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Press Pass | Pederson: "I Think It's a Glimpse of What We Can Be." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: This is Brody. Okay, you're good.
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  Speaker 2: Good question, Doug. Yes, can you start us off with
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  Speaker 2: an update on Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have an update yet.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, how did you think he played? And was there
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  Speaker 2: any second thoughts on the play call where he's rolling
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  Speaker 2: out late in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he played really well, you know, as far
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  Speaker 1: as that play called me. Those are situations that we
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we understand too. We were trying to
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  Speaker 1: get a short sack. Can't necessarily try to circle the defense.
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  Speaker 1: So part of it's on us, part of it's on Trevor,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time we got to be smart there.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought he played played extremely well, saw the
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  Speaker 1: field again really well, threw the ball well. Just the
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  Speaker 1: one miscommunication with with Christian for the interception, but you
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  Speaker 1: know we'll clean that up.
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  Speaker 3: Indy comes out sixteen plays, eight and a half minutes.
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  Speaker 3: How important was it to respond immediately? Even though the
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  Speaker 3: score came early in the second quarter, it almost matched them.
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  Speaker 3: I think to drive went more than seven minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, obviously we try to start the games fast.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was a good drive by them. I
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  Speaker 1: mean they mixed it up me and ball was out
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  Speaker 1: of you know, Gardner's hand extremely fast, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: they did a nice job. They stayed first down, second down,
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  Speaker 1: first down, and you know, went down defense you know
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  Speaker 1: obviously in the red zone stopped you know, kept them
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  Speaker 1: to three there. But it was it was good. It
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  Speaker 1: was good for our offense to respond there and get
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  Speaker 1: the touchdown, and you know, just pleased with the effort,
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  Speaker 1: you know, especially in the first half of you know,
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  Speaker 1: defensively creating takeaways and offense scoring, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 1: something we haven't really been able to do, you know,
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  Speaker 1: score in the red zone, and we were able to
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  Speaker 1: do that, and we were able to actually score you know,
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  Speaker 1: even further out on a couple of plays. So that
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  Speaker 1: was good to see too.
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  Speaker 2: Doug four turnover saved by the defense, fifteen on the year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how good of a job or doing How
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  Speaker 2: important is that obviously to get those turnovers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the defense sometimes doesn't get enough credit
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  Speaker 1: for that. You know. The takeaways are something that we
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  Speaker 1: as a team talk about, they talk about it as
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  Speaker 1: a as a defense and and it just it it
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  Speaker 1: just shortens the field for your offense, right and and
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  Speaker 1: pass rush again today there was pressure on Gardner. You know,
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  Speaker 1: putting it in places maybe he didn't want it to go.
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  Speaker 1: And again just a great team effort on defense to
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  Speaker 1: uh uh play the way they did today.
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  Speaker 2: You have a week how teams respond after the London
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  Speaker 2: Uh I assume not pleased with the effort intensity overall.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the the effort, the intensity. Guys responded, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and really all week. You know, it is hard. It's
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  Speaker 1: hard to when you're over there for ten days and
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  Speaker 1: your bodies are used to that, that that time change
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  Speaker 1: and coming back here it takes it takes a little while,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it takes several days to get back you know,
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  Speaker 1: back on East Coast time. But the guys handled the
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  Speaker 1: week extremely well. Proud of them. They had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of energy again today and that was really good to see.
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  Speaker 1: Now we've got a short week, so you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got to keep that rolling.
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  Speaker 4: Can you talk about was it a concerted effort to
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  Speaker 4: get Brenton Strange in the passing game this week or
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  Speaker 4: was that just something that organically happened.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of more organically happened. You know, every week
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  Speaker 1: we've got opportunities, you know for him to catch the
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  Speaker 1: football and it just happened this week.
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  Speaker 2: Was the week.
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  Speaker 1: So it's nothing that we schemed up, you know, specifically
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  Speaker 1: for him, but they're players that have been in each
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  Speaker 1: week and we finally were able to get to him
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  Speaker 1: and call them.
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  Speaker 5: Doug, do you have an update on the other two guys,
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  Speaker 5: Tyson and Brandon? Okay, so hot on a day like
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  Speaker 5: today where you have a couple of guys go down,
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  Speaker 5: does that change your approach to this week or was
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  Speaker 5: your approach going to be so light anyway? How do
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  Speaker 5: you get ready.
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  Speaker 1: For It doesn't matter. I mean, the week's the week, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they anybody that got nicked up in this game,
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  Speaker 1: they just got to live in the training room, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and get treatment at twenty four to seven, and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's just the nature of the week, right
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  Speaker 1: we we we we slowed things down. It becomes more
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  Speaker 1: of a mental day. We're trying to get everybody, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as healthy as we can. You know, we're going into Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: It's on the road, I guess a good football team.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it doesn't change the nature of the week.
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  Speaker 1: It was the initial fear on Trevor that it was
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  Speaker 1: pretty severe or in the initial concern level for you
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  Speaker 1: when you saw it happen or when he came off
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  Speaker 1: or I mean, you know, I guess it's the same
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  Speaker 1: level of concern as when Brandon went down. I'm always
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  Speaker 1: concerned for my players, you know, when then when they
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  Speaker 1: go down in situations like that, you know, and Entyson's
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  Speaker 1: the same way. You know. It's just unfortunate there. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see, We'll see where they're at here later tonight
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  Speaker 1: and probably have an update or will have an update
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  Speaker 1: for you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: There's going to be people, there'll be people asking why
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  Speaker 6: weren't you running the ball right there? Just running it
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  Speaker 6: in the line and eating up forty seconds? Can you
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  Speaker 6: to explain why that call was in?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that calls into game plan because it's a movement play.
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  Speaker 1: It allows the quarterback to get on the edge in
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  Speaker 1: situations like that sometimes you know, listen it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you've seen it. You've seen it work a million times,
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  Speaker 1: right and a million and one It didn't work, but
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  Speaker 1: we were able to get three points out of it,
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  Speaker 1: so from that standpoint, it was effective. You know, It's
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  Speaker 1: just and look you, is there a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: risk there to you know, run your quarterback? Yes, but
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, the reward is you get the
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  Speaker 1: first down and you stay on the field and you
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  Speaker 1: ice the game in no situation. So definitely wouldn't change
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  Speaker 1: you know, the scenario of the situation. We can coach
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit better and ask him maybe to
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  Speaker 1: go down a little bit sooner.
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  Speaker 3: Doug.
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  Speaker 7: Obviously, the defense, as you mentioned, at a tremendous game,
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  Speaker 7: but one about the fourth quarter. Ask about that because
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  Speaker 7: obviously not many teams go backwards seventeen yards to get
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  Speaker 7: a field goal out of the whole deal that What
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  Speaker 7: was your assessment of the fourth quarter? Anything away going
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  Speaker 7: into New Orleans on Thursday?
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  Speaker 1: No, you know, obviously, yeah, you'd you'd love to not
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  Speaker 1: give up that many yards on one particular play. But
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  Speaker 1: you know the fact that you know, Brandon was kicking
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  Speaker 1: the ball extremely well, so getting the three points there
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  Speaker 1: was was big. It stretched the lead, you know, So
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  Speaker 1: I mean it the fourth quarter. You know, we we
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  Speaker 1: knew they were going to be in you know, four
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  Speaker 1: downs the rest of the game. So so the defense
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  Speaker 1: could really put the put the pressure in the pass,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the pass rush and again creating the
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  Speaker 1: takeaways they did and putting the offense in short in
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  Speaker 1: short fields. I would much rather some of those things.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you'd rather have touchdowns obviously in
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  Speaker 1: situations like that, but coming away with points were big.
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  Speaker 6: Dug. Are these three games kind of what you guys
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  Speaker 6: thought you would be or could be going into the season.
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  Speaker 6: What we've seen these last three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a glimpse of what we can be.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's still some areas that we have to
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  Speaker 1: we have to clean up, obviously, but you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think I think the team is really in these last
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  Speaker 1: three weeks kind of figure some things out and who
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  Speaker 1: we are as a football team. And and that's exciting
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  Speaker 1: to see that they really embraced that, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: to come away with three wins, especially after the two
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  Speaker 1: losses we had, is it's pretty special for the for
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  Speaker 1: these guys. So I think we're figuring that out, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But again it's you know, six weeks in and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of football head over here.
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  Speaker 4: Can you touch on Josh Allen? He had a strip
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  Speaker 4: sack today. He's been the most consistent pass rusher you've had.
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  Speaker 4: It's a contract year, he's been pretty good the first
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  Speaker 4: six games of this season. Just talk on his play.
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  Speaker 1: Josh's Josh is you know heart and soul on defense
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  Speaker 1: and and he's been playing extremely well and and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's good to see. You know, there were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things. I think he probably felt a
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  Speaker 1: little you know, pressure maybe to start the season to perform,
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  Speaker 1: and he's answered he's answered that, and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he works hard during the week, and so it's no
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  Speaker 1: it's no surprise that this is what he's capable of doing.
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  Speaker 4: And and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just continues to to find ways to to
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  Speaker 1: get around the quarterback, to affect the quarterback. Uh, it
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  Speaker 1: obviously impacts the defense, you know, when he's creating the
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  Speaker 1: plays that he's doing, either a tackle for loss or
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  Speaker 1: you know, a strip, sack, fumble, things of those nature,
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  Speaker 1: things of that nature, you know. And so it's just
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  Speaker 1: a it's a credit to Josh, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: and how he's how he's getting himself ready to play.
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  Speaker 3: Doug, you've been here almost a year and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Three straight weeks now halftime leads, two of those double
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  Speaker 3: digit leads. That's that's really rare for this franchise. What
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  Speaker 3: what's it been like coaching with the lead as opposed
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  Speaker 3: to what you're used to coming from.
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  Speaker 1: Behind it's it's never satisfying. It's still nerve wracking. This
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  Speaker 1: is the NFL, and you see it each week where
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  Speaker 1: a team's way up and the other team comes back right.
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  Speaker 1: Even in college football, it happens. And you know, obviously, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're excited, team's playing well. You know you've got
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  Speaker 1: that type of lead at halftime. But you know, the
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  Speaker 1: message has always been and always will be that we've
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  Speaker 1: got to finish the game right. And I think there
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit of a little offensively to start
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter. I think we went three and out
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  Speaker 1: right there, and you know, those are things that we
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  Speaker 1: have to we have to fix. That's one of the
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  Speaker 1: areas that we have to address.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You want to come out in the third, third quarter
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  Speaker 1: there with the ball and and you try to go
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  Speaker 1: down and get get points if possible. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: the game's never over, games never out of reach. It's evident.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we experienced that a year ago, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: my message to the team is always we got to
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  Speaker 1: continue to play for sixty minutes. Thanks good, thank you.