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Press Pass | Jaguars Players Talk Prep for Week 3 Divisional Matchup Against Texans · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: You know, we kind of moved on to this week.
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  Speaker 1: This week is the most important day out of all
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  Speaker 1: the week. So all our folks are there. We got
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  Speaker 1: the game plan for first and second down. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna execute pretty well and uh ready for to
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  Speaker 1: get ready for them.
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  Speaker 2: All.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't feel any different than maybe years past.
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  Speaker 1: It it seemed like sometimes there a few times where
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  Speaker 1: you're like you lose and then the kind of snowball
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  Speaker 1: from there.
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  Speaker 3: Has there been any inches or or anything.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like as I said, man, I think we're
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  Speaker 1: taking today as today and guys are locked in and
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  Speaker 1: you know as any other day and we ready to
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  Speaker 1: just keep playing ball.
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  Speaker 4: How huge is this a division game at home? You know,
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  Speaker 4: chance to really just giving yourself a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: distance on them, on them moving kind of the division
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  Speaker 4: champs last few years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a it's a you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: excited about this week first and foremost. Regardless of the
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  Speaker 1: record there, there's still a good team, much respect to them,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, we ready to get at there. And
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  Speaker 1: that's all almost Texans.
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  Speaker 5: You win games like this to go where you want
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  Speaker 5: to go.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you you've you've never beaten this team at
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  Speaker 6: home at home beat Okay, go to these the kind
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  Speaker 6: of games that you've you've got to win to get
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  Speaker 6: where you want to.
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  Speaker 5: Go at the end of it.
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  Speaker 1: First and foremost, I didn't know I never beat them
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  Speaker 1: at home, so we don't have to change that narrative up.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a playoff team. You know this.
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  Speaker 1: You know this team was our divisional champ for the
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  Speaker 1: last two years, So tough opponent. Uh, we kind of
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  Speaker 1: know what we're getting into, but we kind of also
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  Speaker 1: know that it's about us at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: and we can focus on doing what we do best.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the outcome is gonna be the outcome, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're excited to play some tough football and
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  Speaker 1: you know, thug it out with him first.
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  Speaker 6: Game else five years back here after what happened with
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  Speaker 6: Trevor last year.
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  Speaker 2: What do you tell the guys about that?
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  Speaker 7: What do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Is that something you care about, concern with or.
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  Speaker 1: No, not really not really ready to play football? Focus,
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  Speaker 1: We watched the game, watched the tape from two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Prepare for that team and go out there and get
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  Speaker 1: it up.
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  Speaker 3: Do you worry.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody takes retribution or says anything to him or anything,
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  Speaker 2: especially pre game point.
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  Speaker 1: Tous, I don't know how hard was that to watch
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  Speaker 1: last year your quarterback in that position on the field
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  Speaker 1: with everybody around him and all that. I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to see your teammates get hit, so
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  Speaker 1: obviously the motions were high. But at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, man, that that was last year. Terb is
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  Speaker 1: a tough guy, and he bounced back, and I know
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  Speaker 1: he's excited to you know, kind of go out there
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  Speaker 1: and play, you know, to the best of visibility and
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  Speaker 1: you know, go from there. But that's everybody, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: no disrespect to him and respect to him is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. And you know we're here.
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  Speaker 3: You guys have preached physical.
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  Speaker 5: Looks like you played pretty physical in the first two
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  Speaker 5: games and a lot of facets.
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  Speaker 6: Can you even is there more to get? Is there
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  Speaker 6: even more to get in the physical part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: It's a different there's a you know, we've taken the
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  Speaker 1: steps to become the team that we know what we
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  Speaker 1: can become, if that makes sense, But there's another step
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  Speaker 1: to it. We had to figure out and find a
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  Speaker 1: way to win those games at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: So there is another level that we haven't tapped into
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  Speaker 1: yet that we're practicing for each and every day. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's our main focus right now, is to
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  Speaker 1: find that extra gear. You know, we know it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be hard for us, you know, winning any game in
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  Speaker 1: the that's football league. So just to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and dig it out and just fight to the end
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  Speaker 1: is where we need to improve him and where we
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  Speaker 1: need to get better, but where we also know that
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  Speaker 1: that's a position that we're in. And uh, I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to see how we fight adversity this week.
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  Speaker 5: How good did Draymond play on Sunday?
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  Speaker 1: Amazing? You know, amazing, he just played. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he thought about anything. He was in completely in his
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  Speaker 1: own and just tapped into that killer instinct. And we
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  Speaker 1: talk about it on the sideline a lot. You know,
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  Speaker 1: what type of player did we want to be? We
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  Speaker 1: talked about it before games actually too, like what type
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  Speaker 1: of players do we want to be? And everything that
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  Speaker 1: he said that he was going out there to do,
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  Speaker 1: he did exactly that. So you know, for me as
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  Speaker 1: a as a brother to him, keep motivating and keep
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  Speaker 1: pushing them, keep telling him keep going, and uh, let's
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  Speaker 1: let's keep building on that and get better this week.
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  Speaker 6: Six divisional games, especially the first one of the season,
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  Speaker 6: just setting the tail in the vision.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's uh, it's huge. Any divisional game is
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  Speaker 1: an important game in our in our conference. Uh. But
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  Speaker 1: you know our first divisional game is against the Texans
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  Speaker 1: who won you know, it was our divisional chance for
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  Speaker 1: the last two years. So so it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: tough game and you know, but we're looking forward to it,
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  Speaker 1: and you know we're ready to ready to battle.
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  Speaker 7: But I mean start start out here on the practice field.
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  Speaker 7: I gotta take it, uh, take it day by day
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  Speaker 7: and just keeps driving to be the best that I
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  Speaker 7: could be.
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  Speaker 5: Simpler to that, to go where you guys want to go?
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  Speaker 5: How much do you have to win games like this? Sorry,
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  Speaker 5: to go where you guys want to go? You know,
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  Speaker 5: by the end of the year, how much do you
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  Speaker 5: have to start winning games like this in the division
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  Speaker 5: at home the team quite frankly, that's beating your seven
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  Speaker 5: straight times here in Jackson though.
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  Speaker 7: Uh, I mean it all just I mean, like you said,
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  Speaker 7: to go where we want to go, you gotta win
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  Speaker 7: these games. You gotta be these are the ones that
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  Speaker 7: you gotta win. I mean you really want to win
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  Speaker 7: all of them, but I mean the division ones and
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  Speaker 7: stuff like that really really uh the ones you really
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  Speaker 7: got to focus on. But I mean you want to
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  Speaker 7: go out there and treat every game as like it.
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  Speaker 7: You want to go out there and win the same way.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I feel pretty good. I think my I
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  Speaker 2: think my body feels well. Just coming off the past
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  Speaker 2: two weeks. I think I was able to hit practice,
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  Speaker 2: you know, full tilt, to take care of myself. So overall,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty well.
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  Speaker 6: You've made such a significant impact so early.
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  Speaker 1: Were you expecting for this to happen so soon?
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  Speaker 2: I kind of it was in my my manifestations, uh,
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  Speaker 2: to make it happen, but uh, you know, the cars
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  Speaker 2: turned my way, and I just I'm ready for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: I think I went out there and you know, showed
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  Speaker 2: that I was ready for it, and that just goes
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  Speaker 2: into you know, each and every day I'll come out
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  Speaker 2: to practice, I practice pair to playing the game. So
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  Speaker 2: when my number was called, I definitely went out there.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm doing pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think this ring game has been so
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  Speaker 4: successful for the first two weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Just the way the offense plays, the old line, the
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  Speaker 2: tight end, the wide receivers, or the grit we have
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  Speaker 2: as a backfield. As the offense, I think we get
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  Speaker 2: to dominate, you know, teams the whole game. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's our biggest strength, just the grit we play with,
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  Speaker 2: the higher energy we play with, and just the willing
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  Speaker 2: to dominate.
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  Speaker 3: How big How fun is it to be in the
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  Speaker 3: passing game involved as running backs too, and you and
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  Speaker 3: Travis are both involved there a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It helps a lot for us. You know, teams can
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  Speaker 2: only key on us, you know, getting a taking a handoff,
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  Speaker 2: they got a key for us. You know, run the screen,
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  Speaker 2: or run the flat route, run some kind of route.
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  Speaker 2: So being able to be you know, that dual threat
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  Speaker 2: running back that can catch and you know, run between
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  Speaker 2: the tackles or taking handoff definitely helps both.
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  Speaker 3: Of our games. Big divisional game obviously home game, first
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  Speaker 3: only digital game, like the first nine weeks of the season.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta get this one this week, right, Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you feel it. The energy in the building. We
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  Speaker 2: came in Monday and everyone was locked in talking about
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  Speaker 2: the divisional game and how important it is to us
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  Speaker 2: this early. So I think everyone you know is locked
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  Speaker 2: in on their their p's accused to, you know, go
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  Speaker 2: out here and dominate.
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  Speaker 3: Start.
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  Speaker 2: It starts with practice, though, and you felt that out
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  Speaker 2: there today everyone was, you know, having an attend you know,
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  Speaker 2: finishing runs and no practicing hard.
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  Speaker 7: What was that like from your vantage pad? It was cool.
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  Speaker 8: They do a little we call it, uh you know what,
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  Speaker 8: kind of right quick game over there with the over
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  Speaker 8: route on the back.
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  Speaker 7: So we kind of.
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  Speaker 8: Alerted it pre snap as soon as the play started
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  Speaker 8: on my side going over. He you know, kind of
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  Speaker 8: drilled it through the week. He flipped turned off a quarterback,
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  Speaker 8: melt went up. Oh my lord, he was out there,
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  Speaker 8: caught the ball, let's go. I was hight. I thought
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  Speaker 8: he was gonna credit, but you know whatever the rest called.
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  Speaker 3: So I wrapped in here a little bit late. But
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  Speaker 3: only divisional game in the first nine weeks this season.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they're all important, but to get one early
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  Speaker 3: and get this advantage on Houston to be big.
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  Speaker 8: Bron Yeah, I'm trying to get in the win column
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  Speaker 8: and get a winning record first and foremost, and trying
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  Speaker 8: to take care of all that now and then haven't
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  Speaker 8: flowed through the rest of the year. So every game
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  Speaker 8: important and this happens to be the next one up.
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  Speaker 8: It's a divisional game, so yeah, they say it's worth too,
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  Speaker 8: But let's just win games, bro, like that's important.
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  Speaker 3: What stands out about Stroud and his game on tape
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  Speaker 3: this year? Is it any different than your past or
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  Speaker 3: is it just a little bit of a struggle early?
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  Speaker 8: No, he an exceptional quarterback. Matter to get out of
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  Speaker 8: the pocket and make play to the feet, just get
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  Speaker 8: on time with the receivers. I don't know if they're
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  Speaker 8: going through different route combinations and stuff, but I still
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  Speaker 8: see them trying to throw balls in a hash, little
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  Speaker 8: cheese routes and stuff, get on timing and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 8: So they had some injuries, but you know, he's still
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  Speaker 8: the same guy who went off earlier, so he had
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  Speaker 8: the same abilities really on us to be in the
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  Speaker 8: right spots to take that ball away.
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  Speaker 3: How relieving is it? Or maybe I mean, how different
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  Speaker 3: is the communication on defense this year? Two weeks?
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  Speaker 8: I mean it's still important just so everybody can be
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  Speaker 8: in the right spots and everybody communication helps somebody else.
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  Speaker 8: So we stressed on out during all the OTAs, and
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  Speaker 8: we're seeing us get turnovers that way. So let's just
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  Speaker 8: keep doing it no matter what literal See let's communicat
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  Speaker 8: and hit our way through it.
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  Speaker 3: They're all important. But to have a two game advantage
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  Speaker 3: over Houston, it had to be It's got to be
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  Speaker 3: big right moving out.
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  Speaker 4: If you can do that, yeah, certainly is big. Like
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  Speaker 4: I was just I was just saying, you know, it is.
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  Speaker 4: But ultimately it's trust, trust yourself, be yourself. It doesn't
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  Speaker 4: have to you don't have to change anything because it's
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  Speaker 4: a divisional game. You're not changing your techniques and fundamentals.
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  Speaker 4: You're coming back to those things and you're amplifying them
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  Speaker 4: and trying to work them as hard as you can.
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  Speaker 4: For me personally, honestly, it's not like I'm doing anything
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  Speaker 4: more this week than I would weeks before. If that's
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  Speaker 4: the case, then I don't think I was doing enough
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  Speaker 4: in weeks prior, you know. So it's just continuing to
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  Speaker 4: lean on the things you're doing well, improve the things
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  Speaker 4: you're doing better, and taken like as a group, just
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  Speaker 4: keep growing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's been Liam was talking about, Hey, late
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  Speaker 3: in games, when your numbers cold, you gotta make plays
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  Speaker 3: and big plays and big moments. How does a team
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  Speaker 3: learn how to get over that? Threshold or a player individually.
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  Speaker 3: Center positions a little different, but still you got to
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  Speaker 3: make players in the big moments. How do you learn that?
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  Speaker 4: I think everyone that once you get to this level,
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  Speaker 4: you have that ability. And I think at times, whether
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  Speaker 4: you're not making plays or you've missed a few things,
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  Speaker 4: like I've been there. I've been there many of time.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm like, man, what am I What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Like why can't I do this? Why can't I do
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  Speaker 4: this thing that I used to do so well? And
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  Speaker 4: like I said, technique and fundamentals, Like it's back to
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  Speaker 4: the basics. You don't have to change anything. You have
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  Speaker 4: to reinvent the wheel. You just have to go back
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  Speaker 4: to those things we've been doing since we were kids.
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  Speaker 4: Block it, like get my hands inside. I've been doing
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  Speaker 4: this thing. I've been doing that for years. Think at
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  Speaker 4: the college level my freshman year, so eight years ago
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  Speaker 4: when I learned these fundamentals that I literally fall back
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  Speaker 4: to from my college coach Harry Heastan. Those are the
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  Speaker 4: things that if things aren't going right, I don't look
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  Speaker 4: out anywhere else. You look right here and you figure
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  Speaker 4: out what are you doing or not doing that's not
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  Speaker 4: allowing you to make these plays, you have to make
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  Speaker 4: you know. So it's the thing, it's in turn all
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  Speaker 4: you gotta look yourself in the mirror, be honest with
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  Speaker 4: yourself and decide what you're going to do to change them.
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  Speaker 3: Final one here, what how goes this Texans defensive line?
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  Speaker 3: What do they bring to the table.
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  Speaker 4: Their their style is different. There's a handful of teams
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  Speaker 4: in the league that run this San Fran New York
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  Speaker 4: Jets Houston style. You know, Dimico coming from San Fran
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  Speaker 4: or right san Fran. So like they're coming off the ball,
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  Speaker 4: they're getting up the field and that makes it tough
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  Speaker 4: for us to really get in the block. So we
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  Speaker 4: have to be super clean on our double teams getting
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  Speaker 4: in tight and it puts a lot strain I think
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  Speaker 4: on their back end too, So take advantage of that
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  Speaker 4: when we can