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Press Pass | Lawrence: "We Haven't Won Anything Yet." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Way to go into league right, feels great. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what you know.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to one of the guys in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room, is like all week leading up to it, it's
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  Speaker 2: like before you're.
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  Speaker 1: By, you're just just find a way to win.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the worst going into a bye week, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: losing and then you got two weeks to think about
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  Speaker 2: it and sit around and ponder that one and get
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  Speaker 2: ready for the next one. But you know, it feels
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  Speaker 2: great where we're at. We also understand that we hadn't
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  Speaker 2: won anything yet. You know, we're six and two. It's
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  Speaker 2: a great spot to be in. We've been on a
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  Speaker 2: great run, but we gotta we gotta keep carring that
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  Speaker 2: momentum when we come back.
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  Speaker 1: You don't expect to win a lot of games when
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  Speaker 1: you have three three turn off on offense, well, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's a testament to us just making
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  Speaker 2: plays when we have to. I mean, that's that's never
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  Speaker 2: the formula. I mean, we talked about a lot going
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  Speaker 2: to this game. You know, this team that we're playing, Steelers,
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  Speaker 2: they're really good. When you if you have more than
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  Speaker 2: one turnover, if you give up more than a sack
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  Speaker 2: or two if you don't score, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's twenty three points at least, Like their record is
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  Speaker 2: really really good with when those things happened, and we didn't.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't do anything by that formula today. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we scored twenty points, had I don't know how many sacks,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a few three or four, had three turnovers
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  Speaker 2: in plus positive territory. I mean, but it's just a
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  Speaker 2: testament to our defense, for one, and then our offense
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  Speaker 2: being able to make the plays when we need them.
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  Speaker 2: And we moved the ball consistently all day, which was
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  Speaker 2: which was great against a really good defense. But we
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  Speaker 2: just gotta find ways to finish those drives. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I had a bad play down in the red zone
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  Speaker 2: that that can't happen. That took off you know, seven points,
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  Speaker 2: but at least three points off the board for us,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so I think they went down and they
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  Speaker 2: went down and scored on that drive. So just you
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  Speaker 2: know that that shouldn't happen. I can't let that happen
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  Speaker 2: being a quarterback, and I gotta be smarter there. But
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  Speaker 2: all in all, it's a great win. You're always gonna
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  Speaker 2: take wins in this league, and it was cool to
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  Speaker 2: see us fight and battle through the adversity.
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  Speaker 1: Even touchdown great rate. What did you see on it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we were an empty and uh I don't think
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we've ever thrown that battle the
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  Speaker 2: running back out there. Uh So, honestly got to give
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  Speaker 2: a lot of credit to Travis for staying ready, for
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  Speaker 2: knowing what the look was. They played a cover two
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  Speaker 2: and the corner jumped our ore out by uh I
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  Speaker 2: think that was Calvin at number two, a receiver there,
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  Speaker 2: So the corner jumped that. Then Travis was just rolling
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  Speaker 2: down the sideline and the safety really instead of getting
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  Speaker 2: high over the top, he drove as well. I think
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  Speaker 2: he thought I was throwing it to Calvin there too,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, got fortunate and I put enough
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  Speaker 2: air on it because that could have been bad as
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  Speaker 2: he had he had a jump on if I threw
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  Speaker 2: it flat. So you know, Travis making a great play
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  Speaker 2: down the field. That's a tough play for running back
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  Speaker 2: and him being able to haul it in and then
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  Speaker 2: go and finish it and go score. I mean, that
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  Speaker 2: was a huge play for us after we had I
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  Speaker 2: think we had turned it over right before that defense
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  Speaker 2: got a big stop and then we went and had
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  Speaker 2: that play with score. So that was a big, big
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  Speaker 2: swing for us right there. I'd ever hit him like
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  Speaker 2: that before, No, never, I don't think that's That's got
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  Speaker 2: to be the longest we've we've hit for sure last October,
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  Speaker 2: you guys zero and five, and then since then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's been thirteen and four in the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: Was drafted undefeated up October.
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  Speaker 2: Can you just talk about that turnaround and how maybe
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  Speaker 2: did it happen quicker than you thought?
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  Speaker 1: Or and just how far have you guys come.
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  Speaker 2: We've come a long way, just really in every area.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I wouldn't say necessarily happened quicker than you thought.
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  Speaker 2: I think we just we got So we've just been
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  Speaker 2: so caught up in our process and every week turning
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  Speaker 2: the page and just finding a way when when Sunday comes,
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  Speaker 2: whether we play great, we don't play great, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we have turnovers, we play clean, whatever it is, just
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  Speaker 2: how can we find a way to win the game.
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  Speaker 2: And whether that's our defense picking us up when we
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  Speaker 2: need it after a turnover, where that's us going and
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  Speaker 2: scoring after.
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  Speaker 1: The defense gives up a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't matter, and I think that mindset
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  Speaker 2: has given us a lot of confidence because we've seen
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  Speaker 2: ourselves win these tight games when the games that aren't clean,
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  Speaker 2: and we've won games where we've been behind.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've found a way to win.
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  Speaker 2: Last week in New Orleans, you know, when they tied
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  Speaker 2: it up and we had a big touchdown, then we
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  Speaker 2: got to stop on defense. So all those things just
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  Speaker 2: you know, pile on top of each other and build
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  Speaker 2: a lot of confidence in a team. And we got
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  Speaker 2: to keep playing with that and clean up some of
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  Speaker 2: the mistakes like always.
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  Speaker 1: But I love where we're at right now.
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  Speaker 2: But like the little terrible talk comment was taken out
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  Speaker 2: of context in Pittsburgh, Median fans kind of ing with it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you did what did you make of that?
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  Speaker 1: And what was it like playing in this environment and
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  Speaker 1: the hostile environment. You guys come out with the wind.
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  Speaker 1: It's good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean cut off the wind. That's the main thing.
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  Speaker 2: So it was it went, It went went well for us.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I don't I don't really care
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  Speaker 2: about the taking it out. I mean, I know fans
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  Speaker 2: do that. It's it's part of what makes this game great.
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  Speaker 1: Use fuel.
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  Speaker 2: You want to you want to hate your opponent when
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  Speaker 2: they come in and make it as hard as possible
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  Speaker 2: on them.
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  Speaker 1: And I totally understand that.
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  Speaker 2: I hope, I hope our fans do that in Jacksonville too,
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  Speaker 2: So no problem with that. Uh, you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: great that I thought we played pretty clean in the noise,
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  Speaker 2: minus a couple of things. You know, I thought we
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  Speaker 2: we communicated really well. Great environment. I mean, the fans
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  Speaker 2: were loud, they did they did a great job too,
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  Speaker 2: but just found a way.
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  Speaker 1: So it was great. As soon as you released the
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  Speaker 1: redsidone pick, did you sort of just thank.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I knew. You know, it was just
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  Speaker 2: a bad play by me. You know, that wasn't the look.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't the coverage, the look that we wanted for
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  Speaker 2: that play. And you know, when I got to the
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  Speaker 2: top of my drop and I saw one and two
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  Speaker 2: weren't open, I should have just thrown it out of
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  Speaker 2: the back of the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was was that first first and five
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  Speaker 2: from the five or something like that. I just should
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  Speaker 2: have thrown it away right away, but I kind of
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  Speaker 2: scrambled and then tried to throw one late to Calvin
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  Speaker 2: in the back of the.
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  Speaker 1: End zone and it's just kind of double covered there.
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  Speaker 2: So that's one that I know better and just in
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  Speaker 2: that moment, tried to do too much.
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  Speaker 1: Your team is the besial record in the AFC by
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  Speaker 1: a team not named the camp What does that say
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  Speaker 1: about this team? And is in your mind is this
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  Speaker 1: team was super Bowl contented? Means that we still got
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  Speaker 1: more to work for.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're not we're not the best team in
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  Speaker 2: the league, So that's you know, we still got more
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  Speaker 2: out there for us. That's all we know. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. You know, six and two, we played
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  Speaker 2: eight games, we got nine left. It'd be great if
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  Speaker 2: this decided playoffs and all that right now, but it isn't.
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  Speaker 2: So we know we got nine games left. And we
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  Speaker 2: also know last year we were well were we three
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  Speaker 2: and you know we were three and seven going into
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  Speaker 2: the bye and we made the playoffs and won a
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  Speaker 2: playoff game. So this is it honestly means nothing. It
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  Speaker 2: means that we've had a great start to the season.
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  Speaker 2: We're in a really good position going forward, but we
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of we got a lot of big
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  Speaker 2: games ahead of us after this buy and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of really good teams too, So we're just getting started,
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  Speaker 2: and we know that we know what's in front of us,
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  Speaker 2: so we can't look too far ahead and think we've
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  Speaker 2: we've done anything.
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  Speaker 1: This team has kind of figured out how to win
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  Speaker 1: kind of ugly games. Now, what what goes into that?
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  Speaker 2: How does that change where you guys figure that out?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure. I don't know the answer
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  Speaker 1: to that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's the best thing I'll give
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  Speaker 2: you is that we've done it.
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  Speaker 1: We've we've been able to do it so much in
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  Speaker 1: the past, and I think that we have that confidence
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  Speaker 1: of you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, whether you talk about the playoff game last year,
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  Speaker 2: or the Dallas game before that, or even this season
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans not playing great, they kind of have all
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  Speaker 2: the moment at the end of the game, we find
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  Speaker 2: a way to score. Like I just said, trying to
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  Speaker 2: think of the other games. I mean, Buffalo is a
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  Speaker 2: little different, but that was a one score game. Find
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  Speaker 2: a way to win. I had, you know, turnover in
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  Speaker 2: the red zone, a couple fumbles like stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think we've just we've just realized also to this league,
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  Speaker 2: it's not ever gonna be perfect. And I think teams
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  Speaker 2: that understand there's gonna be adversity and it's not gonna
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  Speaker 2: go clean. You can't get you can't get thrown off
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  Speaker 2: when something doesn't go right, because there's I mean, there's
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  Speaker 2: great players on every team, there's great coaches. There's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be things that aren't gonna go perfect for You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: make mistakes and you just got to be able to
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  Speaker 2: fight through it and battle back and play the next play.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we've gotten we've gotten good at that,
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  Speaker 2: and we've got to continue to do that while cleaning
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  Speaker 2: up the mistakes because you can't always rely on that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the ability to overcome them, because you're not
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  Speaker 2: always gonna be able to do that. Some teams, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some weeks are gonna play good enough and clean enough
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  Speaker 2: to beat you if you do that, so you gotta
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  Speaker 2: you gotta clean it up. But I love the mindset
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  Speaker 2: that we have. Thank y'all appreciate it.