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Pete Carroll: "I Love This Team" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We really had one thing we could get done today,
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  Speaker 1: and uh that was come out in and win this
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  Speaker 1: football game, regardless of what happened in any place else.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm so proud of the way that this happened
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  Speaker 1: because you know how you know me, I like them
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  Speaker 1: when they finished like this and as hard as it
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  Speaker 1: could possibly get all the way down to the nub.
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  Speaker 1: It took another two minute drive, and it took a stop,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and uh to get it done. But
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  Speaker 1: the way these guys hung and how tough they were
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  Speaker 1: and how they just did not give up on the
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  Speaker 1: chance to go everybody want to go for two thesiest
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  Speaker 1: decisions ever. I just thought it was a really impressive
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  Speaker 1: finish for us under the circumstances that we had. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, could we want two games today? Well, we
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  Speaker 1: try to win two games today, but we only had
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  Speaker 1: one shot. So I thought it was a stellar effort
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  Speaker 1: across the board to get that done. And these guys
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  Speaker 1: are playing good too, and you can see it. You
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  Speaker 1: can see why they get They got good players. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know how to put it all
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  Speaker 1: in the capsule here other than to say that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I love this this team and and I love the
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  Speaker 1: way that these guys play and and uh, I've told
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  Speaker 1: you that for such a long time, that they continue
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  Speaker 1: to keep coming back, they continue to keep believing, they
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  Speaker 1: stick to the to the essence of what we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get done. If you could have heard Locke talk
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  Speaker 1: to him in pregame and uh and before we went out,
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  Speaker 1: and and his words of wisdom about hanging together and
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  Speaker 1: playing for one another and it's the guy next year,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know that he was gonna call on
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  Speaker 1: everybody just like he wants us to call on him,
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  Speaker 1: and all of the principles that that are so powerful
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  Speaker 1: for a team. Locke was on it. And then and
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  Speaker 1: then here he did it again. We've been coming here
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  Speaker 1: for years. I think we've played sixteen times here since
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  Speaker 1: I've been been in Seattle, and I don't know, Locke
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  Speaker 1: must have made a winning touchdown in most of those
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  Speaker 1: catch and he made a great play today to put
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  Speaker 1: us out there and to give us the chance. And
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  Speaker 1: then he also capped it off with a great It
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  Speaker 1: was a great throw by g but also a great finish.
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  Speaker 1: On the two minute play on the back of the
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  Speaker 1: end zone, Gino found him and hit him and to
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  Speaker 1: give us a chance to win the game. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's my hero. I mean, he's just my hero. He's
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  Speaker 1: just been such a great player for so long and
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  Speaker 1: he continues to go on recognized probably around the world here,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. We know how good he is
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  Speaker 1: and what a great, what a great contribution he's made
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  Speaker 1: to this program. So go ahead, what do you got yea,
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  Speaker 1: we were we were close. We were we were we
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  Speaker 1: were close. As somebody was saying that we were close,
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  Speaker 1: we had there was so much time left one fifty four.
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  Speaker 1: That was the discussion in my brain was you know,
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  Speaker 1: deserve enough time? Can we hold them off from that
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing? You know? And and uh, we just
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  Speaker 1: scored too fast kind of so there was a little uh,
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  Speaker 1: there was a moment there, but there were so many
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  Speaker 1: guys and we all wanted to go for two. So
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  Speaker 1: it was really not a hard decision. No, we'd already
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  Speaker 1: talked about, we alread talked about before that. Yeah, said
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  Speaker 1: it was easy decision. Well, because everybody was on it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, everybody was for it. The guys Gino on
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  Speaker 1: the field and all those guys there and the guys
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines of the coaches, everybody was all for it.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't what I'm saying, It wasn't a difficult decision.
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  Speaker 1: It was just going for it. It would have been
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  Speaker 1: would have been fascinating to see what we would have
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  Speaker 1: done at the Bears one today. You know, we've been
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  Speaker 1: hold a whole different ball game. Maybe I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it was it was a it
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  Speaker 1: was exactly the right thing to do, and uh, and
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  Speaker 1: our guys took to it and executed beautifully perfectly to
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  Speaker 1: get that done. Yeah, yes, I did. Yeah, And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have a penalty today. You know, do you
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  Speaker 1: know how many times we've done that since I've been here twice?
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  Speaker 1: Once today and one other time somewhere about ten years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, but it didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like that today. It just didn't feel like that. There.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hear the explanation if anybody cares about this game
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  Speaker 1: enough to dig into it. But there was a substitution there,
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  Speaker 1: and we had a chance to substitute. And I'm running
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  Speaker 1: down the sideland trying to get time out and I
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  Speaker 1: and I was too far away. They couldn't hear me,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, and so they got a chance. We could
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  Speaker 1: have had an opportunity there because they did some you know,
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  Speaker 1: and the kicker came in. So that that was and
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  Speaker 1: they said that afterwards, you know so, but they'll have
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it and figure it all out and
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  Speaker 1: we'll figure out what happened with that. But it was
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  Speaker 1: a great execution by them to get that done. We
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  Speaker 1: had him covered the whole thing, but they still threw
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  Speaker 1: it and caught it. Their top guy makes the great
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  Speaker 1: catch on the back of the end zone. It's a
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  Speaker 1: great play by carl or so he went. He went
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  Speaker 1: around the numbers area, which which I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: he was across the numbers or not. He was out
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  Speaker 1: there and it was enough where you know, if he
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  Speaker 1: goes past him, he's got to come all the way
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  Speaker 1: back in whatever. So he's a real pro. He's such
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  Speaker 1: a pro. He's so far above the worry and the
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  Speaker 1: concern and being you know, jittery about stuff. He's so
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  Speaker 1: far above that. He's a fantastic competitor. He's proven it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he just proved it again and uh again.
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  Speaker 1: I think Gino had a fantastic season for us, did
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  Speaker 1: what he could do. We wish we would have done
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  Speaker 1: better around him. But I think he did his stuff
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  Speaker 1: and he showed his metal by how he could hang
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  Speaker 1: and no matter how difficult the situation was, and and
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  Speaker 1: he's done it so many times, it couldn't be more obvious,
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  Speaker 1: said games. And he's got a lot of flats for that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, is seventeen and sixteen as a starter since
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  Speaker 1: Rus left, that's just under fifty two percent. You've said
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  Speaker 1: he's one of your favorite all time guys. So where
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  Speaker 1: is win and win percentage part of the That's a
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  Speaker 1: good question. That's a good job. I ain't answering it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good job. What else you got? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I I have to think
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  Speaker 1: about that a little bit. It's a really good question. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: I don't I'm not worthy for the answer right now.
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  Speaker 1: Is it possible? But it's so rob and kind total playoff. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a freaking crusher. It's a total crusher because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's so many games in this season that we take
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  Speaker 1: with us. These games don't go away. And it's whether
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  Speaker 1: it's rams, whether it's h Dallas, whether it's it's Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's rams again. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, there's so many games like this that
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  Speaker 1: they just tear at you. That's that's what you have
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  Speaker 1: to live with because we've done the things we need
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  Speaker 1: to do to win those games and other games that
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  Speaker 1: we just didn't get that. We needed one more and
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  Speaker 1: we should have had three more to have the season
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  Speaker 1: that we could have had. We were capable of doing that,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm really disappointed about that, really disappointed because I
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  Speaker 1: think we could, we should have been better, and it's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: But even at that, those games are all as close
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  Speaker 1: as you could possibly get and as as you know,
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  Speaker 1: challenging as they could possibly be, and we were gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to come through. But yeah, we did. We've did
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  Speaker 1: it five times. We did it six times. Really we
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  Speaker 1: did five times and then dud it six times. Could
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  Speaker 1: be done it seven times? Yes, Yes, and we should
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  Speaker 1: have and we were capable and we were prepared to do that.
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  Speaker 1: She needed to get it done. Yeah, of course, of
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  Speaker 1: course I do. Of course I'd love to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I do. I do at this point. I do. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's just strikingly different because where the emphasis comes from
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  Speaker 1: the outside of us, you know, which happened last year,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the Packers in the Alliance. It was
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  Speaker 1: there again to be done, you know, and our guys
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  Speaker 1: did a great jot. I know, you guys asked a
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  Speaker 1: lot of questions about where is our focus and when
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  Speaker 1: we're watching scoreboards, and there was none of that going on.
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  Speaker 1: There was none of that going And so somebody said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: that the Bears had worn somewhere in the last two
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  Speaker 1: minutes of the game or something like that. It didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it would have had an effect at all.
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  Speaker 1: But the fact that our guys could just keep on
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  Speaker 1: driving and keep on going and come through we might
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  Speaker 1: to execute our tails off one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: let me share something with it. You. You don't know,
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  Speaker 1: we set our expectations for the way we block field
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  Speaker 1: goals back in the offseason, the effort that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to put into it, and the force that we bring
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  Speaker 1: when we probably we blocked one earlier in the year,
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  Speaker 1: and it's something that we carry through us all year
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  Speaker 1: long to keep sending the message how hard we come
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  Speaker 1: and how to help you're going to get your tail
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  Speaker 1: knocked off, knock guys back and roll them up. All
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  Speaker 1: of the things that we do those add up and
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  Speaker 1: they our opponents and particularly guys you know what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Guys have a lot of experience not they can see
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  Speaker 1: how hard we bring it, and that I'm sure I'm
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  Speaker 1: counting on that was a factor down the stretch. They
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  Speaker 1: knew if they didn't hit it just right, if they
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  Speaker 1: didn't block it just right, we're gonna knock that ball
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  Speaker 1: down because of the ferocity that our guys showed for
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  Speaker 1: so long. And it's just one of my favorite parts
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  Speaker 1: of the game because it's not something that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people, but to me, it shows the depth of
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  Speaker 1: your commitment to something that you don't get rewarded for
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  Speaker 1: and until you do, and today we did. That guy
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  Speaker 1: made four hundred and freaking one field goals in his
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  Speaker 1: career and he just didn't get four h two or
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  Speaker 1: four o three to day, you know, And he's a
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  Speaker 1: great player, it deserves to be a great player and
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  Speaker 1: recognizes all that, but not today, you know, and I
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  Speaker 1: think our guys had a factor on that. He did everything.
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  Speaker 1: You know, We've been talking about it all year and
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate that you guys have all been on
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  Speaker 1: that too, and respectful of how he has put this
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  Speaker 1: thing together coming back to us. It's uh, it's heroic almost.
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  Speaker 1: And that the way he came back, the way he
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  Speaker 1: answered the call, the way he was able to go
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  Speaker 1: seventeen weeks in his last uh tenth or tenth year
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  Speaker 1: exo means tenth year of football or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know how many how how many has
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  Speaker 1: you got twelve twelve years of football and he's still
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  Speaker 1: in the peak of shape and condition and performance and
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  Speaker 1: look at his numbers. I mean, it's just amazing that
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  Speaker 1: that he can do that. But better than all that,
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  Speaker 1: he's a great he's a great team member, and he's
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  Speaker 1: a great leader, and he's a great character. And he
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  Speaker 1: has proved it to you again. If anybody wants a
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  Speaker 1: doubt it, he proved it to you again. It was
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  Speaker 1: just a fantastic come through that and it really one
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  Speaker 1: of the points I made one more mentioned about because
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  Speaker 1: it was so special the first time he was introduced
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  Speaker 1: at our stadium. That was like the one of the
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  Speaker 1: most chilling moments that I can remember being in the
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  Speaker 1: years I've been here, of the response that everybody had
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  Speaker 1: for him coming back and thrilled that he was able
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  Speaker 1: to set a record this today sort of the kind
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  Speaker 1: of game and he must not be in close. This
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  Speaker 1: was this was okay, this was one of the best ones.
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  Speaker 1: But it was pretty good. There's smoking cigars in there,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't know. You wanna ask me that question, Chael,
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  Speaker 1: I need to hear what you're saying. I didn't get it.
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  Speaker 1: What else we were good? Yeah? He he he re
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  Speaker 1: injured his ankle. Yeah, and he and he you know,
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  Speaker 1: he barely was able to get back. He made it
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  Speaker 1: through the week and but he was he was tender
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  Speaker 1: on it. But he same ankle again. Uh No, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can think he he cracked a bone in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's good. You can see it.