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Press Pass | Foye Oluokun and Travis Etienne Jr. Reflect on Wild Card Loss, Jaguars' Season | Press Conference · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Well you could you put a put any words to it.
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  Speaker 2: Not right now. Uh, it's just unfortunate. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: didn't execute players that we needed to all the way
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  Speaker 2: through the game. And that's and they they came out
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  Speaker 2: on the top because of it. Loved to fight from
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  Speaker 2: this team all year. Uh love how they came together
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  Speaker 2: as a team all year. Just it's sad to come
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  Speaker 2: up short.
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  Speaker 3: Can you kind of walking through that last drive? I
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  Speaker 3: know you guys can let them score. You gotta get
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  Speaker 3: the ball back. But what was it like on that
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  Speaker 3: last drive?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a couple times we could have kept
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  Speaker 2: in a uh longer situations. Uh they had a big
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  Speaker 2: chunk talking about executing all the way through the drives,
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  Speaker 2: you don't know which which play is gonna be. And
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  Speaker 2: then when they got closer, you know, they had that
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  Speaker 2: uh weird sneak. He stayed up. They they've carried him there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's just outlasting and playing all the way
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  Speaker 2: through the down I guess, but uh, you know it's
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  Speaker 2: just tough to either way unwinded like that. What happened
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  Speaker 2: on the beach chunk play, Yeah, it was just uh
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  Speaker 2: he held it. I think he mighta looked looked somebody
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  Speaker 2: off and then the guy snuck up behind the guy
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  Speaker 2: and through a deep you know, you know they need chunks,
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  Speaker 2: probably usually hit inter intermediate's there.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Anticipation and he's able to just you know, Devon was
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  Speaker 2: running through, so he kind of threw it up for
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  Speaker 2: a prayer.
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  Speaker 3: Chows the right guy?
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  Speaker 1: Did you guys have been playing such good football? It
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  Speaker 1: did you not feel like today was your best?
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't our best, But it's playoff football.
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  Speaker 2: It's not really about ain't nothing gonna be perfect in
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  Speaker 2: playoff football. It is about the team, you know, outlasting
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  Speaker 2: and executing one of the other team. Every team is good,
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  Speaker 2: every team's gonna have their stuff, good coaches, good game
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  Speaker 2: plans and all that. So it's really outlasting and winning
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  Speaker 2: the play necessarily to win the game. It's gritty, grimy,
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  Speaker 2: no no blow aisen just is winning to one on
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  Speaker 2: ones that is supposed to win or that come up
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  Speaker 2: in the game, and that's how to win playoff football.
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  Speaker 2: So we didn't do that enough today and that's how
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  Speaker 2: they got the win.
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  Speaker 4: I know this hurts, but from where this team was
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  Speaker 4: a year ago, just what kind of an accomplishment is
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  Speaker 4: this season been.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I started off here, we went to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: So talking about last year, like we kind of flushed
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  Speaker 2: that and we came together as a team. Obviously did
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  Speaker 2: not go where we wanted to go last year, but
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't character. That's not me, that's not who we
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be. So we came out this year rate
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  Speaker 2: of swing and now a lot of people kind of
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  Speaker 2: thought we were the same team.
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  Speaker 3: As last year, but we wasn't. So we were very
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  Speaker 3: happy to prove.
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  Speaker 2: That we aren't and we're not gonna be going forward
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  Speaker 2: or you know, uh, just the character that we built
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  Speaker 2: this year is kind of what we want to be
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  Speaker 2: going forward.
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  Speaker 4: How big with the addition was like coach Cohen and
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  Speaker 4: Jacoby throughout this year.
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  Speaker 5: It was big.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Coach Cohen's gonna bring his personality to the team.
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  Speaker 3: He saw we're all fighters, h and he's definitely a fighter.
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  Speaker 2: He's definitely always trying to prove it every week in
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  Speaker 2: week out, every time he comes out here to step
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  Speaker 2: on the field. You know, Jacobe just reliable. Just the
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  Speaker 2: way that he works and what he's willing to do
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  Speaker 2: every down. Uh definitely rubs off on everybody because We
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  Speaker 2: always preached team ball, but you gotta see your big
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  Speaker 2: guys doing team balls.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, no jobs too small.
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  Speaker 2: As while I was telling people for the game, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: Jacobe really embodies that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like this is the start of something?
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  Speaker 3: I would love to believe it.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta come in next year or this off season,
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  Speaker 2: keep working, keep grinding it. Nothing's given in this league,
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  Speaker 2: so you can build on it, but you gotta re
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  Speaker 2: establish everything when you come in the next year. It's
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  Speaker 2: a new team. I wouldn't say new identity, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a new year.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta keep reproving it.
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  Speaker 5: After this came, what are the emotions from you?
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  Speaker 1: How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, I was still trying to process it all. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: didn't want the season to end here, or didn't even
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  Speaker 4: come into the day thinking that it was going to
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  Speaker 4: end here. So really just still processing. Just in shock,
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  Speaker 4: I guess man, just kind of like just like not
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  Speaker 4: feeling my best really, just you know, we put so
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  Speaker 4: much work into this and for them this way, it
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  Speaker 4: just hurts each and every year.
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  Speaker 3: It hurts, and you gotta keep home this moment.
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  Speaker 4: But I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of hard to.
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  Speaker 4: Look forward to the future because like you're so caught
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  Speaker 4: in the moment and just really hurting right now, just
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  Speaker 4: like I could have did more for my teammates, and
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  Speaker 4: you know it's gonna just I don't know, man, just
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  Speaker 4: hurting right now.
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  Speaker 1: Really is there a party of that, which is you
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  Speaker 1: had the ball more? You guys are really chewing up
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  Speaker 1: yards in the run game.
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  Speaker 4: It looks like, Nah, man, I don't think I really
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  Speaker 4: wish you'd have that w You know, I feel like
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  Speaker 4: Coach I put a great game. Playing together, we go
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  Speaker 4: out there to execute whatever coach called, and uh, he
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  Speaker 4: did a great job. And I feel like it's just
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  Speaker 4: a couple uh things that we gotta continue to get
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  Speaker 4: better at. But man, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: we didn't get the job done. And and it's a
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  Speaker 4: team sports, you know it take it tastes all of us,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, we didn't get a jump done to day
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  Speaker 4: in it and and then the day it hurts because
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  Speaker 4: it's it's a team, is a collective and it's coming
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  Speaker 4: with everyone, so uh, we just have to be better.
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  Speaker 4: Today we didn't get it done, and man, it sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Are you surprised you didn't play a little better considering
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  Speaker 1: you guys had been rolling so well.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's a playoff atmosphere. Man, I you know,
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  Speaker 4: I mean it sucks, yeah, cause man, we lost. Like
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  Speaker 4: I said, Man, you ask me coming this morning, were
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  Speaker 4: gonna lose. There was no doubt in my mind we
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  Speaker 4: was coming out here with the W. So I'm still
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  Speaker 4: in shock honestly that. Uh the game went that way.
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  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, Man, I went
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  Speaker 4: out there, I I I just try to leave anything
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  Speaker 4: on the field, and then God got liver with the results. Man,
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  Speaker 4: as you gotta just focus on getting better. How can
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  Speaker 4: it be better for my team? Makes in no situations
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  Speaker 4: and I just keep pushing.
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  Speaker 1: You play your last game as a Jacks player.
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  Speaker 4: I mean really not even focused on that right now, honestly. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: not your focused on that. Really, Just gotta just just
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  Speaker 4: just try to soak this one in. Man. Uh, not
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  Speaker 4: even focused on that right now. It would be crazy
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  Speaker 4: if I did.
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  Speaker 2: Though, Going into that last drive, you had to level
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  Speaker 2: score to get the ball back.
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  Speaker 3: What were you thinking of headed into that last final drive.
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  Speaker 4: We need to feel gold the sentence to halftime, you know,
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  Speaker 4: halftime over time. I just needed to feel that. I
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  Speaker 4: was thinking about just matricolate the ball down field, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Uh we had no time out, so thinking about just
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  Speaker 4: whenever I get the ball, just get out of bounds
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  Speaker 4: to keep the chains moving. But God had other plans,
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  Speaker 4: you know. So Uh, I feel like we all thought
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  Speaker 4: we was going out there inte q Uh. We we
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  Speaker 4: got cam little Uh we know what he can do
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  Speaker 4: get get in the position. So I mean, it just
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  Speaker 4: it just didn't go our way, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 4: such that that happen.
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  Speaker 2: How impressed were you with not only your performance, russion,
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  Speaker 2: but Racial's performance as well?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Not impressed at all. I mean we didn't get to
• 6:00
  Speaker 4: w you know, at the end of the day, we
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  Speaker 4: going home. Uh we don't get to come suit up
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  Speaker 4: the next week. Uh So, man, I don't think anybody
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  Speaker 4: impressed with our performance a day. You know, we came
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  Speaker 4: here to win. Uh. All that individual accolades don't even matter,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Uh, whenever you're going home with the loss.
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  Speaker 4: We we we we wanted to win the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day. Uh we We didn't
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  Speaker 4: uh go into the season trying to win a T
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  Speaker 4: shirt or just get to this moment. So uh for
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  Speaker 4: us to be in this moment and not get to
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  Speaker 4: the next the next step really hurt. So Uh, nobody
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  Speaker 4: been worried about what happened throughout the game.
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  Speaker 3: Why was this team so different this year than what
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  Speaker 3: happened last year?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Just our mindset all year, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, uh we was re we we f
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  Speaker 4: we felt like we was ready. We just had a
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  Speaker 4: different airs to ourselves.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: But we gotta continue to grow, continue to be better
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  Speaker 4: in moments and UH, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: it comes down to one or two plays that we
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  Speaker 4: didn't make. So we just got to find a way
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  Speaker 4: to make those plays nobody on circumstances and find a
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  Speaker 4: way to keep playing. Uh, keep going. Uh at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the season.
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  Speaker 5: Because Kurge Carrey talks about and you stand heard after
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  Speaker 5: week nine, do you feel like, despite this win, that
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  Speaker 5: this is kind of a turning point for the franchise
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  Speaker 5: or new standard to make it to the playoffs? I
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  Speaker 5: don't hope.
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  Speaker 4: So I hope so, but like that's a standard. I
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  Speaker 4: feel like they've been the standards since we've got there
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  Speaker 4: in twenty two. So he just enforces the standard. But
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we won't get to the super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: at end of the day. Man, we don't play this
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  Speaker 4: game for no other reason. That's the main goal. That's
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  Speaker 4: the focus, and as long as I'm playing football, that's
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  Speaker 4: why I'm trying to get each and every year. So
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  Speaker 4: and I think coach Korn has that mindset too. He
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  Speaker 4: also understands that it takes one game at the time.
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  Speaker 4: You don't just get there in week one, so he
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  Speaker 4: has a great understanding of that and keeps us focused throughout.
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  Speaker 3: The whole year, which is great.
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  Speaker 4: But we didn't give everyone to go this year, man,
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  Speaker 4: so all this stuff don't even really matter.