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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "Just stay the course.” · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: All right, how bad was the weather there in person?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it got it got, uh significantly worse as
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  Speaker 1: the game wore on. It was kind of easy, light, rain, wind,
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  Speaker 1: and then as it progressed, it got heavier rain and
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  Speaker 1: heavier wind. Um, and then it sort of led up
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  Speaker 1: towards the end again. But um, you know it was
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  Speaker 1: wind was blown kind of into our our faces on
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  Speaker 1: the sidelines, it was across wind on the field, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, um, it wasn't it wasn't easy. Has had
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  Speaker 1: some ball security issues last season, three or four games
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  Speaker 1: with multiple fumbles. Then Sunday's matchup. Is there a way
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  Speaker 1: you can something you can simply correct with him to
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  Speaker 1: to help him with the fumbles or you know, we
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  Speaker 1: just gotta make sure there's two hands on the ball
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  Speaker 1: number one. Um. You know, I know one thing that
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  Speaker 1: some guys have done in the past, and we'll just
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  Speaker 1: have a conversation as that use those wet gloves, you know,
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  Speaker 1: those those passing type gloves. And it's something that you
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  Speaker 1: know now listen, it's it's a it's an end of
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  Speaker 1: visual preference to It's nothing that I would definitely force
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  Speaker 1: him to wear, but something to have that conversation at
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  Speaker 1: least too, you know, if we know we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: in some some bad weather and clement weather like that
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  Speaker 1: to do. But you know, we just gotta focus on
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  Speaker 1: two hands on the ball and and just making sure
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  Speaker 1: that we um do everything in our power to keep
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  Speaker 1: it in our hands. Did y'all have those gloves on
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  Speaker 1: the sideline for him? I don't know that. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that. Did a jamala the opportunity he had show
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  Speaker 1: you exactly what you wanted to see. Yeah, yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: exactly the type of player that we expected. Not just
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  Speaker 1: a part return or a specialist that way. But you
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  Speaker 1: know he's uh, he's smart, tough, UM, very good athlete,
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  Speaker 1: good quickness, you know, catches the ball well, receiver UM,
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  Speaker 1: and and did did some nice things in the game
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  Speaker 1: anywhere after the balls when you've got a guy is
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  Speaker 1: kind of trying to work through that, how are they
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  Speaker 1: able to kind of do that? It was the process
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  Speaker 1: with him to go to their head and would kind
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  Speaker 1: of look ther havatat again. Well, you would hope that
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  Speaker 1: that we could, you know, if we if we were
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  Speaker 1: a little more efficient running the football, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: help him kind of get get the offense going a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, you know, as we sort of struggle to
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  Speaker 1: move the ball in the middle part of the game there,
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  Speaker 1: you know that that helps a quarterback kind of settle in. UM.
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  Speaker 1: Getting him out of the pocket a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: was you know, by design was good you know for him.
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  Speaker 1: Things like that that we can do as as coaches
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  Speaker 1: and play callers to um, you know, help those you know,
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  Speaker 1: help a guy like Trevor in those situations where he's
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  Speaker 1: not constantly in the pocket. Where you know, when you
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  Speaker 1: get a good pass rush um, you know, uh, kind
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  Speaker 1: of closing the pocket. That's where some of the hands
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  Speaker 1: get in and the arms get in, and that's where
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, sometimes the ball gets a little loose
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  Speaker 1: and gets knocked out of your hands. How do you
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  Speaker 1: work with the young quarterback on end of game situations?
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  Speaker 1: And your two losses this year, you've had the ball
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  Speaker 1: late in the game with a chance to go down
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  Speaker 1: and drive to win or tie. Both of those drives
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  Speaker 1: ended in turnovers. How do you work with Trevor on
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  Speaker 1: those end of game kind of scenarios. I just gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep keep doing it, keep putting them in those situations, UM,
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  Speaker 1: you know, keep putting the team in those situations and
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we'll get better. You know, we just learned
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  Speaker 1: from them and and honestly keep working them, keep talking
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  Speaker 1: about them, and and uh, you know the day will
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  Speaker 1: come when we when we learn how to do that
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  Speaker 1: and overcome that. In your history, is there's something in
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  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks that are really good in those situations that's
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  Speaker 1: different or the way they approached them, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: the good ones obviously, and I feel Trevor's in that.
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  Speaker 1: In that group as we go, you know, they want
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  Speaker 1: the ball in their hands. And and that's when you
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  Speaker 1: look around Brady and Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers, they want
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  Speaker 1: the ball in their hands, you know, Josh Allen, they
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  Speaker 1: want the ball in their hands at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game to go win the game. And you know
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  Speaker 1: those are with a young quarterback we got we have
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  Speaker 1: to have more opportunity obviously to do that. We've had
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  Speaker 1: a couple this year, but we want to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that when we do have the football at the end,
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  Speaker 1: that we stay you know, stay aggressive, maintain you know
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  Speaker 1: that mentality, especially at the quarterback position, and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know everybody kind of rides rides his coattail, you know,
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  Speaker 1: down the field, and score win you know, win the game.
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  Speaker 1: In retrospect, beginning of your first suggestion to third quarter,
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  Speaker 1: do you think you should have run the ball a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more in that situation at least just turned
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  Speaker 1: out or with is what the defense was given you Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we started out we had uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had Trevor on the run, you know, early in
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  Speaker 1: that third I think the first or second play the
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  Speaker 1: half he was on the run, had had a chance
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  Speaker 1: either hit Dan honorable Christian and and you know didn't
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  Speaker 1: ended up taking taking a sack in that situation. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that was on first down because it was
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  Speaker 1: second eleven after that. So you know, those are all
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  Speaker 1: ways of sort of extending the run. Um they were
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  Speaker 1: you know, on first down they were putting five you know,
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  Speaker 1: five lineman you know on the on the live of
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  Speaker 1: scrim are making a little bit harder, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: run the football. They were uh you know, blitz in
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  Speaker 1: the safety make a little bit harder to run the
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  Speaker 1: run the football. So we felt like our best opportunities
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  Speaker 1: to just kind of get get him out of the pocket.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you lie a little play action pass and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, um, try to get the ball moving
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  Speaker 1: that way, that many turnovers, the team never quit. At
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  Speaker 1: the end of the game, you're still well end up
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  Speaker 1: losing by one score. Can you learn something from a
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  Speaker 1: young team that kept battling through what felt like three
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  Speaker 1: quarters of just about everything that could go wrong going wrong? Um? Yes, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously it is what it is. We lost
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  Speaker 1: a football game. But when you look at it, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's place to be made, you know, and our guys
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  Speaker 1: we'll learn to make them, you know as we go
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  Speaker 1: in time, they'll learn to do that. And you know
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  Speaker 1: it's uh there teachable moments, um. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you start running out of time, right Your
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  Speaker 1: season is moving a long, it's moving fast, and we're
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  Speaker 1: in the week five and we keep saying there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ball ahead of us and all that. But
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  Speaker 1: if we don't fix it, you know, you're gonna look
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  Speaker 1: up and you're gonna you're gonna say, I wish, I
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  Speaker 1: wish I could you know, or or that should have
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  Speaker 1: would have could have a deal. Um. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: very very teachable um moments for us as an offense,
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  Speaker 1: for a team, even even defensively, you know, to make
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  Speaker 1: make the plays that come to You don't go chasing plays.
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  Speaker 1: You know when they come make them, and you know
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  Speaker 1: we'll be better off for quad, it's quad. Calf was fine.
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  Speaker 1: It was his quad in this game, and he's day
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  Speaker 1: to day right now. Yeah, just your personality or I
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  Speaker 1: think it's both. Um, it is my personality. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the guys know when when I get upset and they
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  Speaker 1: see it, you know, I'm not gonna show it publicly,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Um, I don't think does anybody in good
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  Speaker 1: that way. And but at the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if if I'm the one that's all over the place emotionally, uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's no calmness amongst the team, and and I feel
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  Speaker 1: like if I'm calm, they're calm. You know. If I'm erratic,
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  Speaker 1: they could be erratic. And and so it's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit a little bit of both, probably my personality, but
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, I just want to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that and I don't ever want to let the opponent
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  Speaker 1: know that they've gotten under your skin too, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and all of that. So we just we
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  Speaker 1: just stay stay, stay the course. Two really good games.
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  Speaker 1: Was yesterday a setback for Trevor Or World, just a blipic.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hope it's a blip, you know. Um, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's a setback. I think I just think
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  Speaker 1: it's a blip. I just think it's it's um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just hate to say it, but maybe it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those games during the season where just nothing really
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  Speaker 1: goes right, you know, and it happens. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'd never make excuses. You know, we have to do
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  Speaker 1: a better job of hanging on the football. He knows
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  Speaker 1: that that's the prize possession out there. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: we make the plays that were left on the field,
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  Speaker 1: it might be a different outcome today. Yeah. Oh yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're disappointed, they're mad, they're upset, they know. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think that I think they're starting to believe just
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  Speaker 1: how you know, special they are, how good they can be.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Um, sometimes we just have to get out
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  Speaker 1: of our own way and and just kind of go
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  Speaker 1: play and there's a channel, right, Yeah, for sure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to channel. It's it's you know, it's waving
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  Speaker 1: the flags like here I am, let's just let's just go.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Also, keep in mind that was a dorn
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  Speaker 1: good football team you were playing yesterday. That's a great
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  Speaker 1: football team. Yeah, the guys going to be in a
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  Speaker 1: conversation in the January. The Eagles, I think in that
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  Speaker 1: division they're in, Yeah, and I think in the in
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  Speaker 1: the NFC, I think they'll be one of the teams
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  Speaker 1: at the end. Um they're they're playing, they're playing really
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  Speaker 1: aggressive on defense, and offensively, they're they're efficient. Obviously, they
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  Speaker 1: ran the ball well yesterday. Um, their quarterback is playing
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  Speaker 1: at a high level. They got skill on the perimeter,
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  Speaker 1: it got a really good tight end. So I think
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  Speaker 1: I think overall, yeah, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's a that's a playoff team. You know that, Um,
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  Speaker 1: we still had chances of beating and and unfortunately we didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I think, so, Yeah, he was looking good today. Have
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  Speaker 1: a couple more days of rest and see where he's
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  Speaker 1: at on Wednesday. But I think he'll be I think
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  Speaker 1: he'll be ready to go. Yesterday obviously didn't go well.
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  Speaker 1: But you've got an ANFC South game coming up this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: How important is it to kind of get right this week? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you have to, you know, it's definitely one of the
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  Speaker 1: goals we've talked about, you know, Um, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and you know Houston. When you look at Houston too,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is this team. You know, the win
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  Speaker 1: loss record may not be what they think it should
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  Speaker 1: be or where it should be, but this is this
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  Speaker 1: is a good football team. They're they're really aggressive defensively,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're young, they fly around, They've got some top
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  Speaker 1: draft picks over there, they went out and got some
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  Speaker 1: some quality free agents, and um, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a group that uh, you know, you better come
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  Speaker 1: ready to play and and uh you know, and offensively
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  Speaker 1: might be young and some spots quarterback being one of them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and just being able to handle that. And
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  Speaker 1: so we just got to have a great week of preparation,
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  Speaker 1: just keep focusing on on us and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fix the mistakes from from this past week and and
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  Speaker 1: go play than al guys. Thanks