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Geno Smith: "I'm Going To Step It Up" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I need a sense the offenser today, cause seems like
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  Speaker 1: kind of a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Highs and luss. Yeah, I would say so.
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  Speaker 3: You know, first of all, I just wanna really start out, uh,
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  Speaker 3: apologizing to my teammates, really into the city, to the organization.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they put a lot of trust in me
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  Speaker 3: with with my decision making, and uh, you know when
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  Speaker 3: they put the ball in my hands when i'm when
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  Speaker 3: my teammates play the way they play today and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, give us a shot to win the game.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta make sure we do. And you know the
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  Speaker 3: things I did today, mistakes that I made, you know
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  Speaker 3: they uh they affected us negatively, and uh, you know
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  Speaker 3: it really cost this game today. You know, me knowing myself,
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  Speaker 3: I know how much you know it's gonna hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I'm'a step it up, though, you know that's how I
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  Speaker 3: feel about. I'm'a step it up.
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  Speaker 4: You know three three I in t's today. The first
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  Speaker 4: one you putting the bread basket saw if you guys
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  Speaker 4: chest Uh, I know you you have to the tendency
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  Speaker 4: to take credit for that. Anyway. You come back, you
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  Speaker 4: throw two more picks, but at the end of the game,
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  Speaker 4: you still right there Uh, you threated the needle, you
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  Speaker 4: put the put the ball right on the guy and
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  Speaker 4: you get the touchdown. You're in the game. What's going
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  Speaker 4: through your mind at that time?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just you know my guys, h how well they
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  Speaker 3: were playing, you know, just watching you know, Cody blocked
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  Speaker 3: that block that punt after making a number of spectacular
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  Speaker 3: catches and doing so many great things, you know, being
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  Speaker 3: able to step in today, you know, getting his first
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  Speaker 3: you know action today and going out there and playing
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  Speaker 3: lights out. Just the way the defense was playing going
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  Speaker 3: out there, you know, sh shutting.
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  Speaker 2: Him down, a really good offense.
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  Speaker 3: How our crowd was in it the entire day, you know,
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  Speaker 3: making it tough on the rams. And you know, I
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  Speaker 3: thought the the the the fan base, I mean they
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  Speaker 3: they showed out today. So you know, all those situations
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  Speaker 3: just led me to think, Man, we gotta get it done.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta get it done for my guys, for the city,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and uh, I really feel like I let
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  Speaker 3: everybody down today.
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  Speaker 2: Really do Did you get in at as you were
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  Speaker 2: drawn on the second interception?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was, uh, you know, tryna throw it out
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  Speaker 3: of the bounds, out the back of the end zone
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  Speaker 3: and uh got hit on. But you know there's no
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  Speaker 3: excuses to be made. I can make that. I can
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  Speaker 3: throw it out away. I can get it out sooner,
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  Speaker 3: be faster than my decision making, you know, trying to
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  Speaker 3: make a play down there, h held it just a
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  Speaker 3: second too long and you know didn't turn out well.
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  Speaker 2: And then what'd you say in the third money?
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, just another you know, tryna get t tryna
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  Speaker 3: get the ball to aj.
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  Speaker 2: You know, thought he was gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Slip through there, and you know it didn't happen though
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  Speaker 3: I thought it got grabbed. But again, that's not an excuse.
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  Speaker 3: Throw the balls in my hands. You know, I get
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  Speaker 3: the chance to make the decision, and you know, ultimately
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  Speaker 3: my decisions affect everybody, you know, not just myself, and
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  Speaker 3: so I gotta be better.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not just saying that to say it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I really know that I can be better,
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  Speaker 3: and so it hurts me, man, it hurts me that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I wasn't able to uh get it done today.
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  Speaker 1: Your position is obviously huge to flush and the steaks
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  Speaker 1: cause you gotta go right back out there is w
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  Speaker 1: What is your thought process then coming out of to
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  Speaker 1: pick six or the next interception trying to move past
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  Speaker 1: that and do what.
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  Speaker 3: You have to do to to with listening at Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's the way the game is. You
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  Speaker 3: gotta have a short memory, and uh, you know, playing quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot that goes on back there, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you focus on what happened you know previously,
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  Speaker 3: it's only gonna affect you negatively. So just moving on
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  Speaker 3: to the next play and focusing on you know, what's
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  Speaker 3: the right decision to make at this time. I know,
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  Speaker 3: like it's it's extremely hard to do. It's not easy
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  Speaker 3: to do. But you know, I've been in this league
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  Speaker 3: long enough, so I've seen a lot and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I've been through a lot, and I think that helps me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it helps me move on.
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  Speaker 2: But as long as we.
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  Speaker 3: Got a shot, as long as I got a shot,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep fighting.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the way I am. That's how I'm wired, don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know no other way. And I'm really hurting.
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  Speaker 5: You know, what do you what do you make of
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  Speaker 5: a snap operation with you and Connor? Right now you
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  Speaker 5: have the couple go by you, But there was other
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  Speaker 5: ones you were having to throw out your hand and
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  Speaker 5: stop today. How'd you kind of see those And where
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  Speaker 5: do you kind of think you guys are with us
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  Speaker 5: right now?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Conor's doing a great job. He's doing a
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  Speaker 3: phenomenal job. Again, man, hats off to the way that
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  Speaker 3: he plays, how he competes. No one's perfect out there.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's perfect. I'm not perfect.
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  Speaker 2: None of us are perfect.
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  Speaker 3: But we compete together, and we fight together. And there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things that we got to clean up,
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  Speaker 3: sure enough, but you know, just the way that we compete,
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  Speaker 3: the way the Connors out there competing. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna baten eye. You know, whatever we gotta
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  Speaker 3: do to make it right, we'll make it right.
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  Speaker 1: How you fool up? Where you guys are as a
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  Speaker 1: team right now?
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  Speaker 2: Hitting into the buy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, four and five not what we wanna be, especially
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  Speaker 3: with how we started. You know, had had an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: really and in all of the games that we lost
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  Speaker 3: to to you know, get a win and and that's
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  Speaker 3: how it's gonna be in this league.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's always a one score league. But man,
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  Speaker 2: we got.
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  Speaker 3: Our season right in front of us. Everything's ahead of us.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we get a week to reevaluate, to rest
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  Speaker 3: our bodies and get our minds back. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: we got a tough San Fran team, you know, coming
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  Speaker 3: back after the bye, but uh, eight games to go
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  Speaker 3: and get it.
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  Speaker 2: Eight games to go and get it.
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  Speaker 3: Man, everything that we work for in the off season,
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  Speaker 3: all the hard work that we put in throughout the week,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's this final stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Its uh eight game stretches is what it's about. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think is the.
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  Speaker 5: Biggest contributor why you start three and over end up
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  Speaker 5: four and.
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  Speaker 2: Five at this one?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's uh a lot of different contributors.
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  Speaker 3: But if I'm being honest, man, I could I could
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  Speaker 3: play better and I could uh correct a lot of things.
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  Speaker 3: That's the job of the quarterback is to overcome and
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  Speaker 3: uh ultimately.
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  Speaker 2: To get wins.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, when we're in position to get wins, I
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  Speaker 3: gotta make it.
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  Speaker 1: Happen for you one and over time.
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  Speaker 4: Uh what were you guys looking for right there?
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  Speaker 2: And what do you think went wrong? You know, I
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  Speaker 2: I can't say what what went wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't watched the two of the film, but I
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  Speaker 3: do know that it's a player that we like. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we felt good about it Uh made the call. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta heads off to them. They stopped us.
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  Speaker 2: It's the nature of your job, do you know.
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  Speaker 5: W What is it about this particular loss it has
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  Speaker 5: you apologizing?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I just feel like our our team played extremely well.
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  Speaker 3: And uh again, I thought our crowd was in it
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  Speaker 3: the entire time. I mean it was, it was electric
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  Speaker 3: in there. And just knowing myself, man, knowing how much
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  Speaker 3: work I put in, knowing the standard I have for myself, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: knowing this game and and the difference that the decisions
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  Speaker 3: the quarterbacks make. If I do my job and you know,
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  Speaker 3: don't have those turnovers, don't have that pick six, that's
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  Speaker 3: a s fourteen point swing right there, we win that game,
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion. And so when that's when that's the case,
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  Speaker 3: I looked directly at myself. I look in the mirror,
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  Speaker 3: and I say, what do I have to do? And
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  Speaker 3: I know what I have to do, and so I
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  Speaker 3: gotta get it corrected.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think that your accents? I mean I
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  Speaker 2: thought he was likes out.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I really thought he you know, he had
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  Speaker 3: about two hundred yards today. He was all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: He played with extreme fire shoot man, he was Uh
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  Speaker 3: you know, just doing his thing. Ma's that's who he is,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, we got to continue to build on that.
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  Speaker 3: He's a guy who's only gonna get better and really
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  Speaker 3: appreciate playing with him.
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  Speaker 4: What did you think it's up to place Cody White
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  Speaker 4: made today?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we expected that from Cody. We've been
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  Speaker 3: seeing that all camp. Uh, he's been doing that since
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  Speaker 3: he's gotten here. And Uh, he's a hard worker, man.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of the hardest workers on the team. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And he deserves it, man, he deserves to go out
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  Speaker 3: there and make those plays.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's always prepared. He knows what to do. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: he knows all the.
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  Speaker 3: Positions in the receiver room and he just does such
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  Speaker 3: a great job throughout the week that I was so
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  Speaker 3: happy for him to get the opportunity. I could see
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  Speaker 3: it in his eyes and in pregame he.
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  Speaker 2: Was ready to go out there and play. You know, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know mentioned pies and low's not the outcome anyone wanted,
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  Speaker 2: but they're worse and you felt like there were highs.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is there anything from this game that you're
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  Speaker 2: taking away that you.
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  Speaker 5: Can think will help help the team in a positive
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  Speaker 5: manner moving.
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  Speaker 2: Down the line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you just look at the way that
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we fight, we compete. You know, we're never
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  Speaker 3: gonna back down. But I don't believe in more victories
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  Speaker 3: at all.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I think you either win or you lose.
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  Speaker 3: Today we lost, and the great thing about life is
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  Speaker 3: you get another day, you get another chance.
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  Speaker 2: And we got eight games. That's all.
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  Speaker 3: I'm focused on the next eight games, and I'm taking
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  Speaker 3: it one by one. I'm gonna do my thing, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna get better.
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  Speaker 2: Offense got off to kind of another slow start.
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  Speaker 5: But what did you see change there at the end
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  Speaker 5: of the half, and you guys were able to go
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  Speaker 5: down and get to real quick touchdowns and flurry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the situational play calling, I thought the situational execution.
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  Speaker 2: I thought all of that was outstanding if.
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  Speaker 3: You if you look at it, man, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: score in a two minute mode and then for the
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  Speaker 3: defense to go out there and get a stop, we
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  Speaker 3: get the ball back and then go put seven more
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  Speaker 3: points on the board. That's exactly what you talk about
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  Speaker 3: when you say compliment and every football uh. And I
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  Speaker 3: I thought, you know, that's something that really got us going.
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  Speaker 3: It gave us confidence going into the half got us
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  Speaker 3: the momentum when we needed it, and uh you know
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  Speaker 3: really you know, excited our crowd.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't always just snap it right away. What if
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  Speaker 2: the pace? How do you think that helped you little middle.
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  Speaker 5: A series like you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think our pace, Uh, you know the way
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  Speaker 3: that we can you know, either speed up or slow
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  Speaker 3: down to the tempo. I think it really does help us.
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  Speaker 3: And you know it's something that's a part of our offense.
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  Speaker 3: But we do a great job at mixing it up,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we getting the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we've changed personnels.
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  Speaker 3: We can be you know on the ball, off the ball,
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  Speaker 3: just depends on how Grub's feeling and what we're seeing
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  Speaker 3: from the defense.
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  Speaker 2: You got besides your prep that more this week?
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  Speaker 3: Uh no, we we all. That's that's our offense. We've
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  Speaker 3: been doing that since training camp, you know, and.
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  Speaker 2: Your pursuit for continual improvement.
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  Speaker 1: How do you balance the next week physically taking care
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  Speaker 1: of your body mentally, and then like you said, getting
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  Speaker 1: away a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you do getting ready for San Francisco.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's time to get it. It's I'm going to work, man,
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  Speaker 3: I don't I know you know, it's it's good to
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  Speaker 3: have the days of the rest, but I got I
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  Speaker 3: got work to do, and I'll be working.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else. You. Thank you girls,