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Speaker 1: You know, we talked about part of the job. You
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Speaker 1: know, no no matter who you are, you're gonna face criticism,
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Speaker 1: you know, especially when you don't feel like you're playing
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Speaker 1: your best. Um, And that's just kind of where we're
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Speaker 1: at right now. And you know, I don't feel like
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Speaker 1: I've played my best the past couple of weeks. And UM,
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Speaker 1: you know, from my standpoint, it's just every week trying
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Speaker 1: to put the best plan together and prepare the best
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Speaker 1: so I can go go and play my best on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: And so that doesn't change this week, no matter what
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Speaker 1: the criticism is, um, good or bad. You know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: when we're playing well, you know, I'm gonna get too
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Speaker 1: much credit, and when we're when we're not playing well,
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Speaker 1: when we're losing some games, and I'm gonna sometimes get
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Speaker 1: too much blame, and um, you know some sometimes though
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Speaker 1: it's it's warranted, you know, I know I haven't played
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Speaker 1: my best, So UM, that's it just is what it is.
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Speaker 1: It's part of the job. It's part of this game. Um,
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Speaker 1: we're fortunate enough to play it. And that's just one
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Speaker 1: of the one of the UM, I guess it's just
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Speaker 1: one of the parts of the game. So for me,
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Speaker 1: it's it's just always been trying to block that out.
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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes it's easier than others, but just sticking
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Speaker 1: to my process, what I know, preparing each week the
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Speaker 1: same way. Um, you know, I got a lot of
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Speaker 1: faith in myself and in this team, and um yeah,
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Speaker 1: so I just I just blocked that out and just
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Speaker 1: try to do my job the best I can every day.
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Speaker 1: And I can do that better, no doubt, And um,
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Speaker 1: I know I know moving forward, I will. So I
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Speaker 1: got a lot of confidence in that. A lot of
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Speaker 1: things that Doug has probably helped you with, its being
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Speaker 1: a former NFL quarterback and you helped you with, you know,
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Speaker 1: letting you know that every NFL quarterback deals with this,
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Speaker 1: never had how good they are. Yeah, I mean it's
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Speaker 1: just like we talked about, every every player deals with it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's a different level when you're the
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Speaker 1: quarterback of the team, and um, like I said, it's
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Speaker 1: the same way when when you're winning, you get a
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Speaker 1: lot of credit too. So it just comes with the territory.
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Speaker 1: And um that's something I've experienced in my career going
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Speaker 1: back to college and especially the past two years and
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Speaker 1: in the NFL so it's something I'm I wouldn't say
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Speaker 1: not not necessarily used to, but but I am kind
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Speaker 1: of used to. And just the the ups and downs
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Speaker 1: of the criticisms of when you have great games and
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Speaker 1: you have bad games, And for me, it's that doesn't
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Speaker 1: change anything. You know, I only care about really the
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Speaker 1: opinions of you know, my coaches, my teammates, and obviously
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Speaker 1: myself and how I view my performance. And um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of areas I can improve on
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Speaker 1: and I know moving forward for us to win a
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Speaker 1: lot of these games on the stretch, and I have
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Speaker 1: to play better, and um, I fully accept all that,
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Speaker 1: take ownership of it, and I'm ready just to move
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Speaker 1: forward and do that. Really you know about it today? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, I don't know. I honestly
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Speaker 1: don't know too much about him. I've watched him, and
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Speaker 1: he's a he's a I mean, he's a great player.
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Speaker 1: So obviously that's exciting moving forward and uh, next season,
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Speaker 1: being able to have a guy like that here. And
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Speaker 1: you know, I've heard some good things some people that
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Speaker 1: know him, Um, and you know, so I don't know
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Speaker 1: him personally, but it's just as far as what I've heard.
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Speaker 1: I've heard good things and heard he loves the game,
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Speaker 1: and obviously you watch his tape, it speaks for itself.
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Speaker 1: So that'll be an exciting thing, you know, next season
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Speaker 1: to look forward to. Can you reach out to him
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Speaker 1: or really reach out in between reason Wally to look
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Speaker 1: at play out ways. I'm sure you know, I'm sure. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll talk before then. Right now, obviously, we're
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Speaker 1: focused on I'm finishing this season strong. You know, we've
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Speaker 1: got nine games left and um, you know, he can't
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Speaker 1: he can't come help us. Now. You know, we got
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Speaker 1: we got the guys that we got and got a
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Speaker 1: lot of faith in them and just trying to put
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Speaker 1: together as many wins in a row as we can
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Speaker 1: here at the end of the season and put ourselves
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Speaker 1: in the spot to um to make the playoffs and
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Speaker 1: all that. So that's that's what we're focused on. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure we'll we'll talk at some point. Um. Obviously, that's
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Speaker 1: that's exciting, you know, being a quarterback, can't not be
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Speaker 1: excited about that. But right now, you know, we're focused
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Speaker 1: on the rest of the season that's ahead of us.
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Speaker 1: You know, you guys really weren't in the locker room
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Speaker 1: or a practice A great Trevor, But I mean, do
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Speaker 1: you guys text when you hear the news, do you
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Speaker 1: guys talk as a team kind of What was the
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Speaker 1: reaction in the locker room when they heard about the trade. Yeah, obviously,
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Speaker 1: you know we weren't here, but just I talked to
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Speaker 1: some of the guys and you guys are guys are excited.
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Speaker 1: But also you know there's some guys that that played
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Speaker 1: with them, you know, Cam Cam played with them. I
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Speaker 1: taught to him a little bit, so he's he's good
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Speaker 1: friends with them. And guys are excited. But also it's
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Speaker 1: not a huge topic of discussion right now, just because
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Speaker 1: we're in the middle of a season. Um obviously trying
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Speaker 1: to trying to put everything we can towards you know,
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Speaker 1: beating the Raiders this week, so that's that's the main focus.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, of course there was some talk about today,
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Speaker 1: and guys are excited. Yeah, for sure, you run about
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Speaker 1: the last called los, you run want to feel late
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Speaker 1: or whatever, And these cameras have caught bat What does
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Speaker 1: that mean. Oh, it's just it's like being in a series. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's just the hash. Yeah, yeah, it's just the left hash,
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Speaker 1: So yeah, nothing crazy there, right hash just point out
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Speaker 1: if I'm buying, I'll point over to signal middle middle
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Speaker 1: discus mean usually they get it, but sometimes they don't
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Speaker 1: have to do it for you know, a while. But
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Speaker 1: nothing crazy, Trevor, as far as the red zone goes, um, Obviously,
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Speaker 1: you know a similar situation with the interceptions, the one
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Speaker 1: the Texans game when when that moment happens, I mean,
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Speaker 1: how as much as in completions other mistakes, you mean,
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Speaker 1: put you behind you, put them behind you, You're onto
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Speaker 1: the next play that one in particular, how hard was
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Speaker 1: it to push that one's the side and go to
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Speaker 1: the next flat you know, I mean, it's it's definitely frustrating. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: you make a make an critical air like that, and
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Speaker 1: that point in the game. Game you know we're up,
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Speaker 1: we're up seven zero, and you just you think about
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Speaker 1: how would that change the game if we end up
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Speaker 1: scoring on that drive and make it fourteen zero and
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Speaker 1: really kind of take the life out of their sideline
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Speaker 1: and and and kind of keep all the momentum um.
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Speaker 1: I think that's the most frustrating thing when you look
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Speaker 1: back on and just how the game changes. But playing
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Speaker 1: this position playing I mean, just playing the sport, it's
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Speaker 1: all about the next play. So, you know, I think
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Speaker 1: that's something I've had to learn in my career, is
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Speaker 1: how to move on to the next play. Like you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have some bad plays, and obviously that one is
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Speaker 1: just you know, that one's that one's not acceptable, just
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Speaker 1: the situation. You gotta we gotta eliminate those. So I'm
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Speaker 1: obviously learning my lessons there and moving forward not gonna
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Speaker 1: make that mistake. And UM, so it's frustrating, But at
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Speaker 1: the same time, you got, hey, that was in the
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Speaker 1: first quarter, so you gotta you've got three more quarters
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Speaker 1: to play, um, and you can't. You gotta do your
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Speaker 1: best to not let that affect the rest of the game. So, UM,
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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily feel like it. I feel like it did.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think I or I know I
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Speaker 1: didn't play I didn't play a great game really from
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Speaker 1: that point forward. Um, but really don't necess sarily think
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Speaker 1: that was from that play. UM. I just think that
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Speaker 1: obviously some things happened. Didn't play my best ball, and
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Speaker 1: that's that's disappointing. But you know, as far as just
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Speaker 1: moving on, I think That's something that I've that I've
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Speaker 1: learned kind of the past year and a half and
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Speaker 1: even before that is just the importance of being able
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Speaker 1: to do that because you can't get that play back.
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Speaker 1: So flying back from Lennons, I feel like normal. What's
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Speaker 1: do you feel? And you're like, the fighting today, it's
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Speaker 1: not too bad. It's not as I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: as bad coming back. Honestly, the time change going there
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Speaker 1: is a little bit, a little bit wild, just your
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Speaker 1: body kind of a just into it. But you know,
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Speaker 1: I felt felt pretty good since you know we obviously
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Speaker 1: we got back Monday morning really early, and I felt
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Speaker 1: weird Monday, but yesterday and today I felt pretty normal.
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Speaker 1: So just getting back in the flow of things. Coach,
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Speaker 1: he has a good schedule for this week and just
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Speaker 1: the best way to get us prepared to where we're
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Speaker 1: at our best on Sunday. So we had a great
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Speaker 1: day to day and um, tomorrow will kind of be,
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Speaker 1: you know, business as usual. What do you see from
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Speaker 1: the Raiders and they kind of in a similar spotting
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Speaker 1: you guys were playing while it tis but just kind
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Speaker 1: of struggling to finish. Yeah, I mean I've see you know,
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Speaker 1: I focus more on the on the defensive side of
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Speaker 1: the ball, So I don't always see the complete game necessarily, um,
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Speaker 1: but just from from a defensive perspective, they post some
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Speaker 1: some challenges for us. Obviously, put two guys in the edge.
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Speaker 1: They got, Um, they have some backers that are flying around. UM,
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Speaker 1: so I mean they have some they have some great players,
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Speaker 1: so that there'll be some things that we gotta we
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Speaker 1: got a game plan for and um, we'll have a
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Speaker 1: great plan for them. But yeah, I think you look
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Speaker 1: at the league right now and where everybody's at, there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of people and um kind of in this
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Speaker 1: similar like middle of the pack field where it's this
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Speaker 1: is kind of the time to to separate. And the
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Speaker 1: November is obviously a huge month November and December to
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Speaker 1: set yourself up for the postseason. So you know, the
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Speaker 1: way we're looking at it, there's still everything in front
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Speaker 1: of us, but it's you know, it's it's time to
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Speaker 1: to really, um turn it on and we gotta go
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Speaker 1: go on a run here, um to put ourselves in position.
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Speaker 1: But and they're one of those teams in the same positions,
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Speaker 1: so um, both of us were playing for a lot
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Speaker 1: and and you're gonna I'm sure you're gonna see that Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Is that one of the biggest differences in college is
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Speaker 1: kind of how much parody there is around the league.
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Speaker 1: Probaby team would maybe in a similar spot. Yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's definitely. You know, they've got a lot of teams
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Speaker 1: that are that are It's such a long season too,
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Speaker 1: so you see the the ebbs and flows of the season.
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Speaker 1: You'll you'll see teams start off hot, struggle a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and finish strong, or vice versa. You know, start off slow,
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Speaker 1: kind of gained some momentum and then you know, so
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Speaker 1: it's just it's a long season and you have to play. Um,
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Speaker 1: each game is its own game and you gotta play it.
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Speaker 1: You gotta play it as such. And um, really it's
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Speaker 1: week to week and it doesn't really matter who you're playing.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's good and everybody's gonna have a great plan to
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Speaker 1: go to go and beat you. So you gotta just
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Speaker 1: be prepared. And UM, I think that's the Obviously that's
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Speaker 1: been the message, but even more so now sitting here,
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Speaker 1: we've got nine games left. Take it one at a time,
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Speaker 1: and let's just try to go one and know each
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Speaker 1: week and see where we're at any more frustration this
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Speaker 1: past weekend after the loss in the previous four. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the way it's gone just obviously
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Speaker 1: each game has been kind of its own, its own
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Speaker 1: story of what's happened, but still the same message of
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Speaker 1: just right there and losing by you know, possession or
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Speaker 1: whatever or whatever it may be. And obviously that starts
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Speaker 1: to that starts to bubble up, people start to get frustrated,
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Speaker 1: you know, because we know, well I've said it before
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Speaker 1: and you know, kind of sick of saying it, but
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Speaker 1: we know we're a good team. But at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day, you gotta go win. And um, I
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Speaker 1: think obviously for myself, so I was frustrated for a
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Speaker 1: couple of days after the game and um even carrying
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Speaker 1: into the day, like, just give us that edge to
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Speaker 1: go back and work, just because I feel like I
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Speaker 1: feel like I didn't or I know, I didn't give
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Speaker 1: us the best chance to win and put us in
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Speaker 1: a situation and I'm disappointed in that, and you know,
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Speaker 1: guys work too hard for that. So, UM, from my
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Speaker 1: standpoint is just what can I do to go play
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Speaker 1: my best football moving forward? And I think that's what
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Speaker 1: everybody's feeling. But yeah, there's there's definitely frustration, and guys
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Speaker 1: talk about I think that's a great thing about our
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Speaker 1: team as guys communicate. It's not you don't just put
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Speaker 1: on a you know, put on a smile and act
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Speaker 1: like everything's all right. It's not. You know, we've lost.
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Speaker 1: We've lost five in a row, and um, everybody's everybody's
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Speaker 1: piste and frustrated, but not at each other. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's no point in the finger, but we all understand. Um,
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Speaker 1: and I've had that dialogue of what we need to
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Speaker 1: do and and everybody knows what we need to do
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Speaker 1: and we just gotta go do it. Hand the ball
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Speaker 1: off for Pitch to throw it to to Travis. He
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Speaker 1: kind of shipped back and then almost become a fan.
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Speaker 1: The cups he makes, the moves he makes, and I'm
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Speaker 1: even watching it for a long time. But is uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of a fun for you to watch
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Speaker 1: this unfold. Yeah, I mean I think just obviously, like
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Speaker 1: you said, I've seen him before, I played with him
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Speaker 1: for this is my fourth year now, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I know the type of player he is. But just
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Speaker 1: to kind of see everybody start to realize it and
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Speaker 1: obviously guys on the team present team you use a
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Speaker 1: good player, but I've never really seen it because the
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Speaker 1: injury last year and then obviously in training camp and
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Speaker 1: O t s. You don't really get to see it
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Speaker 1: because you're not live. You're not it's not real game tempo,
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Speaker 1: and um, you don't get that flow of a season,
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Speaker 1: you know, to see a weekend a week out. So
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Speaker 1: it's been cool to see everybody realize, like, man, this
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Speaker 1: this dude is legit. So I think that's how everybody's
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Speaker 1: feeling right now around the league, and um, certainly our
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Speaker 1: our whole team and staff have a lot of confidence
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Speaker 1: in them and just continue to put the ball in
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Speaker 1: his hands and let him make plays its way he
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Speaker 1: does best. And it's been exciting to watch them. So
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Speaker 1: your leadership style, Trevor, for you personally, and we like
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Speaker 1: talking to you about like maybe you're not like a
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Speaker 1: like a raw raw like like streaming in people's faces,
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Speaker 1: Like that's not your m So how important is it
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Speaker 1: for you like one on one conversations versus like leading
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Speaker 1: a pregame huddle of Like for you, how do you
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Speaker 1: approach leadership? Yeah, I mean I think obviously leading by
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Speaker 1: example is the main thing. I think. The way you
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Speaker 1: the way you prepare, the way you care yourself, how
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Speaker 1: you handle your business, that's the main thing. Guys have
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Speaker 1: to respect you, um, And I think that with any
11:29
Speaker 1: with anyone, with any leader, and really just anyone the
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Speaker 1: team in general. Everyone leads in their own regard. But
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Speaker 1: I think that's the first thing. And then obviously how
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Speaker 1: you communicate with others. That's something that I feel like
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Speaker 1: I've learned a lot about the last two years and
11:41
Speaker 1: just kind of how I like to do things, how
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Speaker 1: I approach guys in the team, and everybody is different,
11:46
Speaker 1: you know, you have a different way of talking to
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Speaker 1: to all the different players and you get to know
11:50
Speaker 1: them for through your relationships and you kind of understand
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Speaker 1: what makes them tick and um, so that's something you know,
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Speaker 1: I feel like I do well. It's communicate with guys constantly,
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Speaker 1: whether it's guys upfront, receivers, tight ends, running backs, always
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Speaker 1: talking to them, you know, after each play each series,
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Speaker 1: especially in practice. So that's something I think is very important.
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Speaker 1: And then just being able to get the guys together
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Speaker 1: and um, whether that's before a game or whatever. I
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Speaker 1: think too, we have a great we have a great
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Speaker 1: group that really communicates with each other. UM. So we
12:17
Speaker 1: got a lot of conversations like after this game, um,
12:21
Speaker 1: us ourself and a bunch of the White houtse just
12:23
Speaker 1: talking about you know what can what can we all
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Speaker 1: do better moving forward? Like how can we be at
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Speaker 1: our best and and really just help this offense go,
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Speaker 1: um the team go and kind of turn this corner
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Speaker 1: because we're right there. But you know, we gotta find
12:36
Speaker 1: find some answers. So we just had some great conversations
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Speaker 1: and just we're being honest with each other, you know what,
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Speaker 1: what we all can do better? And that's kind of
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Speaker 1: what it takes. And so I'm excited moving forward. And
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Speaker 1: that's That's kind of the way I look at it. Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean this, Yeah, I think just after the game,
12:55
Speaker 1: especially on road trips, get together you know what, that's
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Speaker 1: on the bus after the game, driving to the reporter
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Speaker 1: on the plane or both. You know. I kind of
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Speaker 1: talked to usually talk to the to the white outs
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Speaker 1: and the bus. You don't get together um after games,
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Speaker 1: and then talked to a bunch of the lineman kind
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Speaker 1: on the plane. It's not always about ball, it's kind
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Speaker 1: of just yeah, obviously you talk through the game, and
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Speaker 1: especially when you lose one like that and you're all frustrated.
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Speaker 1: I think that's the that's the best way I found
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Speaker 1: to kind of get through it. Just get with it,
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Speaker 1: get with your guys, talk about it you can. Those
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Speaker 1: are the only guys. Those are only people that really
13:24
Speaker 1: know know how you're feeling, know what you're feeling. We're
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Speaker 1: in it with you. And I think that's been something
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Speaker 1: that's been really good for this team, um, that we've done.
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Speaker 1: So we were always talking and then after that, you know,
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Speaker 1: we kind of flushed. I always watch it real quick
13:35
Speaker 1: in the playoff, talk to some of the guys real quick.
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Speaker 1: But we flushed and move on, um, And I think
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Speaker 1: that's that's what you have to do because at the
13:41
Speaker 1: end of the day, you've got another another game in
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Speaker 1: a few days. So something was this something you did
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Speaker 1: it clumb Center? Is that something you've learned? Like, I mean,
13:47
Speaker 1: were you like when you were a clumpson. Obviously you
13:49
Speaker 1: weren't necessarily like popping on the plane in the same
13:52
Speaker 1: way as this, But was that something you did? But
13:54
Speaker 1: you're finding your college career that you've a fire. Is
13:56
Speaker 1: it something you've learned in the last year, and yeah,
13:58
Speaker 1: not as much. You know, it's the travel and the
14:02
Speaker 1: technology and kind of all the stuff is a little
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Speaker 1: different in college. It's not as instantly. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: can watch the game when I get on the bus
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Speaker 1: after an away game after doing media talking to you guys,
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Speaker 1: I can I can grab my iPad and watch the game.
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Speaker 1: So it's I don't remember it being like that in college.
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Speaker 1: And really just communication was a little bit different. I
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Speaker 1: think you were allied more on the coaches in college too,
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Speaker 1: to have those talks with guys and to you know,
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Speaker 1: and obviously I'm sure there there were times where you know,
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Speaker 1: I grab a guy and talk to him about this
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Speaker 1: for that, But um, I think that's just something that
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Speaker 1: we've all kind of myself include taking upon ourselves to
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Speaker 1: to have those talks. At the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: we're the ones out there playing. You know, the coaches
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Speaker 1: coach and they made great game plans and obviously they're
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Speaker 1: a huge part to our success. But at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day, us eleven that are on the field
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Speaker 1: gotta be on the same page. And um, I really
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Speaker 1: feel like we're growing closer and closer, and we just
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Speaker 1: gotta we just gotta go get one and get some
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Speaker 1: momentum back. So yep, thank you all,