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Speaker 1: Well, I was talking to Brandon um and I can't remember,
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Speaker 1: it's Brandon Sheriff and someone maybe e J hadn't ever
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Speaker 1: been a wolf house in their life. So that was
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Speaker 1: like a week or two ago, and I was saying,
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Speaker 1: we gotta go one day after the game. And then
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Speaker 1: last week it told him was like, once we win
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Speaker 1: on Sunday, we're calling a waff house. So Marissa actually
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Speaker 1: called and I talked to the WAF House about like
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Speaker 1: reserving part of it, and they're like, well, if you
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Speaker 1: give us the heads up, we can kind of like
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Speaker 1: clear some people out of one area and yeah, and
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Speaker 1: and have you got some spots safe. They did that
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Speaker 1: and it was great. We had like twenty guys there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so maybe the first reservational wolf house. It depends that
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Speaker 1: that night I got the Texas Bake and cheese steak
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Speaker 1: with hash Browns with cheese and a pecan waffle. So
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Speaker 1: it just it depends. Yeah, so so sometimes I get
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Speaker 1: the All Star. You know, it depends how I feel,
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Speaker 1: like the way that with a proper you know, what
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Speaker 1: is a mothered is cheese? Is that correct? I just
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Speaker 1: say cheese, but I probably should say say that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I hate off this waffle house commercial. But I know,
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Speaker 1: right when you think about where the offensive line was
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Speaker 1: in training camp, with the center spot, the right tackle spot,
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Speaker 1: and the left guard spot kind of all up in
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Speaker 1: the air, and Phil was just going to let them compete.
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Speaker 1: Sheriff is gonna be where he was, Cam was going
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Speaker 1: to be where he was. Could you talk about just
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Speaker 1: the development and quite frankly, the evolution of that group. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, just that group has been They've been great
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Speaker 1: all year and you look at just the guys that
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Speaker 1: have had to play the amount of different guys you know, Um,
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Speaker 1: I mean Ben was was starting at guard for us
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Speaker 1: the first five games until he got hurt. And obviously
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Speaker 1: Shatley's played a lot of ball, so it's not surprising
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Speaker 1: to see how well he's played. But still for him
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Speaker 1: just to always I mean, he's always impressed me how
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Speaker 1: he prepares and he always ready whenever he's needed, and
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Speaker 1: you know he steps up, whether that's at center, at
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Speaker 1: at guard, last year's center a lot, you know, just
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Speaker 1: whatever it is. You know he's prepared. And then you
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Speaker 1: look at same thing with with Cam. Obviously was was
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Speaker 1: playing great until he got hurt, and then Walker has
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Speaker 1: to step up and and be the left tackle for
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season, especially the type of season
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Speaker 1: we're having, the most important part of the year, trying
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Speaker 1: to make a playoff push, and just to see, you know,
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Speaker 1: how well he's played and just been ready. And then
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Speaker 1: even like you know, Saturday, just played lights out on
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Speaker 1: the biggest you know, in the biggest game that we've
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Speaker 1: had yet. So to see that, and then obviously Jowan,
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Speaker 1: I mean, Joan's had a great year. I've been really
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Speaker 1: really impressed, and just that's a guy I really love
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Speaker 1: playing with. Just you know, he's about his business, loves ball,
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Speaker 1: you know, sacrifices a lot for for the guys around him.
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Speaker 1: And you know, then obviously talk about Sheriff and um,
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Speaker 1: I mean he's I think he's, like I said, he's
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Speaker 1: brought he's elevated everyone's play. I think on our line,
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Speaker 1: just his attitude, his work ethic, Um, just how tight
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Speaker 1: that group is I think really has a lot to
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Speaker 1: do with just what Sheriff's been able to bring to
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Speaker 1: the table since he's been here. When you saw the tape,
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Speaker 1: you saw the play, the play that you initially weren't
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Speaker 1: all that down with, but when you see how that
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Speaker 1: play was Is that about as well executed play in
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Speaker 1: terms of the blocking just we're talking about the fourth down? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it was. I mean it was. It was
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Speaker 1: awesome to see just obviously the guys up front. I
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Speaker 1: told him in the huddle, I'm like, this is what
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Speaker 1: was it? Fourth and four inches not? I mean it
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Speaker 1: was like that. I mean it was that far. It's
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Speaker 1: almost like this is the one play for our season
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Speaker 1: right here. Get this, we win the game. And as
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Speaker 1: I told him the huddle, and just to see them
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Speaker 1: just mash the guys on the line of scrimmage and
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Speaker 1: even Zay if you see him come down and crack
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Speaker 1: the safety and seal it and then Travis to bounce it.
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Speaker 1: You know, those runs can kind of hit anywhere, and
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Speaker 1: Travis found the lane and just bounced it and got
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Speaker 1: the edge. And I mean when when guys do stuff
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Speaker 1: like that, and just I knew we were gonna get it,
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Speaker 1: when you know, everyone knew what was on the line,
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Speaker 1: um and I knew those guys were gonna we're gonna
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Speaker 1: come through. I mean, obviously you're the middle of the game.
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Speaker 1: You had to make that turnaround that you shut after
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Speaker 1: the game. You had no choice what to do. What
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Speaker 1: you did in the second half, looking back on the film,
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Speaker 1: are you any more kind of amazing? Even the team
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Speaker 1: did what you did in the second half. Not really,
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Speaker 1: I mean we just honestly we we made the plays
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Speaker 1: that were there and then a few you know, the
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Speaker 1: plays you gotta make too to win games like that,
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Speaker 1: especially when you're when you're down a lot um. And
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Speaker 1: really it was just a recipe of a bunch of
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Speaker 1: different things in the first half that didn't go our way,
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Speaker 1: and some bad plays by myself and um, just some
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Speaker 1: some plays that obviously you want back, but um, a
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Speaker 1: lot of things just where and then you look at
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Speaker 1: even the the punt that hit us like crazy, stuff
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Speaker 1: like that, you know, just didn't quite quite go our way,
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Speaker 1: and we just kept our head down and you it
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Speaker 1: was gonna turn. Obviously we had to do it quick though,
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of run out of time at that point,
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Speaker 1: but you know, it was good to get that drive
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Speaker 1: before halftime, to kind of get the spirits back, get
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Speaker 1: the momentum back a little bit, and then just tell
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Speaker 1: our defense that you guys, go get a stop. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna keep scoring. And I think we scored every drive
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Speaker 1: in the second half, didn't punting and so, um, I
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Speaker 1: mean that's that's huge. Obviously gives us confidence and you
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Speaker 1: don't you don't want to do that, but to be
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Speaker 1: able to win a game like that, it's really really special. Exactly,
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Speaker 1: it's the two point conversion playing. Uh yeah, I did.
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Speaker 1: I guess I just yeah, I did. So. Um, it's
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Speaker 1: a play where you know, I just saw the opportunity
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Speaker 1: and I figured I'd be a lot easier. No, I
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Speaker 1: didn't feel like there was any risk of that, knew
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Speaker 1: I could get it in, so I just took it.
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Speaker 1: He was he was pumped. You say, if you make
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Speaker 1: you make the player good. If you know that's one
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Speaker 1: thing is it's kind of a kind of a no noe.
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Speaker 1: You gotta make the play and make sure there's certain looks,
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Speaker 1: you know where you gotta be careful down there on
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Speaker 1: the goal, and you saw in the Ravens Bengals game
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Speaker 1: where that you know, that look kind of got returned
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Speaker 1: for a touchdown and you gotta be you gotta be smart.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's certain certain things you don't want to
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Speaker 1: do it against, and obviously the ball is the most
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Speaker 1: important thing, but you know, I felt felt confident in it.
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Speaker 1: And when you're out there playing and you feel something,
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Speaker 1: you know, the coaching staff is trusted me to make plays,
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Speaker 1: and um, I'm accountable for all that. What exactly is
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Speaker 1: the status with the thumb happen? It's got stepped on
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Speaker 1: one of I got sacked at one time in the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I got stepped on. It's fine, Yeah, yeah
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Speaker 1: he got me. He got me right on the on
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Speaker 1: the nail a little bit so, but I'm good. It's
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Speaker 1: a Kurt Schilling the bloody angle. Yeah, No, it's it's
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Speaker 1: not that it was bleeding super bad that I had
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Speaker 1: to get a raft, you know, for the next players
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Speaker 1: and have to come out. What are you playing in
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Speaker 1: the noise here? Teach you about playing noise? What what
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Speaker 1: kind of advantage did you have that you're not gonna
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Speaker 1: have a Kansas city And how do you get ready
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Speaker 1: for that? Yeah? I mean I think obviously the environment
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Speaker 1: and the atmosphere we're going to play in is one of,
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Speaker 1: if not the best, in the NFL. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: can't imagine it will be much louder than our fans
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Speaker 1: were here on Saturday, honestly, but that was when we
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Speaker 1: were on defense, not offense. So we played there earlier
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Speaker 1: in the year, but this is a little bit different.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's a playoff game, divisional round. Um, so
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Speaker 1: the stakes higher, so I expect them to be even
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Speaker 1: crazier and more packed stadium. But um, I mean, at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, you just gotta you gotta
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Speaker 1: go play, and you gotta make sure you communicate. That's
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Speaker 1: the one thing we gotta get in and out of
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Speaker 1: the huddle. We gotta get the line of scrimmage so
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Speaker 1: we have time to communicate because everything naturally takes a
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Speaker 1: little longer when it's loud. I mean, obviously not ep.
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Speaker 1: What can do it? Is that just something that you've
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Speaker 1: always been able to handle the dotage college, what if
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Speaker 1: you've had the pro or it's something that you work
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Speaker 1: on a practice fielder. I mean we work it. You know,
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Speaker 1: we have the speakers, you know, pump and we're on
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Speaker 1: offense and we're playing an away game, and you know,
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Speaker 1: you get used to it through college and then now
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Speaker 1: the last two years. So it's just something you learn to.
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Speaker 1: You learn to get used to and you gotta I mean,
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Speaker 1: you gotta win games on the road, you know, so
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Speaker 1: you can't let it be too much of an advantage
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Speaker 1: for them. You know, you gotta find ways to operate
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Speaker 1: and to communicate and to be on the same page
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Speaker 1: when it's really really loud. Um, and I think you know,
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Speaker 1: we've done a pretty good job this year on the
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Speaker 1: road communicating well, um, so that'll be the key again
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Speaker 1: and just making sure we're all on the same page,
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Speaker 1: go in the same direction and we'll be We'll be
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Speaker 1: fine emotionally. How are you different of falling into this
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Speaker 1: meeting at Arrowhead versus where you were week ten? I
8:05
Speaker 1: mean week ten seems so long ago. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: so it's ten weeks ago. So um, I think just
8:11
Speaker 1: you know, speaking of the team, I think we're in
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Speaker 1: a really good spot. We have a lot of confidence,
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Speaker 1: played a lot of football since then. You know, we've
8:17
Speaker 1: we've won a lot of games since then. Um. You know,
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Speaker 1: I think we've played much better this stretch than we
8:23
Speaker 1: did earlier in the season. So I think there's been
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Speaker 1: a lot of things. Same for the Chiefs though, you know,
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Speaker 1: they've they've they've had a lot of games since then.
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Speaker 1: And we all, I mean we we we got the
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Speaker 1: film is the film and you know what, you know,
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Speaker 1: you kind of know what each team wants to do,
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Speaker 1: and there's gonna be wrinkles and all that, like there
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Speaker 1: always is, and especially game planning for a big game,
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Speaker 1: but um, it's just about execution. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: the that's the biggest thing that comes down to, especially
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, is you know, they might have a
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Speaker 1: few wrinkles, but their scheme is their scheme, and it's
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Speaker 1: about who's gonna execute better, especially when you've already played
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Speaker 1: the team once, you know, so that's two weeks in
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Speaker 1: a row where we've played it. We're playing a team
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Speaker 1: that we've already played in the season. So I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: be interesting to you know, what the plan is. And
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Speaker 1: I feel like, feel great, but what we got in
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Speaker 1: so far and excited? Do you remember most what was
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Speaker 1: the biggest takeaway when you left Arrowhead from that game?
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Speaker 1: Do you remember, like we was there a play, was
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Speaker 1: there a moment that kind of knawed to eat a
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Speaker 1: little bit? Um? I mean, really just the way we
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Speaker 1: started the game. You know, we obviously you know, we
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Speaker 1: got the onside kick and kind of stole a possession
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Speaker 1: in the beginning and just didn't really we didn't really
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Speaker 1: make our possessions count the first quarter and a half
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Speaker 1: or all the way down to like the last two
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Speaker 1: minute drive. In the first half, we just didn't really
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Speaker 1: do anything with the ball. You know, our defense held
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Speaker 1: in there, especially early, and gave us some possessions. And
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Speaker 1: you know, that's the one thing I think we just
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Speaker 1: we left a lot on the table. Um. And you
9:41
Speaker 1: can say that every game, especially when you don't win them,
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Speaker 1: but you know, I really just feel like we left
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Speaker 1: a lot out there. And as the game went on,
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Speaker 1: I thought we played better offensively. But you know, when
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Speaker 1: you're playing a team like them that has a great offensive,
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Speaker 1: high powered offense that can that can score a lot
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Speaker 1: of points. And you know, even if if your defense
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Speaker 1: is playing well, you gotta score to beat guys like this. Um,
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Speaker 1: just when you got especially guy like Patrick over there,
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Speaker 1: so you know you're aware of that. And um, there's
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Speaker 1: definitely some stuff we left out there and excited to get,
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Speaker 1: you know, get another opportunity. It's gonna be fun. I mean, Truvor,
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Speaker 1: now that you've played in a you played a playoff game,
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Speaker 1: did did you learn something about how different it is
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Speaker 1: or how it is different that you think will make
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Speaker 1: a difference for you? This week. Yeah, I mean, I
10:23
Speaker 1: don't really. The difference is you know, you you win
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Speaker 1: and you keep going, you lose and you're done. So
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Speaker 1: there's that, there's that sense of urgency of just I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say it this way, but just
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Speaker 1: the desperation of doing everything you can to win the game.
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Speaker 1: And you feel that on both sides of the ball.
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Speaker 1: And that's It's that way in the regular season two
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Speaker 1: but it's just another level just because everybody knows. You know,
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Speaker 1: this is especially now in the divisional round. We're getting
10:48
Speaker 1: deeper and deeper in this thing. People know what's on
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Speaker 1: the line, and you just I mean, guys just willing
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Speaker 1: to do whatever it takes to win. And so there's
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Speaker 1: that level of intensity and you know, you know you're
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Speaker 1: gonna get everybody's best shot, so you gotta be prepared.
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Speaker 1: And um, I mean, but I mean, at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day, it's it's the same game. You know,
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Speaker 1: you play it the same way just because it's the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: You don't change what you do. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: we all know how big of a game it is
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Speaker 1: for for us and for Kansas City, and you know,
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Speaker 1: everybody not trying to change the guy if I want
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Speaker 1: to hit her here, But how much pride you take
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Speaker 1: in thirty seven and oh, never losing a Saturday game? Oh,
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Speaker 1: I mean take a lot of pride because we play
11:26
Speaker 1: on a Saturday again, you know, so maybe you know
11:29
Speaker 1: that would be you know, so, I mean, just it
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Speaker 1: is what it is. I don't really think about that.
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Speaker 1: I think about we gotta win this game to keep going,
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Speaker 1: to keep playing, to keep our season alive. So that's
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Speaker 1: what I think about. So trying to go thirty eight
11:40
Speaker 1: now if you want to put it that way, but
11:42
Speaker 1: you know about the that streak or whatever, just honestly
11:45
Speaker 1: kind of a coincidence that you know, I had Saturday
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Speaker 1: games on all three levels. But I mean, yeah, let's
11:50
Speaker 1: let's keep that going. That means we're That means we're
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Speaker 1: playing again next week. So um, that's the that's the plan.
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Speaker 1: Can you remember the last night we lost the game
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Speaker 1: as on a Saturday? What? I don't know, uh, middle
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Speaker 1: schools middle school football? Yeah, did he play on Saturday?
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Speaker 1: Maybe we probably played a championship, but I think we
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Speaker 1: won that, so yeah, I don't I don't remember. Sure
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Speaker 1: I've lost on Saturday at some point, But considering the
12:18
Speaker 1: kind of game it was Saturday, Um, was it tougher
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Speaker 1: to than a regular win to finally get past it
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Speaker 1: and say, okay, now we gotta I mean, was it
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Speaker 1: any more difficult? Yeah? I mean, honestly, I would say
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Speaker 1: not tough to. You mean, just the emotions to kind
12:36
Speaker 1: of flip the page and start on, you know, getting
12:37
Speaker 1: ready for this week. Yes, and no. You know, the
12:40
Speaker 1: one thing that helped is we had a little bit
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Speaker 1: of time. You know, we're kind of obviously gears are
12:44
Speaker 1: shifting and we're moving on to the next week, but
12:47
Speaker 1: we didn't know who we were playing yet, so you
12:49
Speaker 1: kind of pause and take a second that day and
12:51
Speaker 1: you just want to rest, you know, physically, but also
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Speaker 1: emotionally and mentally. I mean, it took a lot to
12:57
Speaker 1: It's just an emotional game. So you recover or you rest,
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Speaker 1: you kind of get all that back, get your energy back,
13:02
Speaker 1: and then you know, Monday, you can kind of fully
13:06
Speaker 1: dive in and now we know we're playing Kansas City, Um,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna kind of start all that prep and and
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Speaker 1: get ready for the week. So that that helped a
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Speaker 1: little bit. But I mean, yeah, when it's emotional game,
13:15
Speaker 1: that's what we talk about the guys. It's just like
13:16
Speaker 1: after the game, you know, you don't you want to
13:19
Speaker 1: take your pads off, because once you take them off,
13:21
Speaker 1: it's done. You're onto the next one. So you kind
13:22
Speaker 1: of just basking that moment for a minute, just because
13:25
Speaker 1: it is special. You gotta enjoy them, you know. I mean,
13:27
Speaker 1: that's a playoff win here, whatever, huge comeback win by
13:31
Speaker 1: one point. I mean, it's just it's a special moment.
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Speaker 1: You gotta enjoy it. But at the same time, we've
13:36
Speaker 1: got another game coming in in seven more days. So
13:38
Speaker 1: you know, we took that night and enjoyed it and
13:40
Speaker 1: had some waffle House and all that, but um, you
13:43
Speaker 1: gotta move on pretty quick. So two more times Trevor
13:47
Speaker 1: Duoga has mentioned, you know before that playing against Kancery's defense,
13:50
Speaker 1: they might not throw at the skises and different things
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Speaker 1: that you to kind of do the same stuff that
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Speaker 1: do it really well. Is that kind of how you
13:55
Speaker 1: see it? Yeah, I mean, they they're they're they're a
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Speaker 1: really good defense. You know, you look at look at
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Speaker 1: them every year and something we talk about, Um, they're
14:03
Speaker 1: they're one of those teams where and they get better
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Speaker 1: as the year goes on, especially defensively. You know, like
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Speaker 1: as as the year goes on, they play a lot
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Speaker 1: of different guys, so they're they're mixing up the personnel
14:12
Speaker 1: all that. And then as the season gets going, especially
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Speaker 1: games like this and in the in the last stretch,
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Speaker 1: you know they're playing at a really high level when
14:20
Speaker 1: they do a good job so um, and you know
14:23
Speaker 1: they did. They did some things that gave us some fits,
14:25
Speaker 1: you know when we played them last time. So we're
14:26
Speaker 1: gonna have to be prepared for all that. They do
14:29
Speaker 1: a good job of mixing up the looks, giving you
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Speaker 1: different presentations. Um, they just do a lot of different things.
14:34
Speaker 1: So you know, you gotta be prepared for all that.
14:36
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously Chris Jones up front thought about
14:39
Speaker 1: it last time we played him. He's a guy that
14:40
Speaker 1: can that can, that can wreck a game. So you
14:42
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta control him. You gotta always know where
14:44
Speaker 1: he's at. And then you know Frank Clark if he's
14:47
Speaker 1: if he's back, you know, assuming so you had a
14:49
Speaker 1: weak arrest, don't know there, but you know he's a
14:51
Speaker 1: guy that's really good off the edge. And they got
14:52
Speaker 1: other guys too. You know, the linebackers are playing well
14:55
Speaker 1: back end has been really really good, sticky and coverage.
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Speaker 1: They're they're good players, so um a lot of respect
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Speaker 1: for their defense for sure. Committe ad the Wives, it
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Speaker 1: was Alway Jackets. Was that Marissa's designed that her plan was? No,
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Speaker 1: I think it was Morgan Arnold's. I think so. I
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Speaker 1: don't know Morgan's listening shout out to Morgan. I don't
15:16
Speaker 1: know if that was her. I think it was hers.
15:17
Speaker 1: I know that she kind of, you know, Merissa went
15:20
Speaker 1: over there and they she helped make them, but it
15:21
Speaker 1: was Morgan. Is that Morgan's house and she was only
15:24
Speaker 1: kind of got everything organized, So um, I think it
15:27
Speaker 1: was I think it was Morgan. I think I think so, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's getting detailed. I think they did themselves. They were
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Speaker 1: from Michael's alright, they go