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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously the mood Monday, I don't know, because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see them. They had they had the day
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  Speaker 1: to themselves, uh to uh spend time with their families
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  Speaker 1: that are over here and things like that. But yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting the guys back in here, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're obviously disappointed. They're frustrated, just like like we
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  Speaker 1: all are. And and being able to go through the
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  Speaker 1: film and and really show them, I think the good
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  Speaker 1: and the bad and and there, and there's there are
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  Speaker 1: some positives you know, to to what we're doing, but
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  Speaker 1: it's those it's those little negative things they're just holding
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  Speaker 1: us back. The little mistakes, you know, some mental assignments obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the turnovers, things of that nature that are just that
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  Speaker 1: are just keeping us from I think being a you know,
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  Speaker 1: a much better football team right now. And and uh
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  Speaker 1: so they're they're disappointed, but you know, they're they're they
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  Speaker 1: are excited about you know, there's eleven games left, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously you know, we just got focus on
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  Speaker 1: one at a time and and prepare this week. But
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  Speaker 1: the guys are guys are in a good mood today.
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  Speaker 2: I know you addressed Andre Cisco's comments earlier in the
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  Speaker 2: week about it. You felt it might have been a
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  Speaker 2: little bit quick on the team. I was wondering if
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  Speaker 2: you felt like that was something you spoke about a
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  Speaker 2: team since then, and in some ways, he's almost a
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  Speaker 2: reassurance that a guy hurting like that, that is, it
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  Speaker 2: shows us how much his team cared about what's happening
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  Speaker 2: the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Andre is obviously a really good leader
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  Speaker 1: on our football team. And and you know, look, sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I'm guilty of this too. Sometimes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you you say stuff out of just emotion, right, and
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  Speaker 1: and it's hard to it's hard to not say something right.
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  Speaker 1: But again, I go back to what I said the
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  Speaker 1: other day. I just don't think he meant anything you know,
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  Speaker 1: demeaning by it. He's not pointing the finger at anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, because he's in that He's in that boat
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  Speaker 1: as well, just like we all are. So I get
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  Speaker 1: I get the the emotional side of it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And and but at the same time, I think I
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  Speaker 1: think we got to continue to, you know, just press forward.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he obviously will learn from this, and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, his teammates will rally around him. They're
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  Speaker 1: not They're not looking at him any different. You know.
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  Speaker 1: They want him to perform and play, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: he'll do. I have not and and quite frankly, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel like I need to in those situations,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just think that the team and and
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  Speaker 1: just just give him a couple of days to process,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and you know, and he was much
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  Speaker 1: better again today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: On Monday morning, Mike McCarthy, he talked about relishing the
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  Speaker 3: challenge of turning the Cowboys season around after their.
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  Speaker 1: Tough loss on Sunday night. Are you there? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: do you understand what he's talking about?
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  Speaker 3: Are you at that point?
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  Speaker 1: Will you're up for that? Yes? Yeah, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're one and five. We are where are
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  Speaker 1: we've We've as they say, you know, if you make
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  Speaker 1: your bed, you gotta lie in it, right and and
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  Speaker 1: so that's where we're at. And it's a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for us to to really turn this thing, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and again you just want to go out and
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  Speaker 1: play with football, you know, and and fight and scratch
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  Speaker 1: and claw and win a game, right and and try
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  Speaker 1: to try to get things going in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: So I understand, you know, where he's at, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and obviously where we are and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's why I feel like even today, the guy is
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  Speaker 1: being in a good spot and emotionally ready for another opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: What's your first impression of Drake? May see them one
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  Speaker 1: game now. I went back and watched him again this morning.
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  Speaker 1: There's some really good things on tape, you know, And
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  Speaker 1: and look, he's gonna a young player, understandable. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to take what he did last week and he's going
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  Speaker 1: to improve. He's going to improve. And I think you're
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  Speaker 1: going to see uh, you know, diferent quarterback on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: quite frankly. He's got a big arm. He's a smart kid,
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  Speaker 1: he's athletic, he's tough. He took some shots in that
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  Speaker 1: game against Houston the other day and came back and
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  Speaker 1: it's just gonna look, look it's I've been there with
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  Speaker 1: young quarterbacks and you just gotta it's it's a you
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  Speaker 1: just gotta fight through it, you know, and you got
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  Speaker 1: to keep working and and and there's some good things there,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he'll be a you know, he'll learn
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  Speaker 1: from he'll learn from last week and be much better
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  Speaker 1: in the future.
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  Speaker 3: I want to take you back to a happy memory
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  Speaker 3: against these Patriots, but you like it. You won the
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl with your team there at one and five.
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  Speaker 3: How do you take what you learned pushing your team
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  Speaker 3: in a Super Bowl to win a match and use
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  Speaker 3: it with your judge was to push him to win
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  Speaker 3: the game like this where your team's under the rest
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  Speaker 3: and really needs.
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  Speaker 1: A big team to keep it. Yeah, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: lean back on and think back on moments like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and obviously different situations. This is not
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, but it's still it's still the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots, and it's still a good football team, and
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  Speaker 1: and they're well coached, and you see all the same
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  Speaker 1: things back in this team that that you know, I
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  Speaker 1: saw back in eighteen going against them back then with
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  Speaker 1: you know, Coach Belichick team, and you know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's it's just it's the opportunity that that that's in
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  Speaker 1: front of us, that that is presented to us, and
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  Speaker 1: making the most of the opportunity, right just like it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't eighteen. Our team made the most of that opportunity
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  Speaker 1: back then, and the same thing today. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: you've got to make the most of your opportunity, you get
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  Speaker 1: chances to play, you play, and you play well, and
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  Speaker 1: it's about doing your job. And I think those are
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  Speaker 1: the parallels that I can take from then and now
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  Speaker 1: and really apply them to today.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you think you have to have an identity
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  Speaker 3: to win in this league, or do you win and
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  Speaker 3: then an identity gets formed?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because I think if you lose, that's also an identity.
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  Speaker 1: If you win, that's an identity. So internally we talk
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  Speaker 1: about our own identity, but I think on the outside,
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  Speaker 1: the public through the media, shapes and forms who they
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  Speaker 1: think our identity is. But I think that comes through
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  Speaker 1: wins and losses. So I it's it's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: yes question. I mean, I think both sides of it
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  Speaker 1: can shape an identity. But for me right now, where
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  Speaker 1: this team is, if we go out and play well
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  Speaker 1: and do what we're asked to do, we can work
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  Speaker 1: on we can work on that and build on that
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  Speaker 1: and then begin creating. Internally, I think our own our
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  Speaker 1: own identity as we approach each each game, moving forward
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  Speaker 1: into that point, what are you got? What are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to be?
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  Speaker 2: In freach? Just those simple whether it's three things or
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  Speaker 2: four things, The tenants that you're trying to push.
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  Speaker 1: Well. Number one, I think one of the one of
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  Speaker 1: the one of the things we need to be is
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  Speaker 1: a smarter football team, right as far as just eliminating
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  Speaker 1: some of the mental errors, some of the mental mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: and it could be penalties in the game, it could
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  Speaker 1: be mental errors and things are going to happen, don't
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  Speaker 1: get me wrong. In football is football. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: get beat from time to time, but don't beat yourself, right,
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  Speaker 1: and and so be a smarter football team. I think
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  Speaker 1: the other one is you want to be physical. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's mental and physical toughness. I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a mental grind, it's a mental toughness to play
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  Speaker 1: in the National Football League. You know. Each week, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: these players go through a lot, they put their bodies
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  Speaker 1: through a lot, and they're sore, you know, and they're
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  Speaker 1: they're hurting. And and so being a being a more
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  Speaker 1: physical mental and physical you know, from the standpoint of
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  Speaker 1: being a physical on the field football team. And then
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  Speaker 1: I think the third thing is just you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think about our conditioning as a team. I think it
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  Speaker 1: you know, being a being a a well conditioned team
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  Speaker 1: that's here as the season goes And this is not
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  Speaker 1: really related to X and O's as much as it
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  Speaker 1: is just your physical physical body, right, just stay in
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  Speaker 1: the weight room, stay up on your conditioning, don't let
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  Speaker 1: your weight get out of hand, things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: Right as the season goes on, and and if you
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  Speaker 1: can control those three things, well, I think being a
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  Speaker 1: smarter football team really makes a difference in the success
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  Speaker 1: that you have. You know, on the field, turns.
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  Speaker 2: You into space and changes defensive weight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we're going to take a look at some
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  Speaker 1: some things this week. You know, Tyson Campbell obviously potentially
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  Speaker 1: you know this week, so we'll see how he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: practice and make a decision later in the week. But
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  Speaker 1: you know that that changes some things, and it just
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  Speaker 1: adds another another body, you know, another really good corner
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  Speaker 1: that that can just help us. So we'll see, we'll
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  Speaker 1: see where he's at and then and then I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to get into a whole lot of specifics when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to personnel because I don't want to tip
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  Speaker 1: our hand on things. But it gives us some more
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  Speaker 1: flexibility to move some guys around and see where they
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  Speaker 1: can see where they can play the defense.
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  Speaker 3: They're coming up against one of the teams that has
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  Speaker 3: not scored over twenty five points this season. You guys
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  Speaker 3: have given up the important the third points in your
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  Speaker 3: last two games. How important is it that your defense
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  Speaker 3: can't shut down a New England Pageros offense that hasn't
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  Speaker 3: got going this season yet.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's important, and I think it's as important too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're scoring eighteen or nineteen points offensively,
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  Speaker 1: so you know they're looking at it the same way.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if we can keep them you know under
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  Speaker 1: twenty first, one to twenty might win the game, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the reality of it. So it
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  Speaker 1: is important defensively to go out and play well and
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  Speaker 1: try to you know, minimize you know, minimize the scoring.
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  Speaker 1: And then offensively that's our goal, right, Our goal is
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  Speaker 1: to score. So it's it's kind of a two headed monster.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we're up for the up for the
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  Speaker 1: challenge for the Royal Robertson Harris trade and who's ready
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  Speaker 1: to step they take those reps. Well, listen, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: let me just say, you know, I appreciate everything Roy
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  Speaker 1: has done for me and and this team for the
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  Speaker 1: last you know, three years. That I've been here, and
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  Speaker 1: as you guys know too, we had you know, we
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  Speaker 1: were heavy at DT and and it just the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: presented itself. You know, this time of year, team needs
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  Speaker 1: around the league to injuries play a big part of things,
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, it was an opportunity for him
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  Speaker 1: and obviously, you know, for us to to get something
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  Speaker 1: for it, and and he's been a big part of
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  Speaker 1: that defense. I wish him well, but you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's good for him.
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  Speaker 2: You start losing to some guys in the next couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks based on those same sentiments.
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  Speaker 1: In your record. Well, I'll, I mean, you're always open
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  Speaker 1: to conversations and phone calls, but I don't anticipate anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. On the Gibson situation, I should it was
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  Speaker 1: expected that it's a league thing. Honestly, it's still he's
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  Speaker 1: still on the Commissioner's suspended list, So we're waiting on
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  Speaker 1: the league before Sunday. Maybe I really don't know where
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  Speaker 1: that is right now. I just know that's the last
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  Speaker 1: correspondence I was I was given level.
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  Speaker 3: With Mason and Jordan Jefferson filling in.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you see the tackle of rotation
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  Speaker 1: without right. Yeah, I mean, look, it definitely gives them opportunity, right,
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, we we were excited about both players.
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  Speaker 1: I think both of them are learning learning the game right,
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  Speaker 1: learning how to play in the NFL, and so it's
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  Speaker 1: a great opportunity for both of them. I thought Jordan
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  Speaker 1: did some good things Sunday. Uh, you know, it showed
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  Speaker 1: some power and some strength. And then Mason, Mason's continuing
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  Speaker 1: to grow. He's a he's a he's a good athlete,
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  Speaker 1: he's a big physical guy. He's long just got to
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  Speaker 1: continue to work with both of them. So I think
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  Speaker 1: it's just for both of these two players, young players,
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  Speaker 1: both guys we drafted. I think it's a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for them to to really step up and and and
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  Speaker 1: take ownership in there and their responsibilities.
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  Speaker 3: A young guys that you're trying to get into the lineup.
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  Speaker 3: You're done five young players who are earning of.
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  Speaker 1: Time, not necessarily. Look, look we've got you know, we've
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  Speaker 1: got some young players on the roster who who've played.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think of another one, you know, Keithan
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  Speaker 1: Robinson has been sitting there, right, I mean, Dewey's sitting
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  Speaker 1: there Foyer. You know, so we've got we've got players there.
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  Speaker 1: We just we just got to get them healthy and
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  Speaker 1: and and see what they can do moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: Coach a lot of local interests in Lewis reseam. What
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  Speaker 3: does he need to do to get.
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  Speaker 2: Into a game this year and and what do you
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  Speaker 2: see for him in terms of progress.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, big day for him yesterday. Excited for him and
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  Speaker 1: and what he was able to do and people he met,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, for us, it's just you know, being
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  Speaker 1: on a practice squad, you never know you're you're a
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  Speaker 1: player two away from being being you know, elevated to
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  Speaker 1: the roster. So just continue to to work, work and
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  Speaker 1: embrace his role. We love his skill set, his talent,
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  Speaker 1: his speed, his physicality, he's got great size, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and just just learn, just continue to learn and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just just be patient. Opportunity will come.