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  Speaker 1: All right, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: Are you excited for your first Monday night football game?
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  Speaker 3: I am, yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be exciting,
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  Speaker 3: first one here and uh what's what what year since
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  Speaker 3: twenty eleven, which is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, we're really excited.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's another game at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, just different day, different different time of day.
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  Speaker 1: So but now it's gonna be exciting.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure the city's pumped and hopefully get a nice
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  Speaker 3: big crowd, get rowdy over here.
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  Speaker 1: It would be fun.
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  Speaker 4: Now start.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, uh, you know, I don't know exactly
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  Speaker 3: what the process is on deciding who plays those games,
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  Speaker 3: you know, before the season starts, but I think it
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  Speaker 3: shows that we're, you know, a team that's playing well,
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  Speaker 3: that you know, had a little bit of success last
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  Speaker 3: year and has earned an opportunity to play on one
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  Speaker 3: of the bigger stages, which which is cool to be
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  Speaker 3: recognized in that light. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: still got a job to do and take care of
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  Speaker 3: business on Monday is the only thing we're thinking about
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  Speaker 3: is just finding a way to win the game. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, we gotta we got to maximize the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: and take advantage of it. But doesn't change anything. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we might just have some more people watching the game.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a night game and it's on Monday. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that's the only difference. But same job, same task.
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  Speaker 5: For us, closing stretch last season with.
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  Speaker 2: A team that you need time to, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: learn each other, get know each.
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  Speaker 1: Other the whole deal.
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  Speaker 2: How much confidence does that give you for the stretch
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  Speaker 2: that you're facing this year.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it gives you some confidence because this team
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  Speaker 3: made up of you know, a lot of the same guys.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, we have some new pieces, some rookies and
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  Speaker 3: you know, guys like Calvin and new additions in the offseason,
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that that that weren't here. But still have
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  Speaker 3: that that confidence, in that feel in the locker room.
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  Speaker 3: And we we also know you can't carry that over.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's not gonna win games for you this year,
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  Speaker 3: but I think it is. You know, there is some
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  Speaker 3: confidence that you carry with you know what these games mean.
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  Speaker 3: And we know we were in this position or a
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  Speaker 3: different position, but in a position last year where you know,
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  Speaker 3: from the halfway point of the season on, every game
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  Speaker 3: was was a must win for us, and that was
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  Speaker 3: the sense of urgency in the field that we had,
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  Speaker 3: and so I think there's something to be said. That's
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  Speaker 3: something we've talked about, is keeping that every week, regardless
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  Speaker 3: of you know, maybe this year we're in a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a better position because we started we started
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  Speaker 3: off the first half the season better, but still keeping
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  Speaker 3: that same sense of urgency.
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  Speaker 1: They're all must win games.
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  Speaker 3: Every game is is huge, and it's about setting yourself
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  Speaker 3: up for for the postseason and and so on. So
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  Speaker 3: we understand that every game does matter. It really does,
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  Speaker 3: especially at the end of the season when everyone's fighting,
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  Speaker 3: scratching a claw on for these wins.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we we know the sense of urgency.
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  Speaker 5: About this fourteen horse race for the for the number
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  Speaker 5: one seed. I mean, everybody's got three losses, you know,
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  Speaker 5: all kinds of different tie breakers and scenarios, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: you Kansas City, Baltimore, and Miami, they're all either eighty.
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  Speaker 2: Three or nine to three.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's virtually it's a virtual toss up
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  Speaker 5: as far as who's gonna end up with the number
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  Speaker 5: one seed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we don't really talk about it a ton.
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  Speaker 3: We talked more so about kind of the position we've
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  Speaker 3: put ourselves in. You know, we've put ourselves in a
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  Speaker 3: position to where, you know, if you want to talk
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  Speaker 3: about the number one seed or whatever that is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've put ourselves in a situation where that's attainable. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we're right there in the mix. So I think that's
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  Speaker 3: something that we definitely we're not oblivious to that fact. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: we're taking it one game at a time, and you
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  Speaker 3: got to win one game at a time in order
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  Speaker 3: to get there. But we understand that that's a real
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  Speaker 3: that's something that's reachable for us and that we can do.
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  Speaker 3: But we know it takes you got to go one
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  Speaker 3: game at a time and you got to take care
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  Speaker 3: of business each week.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, the AFC is a tight race, and you look.
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  Speaker 3: At other teams, you know that maybe have five six
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  Speaker 3: wins or seven obviously seven wins all that, and they're
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  Speaker 3: right in the race too. I mean there's still six
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  Speaker 3: six games. I guess I think that's the most anyone
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  Speaker 3: has left is six games. But that's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: you can make up a lot of ground, like what
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  Speaker 3: you said last year, what we were able to do.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, teams are thinking that as well. So
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  Speaker 3: this thing is never I don't think anyone is technically
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  Speaker 3: eliminated from the playoffs, no team in the whole league yet.
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  Speaker 3: So it's still early in the year. I mean, we're
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  Speaker 3: getting towards the back half, but you can't look ahead.
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  Speaker 3: You can't get too far ahead of yourself. So we're
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  Speaker 3: taking it one week at a time. We understand what
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  Speaker 3: we can accomplish and what we can do, but you
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  Speaker 3: got to just take it one week at a time.
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  Speaker 3: You can't get too far ahead. You can't look in
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  Speaker 3: the rear of your mirror either, So being in the
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  Speaker 3: moment is is really big.
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  Speaker 2: You picked Big Brothers, Big Sisters in Northeast Florida. Why'd
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  Speaker 2: you pick them for your claes this year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's an organization.
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  Speaker 3: Me and Marissa have been working closely with this whole season,
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  Speaker 3: and we've been sponsoring this we call it the Sunshine
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  Speaker 3: Supper Club. Every week, you know, we basically sponsor and
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  Speaker 3: pay for a big and a little to go to
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  Speaker 3: dinner and just I think it's uh, it's over there
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  Speaker 3: at Morton, So we just pay for them to go
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  Speaker 3: to go eat downtown, have a nice steakhouse. Dinner kind
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  Speaker 3: of get whatever they want and just to get that
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  Speaker 3: time to fellowship and bond. And you know, we've both
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  Speaker 3: had mentors in our life that have meant a lot
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  Speaker 3: to us. And you know a lot of these these
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  Speaker 3: kids that are now some are kids and some are
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  Speaker 3: older and are still close with their with their big
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  Speaker 3: brother or big sister. Just that relationship and the impact
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  Speaker 3: it can have on kids that just need a need
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  Speaker 3: a friend, need a mentor need someone to lean on.
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  Speaker 3: And that's that's kind of our initiative that we've been
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  Speaker 3: trying to help with and bring some recognition to we's removed.
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  Speaker 1: From the boss the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 3: Can you say that that fueled you in any way
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  Speaker 3: or that you gained something from that that's got you
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  Speaker 3: with two wins in eighty three and didn't help it anyway? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think in this league you got to use games
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  Speaker 3: like that to make you better, you know, I mean
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  Speaker 3: you can't just one. I mean it can go two ways.
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  Speaker 3: You can need to make you better. You can you
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  Speaker 3: can kind of crumble from it. And I think this
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  Speaker 3: team has been really good at responding to adversity. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we definitely use that as some fuel and we realized,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're and I think we were in a
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  Speaker 3: good spot and we were taking it one game at
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  Speaker 3: a time, but still we realize, all right, we're not
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  Speaker 3: We're not all this and all that.
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  Speaker 1: We still got a lot of work to do. This
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  Speaker 1: a long season.
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  Speaker 3: If you come out here and don't play well, you
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  Speaker 3: can get beat and beat pretty bad. So I think
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  Speaker 3: it was just a wake up call. Every time you
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  Speaker 3: have a game like that is just kind of refocus attack.
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  Speaker 3: Each week it's its own week, and you gotta just
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  Speaker 3: prepare to do everything you can to play your best
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  Speaker 3: that week and win the game, and then you move
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  Speaker 3: on to the next one. You can't look at the
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  Speaker 3: big picture yet. You got to take it one week
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  Speaker 3: at a time. So I think that helped us refocus
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. And I know offensively, that was our
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  Speaker 3: probably our worst worst performance of the year, So we've
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  Speaker 3: used that and I think we've gotten a lot better
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  Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks. Still got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: work to do, but been a lot more consistent, much
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  Speaker 3: more explosive, making a lot of plays. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think it definitely made us better and it's going
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  Speaker 3: to help us down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: And you guys do in the locker room after Wednesday stuff.
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  Speaker 5: What does that mean you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, you know when I first got here,
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Then obviously it's the county that we live in, but
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  Speaker 3: it's just it's something that you know, players and fans,
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  Speaker 3: not not the only thing we have in common, but
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  Speaker 3: something that kind of brings everyone together. It's that everyone does.
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  Speaker 3: It's part of the city, part of the culture. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: just part of our fan base and like I said,
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  Speaker 3: the city and who we are, and I think that's
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  Speaker 3: something that no matter who you are, Like you see
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  Speaker 3: someone in the street, someone yells at and you yell
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  Speaker 3: it back. All those things and the people doing in
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  Speaker 3: the stadium in post game, I think it just connects,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the players, the coaches, everyone, the fans, everyone
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  Speaker 3: in the city together because it's something that we can
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  Speaker 3: all rally around.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously our team is that as well.
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  Speaker 3: But just having something like that that everyone knows, everyone's
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  Speaker 3: a part of. Everyone that's not in this community doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really understand it. I think that makes it kind of
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  Speaker 3: cool too, is like people are like, why are they
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  Speaker 3: doing that? You know, but it's people that are here
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  Speaker 3: here know and understand like it means a lot, and
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  Speaker 3: it means a lot to the city.
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  Speaker 5: Why do you think the passing game is sort of
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  Speaker 5: you know, gelled clicking.
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  Speaker 3: The last couple of games, it seems like you guys
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  Speaker 3: are getting on the same page. Yeah, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as the season goes on, we've just built more and
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  Speaker 3: more chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've been more consistent all around.
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  Speaker 3: I think every position, myself included, we've just been playing
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  Speaker 3: better the last few weeks, and we've been able to
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  Speaker 3: capitalize on some shots down the field take advantage of
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  Speaker 3: some of those looks that maybe are in this Earlier
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  Speaker 3: in the season we weren't able to for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe it's a misthrow, maybe it was a drop,
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  Speaker 3: maybe it's protection. You know, any of those things can
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  Speaker 3: happen that prevent plays from being successful. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think we've just been able to capitalize on more
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  Speaker 3: of those the last two weeks and got to continue
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  Speaker 3: to find ways to do that. I think we've our
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  Speaker 3: run game has been really good.
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  Speaker 1: That helps too.
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  Speaker 3: We've been committed to that and the guys up front,
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  Speaker 3: I mean last week and against Tennessee as well, the
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  Speaker 3: guys have been protecting really really great. So the more
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  Speaker 3: we can do that, the better we're going to be.
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  Speaker 3: And like we talked about last you know, after the game,
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  Speaker 3: just giving those guys their their flowers because they're doing
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  Speaker 3: a heck of a job up front. So that makes
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  Speaker 3: it go. The O line, D line of any team
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  Speaker 3: kind of makes the game go. And you're gonna be
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  Speaker 3: successful based on how those guys play and that those
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  Speaker 3: guys are doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: We do you miss with Cam not being in there
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  Speaker 2: for the next four games or so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Cam, you know, aside from his play on the field,
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  Speaker 3: he's obviously a great player, can do a lot, really
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  Speaker 3: athletic good and protections all those things, but just a
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  Speaker 3: lot of energy, you know, he brings a lot of juice.
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  Speaker 1: He is.
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  Speaker 3: He's definitely one of the leaders up front. So we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to We're gonna have to fill that void.
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  Speaker 3: And Walker. Walker's into a great job. He's he's a
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  Speaker 3: heck of a player. He can do so many things.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously he's played guard, played left tackle, played
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  Speaker 3: right tackle. He's played almost every spot on the line,
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  Speaker 3: so very experienced. He knows what it's like to be
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  Speaker 3: a starter. But also to have to fill in and
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  Speaker 3: come in and be the tackle if Cam goes down.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's been some things in the past that
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  Speaker 3: he's had to do this, So it makes you feel
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  Speaker 3: confident having a guy in there that's played a lot
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  Speaker 3: of football, that that knows what he's doing, can kind
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  Speaker 3: of move.
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  Speaker 1: Around, can communicate.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, we're all gonna have to to bring
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  Speaker 3: some juice and kind of fill that because that Cam
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  Speaker 3: does that. He brings a lot of energy, plays with
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  Speaker 3: a certain swag about him that's just you know, a
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  Speaker 3: little bit different, you know, So he carries himself that way,
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  Speaker 3: and I think it's great for our team. So we
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  Speaker 3: got to continue to bring that and play with that
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  Speaker 3: edge even if he's not out there, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: he'll hopefully be back sooner other than later.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we got to find a way to do that.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I don't have any concerns about how
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  Speaker 3: the guys are gonna play up front. I think they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna do a heck of a job. Ezra and Walker
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  Speaker 3: did a great job last week when they stepped in.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, obviously it's just kind of a kind of a
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  Speaker 4: statistical anomaly, but Evan Ingram is a pretty good target
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  Speaker 4: of yours, and yet he hasn't found the end zone
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  Speaker 4: yet this year. But how odd do you find that
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  Speaker 4: that just for whatever reason, it just hasn't happened yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, I mean we haven't really.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I haven't thrown a ton of touchdowns this
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  Speaker 3: year anyway, so there hasn't been a ton to go around.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We've had some unfortunate things happen on some plays and
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  Speaker 3: whatever that is. I missed him on one in the
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  Speaker 3: game too, that I threw high in the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that was first second.
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  Speaker 3: Half, can't remember now, but should have had one in
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  Speaker 3: the game for sure, So I'll take that one. I
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: told him, was like, sorry, man, I didn't wanted to
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  Speaker 3: keep you out one more week, So no, he should
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: have had one last week and that was that was
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  Speaker 3: on me.
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  Speaker 1: So but it's gonna happen, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just sometimes, you know, you always have a
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  Speaker 3: plan for everyone in the red zone. It's never like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: this guy is the one that's getting the touches this week.
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  Speaker 3: It's there's a place for everyone, and sometimes coverage takes
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  Speaker 3: that away and dictates other things to happen. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 3: get pressure, sometimes you have to move, and sometimes you
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  Speaker 3: miss a throw or you know, whatever it is. So
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to put your finger on exactly what it is.
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  Speaker 3: But it would be nice to get him in the
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  Speaker 3: en zone soon. I know, you know, Evan's not really
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  Speaker 3: a guy that cares about that. He just wants to win.
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  Speaker 3: But of course, you know, I know he wants to
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  Speaker 3: get in there too.
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  Speaker 5: Your receiving court in general and your vertical the vertical
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  Speaker 5: threats that you have that your receivers have drawn so
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: many pass interference penalties this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, those are things that obviously don't show
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  Speaker 3: up on the in the stats. You know, it's the
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: the DPIs we've been able to get and those have
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: been huge plays. A lot of them been on third down.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: A lot of them have been on Calvin usually Calvin
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  Speaker 3: and z uh.
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  Speaker 1: Those those guys kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of got a knack for it and have done a
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  Speaker 3: good job of just you know, being physical, running their
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: routes in certain ways where it puts the DBS in
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  Speaker 3: a buying and they have to you know, either or
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: grab or hold or do whatever. So they've done a
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  Speaker 3: good job and that stuff that doesn't show up, but
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  Speaker 3: we understand how important that is and that that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of times keeps drives alive. So that's big, and
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  Speaker 3: the guys are really playing with a lot of confidence
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  Speaker 3: and flying around right now. You see obviously what Calvin's
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  Speaker 3: been able to do last few weeks, and we're in
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  Speaker 3: a great spot.
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  Speaker 1: And like what we're doing right now. Thank y'all.