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Geno Smith: "The Defense Gives Us A Shot To Win Every Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: You don't a little bit about the uh cause of.
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  Speaker 1: Represent this year? Yeah, so, uh big shout out to
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  Speaker 1: the artists who did these. But this is uh extended Hands.
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  Speaker 1: So this is my cause for this year. Uh. It's
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  Speaker 1: my mother's foundation does a lot of work in the
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  Speaker 1: community in South Florida. She's been doing that my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: Hence the name extended Hands. Uh. We're extending our hands
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  Speaker 1: and really just trying to reach out and touch the community,
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  Speaker 1: you know, be an advocate for change, uh in many ways.
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  Speaker 1: And you know it's something that I hold dear to
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  Speaker 1: my heart because obviously my mother she instilled that in me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, always giving back, and uh, you know I
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  Speaker 1: wanna represent her in that way. So I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a cool thing.
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  Speaker 2: You've talked a lot about your mom and your grandma
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  Speaker 2: and kind of how they've sh helped instill all that ages.
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  Speaker 2: How much have they shaped the.
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  Speaker 1: Man you are? Uh? My my parents, my mother, my grandmother,
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  Speaker 1: uh grandmother's they've shaped me. They are me. I am them.
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  Speaker 1: Every single part of who I am is because of
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  Speaker 1: the my upbringing and uh, the way they raised me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my mother in the household couldn't bring bees home.
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  Speaker 1: She said that was uh, that was average. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be outstanding. So it was AIGs or nothing else.
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  Speaker 1: And uh. She always pushed me to better myself, you know,
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  Speaker 1: always to do things the right way the first time,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, try to limit your mistakes. And
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  Speaker 1: I think when I think about who I am today,
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  Speaker 1: never satisfied because of that. And uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: just appreciate my upbringing. I appreciate my parents and obviously
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  Speaker 1: again extended hands is is a way for us to
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  Speaker 1: uh to kind of meet at the middle right there.
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  Speaker 3: Do you ever talk to your teammates about following their
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  Speaker 3: passion projects or getting involved in the community in any way?
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  Speaker 1: For sure, And a big shout out to Chenna. You
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  Speaker 1: know he's uh our man of the Year this year.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, all the guys, man, it's important for
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  Speaker 1: all of us. Uh. Yesterday I was passing out food
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  Speaker 1: and uh I was down there at Island Soul. Uh
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  Speaker 1: you know, a place that you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: us are familiar with, and I was out there with
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  Speaker 1: the community just you know, uh, extending my grace and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being thankful, being grateful. Had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people there. It was awesome, but uh yeah, our team
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  Speaker 1: is we're big on philanthropy. Uh, we want to be
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  Speaker 1: active in the community. We always talk about twelve is one,
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  Speaker 1: so that includes our fans, and uh the more that
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  Speaker 1: we can reach out to the community and uh again
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  Speaker 1: be an advocate, the better it is for all of us.
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  Speaker 3: Going back to Sunday's game, I think that is the
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  Speaker 3: most energy I've seen from the defense on the sideline
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  Speaker 3: for any game this year. Oh yeah, how much did
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  Speaker 3: they set the tone?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they set the tone. Our defense again has been
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  Speaker 1: playing phenomenal football as of late. Uh. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: started out really hot. I know, you know, some changes
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  Speaker 1: were made and some guys have stepped in and stepped up,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, the way they're playing gives us a shot
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  Speaker 1: to win every single game. They're they're really leading this team.
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  Speaker 1: They're leading the charge right now, and we love that.
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  Speaker 1: You know. That's uh, that's how it always was here
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle. You know, I know, people always you know
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  Speaker 1: giving old to the lea uh legion of boom. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got some new guys, some new faces,
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  Speaker 1: but they're playing with that same energy and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: we want those guys to continue that to can continue
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  Speaker 1: to build on that, and uh, we're looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: another great game Sunday. Uh on Sunday, just.
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  Speaker 2: Going back to New York still still hould any special
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  Speaker 2: meaning for you at all.
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  Speaker 1: Or always, you know, always, Uh, I've always had tremendous
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  Speaker 1: love and respect for that organization. Obviously the team that
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  Speaker 1: drafted me gave me a chance out the gate. You know. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of great people there, some people that I
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  Speaker 1: you know, was there with a lot of those people
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  Speaker 1: are not gone. So you know, as far as the
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  Speaker 1: whole revenge thing, that's not on my mind. Like I said, Man,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of great people in that city that
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  Speaker 1: I I still talk to and I still love and
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  Speaker 1: still support me, and so uh, it's just it's the
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  Speaker 1: biggest game of the year because it's the next game.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, you know, definitely obviously because I was drafted there,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be you know, a narrative that's built.
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  Speaker 2: You stay in touch with Rex Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: Is that some guy you talked to? No, I don't
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  Speaker 1: talk to Rex.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a difference at all between a Jet's game
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  Speaker 2: and a Giant's game in that stadium?
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  Speaker 4: I mean the crowd or anything, or is it just
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  Speaker 4: kind of the.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, it's been a while since I've been there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I can think about last year when we
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  Speaker 1: played there, you know, Monday night game. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was you know, the crowd. It was the Giants game obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought the crowd was there and I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was just a fun game for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I haven't been there in so long.
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  Speaker 1: I can't really answer that, do you know. I know
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  Speaker 1: you can be hard on yourself about some of your
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  Speaker 1: own game.
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  Speaker 4: What do you kind of look the last couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks and you've had a couple of tough picks you
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  Speaker 4: probably want back, but then the bounce back from them
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  Speaker 4: to leave the key Dredgs you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Who needed to win you in Tew. Do you kind
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  Speaker 2: of evaluate your last couple of performances.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, always gonna look at the things that I can
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  Speaker 1: do better. I think that's the way I've always approached
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  Speaker 1: the game. And so you know, you can make the
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  Speaker 1: right decision on every play but one, and That'll be
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  Speaker 1: the play that I'll emphasize and I'll look at the
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  Speaker 1: most and so how do I evaluate it? We won
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  Speaker 1: the game, That's what I care about. The most Other
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  Speaker 1: than that, you know, how can I get better? Many
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  Speaker 1: ways everything can improve, and that's something that I continue
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  Speaker 1: to work on daily. You know where I think I am.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm really, you know, a good player, and
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  Speaker 1: I think I have a chance to be even better.
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  Speaker 1: So as long as I continue to work hard, continue
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  Speaker 1: to stay focused on my process. As I talk to
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  Speaker 1: you guys about, you know, I think good things will
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  Speaker 1: will happen, and I think some of that stuff that's
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  Speaker 1: unlucky will, you know, kind of weed itself out.
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  Speaker 2: Some players might get a little gun shy if a
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  Speaker 2: bad play happens. You've in the last two games after interceptions,
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  Speaker 2: you've done some really good things. What allows you, like,
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  Speaker 2: what's the mentality to put that behind you and still
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  Speaker 2: make the players you need to make later?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I grew up watching football. My favorite player
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  Speaker 1: is Brett far Born on the same day, and you
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  Speaker 1: know what would Brett do? Keep slinging? You know, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's the way we play the game. I never try
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  Speaker 1: to be reckless. I'm always trying to make the right decision.
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  Speaker 1: But I do believe in myself. I believe in my arm,
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  Speaker 1: I believe in my process, like I always talk to
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  Speaker 1: you guys about and at times, you know, bad things happen.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way this game goes. But you can't let
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  Speaker 1: that affect you. If you really are you know who
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  Speaker 1: you say you are, then you just go and play
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  Speaker 1: the next play. Was that was far of gun swinging mentality?
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  Speaker 1: What attracted you to this game? Nah, I love the
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  Speaker 1: game from the jump, from just playing it. That's really
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  Speaker 1: what attracted me to it. Just playing football and being
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  Speaker 1: out in the yard. My grandmother, you know, she's the
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  Speaker 1: biggest football fan in our family. And uh, she she
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  Speaker 1: raised me in in in this world, and she just
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  Speaker 1: I've always loved football, you know, from the time I
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  Speaker 1: put on cleats. Why was bread for your favorite player? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I just love the way he plays. I love his style.
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  Speaker 1: Think about like a guy who played a game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a day after his father passed. Uh, it's probably something
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  Speaker 1: I would do. Uh. We just loved playing football. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know a guy who was if he was hurt,
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  Speaker 1: still goes out there. Uh he's gonna leave it all
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  Speaker 1: on the line. And again we're born on the same day,
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  Speaker 1: so kind of my spirit in him.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about the run game a lot the last
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  Speaker 3: few weeks. What gives you the most confidence starts to
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  Speaker 3: turn the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just think our guys up front, man, I
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  Speaker 1: think you know, the way Olu stepped in and he's
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  Speaker 1: really leading the charge. You know, Olu's doing a great
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  Speaker 1: job with communication. I think our plans have been great,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think the coaches have done a great
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  Speaker 1: job at uh, putting together a scheme that allows us
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  Speaker 1: to be successful. And then you know, with the backs
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  Speaker 1: that we have, man, like they're always gonna have a shot.
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  Speaker 1: Just watching kin Ken run the ball and Charbonnay and
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  Speaker 1: you know that big third down run that we had
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  Speaker 1: to kind kind of you know, get us in field
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  Speaker 1: position and get a field goal on the third and six,
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  Speaker 1: right Like running the ball in that situation, it's tough
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  Speaker 1: and for us to go and get it that way. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it says a lot about our team, and
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  Speaker 1: it says a lot about our guys up front. And
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  Speaker 1: as long as we continue to you know, power the
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  Speaker 1: ring game, continue to stay focused on, you know, developing
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  Speaker 1: our run game and and finding that balance that we
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  Speaker 1: want as an offense, you know, things will things will
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  Speaker 1: be great. We just got to keep keep working at it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, three straight intense divisional games and now you
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  Speaker 4: guys are facing US three and eight Jets team at
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  Speaker 4: ten am. Start that something. The leaders on the team
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  Speaker 4: are talking about making sure that the intensity stays where
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  Speaker 4: it's been.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, it was it was intense and walkthroughs today,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, man, guys are just taking this thing one,
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  Speaker 1: one game at a time. We're gonna treat each game
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  Speaker 1: like a playoff game from here on out until we
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  Speaker 1: get to that point. And uh yeah, the leaders are
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  Speaker 1: doing a great job and making sure guys are focused.
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  Speaker 1: I think Mike's doing a great job and making sure
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  Speaker 1: we're focused. That was the message today. You know, they're
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  Speaker 1: a very talented team. The record, you know, doesn't describe
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  Speaker 1: the type of team they are. They've been in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of close games and they're a great second half
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  Speaker 1: team as well. They're gonna be at home coming off
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  Speaker 1: of buye. You know, they're trying to turn their season around,
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  Speaker 1: trying to finish on a good note, and so they
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  Speaker 1: don't care that we're coming in and or what we
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  Speaker 1: have going on. Again, this is the NFL. They got
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, they got great players on that on that team,
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  Speaker 1: and we got to go out there and we gotta
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  Speaker 1: take it. It's gonna be tough, but you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got the right mentality in the right guys.
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  Speaker 2: What might give you a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of credit for the chuck you made on that run
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  Speaker 4: to Zach, I guess how much pride you take in
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  Speaker 4: that part of that game and catch of the ability
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  Speaker 4: to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I take extreme pride in, you know, being able
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  Speaker 1: to play this game from the neck up. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's why I've been able to last this long into
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  Speaker 1: my career. I'm not just out there playing off athleticism.
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  Speaker 1: There is a rhyme and the reason to the decisions
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  Speaker 1: that I make. And so you know, when I'm out there,
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  Speaker 1: it's a chess game, I'm up against the decordinator, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I get the final say because I'm on
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  Speaker 1: the field. So I take that personally, and I try
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm always putting us in the
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  Speaker 1: right position, getting us into the right plays. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if there's a zero check or if there's something that
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  Speaker 1: you know, we talked about during the week and I
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  Speaker 1: catch it on the field, you know, and make sure
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  Speaker 1: I get to it. And uh, I think it's been
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  Speaker 1: helping us out so.
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  Speaker 4: You were Leonard Williams as the best New York restaurant recommendations.
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  Speaker 1: For the team, Probably Leonard, uh you know he uh
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot heavier than I am, so probably eat
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  Speaker 1: some more. But no, I mean I've I've definitely got
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  Speaker 1: some some decent ones. Maybe Reo Sparks a couple of
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  Speaker 1: my favorites, but other than that, you know, I really
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  Speaker 1: didn't frequent too many spots in the NYC. Thank you, guys,