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Press Pass | Doug Pederson Reacts to Win vs. Patriots in Week 7 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: No, no, the only the only pressure was just that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we needed to win a game. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: matter where. Obviously we love coming over here, but it
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  Speaker 1: didn't matter where. We just needed to feel what winning
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  Speaker 1: feels like. Again. Proud of the guys, Proud of the
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  Speaker 1: coaches for the way they you know, we worked this
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  Speaker 1: past you know, ten days or so over here, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: good way to a good way to finish this little run. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: when did you go over it on more? I'm doing guys.
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  Speaker 1: Often we see out of potential shift in the menisiter
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  Speaker 1: throughout the set at school and the team, and he
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  Speaker 1: did message, Yeah, situations like that, it's gonna happen. I
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  Speaker 1: was just to go back to the decision. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I was riding the momentum of what we were doing
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  Speaker 1: leading up to that point. Our offensive line was was
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  Speaker 1: really you know, taking control of the game at that point,
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  Speaker 1: and it felt like just putting it in their hands
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  Speaker 1: one more time, getting the first down right there and
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  Speaker 1: and potentially you know, ice the game at that point.
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  Speaker 1: But they went down, scored, we get the ball back
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  Speaker 1: and and and you still got to play football. And
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  Speaker 1: that's this is just a message. You still got to
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  Speaker 1: continue to play and and uh we were able to
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  Speaker 1: do that to to go down and and we ended
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  Speaker 1: up you know, taking a little time off. We punted
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  Speaker 1: the football back to them. Defense did a great job
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  Speaker 1: and then of course, you know from the ten yard line,
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  Speaker 1: able to punch it back in. But he just got
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  Speaker 1: to play for sixty minutes. These games, these games are
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  Speaker 1: never over, and that's always gonna be the message to
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  Speaker 1: the way he ran the ball, is that kind of
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  Speaker 1: what you means your team where he is an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and he really doesn't he you know, he he's done.
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  Speaker 1: He's done a really good job for us. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's going into the season, you know, behind TJ. And
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  Speaker 1: and you know he's earned, he's earned the right to
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  Speaker 1: to be out there. He's earned, you know, an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: And you know he did. He did a nice job today.
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  Speaker 1: Ran hard, ran tough, as they say, you know, ran
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  Speaker 1: behind his pads. I thought the offensive line did a
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  Speaker 1: great job for him, tight ends, uh you know, blocking
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  Speaker 1: and things of that nature. But you know he did
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  Speaker 1: the rest. I think he had a you know, went
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred yards again today and and just a
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  Speaker 1: great effort of what kind of message do you d
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  Speaker 1: those of the team were not here in the UK.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've got to duplicate it. We got to
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  Speaker 1: duplicate the energy. We've got to duplicate you know, what
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  Speaker 1: we did over here. You know, this week of practice
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  Speaker 1: has been one of our better weeks of practice, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we've got to be able to carry
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  Speaker 1: this all the way back and do it again. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what this league is. It's a short term memory.
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  Speaker 1: You just you just try to go want to know
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  Speaker 1: each week and and but I thought the guys really
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  Speaker 1: handled themselves, you know, professionally while we were here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for the ten days. How we op into that game.
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  Speaker 1: Growing up on the topic games, well, yeah, these guys
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  Speaker 1: have really you know, proven you know, they're worth obviously
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  Speaker 1: their draft stock and things of that nature. You look
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  Speaker 1: at what Parker Washington did on that on that punt return.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he you know, he's just one guy. Ten ten
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  Speaker 1: other guys had to do their job. They did a
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  Speaker 1: great job there. You know. Brian Thomas, I think each
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  Speaker 1: week he just keeps getting better and better. And he
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  Speaker 1: and Trevor, you know, I've had a really good connection going.
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  Speaker 1: And something we gotta we gotta continue and continue to
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  Speaker 1: find ways to you know, scheme him open. I thought
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  Speaker 1: Press did a nice job you know this week and
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  Speaker 1: doing that and getting him you know, some balls down
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  Speaker 1: the field as well as Christian Evan and everybody had
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  Speaker 1: a hand. So but that's what it takes, I think
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  Speaker 1: to win these games, is it. You know, it's not
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  Speaker 1: just one guy. I think it The ball has to
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  Speaker 1: you know, be spread around and it was today that
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  Speaker 1: was pretty complete. I think it was twenty two points, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the way we started the game,
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  Speaker 1: both sides, the ball wasn't wasn't what we wanted. You know.
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  Speaker 1: New England came out and obviously scored, got up, got
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  Speaker 1: up ten and then we finally answered. But it was
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  Speaker 1: a complete, complete quarter, you know. And but again you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have though, so you're gonna have a quarter like
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  Speaker 1: that from time to time. They're not always every game
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  Speaker 1: is not going to be like that. But it was
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  Speaker 1: good to see. It was something that we hadn't had
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  Speaker 1: this year, and it was good to see because we
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen many for one today. Is that something that
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  Speaker 1: you guys at school in building for making big Conte, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this dynamic kickoff is you know, it's different week to week.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not, you know. I I think a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago it was thirty percent or less balls were
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  Speaker 1: being returned. Uh, it's it's just it's a hard play.
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  Speaker 1: It's difficult, you know, and and guys are too good
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  Speaker 1: and and you don't want to risk that retur hern,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And but again, each week is different. There's
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  Speaker 1: a there's gonna be weeks where we're gonna you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna kick the ball off, and there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: weeks we're gonna we're gonna put it out of the
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  Speaker 1: back of the end zone. So we take a look
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  Speaker 1: every week and see what's best. Jean did it did
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  Speaker 1: seem like you guys you got and you know for
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  Speaker 1: the next minutes like pretty game, you know, Geene, and
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  Speaker 1: that this is what our team can do, right, I
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  Speaker 1: feel strongly that that, you know, if we play like that,
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're capable of. Now, is it sustainable over
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  Speaker 1: the course of sixty minutes. It's not gonna be sustainable.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. The other the other team is just
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  Speaker 1: as good. But but again, we got in a situation
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  Speaker 1: where we were down you know, we were down ten, but
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  Speaker 1: but nobody was like, you know, here we go again,
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  Speaker 1: or defeated or you know, had negative thoughts. It was
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  Speaker 1: just just one play at a time or work ourselves
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  Speaker 1: back in it. And and offense went out and we
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  Speaker 1: we showed the complimentary aspect of the game today. You know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: in all three phases. And that's what it. That's what it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm uh the spark that you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we can get this thing going, which was not just
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to try something you know in scenario or
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  Speaker 1: something in the ads that you may or just to go. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: those are thought out. I mean situations like that where
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  Speaker 1: there's a penalty on the defense, you know, on an
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  Speaker 1: extra point you get the ball to one yard line,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's a way to get an extra extra
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  Speaker 1: point right, two points. And so no, it wasn't. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't something we just were trying. It's definitely planned and
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  Speaker 1: executed well. Week against the ground game, the game going
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  Speaker 1: was there not going, and we also saw almost on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. It's not something because it's more because it's
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  Speaker 1: more of us the season holes, you know, as far
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  Speaker 1: as Brian goes, you know, we try to find ways
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  Speaker 1: to put the ball in his hand, right, And to
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  Speaker 1: answer your question, yeah, we'll we'll, we'll try to find
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  Speaker 1: unique ways, you know, to to get him the football
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  Speaker 1: where he can run it, you know. But obviously he's
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  Speaker 1: better you know, down the field. But and then the
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  Speaker 1: run game was just something that look, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a mindset to run the football in the National
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  Speaker 1: Football League, And and it takes a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not just the offensive line. It's it's the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback getting us in the right run, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: the the the five oz alignment being on the right
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  Speaker 1: right page, targeted right, the tight ends are involved, even
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  Speaker 1: receivers going in and digging out safety. So I just
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  Speaker 1: thought today was was a was a complete game. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: we'll take take a look at the tape on the
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  Speaker 1: way back and make corrections and and and and learn.
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  Speaker 1: So as you mentioned, Gilder running game today with tanks
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  Speaker 1: performs in particular when comes back from his injury east
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  Speaker 1: side position web type maybe taking love it. I I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. I'm not a believer where or I
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  Speaker 1: should say I'm a believer where injury doesn't replace your position, right,
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  Speaker 1: I I think you have to have a fair you know,
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  Speaker 1: a fair competition for us. We're we're blessed to have
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  Speaker 1: two really good running backs right now. And and when
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  Speaker 1: Etn comes back, you know, he's just as explosive, just
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  Speaker 1: as good, just as powerful. And it's still you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's still his job, you know. And and but Tank
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  Speaker 1: has done some really good things and and obviously we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna continue to to find ways to to put the
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  Speaker 1: ball in his hands too, because he's a he's a
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  Speaker 1: little different runner than than Etn is. Thank you, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Uh For international fool players out there, uh you see
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  Speaker 1: the games wrong? Give another record of the day. See
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  Speaker 1: international games wrong. As a head coach, you guys in
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  Speaker 1: small flats of players out there that wanna make it
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  Speaker 1: to the big league, Y, you know I Y don't
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  Speaker 1: ever y, Y. You can't don't let people say ye
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  Speaker 1: say you can't do anything right Y. You gotta believe
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  Speaker 1: in yourself, give yourself an opportunity be seen and and
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  Speaker 1: your work ethic is gonna is gonna go a long way.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these players in this locker room, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's how they grew up, right. They grew up uh
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  Speaker 1: with an opportunity to play this this game as as
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  Speaker 1: a young UH as a young player. UH. But obviously
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  Speaker 1: now you know, with the international pathway, there's there's more
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  Speaker 1: opportunities for players UH to find themselves on NFL rosters
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  Speaker 1: and and UH, you know, we have to continue to
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  Speaker 1: develop the sport, I think globally cause it just makes
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  Speaker 1: us UH a stronger legal role.