1: and we we anticipated it being a four quarter game
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  Speaker 1: going down to the end. You know, you never know
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  Speaker 1: how it's gonna go, and you hope you can take
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  Speaker 1: control earlier and make it a little less stressful on yourself.
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  Speaker 1: But those type of games, though, are important because that's
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  Speaker 1: the way games get at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're gonna get everybody's best.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's fighting or scratching a clawn to try to win
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  Speaker 1: these games to put themselves in a position, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for the playoffs and postseason all those things. So you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get everyone's best every week. So those are our
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  Speaker 1: games are and you got to be able to win
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  Speaker 1: those games, even though it's not pretty, and of course
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  Speaker 1: we you know, I feel like we left a lot
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  Speaker 1: out there and could have maybe taken control of the
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  Speaker 1: game earlier and put ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: In a better position.
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  Speaker 1: But it takes a lot of perseverance to go finish
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  Speaker 1: those games, especially when there's some mistakes and there's some
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  Speaker 1: things that happened, and you know, they made some huge
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  Speaker 1: plays throughout the game to really flip the momentum and
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  Speaker 1: stay in the game and then give themselves a shot
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  Speaker 1: and for us to be able to go finish like
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  Speaker 1: our defense there getting those sacks, because that was huge.
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  Speaker 1: So it's cool to see our defense be able to
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  Speaker 1: finish the game for us when when offensively we were
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  Speaker 1: moving the ball but kept kind of stalling out on
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  Speaker 1: the you know, fifty forty yard line in their territory.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we got to be better there and be
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  Speaker 1: able to close out the game. But it was cool
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  Speaker 1: to see our defense play great.
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  Speaker 2: Without Cam just have They did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Protection was awesome. I don't I don't think it got sacked, right,
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  Speaker 1: there's no sacks today, so those guys are playing their
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  Speaker 1: tails off. Obviously, we had Ezra jump in there and
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  Speaker 1: had to play the rest of the game, and he
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  Speaker 1: did a great job. You know, he's he's gonna help us,
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  Speaker 1: and it's cool to see him being able to get
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  Speaker 1: up to speed that fast and he just got here.
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  Speaker 2: So they did.
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  Speaker 1: They did a heck of a job obviously stepping in
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  Speaker 1: for Cam. You know, hopefully, hopefully he's all all as well.
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  Speaker 1: With with Cam, you know, definitely praying for him and
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  Speaker 1: hope it's nothing major. But you know that guy brings
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  Speaker 1: a lot of energy and worked hard to get back
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  Speaker 1: from injuries in the past, so you kind of hate
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  Speaker 1: it for him, So I hope hopefully it's nothing major,
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  Speaker 1: but you know it's it's cool to see those guys
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  Speaker 1: step up and be able to shuffle around and still
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  Speaker 1: play well. And protection was awesome, ran the ball great
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  Speaker 1: when we needed to, it was great.
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  Speaker 2: It how point in the first half there, But how
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  Speaker 2: did that moment? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think so obviously that's a huge play for them,
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  Speaker 1: You know that, you know, we went from trying to
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  Speaker 1: think how that whole thing went down. I think they
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  Speaker 1: missed the kick, so they're thinking they're gonna get three points.
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  Speaker 1: They missed the kick, We get an opportunity, hit a
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  Speaker 1: couple of plays, then we hit a big one to
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  Speaker 1: Christian almost scores and there's still a second left, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we we took our shot and tried
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  Speaker 1: to score and get seven, especially getting the ball out
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  Speaker 1: of halftime. So that's the potentially a fourteen point swing
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  Speaker 1: that you can get if you score before the half
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  Speaker 1: and then you get the ball and score again. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean that close. They made a great play on defense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think obviously you want to bet on
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  Speaker 1: yourself in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the one yard line.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go get Let's go get seven instead of three.
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  Speaker 1: So I like the aggressiveness. You know, we just got
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  Speaker 1: to find a way to get in. Yeah, that's tough.
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  Speaker 1: They made a great play. Got to give credit to them.
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  Speaker 1: And uh yeah, I think it's a big opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: a big momentum swing for us if we score that
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  Speaker 1: touchdown there you're trying to get that can stray to Calvin,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like it's there today and example for sure,
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  Speaker 1: we're getting better every week. You know, it's it's coming
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  Speaker 1: along with not just Calvin, but the whole offense.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting better.
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  Speaker 1: We're being more explosive, We're kind of moving the ball
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  Speaker 1: at will. You know, we're doing a lot of great things.
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  Speaker 1: We got to play cleaner, you know, too many mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: too many dumb penalties, too many you know, missed opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Still even with all the things that we did well,
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  Speaker 1: So we're I mean it's a lot easier, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: to get better and coach off a win though, it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot more fun anyways, So we know what we
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  Speaker 1: gotta do. We got to continue to get better. It's
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  Speaker 1: a week to week business, you know. We got to
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  Speaker 1: bring the same the same juice next week and play well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little slowed up on that on that inn
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  Speaker 2: because it looks like by the way you led him
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  Speaker 2: you expected him to be like a yard further. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a good question, Geane.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to get in trouble with anything I say,
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  Speaker 1: so I think there was, yeah, definitely some some contact there.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you gotta play the game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's things that happen, and I mean Steingley made a
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  Speaker 1: great play. He was actually covering our other guy's tub
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  Speaker 1: and Calvin and we got we got what we wanted.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know number five, I think maybe grab
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  Speaker 1: a little cloth there and held them up and they
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  Speaker 1: got the pick. They made a great play and we
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  Speaker 1: got to bounce back from those things. So we were
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  Speaker 1: able to fortunately because that could have been a big,
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  Speaker 1: big momentum swing and we were able to find a
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  Speaker 1: way to win.
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  Speaker 2: The game about just not just the day that he had,
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  Speaker 2: but making the plays in the end, you know, talking
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  Speaker 2: about Josh. You know, fatigue sets in. Pass rushers are tired,
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  Speaker 2: linemen are tired. You're chasing Stroud all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: But he was able to What can you say about
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  Speaker 2: what he was able to contribute to the win?
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  Speaker 1: Just like I said, the defense, you know, bearing down
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  Speaker 1: when we needed it. You know, I told one of
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  Speaker 1: the defense guys like, I've never seen a guy scramble
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  Speaker 1: that much in one game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's just you know.
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  Speaker 1: Getting around, finding a way to avoid rushers. And it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like we had good rush you know, the whole game,
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  Speaker 1: and he just kept finding lanes and kept extending plays.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure as a dB that's like the worst
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  Speaker 1: thing is when you're covering for like five seconds because
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  Speaker 1: he's extending plays and scrambling around. So you know, they
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  Speaker 1: did a great job offensively of being able to do
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  Speaker 1: that and extend plays. But then you know, our pass
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  Speaker 1: rush really stepped up at the end of the game
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  Speaker 1: and got some huge sacks.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you look at both those plays.
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  Speaker 1: To keep them you know, and almost made it, but
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  Speaker 1: to keep them out a field goal range and make
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  Speaker 1: that a fifty eight fifty nine yard er, that's huge.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you let him get some yards there
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  Speaker 1: and they're kicking a fifty yarder. That's a big difference.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean that won us the game, and our
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  Speaker 1: defense really stepped up when we needed him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I watched it.
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  Speaker 1: Yea, it was stressful when it came off his foot.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I looked short, they kicked it real
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  Speaker 1: high and then it just kept going. I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: think he made it and then thinked off that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's crazy how that happened. But yeah, uh, this great
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  Speaker 1: job by our defense keeping it, keeping him out a
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  Speaker 1: field goal range.
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  Speaker 2: From the outside.
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  Speaker 1: The way he's playing, the way you guys are playing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have a rivalry between you and CJ? Stroud?
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  Speaker 2: Is an exciting prospect for Is there something you get
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  Speaker 2: into it? All?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want the teams in our division to
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  Speaker 1: be as bad as possible, So no, I'm not. That's
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  Speaker 1: how I see it. And the way they're playing, it's exciting. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be some I'm sure some great matchups down
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  Speaker 1: the road. And CJ is playing, He's playing lights out.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing a great job. I mean, to be a
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  Speaker 1: rookie and to play how he is, I got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of respect for him. I know that, I know
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  Speaker 1: how hard it is. You know, I've been in that position.
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  Speaker 1: So he's doing a great job and it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: fun for for years to come, hopefully so.
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  Speaker 2: But no, I mean, I wouldn't prefer that.
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  Speaker 1: I'd prefer I'd prefer if, you know, the guy, the
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  Speaker 1: guys in our division didn't have good quarterbacks, it'd be
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  Speaker 1: better for us. But he's doing a heck of a
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  Speaker 1: job and shan keep getting better. He's still obviously young
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  Speaker 1: and a rookie, and to be playing how he is now,
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  Speaker 1: it's impressive.
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  Speaker 2: It's impressive to watch, and you know it's gonna be fun.