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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it felt good. I thought we got in a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good rhythm early. Uh, you know, after that first drive.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we punted first drive, and after that felt like
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  Speaker 1: we settled in protected really well throughout that spurt there,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought we had a really good plan, especially
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  Speaker 1: down the red zone. Had some stuff that was great
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  Speaker 1: and you know, guys got to open, guys made plays
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  Speaker 1: after the catch, So it was it was really good.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously some stuff in the second half, got to got
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  Speaker 1: to clean up, got to continue to get better and
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  Speaker 1: see what we can improve on. Wasn't the cleanest second half,
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  Speaker 1: so uh, but yeah, I thought we started the game
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  Speaker 1: in a rhythm. Obviously, our defense played great too, and
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  Speaker 1: we got we got a short field that we took
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  Speaker 1: advantage of.
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  Speaker 2: Or is there something about this team Tennessee that gets
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  Speaker 2: you going a little bit? I mean the number was
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  Speaker 2: really good and what six twenty two against him for
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  Speaker 2: four and one, I mean, does it does it fire
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  Speaker 2: up a little more?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is it's a division game, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously been a rival for us and for them
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  Speaker 1: for a long time, so I think you feel that
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  Speaker 1: and obviously had a lot of different games against them,
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  Speaker 1: and so I know, a lot of those guys over
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  Speaker 1: there too, like Jeffrey, you know, play against him a
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  Speaker 1: ton and that's always a back and forth. And obviously
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  Speaker 1: he's a good player and you know, so there is
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  Speaker 1: that you know, dislike for sure, but there's a respect too.
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  Speaker 1: If you know how the game is gonna be played,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be physical, You're gonna get their best shot,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I'm sure they know the same when
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  Speaker 1: they play us. So yeah, there's definitely a little something
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  Speaker 1: to it. And I think it's a good thing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's what makes football fun.
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  Speaker 2: Talked about him before, but someone gets hurting the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line shuffle and they just guys in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's impressive. Yeah, I mean, obviously it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a unit that's done a great job all season,
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  Speaker 1: especially with the circumstances of getting different guys you know,
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  Speaker 1: banged up and maybe miss a game or today middle
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  Speaker 1: of a game, Walker has to come out Cole us
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  Speaker 1: to move from he's already playing for uh for Pat
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  Speaker 1: and then he's got to move over to left tackle
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  Speaker 1: mid game. I mean, the things Cole has been able
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  Speaker 1: to do this year has been really impressive. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's many guys that can do that or have
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  Speaker 1: done that, honestly, So definitely proud of him and just
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  Speaker 1: the way he's been playing and as a unit, those
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  Speaker 1: guys just fight their tails off and you know, did
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  Speaker 1: some really good things.
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  Speaker 2: You sense a level of maturity about your football team,
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  Speaker 2: like with this kind of win a Thanksgiving week, a
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  Speaker 2: team that has one win, and the way you dealt
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  Speaker 2: with the week and then.
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  Speaker 1: Today, yeah, for sure. I mean, like I said, we'd
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  Speaker 1: love to finish the game a little better. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that was like, I think we're all a little even
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  Speaker 1: frustrated that, But I think that shows the maturity of
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  Speaker 1: the team too, of you know, or happy we won,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about that. We come here to win and
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  Speaker 1: that's what we did. So but to even have that
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  Speaker 1: feeling of like, man just didn't finish clean, Like, I
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  Speaker 1: think that shows the maturity of the team too. And
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  Speaker 1: you had to handle the week. Well, it's NFL, don't
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  Speaker 1: matter who you're playing. Obviously, they haven't won a lot
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  Speaker 1: of games, but anybody can beat you. And they got
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  Speaker 1: talent and they got a good I know, just from
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  Speaker 1: our side of the ball, they got a really good defense.
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  Speaker 1: You know that presented some challenges and they did some
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  Speaker 1: good things today that you know, we got to improve
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  Speaker 1: on and play better moving forward. So we knew there
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  Speaker 1: was gonna be a challenge and we just came out
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  Speaker 1: and executed, played well. Obviously kind of protected the lead
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  Speaker 1: towards the end. But it's just of those games, the
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  Speaker 1: division on the line next week.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like you guys have come a long way
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  Speaker 2: and a really short amount of time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think it's just we've taken it
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  Speaker 1: week by week and hasn't always gone perfect, but we've
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  Speaker 1: just kept playing and uh found a way to respond
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  Speaker 1: every week. You know, we've had like a toub of
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  Speaker 1: all the season. We've had some big wins, we've had
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  Speaker 1: some tough losses, and you just keep playing. And this week,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it's a big one at home, need our fans
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  Speaker 1: to pack the place out and be loud for us
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  Speaker 1: and get a home field advantage. But playing a really
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  Speaker 1: good Colts team, and it's an exciting one obviously, a
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  Speaker 1: lot on the line, and uh, that's how every game
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  Speaker 1: is going to be moving forward though, and that's where
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  Speaker 1: we want to be. So that's a position you want
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  Speaker 1: to be in. So it feels good. You've played some
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  Speaker 1: of these mediaful games.
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  Speaker 3: How much do you feed off the week where it
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  Speaker 3: gets heightened in Jackson Field and you can feel a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of that energy from the fans even before
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  Speaker 3: you even hit the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's huge. I mean it really is. I mean
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about throughout the years, like obviously our playoff
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  Speaker 1: run back in twenty two, and just the feeling of
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  Speaker 1: the city and the home games the stadium like it
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  Speaker 1: is different, and that's what as players, we love that
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  Speaker 1: and it's exciting and to feel the city behind you,
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  Speaker 1: and we have great fans. We feel that a lot.
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  Speaker 1: But it definitely is when you're in these big games.
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  Speaker 1: It shows up more as it should, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you're when you're playing for something. So that's all we
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  Speaker 1: expect and I know our fans will show up and
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  Speaker 1: be great to role.
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  Speaker 3: Confidence wise. Is this the high for you guys? I
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  Speaker 3: mean it feels like if you had Cincinnati again it
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  Speaker 3: was a bad call Houston, we know what happened, but
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  Speaker 3: guys could be undefeated on the road. Do you feel
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  Speaker 3: like what depending on what type of game gets your game?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think we have a lot of confidence,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the way we prepare, the way we
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  Speaker 1: work know going we know going in Sunday that we're
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  Speaker 1: ready to go, and you got to go execute and play.
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  Speaker 1: And that's always the part of you never know till
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  Speaker 1: you play the game. You gotta go out and play
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  Speaker 1: and play well. And we've definitely had some days where
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  Speaker 1: we didn't do that. But going into the weeks, we
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  Speaker 1: feel really confident and on Sunday we feel confident. And
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of that confidence too, is from experience,
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  Speaker 1: and we know that we can win games. We can
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  Speaker 1: win ugly, we can you know, control lead, we can
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  Speaker 1: do all these things. And you know, obviously it hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been perfect. We've had some learning lessons, but I think
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  Speaker 1: that gives you consciences a team too, because you've done
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  Speaker 1: it and but you got to continue to do it. Especially,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at the season now, we're really in
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  Speaker 1: the most important part of the season we had. They're
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  Speaker 1: all important because you got to get in position, but
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  Speaker 1: I mean every game is critical now, so it's got
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  Speaker 1: to really show up in the big moments.
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  Speaker 2: Is it important for you guys not to necessarily make
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  Speaker 2: next week's game or or even the week after bigger
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  Speaker 2: than it is. Uh, you know, it's off the super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: but it's it's important. Do you have to sort of
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  Speaker 2: find that middle ground.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you don't try to do more than you've
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  Speaker 1: done any other week. I mean, obviously it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: really good team we're playing and it's an important game.
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  Speaker 1: But we got what where we play eleven game? We
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  Speaker 1: got five twelve games? Yeah, so we got five game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to do them. Yeah, anyways, got five games left,
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  Speaker 1: and so we just have to take it one week
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  Speaker 1: at a time and it's just the next one. But
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  Speaker 1: it is a big game. But you can't change who
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  Speaker 1: you are and what you're how you prepare and all
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  Speaker 1: those things, and you got to treat it like the
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  Speaker 1: other ones. Whose I do think we have a good
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  Speaker 1: process and we've been ready to go in every game
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  Speaker 1: and we just it's gonna be about how we execute
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: So he had just for Jacobin mas sixth targets. Man,
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  Speaker 3: talk about you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: He's like finding a way of sitting down in his.
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  Speaker 2: Own like, what what is it?
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  Speaker 1: He's been great? I mean, yeah, just a guy, just
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  Speaker 1: really good football player. I don't know what else to
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  Speaker 1: say about him. He's got a great feel. Uh, he
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  Speaker 1: does all he does everything right, I mean to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: Like he blocks, runs great routes, he's smart and knows
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  Speaker 1: you know, when to sit down and has fuel for
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  Speaker 1: the game. Friendly target. You know, he's playing great. Got
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  Speaker 1: to keep him going, and our whole room is really
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  Speaker 1: coming together. Nice. It's great to have bet back out
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  Speaker 1: there today, made some big plays and some big moments
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  Speaker 1: and just gonna continue to build off that. So Jacoby's
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  Speaker 1: been awesome though. I can't speak highly enough of him,
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  Speaker 1: and glad we got him for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna ask, but you get you get BT
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  Speaker 2: back and then you get you know, Parker goes down.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's almost like the offensive line and a
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  Speaker 2: way right, like a revolving door receivers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's football, you know, it's it's uh, it's a
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  Speaker 1: physical game. So it happens, and hopefully you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't want to speak on Parker stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what the deal is, but hoping
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  Speaker 1: get him back as soon as possible, and obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: seeing how well he's played for us this year, so
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  Speaker 1: and get him back, but you know, if not, we
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  Speaker 1: got guys that are gonna have to step up, and
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  Speaker 1: you know we'll have a good plan, all right. Thanks guys,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it.