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Press Pass | Liam Coen Talks Game Plan Execution vs. Chiefs · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hey, coach, how you doing. What's up?
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  Speaker 2: Guys? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Coach?
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if you believe in the in such a
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  Speaker 3: thing as statement games that. If so, what kind of
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  Speaker 3: statement do you think last night delivered to the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the NFL and to the I guess to the
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  Speaker 3: nation as all about this team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just obviously having an opportunity to play
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  Speaker 4: on prime time is is definitely something that you want
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  Speaker 4: more of as an organization. As a team, you want
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  Speaker 4: to be able to play in those moments and have
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  Speaker 4: those stages to perform. You know, we're really not as
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  Speaker 4: concerned about the rest of the league in terms of
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  Speaker 4: how they view us or you know, we obviously want respect,
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  Speaker 4: but that's ours to take. And you want to have
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  Speaker 4: pride in what you do as as a team, as
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  Speaker 4: an individual, as a coach, a player, as a staff member.
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  Speaker 4: You want to have pride in what you do, and ultimately,
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  Speaker 4: I think when you go out and win those type
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  Speaker 4: of games, you know you can have pride and how
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  Speaker 4: you walk and how you talk, and how you parent
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  Speaker 4: and how you father and how you do everything you
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  Speaker 4: have pride in what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I think our players right now have confidence.
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  Speaker 4: There's still a lot to clean up, but there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of confidence in this building right now.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, And do you have anything on Brent and Strange
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  Speaker 3: and Robert Hainsey.
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  Speaker 4: I have not gotten any updates fully yet because we
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  Speaker 4: had a little bit of a later morning.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any injury updates as of right now.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jamal, followed.
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  Speaker 5: By Ryan Coach the Fire Trevor Lawrence Show during the
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  Speaker 5: game last night. I know you mentioned it before. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: how much do you like to see that from your quarterback?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's so calm, cool for the most party,
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  Speaker 4: very much lives in this kind of level world and
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate that as well. But to see him extending
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  Speaker 4: plays using his legs.
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  Speaker 1: Competing the way he was competing.
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  Speaker 4: Was the thing that I was very impressed with with
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  Speaker 4: Trevor last night. To really you talk about competitive greatness.
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  Speaker 4: We talk about competitive greatness all the time, and competitive
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  Speaker 4: greatness as being your best when your best is required,
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  Speaker 4: and regardless of what has happened, either you've thrown for
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  Speaker 4: four hundred, you've thrown for one hundred, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: Being your best when your best is required. In a
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  Speaker 4: two minute drill, to go win the game. He makes
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  Speaker 4: arguably two of his best throws of the game to
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  Speaker 4: be TNDAMMI to put us in a position to go score,
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  Speaker 4: and obviously you know the funk you play at the end,
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  Speaker 4: but he was he willed himself.
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  Speaker 1: He willed himself to get into the end zone.
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  Speaker 4: He did it all night, using his legs, playing hard,
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  Speaker 4: playing tough, showing some fire. I think our players did
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  Speaker 4: feed off that and was really proud of the way.
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  Speaker 5: He competed and he talked about the toughness and competitiveness
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  Speaker 5: of this team. How much of that I mean goes back.
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  Speaker 5: So you're trying to build and I mean back to
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  Speaker 5: those offseason workouts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it started right right away.
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  Speaker 4: You know, our off season strength conditioning program was difficult,
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  Speaker 4: was was hard. Eric Ciano and his staff have really
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  Speaker 4: done a nice job of kind of helping build the
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  Speaker 4: foundation of the way and style in which we want
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  Speaker 4: to play. You know, we had a really physical, tough
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  Speaker 4: training camp, I think, and the guys just kept building
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  Speaker 4: off that and really pouring into that mindset and then
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  Speaker 4: it showed up so far within the first five weeks
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  Speaker 4: of the season. Yeah, we've got to play a lot cleaner.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to cut down on mistakes and communication and.
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  Speaker 1: Some of that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: But the toughness, the grit, it's just the way these
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  Speaker 4: guys are playing right now.
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  Speaker 1: When you play this way, typically.
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  Speaker 4: Good things happen to you, like when you run to
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  Speaker 4: the football, when you compete your tail off. Not every
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  Speaker 4: play we know is in the NFL. It's not always
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  Speaker 4: just the way you draw it up on the book.
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  Speaker 4: Guys have to go out and perform and do it
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  Speaker 4: at a high level. And right now, the way that
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  Speaker 4: our guys are playing in all three phases allows us
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  Speaker 4: to go give ourselves a chance to win in the
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  Speaker 4: fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, Thank you, Ryan, followed by Mark Hey leeam got
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  Speaker 1: two for you.
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  Speaker 5: First one, going back to start his practice, what did
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  Speaker 5: Trayvon Walker tell you guys about how the how the
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  Speaker 5: club felt and maybe hit expectation for him moving forward
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  Speaker 5: this week?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we just he had some swelling still,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in there, So it just wasn't the right time.
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  Speaker 4: It was only seven days whatever, it was, seven days
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  Speaker 4: out of the surgery, so it wasn't something that any
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  Speaker 4: of us felt comfortable being able to go put him out.
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  Speaker 1: There last night. Not sure what that'll look like this week.
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  Speaker 4: Yet he was definitely feeling better towards the last night,
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  Speaker 4: like towards yesterday, but it just wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: The right thing to do putting him in that game.
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  Speaker 4: So so hopeful, you know, for this week, and we'll
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  Speaker 4: have to see what that swelling does and based on
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  Speaker 4: when the stitches can come out, you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: some of that will help us know his availability will
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  Speaker 4: be sure. And then last for me is after you
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  Speaker 4: win a game and you run into the locker room
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  Speaker 4: to meet your team, do you know what you want
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  Speaker 4: to say or is it an out of body experience
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  Speaker 4: at that point? Yeah, I quickly, you know, gather some
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  Speaker 4: thoughts with with some of the guys before I go
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  Speaker 4: in and talk to the team. Last night was one
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  Speaker 4: of the weirder ones, just because you're, like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the roller coaster of emotions. You had to settle in
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  Speaker 4: for a moment, talk to Shane Waldron, Tony Basseli, James
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  Speaker 4: and get a little bit of a grasp on what
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  Speaker 4: just occurred. And but yeah, you're you're really kind of
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  Speaker 4: working off raw emotion for the most part. You have
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  Speaker 4: a couple points and people that you want to make
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  Speaker 4: sure you acknowledge for the games.
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  Speaker 1: That they played, but a lot of it. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of raw emotion. Gotcha, Thanks, Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Mark, followed by d rock Alum.
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  Speaker 1: I have two as well.
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  Speaker 4: What was the play gonna be before Trevor's trip play there?
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  Speaker 1: And was it open?
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  Speaker 4: It was a similar concept that we ran against Cincinnati
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  Speaker 4: when Diami scored on the.
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  Speaker 1: First drive of the game.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was so Travis goes in a fly
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  Speaker 4: motion into the flat and we had run crossers against Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 4: and we faked crossers and went to the corners. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he may have had a chance to throw to one
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  Speaker 4: of the guys in the back on a scramble, but
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  Speaker 4: they played zone.
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  Speaker 1: We're hoping for man. They played three deep, which kind
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  Speaker 1: of they had been doing.
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  Speaker 4: We were hoping for man or zero, which you know
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  Speaker 4: that was kind of been his identity in some ways.
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  Speaker 4: He played cover three, it might have been a chance
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  Speaker 4: to find one of the guys in the back of
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  Speaker 4: the end zones or just throw it away and play
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  Speaker 4: the next NAF. But man, I mean he trips twice literally,
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  Speaker 4: so I mean twice, and I feel like they kind
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  Speaker 4: of lost him right, Like it's almost like what happened
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  Speaker 4: when he goes down and they don't see him, and
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  Speaker 4: he goes out the back door and just makes an
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  Speaker 4: unbelievable play. And so you know, but it's really that
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  Speaker 4: you want to finish that game with a well executed play, right,
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  Speaker 4: that's what you want as a coach, but as a
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  Speaker 4: player or for us moving forward to know we'll shoot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that was wild, but at least they took it. He
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  Speaker 4: took it in his own hands. Sure, took it upon
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  Speaker 4: himself to go and and fix a wrong, if you will, right,
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  Speaker 4: not making a negative a double negative. He went and
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  Speaker 4: made a negative a positive. And that is so much
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  Speaker 4: about players, not us, right Like, it shows you that
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  Speaker 4: the design truly meant nothing, and he's able to go
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  Speaker 4: and make a play, which was huge for us in
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  Speaker 4: that moment.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then the go take it mentality motto
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  Speaker 1: was that did that come?
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  Speaker 4: Did that was organically come out of Cincinnati game like
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  Speaker 4: feeling like you guys got robbed there? Or is this Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's just like, look, we can't rely on anybody else
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  Speaker 4: to come and look for help, right like, when we're
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  Speaker 4: out there, when we're prepara, when we're in preparation, when
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  Speaker 4: we are getting our minds ready to go play a
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  Speaker 4: game in this league. We've been trying to just talk, well,
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  Speaker 4: it's about us, It's about us in this room. If
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  Speaker 4: you're looking for help, look to the guy next to you,
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  Speaker 4: look to the other guys in this room. Because it's
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  Speaker 4: not going to come elsewhere, and we can't leave it
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  Speaker 4: up to anybody else, whether we win, lose, or draw.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to take ownership and accountability for it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we can't put it in anybody else's hands. Don't look
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  Speaker 4: for somebody else to go and make a play, don't
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  Speaker 4: look for somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: To bail you out. Just we got to go take it.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's been something that the players have
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  Speaker 4: really voiced and talked about, is you know, they're the
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  Speaker 4: ones playing, they're the ones out there, and so they
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  Speaker 4: do have to go and take what they want in
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  Speaker 4: terms of pride and respect.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you you Rock, followed by Shipley.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Liam, Devin Lloyd maybe more than anybody else, is
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  Speaker 5: he sort of embodying this franchise and kind of turn around.
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  Speaker 4: Very much so Devn has been I think I said
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  Speaker 4: this last week, Devin has been in this building with
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  Speaker 4: these defensive coaches. I would say more than any other
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  Speaker 4: player in this organization, especially on the defensive side of
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  Speaker 4: the ball since we got here, Like how much he
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  Speaker 4: poured into and the guys Tim and Campy have poured
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  Speaker 4: into Devin, and Devin has poured into himself, has poured
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  Speaker 4: into the coaches. He had a phenomenal summer, came back
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  Speaker 4: in great shape, had a good training camp, and he's
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  Speaker 4: been playing with a chip on his shoulder. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's been playing with a chip on his shoulder to
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  Speaker 4: prove not just to us and to his teammates, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure to a lot of other people, but really
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  Speaker 4: for himself, for self, respect, for pride. He's a talented
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  Speaker 4: player that we know going back to college, has been
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  Speaker 4: somebody that has always been around the ball, has made
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  Speaker 4: plays as a rusher, dropping in coverage ball skills.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think he had the move, but he has on.
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  Speaker 4: A few of his interceptions made people miss and he's
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  Speaker 4: got some skills.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 4: So really proud of Devin because of the time that
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  Speaker 4: he has put into this, both individually and with the coaches.
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  Speaker 3: And Jonah comes in after hands he gets hurt.
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  Speaker 5: What kind of job did he do?
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  Speaker 4: You should have sat on the BT completion down the
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  Speaker 4: right sideline. He had Chris Jones one on one and
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  Speaker 4: he was holding his own and Lea Quinn Allen came
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  Speaker 4: in and ended up chipping through, which really also helped it.
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  Speaker 4: But he wasn't getting beat. He held his own. He
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  Speaker 4: did a nice job. Everybody's got a lot of confidence
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  Speaker 4: in Jonah. He's earned it there. There really was no flinch.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Those guys got a couple snaps on the sidelines, communicated.
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  Speaker 4: There was no issues with Jonah at all. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think that there was anything that you could take away
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  Speaker 4: that he heard us or wasn't ready for the moment
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  Speaker 4: or the stage. He's got a lot of respect from
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  Speaker 4: from the players in this locker room. Thanks, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Last two Shipley followed by Mia Liam talking about Jonah
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  Speaker 5: and Lequent now having two seven round rookies out there
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  Speaker 5: on a big drive. What does that say about your
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  Speaker 5: guys being able to develop and.
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  Speaker 1: Being you know, willing to let these guys play it.
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  Speaker 5: Then James scouting finding two guys in seven brown and
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  Speaker 5: go in that and help you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, huge, you know, James, I think and his staff
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  Speaker 4: did a really diligent job when it came to our
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  Speaker 4: draft preparation with with obviously the picks, but also the
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  Speaker 4: guys that we were trying to acquire late later on,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's in the seventh round.
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  Speaker 1: Or in free agency.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you got two seventh round rookies playing on
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  Speaker 4: the last final drive of the game on Monday Night
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  Speaker 4: football against Kansas City Chiefs, and those guys are helping
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  Speaker 4: us win.
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  Speaker 1: They're not. We're not winning in spite of them, which
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  Speaker 1: is a pretty cool deal.
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  Speaker 4: And I told the staff really going back to the spring,
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  Speaker 4: but especially reiterated it when we came back as a
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  Speaker 4: staff for training campos, guys, we are going to play
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  Speaker 4: young players.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to play rookies.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to play young players, and we cannot be
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  Speaker 4: afraid of that. We cannot be afraid to say we're
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  Speaker 4: going to go and we have to live with some
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  Speaker 4: of the youth, and some of those mistakes may occur,
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  Speaker 4: but we do have an opportunity to mold them and
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  Speaker 4: reach them at this moment when they're so impressionable. And
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  Speaker 4: sometimes as a coach, you always want to defer to
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  Speaker 4: the vet. You always want to defer the VET because
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  Speaker 4: of the experience. It's like, no different than high school
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  Speaker 4: when you want to defer to the senior and not
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  Speaker 4: play the freshman or the sophomore.
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  Speaker 1: It's no different.
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  Speaker 4: But that being said, when those young guys can step
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  Speaker 4: up and help you, they've brought energy to us, They've
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  Speaker 4: brought a little swagger to us, and Laquin specifically, you know,
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  Speaker 4: really proud of those guys and the guys that have
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  Speaker 4: helped develop them as well.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of building off of that, Liam, if you could
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  Speaker 2: evaluate the pass rush, especially opposite Josh heinz Allen with
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  Speaker 2: Smoot and Ogba stepping in, I don't really know if
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  Speaker 2: did Bj get much run off the edge, and I
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  Speaker 2: know Gard it got a little bit of run too
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  Speaker 2: opposite Josh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think we were great, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: do think we were at times effective.
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  Speaker 1: The frustrating thing was we let them get out too
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  Speaker 1: many times. You know.
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  Speaker 4: I do think that there was some moments like when
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  Speaker 4: we did when we were able to pressure them. I
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  Speaker 4: think we were able to get a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: But I did think Smooth was active in the rush.
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  Speaker 4: I thought he might have got grabbed a few times
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  Speaker 4: when he had maybe some clear lanes to the to
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  Speaker 4: the quarterback where he was going to go make a play.
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  Speaker 4: I do think they played their tails off up front.
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  Speaker 4: We just didn't really affect him maybe as much as
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  Speaker 4: we would have liked to going into the plan.
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  Speaker 1: It's a double edged sword with with Mahomes where you're like,
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  Speaker 1: you want to.
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  Speaker 4: Make sure you have vision on him, especially when he
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  Speaker 4: was getting some scrambles, and it's hard as a rusher
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  Speaker 4: against him because you have to be so disciplined at
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  Speaker 4: times it takes away from their ability to just go
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  Speaker 4: because they have to be so disciplined within their rush
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  Speaker 4: lanes and balancing the rush. Sometimes that slows rushers down
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  Speaker 4: and actually can be a negative. So when we did
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  Speaker 4: blitz and we you know, obviously we got to pick
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  Speaker 4: six and we you know, did cause a little confusion.
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  Speaker 4: But he can also spit it and get out of
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  Speaker 4: his hand pretty quick against blitz. You know, it's a balance.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that those guys are getting better.
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  Speaker 2: Each week and one more for me, just to Travis's usage,
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  Speaker 2: the idea of getting him down feel more. Was that
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  Speaker 2: a point of emphasis this week this past week during
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  Speaker 2: practice and knowing full well and you've been transparent with
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  Speaker 2: us in terms of what you guys are putting on
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  Speaker 2: his plate his rookie year in terms of which wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver positions he will play. Is that expanding as we
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  Speaker 2: progress throughout the season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, he made some unbelievable plays last
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  Speaker 4: night that not a lot of you know, we just
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  Speaker 4: haven't seen a ton of yet. And we that play
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  Speaker 4: that those two connected on on a great catch that
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  Speaker 4: Travis made. They literally stayed after practice.
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  Speaker 1: On you know, I don't know what even day we.
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  Speaker 4: Are in, but the after our red zone day, our
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  Speaker 4: last practice, and they through that five times after practice.
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  Speaker 4: Five times we missed it, missed it, missed it, made it,
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  Speaker 4: missed it, and.
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  Speaker 1: Just wanted to get it down right.
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  Speaker 4: And so you know, you look at Travis taking the
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  Speaker 4: time with Trevor after practice to go and get something
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  Speaker 4: right and then for it to come to life in
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  Speaker 4: a huge moment in the game kind of just speaks
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  Speaker 4: to what he's kind of doing for us in so
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  Speaker 4: many ways. And then being able to make people miss
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  Speaker 4: in space, getting them the ball in space is something
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  Speaker 4: that he's pretty creative doing, and yeah, we want to
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  Speaker 4: keep upping it. I thought him BT definitely stepped up
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  Speaker 4: and took a step in the right direction in the past,
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  Speaker 4: game last night, and I do believe that Travis's only
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  Speaker 4: getting better and better