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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "I've learned how hard it is to win..." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: All right, if you want to kind of walk us
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  Speaker 1: through up my cause. Yeah, so we I'm partnering with
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  Speaker 1: Lift Jack's. So they work on the East Side, right
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  Speaker 1: here out east UM and it's really a cool it's
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  Speaker 1: a really cool initiative and and group where they it's
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  Speaker 1: like full service trying to revitalize the community. They focus
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  Speaker 1: on UM providing housing, education, health and wellness, and then
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  Speaker 1: they do financial courses and a lot of things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a really cool thing they do. And it's
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  Speaker 1: literally a couple of blocks away. You know. We I
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  Speaker 1: rode there on a golf cart last week early last
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  Speaker 1: week to go visit with those with those guys and
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  Speaker 1: talk to them about all the stuff they're doing and
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  Speaker 1: just talk about my cause, my cleats and you know
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  Speaker 1: why we wanted to partner with them, and um, it's
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  Speaker 1: really cool what they're doing over there, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's such a east Side is such an important part
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  Speaker 1: of Jacksonville, and it's right around the corner, and I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of times it gets overlooked. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's cool what they're doing. And just for me to
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  Speaker 1: be able to be a part of it, a small
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  Speaker 1: part of it, you know, I was looking for a
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  Speaker 1: really me and my wife are looking to get more
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  Speaker 1: involved in the communit me and um. This was one
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  Speaker 1: of the organizations that our team here with the Jags
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  Speaker 1: kind of brought to us and was like, because when
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  Speaker 1: we were looking at stuff for my cost my cleats,
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  Speaker 1: we were trying to figure out what we wanted to do,
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  Speaker 1: and they, you know, this was on the on the
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  Speaker 1: list of of different um of different things to look at,
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  Speaker 1: and we checked it out and we really love what
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  Speaker 1: they're what they're doing over there, and the fact that
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  Speaker 1: it kind of covers everything, like I was saying, education, housing,
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  Speaker 1: health and wellness, you know, financial literacy, all those things.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's cool that they it's really a full service.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to hit every part to revitalize the community.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's really really cool. Would you wear
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  Speaker 1: those like every week? Now? We can? We can wear
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  Speaker 1: them this week during the game. Yeah, yeah, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: wearing this week. So these are actually two different two
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  Speaker 1: different pairs of cleats, and you can see these are
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  Speaker 1: both right. Yes, it's the right foot, so I can't
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  Speaker 1: wear about at the same time. But um, yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: I can pick. I'm gonna pick which one I want
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  Speaker 1: to wear. I don't know yet. I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it depends what we're wearing. I don't know if we're
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  Speaker 1: wearing white or yeah, I could, I could do that.
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  Speaker 1: So but anyways, exact, yeah, same, exactly. It's just just
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  Speaker 1: painted and pretty sweet though. I like, I like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll wear them probably tomorrow on Friday. Yeah. Why have
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  Speaker 1: you guys been better in the red zone? It's no
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  Speaker 1: time to start. Do we guys still burn less? It's
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  Speaker 1: been a basic change. I mean, I think the one
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  Speaker 1: the one thing you look at is we're not turning
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  Speaker 1: it over in the red zone. And that's that was
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  Speaker 1: a big stat you know, early or I guess the
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  Speaker 1: kind of middle early the middle of the season was
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  Speaker 1: you know, out of four or five red zone trips,
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  Speaker 1: we had a bunch of turnovers inside the twenty. So
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  Speaker 1: obviously if you turn it over, that's a wasted possession
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  Speaker 1: in the red zone. So, um, we've eliminated those, and
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  Speaker 1: then um, I think we've been a lot better on
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  Speaker 1: first and second down keeping our it's because it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to it's really hard to score when you get yourself
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  Speaker 1: in in third and long in the red zone. Teams
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  Speaker 1: are just gonna kind of sit back, play zone, run up,
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  Speaker 1: make the tackle. You know you can get it. You
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  Speaker 1: get some yards and get some back, but it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to you know, move the sticks or even you know,
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  Speaker 1: to get an end zone when you're third and long.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we've done a good job of staying
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the chains um. And there's there's other things too,
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  Speaker 1: but I think those are the two main things. Spread
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  Speaker 1: Out talked about today about the spread out right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when you kicked the field goal, Yeah, but he said
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  Speaker 1: there was no doubt in his mind that you were
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  Speaker 1: going to throw that away if it wasn't there, because
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  Speaker 1: how many conversations had since the interception line we talked
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  Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, now we've we've talked about I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: not not necessarily a ton, It's just something that I've
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  Speaker 1: really thought about and worked on, especially in the red zone,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just constantly if it's not there, like what
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  Speaker 1: do I do? You know at that point in the game,
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  Speaker 1: it's so early, you know, the I mean that game
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  Speaker 1: even on Sunday, it felt like that was two separate games.
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  Speaker 1: The first half. In the second half, first half flew by,
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  Speaker 1: second half was forever and it's such a long game.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay to take three points there. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to trying to be a superhero, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: try to make a crazy play. Um, just take the points.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously you want to score a touchdown every red
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  Speaker 1: zone possession, but no one's ad in the whole season,
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  Speaker 1: so that's going to happen. And um, you're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: be smart. And I think that's something I'm learning and
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  Speaker 1: we're doing a better job of. You were in the
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  Speaker 1: Empatric Show saying that you appreciate winning you learn to
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  Speaker 1: appreciated when when did that kind of thing for you? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate winning one of the last season, or
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  Speaker 1: just that you figured out how hard whinings are to
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  Speaker 1: come by, And yeah, I think both. I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 1: the kind of the struggles that we've had the past
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  Speaker 1: year and a half, and um, I've learned like how
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  Speaker 1: hard it is to win in this league compared to
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  Speaker 1: college and just going back really through a whole career,
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  Speaker 1: and um, that was something I really appreciate because I
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  Speaker 1: know what it takes and you see how much how
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  Speaker 1: much work you put in and when you don't win
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  Speaker 1: or when you do win like a game on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: you're even more appreciative of the fact that you want
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  Speaker 1: because you know what it took to to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that even the other weeks you put
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  Speaker 1: in just as much work and you might not win.
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  Speaker 1: So it's you're really appreciative of really the guys that
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  Speaker 1: do it with you, the coaches, the players, and the
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  Speaker 1: amount of work that everybody puts in, because it takes
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  Speaker 1: a lot to win. You know, it takes a lot,
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  Speaker 1: so you take it for grant you back, Do you
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  Speaker 1: think granted being so uber successful in ultra Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean probably, And I don't think it's not something you
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  Speaker 1: consciously do. I just think you're so used to it,
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  Speaker 1: which is a good thing. You want to be used
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  Speaker 1: to winning. But at the same time, um, it's good too.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to kind of understand where you're at and
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  Speaker 1: have your perspective changed a little bit, and like I said,
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  Speaker 1: just I'm more appreciative of it, and um, we want
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  Speaker 1: to get back to that though, is where that's and
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  Speaker 1: that's I think that's where we're getting to. That confidence
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  Speaker 1: in every week, you know, one we have that confidence
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  Speaker 1: we can beat anybody. But where we're winning most of
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  Speaker 1: these games, and you know that's obviously the goal. And
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  Speaker 1: I really think that we're heading there. Since you brought
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  Speaker 1: up the sea word, sorry, since you brought up the
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  Speaker 1: seaward confidence, Uh, you think you snarl a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about people ask you about your commence because you're time.
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  Speaker 1: You're if I read it right, your compience is never
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  Speaker 1: waver from gay one last year. Well, I mean this year,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that. I mean, I think there's times
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  Speaker 1: where you're you know, there's you go through some trials
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  Speaker 1: and you there are times where you do you kind
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  Speaker 1: of have to like bring yourself back in or one
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  Speaker 1: remind yourself who you are. And I think that's part
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  Speaker 1: of having good people around you. But I guess my point,
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  Speaker 1: I know, you know we're talking about some of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff I've said is more so people act like I'm
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  Speaker 1: a totally different person like I was, Like I've always
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  Speaker 1: been this player. You know, There's been times where I
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  Speaker 1: haven't played my best and um, you know it's that's
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of part of my growth and my development.
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  Speaker 1: And I've gone through those those stages and I still
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  Speaker 1: have a lot a lot to learn. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: I've arrived at all. Um. I think this game is
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  Speaker 1: very humbling, so the second you think that you have,
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  Speaker 1: it'll humble you real quick. So um, but I just
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  Speaker 1: think that's the only thing is like people act like
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  Speaker 1: this is a new person, only this is this is
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  Speaker 1: who I've been, you know, and this is the player
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  Speaker 1: I am. And I'm happy. I've been really consistently performing
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  Speaker 1: that way the last few weeks on the field and
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  Speaker 1: showing that. But that's kind of the way my mind
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  Speaker 1: is working right now and keeping that confidence is just
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  Speaker 1: this is the same guy that I've been. Um, And
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  Speaker 1: like I said, I haven't always been this consistent the
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  Speaker 1: past year and a half. But that's that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: where my head's Upsae Sundays, Oh gosh, uh. I saw
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  Speaker 1: just just a couple of videos, not necessarily like a
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  Speaker 1: message ornything like that, but just of my family because
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  Speaker 1: we had my wife's family and my family in town
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  Speaker 1: for the holidays for Thanksgiving and just to see I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we had probably like thirty people at the game just
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  Speaker 1: to see everybody. Um, just so excited. Like the videos,
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  Speaker 1: everybody stands and like the last you know, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of players of the game, and then some of our
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  Speaker 1: family members that don't get to come to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of games, that's the one that got
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  Speaker 1: to come to. Like, that's that's super cool. And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them haven't even been to an NFL game
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  Speaker 1: before and that's like the first one they get to see.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a cool day and it all came together.
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  Speaker 1: It was like, and that's that's the way. It sucks
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  Speaker 1: having that many people in town when you lose, because
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  Speaker 1: then you gotta go and you gotta talk about the
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  Speaker 1: game and all that. But when you win, it's awesome
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  Speaker 1: because everybody got to be there and experience it. But um,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was it was really cool that was
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  Speaker 1: a game that everybody got to see. So yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, that's what my brothers. My brothers an artist.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't he comes to, you know, one or two
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  Speaker 1: games a year. They live in South Carolina, and he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't watch any football unless it' unless it's to me.
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  Speaker 1: I feel, sometimes watch it on TV or you know.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, I'd come to a couple of games.
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  Speaker 1: But I was like, you guys have fun. He was
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  Speaker 1: like yeah, I was. So I was like, okay, because
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't. I don't know what else. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what else we can do. That's about That's about
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  Speaker 1: as good as it gets. So I'm play for my
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  Speaker 1: artist brother. You should. I was like, that's about as
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  Speaker 1: good as a good. So yeah, in terms of the uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know you're not like huge into looking
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  Speaker 1: at social media. I'm sure afterwards, but the picture that
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  Speaker 1: I know Logan took of you, and then the one
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  Speaker 1: that Jack's social team has of you with the emotion,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people have been making a lot out
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  Speaker 1: of well, he doesn't show emotion, he doesn't get fired
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  Speaker 1: up on the sideline. And then also I guess they
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  Speaker 1: caught you when you were upset with the fourth down.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So for for you, I mean, how do
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  Speaker 1: you describe your emotions in the game versus you know
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  Speaker 1: this perception of like, well, where's the fire, where's this down?
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  Speaker 1: The other? Because you obviously you were outward about it
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  Speaker 1: this past Sunday. I mean, it's I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: I said I answered that, but I would say, just
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  Speaker 1: you know, think the way I care myself, especially standing
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  Speaker 1: up here after games, um, after practice, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: talking to you guys, I'm just always the same. I'm
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  Speaker 1: always gonna be really level headed, probably monotone, little boring.
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  Speaker 1: That's just kind of how I am. And in this
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  Speaker 1: I've already said it. Yeah, so that's just that's just
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  Speaker 1: how I am. That's what I care myself, and um,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that's the best way to be in my position.
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  Speaker 1: So that's I think that's that's worked for me in
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  Speaker 1: my career and kind of the stuff I've gone through,
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  Speaker 1: especially last year and a half, learned how to navigate
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  Speaker 1: and I've always been that way and hasn't um, hasn't
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  Speaker 1: what's it called come back to bite me? Now, that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of worked for me. So that's the way I
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  Speaker 1: handle myself, especially with the media. I think. On the field,
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  Speaker 1: obviously I have more emotions. I get fired up. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is a game we all we all play with passion,
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  Speaker 1: with fire. It means a lot to us. And so
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  Speaker 1: if anyone thinks that doesn't mean a lot to me,
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  Speaker 1: they're just there's wrong. So um, but I don't. At
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  Speaker 1: the same time, I don't have to prove that anyone
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  Speaker 1: I really care. It's about what the guys in locker
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  Speaker 1: room think, what the coaches think, and that's really all
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  Speaker 1: that matters. You know that everyone else they're not on
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  Speaker 1: the field on Sundays, they're on the field during the
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  Speaker 1: week practicing, So it doesn't really matter to me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: always gonna cary myself this way, and um, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the best way to be. So going up and
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  Speaker 1: get some lions this week. Just what have you seen
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  Speaker 1: from that defense and what are the challenges that you
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  Speaker 1: guys around to face. Yeah, they do a good job.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they've I feel like they've been playing, um
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  Speaker 1: really well, especially the last few weeks. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I just think that they're they're a really disciplined group.
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  Speaker 1: They're really physical. You can tell talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about um their coach, coach Campbell, you can tell they
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  Speaker 1: play with that energy, that fire, they're flying around. They
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  Speaker 1: got guys that just play really, really hard, and you
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  Speaker 1: see that on the tape for sure. UM. And they're
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  Speaker 1: a group that you know, they're they're a really good team,
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  Speaker 1: especially look at what they've done the last month. They're
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  Speaker 1: playing really well and and honestly they should have maybe
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  Speaker 1: had one gets buffalo the other on Thanksgiving too, So, UM,
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  Speaker 1: they're playing really well. They're dangerous group. I mean anyone one.
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  Speaker 1: If you have a team that talented but too with
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  Speaker 1: some momentum and you're playing and playing good right now,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a dangerous group and you gotta
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  Speaker 1: be ready and prepared and it's gonna be the same
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  Speaker 1: thing every week. But yeah, they're they're a really good team.
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  Speaker 1: Some parallels to this team kind of you know, bumps
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  Speaker 1: on the road, you know, the past couple of weeks winning.
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  Speaker 1: Just what have you seen from them in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the hard working or that that sort of aspect of it.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're sort of trying to run out a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, I think you know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know their locker room, their team there, you know, everything,
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  Speaker 1: Like like I know this team, But just as far
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  Speaker 1: as what i've from the outside looking in what I've seen,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like, honestly, it seems like they're doing the
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  Speaker 1: right way. It seems like they play with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of belief in each other. And like
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  Speaker 1: I said, you can tell just on the tape the
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  Speaker 1: way they fly around. Um, they're having fun. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: they have a lot of momentum right now. They have
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  Speaker 1: wont they want a few in a row and then
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  Speaker 1: had a really tight one um when Buffalo came to Detroit. So, um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're playing really good right now. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know what's going on in the building, but it
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  Speaker 1: looks like whatever they're doing is working. So they got
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  Speaker 1: something good going. What about their front seven stands out
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  Speaker 1: the most to you? Yeah, obviously, Aiden you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a he's a good player. He flies around. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's got a couple of interceptions on the year. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly how many, but um to too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's I mean, he's playing, he's playing really well, makes
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  Speaker 1: a lot of plays, flies around, um and just the
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  Speaker 1: whole group, even including their linebackers, and that too. Just
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  Speaker 1: like I said, play with a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of effort. They never quit, you know, they they fly
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  Speaker 1: around really really good. And you know, I'd say those
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  Speaker 1: are the biggest things, and that that makes up for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of things. You can be
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  Speaker 1: kind of in the wrong spot, but if you play
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  Speaker 1: hard and you and you make the play, you get
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  Speaker 1: there before they kind of make you pay for it, it
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  Speaker 1: it can cover up some stuff. And they do a
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  Speaker 1: really good job. They're well coached. Um, their pressures. They
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  Speaker 1: do a good job mixing them up, um all those things,
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  Speaker 1: so they're they're a good good defense. Okay, we're good,
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  Speaker 1: all right, thank you all