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Press Pass | Oluokun, Strange, and Morse on Week 15 Loss to Jets · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Kind of out of uh out of words to describe
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  Speaker 1: some of the same old stuff for.
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  Speaker 2: What we gotta execute the little plays like within the
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  Speaker 2: game and then down the stretch if you want to
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  Speaker 2: win those games. I mean, NFL you never know which
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  Speaker 2: plays to win and play and uh yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I could talk about it every time it happened, but
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  Speaker 2: it's basically the same stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how bother some of the buss this late
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  Speaker 1: in the season, just guys the big plays and the
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  Speaker 1: guys that.
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  Speaker 2: Have saw little plays turned the big plays. Like just
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  Speaker 2: simple communications. Uh really is how you play. I think
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  Speaker 2: the communication was good, just how you go throughout the play.
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  Speaker 2: But you gotta understand offenses might understand what you're communicating,
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  Speaker 2: understand your your assignments and then do a little variation
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  Speaker 2: on o like that that changes, you know, responsibilities a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, just how you're reading the play. Uh So
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  Speaker 2: keep learning, keep growing. We got you know, we got
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  Speaker 2: young guys and stuff. Just keep learning, keep growing, keep
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  Speaker 2: over communicating out there. I want to see it keep
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  Speaker 2: growing to the end of the year because regardless of
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  Speaker 2: what happens, I think we can all become better football
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  Speaker 2: players by the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, how how much credit does go
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  Speaker 1: to a guy like Rodris, who's who's so experienced.
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  Speaker 3: Get spots one more time, he's.
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  Speaker 1: So experienced at getting in bad spots right or put
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  Speaker 1: getting the defense and bad guy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I mean he's a the It's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of football.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So I think we're on him pretty well the
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  Speaker 2: first half and then, uh, you can't he can't bust really,
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  Speaker 2: Uh to the check check check. It's got to own
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  Speaker 2: on your job there and execute the play.
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  Speaker 3: How good?
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  Speaker 1: How good was the I don't know if you got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to see how good that third and ten
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  Speaker 1: was him and he just typically caught it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he caught it. I'm gonna watch it again. He
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  Speaker 3: caught it. He caught it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it was great play. Then through throwing catch that's
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  Speaker 2: what they used to do back in the day. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you know there he was trusting them and he
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  Speaker 2: threw it in a good location. You know, Tysan was
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  Speaker 2: right there. Just Uh, I guess we gotta finish that
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  Speaker 2: play better.
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  Speaker 4: It looked like the defense kind of left and score
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  Speaker 4: as last touchdowns, So you got to stay on the
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  Speaker 4: offense same time of their offense. Is that what happened.
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  Speaker 3: That's situational ball. We needed the ball back in order
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  Speaker 3: to win.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise just gonna need me knee or whatever and uh
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  Speaker 2: kick the field goal to win.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, uh he wanted the ball back.
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  Speaker 4: Were you a little surprised that they didn't take a
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  Speaker 4: knee in that situation?
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  Speaker 2: That's you know, they gotta be better situations. I actually played,
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  Speaker 2: uh the Falcons. We ran that thing and then Todd
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  Speaker 2: scored and then we ended up not winning.
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  Speaker 3: So I was happy they forgot that situation.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know what they were thinking over there, actually,
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  Speaker 2: Britt Wizard, Yeah, yep.
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  Speaker 4: The success don uh Davante had in the second half,
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  Speaker 4: was that just a great player being great with Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta go back and watch it. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's a great player. Rogers a great player. Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I would say so. I think uh a lot of
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  Speaker 2: our I I think communication was pretty good, So I
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  Speaker 2: gotta watch how he was catching the ball and everything.
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  Speaker 3: But obviously we need to get better and keep growing
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  Speaker 3: as a defense.
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  Speaker 1: Brent, was that the best performance you guys felt like
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  Speaker 1: offensively of the year.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, it felt pretty good, but it wasn't enough to win.
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  Speaker 5: So at the end of the day, all we care
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  Speaker 5: about is winning around here, and so it really doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 5: you know. It's it's cool to go out there and
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  Speaker 5: execute a little bit better than we have in the
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  Speaker 5: past weeks, but we didn't do enough to win the game,
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  Speaker 5: and that's all it matters.
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  Speaker 1: Double digit catches for you, What were you finding in
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  Speaker 1: terms of success?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think the opportunities just came my way.
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  Speaker 5: Uh here we say don't don't chase plays, and plays
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  Speaker 5: came my way. So I made the place and I
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  Speaker 5: pride myself on being a being a reliable player for
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  Speaker 5: this team, and that's what I do.
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  Speaker 3: So like that of an Ingram world, if you get
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  Speaker 3: the ball up like you Yeah, hopefully my dog gets
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  Speaker 3: back soon healthy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How much fight did you guys show there? I mean
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  Speaker 1: you're down a bunch of guys and and to be
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  Speaker 1: able to come out and really put together a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good performance without them, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, yeah, we showed fight.
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  Speaker 5: But like at the end of the day, like I'm saying, like,
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  Speaker 5: all we want to do is win games, Like you
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  Speaker 5: go out there and fight off all the wrong but
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  Speaker 5: if you don't win the game at the end of
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  Speaker 5: the day, go home, It don't matter. So, uh that's
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  Speaker 5: all I focus on, and that's all everybody on this
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  Speaker 5: team focus on, is trying to win games.
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  Speaker 6: So, oh, Jos, if you've already been asked, could you
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  Speaker 6: just talk about the impact and the electricity that Brian
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  Speaker 6: Thomas continues to show for this team.
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  Speaker 5: He's a great player. What do he break the day
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  Speaker 5: the franchise record from He.
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  Speaker 6: Broke the franchise rookie receiving record and marries about forty
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  Speaker 6: yards five thousand something like that.
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  Speaker 3: So that speaks for usself.
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  Speaker 5: Man, he's a great player, and he's been great since
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  Speaker 5: he stepped in the building.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I noticed it a long time ago. Uh.
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  Speaker 5: DT continues to do great to do great things, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm proud of him. He's gonna keep going. He's gonna
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  Speaker 5: keep getting better. So he's really impressive. And like I said,
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  Speaker 5: he's only gonna keep getting better.
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  Speaker 6: Have you ever seen a receiver who's as productive as
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  Speaker 6: him but has no diva like qualities at all?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure, yeah there are some like but yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure there's some. Uh that's not that's a hard question.
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  Speaker 5: I guess you know, we don't really have divas on
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  Speaker 5: this team, you know, so uh, I mean all none
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  Speaker 5: of our receivers are devas. Everybody goes out there and
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  Speaker 5: works hard and handles their business. So uh, it's a
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  Speaker 5: salute to the people they they bring in the building.
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  Speaker 4: I'm here. You gotta play it really well. Does it
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  Speaker 4: feel like it just like kind of one or two
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  Speaker 4: players away from when it some of these games.
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  Speaker 5: That's exactly what it is. It's one in two plays
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  Speaker 5: every game, I mean whatever. We launched each game, last
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  Speaker 5: seven games by seven points or something.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, it's tough.
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  Speaker 5: But we'll watch the film, figure out the mistakes and
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  Speaker 5: and get better.
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  Speaker 1: Is it is it hard to because of that that
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  Speaker 1: you haven't been able to figure that out and then
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  Speaker 1: to figure just what it takes to win.
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  Speaker 5: Man, I love playing football, so uh, I can't speak
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  Speaker 5: for anybody else, but I this is what I love
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  Speaker 5: to do.
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  Speaker 3: I've done in my home entire life.
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  Speaker 5: So I it sucks, and it's things, it hurts all
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  Speaker 5: of that, but i'm'a come in on Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday,
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  Speaker 5: whatever it is, and and be ready to work and
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  Speaker 5: get my best effort, cause I I just love this.
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  Speaker 1: We see flashes of you you haven't had tons of opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: How important is this next few weeks stretch to to
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  Speaker 1: build off what you just did today.
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  Speaker 5: It's really important. But I mean, I'm not gonna do
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  Speaker 5: anything more. I'm just gonna be myself. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't. I don't try to be anybody. I'm I'm
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  Speaker 5: I don't try to do too much. If the if
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  Speaker 5: the ball comes my way, I'm gonna make the player
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  Speaker 5: and uh, I'm go'na.
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  Speaker 3: Try to score. Uh.
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  Speaker 5: That's my mindset and that's my mentality every time the
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  Speaker 5: balls in my hands, just try to score.
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  Speaker 3: The next mentality uh speaks volumes cause the next man up.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of injured guys, y'all have been making huge plays,
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  Speaker 4: stepping up. What does it say about those guys who
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  Speaker 4: are just stepping up, who didn't get many reps first
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  Speaker 4: half of the season, who are getting all the reps now.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's a salute to the work
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  Speaker 5: that we did all off season. And it's just the
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  Speaker 5: guys we have in this building. We have, we have
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  Speaker 5: death like we know, we have good players. It's just
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  Speaker 5: about winning games, that's all.
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  Speaker 3: It is. Just winning games. That's all we gotta figure out.
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  Speaker 3: Mitch obviously, you guys can get the outcome wanted.
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  Speaker 4: Did you feel like the offense though most this is
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  Speaker 4: one of your better performances in terms of getting something
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  Speaker 4: going and kind of keeping it going.
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  Speaker 3: Well. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: I think what we were able to do is eat
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  Speaker 4: up some time possession, especially in the first half, and
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  Speaker 4: then being able to score early was nice. And listen,
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  Speaker 4: we didn't execute in certain areas and that's why we
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  Speaker 4: are uh, and the losers calm, so I figure it out,
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  Speaker 4: love the fight out of the guys, and all we
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  Speaker 4: can do is continue to fight these next three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Is that your best offensive performance? Did you feel like
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  Speaker 1: coming in terms of rhythm and trying to do what
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  Speaker 1: you were trying to do?
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  Speaker 4: I thought we were able to keep a rhythm right.
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  Speaker 4: We were able to convert third and shorts make it
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  Speaker 4: an opportunity to uh, you know, at least have the
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  Speaker 4: defense thinking of that, you know, sustaining drives fifteen play drives,
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  Speaker 4: so on and so forth. Like that's a huge momentum
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  Speaker 4: boost for not only the offense but for your team.
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  Speaker 4: So uh, just continue to do those things and listen,
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  Speaker 4: keep battling, keep competing, keep working, and let the chips
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  Speaker 4: fall where they may. I mean, that's that's the nature
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  Speaker 4: of this thing, you know, I.
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  Speaker 3: Know you want a chance to win.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are giving yourself a chance to just keep
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  Speaker 1: knocking on the door. Not seeing it go through. Has
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  Speaker 1: got to be just tough, if I guess, maybe more
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  Speaker 1: than that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I think it's extremely frustrating. But we got
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  Speaker 4: a good group of guys that, uh win or lose,
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  Speaker 4: will stick to you know, stick with it and stick
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  Speaker 4: with each other. And I think this locker room's done
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  Speaker 4: a fantastic, fantastic job through thick and thin this year
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  Speaker 4: of rallying around each other. So you know, we could
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  Speaker 4: get I mean, it could be the exact opposite, and
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  Speaker 4: guys haven't let that happen. So I very appreciative of that.
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  Speaker 4: And it makes coming to work a lot easier.
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  Speaker 3: So better backfoot.
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  Speaker 1: Can you see it coming now?
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  Speaker 4: I gotta tell you one of the more impressive things
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  Speaker 4: I've ever seen on a football field. And I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure if I had a sack, I'd try to
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  Speaker 4: do the same things that my knees and ankles would explode,
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  Speaker 4: break my neck probably.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It was a remarkable thing and he deserved it.
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  Speaker 4: Does a great Sack. How old do you think his
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: team's adjusted to losing.
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  Speaker 3: Cam, Kirk, all the guys losing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Trail again, the trade of Cam losing, Kirk
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  Speaker 4: losing game, losing Evan.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I see, yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think this year has been whether it's trade, aid
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  Speaker 4: or injury, has been trying for this offense. But at
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  Speaker 4: the same time I was saying earlier, we have a
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  Speaker 4: great group of dudes who rally around each other, and
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  Speaker 4: no matter who's out there, we're gonna try to put
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  Speaker 4: our best steat forward and it's all we can continue
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  Speaker 4: to do these next few games and
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  Speaker 3: Let the Chips fow where they may