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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on TE Production, Bears Defense, O-Line Protection · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Trevor, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's going on good? How are you not bad?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: If you guys were able to get Evan back with
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  Speaker 3: the way Brenton has also been playing, how potent can
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  Speaker 3: that be to have a couple of tight ends in
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  Speaker 3: that regard? And then how will that then help you
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  Speaker 3: with taking more deep shots? Have those two guys underneath?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it'll be great.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully you know, obviously been trying to work hav
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  Speaker 4: him back in and you know, hopefully everything goes well
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  Speaker 4: this week and he's able to get out there. You know,
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  Speaker 4: still early in the week now, there's still some time,
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  Speaker 4: so but yeah, I mean if he can, if he
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  Speaker 4: can go. Obviously, he's a huge part of our offense
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  Speaker 4: and hasn't been out there the last month or so,
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  Speaker 4: so we've definitely missed him. And the type of player
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  Speaker 4: he is, you're always going to so it'll be great
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  Speaker 4: to get him back involved. I think just all the
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  Speaker 4: things that he does well. Obviously with the ball in
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  Speaker 4: his hands down the field, his speed is a threat.
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  Speaker 4: It'll really just won getting him the ball will be great.
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  Speaker 4: But also, like you said, you know, opening other people up,
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  Speaker 4: he's just another threat you have to cover, and I thought,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, after the and the past few weeks,
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  Speaker 4: I thought that Britain has done a great job filling
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  Speaker 4: in and making the plays that come his way.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, he's an awesome job. So just keep building
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  Speaker 2: off that.
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  Speaker 4: Luke too, I mean, we got a good room that's
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  Speaker 4: done a nice job, so we just got to keep
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  Speaker 4: building off that and get those guys going.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks John and Shipley, followed by Mark long Trever.
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  Speaker 6: What do you really see out of this Bears defense?
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  Speaker 6: Seems like all three levels of the defense they have
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  Speaker 6: at least one guy who's like a top player at
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  Speaker 6: the position. I mean, what do you see about them
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  Speaker 6: and what kind of challenges you guys with them?
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  Speaker 2: They're a good defense.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you look at just from the number standpoint,
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  Speaker 4: since at some point last year up until now, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: they've been one of the top defenses in the league.
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  Speaker 4: I think it pops on tape just how they play
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  Speaker 4: their effort, huge emphasis on, you know, getting turnovers, getting
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  Speaker 4: their hands in the ball, whether that's punch outs, forcing fumbles,
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  Speaker 4: or you know plays down the field and making plays
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  Speaker 4: on the ball. They all have great ball skills. I
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  Speaker 4: think that's one thing that definitely jumps off the tape
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  Speaker 4: when the ball is near them. They're they're going to
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  Speaker 4: make the pla and make it more times than not,
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I think that's something that they do
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  Speaker 4: really well. I think their scheme is also really good.
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  Speaker 4: They're they're disciplined, they're will coach, they're in the right spot.
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  Speaker 4: Then they have the guys that at times, you know,
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  Speaker 4: take chances and make those plays when they read something,
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  Speaker 4: they recognize something. You know, they understand what offense they're
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  Speaker 4: trying to do, and you can tell they're smart groups.
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  Speaker 4: So all those things they do. They do a nice
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  Speaker 4: jobbing up front there, They're really physical, nice pass rush,
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  Speaker 4: they do a really good job with the D line.
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  Speaker 4: That's kind of where everything starts for any team. So
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  Speaker 4: obviously they've been they've been good up front too.
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  Speaker 6: And then the last one for me, when you have
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  Speaker 6: guys like Travis and Tank, you know, two guys who
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  Speaker 6: can do kind of different things and compliment each other,
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  Speaker 6: how much does that kind of take the weight off
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  Speaker 6: of the offense in general, but even just for you
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  Speaker 6: to quarterback specifically.
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  Speaker 2: It's great. You know, I think having some great running backs.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we got three guys that can really go
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  Speaker 4: right now that have been playing for us, and they
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  Speaker 4: all are different, they all do certain things really well,
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  Speaker 4: and they really all can do it do it all
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  Speaker 4: too whenever they're called upon, they really can. So I
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  Speaker 4: think from that standpoint, it's great. And then now you've
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  Speaker 4: started to see Travis has been doing it for the
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  Speaker 4: last few years. But I think the more Tanks gotten
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  Speaker 4: comfortable in the system and himself all those things, it's
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  Speaker 4: that confidence going up and those big plays starting to happen.
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  Speaker 4: So I think when you have backs that can create
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  Speaker 4: those explosive plays as an offense, that's huge because any
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  Speaker 4: you know, if we get if we get into the
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  Speaker 4: second and third levels, he's one broken tackle away from
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  Speaker 4: turning into like you saw on Sunday, either huge run
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  Speaker 4: or a touchdown. So I think having backs that can
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  Speaker 4: do that, I mean, it's a huge threat for your
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  Speaker 4: explosive plays and you're not having to get it all
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  Speaker 4: through the passing game or in or in chunks or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can break a run. You know inside
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  Speaker 4: the box, you can break it and go for sixty
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  Speaker 4: like that. That's huge for any offense, and I think
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  Speaker 4: it's been great to see them get going as the
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  Speaker 4: season's gone.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks sure, Hey, fourth trip to London. I think you've
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  Speaker 5: won three out of four starts over there. How much
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  Speaker 5: more comfortable are you now making this trip than you
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  Speaker 5: were obviously year one or year two?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm definitely comfortable.
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  Speaker 4: There's obviously some there's some uncomfortable things about it, just
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  Speaker 4: the nature of the time zones and the travel, and
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  Speaker 4: I think that's it's mostly just understanding that you're going
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  Speaker 4: to feel that when you first get there, and kind
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  Speaker 4: of getting your body on track and being able to
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  Speaker 4: get on a nice sleep schedule early, because that time
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  Speaker 4: change can get you if you're not careful. So just
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  Speaker 4: trying to push through that first day, get to get
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  Speaker 4: to bedtime without sleeping too much so you can get
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  Speaker 4: a full night's for.
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  Speaker 2: Us, and kind of get back on track. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the biggest things.
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  Speaker 4: But just having the experience of going over there, you
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  Speaker 4: kind of how to handle, you know, to expect, you
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  Speaker 4: know how you're gonna feel. You're gona feel a little
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  Speaker 4: a little slower's little grougy want you get over there,
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  Speaker 4: but you'll settle in quick. And I think a big
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  Speaker 4: part of it too is getting a lot of your
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  Speaker 4: prep done while you're here. Obviously there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 4: few things to do over there to make sure we're
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  Speaker 4: ready to roll, but trying to do as much as
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  Speaker 4: you can here so that you can really just focus
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  Speaker 4: on your body and your sleep and getting ready to
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  Speaker 4: play on Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: And was changing the hotels last year?
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  Speaker 4: Was it?
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  Speaker 5: How big of an incomeuce was that for the players
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  Speaker 5: or barely noticeable? And are you looking forward to the
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  Speaker 5: fact that you have a two week stretch basically at
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  Speaker 5: the same place.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely looking forward to being in the same place.
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  Speaker 4: You know. I thought both places were good and we
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  Speaker 4: made it work obviously, and wasn't too big of an inconvenience, honestly,
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  Speaker 4: they all took.
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  Speaker 2: Care of us. So appreciative of that.
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  Speaker 4: But it'll be nice just to keep your stuff in
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  Speaker 4: one place for ten days and not have to move
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  Speaker 4: after the first game and do all that, and you
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  Speaker 4: kind of getting a rhythm in a certain place and
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  Speaker 4: you know, whether it's the food or you know where
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  Speaker 4: the field is, or just all the facilities that you
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  Speaker 4: kind of like to get in a routine. So I
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  Speaker 4: think that'll be good having two weeks straight kind of
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  Speaker 4: at the same hotel, the Rocker.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I didn't hear you.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, hey, Trevor, Yeah, I was patiently sorry waiting
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  Speaker 7: back at Clemson. You you know t Higgins and Justin Ross,
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  Speaker 7: two big, tall receivers can go up and get the ball.
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  Speaker 7: Is that similar to what you have in Brian Thomas.
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  Speaker 7: I know Brian's a little bit faster than those two guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it's the length for sure helps. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's just a bonus.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of other important traits when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to playing receiver, and you know, speeds one of them.
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  Speaker 4: Understanding defenses, how to get open versus certain looks. I
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  Speaker 4: think all those things are as important, if not more important.
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  Speaker 4: But the extra link always helps. You can go up
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  Speaker 4: and get the contested passes. If the DV covers it, well,
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  Speaker 4: you still have that extra length to go get it.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that just helps. But they're very those
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  Speaker 4: three guys are really different in my mind and how
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  Speaker 4: they play in their style. But yeah, I think having
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  Speaker 4: the link on the outside really it does help for sure.
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  Speaker 7: Can you elaborate on how maybe Brian's different from those
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  Speaker 7: guys style?
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  Speaker 4: I think obviously like you said Brian's faster than those guys.
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  Speaker 4: I think t T can run though it's faster than
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  Speaker 4: you'd think. He's really smooth, but he's also big, like
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  Speaker 4: he's a heavier guy. You know, he's probably I don't
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  Speaker 4: know how. I'm sure he could look it up, but
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  Speaker 4: he looks like he's like two twenty or something like
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  Speaker 4: he's a bigger guy, really physical.
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  Speaker 2: I do think see.
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  Speaker 4: Some similarities between Brian and t as far as like
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  Speaker 4: after the catch, breaking tackles and just really slippery, but
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  Speaker 4: that's something. And then Justin Ross was more of like
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  Speaker 4: a you remember our Calvin is like can slam his
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  Speaker 4: foot in the ground and stop on a dime like
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  Speaker 4: that was Justin had that ability that was a little
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  Speaker 4: bit different. And just as far as we're out running
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  Speaker 4: and being able to stop on a dime and stick
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  Speaker 4: and go the other way and turn Deep's around like
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  Speaker 4: that was kind of his thing. So they're all a
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  Speaker 4: little bit different. And Brian definitely runs routes a little
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  Speaker 4: different than those guys.
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  Speaker 7: But yeah, thanks, ay, p oh, sorry, We'll go to
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  Speaker 7: Gene and then to JP.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Trevor, last week, your offensive line played virtually a
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  Speaker 1: perfect game, kept you totally clean. What does that do
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  Speaker 1: as a game is going along. I'm sure you can
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  Speaker 1: since when when the protection is that good, what does
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  Speaker 1: that do for your psyche as a quarterback when you
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  Speaker 1: just kind of get the sense your your your old
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  Speaker 1: line is on it that day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome. It's a good feeling sitting back there.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean this league, it's it's hard to protect
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  Speaker 4: that well.
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  Speaker 2: Every week.
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  Speaker 4: There's there's a lot of really good defensive players. D
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  Speaker 4: lines are are really good for the most part across
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  Speaker 4: the league. So you know, you always expect to have
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  Speaker 4: to deal with a little bit of chaos in the pocket,
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  Speaker 4: just the nature of the game, especially when you when
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  Speaker 4: you throw the ball a lot. But you know, I've
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  Speaker 4: always trusted those guys and leaned on them, and I
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  Speaker 4: think really they've done, like I said after the game,
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  Speaker 4: a good job majority of the year. You know, we've
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  Speaker 4: had some some situations where we can communicate better on
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  Speaker 4: third downs, and we've learned a lot from the first
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  Speaker 4: few weeks of the season on just some scheme stuff
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  Speaker 4: up front like that we want to do a little different.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that's been good as far as just
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  Speaker 4: protecting and doing their job. I think those guys have
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  Speaker 4: done a nice job. And obviously Sunday that is probably
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  Speaker 4: the cleanest pocket I've ever been a part of in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL. I mean that's like that doesn't happen much
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  Speaker 4: at all, not getting hit, not getting sacked, not even
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  Speaker 4: getting hit the whole game. So when you have one
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  Speaker 4: of those games, you settle in, you feel it early,
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  Speaker 4: You feel the space. It allows you to get through
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  Speaker 4: your progressions, to have confidence in getting backside without feeling
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  Speaker 4: like you got to get rid of the ball just
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  Speaker 4: to avoid a sack or to you know, avoid someone
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  Speaker 4: getting hand on the ball in the pocket, all those things.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when you have the time to go through
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  Speaker 4: your progressions, it just creates more windows down the field.
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  Speaker 4: It makes the defense cover for longer, allows you to
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  Speaker 4: take some shots. I mean it really opens up a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks this will be the last one from JP.
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  Speaker 8: Hey Trevor into the game. Fourth quarter, I mean the
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  Speaker 8: three and out it happened. Then they score the quick
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  Speaker 8: touchdown to tie it. You guys come off the sideline
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  Speaker 8: after the defense giving up a couple of scores there
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  Speaker 8: and obviously drove down the field for the field goal.
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  Speaker 8: What was the mindset in the huddle on the sideline there,
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  Speaker 8: you know, was it kind of hey, let's just get
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  Speaker 8: this done and get out of here, or how did
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  Speaker 8: you guys go about the mindset to get that field
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  Speaker 8: goal drive going?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I thought the offensively we did a really
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  Speaker 4: good job in the fourth quarter, because I mean we
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  Speaker 4: had that was a crazy quarter, just back and forth,
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  Speaker 4: and we had some huge plays, and you know, being
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  Speaker 4: up fourteen with I guess five minutes or so left,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of times you feel like you start to
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  Speaker 4: relax and you feel comfortable and.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, all right, this game kind of got it.
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  Speaker 4: But I thought we did a nice job of staying
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  Speaker 4: engaged and obviously we were pumped and we had a
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  Speaker 4: lot of momentum, but just telling each other, hey, we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to go win it. Just just be ready, Like, no,
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  Speaker 4: you don't know what's going to happen. Obviously we have
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  Speaker 4: faith in our defense, but you just never know what's
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  Speaker 4: gonna happen. You can't ever, you can't ever check out
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  Speaker 4: of a game because it's the NFL and stuff like
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  Speaker 4: that happens every week. So I thought the offense did
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  Speaker 4: a really nice job of just talking and staying in it.
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  Speaker 4: Even the three and out, you know, the defense made
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  Speaker 4: two good plays. They had two pass breakups where I
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  Speaker 4: felt like we had decent looks and they made good plays.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they get they get paid to do the
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  Speaker 4: same thing. So even in that drive, it didn't It
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  Speaker 4: wasn't like we just completely you know, stalled out, couldn't
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  Speaker 4: do anything. They just made two plays there, and once
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  Speaker 4: we got the ball back, we knew as well as
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  Speaker 4: we had played on offense all day, we knew we
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  Speaker 4: had to go finish the game. And I thought that's
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  Speaker 4: that's why I said after the game, I thought it
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  Speaker 4: was really good that we had to go win it,
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  Speaker 4: just because offensively we kind of struggled early on the
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  Speaker 4: season and it was good for our confidence and just
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  Speaker 4: to go do it, to have the game in our
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  Speaker 4: hands and to be able to drive down the field
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  Speaker 4: get a field goal to go win the game.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was great for us.
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  Speaker 4: And it just shows you, like I said, you have
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  Speaker 4: to play a full sixty minutes, because what a shame
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  Speaker 4: it would be if you played a good you know,
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  Speaker 4: fifty five minutes and then you get beat in.
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  Speaker 2: The last five minutes. So I thought it was great
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  Speaker 2: for our team to have to do that,