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  Speaker 1: Just overall thoughts winning the FC South.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very proud of this group, the resilience, resiliency
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  Speaker 2: of this group, the mental toughness of this group. You know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously started a little bit hot and ways and then
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  Speaker 2: had a tough stretch and you're up twenty and in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter and end up losing a game, and
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  Speaker 2: then to turn this thing around and for these guys
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  Speaker 2: to stay the course, keep allowing us to keep coaching.
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  Speaker 2: They're a fun, special group to be around.
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  Speaker 1: Why was it important today for Trevor to get to
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  Speaker 1: the four thousands? Seemed like you guys pulled them right
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  Speaker 1: after that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think just the year that he's had, especially
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  Speaker 2: since the buye, the way that he's playing at an
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  Speaker 2: MVP caliber. He's earned it. He's playing at such a
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  Speaker 2: high level. The players all love them, they trust them,
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  Speaker 2: they believe in them, as do we his coaches, and
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  Speaker 2: so you want those kind of things for players like that.
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  Speaker 3: Liam, How happy were you with the response from this club?
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  Speaker 4: You go three and out, they get the ball, they
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  Speaker 4: come down, score a touchdown, but then you guys blow.
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  Speaker 2: Them out of the Yeah, you know, it wasn't an
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  Speaker 2: ideal start by any means, you know, Simmons kind of
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  Speaker 2: Simmons does early on and made a great play. We
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  Speaker 2: went backwards on the first drive, which was an ideal,
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  Speaker 2: and they obviously had a good drive that they put
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  Speaker 2: together on us with a critical third down conversion. And then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's just the maturity of this team. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, nobody flinched, nobody blink. They just kind of
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  Speaker 2: kept doing their job, one play at a time. We
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  Speaker 2: talked about championship execution throughout the entire game, and I
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  Speaker 2: think after that you saw.
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  Speaker 5: That Liam, you and Tony and even James, you know,
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  Speaker 5: exchanged a hug there at the end. The validation of
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  Speaker 5: I get that all the goals are really in front
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  Speaker 5: of you, but the validation of winning a division title
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  Speaker 5: in year one and thirteen wins do all these things
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  Speaker 5: that this franchise has never done. What does that mean
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  Speaker 5: for you in that locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, Tony and James and I are
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a pretty cool relationship. It's it's obviously
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  Speaker 2: goes beyond just a working friendship, and I can't thank
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  Speaker 2: them enough for their support and we truly do it
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  Speaker 2: all together. That's the cool part. Like everything that we do,
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  Speaker 2: every decision that we make is together, is a group effort.
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  Speaker 2: And just to be to have Tony, to have James
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  Speaker 2: and their roles and how you know, the continuity that
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  Speaker 2: we have. I think the players feel it. I think
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  Speaker 2: the guys in the in the locker room all believe
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  Speaker 2: that we're on the same page and that the amount
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  Speaker 2: of time that that we put into these guys, the
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  Speaker 2: amount of energy that gets put into these guys. Tony
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  Speaker 2: says it all the time, it's all about the grass.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about the grass, and it's all about these
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  Speaker 2: players and trying to make their lives as as as
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  Speaker 2: nice as good as possible. Is continuing to elevate and
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  Speaker 2: raise the standard. And I think those guys are.
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  Speaker 3: All in Coach, how much of what you've seen throughout
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  Speaker 3: the course of this season and what we've seen kind
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  Speaker 3: of mirrors or matches what you would vision when you
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  Speaker 3: were first draining the facilities here fifty or so weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a hell of a turn around, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's you know, I mean, you never
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  Speaker 2: know going into a season what it's going to truly
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  Speaker 2: look like, right, because every year is so much of
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  Speaker 2: its own entity, and you know, you're only trying to
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  Speaker 2: focus so singularly on getting better each week and improving
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  Speaker 2: and not trying to live in the results. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that that's something that we've excuse me, tried to
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  Speaker 2: do since we got here, was really focused on the
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  Speaker 2: process of you know, phase one, Phase two, phase three,
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  Speaker 2: OTA's training camp and just live in those moments, which
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  Speaker 2: is I think what allows you to now enjoy these
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  Speaker 2: kind of moments to where you win thirteen games. You
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of records and stuff that are really
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  Speaker 2: cool for these guys, both individually and collectively as a team.
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  Speaker 2: To win the division in year one for sure, very special,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of work to do still.
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  Speaker 4: You've talked about on a week to week basis, how
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  Speaker 4: you know, arguably the most impressive part of this group
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  Speaker 4: is when there was some early downs who overcame adversity.
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  Speaker 4: Now this eight game win streak where they haven't necessarily
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  Speaker 4: gone overboard as far as being positive, How do things
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  Speaker 4: change or do they at all? Now it's win or
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  Speaker 4: go home?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think that's kind of been how
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  Speaker 2: we've been playing in a lot of ways, in the
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  Speaker 2: way that we've been approaching each week has been almost
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  Speaker 2: playoff mentality for a while now. We haven't talked about playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that they understand the severity of what's
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  Speaker 2: at stake and where we're at, and that truly it's
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  Speaker 2: win or go home at this point, and they've taken
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  Speaker 2: it so, like we talked about last night, today is
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  Speaker 2: the biggest game of franchise history because it's the next one.
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  Speaker 2: That's it, because it's the next one. And that's been
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  Speaker 2: the mindset of mentality of this group. They've stayed even killed,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that, yeah, there's confidence. This team has confidence,
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  Speaker 2: but they're not overlooking anybody, and they know that whoever comes,
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  Speaker 2: he has to play us.
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  Speaker 1: Just in terms of how much a crowd can affect,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Operation Pass Rush all that, How important
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  Speaker 1: is it to have a home playoff game.
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  Speaker 2: It's huge, you know. I've seen so many cool pictures
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  Speaker 2: of the twenty two game here at home and what
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  Speaker 2: that crowd did and what the community can do for
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  Speaker 2: a football team, and what a football team can do
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  Speaker 2: for a community. And I think that the majority of
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  Speaker 2: these guys like they all want to play, they all
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  Speaker 2: want to play the whole team. They want to play
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  Speaker 2: in front of this crowd. I remember hearing Brenton Strange's
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  Speaker 2: comments a couple of weeks ago about, Yeah, it's cool
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  Speaker 2: to go on the road and play in some cool atmospheres,
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  Speaker 2: but there's nothing like playing at home in front of
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  Speaker 2: this crowd, in front of this community. So we need
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  Speaker 2: them all, We need all to do all to come out.
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  Speaker 1: Hayley, im just ah. Antonio Johnson picked six. It seems
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  Speaker 1: like he's able to do so many different things for
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  Speaker 1: you guys, whether he's a backup or starter, what does
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  Speaker 1: he meant to this team and set.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about him before the game, actually, Tony
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  Speaker 2: and James and I were talking about Antonio's just his
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  Speaker 2: growth since we got here and how much he has
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  Speaker 2: continued to grow as a person, as a player, as
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  Speaker 2: a pro and man. Every every week, it just seems
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  Speaker 2: like he's making a big play for us and stepping
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  Speaker 2: up in critical moments. And you would say, I mean
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  Speaker 2: that play really kind of took this game into a
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  Speaker 2: different direction, and so I really am proud of Antonio
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  Speaker 2: in the way that he's continued to grow. Mm hmm
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  Speaker 2: all good, Yeah, thank you. Thanks