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  Speaker 1: All right, let's see this.
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  Speaker 2: Aliamo four divisional games the last six games.
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  Speaker 1: Have you talked to the team about the opportunity here
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  Speaker 1: and just what does it mean.
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  Speaker 2: To be able to play in the division basically the
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  Speaker 2: last six team?
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  Speaker 1: That's huge. We did talk about it a little bit
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  Speaker 1: this morning obviously for this game, and how important you know,
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  Speaker 1: games in November and December are, specifically, but even more
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  Speaker 1: so when when it comes to divisional games that the
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  Speaker 1: teams are are used to playing each other, know each
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  Speaker 1: other a little bit, There's obviously some familiarity with both
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  Speaker 1: of these teams and staffs. So yeah, it's huge opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for us. These are this is why you play. This
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  Speaker 1: is you know, you get into these parts of the season,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's nicked up, everybody's a little bumped and bruised. But
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to you know, taking advantage of these
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  Speaker 1: opportunities and making the most of them and having that
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  Speaker 1: heightened sense of urgency as we get into later November
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  Speaker 1: December games, specifically, as we get into these divisional ball
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  Speaker 1: games that how important these are. Yeah, we talked about
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  Speaker 1: it this morning.
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  Speaker 2: This morning as much as you can comment on it.
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  Speaker 2: What does that do for your depth at safety, and
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  Speaker 2: what have you seen from some guys stepping up in
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  Speaker 2: his place for the last few weeks and how do
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  Speaker 2: you keep them involved?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully you know, see what he looks like throughout
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  Speaker 1: the week. Great to just get him back out on
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  Speaker 1: the grass. Hopefully you know, the communication, the ability to
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  Speaker 1: continue to calm things down with his presence. But I
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  Speaker 1: really believe that Antonio Johnson has stepped up in a
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  Speaker 1: major way. I thought the last few weeks, specifically dew
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  Speaker 1: we has also played some good football for us, and
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  Speaker 1: Rayon Lane has stepped up in a big way, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the amount of he played the most snaps I
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  Speaker 1: think this past week that he's kind of played throughout
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  Speaker 1: the season and and when he's out there, he just
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  Speaker 1: plays his tail off as he does on special teams.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, getting Eric back will will definitely help.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what it looks like for his availability this week.
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  Speaker 1: But been very confident Antonio Johnson is playing with as
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  Speaker 1: much confidence as I've ever seen him have and his
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  Speaker 1: impact in the game for us in a positive way.
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  Speaker 2: Two weeks after the Houston situation there when you talked
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  Speaker 2: about the pass rush has to improve, what's sort of
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  Speaker 2: sparked that. I know, partly some beat up offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: but what else has kind of sparked that.
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  Speaker 1: I think that I don't really know. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not anything crazy different scheme or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: I just think that, you know, when the front and
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  Speaker 1: the coverage matched well in terms of whether zone or man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not allowing for the ball to them out
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  Speaker 1: maybe as quickly as as it was able to come out,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, getting those guys up front going
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  Speaker 1: and having them you know, being in matchups set of
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  Speaker 1: faerual but also winning one on ones, you know, defeating blocks, uh,
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  Speaker 1: straining through the echo of the whistle, you know, favorable
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  Speaker 1: matchups like all that stuff I think goes into it.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think our coverage in the back end
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  Speaker 1: has improved over the last you know, two weeks, let's
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  Speaker 1: call it, in terms of playing a little bit stickier,
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  Speaker 1: having a little bit more of a feel on the
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  Speaker 1: underneath zone, specifically to not get as much depth in
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  Speaker 1: some of our zone coverage, having a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: of a feel for our people are trying to work
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  Speaker 1: those quick to short intermediate throws. As a linebacker or
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  Speaker 1: a nickel or a safety down at the second level,
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  Speaker 1: not giving up too much ground in depth. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think that those all of those things combined have
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  Speaker 1: helped the pass rush be able to get home more.
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  Speaker 2: Just does Jeffrey Simmons for the Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A ton man. He's I'm not saying he's Aaron, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but there's there's some similarities there in terms of his
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  Speaker 1: ability to create in both the run and the past.
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  Speaker 1: How how quickly some of his wins come, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the effort. Like showed a clip this morning against
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  Speaker 1: Denver where they had double chip protection, play action pass.
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  Speaker 1: The pocket looked extremely clean for quite some time and
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  Speaker 1: then the ball just kind of got held onto the
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  Speaker 1: routes maybe weren't there yet, and he just he's going
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  Speaker 1: to finish and strain through the echo the whistle. Great
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  Speaker 1: challenge for us as a group, but he's definitely disruptive,
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  Speaker 1: and you can see that he's believing in terms of
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  Speaker 1: their there. They have belief as a team. There's no
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  Speaker 1: quit in that team at all. Right now. They're actually
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  Speaker 1: you know, playing better and better games.
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  Speaker 2: Have been very close. What are you seeing out of
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  Speaker 2: camp word in terms of his growth in these last
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  Speaker 2: few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, makes the throw on third in Excel to put
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  Speaker 1: them in scoring position against Houston to go tie the
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  Speaker 1: game was an incredible throw last week against Seattle, off schedule,
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  Speaker 1: moving around more in the pocket, moving outside of the pocket, extending,
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  Speaker 1: allowing people to kind of win a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's he's definitely found I think a comfort
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  Speaker 1: level in some ways of moving around more, moving within
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  Speaker 1: the pocket, extending plays, but also then playing in rhythm
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  Speaker 1: when he is in the pocket. You definitely see growth
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  Speaker 1: and improvement there as I think we've all maybe you know,
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  Speaker 1: thought was gonna come and happen for him. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's he can tell. He's just continues to improve and
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  Speaker 1: I think using his legs and extending plays has helped him.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody mentioned the rivalry between the Titans after you took
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  Speaker 2: the job here.
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  Speaker 1: I would say it was, you know, fairly early on.
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  Speaker 1: Tony I think mentioned it to me a few times
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  Speaker 1: with maybe some of the times he's you know, gone
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  Speaker 1: up there and played or whatever it is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: stories of vice versa, those guys coming down here and
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  Speaker 1: being in Lexington, you know, not far from Nashville, like
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  Speaker 1: you definitely heard it a little bit being out there
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  Speaker 1: in terms of Yeah, there is, there's a care factor here.
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  Speaker 1: There's a real I guess you could call it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a rivalry. There's an indivision game opponent that both
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  Speaker 1: teams have probably you know, one game that shouldn't in
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  Speaker 1: one games that you know, in lost games they shouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, it's it's one of those games that
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  Speaker 1: we understand that anything can happen right any any given Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: and it can happen, but especially in division games where
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  Speaker 1: there's maybe just that little extra you know, want to
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  Speaker 1: on both sides. So we know what this challenge is.
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  Speaker 1: Records don't mean anything in the NFL right now mean nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Too big, too big time. Rod from Trevor in the
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  Speaker 2: red zone, robes of anticipation on those walker shoot just
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  Speaker 2: the trust that he had to have from receivers kind
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  Speaker 2: of let a few of those go befrom the back.
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  Speaker 1: You can see it come. So how one of zero
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  Speaker 1: blitz to Jacobi. We actually had a very similar rep
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday and to walk through, we're doing a situational
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  Speaker 1: and a game walk through type deal and we weren't
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  Speaker 1: empty and our defense zero blitzed us and he retreated
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  Speaker 1: away and through it actually the Parker. It was a
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  Speaker 1: similar type route, but he was playing it live and true.
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  Speaker 1: And then he you know, gets in the game and
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  Speaker 1: not in the game desperation, but a critical third down,
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  Speaker 1: gotta have it play, you know, it looked as if
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  Speaker 1: they were gonna rush for so he emptied the back
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  Speaker 1: out and then they zeroed him. So we're in a
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  Speaker 1: five man protection with two chippers that are releasing were hot,
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  Speaker 1: and he just made a play and made a great throw,
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  Speaker 1: trusted Jacoby to stick his foot in the ground and
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  Speaker 1: get his head around in zero. And then the one
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  Speaker 1: to Parker in the red zone as well, where he
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  Speaker 1: had to step up in the pocket, made a great
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  Speaker 1: peck to peck movement because the guy was swiping over
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  Speaker 1: the top, made a great peck to peck movement in rhythm,
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  Speaker 1: gave Parker an opportunity throw. So both of those are
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  Speaker 1: just great examples of hey man, you just go play
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  Speaker 1: and not try to do too much before the snap
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  Speaker 1: and not you know, just go play and let your
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  Speaker 1: your your talents kind of take over. And those are
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  Speaker 1: two great examples that we can continue to build on. Parker.
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  Speaker 2: Washington will just add on him teams to make plays
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  Speaker 2: and the special teams and receive the game.
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  Speaker 1: Just yeah, he's We've all been seeing it for a while,
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  Speaker 1: right since training camp, really he was. He's been one
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  Speaker 1: of our top performing receivers since training camp. He's worked
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  Speaker 1: his tail off to learn the systems since we got here.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the first guys in the building every day.
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  Speaker 1: Uh takes super care of his body, very intentional about
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  Speaker 1: the way that he practices and goes about his business.
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  Speaker 1: And then on Sundays has made plays for us in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ways, and you know, he's definitely trusted.
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  Speaker 1: He's somebody we count on to continue to make plays.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously the first play of overtime was a great
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  Speaker 1: example of that where he's you know, used in the
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  Speaker 1: slot a lot, and you know, we put him out
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  Speaker 1: at one on a one on one opportunity and he
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  Speaker 1: goes up and makes a play. So a lot of
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  Speaker 1: respect for Parker and continue to help us win games.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are getting got back out in twelve personnel
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  Speaker 1: kind of really help you guys. How has it helped
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  Speaker 1: you guys so much? Yeah? Yeah, I like twelve personally.
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  Speaker 1: I think it it can help be balanced in the run.
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  Speaker 1: In the past, it helps you there and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: some games specifically dictate a little bit. Okay, we want
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  Speaker 1: to be a little bit more eleven this week versus
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  Speaker 1: twelve based on maybe what you're getting structurally. Last week
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  Speaker 1: was a week that we wanted to be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit heavier, just based on Arizona's defensive structure and some
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  Speaker 1: of the things that come up in Nickel defense that
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  Speaker 1: we didn't really want to deal with too much. And
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  Speaker 1: those guys obviously strange coming back, but you know, Quentin
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  Speaker 1: and Johnny and Hunter Long how much they've continued to
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  Speaker 1: ascend and help us win games this year is I
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  Speaker 1: like twelve and hopefully we can continue to use it.
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  Speaker 2: Ball out at him DK's hands on the palm returns.
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  Speaker 2: He's done such a marvelous job.
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  Speaker 1: We liked it a lot coming out, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: not far down the road here in Florida. Watched him
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  Speaker 1: a ton throughout the evaluation process with somebody we were
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of respect for in that process, and man,
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  Speaker 1: he's he has made game changing plays or game altering
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  Speaker 1: plays to give them boosts and give them opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: stay in games. You know, that's that was the guy
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  Speaker 1: that we talked about this this morning on the Game
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  Speaker 1: Wreckers for Special Teams, So not just on teams, but
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  Speaker 1: on offense where you see him catch shallow crosses and
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  Speaker 1: he can go and take it. You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: they're getting more and more comfortable using him on offense
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  Speaker 1: and confidence and on the special Teams unit. I know
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  Speaker 1: John Fossil very well and I know he'll try to
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  Speaker 1: scheme him to get opportunities to make play again this
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  Speaker 1: Sunday exit to.
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  Speaker 2: See how your team performs if the weather does. I
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  Speaker 2: mean it looks like it could be cold and rainy throughout.
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  Speaker 2: Is that that challenge?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? November football, man, you know, I mean it's it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's November football in the NFL. You're you got to
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  Speaker 1: deal with the elements and you know, going and playing
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  Speaker 1: a little colder weather. I mean, that's it's football. And
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  Speaker 1: so I grew up in that and this is different
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  Speaker 1: for me. Uh, seeing palm trees out here is a
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  Speaker 1: little new in November and and heading into December and
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  Speaker 1: here in Thanksgiving week and it's like, wait, where's the
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  Speaker 1: the tree color change and all that? But it's no,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a great op I mean, this is you
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  Speaker 1: know what you why you play? Why are you prepare
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  Speaker 1: to have games like this that you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of the essence of football. How be to you
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  Speaker 1: and your team? For Yeah, I've gotten closer and closer
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  Speaker 1: with Foyer. I think over the year the amount of
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  Speaker 1: respect that I have for not just the football player,
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  Speaker 1: but the person, the leader, the man. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: He's definitely been a consistent rock for us in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways. And the guy in the locker room,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that you know, he's just the same all
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  Speaker 1: the time, right, it doesn't change. He's not a chameleon
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  Speaker 1: by any means, you know, he just he doesn't change.
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  Speaker 1: And the way that he talks to to me, the
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  Speaker 1: way he talks to the team, the way that he plays.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's been doing it at a high level
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  Speaker 1: for a long time now, and you know, very pleased
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  Speaker 1: with his consistency, his leadership, and he gets people to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. He's a darn good tackler.
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  Speaker 2: Brian working him back in but not just in terms
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  Speaker 2: of his availability for Sunday, but also once he does
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  Speaker 2: come back. How does that maybe change how you view
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  Speaker 2: that wide receiver room and how.
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  Speaker 1: You can do it. Yeah, just we have to see
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  Speaker 1: what he looks like obviously this week and see how
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  Speaker 1: much you can you know, do and help us get
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  Speaker 1: out in the grass obviously, you know, we we definitely
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  Speaker 1: need his presence and get somebody out there that can
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  Speaker 1: continue to stretch the field and make big plays for us.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll take it day by day, cause head coach
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  Speaker 1: and do anything specially need for the media to be
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  Speaker 1: able to have this patform. Yeah, it's definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's interesting because you've gone through it as an
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  Speaker 1: assistant and you know it's you're not in the spotlight
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  Speaker 1: about what your cause is and so now obviously going
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  Speaker 1: into this position, it's more it's a really cool I
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  Speaker 1: think our organization has done a good job of kind
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  Speaker 1: of highlighting this and and letting our players have a
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  Speaker 1: platform to not only show as a team, but individually
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  Speaker 1: some of the meaning behind uh their causes. They've been
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  Speaker 1: able to do some tapes I think, you know, things
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  Speaker 1: that have gone out and take a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a deeper dive into some of these players and what
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  Speaker 1: uh their causes are, maybe some of their wives behind
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  Speaker 1: why they play and why they do this, and and
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  Speaker 1: obviously for us as coaches, it's it's a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for us to be able to help support maybe things
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  Speaker 1: that have affected our lives in the past. Your shoes
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  Speaker 1: are delayed, they're coming, Yeah, they're.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my mom pasted. Yes, she committed suicide when
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  Speaker 1: I was twenty one years old, so you know that
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  Speaker 1: was obviously she was sick, you know, hadline disease for
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  Speaker 1: a few years there, and you know I was read
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  Speaker 1: shirt sophomore in college when that occurred. So that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: definitely in my family in terms of the She's in
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  Speaker 1: our thoughts and prayers. So she'll be with us on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks