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  Speaker 1: Just talk about how difficult this is over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: Close but no cigar eighth lost by a touchdown or less.
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  Speaker 1: You're there, you have a shot and doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: I just focus on my job and do what I
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  Speaker 3: can do.
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  Speaker 2: Did you do that today? I thought it. Did you
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  Speaker 2: feel like you kind of got back into a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a group today.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like myself, that's what I do. I go
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  Speaker 3: out and ball, That's what I do.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are going five games without getting a turnover,
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  Speaker 2: and I know you can't scheme that up, but is
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  Speaker 2: it almost crazy? The ball isn't finding you guys at all.
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  Speaker 3: I can't say I know I had a chance today.
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  Speaker 3: I probably should have went and just caught the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I went through the guy, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Or have you been on a pitch count or have
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  Speaker 4: they just been limiting you defensively with snaps.
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  Speaker 3: Or I haven't been playing and you see what happens
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  Speaker 3: when I play.
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  Speaker 1: So could you just talk a little bit about how
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  Speaker 1: difficult it is for this team to just get through
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  Speaker 1: this grind you got? There's no big, huge character play
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  Speaker 1: for is just pride at this point and you've you've
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  Speaker 1: the efforts there, but the payoff.
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  Speaker 5: Has not been I mean, I know for the guys
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  Speaker 5: that haven't been around, it's hard. And I've been I've
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  Speaker 5: been through this stuff many times, and you just gotta
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  Speaker 5: go play ball and know that your tape is your
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  Speaker 5: resume and everyone's watching the tape and that's what you
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  Speaker 5: gotta do. And it stinks, and I do everything in
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  Speaker 5: my power to scream at guys and cuss and say
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  Speaker 5: let's effing go.
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  Speaker 2: But is what it is this time of year when
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  Speaker 2: you I mean, when your records a record, is it?
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  Speaker 2: Do you find guys lose focus a little bit? I
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  Speaker 2: mean the pre snap penalty is a lot off side stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is that a product of that.
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  Speaker 6: A little bit?
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  Speaker 3: I don't even I've mean, I've seen that all year.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's lack of discipline or love,
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  Speaker 5: but I've seen a lot of that throughout the year.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't not think the record has anything to
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  Speaker 3: do with that.
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  Speaker 2: Get you much playing time that you feel healthy enough
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  Speaker 2: to be playing more?
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  Speaker 5: Hell yeah, absolutely, I'm a starter in this league.
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  Speaker 7: How is you mentioned obviously you've been through situations like
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  Speaker 7: this before. How is this one different? Maybe twenty one
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  Speaker 7: or twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 5: All the height new facility made the playoffs nine and
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  Speaker 5: eight two years in a row. So I would say
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  Speaker 5: that adds to the downfall, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: If you had conversations or why you're not getting more reps?
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  Speaker 3: Nah, I just go about my business, put on my
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  Speaker 3: hard hat and.
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  Speaker 6: Go to work.
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  Speaker 2: I think you earned some more today.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see.
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  Speaker 4: Have you had conversations about not just the next few games,
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  Speaker 4: but where this.
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  Speaker 7: Organization has to be moving forward beyond even these next
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  Speaker 7: two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Have I had conversations?
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  Speaker 5: No, that's way above my pay grade.
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  Speaker 2: You guys good?
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know it's another loss, but one of
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  Speaker 2: the individual things mean to you, uh today to hit
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  Speaker 2: that thousand mark and do what you did.
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  Speaker 8: I mean the individual things are all cool than a
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  Speaker 8: great accomplis man, but uh, seeming accolades over our individual
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  Speaker 8: accolades for me? So, I mean it would have been
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  Speaker 8: better if it have been able to come out and
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  Speaker 8: I get the win.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, has that been a tough thing to process
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  Speaker 2: for you? Kind of balancing the two?
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  Speaker 6: Uh? I wouldn't say it's been a tough thing.
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  Speaker 8: I mean you have to take take their personal accolades
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  Speaker 8: and just I mean you still have to have something
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  Speaker 8: to be proud about at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, like I said, a team accolades or were
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  Speaker 8: personal accurates from the arts.
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  Speaker 2: I was surprised you were as open as you were open.
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  Speaker 6: I was actually super surprised.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I don't I don't know what happened, Like
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  Speaker 8: they had a bust that coverage over there, and I
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  Speaker 8: was able to community just run right by them a
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  Speaker 8: lot open.
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  Speaker 2: I was super surprised and strange. Way are those tough
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  Speaker 2: ones to catch?
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  Speaker 7: Uh?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean they feel like they'd be closing in
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  Speaker 8: the air probably whatever, But I mean you just got
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  Speaker 8: a lockdown and focus and go attacking me to play.
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  Speaker 2: How challenging right now is to keep focus in the
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  Speaker 2: situation you guys are in because you guys not you
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  Speaker 2: but maybe had a ton of pre snap stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: are you noticing some of the that that it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to get focused when you're now three at twelve hmm.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, at the end of the day, we offer presidents,
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  Speaker 6: we are we all deal with up certainly.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, we just gotta when it's coming game time,
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  Speaker 8: we just gotta be locked in and be ready to
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  Speaker 8: go each and every snap.
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  Speaker 1: Can you ever recall a route that you're running where
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  Speaker 1: you actually were actually slowing down at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the route and you were still twelve thirteen yards behind
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  Speaker 1: the guy because he was expecting safety.
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  Speaker 6: Help and he didn't get it. Uh, Like I said,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what happened on that play. It must
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  Speaker 6: have had a bust that covers or something. I would know.
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  Speaker 6: I was wide open and I was able to go
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  Speaker 6: as court size and all.
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  Speaker 2: Do you reset your goals at all your last two games?
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  Speaker 2: I men know there's some things you're still trying to
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  Speaker 2: hit now that you've knocked off all the rookie records
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  Speaker 2: in a thousand yards.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm just trying to focus on finishing out to
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  Speaker 8: see the best I can. Let's put my best foot
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  Speaker 8: for each and every day, and my president accolades is
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  Speaker 8: just to get get better each and every day, get
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  Speaker 8: better each and every week.
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  Speaker 4: He came into the league of Mason, he played with
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  Speaker 4: them in college. Where'd you think of his performance as that?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, Mason played well.
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  Speaker 8: I mean we just mean, like I said, though the
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  Speaker 8: end of the day, we wanna win, So I mean
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  Speaker 8: personal accolates don't mean nothing else, but he Mason played
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  Speaker 8: really well today.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, I'm proud of him.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: He's just gonna keep continue getting better and gonna continue
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  Speaker 8: keep continuing to play good.
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  Speaker 4: In terms of the game plan, how often I guess
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  Speaker 4: or I guess evaluate the game plan coming in in
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  Speaker 4: terms of concentrated effort to get you guys at the ball,
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  Speaker 4: concentrated effort.
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  Speaker 7: To run the ball. How would you evaluate the execution
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  Speaker 7: of what you guys caught the plan.
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  Speaker 5: Would be coming in.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like we just gotta be better over uh,
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  Speaker 8: just whether it's executing a game plan and just getting
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  Speaker 8: lined up, just like the little things.
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  Speaker 6: I just feel like we gotta be better. Uh just
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  Speaker 6: be better with little things.
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  Speaker 8: Uh Uh.
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  Speaker 6: A game plan to come in and it'll be it'll
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  Speaker 6: be very We'll be able to execute the game plan.
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  Speaker 2: Is this get Oh, I don't know, I guess embarrassing
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I mean to where you guys are
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  Speaker 2: at and knowing what you think you have on this roster.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, I mean yeah, it gets to a point where
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  Speaker 8: I mean you feel like you got the players and
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  Speaker 8: uh the coaches to go out there and do we
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  Speaker 8: we know we can who know we're capable of Uh,
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  Speaker 8: but I mean the time, that's time we keep all
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  Speaker 8: the short I mean, yeah, well, I mean we're gonna
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  Speaker 8: keep coming out here and keep fighting, keep getting it off.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, another week, another one possession. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how are you processing this?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, for sure. I mean you just have to understand
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  Speaker 9: that that's the NFL. I think almost all the games
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  Speaker 9: go to this situation, and how can we just not
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  Speaker 9: be in that situation? I think just a lot of
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  Speaker 9: self inflicted errors and it always comes down to one play,
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  Speaker 9: and you know, you wish the result would be different when.
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  Speaker 2: You get this late in the year and you guys
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  Speaker 2: are where you're at, right, is it hard to focus
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  Speaker 2: or get everybody focused? And so many pre snap things
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  Speaker 2: go today.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I have to look at the film honestly, and
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  Speaker 9: I've been in a lot of games like this and
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  Speaker 9: it's unfortunate. But I thought the defense did a good
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  Speaker 9: job today, and Cole obviously stepped in there at tackle again,
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  Speaker 9: and we got a lot of young guys out there playing,
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  Speaker 9: so it's gonna be a learning curve. And obviously I
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  Speaker 9: got off to a slow start, So how can I
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  Speaker 9: get off to a quick or start like we did?
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  Speaker 2: The week before and schools more points.
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  Speaker 9: So you know, if we can get to thirty points,
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  Speaker 9: you know, twenty one points, then you know the game
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  Speaker 9: is a different story.
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  Speaker 2: The body that maybe the most that you can build
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  Speaker 2: off what you guys did last week pretty well.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean every week's so different, and I do
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  Speaker 9: think that's a better defense than what people give them
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  Speaker 9: credit for, So hats off to them. And like I said,
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  Speaker 9: just got to make more plays early and take away
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  Speaker 9: the self inflicted you know, errors and turnovers, and that's
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  Speaker 9: kind of been the story this whole year. So I'm
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  Speaker 9: definitely gonna respond and see how we can play better
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  Speaker 9: next week.
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  Speaker 7: Through the last play, the fourth down, Yeah, I have
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  Speaker 7: to watch it.
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  Speaker 9: I'm filming, and be honest, I've been in that situation
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  Speaker 9: a lot, and the last thing you want to do
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  Speaker 9: is take a sack, so you got to put it
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  Speaker 9: in play. Obviously you want to try and make make
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  Speaker 9: a play there and get it down the field. So
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  Speaker 9: I'll have to look at it. But if he makes
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  Speaker 9: that play, we'll have a new set of downs and
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  Speaker 9: everyone will be saying different.
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  Speaker 7: Was the earnest though the primary read on that play.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see the whole I mean, did you see
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  Speaker 2: it was a hold or do you think it was
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  Speaker 2: a whole?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: I didn't see that.
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  Speaker 9: I mean I thought it was a good call to
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  Speaker 9: get a new set of downs there, and then we
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  Speaker 9: had a couple issues moving the ball on the on
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  Speaker 9: the last drive with some some self inflicted mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could say.
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  Speaker 9: So we just got to get on the same page.
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  Speaker 9: And I promise once we do that, everything will be
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  Speaker 9: great and we'll be moving the ball down the field
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  Speaker 9: more consistently.
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  Speaker 2: Brian every week. But yeah, does he amaze you a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more every week?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, he's done a good job that once again are
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  Speaker 9: going to take him away. And I missed him early.
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  Speaker 9: We had the one misconnection on the hold, and then
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  Speaker 9: he made a couple of great plays late. So always
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  Speaker 9: going to keep fighting. He's his own biggest critic, and
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  Speaker 9: so am I. So we fit well together. But I
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  Speaker 9: think he had like, you know, ten ten or so
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  Speaker 9: catches probably for one hundred something the yards. So he
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  Speaker 9: did his part and we got to continue to give
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  Speaker 9: him the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever had a touchdown bomb that seemed as
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  Speaker 1: easy as that one? Because they clearly thought they had
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  Speaker 1: safety help and they didn't have it, then once brought
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  Speaker 1: once Brian got by the cornerback.
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  Speaker 9: You know, it was all the hardest one sometimes, you know,
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  Speaker 9: if I'm looking at you know, looking to the right
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  Speaker 9: and I miss it, then it's whole thing. So I'm
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  Speaker 9: not stuck to that side. And offensive line gave us
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  Speaker 9: time on that play, and we need more plays like that,
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  Speaker 9: can you You.
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  Speaker 2: Mentioned a couple of young guys coming in, but I
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  Speaker 2: mean you lose Walker, Anthony was in and out a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. And then on top of that, you do
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  Speaker 2: have some of these guys, even Josh coming into Reynolds,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean, how challenging is that to get everybody
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  Speaker 2: on the same page.
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  Speaker 9: I think, you know, a lot of teams are obviously
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  Speaker 9: very healthy later in the year and and sometimes that
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  Speaker 9: plays a part. But it's the NFL. You're gonna have
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  Speaker 9: guys pop in there. You know, obviously Gabe and Christian
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  Speaker 9: and everybody's not out there. So I feel like they've
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  Speaker 9: done a good job stepping up and making plays, and
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  Speaker 9: we just got to finish the game and really start
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  Speaker 9: faster so that we're not in that position and we
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  Speaker 9: have more points on the board.
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  Speaker 4: You run in a tough situation this time a year
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  Speaker 4: ago obviously a little different, a little different than this one.
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  Speaker 7: Can you sure, can you rely on anything from that
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  Speaker 7: experience and bring it to the rest.
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  Speaker 3: Of the group.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, for sure. I mean, you got to put good
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  Speaker 9: stuff on tape, and at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 9: it's tough, but you gotta find ways to win at
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  Speaker 9: the end of the game and and really just play
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  Speaker 9: well for yourself or your family and for the team
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  Speaker 9: and finish strong. And you really have to ask that question,
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  Speaker 9: how many more wins do you want to get?
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  Speaker 2: Is it too?
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  Speaker 9: Is it one? Or is it zero? So we want
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  Speaker 9: to and we're gonna do everything we can to get
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  Speaker 9: to what was.
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  Speaker 7: Kind of was that the post game message or what
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  Speaker 7: was the postgame message?
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  Speaker 9: We'll keep that private, but definitely for me, as I've
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  Speaker 9: been in this situation two years in a row, just
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  Speaker 9: play good football and put the ball in play and
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  Speaker 9: eliminate turnovers and control we can control. And like I said,
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  Speaker 9: once we're all on the same page, promise things will
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  Speaker 9: go well and and that's that's our goal, that's my