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Speaker 1: How do you platch that game, Like there's something specific
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Speaker 1: you do. Is there a show you watch and then
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Speaker 1: a process that you guys or what is flashing the
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Speaker 1: game to Not really honestly, I mean I think I
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Speaker 1: think it depends, um, but really just sticking to our
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Speaker 1: process what we do when we win, you know, watch
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Speaker 1: the tape like I always watch it road games as
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Speaker 1: soon as I can, you know, our our video guys
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Speaker 1: come around loading up the game on our iPads, and
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Speaker 1: I'll just watch it right there, um while we're taking
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Speaker 1: off kind of the first half of that plane, right
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Speaker 1: and just kind of take it all in, whether it's
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Speaker 1: to win a loss, play play well, don't play well, um,
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Speaker 1: just to watch watch it kind of put it to
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Speaker 1: bed in my own head, just so when I come
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Speaker 1: in the next day and we watch it together, I
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Speaker 1: know what we're talking about. I have my notes of stuff,
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Speaker 1: you know, where the stuff I need to work on,
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Speaker 1: or things that weren't really clean, that we didn't execute well,
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Speaker 1: like all all those little things. Um. So I do
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Speaker 1: the same way when when I don't play well like
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Speaker 1: this week, same process. I think that's important just to
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Speaker 1: keep it the same. You can't change your change what
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Speaker 1: you do just because you win or you lose, or
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Speaker 1: or you play well or you don't. So I try
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Speaker 1: to keep it the same. Um. I think after that,
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Speaker 1: I guess when you get home and that's all put
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Speaker 1: to bed, Like, how how can I decompress? How can
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Speaker 1: I kind of just move on and understand that Obviously
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Speaker 1: I didn't play a great game last Sunday, played pretty bad,
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Speaker 1: and it's just that's that's what it is. You can't
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Speaker 1: go back and change it now. Obviously I wish I
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Speaker 1: played better, and um, we all do obviously, so, but
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Speaker 1: at this point it's about putting everything towards Houston and
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Speaker 1: going want to know this week, I mean that's the
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Speaker 1: that's the key. Obviously, Division games, as we all know,
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Speaker 1: are huge, and that's our focus. That seems to be
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Speaker 1: out there about this past this game, this past Sunday
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Speaker 1: is actually no positive even know the result and the
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Speaker 1: mistakes that were made were not what you wanted. Uh.
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Speaker 1: There seems to be a belief that people seem to
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Speaker 1: be even more emboldened now that this Jaguars team is
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Speaker 1: pretty good, even though the result didn't reflected on Sunday. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously there's no uh, there's no what's it
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Speaker 1: called like this. It's not a consolation as far as
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Speaker 1: like losing by eight and that's you know, blusing by
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Speaker 1: one score. We didn't play well. Still we lost the game.
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Speaker 1: It's the end of the day. It goes in the
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Speaker 1: lost column, goes in a win column for them. So
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Speaker 1: that's the end result. But I think the positive is
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Speaker 1: you know, seeing how well we how well we can play,
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Speaker 1: and how good we can be when we when we're
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Speaker 1: we don't make mistakes and we don't shoot ourselves in
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Speaker 1: the foot, we don't turn the ball over, when we
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Speaker 1: play um in sync, when we complement each other offensively
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Speaker 1: and defensively. I mean, you saw us jump out of
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Speaker 1: that lead early, and it's just you know, being more
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Speaker 1: consistent in doing that throughout the game. We've done that
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Speaker 1: the two weeks before, that's kind of what we did
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Speaker 1: and you saw the end result. Then this week did
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Speaker 1: that early and just didn't finish. So we know we're
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Speaker 1: heading in the right direction. But it's just about consistency.
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Speaker 1: So this this did nothing to diminish the belief within
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Speaker 1: the locker room, not at all that this team it's
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Speaker 1: gotta it's got a chance to do some good things. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean we we really believe in who we are
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Speaker 1: and and the talent we have. But not even not
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Speaker 1: even the talent. Obviously, you have to have talent to
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Speaker 1: be a good team in this league and everybody does.
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Speaker 1: But um, it's really the way we work, the way
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Speaker 1: we prepare, our process. We trust that and it's it's
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Speaker 1: been paying off for us. And the same thing Sunday.
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Speaker 1: We were prepared, we just didn't execute, and that's you know,
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Speaker 1: those are sometimes different for different reasons. Um, but I
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Speaker 1: think just we've trust our we've trusted our process, and
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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's worked well for us. And obviously,
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Speaker 1: just like I said, continuing to be more consistent though
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Speaker 1: moving forward team and going quardback. Is that the hardest
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Speaker 1: thing to kind of get all over as things kind
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Speaker 1: of go, you know, here and Lauren together for the
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Speaker 1: first time, I kind of thing to do coach. I
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Speaker 1: think that's something that kind of grows over the season. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's still early. You know, we just finished the first
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Speaker 1: what quarter of the season, so we still have still
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Speaker 1: a long ways to go to to get to where
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Speaker 1: we want to be as far as playing our best football.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the year, and um, that's the
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Speaker 1: that's the beautiful thing, right. I mean, it's the first
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Speaker 1: quarter of the season and we've played some some really
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Speaker 1: good football early, have played not so great at times too,
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Speaker 1: But there's so much to build off of good and bad.
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Speaker 1: So using all that to your point, using all of
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Speaker 1: that to be more consistent, to ride the highs and
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Speaker 1: to withstand the lows. The highs and lows of the games.
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Speaker 1: You know you're gonna have those. And obviously, like I
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Speaker 1: said on Sunday, when you jump out to a lead,
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Speaker 1: like how can we keep piling on and really take
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Speaker 1: advantage of that situation? And then you know, when we
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Speaker 1: go down they had a couple of scores in a row,
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Speaker 1: and we're not moving the ball on offense, how do
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Speaker 1: we bounce back from that, which I thought we actually
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Speaker 1: did in the game. So but then just finishing, you know.
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Speaker 1: So there's always things, um too, that you can do
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Speaker 1: to be more consistent. But it's just managing all the situations.
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Speaker 1: And we're a young team, but I feel like we're
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Speaker 1: getting a lot of great experience and we're just gonna
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Speaker 1: continue to learn. You are from where you kind of
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Speaker 1: where the beginning of the season in terms of your
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Speaker 1: developing the offense, your existency, that kind of stuff. I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I feel I feel like I've made a lot of progress,
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Speaker 1: especially from last year from where I was. Um obviously
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Speaker 1: didn't didn't play well on Sunday, so that's that's not
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Speaker 1: where I want to be. But if you look at
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Speaker 1: the year, you know, as a whole, I think I've
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Speaker 1: made I know I've made a lot of steps in
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Speaker 1: the right direction, and I know I've improved a so
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Speaker 1: continuing to build off that. Don't let one game affect
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Speaker 1: my confidence. You know, I'm still the same player that
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Speaker 1: went into Philly on Sunday and then still the same
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Speaker 1: player here on on Wednesday getting ready for the Texans,
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Speaker 1: So not letting that affect me at all. Um. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: I know I have to play better, you know. That's
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Speaker 1: everybody knows that your quarterbacks gotta play well to win
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Speaker 1: in this league and especially going down the road you know,
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Speaker 1: hopefully get into the playoffs all those things. Um gotta
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Speaker 1: play well. So I mean that we all understand it,
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Speaker 1: but just for me, Um, I really if I can
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Speaker 1: just stay consistent, keep making progress, and keep taking those steps,
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Speaker 1: I really believe in myself and this team. Consistency is
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Speaker 1: a hard thing. How do you hardly to like really
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Speaker 1: figure out how you feel like you're do you feel
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Speaker 1: like you're getting accents? Where are you going? And you
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Speaker 1: do what you did a lat of two weeks? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's different. You know, there's some things
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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of stuff that that people don't see.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's there's things that weekend and week out
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Speaker 1: that teams do that you might not come back to
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Speaker 1: bite you in that game, but then it shows up
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Speaker 1: and it all shows up at once, kind like it
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Speaker 1: did for myself, for for our team on Sunday, you know,
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Speaker 1: So that happens a lot, and it's just how can
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Speaker 1: you eliminate those airs? They're always gonna have some, but
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Speaker 1: how can you eliminate and minimize them? And for me,
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Speaker 1: I mean as far as just taking care of the ball,
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Speaker 1: obviously that's such a big part of the game. That's
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Speaker 1: how we've been successful in my opinion, especially those the
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Speaker 1: second and third game is the turnover margin and really
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Speaker 1: turnover margin time with possession and take care of the
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Speaker 1: ball and obviously having long drives and scoring like that's
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Speaker 1: how we've been able to win, and um, we know
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Speaker 1: how important that is. So just all those things. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to measure. I guess consistency. It's
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Speaker 1: a general term. But you all know, or we all
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Speaker 1: know as players when you're out there, when you watch
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Speaker 1: the game, what what that winning performance looks like? And
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Speaker 1: obviously for myself that wasn't it on Sunday, And um,
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Speaker 1: you just grow from it and you learn. You mentioned
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Speaker 1: the progress made this year. How is happing Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: in charge of the offense and the sort of the
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Speaker 1: things you guys do that the motions, all those kind
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Speaker 1: of things. How has that sort of made it maybe
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Speaker 1: to hear but you as a quarterback to make that progress? Um,
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Speaker 1: can you say the first part of that question against
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Speaker 1: s How does what Doun Peterson has implemented with this offense?
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Speaker 1: You know for sure? Yeah? I mean I think it's
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Speaker 1: like I said early on, is you know it's this
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Speaker 1: is a tough game for everybody, Um, tough game for quarterbacks,
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Speaker 1: for lineman, for white outs, for running I mean everybody.
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Speaker 1: It's it's tough. So when you can make it easier
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Speaker 1: by especially from quarterbacks perspective, if you can dress something
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Speaker 1: up make it look a certain way, and you can
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Speaker 1: formation and get someone open um just by confusing the defense. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: That's that's where you want to be, is to have
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Speaker 1: those plays where you know, we kind of foold them,
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Speaker 1: We get a ball out in space, guys uncovered or
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Speaker 1: guys five yards away, let him go make a play.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a lot easier than constantly just
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Speaker 1: trying to force the ball in the tight windows beat
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Speaker 1: guys one on one, which we can do, but still
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Speaker 1: if you can, if you can find those plays, and
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Speaker 1: I think our staff has done a really good job
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Speaker 1: of finding those weekend and week out, and I think
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Speaker 1: that's shown up a lot for us. Like Christian and
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Speaker 1: Jamal they are able to do those, you know how
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Speaker 1: they sort of helped you guys out it in that area. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's really versatile players that can do a lot of
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Speaker 1: different things. They're great with the ball in their hands,
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Speaker 1: run great routes, have a lot of speed down field. Um,
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Speaker 1: when you have guys that can just do a lot
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Speaker 1: of different things and you can put them in different positions,
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Speaker 1: that's the key. When you can move everybody around and
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Speaker 1: nothing nothing, No, two things look the same, might be
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Speaker 1: the same player that you come back to, but you
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Speaker 1: can make it look completely different. Uh. I think that's
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Speaker 1: obviously important. He's a questionable this week. But the last
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Speaker 1: time you played Derek Stingley junior within National Championship college,
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Speaker 1: just what type of players he and what does he
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Speaker 1: do well that might give you guys some trouble. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, shoot, that was I think he was a
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Speaker 1: freshman at that time. I think he was a freshman. Um,
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Speaker 1: he's a great player. I mean that was what three
8:45
Speaker 1: years ago, four years ago now, so it's it's been
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Speaker 1: a while, but he was a great player. I know
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Speaker 1: that year he played great and played really well against
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Speaker 1: us too, So I think just his coverage skills, he's
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Speaker 1: he's really good. You can tell there even as a rookie,
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Speaker 1: they're leaning on him a lot. So it's it shows
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Speaker 1: kind of that he's proven himself in the time he's
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Speaker 1: been there whatever that is camp and these first first
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Speaker 1: four games he's really played, you know well, and they
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Speaker 1: put a lot of trust on him. So that's you know,
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Speaker 1: that's what you look at and you can see how
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Speaker 1: their defensive structure works. And I know we played him
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Speaker 1: twice last year, so I have a good feel for it. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot of new guys on the back end,
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Speaker 1: so it's a little different. But um, I think he's
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Speaker 1: he's a great player and presents some challenges and um,
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Speaker 1: we'll have it. We'll have a good plan though. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: growing up I knew him. Um, I can't remember when
9:34
Speaker 1: we were really young, but yeah, he was in Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: I think he went to Greater Atlanta Christian in Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: So um, really good guy. Him and Walker are pretty
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Speaker 1: good friends. Played at Stanford together, so um, so we
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Speaker 1: both we both know him. I don't know him as
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Speaker 1: well as Walker, but yeah, he's a he's a good
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Speaker 1: guys stresses obviously winning good division. Um, I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you saw what Vegas has, he guys is their
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Speaker 1: early favorite to win Vision. I know it's early, fine,
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Speaker 1: Just um, what's it gonna be like entering this game
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Speaker 1: as opposed to the Colts game with with kind of
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Speaker 1: the target on your back? Now? Yeah, I mean I
10:09
Speaker 1: don't necessarily think there's there's more of a target. I mean, um,
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Speaker 1: I think any division game there there's four division teams,
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Speaker 1: Like we're all circling those games on our on our
10:19
Speaker 1: own respective you know, calendar is whatever you wanna call it,
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Speaker 1: So that's those games are always huge and and for US.
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Speaker 1: I know, um it's a huge game for US one
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Speaker 1: because it's the next one, but especially because it's a
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Speaker 1: division game. So um, it's a big game for US.
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Speaker 1: I know it's a big game for them. Um, they're
10:34
Speaker 1: looking to build some momentum. I mean there's there's some games.
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Speaker 1: You know, you look at their record and people want
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Speaker 1: to talk about that, but they've played really well, um
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Speaker 1: in some games throughout the season. Their defenses. I think
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Speaker 1: it's starting to catch on. So um, they're gonna present
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Speaker 1: some challenges for us. They play hard, you know, they're
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Speaker 1: flying around all over the place, and I know that's
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Speaker 1: obviously it's a big one for them. It's the division game,
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Speaker 1: big one for both of us. So um, you know
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get everybody's best shot. So all right, thank
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Speaker 1: you all for sure. Ta