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Oklahoma Head Coach Brent Venables Missouri Post Game Press Conference · Sooner or Later Sports

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Speaker 1: All right, hey listen, man, I'm so thankful for the mindset,
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Speaker 1: the great the toughness of this football team called Grimy.
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Speaker 1: That was a grimmy. They're a grimmy group and I
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Speaker 1: say that with great, great respect. Yeah, relentless mindset, passionate
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Speaker 1: about one another, their opportunity, love to compete, and never
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Speaker 1: losing hope or belief. You know, they're playing a really
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Speaker 1: good team that's been a really good team against everybody
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Speaker 1: they've played. They've played all the one score games outside
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Speaker 1: of the A and M game that really blew up
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Speaker 1: into the third quarter after a fake punt and backup
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Speaker 1: quarterback that played for him, so you know, and the
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Speaker 1: stats aren't really there's nothing to quote unquote really you know,
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Speaker 1: brag about for y'all. Love to you know, pump up.
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Speaker 1: Everybody gets excited about a lot of offensive statistical things
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Speaker 1: that show up. But man, I know, we we out again.
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Speaker 1: We had more yards per play and more yards per
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Speaker 1: carry three point two to two point zero. In the
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Speaker 1: yards per carry four point five to four point two
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Speaker 1: and yards per play. We did what we needed to
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Speaker 1: do to win. And you know, we tried to push
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Speaker 1: the ball down the field, didn't really go our way
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Speaker 1: like we wanted to, except when they hit Setani in
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Speaker 1: the you know, on the slant and he was what
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Speaker 1: a great play, you know that was. And but the
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Speaker 1: second half, I think they had nine rushes went for
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Speaker 1: zero yards, and I thought, again, defensively just again, punt
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Speaker 1: punt interception, punt punt downs interception. Just second half was fantastic.
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Speaker 1: We had a great drive, we had to settle for
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Speaker 1: a field goal coming out of halftime, and just some
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Speaker 1: amazing moments. You know, I'm always fired up when we're
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Speaker 1: playing to our ability, and uh, you know, made a
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Speaker 1: few slight adjustments in the second half defensively, and really
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Speaker 1: our guys just man their will and their toughness. We're
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Speaker 1: just you know, fantastic. The offensively again, hard to get
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Speaker 1: into a really good rhythm. Again, we've we've got to
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Speaker 1: be better. There's more there, and we missed some opportunities
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Speaker 1: to stay on schedule and we'll learn from those. And
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Speaker 1: again I told the team, we've again we were eight
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Speaker 1: and two last week, we're nine to two this week,
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Speaker 1: and nobody is. I'm proud of our guys for a
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Speaker 1: body of work and a relentless commitment, and but nobody's
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Speaker 1: again handing out trophies. There's no badge of honor other
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Speaker 1: than you know, playing you know the game a certain
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Speaker 1: way and physical, took care of the ball. Plus two. Again,
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Speaker 1: we're plus ten the last three games and or ten
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Speaker 1: ten turnovers the last three games. And that's that's how
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Speaker 1: you got to go win. And you know, we had
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Speaker 1: two takeaways the first six games and then ten in
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Speaker 1: our our last five games. So really great work. And
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Speaker 1: uh so with that'll open it.
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Speaker 2: Up to Isaiah, you weren't playing great at the time
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Speaker 2: things are going against you.
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Speaker 1: It seemed not just flip the score, but flipped them
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Speaker 1: who wasn't playing great the offense. Maybe they weren't either. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but you're giving up a driver too that you weren't
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Speaker 1: proud of.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure too, but either way, Yeah, I mean it
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Speaker 2: seemed to flip the score but also flip the momentum
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Speaker 2: from that for the rest of the day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's fair. I mean it really created
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Speaker 1: a spark. We go up seven to three. There is that, right,
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Speaker 1: went up seven to three. Yeah, huge play Again against
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Speaker 1: the defense quality of Missouri, you can create an explosive play,
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Speaker 1: hit a guy on a runner and make some guys
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Speaker 1: miss and uh, you know, leaves them eighty yard almost
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Speaker 1: eighty r touchdown and that's a huge play in these
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Speaker 1: kind of games, absolutely, uh. And it created momentum and
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Speaker 1: you know, belief and all of those things. So it
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Speaker 1: takes those things, you know, to the ability to execute,
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Speaker 1: be able to protect, be able to get open and
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Speaker 1: catch them in the right call. So a great job
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Speaker 1: you know by John and the line and Isaiah. You know,
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Speaker 1: they had that first drive and he had a few
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Speaker 1: runs there and I think you know, sitting in your
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Speaker 1: opening statement, you made adjustments in the second half and
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Speaker 1: you started to make yah right after the first drive.
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Speaker 1: You know, again they're gonna get someone. We were a
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Speaker 1: little soft, and sometimes we're playing coverage and we're light
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Speaker 1: light box and see what we can get away with.
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Speaker 1: You don't always know, you know, until you get on
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Speaker 1: game day when you just can't sit there and load
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Speaker 1: the box every play either. And sometimes it's a cat
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Speaker 1: and mouse game. It's you know, and for for them,
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Speaker 1: you know, their job is to try to keep us
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Speaker 1: off balance and our job is to do the same.
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Speaker 1: And then you start figuring out where your matchups are
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Speaker 1: and kind of what they're leaning into. From a DNA,
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Speaker 1: and you can tell what they believe by what they do,
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Speaker 1: you know, and how they are attacking you. And so
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Speaker 1: our job is to identify that quickly and be better.
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Speaker 1: And I thought we we got better. I told y'all.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I didn't tell you, but you know I told somebody.
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Speaker 1: But I spoke to here the media wise this week
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Speaker 1: that a lot of their games early they they give up.
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Speaker 1: Teams have given up a lot of rushing yards to
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Speaker 1: them early in the games because the it's hard to emulate,
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Speaker 1: rather simulate emulate, you know, it's kind of like a
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Speaker 1: triple option team. You know, the the precision of their
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Speaker 1: old line, the style of runs. It's not a whole
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Speaker 1: lot of teams that do what they do and how
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Speaker 1: they do it. And then the power of the running backs,
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Speaker 1: you know, their their their balance, their strength, their explosiveness,
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Speaker 1: their center of gravity. There it's hard and again usually
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Speaker 1: you see that. And but thankfully we started knocking the
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Speaker 1: pile backwards a little bit more often and pushed the
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Speaker 1: pile the right way and got things under control. And
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Speaker 1: again the first half, I think they had field goal
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Speaker 1: fourteen play and then they went punt punt and they
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Speaker 1: had a field goal attempt, six play, sixty yard drive
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Speaker 1: and then they go three and out punt and then
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Speaker 1: we did a crappy job right before half on the
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Speaker 1: two minute drill, just crappy by US coaches, and gave
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Speaker 1: up a seventy seven yard drive there right before half,
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Speaker 1: just because we we just didn't we didn't, I didn't
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Speaker 1: call it right. And then but came out in second
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Speaker 1: half man and just really again punt punt interception, punt
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Speaker 1: punt downs interception. I know, I said that already a bit,
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Speaker 1: so it's uh, you know, so our guys really buckled down,
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Speaker 1: you know. Grayson Holton had a career high seven tackles,
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Speaker 1: Eli intercepted another one great play there. We had several
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Speaker 1: opportunities and some really compive places. You know. We had
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Speaker 1: the penalties to go the wrong way and I thought
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Speaker 1: we were really competitive spots there, and we gave up
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Speaker 1: a few of those conversions, you know, gave them the
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Speaker 1: ball back, you know, a team that's hard to defend
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Speaker 1: and give them the ball back, you know, and some
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Speaker 1: of those we gave them. I don't know if that's
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Speaker 1: three or four penalties. We had one on the sideline
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Speaker 1: that doesn't represent US the right way and everybody deserves
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Speaker 1: some grace and got to be better there. And then
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Speaker 1: Reggie got kicked out of the game. How'd that look
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Speaker 1: on tape on the Yeah? Was it? But anyway, guys
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Speaker 1: did what we needed to do. And I love the
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Speaker 1: cadence and the rhythm of this team. And you know,
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Speaker 1: having done this a long time and been on different
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Speaker 1: teams that have different styles and different DNA, this is
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Speaker 1: we got a really nice cadence and rhythm, belief system, synergy.
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Speaker 1: I've been talking about that. I think that was a
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Speaker 1: difference maker today. And uh, but more than anything, guys
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Speaker 1: just grimy and winning a certain way. And it starts
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Speaker 1: with mindset, the physicality, taking care of the ball, being
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Speaker 1: patient when you need to, taking what's there. And we
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Speaker 1: can be better in all those areas you know, need
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Speaker 1: to be better and continue to improve. I believe that
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Speaker 1: there's tremendous opportunity to continue to improve. You know, several
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Speaker 1: guys again they are playing significant roles, are still very
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Speaker 1: young players, and we'll continue to get better. And a
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Speaker 1: getting got another great, great challenge, you know, sitting in
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Speaker 1: front of us here going into you know, next weekend.
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Speaker 1: Earlier this week about your running back to Robinson days,
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Speaker 1: that man dragging him. He showed up on Monday and
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Speaker 1: he got a spray knee. And this is the guy
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Speaker 1: some guys might run to the sideline of the training
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Speaker 1: room and and uh he didn't. And he's like, put
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Speaker 1: me in a brace, you know, let me go on Monday,
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know that's what guys from Carl Albert do.
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Speaker 1: You know, they show up, you know, even when it hurts,
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I mean going into you know,
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Speaker 1: talking to our players back in fall camp, you know,
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Speaker 1: talked about you know, you this is football and there's
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Speaker 1: not if you're if you're playing a role there, you're
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Speaker 1: probably not going to feel one hundred percent from here
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Speaker 1: on out moving forward. And you want to play this
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Speaker 1: game at a high level and you want to be
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Speaker 1: successful and somebody that has value, then man, you're you're
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Speaker 1: laying on the line at seventy seventy five eighty percent.
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Speaker 1: And you know that's that's the reality. And so we
9:34
Speaker 1: can't have a bunch of race cars around here Lamborghini's
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Speaker 1: that everything's got to be just right and have the
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Speaker 1: premium fuel and the nug the lug nuts and all
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Speaker 1: those got to be just right. You know, this is football,
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Speaker 1: and I just have a great appreciation for our team
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Speaker 1: that share that you know, vision and philosophy, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna miss this opportunity. So uh talked
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Speaker 1: about respect for winning, respect for what it takes, respect
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Speaker 1: for the jersey, the on the front, the name on
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Speaker 1: the back, respect for this opportunity. These opportunities what's in
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Speaker 1: front of us don't always happen, So don't don't don't
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Speaker 1: get bored with it. You know, the routine, the structure,
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Speaker 1: week eleven, whatever, week twelve, whatever it is. You know,
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Speaker 1: really value you know, this opportunity and respect for your
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Speaker 1: teammates too. And nobody can have success by themselves and
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Speaker 1: we're all dependent upon each other to to share in
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Speaker 1: that success. And so you know, show back up, ready
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Speaker 1: to go, you know, renew your spirit, get your get
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Speaker 1: your mind right, enjoy tonight and stay humble, stay thankful,
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Speaker 1: stay hungry, and get ready to go back at it
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Speaker 1: again here you know, on Monday, reconstrate with the Bond
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Speaker 1: Brothers come through for you. Yeah, I mean, I love
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Speaker 1: those guys. I mean, they're they're joy to coach, They
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Speaker 1: let you push the they they're willing to have honest conversations. Uh,
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Speaker 1: they take responsibility when it ain't good, no finger point
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Speaker 1: and no blame. That's just two guys that represent everything
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Speaker 1: that we're about the right wayther excellent playmakers and uh
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Speaker 1: nobody's perfect. And uh but uh great great young men,
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Speaker 1: great teammates, great family and uh, huge impact you know
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Speaker 1: for what we're doing on defense team.
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Speaker 2: And and today they're a football the cadence that's expected
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Speaker 2: as a lot of points and people get really uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: Who said you look around football in the SEC look
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Speaker 1: around that football.
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Speaker 2: Okay, maybe not as many, but I think that's the
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Speaker 2: sensibility of fans anymore. And getting comfortable with it not
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Speaker 2: being that way. You as a defensive guy, maybe that
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Speaker 2: is more naturally, but it doesn't.
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Speaker 1: You know, you live and die, and every conversion you
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Speaker 1: live and die, and every punt you know, you live
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Speaker 1: and die, and every miss block or drop ball you
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Speaker 1: really do. And so comfortable maybe maybe reasonable, but you know,
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Speaker 1: still we got it. We got to get better. We
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Speaker 1: you know, things can be a little easier if we
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Speaker 1: can get better.
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Speaker 2: Same time, you've got a defense right now that I
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Speaker 2: would assume, maybe it's not comfortable all the way around
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Speaker 2: when the offense isn't clicking, but you have to it
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Speaker 2: seems like feel confident of the formula.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got great maturity there. You know, we be
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Speaker 1: worrying about who's punting or if they're getting first downs.
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Speaker 1: You don't have no opinion on that. You know, that's
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Speaker 1: that's the mindset, and you go do your job. You know,
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Speaker 1: you should relish the opportunity to go back out there
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Speaker 1: and do it again, and do it again, and do
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Speaker 1: it again, and do it again, whatever it takes. That's
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Speaker 1: your job. And none of those guys need to be
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Speaker 1: concerned about being an offensive coordinator, and they're not. They're
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Speaker 1: a humble group of guys that they got big expectations
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Speaker 1: and high standards. And again, as we said going into
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Speaker 1: the year, we got a great group of guys that
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Speaker 1: are highly invested, and then we've recruited and attracted, you know,
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Speaker 1: a group of guys to join them that have the
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Speaker 1: same type of you know, mindset and standards.
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Speaker 2: Wait through that third quarter there, they had a fourth
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Speaker 2: and three.
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Speaker 1: They originally lined up to go for it, then you
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Speaker 1: called time out.
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Speaker 3: Then they opted to kick.
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Speaker 1: The field goal.
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Speaker 3: You guys blocked it. Can you talk me to sort
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Speaker 3: of that chest match to clean the two sidelines on
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Speaker 3: what you saw there?
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Speaker 1: Just how big of a change moment on that was? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, that was a great moment in the second half,
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Speaker 1: and we just wanted to get a peek at what
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Speaker 1: they were going to be in and we liked what
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Speaker 1: we had called, but wanted to see what, you know,
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Speaker 1: as much of a glimpse to make him go to
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Speaker 1: the next best play. You know, they probably had one
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Speaker 1: play they loved there. Maybe we saw it later when
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Speaker 1: they went for it and we stopped them on the
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Speaker 1: fourth down. But yeah, big play. I mean, let's face it,
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Speaker 1: the block kick. They've been leaking, their coverage, leaking, you know,
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Speaker 1: inconsistent and how they've kicked field goals, and so again
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Speaker 1: our defense to an amazing job there, uh at now
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Speaker 1: coming up with another huge stop, huge play, another again
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Speaker 1: blocked field goal, and our coaches did a great job
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Speaker 1: having you know, that was a very you know, defined plan,
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Speaker 1: you know, how we were going to attack them their protection.
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Speaker 3: And whether make or miss, obviously blocked it.
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Speaker 2: But do you count that as a win that you
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Speaker 2: got to out of what they wanted to do?
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Speaker 3: Saw?
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're always you know, I'd rather they
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Speaker 1: try the field goal. I don't know, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I just you, Yeah, I'd rather trot the field goal
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Speaker 1: unit out there, you know, and then there's an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to keep them out of the end zone. So, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, our guys did a great job there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: really good. Again. UH had to earn everything he was
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Speaker 1: given again, two touchdowns, one hundred and seventy five yards.
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Speaker 1: You know, missed a couple, made some really good plays.
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Speaker 1: Ran every single one of his yards were earned harder
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Speaker 1: and yards and uh again took care of the ball,
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Speaker 1: and that's a that's a winning formula. You know, had
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Speaker 1: good defense, good special teams, take care of the ball,
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Speaker 1: win the margin, out rush them again. That was again
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Speaker 1: the nation's you know, leader in rushing and the number
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Speaker 1: one team in the SEC comes to rushing per game,
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Speaker 1: and you know, our guys out rushing three point two
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Speaker 1: to two point zero, and so everything goes through the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: We all know that again one hundred percent in the
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Speaker 1: red zone. We got down there, were able to keep
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Speaker 1: that streak alive, scored a touchdown, and I had some
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Speaker 1: other opportunities we'll learn from talking about did you come
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Speaker 1: to what a good play that was. Right after Reggie
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Speaker 1: had the targeting. The next play, yeah, we had a
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Speaker 1: we had an edge pressure his zone blitz and he
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Speaker 1: did a great job. They came out with the formation
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Speaker 1: that we hadn't worked that exact route, but he just played,
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Speaker 1: you know, his fundamentals and technique within the scheme and
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Speaker 1: that that's a good a really good example of of
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Speaker 1: We've had some sound issues here in this room here
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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. So I think we're back
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Speaker 1: on and uh, right on time. But no, Jacobe, that
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Speaker 1: just shows his growth and mature. Remember he came here
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Speaker 1: as a country cover three corner, was really a dynamic
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Speaker 1: skill player on offense and that just for me, that
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Speaker 1: just showed this great maturity and his development. And had
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Speaker 1: big vision on they ran I think a maybe a
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Speaker 1: triple post and he had big vision on the on
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Speaker 1: the over quarterback didn't see him and then he got
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Speaker 1: himself in position, went chest to chest and then speed turning,
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Speaker 1: got his eyes background, became the receiver and uh it
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Speaker 1: was a clinic play and a huge play. You want
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Speaker 1: to talk about a momentum killer. And again, just everything
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Speaker 1: today was gonna be hard and uh, you know when
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Speaker 1: they got the automatic first down after getting a big stop,
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Speaker 1: I called to stop because man, we had a great
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Speaker 1: coverage and we had a breakup, we had tipped the
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Speaker 1: ball and uh and then to take that air right
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Speaker 1: back out of their side. And I'm huge, you know,
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Speaker 1: because they were they had some life early sometime midway
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Speaker 1: through the third quarter. Big play, huge play, one of
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Speaker 1: the probably the top four or five impactful plays in
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Speaker 1: the game in my opinion.
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Speaker 3: Led the team and tables today and obviously just sort
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Speaker 3: of the whole course of this year, he's had a
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Speaker 3: much bigger role than he did previously, and so I
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Speaker 3: just want to ask you what does it led to
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Speaker 3: him having such a big role.
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Speaker 1: Of this year's I'm thankful for his persistence, his determination.
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Speaker 1: He's you know, he's one of our He and Fabeci
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Speaker 1: where our Donkey Award winners. I mean, uh, man, he's
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Speaker 1: been nothing short of spectacular, uh, leading, showing up ready,
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Speaker 1: selfless and uh, like I said, this doesn't happen if
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Speaker 1: if he wasn't determined to make it happen. And those
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Speaker 1: in life, those that watch it happen, those that make
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Speaker 1: it happen, and those that wake up and say what
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Speaker 1: the hell happened? And he's a guy that has chosen
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Speaker 1: to make it happen, and you know, he's kind of
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Speaker 1: done the unthinkable in many ways. And it goes to
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Speaker 1: out of high school on scholarship to Ohio State as
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Speaker 1: a lacrosse player, and next thing you know, he's a
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Speaker 1: Donkey Award winner. He's on one of the best defenses
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Speaker 1: in college football, one of the best teams in college football,
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Speaker 1: and he's like has a big time role, big time impact.
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Speaker 1: So really a cool story and really really proud of him.
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Speaker 1: All Right, Thanks appreciate y'all.