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Press Pass | Jaguars Players Discuss Win Over Raiders · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Uh. More importantly, we got the win. I think that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think that tops everything off. But you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got the win and you know, tied to the record,
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  Speaker 1: just getting closer to breaking it. You know, next game
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  Speaker 1: we got Houston, another good team playing against a great
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  Speaker 1: defense that they got over there. So we're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to be on our details going into next week too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we every game, we go into
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  Speaker 1: every game trying to win first and foremost, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we all had to be on our p's and q's.
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  Speaker 1: Guys stepped up in a big way. Guys played a
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  Speaker 1: huge old Travis. I think we ran the ball very
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  Speaker 1: well and we continue to run throughout the whole game.
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  Speaker 2: And then Trevor made a lot of good plays.
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  Speaker 1: Parker stepped up special teams, you got trammed, and you
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  Speaker 1: had I think it really all started with Cam.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we try to create a contagious uh environment
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  Speaker 1: when one when one play goes good, let that be
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  Speaker 1: contagious and let that effect the next play, the next play.
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  Speaker 2: And then we come out on third. We come out
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  Speaker 2: on defense.
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  Speaker 1: We got an interception two plays later, so and then
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  Speaker 1: offense capitalizing as well.
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  Speaker 2: I think Truvor told me. They scored five.
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  Speaker 1: Score five times the last five drives or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: or got points.
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  Speaker 2: That's the momentum that we needed.
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  Speaker 1: Defensively, we gotta do a better job on getting off
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  Speaker 1: the field.
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  Speaker 2: But great team win. No, I was rushing.
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  Speaker 1: I heard it. Yeah, I mean I turned around. I
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  Speaker 1: heard the and I turned around. The balls on the ground, jacksman,
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  Speaker 1: I'm exhausted.
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  Speaker 2: Good ship. Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Is it's really nice that we gotta come together as
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  Speaker 1: a as a team.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta stick to what we do best and execute
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  Speaker 1: the calls that's being called.
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  Speaker 2: We can't do anything extra.
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  Speaker 1: If everybody does their job at a very high level,
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  Speaker 1: good things would happen. Good things are gonna happen. And
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  Speaker 1: we came out everybody's supposed to be. We stopped them
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  Speaker 1: on the We stop 'em first and second down. We
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  Speaker 1: stoped 'em on first down, came back second and long.
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  Speaker 1: We knew they would go on a lot of quick game.
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  Speaker 1: Coach called a hell of a play. Uh got our
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  Speaker 1: corner up there and he just made his play. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we needed. That's what we need all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what's contagious. Like let's be some y just
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  Speaker 1: do your job and make that contagious throughout the game.
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  Speaker 2: And if we can do that, I think we're a
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  Speaker 2: hard team to beat. I don't know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I he swung on 'em. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know.
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  Speaker 3: I think we've dealt with so many two minute situations
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  Speaker 3: with our offense before.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you can harp on it.
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  Speaker 3: I guess Bengals game, no Sam Fraang game, no Bengals game,
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  Speaker 3: no Sam Fraan.
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  Speaker 4: Game, Sam frag game, and the Carolina game.
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  Speaker 3: We've both gotten field goal range twice right before half,
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  Speaker 3: and so I think that preparation leading up to this
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  Speaker 3: two minute drill was no different. I mean, Trevor does
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  Speaker 3: such a good job to get us into field range
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  Speaker 3: every time, so I'm expecting you go out there and
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  Speaker 3: kick a field goal. And I think that's a very
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  Speaker 3: normal thing for me. Is I'm always going out there
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  Speaker 3: thinking we're going to kick a field goal right before half.
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  Speaker 3: We could have the opportunity, and so yeah, I try
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  Speaker 3: to stay away from everyone and just kind of gather
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  Speaker 3: my thoughts and my kicking nets on the opposite side
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  Speaker 3: of our you know, offense, kicking toward whichever way we're
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  Speaker 3: going and yeah, I just try and you know.
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  Speaker 4: Be with myself at that point. I don't want any externals.
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  Speaker 3: I don't any emotion of the game, whether we score
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  Speaker 3: touchdown on that drive or we take a whatever, negative,
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: It's that doesn't bother me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm in my present present mindset.
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  Speaker 4: Not really yet. No.
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  Speaker 3: We went out there and uh, like, you're looking at
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  Speaker 3: it and I'm like, crap, this is sixty eight yarder
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  Speaker 3: and so yeah, you look at it and it's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kick it straight enough, kick it long.
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  Speaker 4: Enough, and it goes in.
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  Speaker 3: And simply simply put, we're playing indoors and we're on
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  Speaker 3: natural grass. You kick it long enough, and you kick
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  Speaker 3: it straight enough, it's gonna go in. And so Logan,
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  Speaker 3: me and Logan kind of had like a one on
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  Speaker 3: one right before the kick, and I said it it's
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  Speaker 3: as ball as hard as I can. And usually when
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  Speaker 3: I tell myself that, I find success. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: went out there and just let it loose. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's when I play my best during outside noise in
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  Speaker 3: terms of trying to turn against you in a sense.
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  Speaker 4: Right, but never lost. How much does that you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, one hundred percent. I think I was just
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  Speaker 3: talking to Bucky about it, and this organization from top
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  Speaker 3: to bottom, from front office to coaching staff to players,
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  Speaker 3: has instilled so much confidence in me through adversity that
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  Speaker 3: I've you know, for the first time really in my
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  Speaker 3: career that I've faced. And so I think when I
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  Speaker 3: really sit back and think about it, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: they let me know how much confidence they have in me,
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  Speaker 3: it's forever and debted to this place, and they know
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  Speaker 3: how hard I work, they know how much this means
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  Speaker 3: to me, and for them to go out there when
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  Speaker 3: I'm obviously not performing my best and staying on the
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  Speaker 3: table for me is something I'll forever being debted to
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  Speaker 3: this organization too.
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  Speaker 4: But I think that kind of talks about what kind
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  Speaker 4: of culture we have here. I think you.
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  Speaker 3: Look at this win specifically today, and you think about
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  Speaker 3: everyone coming together as a whole and doing this and
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  Speaker 3: not doing this when maybe plays didn't go our way.
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  Speaker 3: I think that just speaks about the culture that from
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  Speaker 3: front office to coaching staff to players is building, like
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  Speaker 3: you see us, and we go out there and win
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  Speaker 3: that game and at the end of the day and
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  Speaker 3: win as a win, and so man I'm so proud
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  Speaker 3: to be in this organization and be a part of
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  Speaker 3: something where the culture and having each other's back means something,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's such a cool thing to be a
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  Speaker 3: part of. No, Like I said, I was just kind
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  Speaker 3: of in the moment when I when I'm doing that stuff,
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  Speaker 3: it's literally like you know, people always ask what do
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  Speaker 3: you think about before you kick? Well, you don't really
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  Speaker 3: think about anything, like you just you black out into
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  Speaker 3: a mindset of I'm relying on my muscle memory at
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  Speaker 3: this point. I think a lot of kickers around the
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  Speaker 3: league would say that, yeah, I mean I kicked it straight.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of just stayed left middle of the whole time.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't really draw much. My ball naturally draws a
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  Speaker 3: little bit if I hit it on the screws, and
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  Speaker 3: so you know, once Logan threw his arms up like
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  Speaker 3: he's done that to twice, now, I kind of had
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  Speaker 3: an idea that it was going in. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: you go so far back in that ball takes a
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  Speaker 3: long time for it to get there, and so you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to ever celebrate too early before the kid
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  Speaker 3: goes in. And so once I saw it clear the crossbar,
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  Speaker 3: I was obviously, that's when I knew it was good.
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  Speaker 3: It's tough for me to tell a lot of guys
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  Speaker 3: are taller than me too, So.
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  Speaker 4: Man, he was just happy for me.
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  Speaker 3: I think he just that was a really cool moment
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  Speaker 3: for not only probably him, but for me, because, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, I haven't you know, maybe I haven't performed
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  Speaker 3: as well as I should be, and I can take
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  Speaker 3: accountability for that. I need to go out there and
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  Speaker 3: make the kicks that I was missing at times. And
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  Speaker 3: so for us to kind of have that moment together,
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  Speaker 3: it was it was really cool. And like I said,
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  Speaker 3: that kind of just ties back to the confidence that
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  Speaker 3: he has in me, has in me, and it was
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  Speaker 3: really cool just to share that moment probably till next week.
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  Speaker 3: To be honest, there's probably something I'm not even joking.
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  Speaker 3: You and me, Logan and Ross are just joking that
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  Speaker 3: a guy round the league probably broke it before the.
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  Speaker 4: Game even ended.
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  Speaker 3: So no, but there's just so many talented Like I
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  Speaker 3: harp on this all the time when someone asks about seven,
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  Speaker 3: You're like, there's so many good kickers around this league.
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  Speaker 4: There's so many guys that.
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  Speaker 3: Are very, very capable of hitting that kick, and just
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  Speaker 3: all comes a matter of you know, when you get
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity seizing it. So I don't doubt that someone
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  Speaker 3: will probably break that record at some point. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: kind of as you grow, As I've grown throughout my career.
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  Speaker 4: I think one thing where I've kind of realized.
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  Speaker 3: Is as a specialist, not only punting and kicking, but
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  Speaker 3: just for your team, momentum plays are huge. I mean
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  Speaker 3: kicking kicking a field goal, maybe not one to put
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  Speaker 3: us up points, but it gives us momentum. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that was you know, I was talking to I
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  Speaker 3: think it was venture halftime, and he was like, man,
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  Speaker 3: that's a big momentum play for us.
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  Speaker 4: Way to go, and.
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  Speaker 3: Any chance that I can to just put points on
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  Speaker 3: the board for our team, I'm expected to go out
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  Speaker 3: there and do that. And you know, obviously I felt
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  Speaker 3: felt like I, uh, maybe had a part in the momentum,
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  Speaker 3: but not a not a not a huge part considering
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  Speaker 3: how many guys played their tails off out there and
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  Speaker 3: had a lot more to do with that win than
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, thank you guys.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah I felt I felt better, for sure, feel a
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  Speaker 5: little bit better after getting the win though. That was
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  Speaker 5: a that was a fun one, So definitely gonna feel
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  Speaker 5: a little bit better on this plane ride back, but
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  Speaker 5: it would be nice to rest up and get off
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  Speaker 5: my feet for a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: There's always a big hit. Something said that cams kick
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the first.
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  Speaker 3: Half sorted you guys made the leader of this team.
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  Speaker 4: Our kicker just hit sixty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was huge.
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  Speaker 5: And then you look at the end of the game
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  Speaker 5: and how big those three points were, So it was
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  Speaker 5: it was huge. I think offensively, we were moving the ball,
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  Speaker 5: but we weren't getting any points. So to be able
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  Speaker 5: to get a field goal there before the half and
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  Speaker 5: something kind of go our way and get us, give us,
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  Speaker 5: give us a little momentum.
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  Speaker 2: It was great.
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  Speaker 5: And then I think in the second half, obviously we
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  Speaker 5: made some adjustments and we just played a lot cleaner
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  Speaker 5: off offensively. Uh, you know, I didn't really take myself there.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, it's gonna have to be really really
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  Speaker 5: bad to not play, So I didn't really give myself
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  Speaker 5: that option. But you know, thankfully, as you know, feeling
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  Speaker 5: a little bit better by the time the game rolled
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  Speaker 5: around where I was gonna I mean, it would have
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  Speaker 5: taken a lot to keep me out of it so,
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  Speaker 5: but now it was all good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I just think, you know, the complimentary aspect of our
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  Speaker 5: team feeding off one another and having each other's backs,
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  Speaker 5: and maybe the first half, you know, we didn't score
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  Speaker 5: really any points offensively and the defense held them to six.
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  Speaker 5: And then second half, you know, we had to score more,
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  Speaker 5: and you know we were I think we scored on
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  Speaker 5: our last four or five drives or whatever ended up being.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that's where you're seeing our team grow.
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  Speaker 5: And there's a lot of things that we still got
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  Speaker 5: to improve on and that we can do better. But
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  Speaker 5: I mean, at the end of the day, you want
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  Speaker 5: to swin the game, final way to win, and we
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  Speaker 5: were able to do that and obviously crazy ending there,
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  Speaker 5: but found a way.
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  Speaker 3: In the second half.
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  Speaker 4: Line, hey, let's keep.
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  Speaker 3: Were they act like that?
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean when you when you can run the
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  Speaker 5: ball like we did today and stay on schedule and
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  Speaker 5: consistently have that threat of the run game and running
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  Speaker 5: as well as we did, I mean, that's huge and
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  Speaker 5: I think those guys feed off that and you can
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  Speaker 5: see them getting going. Obviously they want to move people,
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  Speaker 5: run the ball. That gets them kind of in a
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  Speaker 5: groove and then it was cool in the overtime drive.
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  Speaker 5: How many time I think we ran it like seven
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  Speaker 5: times straight or something, maybe maybe more than that. So, uh,
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  Speaker 5: just to see those guys continuing to step up and
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  Speaker 5: move the line of scrimmage when everybody in the stadium
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  Speaker 5: knows you're running it is pretty impressive. Let's I mean,
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  Speaker 5: just guys stepping up. That's what was really cool about today.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of guys that stepped up. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't exactly what you thought it would be going
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  Speaker 5: to the game. Obviously, guys go down and guys have
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  Speaker 5: stepped up make plays. Tim made the big play on
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  Speaker 5: the shallow cross what was that that was in the
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  Speaker 5: fourth court down there to get us kind of in
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  Speaker 5: field goal range and making a big play. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it's it's cool Tram with the big kickoff return and
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  Speaker 5: guys that are just ready to go no matter what.
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  Speaker 5: You know, those are guys that you know, I haven't
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  Speaker 5: gotten all the opportunities, but you can see the way
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  Speaker 5: they prepare because they can come in and make plays,
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  Speaker 5: and that's you know, testament to the work they put in.
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  Speaker 3: How big just for this game just to be able
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  Speaker 3: to keep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was huge. He played, He played great.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a that's something that obviously we need
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  Speaker 5: to keep doing is keep him involved obviously, but staying
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  Speaker 5: on schedule and giving him as many opportunities as possible.
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  Speaker 5: How he did some awesome things today. He played really hard,
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  Speaker 5: ran hard, broke a lot of tackles. The line obviously,
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  Speaker 5: moved the line of scrimmage. It was was fun to watch. Yeah,
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: I didn't know who who bad at it. I saw
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  Speaker 5: obviously the I was looking. It looked like the first
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  Speaker 5: part of Gino's read, you know, wasn't open. So I
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  Speaker 5: saw him kind of reset and then I'm trying to
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  Speaker 5: see who's over there. Then I just see the ball disappear.
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  Speaker 5: And that's a good feeling, especially the way the second
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  Speaker 5: half was. You get down and score and then obviously
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  Speaker 5: they kind of went down. Our defense had to make
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  Speaker 5: a big play. I mean, that's that's cool.
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  Speaker 4: Away from the game question, I remember when you went
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  Speaker 4: to eleven.
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  Speaker 5: And that's where TTR was.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just curious when.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping touch or you know, that was just a pretty
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  Speaker 1: special class.
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  Speaker 5: Especially Yeah, you know, I don't keep you know, really
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  Speaker 5: in much contact with some of those guys. I do,
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  Speaker 5: but not a ton of them. When I see him, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: it's you know, we have a relationship and we talk
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  Speaker 5: and kind of catch up with you know, played or
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  Speaker 5: TTR any of those guys, but you know, haven't kept
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  Speaker 5: up with them recently. But obviously we had a great
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  Speaker 5: class and some good memories.
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  Speaker 4: How would you guys?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we just stayed in it, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: we we also had the understanding of offensively, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we didn't have points to show for it, but we
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  Speaker 5: had moved the ball. I felt like our plan was
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  Speaker 5: really good, Like we had a lot of opportunities. We
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: were run on the ball pretty well, had some good
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  Speaker 5: stuff in the past game, and we just shot ourselves
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  Speaker 5: in the foot a couple of times early early downs
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  Speaker 5: and then some penalties, some big penalties on third down
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  Speaker 5: that put us you know, third and long. So I
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  Speaker 5: think we all understood like, hey, we're fine, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we we have all these plays out there for us.
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  Speaker 5: We just got to settle in and play a little smarter.
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  Speaker 5: And I think everybody you know took that approach. Thank
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  Speaker 5: y'all appreciate it.