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Press Pass | Foye Oluokun & Jourdan Lewis Talk Prep for Week 1 vs. Panthers · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Is there a balance, so like you wanna start the
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  Speaker 1: season with a dub, but like not pressing too hard
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  Speaker 1: cause it's not it's still a long year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think about that after the game. I think
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  Speaker 2: I wanna win this game as much as possible. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if you win the game, all the other you know
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  Speaker 2: stuff doesn't matter. So I not it matters, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: trying to win the game, it would would take a
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  Speaker 2: care of the what is after that? Yeah, what do
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  Speaker 2: you what do you make just you know of the Panthers,
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  Speaker 2: what you've seen.
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  Speaker 1: On the cave kind of what rites the last year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know going into that, what kind of with
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  Speaker 2: the end I feel like or what they did last
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  Speaker 2: year from what I've seen, they were like a lot
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  Speaker 2: more explosive. I think they're on timing a lot better.
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  Speaker 2: Hard running team. They run the ball very hard.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think they probably their their hats on being physical
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  Speaker 2: and stuff finishing plays, uh, driving off of blocks and
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  Speaker 2: just keeping the ball churning like that. And then when
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  Speaker 2: they do get out like in space, try to pick
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  Speaker 2: out one on one matchups a little bit when they
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  Speaker 2: getting empty or four open sets and really try to
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  Speaker 2: extend plays to make cool throws downfield. However, he does
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  Speaker 2: his sidearm and all that stuff kind of get the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback out of the pocket and be able to throw
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  Speaker 2: to the matchup that he wants. So they were a
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  Speaker 2: lot more explosive at the end of last year. We
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  Speaker 2: have to definitely have to be on our assignments to
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  Speaker 2: be able to match all that.
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  Speaker 1: And I know the.
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  Speaker 2: Defense played together a few series in the preseason. Now
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  Speaker 2: knowing you can get a full game together, nobody's coming
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  Speaker 2: off the field just how excited are you to just
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  Speaker 2: get a full game.
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  Speaker 1: Lend your belt in this game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited. I just love playing football and then being
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  Speaker 2: out here with this group of guys. I think we
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  Speaker 2: got coached pretty quickly, so definitely excited to see how
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  Speaker 2: everybody plays and want most successful everybody. So I think
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  Speaker 2: being out there and being able to have successes, unit's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be really cool to see.
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  Speaker 1: What's the comfort level in this defense. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 1: going into the regular season now, is a change from
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  Speaker 1: what you've had the past couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Scheme wie scheme wise. Oh, I think our communication has
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  Speaker 2: been really good because we know how important it is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, play in, play out to be on P's
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  Speaker 2: and Q's communication wise, so it's kind of like we're
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  Speaker 2: expecting the next dout of communicate. So it's been cool
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  Speaker 2: to grow as a defense all the way through preseason
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  Speaker 2: that way. That kind of has just more comfortable with
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  Speaker 2: each other. Then. I feel like maybe in years prior,
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  Speaker 2: things were like put on everybody's shoulder more individualistically, like
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  Speaker 2: make sure you have your assignment right. But I feel
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  Speaker 2: like now more people know what the guy next to
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  Speaker 2: them is doing this year. So hopefully you know that
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  Speaker 2: carries over to the season and we're all able to
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  Speaker 2: play fashion because of it.
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  Speaker 3: As players, as there are a part of you guys
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  Speaker 3: that wants to see just how Liam is on a
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  Speaker 3: game day and what he's like on a game day.
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  Speaker 2: I think it really you know, you want the coach
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  Speaker 2: to be however he is comfortably, I think it really
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  Speaker 2: rise on us. We make the calls come to life.
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  Speaker 2: So I think he has that personality. Whatever you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: bring to the game, he makes the game. But I
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  Speaker 2: think we go out and win the game for the team.
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  Speaker 2: I think we have to take it upon ourselves to
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  Speaker 2: go and win games. Obviously, the coach has to be
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  Speaker 2: confident in calling him what he calls it, has his demeanor.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're all gonna kind of ride off of that.
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  Speaker 2: But I know when the players start playing, like the
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  Speaker 2: players got to go make the play. So it's really
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  Speaker 2: about how we go out take the field and stuff you.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned at the beginning, thinking about last year and kind
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  Speaker 1: of getting that bad taste out of your mouth a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. How much does I guess being able to
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  Speaker 1: go out there and really put that behind Just that's
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  Speaker 1: something that's been a part of this process the whole way.
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely been a motivation as the off season goes on.
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  Speaker 2: I think nobody plays how they wanted to last year,
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  Speaker 2: And even with that new addition to players, I think
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  Speaker 2: they came in and understood how we did not feel
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  Speaker 2: good going into the off season last year, so kind
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  Speaker 2: of coming in and writ in the ship. They kind
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  Speaker 2: of got on board with that, and everybody kind of
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  Speaker 2: has that same goal of coming here and starting the
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  Speaker 2: season off right, having a great season this year.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, what excites you about this football team? We're
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  Speaker 1: all hungry.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's the most exciting part of it. Like everybody
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  Speaker 2: has something to prove, and I think that coming out
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  Speaker 2: game one. We can definitely prove something, you know, starting
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  Speaker 2: off the year, setting the standard.
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  Speaker 3: Just being among my peers and them seeing me as
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  Speaker 3: a leader. That feels really good. And it gonna be
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  Speaker 3: a really good football team. So that means a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fun.
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  Speaker 1: How important is it to kind of start the season
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  Speaker 1: off fast and this week one? How important of these games?
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  Speaker 2: Very important?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Just getting the rhythm and you know, winning, having playing
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  Speaker 3: winning football in September, that means a lot. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you can get these grand games early and get
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  Speaker 3: a get on the roll and understand you know, your
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  Speaker 3: process and how you wanna play games. Uh, it it
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  Speaker 3: means a lot in the NFL, cause you know, my
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  Speaker 3: minimum is a is a real thing in the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: and I feel like that's that's a big thing. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure you get asked for the last however many weeks
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  Speaker 3: or whatever. Family members say, how you guys gonna be,
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  Speaker 3: How you guys gonna be? What gets you fired up
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  Speaker 3: about this football team?
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  Speaker 1: What do you do?
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  Speaker 3: You tell 'em?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: You know, just our our connectiveness that you know, we
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  Speaker 3: we wanna do the same thing, We want the same goal,
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  Speaker 3: We wanna change the j The trajectory of you know
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  Speaker 3: what we think of, you know, as a jack, so
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  Speaker 3: you know, getting back to the playoffs and things like
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  Speaker 3: that and and being a fear in the AFC. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that's what we wanna do, and that's what we're headed to,
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  Speaker 3: just win games.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see when you look at this, uh
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  Speaker 1: Panther's receiver room.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, like the big guys, big guys that can make plays.
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  Speaker 3: And I know hundred rents for I I've played him before.
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  Speaker 3: He's he's very sneaky. He's very crafty, so so you
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  Speaker 3: don't don't wanna sep sleep on him. And of course, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Jimmy horror, he's crafty too. I've been watching him. So, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: they they got some guys that can do different things.
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  Speaker 3: You know, catch the ball, you know, high pointed, and
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  Speaker 3: they got some guys that can run and catch and
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  Speaker 3: and and make all the the and do all the route.
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  Speaker 3: So I feel like, you know, uh, when Bryce gets
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  Speaker 3: on the roll, he he's he's he's really good.
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  Speaker 1: So how much strain can a guy like Rice Young
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  Speaker 1: put on a defense? I think Liam compared him to
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  Speaker 1: Steph Curry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah a lot, honestly. I Mean, like I said, when
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  Speaker 3: he's on man when he's passing, he he can he
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  Speaker 3: can make it happen. And then when when things break down,
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  Speaker 3: he's really good with his legs. So, uh, we he's
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  Speaker 3: a dual threat that that can be, you know, very
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  Speaker 3: dangerous for offense, especially for defense, especially when he's on.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you just don't wanna have him when he's
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  Speaker 3: when he's doing all of that and having all that
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  Speaker 3: you know to his disposal. You guys know what you
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  Speaker 3: wanna do defensively. I'm assuming game planning everything else.
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  Speaker 1: But are you curious what this is gonna look like? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: With all the work put in and all the new pieces. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: you you always have an idea of which your identity
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  Speaker 3: is gonna be going through the season. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: once it's on tape, you know, during the season and
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  Speaker 3: you you have a whole week to pros to to
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  Speaker 3: prepare for teams. Uh y, you definitely see what you get.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are molding into. So I'm excited to see
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  Speaker 3: who we are. But I feel like, you know, we've
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  Speaker 3: identified ourselves as a physical football team and and that's
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  Speaker 3: what we wanna hang our hats on. And I feel
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  Speaker 3: like we were gonna do that first game and you
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  Speaker 3: know throughout the season, how much of the guys that
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  Speaker 3: were here last year defensive and and talk about got
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  Speaker 3: to get rid of that, that memory, that taste in
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  Speaker 3: our mouth and what happens. Uh, were not even worried
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  Speaker 3: about it, honestly. Uh, we just thinking about what we
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  Speaker 3: can do for it going forward and and and winning
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  Speaker 3: games and making sure that we we're connected as a
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  Speaker 3: unit to go out there and and and put the
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  Speaker 3: best foot on football on film. And that's what we
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  Speaker 3: all worried about, you know, playing at one time, one
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  Speaker 3: one step at the time, and and making sure that
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  Speaker 3: we put the the best product out there for for
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  Speaker 3: ourselves this year.
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  Speaker 1: So it was that week one feeling ever get a
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  Speaker 1: old knowing the pregens over and you're about to go
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  Speaker 1: finally play before game again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of old man, un can hear man? So this,
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  Speaker 3: like I think Cam told me this my my fifteenth
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  Speaker 3: first game in the NFL, so uh it it it
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  Speaker 3: never goes away. Honestly, that feeling of you know, those
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  Speaker 3: those goosebumps and those those butterflies, they like it's just
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  Speaker 3: a like you feel like your y you first game
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  Speaker 3: as a six year old. It's the same feeling. It's
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  Speaker 3: same feeling every day and tell until you hear somebody honestly, so,
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  Speaker 3: uh it's I it never gets old. I'm I'm grateful
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  Speaker 3: that you know, I get my fifteenth first game is really.
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  Speaker 2: Your fifteenth first game, but first time in the AFC.
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  Speaker 3: South as a team or how you know, outlook on
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  Speaker 3: this AFC South Division for your life.
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  Speaker 1: It's getting tougher.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, guys are you know, they're making moves and you know,
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  Speaker 3: uh it the I feel like, yeah, it's up for grabs.
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  Speaker 3: I know Houston has had it for a few years,
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  Speaker 3: but honestly, I feel like we we we have a
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  Speaker 3: shot to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're a really good football team. We're very
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  Speaker 3: physical and know we're coming together as a unit and
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  Speaker 3: getting to know each other and especially on the back end,
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  Speaker 3: we were getting to know each other a little bit
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  Speaker 3: better and seeing how we wanna play, and I I
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  Speaker 3: feel like we gonna do pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Surprised about Michael and all that whole thing went down to.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, man, Jerry put out that that he put out
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  Speaker 3: that that that that documentary for a reason.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's it's it's it's Jerry's Man, Jerry
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  Speaker 3: World Man. It it's it's, it's definitely surprised Michael. I
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  Speaker 3: thought thought he was gonna be a staple for a
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  Speaker 3: long time. But yeah, you know, uh I feel like
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  Speaker 3: you know, feelings the South work and things went south,
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  Speaker 3: so the NFL, anything can happen.