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Press Pass | Jaguars Players Talk Prep for Week 16 AFC Showdown vs. Broncos · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: What's the challenge this week against the Broncos.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, a good They're a good balanced team offensively, defensively,
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: special teams, a lot of good players. They are good
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: players everywhere. But that doesn't that doesn't take away from
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: what we have to do and what we've been doing
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: the best. I think we just gotta continue to play
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  Speaker 2: our game, continue to play with you know, confidence, and
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  Speaker 2: uh continue to fly around when the opportunities are needed.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: A matter.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think I think a lot of I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I feel like a lot of
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  Speaker 2: it's mental, you know. I think I think if you
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: kind of take it as like a mental approach, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, you sleep with the humidifire the night before,
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  Speaker 2: kind of get your kind of get your mind, get
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: your mind right, and then I think, I don't remember.
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna use that as an excuse of why,
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: you know, things happen. I think if we get our
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: minds right obviously expected.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't want to answer that question.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember your rookie year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, garments you baby, minshew, Man, that's a stadium.
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  Speaker 1: I like going out there to Colorado.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my family and I take a trip out
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  Speaker 2: there every all season. So I like Colorado, like driving
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  Speaker 2: by the stadium, and I like playing in it as well.
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  Speaker 3: Hard not to look at the game and the stakes
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  Speaker 3: and make it bigger than it is.
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  Speaker 1: This is a new thing right here. Yeah, yeah, it's cool. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, I got sorry. I don't believe that
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  Speaker 1: it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Expectation, expectation for us man is to win every game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, implications whatever. At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: this is a playoff team. We're a playoff team, and
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  Speaker 2: this is a team that we may see you know,
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  Speaker 2: now later whatever. Uh So for us, it's it's continue
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  Speaker 2: to do what we do. We can play to our standard,
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: then we'll play to our standard and we'll be the
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  Speaker 2: best version of the rest that we can be.
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  Speaker 4: Going against the guy that was your teammate for a
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  Speaker 4: little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited about it.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe it chip or two from him.
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  Speaker 2: A chip like he's gonna chip me. I mean, if
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  Speaker 2: that's if that's what his job title consists of, then
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  Speaker 2: so be it. Again, Like, you know, I like f
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  Speaker 2: you know, but at the end of the day, it's
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  Speaker 2: just like how you know, why I play against lays,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, you know what I'm saying, We'll save all
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  Speaker 2: that high kiki after the game. But when we're on
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  Speaker 2: the field, man, you have a job to do, all
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  Speaker 2: the job to do. You come in front of me,
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  Speaker 2: I can't let you block me. I'm in front of
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  Speaker 2: vice versas. So I think he's gonna come with the
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  Speaker 2: extra chip on his shoulder too. And you know, but
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to go out there and compete against him.
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  Speaker 5: How does bot next his mobility help him? And how
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  Speaker 5: difficult is it when he gets on the move to
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  Speaker 5: go chase after him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it's just I think it's
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  Speaker 2: about us too, man, Like we kind of know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he likes to get out of the pocket
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  Speaker 2: he has. He has a lot of scrambles he has,
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  Speaker 2: you know, learned today he has more scrambles than you know.
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  Speaker 1: QB.
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  Speaker 2: Sacks said, that can be a telltale tall that could
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  Speaker 2: be a tail sign for for any way you want
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  Speaker 2: to think about it.
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  Speaker 1: But for us, man, it's okay.
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  Speaker 2: He likes to move, you know, it's you know, granted,
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  Speaker 2: if it's on line, you know, receivers or whatever. He
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  Speaker 2: likes to play on the move. So for us as
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  Speaker 2: a defensive defensive line, we have to kind of understand
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  Speaker 2: that we kind of rush. We got a rush Marder,
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  Speaker 2: we got to rush is one, and we got to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we got to disturb the pocket. We
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  Speaker 2: like when he free lances and you know, the pockets
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  Speaker 2: clean and he gets outside the pocket. That's when he
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  Speaker 2: makes a lot of plays. But when played when the line,
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  Speaker 2: defensive lines are destructing the plays, you know, forcing him
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  Speaker 2: to get out of the pocket, forcing him to move,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's when you see a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: you know, misst airs and opportunities for the defense to
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of. And for us, we know that defensively.
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  Speaker 2: But again, he has a lot of makes a lot
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  Speaker 2: of scrimbal plays, and he has a lot of receivers
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  Speaker 2: that catch the ball, you know. So it's a good
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  Speaker 2: team man, good player, good receivers, a lot of respect.
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  Speaker 2: So but at the end of day, it's about us,
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  Speaker 2: and I have a lot of respect for the guys
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  Speaker 2: that I go out there with and have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of trust that they're gonna go out there and do
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  Speaker 2: what they do.
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  Speaker 6: They seem to wear teams down into that fourth quarter
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  Speaker 6: that've sort of made some plays at end of games
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  Speaker 6: that win games.
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  Speaker 5: Why do you think at least that's what you know?
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  Speaker 4: The reports are out there that they wear.
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  Speaker 5: Teams down in the fourth quarter. Why why are they able.
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  Speaker 4: To do that?
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  Speaker 1: You think?
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  Speaker 5: Is there anything you've seen on tape that stands out
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  Speaker 5: about that have.
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  Speaker 1: A really good defense?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like your defense keeps them
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of games. You know, Uh, I like
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  Speaker 2: a good fourth quarter game, you know what I mean? Like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know that's how we that's we kind of we like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, get it to a four
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  Speaker 2: quarter to let your play makers be play makers and
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  Speaker 2: go out there and win games. So if that's the
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  Speaker 2: expectations that we can have as a defense, and.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. You talked about the trust that you
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  Speaker 1: guys have with one another nowadays. Just how how much
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  Speaker 1: or when did that start to build? And how did
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  Speaker 1: you you sort of see a building throughout the season.
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  Speaker 2: Now that we got week sixteen, I think it's just
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  Speaker 2: guys doing what they're supposed to do. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: where it's you know, I think that's where it starts up.
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  Speaker 2: Think you know, there it is and used to just
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  Speaker 2: put it down in my locker room. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like I can do that.
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  Speaker 1: I can just put it right here, doing a fine
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  Speaker 1: job a structure. You guys first sad last week, About time,
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  Speaker 1: About time got there.
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  Speaker 2: Your rookies are so good to you this year, and like,
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  Speaker 2: what is it like this happened to a wonderful rookies
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  Speaker 2: to do everything you say.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they're doing they're supposed to do. Now let's
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  Speaker 1: get down to the nitty gritty. That's fine, I'll take
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  Speaker 1: care of y'all man too.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously, huge opportunity for this team, next opportunity all at
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  Speaker 5: the same time. But the stakes are out there. They
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  Speaker 5: what they they're what they are. Do you guys, you know,
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  Speaker 5: ignore all that stuff. How do you approach your week
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  Speaker 5: like this?
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  Speaker 3: You know my approach, say, I go about the same
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  Speaker 3: thing every single week. It's the next game mentality. You
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  Speaker 3: know what's on the line. And you know they're a
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  Speaker 3: good team, obviously they have really good players. But we
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  Speaker 3: do what we do and we take care of our
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  Speaker 3: preparation and we just go about our business and everything
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  Speaker 3: gonna take care of itself.
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  Speaker 5: So how good is this Broncos defense? Maybe compared to
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  Speaker 5: some others you've seen this year.
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  Speaker 4: They're really good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they have good players, like I said, at
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  Speaker 3: all three levels, and we're excited for the challenge and
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna be ready for it when the time comes.
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  Speaker 5: I have an ingram on the other side, you'd probably
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  Speaker 5: save the pleasantries for after, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I always got love for that guy and just
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  Speaker 3: what he's done for me in my career and how
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  Speaker 3: he's helped me and grow, not only on the field,
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  Speaker 3: but also off the field.
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  Speaker 1: Just of how he's.
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  Speaker 3: Taking care of his business and just seeing him approach
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  Speaker 3: his work every single day. So I always got love
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  Speaker 3: for e and hopefully he knows that. But it's smoking
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  Speaker 3: to the games over for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, the passing game obviously got going last week, But
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  Speaker 5: how do you guys get back to that methodical, powerful
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  Speaker 5: run game.
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  Speaker 1: And you're a part of that too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Preparation, that's the number one thing. How we come
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  Speaker 3: out here and how we approach practice each day. And
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we've had a good week so far,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm excited for the game.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you gotta be able to be a balanced
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  Speaker 3: offense in order to be a good offense. So past
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  Speaker 3: game has been really good, but we take a lot
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  Speaker 3: of pride in the run games. So I'm excited for
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  Speaker 3: it and it's just gonna go be us.
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  Speaker 5: Is the elevation change real?
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe in all that?
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  Speaker 5: Or what? Have you guys talked about that this week?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think it's pretty cool because you know,
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  Speaker 3: like growing up, I feel like Denver played a lot
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  Speaker 3: on Thanksgiving and I would always go over to my
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  Speaker 3: grandma house.
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  Speaker 4: And they would always be on the TV.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, you you're a young kid, you grow
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  Speaker 3: up and you watching the guys like, man, one day
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  Speaker 3: like I'm gonna be out there and I'm gonna be playing.
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  Speaker 3: So it's gonna be kind of like a full circle
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  Speaker 3: moment for me, you know, just going out there and
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  Speaker 3: having fun playing ball. You know, it's it's stuff you
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  Speaker 3: dreamed about your whole entire life. So I'm just excited
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  Speaker 3: for the opportunity do anything for you.
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  Speaker 4: Man, I hope not. I don't know if you asked
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  Speaker 4: y'all already, But the game, the stakes, two good football
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  Speaker 4: teams out there on the field. These are kind of
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  Speaker 4: games you look forward to, right.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely the kind of games you look forward to kind
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  Speaker 3: of games you dream about another thing, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: I think, but we just go out there and we
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  Speaker 3: beat us. You know, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: it's just playing ball. You don't want to make it
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  Speaker 3: too big and make it something that is not. We
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  Speaker 3: go out there and we be us and everything will
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  Speaker 3: take care of it.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you approach this game?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, one seed versus three seed, or just another
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  Speaker 5: week for the Jacks.
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  Speaker 1: Just another week.
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  Speaker 6: We gotta a person like we've been approaching each and
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  Speaker 6: every week. Just go out there, focus on ourselves and
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  Speaker 6: just focusing on details is.
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  Speaker 1: Going to execute.
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  Speaker 6: I know it's want to be loud, so I feel
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  Speaker 6: like we just gotta just all be on one page
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  Speaker 6: and uh, we just go out there and just play free.
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  Speaker 3: You look forward to going in a loud environments like.
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  Speaker 1: That, Ah, No, for sure.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like I don't know why, but I feel
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  Speaker 6: like just me as a player, I feel like I
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  Speaker 6: always I always do well on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Because like it's easier to be locked in.
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  Speaker 6: We're in a hotel, we don't have don't have distractions,
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  Speaker 6: able to get in my book more and just spend
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  Speaker 6: a little time that I would do with home. With
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  Speaker 6: my family, just spend the inside my book. So it's
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  Speaker 6: easy to be locked in the role, especially when it
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  Speaker 6: is you.
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  Speaker 1: It's like us versus everybody.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like this is a great fueling to go
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  Speaker 6: in there, and I mean it's just a great for
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  Speaker 6: the opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 6: We I feel like we shows plays games to play
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  Speaker 6: in front of cross like this. This is why we
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  Speaker 6: get up and do what we do each and every day.
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  Speaker 6: So it's just exciting to have that moment.
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  Speaker 5: Its defense is good at pretty much everything, but what
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  Speaker 5: gives you, guys confidence that you can get the run
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  Speaker 5: game going against the Broncos.
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  Speaker 4: We try to stick with it.
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  Speaker 1: We have to go out there and execute.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we know we're going they don't, so we
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  Speaker 6: just gotta go out there and just win the trenches
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  Speaker 6: because they are very good. But we just gotta take
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  Speaker 6: one play at the time, play sixty minutes of quart
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  Speaker 6: of football, and it really comes down to wants it
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  Speaker 6: more at the end of the day, and we'll see
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  Speaker 6: on Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: I know you run for a bunch of touchdowns in
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  Speaker 5: your lifetime, but have you caught three touchdowns in a
• 9:48
  Speaker 5: game before ever?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 6: No, it's my first time. My first time.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like.
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  Speaker 6: It's a great feeling too, and it's just great, that's
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  Speaker 6: my first time is going through ten thousand in the league.
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  Speaker 6: So just grateful for the op tunity, you know, and
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  Speaker 6: it was amazing. But on to the next one.
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  Speaker 5: Now, are you gonna ask for a receiver contract now
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  Speaker 5: in the offseason? You know the stakes are getting higher
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  Speaker 5: and hire as the week's go on. Here it's December football.
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  Speaker 5: It's what it is. But I mean, you guys have
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  Speaker 5: earned this opportunity to play in a game like this.
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  Speaker 5: How how excited about you?
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  Speaker 4: For? I'm excited just because you know, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: we've played all year from a low down then came
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  Speaker 4: back up, continue to win, stuck together, put ourselves an
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to keep winning. You know, this this game just
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  Speaker 4: as important as the last one, to be honest with you, Like, uh,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's that cliche one game at the time. That's
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  Speaker 4: really what it is. At this point of the year.
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  Speaker 4: The stuff that we've done to get here, we got
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  Speaker 4: to keep doing, you know, media wise and all that y'all,
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  Speaker 4: you know say stakes and stuff, but really every game matters.
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  Speaker 4: So if when this one, the next one, the next one,
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  Speaker 4: we got three more on the list, and there's three
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  Speaker 4: more games we gotta win. So I'm excited to go
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  Speaker 4: out there and keep having with my boys.
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  Speaker 5: The player bo Nicks. What stands out the most about
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  Speaker 5: what he's done, especially last week with the five touchdowns?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very good competitor. He knows how to extend plays.
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  Speaker 4: You his arm talent, uh knows when they check it down,
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  Speaker 4: you know, good, good in the pocket, out of the pocket,
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  Speaker 4: all that. So I think he's just a great competitor
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  Speaker 4: and knows how to like use his legs to throw
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  Speaker 4: or extend plays and stuff like that. Keep his offense
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  Speaker 4: on track.
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  Speaker 5: That out of the pocket thing for him. Josh heinz
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  Speaker 5: Allen was talking about that. You know, that's really when
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  Speaker 5: he's at his best when he gets outside. He can
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  Speaker 5: you compare him to maybe somebody earlier in the season
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  Speaker 5: you've played. Is there anybody that's had that kind of
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  Speaker 5: mobility in the past.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like that's how young quarterbacks coming out are.
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  Speaker 4: You know what your two for him? Three two three.
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  Speaker 4: I just know a lot of the guys run now,
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  Speaker 4: you know, so he's young. He likes to run, like
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if he wants to extend plays, and keep
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  Speaker 4: it pass the line of scrimmage. It's on us to
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  Speaker 4: make sure we get him down. But you know, he's
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  Speaker 4: a good athlete with a great arm talent, so he's
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  Speaker 4: in all that to an advantage.
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  Speaker 5: Got a rookie running back to what's what's their run
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  Speaker 5: game look like?
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  Speaker 4: Very very reminiscent of back when I was in Atlanta
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  Speaker 4: the Saints run game, good dynamic back and give it
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  Speaker 4: to them on screens, and give it to them on
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  Speaker 4: stretch plays, toss plays. All that knows how to hit
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  Speaker 4: his stride and then cut it back with the mid
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  Speaker 4: zone or keep it front side, and you know normal
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  Speaker 4: stretch plays. Just good back with good vision and good
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  Speaker 4: speed too, for sure, and good in the past game.
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  Speaker 5: I got a feeling you'll play anybody anywhere, a parking lot,
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  Speaker 5: Abu Dhabi, whatever, But do you like going on the
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  Speaker 5: road with this group in a hostile environment and then
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  Speaker 5: taking it from them?
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  Speaker 4: How much do you like that part of it? Wherever
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  Speaker 4: they spot the ball? Like you were saying, yeah, I
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: learned that since college. Man, that's been instilled in me.
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  Speaker 4: Any time any place, I say, you know, we're kind
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  Speaker 4: of dumb enough to not know the stakes. You know
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  Speaker 4: spot the ball, let's play. Obviously heard a lot about
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  Speaker 4: Denver and then they're actually train out there, so from
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  Speaker 4: their fans and stuff, very passionate fans and stuff. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited for the atmosphere. But at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the day, like we're playing football, I know the balls
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: gonna get kicked off, so it taunted us to execute.
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  Speaker 1: The matter of that.
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  Speaker 4: The noise level, I'm sure it will be loud and stuff,
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  Speaker 4: so it'll be fun.