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Geno Smith: "It Felt Like A Playoff Atmosphere" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You know, Mike touched up, but just topicks are for
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  Speaker 1: you guys, got and want to help and been all that,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you guys talked about that during the week.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted to get back to winning. Yeah, that was a
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  Speaker 2: big win.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I thought it felt like a playoff atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: Man. I thought the crowd was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Just felt like our team was locked in and focused
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  Speaker 3: the entire game.
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  Speaker 2: Hard fought game.
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  Speaker 3: I thought Arizona played really tough, you know, just overall
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  Speaker 3: our defense was outstanding, man, Leonard wrecking the game, the
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  Speaker 3: way Spoon was flying around Kobe, you know, getting the
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  Speaker 3: pick six, Man, that was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I really really lit up the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: And then I thought, you know, we were efficient, you
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  Speaker 3: know for the most part on offense. Obviously had some
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  Speaker 3: mistakes that we need to clean up, but overall, whenever
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  Speaker 3: you win the game, it's always a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: How big was just that last offensive drive. You completed
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  Speaker 1: a couple of passes on third down when he had
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  Speaker 1: this spat before and then Mike just told us that
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  Speaker 1: you kind of checked to the run by by Zach
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  Speaker 1: that got you the other one there.
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  Speaker 2: Just kind of how big was that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a huge drive for us, you know,
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  Speaker 3: especially you know, we had driven the ball just just
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  Speaker 3: to drive before and obviously made a terrible mistake down there,
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  Speaker 3: something I got to clean up up. But yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: was a big drive. We wanted to put the game
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  Speaker 3: ahead at least two scores. Our defense was playing lights out.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted to get those guys a chance to pin
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  Speaker 3: their ears back and you know, really get after collar.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I thought just driving the ball in
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  Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, eight minute drive, mix of runs, mix
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  Speaker 3: of passes, just big plays by everybody. I thought it
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  Speaker 3: was huge for our team and really speaks volumes to
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  Speaker 3: where we're become who we're becoming as an offense.
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  Speaker 1: Jays in the third straight game, he's been kind of
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  Speaker 1: good to j Avenus. What's he showing in.
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  Speaker 2: These past games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's getting open, he's catching the ball,
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  Speaker 3: he's doing a great job in the screen game. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's an all around great player. And I just think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the way that teams are playing us coverage wise, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like it's the ultimate sign of respect. Man. It's
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  Speaker 3: just playing a lot of zone dropping eight. We don't
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  Speaker 3: really get man coverage anymore. They're not really blitzing us anymore.
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  Speaker 3: So you know he's gonna be able to find those
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  Speaker 3: windows in there, and he does a great job of
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  Speaker 3: finding pockets in the in the zone coverage, and then
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  Speaker 3: if there's a scramble situation, he's always friendly. He always
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  Speaker 3: you know, finds me and you know it gets in
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  Speaker 3: the right spot. And I thought that helped us out
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  Speaker 3: to when did you start.
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  Speaker 2: To notice that shift and how defenses were playing.
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  Speaker 3: I guess really last year, but I I didn't think
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  Speaker 3: it was gonna be as much as it is now.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's definitely been been a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It's been like for you as an offensive player watching
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  Speaker 1: the defense dominant, not just dominated.
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  Speaker 2: The dude against highly voting offensive teams.
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  Speaker 3: Man, it just shows you we're building something here. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, we talk about complimentary football. We t talk
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  Speaker 3: about championship level football.
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  Speaker 2: When you got a defense.
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  Speaker 3: That plays the way they play, when they're shutting down
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  Speaker 3: offenses the way they're shutting them down at at the
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  Speaker 3: high rate week after week, it's gonna give you a
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  Speaker 3: shot to win every single game. We go out there
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  Speaker 3: and we play clean, We manage a time possession, uh,
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  Speaker 3: we do great on third down finish in.
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  Speaker 2: The red zone.
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  Speaker 3: Give those guys a lead to play with. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna be even even better. So I think our
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  Speaker 3: defense is is outstanding, and I think they can t
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  Speaker 3: can continue to get better, and I think they will.
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  Speaker 2: Depending only long enough to know. Seasons can change like this.
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  Speaker 1: But for a younger team that maybe a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, it looked pretty bleak.
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  Speaker 3: How big is a turning off of So yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: don't y you know, that's a great question. Honestly, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it was bleaked, you know. To be fair,
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  Speaker 3: I think this is what happens in the NFL. Man,
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  Speaker 3: you go through some tough stretches and you said it,
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  Speaker 3: you're we're a young team, but we got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of veterans and guys who've been through this type of
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  Speaker 3: stuff know that you just got to keep plugging at it.
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  Speaker 3: You keep got to keep working, keep believing you're never
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  Speaker 3: out of it. You know, again, we got a long
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  Speaker 3: ways to go. A six game stretch now going going, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, down down the stretch, and every game is
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  Speaker 3: gonna feel like a playoff game. Every game is going
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  Speaker 3: to count. We're learning lessons. I'm still learning lessons at
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  Speaker 3: my age and we're all all learning, so we just
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  Speaker 3: got to take take it all in stride and keep
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  Speaker 3: going past.
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  Speaker 1: The JSN to set up your first touchdown. Looked like
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  Speaker 1: they were kind of they were blitzed on that play. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of a perfect play call.
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  Speaker 3: Perfect play call, man, perfect play call. They were in
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  Speaker 3: the zero blitz. We were an empty at four by one. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at it like should I check out? And
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, nah, I mean if these guys engage, uh,
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  Speaker 3: we should. If I can get the ball to Jackson,
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  Speaker 3: it should be a big hit right behind him. And
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  Speaker 3: I thought the line did a great job at bluffing
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  Speaker 3: and then getting up the field. Jackson obviously catching the
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  Speaker 3: all had to break one tackle and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: being explosive like he is.
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  Speaker 4: They don't You said, they don't blitz a lot, but
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  Speaker 4: if they were bringing corners and safety's linebackers, they were
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  Speaker 4: mixing the sim pressures and gets you guys first hat
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  Speaker 4: what did you see starting to change a little bit
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  Speaker 4: once you guys had those first four drives out of
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  Speaker 4: the way, be able to take care of that a
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  Speaker 4: little better, because.
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  Speaker 2: I think you were sacked four times those the first
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  Speaker 2: couple of drives.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a couple of them were you know,
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  Speaker 3: just a four man rush and uh yeah, they got
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  Speaker 3: to me maybe once or twice with the sim pressure.
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  Speaker 3: I can think about the one that backed up. Uh
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  Speaker 3: they got to me on that one. But for the
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  Speaker 3: most part, it was just you know, us handling the
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  Speaker 3: four man rush and the twist and the stunt games.
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  Speaker 3: And once we got that, you know figured out. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I thought we were better in protection. Uh. They did
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  Speaker 3: call a couple cover zeros, couple that you know cost
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  Speaker 3: them ultimately, and you know, then they started to check
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  Speaker 3: out at zero. So I mean it's always that game
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  Speaker 3: of cat and mouse, and that's what I love. That's
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  Speaker 3: what I love about playing quarterback is you know, we
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  Speaker 3: get the chance to make the right call at the
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  Speaker 3: right time and help our team. Would you think that
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  Speaker 3: trobe Bryant's go to Marshall Lynch and the U zone, Man,
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  Speaker 3: please don't find 'em, NFL keep his money.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was great, man.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he did a great job jumping that route
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  Speaker 3: fourth down. And then as I'm watching him run down
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  Speaker 3: the sideline, I'm like jumping out of my seats. I
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  Speaker 3: tried to I tried to run down there and meet him,
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  Speaker 3: but just how hard he's working. You know, he's the
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  Speaker 3: type of guy who loves football. He's always around the
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  Speaker 3: ball making plays, and you know, for him to make
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  Speaker 3: that play right there, I know it's a special moment
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  Speaker 3: for him.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously there was.
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  Speaker 4: What was at State with first place on the line
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  Speaker 4: in the division, But what did it mean to get
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  Speaker 4: this one?
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  Speaker 1: Just given everything that was going on in the city
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  Speaker 1: and what you guys went through at your headquarters this leek?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was huge, man.
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  Speaker 3: I know our city was hurting for a couple of
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  Speaker 3: days without power and that's funny because they were electric
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  Speaker 3: to today and you know, I felt like they really
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  Speaker 3: brought the juice for us, and we wanted to repay
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  Speaker 3: our fans. We always want our fans to you know,
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  Speaker 3: be excited and be happy for our team.
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  Speaker 2: And the more we win, the more that bills. So
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  Speaker 2: we got to keep this thing going.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what was the mood like in there,
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  Speaker 1: like for you guys to snap the foty and losing
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  Speaker 1: streak here at home and kind of get this one
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  Speaker 1: in this way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the guys were excited, you know, everyone's excited.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, Kobe said, the best man back to work.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got another big game coming up. U.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta fly out, you know, East Coast, and we
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  Speaker 3: got to be prepared. It's the NFL. Every team's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be good. They're all gonna be trying to get wins,
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  Speaker 3: and we gotta come out flying next week. Anything else,
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  Speaker 3: thank you, thank you gusing me,