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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, these loud games, especially this one, we
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Speaker 1: know this one's going to be crazy loud because we
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Speaker 1: did it last year. Preparation-wise, I think it's the intentionality
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Speaker 1: of your communication and your cadence and listening in the huddle,
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Speaker 1: being in tune in the huddle. Typically, I always look
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Speaker 1: at the defense, but today I was trying to remember
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Speaker 1: to look at Trevor because it's loud, so I look
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Speaker 1: at him so I can watch him talk and see
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Speaker 1: his mouth move so it helps you hear it in
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Speaker 1: the huddle. So instead of just being there looking away...
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Speaker 1: I was trying to do that, even though I can
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Speaker 1: hear him in practice if I'm looking away, but trying
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Speaker 1: to remind myself to do stuff like that. Those are
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Speaker 1: the little things that kind of carry over. Making the
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Speaker 1: calls to the left and to the right, I can't
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Speaker 1: just get up there and just look forward and say it.
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Speaker 1: We have to make sure it's communicated.
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Speaker 2: How hard is it to make a statement after you
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Speaker 2: already made one in Denver last year to do it again.
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Speaker 3: This upcoming game?
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Speaker 4: What do you mean by statement?
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Speaker 2: Like a statement game you guys had in Denver last year,
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Speaker 2: trying to repeat that statement game, coming back with a
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Speaker 2: win and proving yourselves that you're not just a small
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Speaker 2: market team, so to say.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't say we're trying to repeat that. I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't say that that game really has a ton to
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Speaker 1: do with this game. I mean, we're going to look
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Speaker 1: at it, we're going to study it, and I think
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Speaker 1: upstairs between the coaches, our coaches and their coaches can
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Speaker 1: be a little bit of a chess match to it,
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Speaker 1: but that's not our job as players to figure out.
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Speaker 1: Our job is to trust that game plan, which we do,
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Speaker 1: and then execute it to the best of our ability.
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Speaker 1: So it's never, you know, it's always going to be
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Speaker 1: about the next game. If we were the one by
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Speaker 1: a hundred or lost by a hundred this last week,
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Speaker 1: like this game is a fresh week, brand new slate,
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Speaker 1: ready to rock. And we know we got a great
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Speaker 1: opponent in an unbelievable environment. That's kind of what you,
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Speaker 1: this makes it fun. You know, this is the things
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Speaker 1: that you get to do when you play in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna have an awesome, awesome environment to prepare for.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be loud.
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Speaker 4: Your fans are going to be rocking. We've been there.
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Speaker 4: We've done that.
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Speaker 1: So, We know we're prepared for it and we can
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Speaker 1: get prepared for it.
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Speaker 5: This past week you were the only offensive lineman returning
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Speaker 5: to a position that they had played the previous year.
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Speaker 5: Were you surprised with how clean of an operation you
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Speaker 5: guys had last Sunday?
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Speaker 1: No, I'm not surprised because it's a testament to those
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Speaker 1: guys in the room. I think that's the standard and
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Speaker 1: the expectation. Everyone takes it upon themselves to bring that up,
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Speaker 1: to rise to the occasion, whatever that may be. Everyone
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Speaker 1: who was in had played a lot of football. minus
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Speaker 1: email and he did a really great job too so
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Speaker 1: i'm super proud of him the way he his composure
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Speaker 1: his physicality the way he played i thought he did
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Speaker 1: a really good job so those are things we got
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Speaker 1: to work on throughout camp that we talked about that
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Speaker 1: we knew was going to be an issue and like
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Speaker 1: i said before we had we all had a lot
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Speaker 1: of reps together maybe not at that exact configuration but
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Speaker 1: by the end of camp it kind of was so
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Speaker 1: we were getting rep after rep after rep we're we
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Speaker 1: know each other really well we're very close in the
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Speaker 1: offensive line room and i think that also adds to it,
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Speaker 1: that helps.
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Speaker 4: Does it surprise you when he's going left, sometimes where
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Speaker 4: he's able to pass the ball and how far he's
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Speaker 4: able to throw it?
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Speaker 6: I mean, I wouldn't say it surprises me now, seeing
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Speaker 6: that he's done it a couple times. But I definitely,
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Speaker 6: I mean, it's definitely like, seeing it is definitely like, man,
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Speaker 6: that was a great throw. I mean, I wouldn't say
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Speaker 6: it surprised me, but it's definitely like, still. shocking a
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Speaker 6: little bit to see him go out there and actually
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Speaker 6: do it.
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Speaker 7: Shows how strong the arm is because he's not really able.
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Speaker 4: To set the feet like the one to Parker last year.
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Speaker 7: Against the Jets.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure. He had two of those, one to
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Speaker 6: Parker and one to Tim. Really almost the same play.
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Speaker 6: Just come out there, do it again, throw it to Jacoby.
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Speaker 6: It just shows how much work he put in.
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Speaker 5: I apologize if this was asked previously, but you have
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Speaker 5: a matchup this Sunday against one of the league's best
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Speaker 5: in pass or 10. Considering they're previous approaches, having him
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Speaker 5: manned up on you. When you know you're going against
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Speaker 5: one of the league's best, does that impact your preparation process?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like we prepare the same way
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Speaker 6: we come out and prepare each and every week, like
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Speaker 6: we're going up against the best. So, I mean, we
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Speaker 6: just come out each and every week, like I said,
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Speaker 6: and we prepare like we're going against the best. I mean,
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Speaker 6: we don't come out there and do what we do,
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Speaker 6: do our 111th, and just go out there and try
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Speaker 6: to be the best that we can be.
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Speaker 5: Is there anything that you do specifically to help mitigate
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Speaker 5: the strengths that he possesses? Is there anything that you
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Speaker 5: do specifically to help, you know, lessen some of the
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Speaker 5: strengths that he may have to work to your advantage specifically?
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Speaker 6: I mean, we just come out there and play our game, really.
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Speaker 6: We just come out there and do what we're supposed
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Speaker 6: to do, go out there and do what we know
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Speaker 6: we can do, and just try to be our best.
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Speaker 6: We feel like when we're at our best, nobody can
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Speaker 6: cover us.
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Speaker 4: Brandon, can you tell me a little bit about your
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Speaker 4: work with.
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Speaker 7: Drew Lieberman, Jacoby, and Evan?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Taking me to my career and, you know, the learning
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Speaker 8: process of the game, it's kind of the new heights
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Speaker 8: for me, you know. So I'm very thankful for them,
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Speaker 8: you know. It feels good to, you know, it's sideline hustle.
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Speaker 8: It feels good to be able to go in the
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Speaker 8: offseason and be able to compete and be around other
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Speaker 8: NFL players because you see things that they do with
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Speaker 8: their game and maybe not even football related, but how
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Speaker 8: they take care of their body or, you know, how
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Speaker 8: they operate. So it's just good to be around a
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Speaker 8: bunch of good NFL players, you know, vets that have done.
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Speaker 9: It for a long time.
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Speaker 10: What is your relationship with those guys like?
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Speaker 4: How do you kind of spend your time during the
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Speaker 4: offseason together?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it just depends on the schedule. You know, Drew,
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Speaker 8: he writes up the schedule each and every day. But
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Speaker 8: sometimes we could go in the morning and it could
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Speaker 8: be me and Jacoby or it could be me and
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Speaker 8: like Theo Johnson, me and.
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Speaker 4: Evan, whoever.
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Speaker 8: So that's what I was just saying. You know, like
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Speaker 8: it's just good to be around guys like that because,
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Speaker 8: you know, iron sharpens iron. And, you know, when you're
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Speaker 8: around those guys, it just raises your bar.
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Speaker 10: Is there some communication between you three, Drew, Jacoby, and
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Speaker 10: Evan this week leading into the matchup?
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Speaker 8: I don't got no communication right now, man. I'm going
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Speaker 8: to just keep my head down, do everything I can
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Speaker 8: to get prepared for this game and put my best
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Speaker 8: foot forward on Sunday.
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Speaker 5: This team ran the highest percentage of 12 personnel across
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Speaker 5: the entire NFL in Week 1. Do you think that
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Speaker 5: that approach was beneficial towards the success you guys had
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Speaker 5: on Sunday?
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Speaker 8: No doubt. I mean, I think if you run 12 personnel,
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Speaker 8: 13 personnel, you get to be able to be multiple and,
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Speaker 8: you know, you get to do things to the defense
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Speaker 8: and make the defense prepare for things, you know. So
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Speaker 8: you can get big and run the ball with guys
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Speaker 8: like that we have where you can, you know, spread
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Speaker 8: it out and open up the field and get vertical
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Speaker 8: down the field. So that's it's just it just gives
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Speaker 8: the defense something extra to prepare for.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, man.
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Speaker 7: And Brent, usually right-handed quarterbacks.
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Speaker 8: I'm sorry, what'd you say?
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Speaker 7: Usually right-handed quarterbacks when.
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Speaker 10: They roll left, scramble left, or whatever.
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Speaker 5: They're not really accurate when they throw the ball going left,
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Speaker 5: but Trevor is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Why do you think that is?
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Speaker 8: I can remember one play last year. We were playing Tennessee.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 8: Trevor, there was a blitz off the edge, and he
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Speaker 8: kind of faked, and then he threw the ball right
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Speaker 8: over the blitz, and it hit me right in my hands,
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Speaker 8: and we took off with it. It was about a
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Speaker 8: 10-yard game, but I don't know. Maybe it's just something
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Speaker 8: he's worked on over the years. Some people got that talent.
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Speaker 8: They say you either got it or you don't, and
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Speaker 8: he got it. So we're thankful to have him. We're
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Speaker 8: thankful for him being a part of this organization and
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Speaker 8: the leader that he is every single day.
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Speaker 10: How many people from your family were at the game?
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Speaker 10: Your mom and dad, right? Yeah, my mom, dad, brother.
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Speaker 10: Aunt Nana, and then my fiance. She was there too.
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Speaker 7: First NFL game as a rookie, first time you got targeted. Yes, sir.
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Speaker 7: First touchdown, got family in the stands. Does it get
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Speaker 7: any better than that? I don't think it does. I
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Speaker 7: don't think it does.
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Speaker 10: I mean, no, it was definitely special just having everyone there,
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Speaker 10: being able to watch that moment, being able to share
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Speaker 10: that moment with them.
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Speaker 7: It was definitely huge for sure. Where's the ball right now?
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Speaker 10: It's at my crib. See, I need to set up
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Speaker 10: my desk. I just moved to the apartment, so. I'm
7:26
Speaker 10: going to get that desk built, and then it's going
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Speaker 10: to go right there on the shelf. I'm going to
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Speaker 10: get like a little plexiglass something, get nice and nice
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Speaker 10: for sure.
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Speaker 7: Were you surprised Trevor threw that football? I wasn't surprised.
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Speaker 7: Kind of got different looks all week.
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Speaker 10: And then when I saw that safety, which kind of
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Speaker 10: shaded over, I could definitely tell it was coming.
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Speaker 7: It just kind of goes back to kind of practice
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Speaker 7: and preparation. So, no, I wasn't really surprised. I mean,
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Speaker 7: that throw is breaking the Internet right now. What was
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Speaker 7: your perspective? With four DBs around you, was that tough
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Speaker 7: to haul in?
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Speaker 10: I would say so, yeah, but I think it's just
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Speaker 10: one of those things whenever you get reps. I guess
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Speaker 10: I kind of practice it a little bit whenever I
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Speaker 10: do jugs, kind of after practice, just kind of like
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Speaker 10: that body presence. I use like a little dummy kind
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Speaker 10: of bag, just kind of practicing that body presence to
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Speaker 10: where I didn't really.
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Speaker 7: Feel it, to be honest, and it just kind of
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Speaker 7: comes natural at that point. Trevor will throw a fastball, right?
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Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 7: No, for sure.
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Speaker 10: That was an amazing ball. He threw it in the
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Speaker 10: only spot to where only I.
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Speaker 7: Could get it, for sure.
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Speaker 11: Were there times you caught one and it stung?
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah. All the time. All the time.
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Speaker 6: For sure.
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Speaker 7: For sure. But you get used to it though. No doubt.
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Speaker 11: Preparing for your first, you know, real test, you know,
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Speaker 11: in the NFL, what were some of the other guys
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Speaker 11: kind of told you just with the emphasis on communication?
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
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Speaker 10: That's, that's something from the get go, even from the team,
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Speaker 10: me and that we've been hitting on, uh, really just
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Speaker 10: at practice where we've been playing what noise, like extra loud, uh,
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Speaker 10: music and speaker noise. Um, so just emphasizing just the
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Speaker 10: tighter huddle, uh, great communication with subs. Uh, that's just
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Speaker 10: been the main emphasis from the get go. But, uh, Personally,
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Speaker 10: I love road atmospheres ever since going back to college,
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Speaker 10: so I'm really excited for it, for sure.
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Speaker 11: Players, you don't get intimidated by that.
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Speaker 7: You actually feed off of it, don't you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: If everybody hates you and they're screaming at you, it's
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Speaker 9: something you can turn to your advantage.
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, I love it. I love it. That's what
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Speaker 7: it is.
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Speaker 10: That's what kind of fuels me, for sure, just being
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Speaker 10: the underdog, going into a road environment. Everybody doesn't like you, blah, blah.
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Speaker 7: It's like, I bet. Let's go do it, for sure.
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Speaker 11: What was the toughest place you ever had to play at?
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Speaker 7: Toughest place, probably BYU at night. It was like an
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Speaker 7: 8 p.m.
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Speaker 9: Game.
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Speaker 7: The Mormons, they don't play. They don't play. They're intense, man.
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Speaker 7: But yeah, probably BYU at night.
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Speaker 10: You know, they got like the little cougar doing the
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Speaker 10: flips and tricks.
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Speaker 7: And all that, but that was the loudest stadium I've
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Speaker 7: played at, for sure.
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Speaker 9: We felt really confident in, you know, what we've been
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Speaker 9: doing and what we're good at, and it was just
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Speaker 9: cool to start strong.
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Speaker 10: Seeing Trevor's kind of, I don't want to say continuation
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Speaker 10: or progression, but just kind of he picked it.
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Speaker 7: Up right where he left it off last season.
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Speaker 6: Just what was that like being on the field to
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Speaker 6: see him in kind of a rhythm like that? No doubt.
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Speaker 9: Just that confidence he carries each and every day, how
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Speaker 9: he leads each day. It's been special. And, you know, Sam,
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Speaker 9: as a receiver and the rest of the room, tight end,
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Speaker 9: running backs, we just want to have his back.
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Speaker 5: Considering the success that you had against Denver last year
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Speaker 5: and the success against Cleveland as well this past week,
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Speaker 5: are you expecting this Broncos defense to.
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Speaker 4: Key in more exclusively.
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Speaker 5: On you than previous years?
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Speaker 9: I mean, I guess we'll find out together. And then,
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Speaker 9: I mean, you see our offense, we did a good
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Speaker 9: job as a whole. It makes it tough on defenses
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Speaker 9: to be able to key in on one guy. That
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Speaker 9: is a takeaway to offense, so. It'll be fun to
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Speaker 9: go out there and play against a great opponent. Let's
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Speaker 9: just find out Sunday.
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Speaker 11: How much did being there last year and late in
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Speaker 11: the year kind of help you understand that atmosphere and
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Speaker 11: kind of what you guys are going to be going
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Speaker 11: into just communication-wise?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, it was a loud stadium, of course.
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Speaker 9: Great team. So I feel like we just stick to
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Speaker 9: our process, how we want to attack that, and we
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Speaker 9: just go in there and go play ball.
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Speaker 2: How much are you putting an emphasis on communication as
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Speaker 2: you head to Mile High?
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Speaker 9: That's everything. That's the start of offense, just being on
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Speaker 9: the same page and just going out there having fun,
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Speaker 9: doing what we're good at, and just one play at
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Speaker 9: a time.
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Speaker 7: You said in training camp that you watched your own film.
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Speaker 7: What did you see when you went back and looked
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Speaker 7: at it?
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Speaker 9: I feel like just being a playmaker and obviously the
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Speaker 9: yak was real important in that game. That allowed me
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Speaker 9: to have a big game. But just for me now,
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Speaker 9: just how I attack the offseason, just being more prepared,
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Speaker 9: just more in shape and just ready to go the
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Speaker 9: full game. I left a couple plays out there, and
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Speaker 9: I feel like that's what this offseason is about, just continuing.
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Speaker 7: To get on the same page with Trevor.
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Speaker 9: And I feel like it'll be good this week.
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Speaker 10: I know it was at the end of the season,
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Speaker 10: but do you feel like you're a better player now than.
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Speaker 6: You were then?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: I mean, that's how you want to attack it. You know,
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Speaker 9: going to each offseason, I want to be a better player.
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Speaker 9: How can I get better? That communication, talking with coaches,
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Speaker 9: talking with my trainer, and just how I want to
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Speaker 9: get better. And knowing me personally, looking in the mirror,
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Speaker 9: just how I want to get better. how I want
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Speaker 9: it to look, and, you know, hopefully this continues to show.
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Speaker 2: How can you guys carry over this statement game from
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Speaker 2: week one and now carry it all the way into
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Speaker 2: mile high?
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Speaker 9: You just got to be in the moment, you know,
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Speaker 9: take advantage of each opportunity, one play at a time,
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Speaker 9: and just be us.
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Speaker 7: All right, Josh, how.
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Speaker 2: Hard and easy is it for you guys to carry
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Speaker 2: over that momentum from such a strong week one now
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Speaker 2: carrying it all the way to mile high?
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Speaker 12: It's a new week, so the preparation's a little bit different, but,
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Speaker 12: Our mentality is still the same, so we can carry
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Speaker 12: over that part of it. Obviously, different play calls, different schemes. But, again,
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Speaker 12: we played fast. We played aggressive last week, and we
12:52
Speaker 12: kind of want to carry that over. But we got
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Speaker 12: to get back to what our eyes are going to
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Speaker 12: be detailed to this week. But the physicality is going
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Speaker 12: to still be the same. Can't change that. But it's
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Speaker 12: a new week. We're excited about this week.
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Speaker 9: Keep it going.
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Speaker 1: What kind of threats does Baranek's kind of partners.
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Speaker 11: For you guys?
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Speaker 12: He's very elusive in the pocket. He makes a lot
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Speaker 12: of plays on the run. He evades. He can get
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Speaker 12: out the pocket and challenges the DBs, challenges the D linemen.
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Speaker 12: So it's definitely going to be a chase game. And
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Speaker 12: we can't be surprised if he does escape from the pocket.
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Speaker 12: We just got to be able to be relentless in
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Speaker 12: the rush and stay sticky in the back end.
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Speaker 2: What's it like watching Trevor just absolutely.
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Speaker 6: Fall out from.
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Speaker 12: I mean, that's the Trevor we've been seeing all camp.
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Speaker 12: So it doesn't really, you know, I mean, obviously it
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Speaker 12: excites me. But at the end of the day, it's like,
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Speaker 12: you know, that's the expectations that we have for each other.
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Speaker 12: And that's the expectation he has for himself. So when
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Speaker 12: he goes out there, it's just Trevor being Trevor. And
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Speaker 12: it's everybody else around him making him, you know, be
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Speaker 12: that confident. So he has a lot of trust in
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Speaker 12: the scheme, has a lot of trust in his players.
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Speaker 12: And he's just going out there and making a lot
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Speaker 12: of plays.
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Speaker 3: I know it's a new season, but the Jaguars are
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Speaker 3: the only team last year to beat Denver in Denver.
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Speaker 3: Just how much confidence does that give you guys going.
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Speaker 10: Into this next game?
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Speaker 12: I mean, same personnel, you know, from this year to
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Speaker 12: last year. We can talk about just player to player.
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Speaker 12: So we kind of know what it feels like. Obviously,
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Speaker 12: you know, we don't want to be like, well, we
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Speaker 12: beat them last year, so we're going to beat them
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Speaker 12: this year. You know, the NFL is a tricky league,
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Speaker 12: and it's a week-by-week league. And if we talk about week-by-week,
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Speaker 12: we talk about something from last year shouldn't really phase us.
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Speaker 12: So we're looking at this as a new challenge. We're
14:42
Speaker 12: excited about this challenge. It's a great team we're about
14:44
Speaker 12: to play against, a playoff team. And we just got
14:47
Speaker 12: to bring our A game and be ready to show up.
14:51
Speaker 11: Is that really what it means when you kind of say,
14:53
Speaker 11: this week's about focusing on us, you guys?
14:56
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, it should be like that. I think
14:58
Speaker 12: that's the message every week for us. What are some
15:02
Speaker 12: ways that we can get better from last week individually?
15:06
Speaker 12: and then focus on those as players so the same
15:09
Speaker 12: mistakes don't show up again. And that's why he says, like,
15:12
Speaker 12: you know, week by week, focus on the things that
15:14
Speaker 12: we did last week, good and bad, and continue to
15:17
Speaker 12: do the good things and eliminate the bad things.
15:21
Speaker 4: So, yeah.
15:26
Speaker 3: I was pretty, you know, pretty happy with it. Some
15:31
Speaker 3: things we have to clean up, some things I have
15:33
Speaker 3: to clean up. But overall, I'm pretty pleased, you know,
15:36
Speaker 3: week one. You know, there's going to be mistakes, there's
15:38
Speaker 3: going to be misreads and stuff like that. But, you know,
15:41
Speaker 3: that's why we play the game. And, you know, like
15:42
Speaker 3: I said, first week, always things to correct. So I
15:45
Speaker 3: think overall.
15:46
Speaker 4: Pretty pleased with, you know, how we played in the
15:48
Speaker 4: run game.
15:49
Speaker 2: Just seeing how the Chiefs kind of lit up the
15:51
Speaker 2: Broncos in the run game, does that excite you kind.
15:53
Speaker 4: Of going into this one?
15:55
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it excites me. I pay attention to it.
15:58
Speaker 3: But we know they're going to play us different. So
16:00
Speaker 3: we can't bank on them playing us like they did
16:03
Speaker 3: the Chiefs. It's the Jaguars, so they're going to come out,
16:05
Speaker 3: you know, in mile high and, you know, look to
16:08
Speaker 3: take away the run game. So we just got to
16:09
Speaker 3: be on our keys and, you know, do the things
16:11
Speaker 3: we do best.
16:12
Speaker 5: How interesting is it kind of going into mile high,
16:15
Speaker 5: that atmosphere, that environment, and what is that challenge?
16:18
Speaker 3: Does that kind of face you guys?
16:21
Speaker 4: You know, the guys went up last year. I didn't
16:23
Speaker 4: get to go, so first time.
16:24
Speaker 3: But, you know, they always talk about the altitude and,
16:28
Speaker 3: you know, hard to breathe up there. But I think
16:31
Speaker 3: that'll be the biggest thing, you know, we overcome. And
16:35
Speaker 3: I say we just play football.
16:37
Speaker 5: This past week was one of your first times in
16:39
Speaker 5: a premier rushing role in the league. And you were
16:42
Speaker 5: one of the league's most efficient backs. Did you notice
16:44
Speaker 5: a difference in the way things felt this past week
16:46
Speaker 5: compared to last season?
16:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there was a sense of urgency with
16:51
Speaker 3: the running backs and then with the O-line as well.
16:53
Speaker 4: The wide receivers tight in blocking.
16:55
Speaker 3: I think we was on our screws with blocking schemes
16:58
Speaker 3: and how we want to get things done. I think
17:00
Speaker 3: the backs was running downhill. It wasn't a lot of,
17:03
Speaker 3: you know, cuts and jukes and stuff like that. We're
17:05
Speaker 3: getting our shoulder pads down, squaring up and just running downhill.
17:08
Speaker 3: You know, me and C-Rod, you know, it's hard to
17:10
Speaker 3: tackle both of us. So I think we just played
17:13
Speaker 3: into our hand, you know, running tough and strong, fast
17:15
Speaker 3: and physical, and I think it was working out for us.
17:18
Speaker 7: So you need to go into Denver and prove it
17:21
Speaker 7: against one of the best teams in the AFC.
17:22
Speaker 4: How are you going to approach.
17:24
Speaker 9: That this week?
17:25
Speaker 4: Just like any other week, you know, just do the
17:27
Speaker 4: things that we need to do.
17:29
Speaker 3: You know, for me, you know, being on the run keys,
17:32
Speaker 3: right-land marks, and then, you know, the O-line pass protecting,
17:36
Speaker 3: being on the screws with their target in the run.
17:37
Speaker 4: Game, and just the offense and defense.
17:39
Speaker 3: You know, in general, special teams, just doing the things
17:41
Speaker 3: we do best, we train for. And I think just
17:44
Speaker 3: going out there and being us is the biggest thing
17:46
Speaker 3: that will, you know, help us come out with a W.