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Press Pass | Press Taylor: “You’re chasing the feeling you get in the locker room.” · Press Pass

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Speaker 1: No concerns, No, UM, we certainly think we need to
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Speaker 1: play better. We we know that we own that. UM.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that it's a trend or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: I think obviously you've had different situations. We played a
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Speaker 1: very good defense last week. We understand that they're the
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Speaker 1: number one run defense in the league. Tennessee. That did
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Speaker 1: a good job, made things hard, kind of made us
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Speaker 1: one dimensional. UM, but there were still opportunities we felt
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Speaker 1: like we left out on the field. You know, things
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Speaker 1: that we controlled that we didn't execute, whether that was
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Speaker 1: a ball handling change, misassignment and protection, UM, miss and throws,
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Speaker 1: things like that, or not being in our splits, our
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Speaker 1: details of the routes. We could clean up. And that's
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Speaker 1: definitely something we have to do as as we continue
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Speaker 1: on the season. As you prepare for the charges, it's
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Speaker 1: your second time scenes. It's almost a kind of like
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Speaker 1: a divisional opponent kind of preparation thing when you know
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Speaker 1: they've seen how they'll play you and what you like
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Speaker 1: to do on the field against their guys already. Certainly,
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Speaker 1: now that feels like three years ago, so a lot
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Speaker 1: has changed since then, and and really these games don't
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Speaker 1: carry over. I mean you see that from you know,
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Speaker 1: playing the Titans twice in a month. Uh, the game
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Speaker 1: gets played very different the obviously you make adjustments based
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Speaker 1: on what happened when you did see each other. And
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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is maybe you have a
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Speaker 1: feel for personnel. And we know they had a bunch
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Speaker 1: of injuries going into that game, so there's even different
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Speaker 1: people out there. So um, I think, like anything, you
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Speaker 1: take some lessons from it anytime you've matched up with
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Speaker 1: a group like this, but you know, it's a completely
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Speaker 1: different game now. Is to have Walker a little to
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Speaker 1: be able to come in and doesn't seem like its
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Speaker 1: needs to make a drop off there. Yeah, and that's
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Speaker 1: where we expected. I mean there was I've mentioned it before.
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Speaker 1: There's a very real competition for the tackle spot um
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Speaker 1: from the spring and the training camp, and those guys
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Speaker 1: did a great job battling you know. Unfortunately for Walker,
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Speaker 1: he didn't win the job initially, but we knew he
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Speaker 1: was prepared if this situation came up to be able
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Speaker 1: to step in and execute his job at a high level. Um,
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Speaker 1: that's something he's done. Now, he's got a great challenge
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Speaker 1: this week. So we just like everybody, we expect continued
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Speaker 1: improvement with Walker. There are certain players that you kind
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Speaker 1: of worry about. Is Durwan James one of those kind
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Speaker 1: of guys that you kind of always have to figure
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Speaker 1: out where he's that on the Yes, Yeah, and they
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Speaker 1: do a great job utilizing kind of his versatility. You know,
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Speaker 1: he could line up anywhere from on the line of scrimmage,
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Speaker 1: rushing the past or to covering your tight end out wide,
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Speaker 1: to covering a receiver in the slot to deepen the post.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they utilize him really well. He's somebody you
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Speaker 1: have to be aware of. The quarterback has to be
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Speaker 1: aware of all times. But then our offensive line just
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Speaker 1: because of the versatility used with him in the box,
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Speaker 1: even in rushing the passer um, he's certainly a dangerous player.
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Speaker 1: How do you keep e t and say didn't do
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Speaker 1: him running strong? It teams like the past couple of weeks,
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Speaker 1: I know he used to get the very wrong run,
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Speaker 1: but just last week behind a hit or miss, it
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Speaker 1: seemed like, Yeah, last week was certainly tough. We felt
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Speaker 1: like we had to run in there early, that we
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Speaker 1: had a possibility to to get us going. And I
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Speaker 1: think he actually kind of tripped on Evan's foot that
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Speaker 1: that got us down there, and then it was just
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Speaker 1: tough sledding, you know. That was again that's a great
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Speaker 1: run defense. They do a really good job. They have
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Speaker 1: really good personnel for it. Um. So we knew it
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Speaker 1: was gonna be tough, and and we we really just
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Speaker 1: couldn't get going in that aspect of the game and
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Speaker 1: felt like, you know, trying to move bath through the
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Speaker 1: year was the best thing for us. And obviously that
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Speaker 1: got tough as as the game kept going on. We
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Speaker 1: weren't as arcas we needed to be probably in that area. Um.
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Speaker 1: But again with Travis, I think it's just continuing to
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Speaker 1: to make sure he's detailed discipline and what he does,
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Speaker 1: and us continuing to find the best possible ways to
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Speaker 1: get him going, whether that's run, pass, into your exterior movements,
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Speaker 1: whatever that may be or is going to be I
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Speaker 1: guess the Chargers, Yeah, I mean, certainly going into the game,
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Speaker 1: we think it's important that we have the run game
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Speaker 1: to balance out the past game. Now how the game
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Speaker 1: plays itself out, whether we need to throw the ball,
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Speaker 1: run the ball, whatever has been successful is what we'll
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Speaker 1: try to do to win the game. As that goes
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Speaker 1: but you certainly want to be able to when you
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Speaker 1: need to run the ball, know that you can run
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Speaker 1: the ball. And we were confident that we can do
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Speaker 1: that if that situation arises. What have you seen from
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Speaker 1: Phil that's enabled him to have the old wine be
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Speaker 1: as efficient as it has been in past protection? You know,
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Speaker 1: when you you know, obviously one of your guys is
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Speaker 1: hurting and another guy that was lost for the season. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think again who those guys are is
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Speaker 1: a big part of it. Now Phil has done a
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Speaker 1: great job of making sure everybody's ready, you know, I've
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Speaker 1: so we started the year with Bart and then uh,
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Speaker 1: Tyler came in has played great so far. Uh you know,
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Speaker 1: you lose Cam. Now Walker's got to step up. So
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Speaker 1: there's certainly, um, I think there's a dynamic in that
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Speaker 1: room that allows all those guys to be prepared for
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Speaker 1: the next man up mentality, and because especially as you
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Speaker 1: get down into the backups in terms, those guys are
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Speaker 1: ready to play any spot given the situation. So those
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Speaker 1: guys could you could play right guard, left guard, right tackle,
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Speaker 1: left tackle, bump in the center, whatever that means. So
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Speaker 1: those guys continue to work together throughout the process, Um,
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Speaker 1: if you ever got to see all our practices, there's
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Speaker 1: bodies change, and we we sub those guys like we
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Speaker 1: sub receivers and practice just to get him mixed and matched.
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Speaker 1: May pop in on the old line meeting room. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Dis it appeared like like Sheriff is the guy that's
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Speaker 1: sort of kind of the I don't know, unofficial leader
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Speaker 1: of the room. Yeah, I think that's probably fair to say.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's probably he's the most established in this
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Speaker 1: league in terms of the accomplishments he's had, um, the
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Speaker 1: way he plays, the way he prepares. But I mean,
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Speaker 1: really it comes down to work ethic. Guys. Guy's value
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Speaker 1: the guys that work really hard and then produce on
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Speaker 1: the field, and he's certainly one of those guys for us. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He has a great presence about him and that that
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Speaker 1: room itself has its own dynamics that are unlike any
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Speaker 1: other room I think in the building, and they do
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Speaker 1: a great job. Pay We're gonna be these guys. We've
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Speaker 1: got to score at amount point you guys eight, we
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Speaker 1: got to score three? Would target like that? Knowing what? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think you go into every game kind of with
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Speaker 1: a general plan of what we think it takes to win,
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Speaker 1: whether that's across the board, offense, defense, special teams. You know,
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Speaker 1: maybe we need to be more aggressive in these situations
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Speaker 1: because they average x amount of points and you know,
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Speaker 1: ideally there's it's a shutout and we kick field will
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Speaker 1: win the game. We're great with that. Whatever it takes
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Speaker 1: for us to play next week, we're happy with at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day. Um, But there's certainly times
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Speaker 1: where it kind of sets your strategy, your game plan,
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Speaker 1: strategy going through the week, and we have those conversations
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Speaker 1: Monday Tuesday, and then they're ongoing through the week of
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Speaker 1: what we think it's going to take to win and
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Speaker 1: how we need to play the game, whether that's decision
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Speaker 1: making within it. But at the same time, we're ready
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Speaker 1: to adjust at any moment in a game depending on
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Speaker 1: how it's going. Other than last week, the Chargers defense,
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Speaker 1: I've really been hitting its stride over the last month
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Speaker 1: or so. Is that what you're kind of seeing on tape?
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Speaker 1: But you know it's playing its best ball the year. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think part of it's just the personnel they're getting back.
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Speaker 1: You know, they get you get Bosta back from injury,
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Speaker 1: you get a couple of these guys back in there,
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Speaker 1: and then as you go, you get you get more
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Speaker 1: film film on opponents, you get more time on task
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Speaker 1: as you'r as your cell as your own defensive scheme,
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Speaker 1: and I think that's just kind of showing with them.
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Speaker 1: It was kind of similar last year. They kind of
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Speaker 1: hit their stride late, they made their push at the
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Speaker 1: end of last year, and so it just it feels
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Speaker 1: like they definitely are jelling and playing goodall at the
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Speaker 1: right time for them. And then until last weekend, Trevor's
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Speaker 1: kind of crossed the field throat of Christian and that
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Speaker 1: the throat that you've ever really kind of seen in
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Speaker 1: the games. Uh, I have seen it. It's not something
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Speaker 1: you want to see often. So it's not something we're
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Speaker 1: super excited about that it happened. Uh fortunately we completed it,
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Speaker 1: but that's one of those no, no, no, let's not
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Speaker 1: do that again. So unfortunately, fortunately it didn't hurt us.
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Speaker 1: But you know, that's that's he's trying to make a
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Speaker 1: play at whatever time, so we just always want to
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Speaker 1: protect the ball. Back in week three, we kind of
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Speaker 1: talked about the trip from the East Coast to the
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Speaker 1: West coast and this team struggles and how that couldn't
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Speaker 1: impact you guys operationally. Is that now kind of flipped
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Speaker 1: the script and give you guys a little bit of
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Speaker 1: an advantage since the game is here in Jackson, all
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Speaker 1: that they have to make the trip to the East Coast.
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Speaker 1: I mean, i'd like to say so, but you know,
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Speaker 1: back in week three, I don't know that it really
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Speaker 1: affected us. Um. I understand, like your your body clock,
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Speaker 1: your circadian rhythm, all that type of stuff, But at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, the guys don't care. I mean,
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Speaker 1: half the time we get on a plane, we all
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Speaker 1: fall asleep. We show up in the city, you couldn't
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Speaker 1: tell us if we flew to Chicago, we flew to Miami,
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Speaker 1: whatever that may be. Because by the end of the week,
7:25
Speaker 1: usually just exhausted, you want to sleep. So as far
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Speaker 1: as coaches, at least, I know that, So I couldn't
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Speaker 1: tell you where we land, how long it was. It's
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Speaker 1: just nice to close your guys and sleep and then
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Speaker 1: you wake up and play. So personally, I've never felt
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Speaker 1: like that was really a big issue. But you know,
7:37
Speaker 1: I understand there's a lot more than I know going
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Speaker 1: on to it and all that, So you really don't
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Speaker 1: have been number of how many teams have started to
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Speaker 1: see a guy a team game he turning over or so,
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Speaker 1: how he is quarterbacks to really and he didn't wait?
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Speaker 1: Starts that team pretty last year. Uh yeah, and then
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Speaker 1: this year. But how key is that? And and me,
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Speaker 1: is there anything that you can at this point? Um?
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Speaker 1: I don't, I mean what it is, I don't know
8:07
Speaker 1: because everybody kind of every injuries case by case, whether
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Speaker 1: it's a broken bone, there's not much you can do.
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Speaker 1: Soft tissue injuries. Maybe you could prevent those, um, but
8:15
Speaker 1: it's certainly it's key just because everybody continues to jail,
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Speaker 1: you get the chemistry together. The receivers know if I
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Speaker 1: run this route and this step, the ball is gonna
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Speaker 1: be thrown to this point, just because we've done it
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Speaker 1: a million times with those two guys, everybody's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a little different. CJ's ball comes out differently than Trevor's ball.
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Speaker 1: Ce just Cadence sounds different than Trevor's. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: just continuing to have that consistency, that continuity just builds
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Speaker 1: chemistry as things go. So obviously that's a that's something
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Speaker 1: we want to continue. And and I think it makes
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Speaker 1: everybody just a little bit more comfortable, plays a little
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Speaker 1: bit better. It's the same thing with the offensive line, though,
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Speaker 1: like they get used to hearing whoever is next to them.
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Speaker 1: Typically the person next you communicates differently, so it you
8:53
Speaker 1: can understand how that throws guys off in times or
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Speaker 1: where that chemistry is important, and you know, you just
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Speaker 1: continue to develop that so if you do need the
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Speaker 1: next man up, everybody's confident that guy is gonna get
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Speaker 1: it done and help you play the best of your
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Speaker 1: ability as well. In going back to seven, team experienced
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Speaker 1: wins and it made it special that you were able
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Speaker 1: to swators like that the season. Yeah, yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: it did. And even going back to that year, there
9:19
Speaker 1: were a lot of injuries across the board. We we
9:21
Speaker 1: lost a lot of starters in certain positions, backups that
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Speaker 1: were playing key roles at the time, and that's kind
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Speaker 1: of what makes it special at the end of it.
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Speaker 1: And that's why that's why you celebrate the way you
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Speaker 1: do when you get in the locker room after win,
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Speaker 1: because you look back on whatever the week was, whatever
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Speaker 1: the season was, whatever led to that point. So I
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Speaker 1: think that's what makes this game so much fun and
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Speaker 1: you're you're chasing the feeling you get in the locker room,
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Speaker 1: the adrenaline rush you get in the locker room when
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Speaker 1: you're back in there with your guys, the guys that
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Speaker 1: you fought, sweat prepared with, and then you get a
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Speaker 1: chance to enjoy kind of the fruits at your labor
9:51
Speaker 1: at that point in time. Did you see the guys
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Speaker 1: handle the night game schedule last week? I mean, they
9:56
Speaker 1: hadn't had a lot of them, and I know Doug
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Speaker 1: was kind of worried about making sure that guy Form
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Speaker 1: two I guess didn't use too much energy throughout the day. Yeah.
10:03
Speaker 1: I think that's a big thing. And you know, we
10:05
Speaker 1: had those games in the preseason kind of set you
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Speaker 1: up for that because you get your rhythm of when
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Speaker 1: you have your walk through, your pregame meal, all that
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Speaker 1: type of stuff. But that is key of guys getting
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Speaker 1: on the field and not expending too much of that
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Speaker 1: energy because you've been kind of amped up all day long.
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Speaker 1: You're sitting in a hotel room, sitting at your house,
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Speaker 1: whatever you may be doing. Um, but as far as
10:22
Speaker 1: last week, we had to walk through at eleven o'clock.
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Speaker 1: It was probably the sharpest walk that we've had all season.
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Speaker 1: We were able in a twenty minute walk they probably
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Speaker 1: ripped through fifty plays. Um, there's great communication. Everybody is
10:33
Speaker 1: pretty locked in on the details. So from that standpoint,
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Speaker 1: it was exciting. But at the same time, that's what
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Speaker 1: we expect from our group. Our group, we have a
10:39
Speaker 1: lot of you know, professional, mature type players that can
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Speaker 1: handle situations well, and so that's what we expected at him,
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Speaker 1: That's what we got out of them, So we're excited
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Speaker 1: about any opportunity to we get to do that. Thanks guys,