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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "He trusted us to go win the game." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, rough start to that to that drive in completion
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  Speaker 1: on first down, kind of waste that two minute warning,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's two oh two three second play and
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  Speaker 1: complete your second intent. It was like kind of a
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  Speaker 1: waste of a stop clop, you know, basically a time out. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next play held the baltimoll and try
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  Speaker 1: to throw it away sack fumble could have been bad.
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  Speaker 1: Our guys got on it. So I mean we're sitting
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  Speaker 1: there in third and what was it twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: not really where you want to be to start a
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  Speaker 1: two minute drive to go in the game. UM, But
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  Speaker 1: just guys in the huddle like never lost never lost faith,
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  Speaker 1: you know, didn't flinch right back to the huddle next play.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't really matter what happened, UM, And just that
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  Speaker 1: believe that we haven't one another. We've been on the
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  Speaker 1: wrong side of these a lot, and it's cool to see,
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  Speaker 1: even though that's happened a lot that we we still
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  Speaker 1: have never lost faith. UM, always trusted one another, and
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  Speaker 1: it felt good to be on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: this one. Trevor, could you just talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about the locker room celebration, just the the euphoria of
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  Speaker 1: the way this game was one against the playoff opponent
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  Speaker 1: and and what that might do for the confidence of
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  Speaker 1: this team going forward. Yeah, I mean it was it
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  Speaker 1: was amazing. Obviously, it feels it feels great. Like I
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  Speaker 1: like I said after the game, you know, you put
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  Speaker 1: in so much work and to be on to win
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  Speaker 1: the games like that, it's just it's it's an awesome feeling. Um,
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  Speaker 1: nothing like it. I mean, it's it's super cool. And
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  Speaker 1: like I said that, we've been on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: so we understand what that feels like. Two and I
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  Speaker 1: think we're just appreciative of where we are, how far
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  Speaker 1: we've come, kind of what's in front of us still.
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  Speaker 1: And we said it's a it's a new season. Once
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  Speaker 1: we got back from the bye week, and you can't
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  Speaker 1: win seven games, how you win one. We had to
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  Speaker 1: start today and obviously there was some some adversity and
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  Speaker 1: we had to battle through it and we just found
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  Speaker 1: a way and it was it was incredible. Okay, when
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  Speaker 1: the when the play had ended, did you really and
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  Speaker 1: the way you saw the throw go towards the end zone,
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  Speaker 1: did you really think that Marvin was gonna get it,
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  Speaker 1: not only catch it, but get his feet down because
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  Speaker 1: when I let it go, yeah, you know, I I
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  Speaker 1: knew I put it in a spot where you'd have
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  Speaker 1: a chance at it. Obviously. I mean, Marcus Peters a
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  Speaker 1: great corner. You know, he's a great player, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just put it, put it up where Marvin can
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  Speaker 1: make a play. That's a guy. I mean, we've we've
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  Speaker 1: made throws and catches like that for the past two
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  Speaker 1: years countless times, whether it's in the games and practice,
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  Speaker 1: never to win the game like that, but it's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. So you just put it, put it up
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  Speaker 1: up where he has a chance to go get it,
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  Speaker 1: and he made a great play. Did you lobby to
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  Speaker 1: go for two or do you just wait for the
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  Speaker 1: coach's decision? I was actually trying to figure out. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't know if they ruled a touchdown. They ruled a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: but we didn't know if they were going to overturn
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  Speaker 1: it or not. So we were talking about our two
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  Speaker 1: point play, possibly talking about maybe kicking the p a
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  Speaker 1: t and then we're also talking about if we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get it, what are our next plays at the end
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  Speaker 1: zone because we only had I think fourteen seconds left. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so it's like a lot a lot going on, and
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  Speaker 1: then they said we got it, and Coach looked at me,
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  Speaker 1: is that we're going for two? You know? And I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't sure before that what we were gonna do. And
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  Speaker 1: just that trust that he has in us, And like
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, we've been that situation a lot
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  Speaker 1: and haven't always got it done. And just for him
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  Speaker 1: to keep trusting us, keep trusting me and our offense,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was big for us. Trevor talk about
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  Speaker 1: the last four teen seconds after you make that happen
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  Speaker 1: and you take the lead, and of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Tucker is maybe one of the most reliable players in
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  Speaker 1: and all of the NFL. And what's the emotion like
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  Speaker 1: as you're watching that kick go through the air. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not the guy you want, uh, kicking the last second
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  Speaker 1: field goal on you, that's for sure. I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously our defense is a good job getting the guy
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  Speaker 1: down as early as we could. Obviously that's a tough situation.
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  Speaker 1: You can't give up a chunk play, um, but you
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  Speaker 1: also don't want to come up too many yards to
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  Speaker 1: give him a chance. And I thought, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: did get a job executing that, and thankfully, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't enough time for them to run another play
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  Speaker 1: to possibly call a time out and get more yards.
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  Speaker 1: So it was perfect. And I was a little nervous
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  Speaker 1: when the kick. Before the kick, I didn't think he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna make it, But then when it was up in
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  Speaker 1: the air, it was. It was going and it just
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  Speaker 1: kept carrying and carrying, and I was watching watching the
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  Speaker 1: goal posts to see which one crossed first, and I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how short it was, but it was close.
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  Speaker 1: So UM, A little nervous there with all the stops
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  Speaker 1: that they were making. Your defense was making in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone today talk about their performance and how make
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  Speaker 1: you have to want to win this more because of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that's just what good teams do, what what
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  Speaker 1: great defenses do. Um. I mean, they kept us in
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  Speaker 1: the game. When you you go back and watch the game,
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  Speaker 1: and they kept us in it. We had a couple
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  Speaker 1: I think we had three or four three and ounce
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  Speaker 1: weren't playing well in the third quarter, um, and they
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  Speaker 1: just kept holding, you know, just field goals, hold them
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  Speaker 1: to field goals and keeping us in the game. And
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  Speaker 1: then finally we had an opportunity or put a drive
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  Speaker 1: put finally put a successful drive together, you know, early
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, went down and scored, got us
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  Speaker 1: back in it. And then I think right after that
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  Speaker 1: they had the the fumble, you know, so I mean fumble,
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  Speaker 1: we kicked the field goal, take the lead, and then
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  Speaker 1: from there it's just all right, we got the lead,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna do whatever we whatever we have to do
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  Speaker 1: to go win this thing. And then obviously they had
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  Speaker 1: that drive, went and scored, and we knew as an offense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, defense at our back all day, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: go respond and we gotta be the ones to go
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  Speaker 1: win the game. And you know, it was, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good feeling to be able to do it. Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: You've talked about maintaining your comments throughout all of this,
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  Speaker 1: but when you do something like that, the way it unfolded,
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  Speaker 1: that's got to be a little bit of a boot
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  Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, I guess. So, you know, it's it's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it feels good. I mean, I'm really really
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  Speaker 1: proud of this group. Um, I'm proud of myself. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we've been through a lot here in the past two
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  Speaker 1: years and just battled through the adversity, and um, it's
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  Speaker 1: a good feeling. But I mean, I've said it before.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the same guy. I've always been this guy. And
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  Speaker 1: you know it hasn't always i haven't always played my
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  Speaker 1: best every week, and um, that's that's gonna happen sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: But I really love the direction that this offense is
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  Speaker 1: team's heading, and um, we feel really good about who
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  Speaker 1: we are. And you know I'm but I'm the same guy.
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  Speaker 1: So Trevor, why do you think Za was able to
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  Speaker 1: be as open as he was and moreover for him
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  Speaker 1: to catch that conversion? What did that mean to you?
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  Speaker 1: Into this offense? Just you know, are some of our
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  Speaker 1: best players making plays when you gotta make them, And
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  Speaker 1: that's what it is. And you know, Coach, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: Coach trusted us to go make the play. Obviously, either
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  Speaker 1: you win or you lose on that play, and he
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  Speaker 1: trusted us to go win the game. And you know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of teams on the coaches
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  Speaker 1: would have kicked that gone to overtime, and he may
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  Speaker 1: that decision to trust us and go win it. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and I think knowing that we're in the huddle, like
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  Speaker 1: there's no no doubt we're gonna score right here or
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  Speaker 1: get the two point conversion, and you know, Zay ran
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  Speaker 1: a good route. He's the guy. We we felt great
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  Speaker 1: about that play. You know, kind of been cooking it
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  Speaker 1: up and Um just executed Grays a great catch by
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  Speaker 1: him for you guys, one more for me. UM with
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  Speaker 1: Travis going down, if you could just kind of reflect
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  Speaker 1: on Jamichael Snoop getting some more carries, what their performance
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  Speaker 1: said about their play. Just guys being ready. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I asked to do a lot of different things obviously
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  Speaker 1: going into each week. Where we're at now, you kind
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  Speaker 1: of expect Travis to get the bulk of the carries
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  Speaker 1: and then something happens and he goes down early in
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  Speaker 1: the game. And those guys just being ready to play.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, ja Michael having a great touchdown catch early,
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  Speaker 1: made some big plays down the stretch, some tough runs.
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  Speaker 1: Snoop had some tough runs. UM, just guys being ready.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it takes. You know, you're not You're not
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  Speaker 1: always gonna UM have all your guys. It's a physical game.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff is gonna happen and guys gotta step up, and
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  Speaker 1: UM they were able to do that today and really
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  Speaker 1: really proud of them and our whole offense. With Travis.
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  Speaker 1: He was running and doing some cutting uh lait in
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  Speaker 1: the first half and in the second half. Did you
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  Speaker 1: Doug said that he could have played but he didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to risk it. Did you have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: talk with him get any sense of how healthy he was? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he looked, he looked. Okay, I don't I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to speak on that because I'm not really sure.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him a lot after the games,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we were all kind of celebrating, hanging out
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  Speaker 1: and really talk to him, But I think he's feeling
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. I'm not not really sure it saw him
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  Speaker 1: the sideline and I just told him it'd be smart,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Um kind of we talking about we got
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  Speaker 1: the guys to get it done. Obviously we need we
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  Speaker 1: need Travis. He's a great player and helps us. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, be smart. You know, we can
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  Speaker 1: need you for the long haul too. So I know
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  Speaker 1: a couple of the guys in the locker room we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about, especially Christian mentions Dougs postgame speech to you
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  Speaker 1: guys and talking about players versus plays. You could just
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  Speaker 1: elaborate on that and what that kind of speaks to
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  Speaker 1: you as far as Doug's confidence in you guys and
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  Speaker 1: what this team is about, that's just you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: what the game comes down to. You know, I've had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of coaches now and the last two years. Everyone,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you hear from everyone, because it's true. It's
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  Speaker 1: about it's about players, not plays. You know, everybody runs
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  Speaker 1: for the most verybody runs the same place. You know,
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  Speaker 1: It's about players making plays when you have to make them.
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  Speaker 1: And um, it was cool to see how many different
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  Speaker 1: guys had to make plays to day to give us
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  Speaker 1: a chance to win, especially on that last drive. Whether
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  Speaker 1: it's christians A, Marv, Jamachael, whoever, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of guys had to make plays go win this game.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that gives us a lot of confidence
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. Did you have a favorite throw today one
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  Speaker 1: that stood out to you because it seemed like you
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  Speaker 1: had seven or eight that were Yeah, I mean that
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  Speaker 1: one on fourth down, I think on the second to
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  Speaker 1: last drive today on their sideline. Um, that's a play
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  Speaker 1: that we've that we've that we've worked and what weren't
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  Speaker 1: sure exactly what they were gonna do coverage wise, And
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of a nuance to route and we were
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  Speaker 1: just on the same page. Put it over top of
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  Speaker 1: the corner and you know, he made a great play,
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  Speaker 1: ran a great route and put it in the right spot.
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  Speaker 1: So that was that was a cool one. Yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you' all.