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Pete Carroll: "That Was A Sensational Finish" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, another uh dramatic finish for our guys and
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  Speaker 1: uh sensational finish really to to get that done under
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  Speaker 1: all of the circumstances, you know, Uh there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of 'em, and you know, Monday night, coming off the
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  Speaker 1: r on the road, early game, all that kind of
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  Speaker 1: stuff that usually people talk about had nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with it.
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  Speaker 2: And uh uh loved it. The way we finished this game,
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  Speaker 2: the way.
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  Speaker 1: Are are, the the focus of our guys throughout the
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  Speaker 1: sixty minutes was exactly as we needed. We went in
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  Speaker 1: at halftime and got serious about fixing things up, and
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  Speaker 1: we made the defense fixing stuff up. Uh. We obviously
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  Speaker 1: got better on offense and at half time and then
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  Speaker 1: we came out and.
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  Speaker 2: And executed enough to to get a win. These winds
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  Speaker 2: are so hard.
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  Speaker 1: They're so hard, and uh so, I I thought a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys did did cool stuff and I and all,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, look at Gino coming back and playing. The
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  Speaker 1: last week. It was it was Drew taking us down
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  Speaker 1: the field. Today was Gino taking us down the field.
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  Speaker 1: It has a lot to say with the system and
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  Speaker 1: the coaches and with what they're getting done with these
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  Speaker 1: guys to communicate that well, the last sequence is the
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  Speaker 1: cool seaqu once you know it's is it one one
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  Speaker 1: or something like that or one thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Two or something left.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we've got three timeouts and a two minute warning
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  Speaker 1: and we got four downs to make the first down.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's that's such a mindset and mentality uh
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  Speaker 1: for our guys, and they know really well and we
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  Speaker 1: we we execute it beautifully in that situation where you
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  Speaker 1: gotta wait for the you know, be it patient to
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  Speaker 1: make your plays. And uh, you know did a great job,
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  Speaker 1: and Change did a great job. They communicated, Uh, fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: But but I think the focus goes to me. It's
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  Speaker 1: the big guys up front, the pass pro that whole
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  Speaker 1: time and just keep him off him and so that
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  Speaker 1: he could make the plays and the guys could make
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  Speaker 1: the great catches and the first downs and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Jackson's big play, Tyler's big play, and then of
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  Speaker 1: course Kolby's a at the end was was fantastic. So
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  Speaker 1: it was Uh, it's exciting win for us, and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: the the belief in this blocker room is strong, uh
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  Speaker 1: that we can take on whatever we gotta take on,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll have our our wits together and we'll execute
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  Speaker 1: and function no matter how long it takes to get
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  Speaker 1: it and and uh that's a powerful it's a powerful trait.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully we can hang on to that.
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  Speaker 1: You've mentioned multiple times, Pete that the grind you went
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  Speaker 1: through to get to the end of this month really helped.
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  Speaker 2: How do you think that's shown up on the last
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  Speaker 2: two drives last two years? I think are I think
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  Speaker 2: we've come out of those games.
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  Speaker 1: Because we didn't get screwed up from the losses, which
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  Speaker 1: we could have.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we could've flipped down and lost our minds.
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  Speaker 1: We kept believing that we we could get it done
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  Speaker 1: and so the it, the resolved state stayed intact and
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  Speaker 1: so that we can utilize all of the those difficult
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  Speaker 1: experiences and the tough games and the matchups and the
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  Speaker 1: great personnel that we went against, and we're better because
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  Speaker 1: of it. And so we found a way and uh
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  Speaker 1: uh it wa. You know it wasn't it slow slow
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  Speaker 1: start today? Uh kind of marked it, but we came
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  Speaker 1: in at halftime and we knew that it it was
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  Speaker 1: our game to go win, and uh so we we
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  Speaker 1: got it done.
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  Speaker 2: Again. Was a bad trio, all three receivers going.
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  Speaker 1: Like Tyler and the game drags all you got three
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  Speaker 1: got oh it was it was I thought Gino used
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  Speaker 1: everybody so well today. Uh. And and to go to
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  Speaker 1: Kobe at the end, you know, and and something we've
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  Speaker 1: been looking forward to doing and we've been working on.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was watching him, everybody knew it was going to him,
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  Speaker 1: and he came through with a great play. It was
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  Speaker 1: a great throw and also a great catch to to
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  Speaker 1: win it right there. It it's I it's it gives
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  Speaker 1: us the kind of flexibility that we can really move
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  Speaker 1: the ball down and then it But but it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: happen unless the big guys protect like they did, and
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  Speaker 1: they did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Gem has got four game winning drives now on the season.
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  Speaker 2: Looking to say about how he handles himself in them.
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  Speaker 1: Yetially it if uh you know I I you you
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  Speaker 1: gotta be around him to appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: How uh the competitive mentality that he has. He's in
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  Speaker 2: such a good place.
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  Speaker 1: He believes so strongly that it's gonna happen and it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna get done, and his guys are gonna come to
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  Speaker 1: for him. And that belief, it it transfers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it translates to other guys and they feel him, and
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  Speaker 1: so they're just they goes through and do what they're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do.
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  Speaker 2: And it comes out well, you know, and and uh so.
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  Speaker 1: He he's having an an enormously impact on these guys
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  Speaker 1: just because his mentality is so strong and so consistent.
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  Speaker 2: Seven's accident and two on the last drive, just how
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  Speaker 2: the past.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we we came in to rush the pastor
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  Speaker 1: that was the the the focal point and we got
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  Speaker 1: that done right from the beginning and all the way.
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  Speaker 2: To the end.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I think Mafey and uh and in the last
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  Speaker 1: drive right there, but the guys rushed hard all day long.
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  Speaker 1: The the if you look the last two weeks, the
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  Speaker 1: formula has kind of been similar, not one that we
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  Speaker 1: were in love with, but it it happened where they
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  Speaker 1: didn't throw the ball for a lot of yards, but
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  Speaker 1: they ran the ball pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, it's a little.
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  Speaker 1: Different than cockade from where we weally, you know, uh.
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  Speaker 2: Try try to put ourselves in that position.
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  Speaker 1: But it's happened where they're not getting much in the
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  Speaker 1: throwing it and we're doing a really nice job on
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  Speaker 1: the back end and and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I almost forgot the Uh, the hit, the hit
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  Speaker 2: of a career.
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  Speaker 1: Happened today for uh to uh for a week and Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I he hit the guy so hard. I think he
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  Speaker 1: he thought he must be hurt, and so he had
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  Speaker 1: to come back to his wits and he popped up
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  Speaker 1: and he was ready to go again. But that hit
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  Speaker 1: right there that ends the game was because he not
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  Speaker 1: the guy back. This fantastic moment uh to finishing It's
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  Speaker 1: it's just as dramatic as is uh Julian's interception last week.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, you know that was the game ending play
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  Speaker 2: right there, Uh, the walk off play. I was really
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  Speaker 2: fired up for him.
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  Speaker 1: Uh to experience that and realize you can hit somebody
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  Speaker 1: that hard and it's okay.
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  Speaker 2: You really loved to come back after not. Oh, they're
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  Speaker 2: always just the way he performed under those certain stances.
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  Speaker 1: That the I you anybody that's been through it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: has the babies know you know.
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  Speaker 2: And this was as challenging for Julia as could have been.
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  Speaker 2: It took him days and days to get through the process.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. I know he wasn't well arrested, but but he
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  Speaker 1: got through it anyway and did a great job. There
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  Speaker 1: was not a guy in our Lockerywood that would worry
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  Speaker 1: about him one day that he wouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 1: pull it up, and he did a uh fantastic job.
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  Speaker 2: Sp Speaking of reco, how do you start of handle
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  Speaker 2: last weeks not not starting and all that and then
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  Speaker 2: back to day I started making enough money?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I need to look at film, but I I
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  Speaker 1: I like, I like to just take.
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  Speaker 2: Him the challenge physically speaking, do you feel like Gino
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  Speaker 2: was all the way back? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there's no doubt, there's no doubt. Yeah, and he
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  Speaker 1: got he got, he whacked a couple of times a day,
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  Speaker 1: but uh he made it through. What I uh, Jordan Brooks,
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  Speaker 1: what happened with him? Uh is that zagl twist the
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  Speaker 1: same one? And so uh he's got a story. I
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  Speaker 1: guess see what happened to don't know what to tell
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  Speaker 1: you about that.
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  Speaker 2: Did that changed thas a little bit? I mean it
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  Speaker 2: look like you wanted to play that bush? Yes, we yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I had to change his stuff.
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  Speaker 1: What uh the drive where they scored you guys have
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  Speaker 1: some penalties on there and.
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  Speaker 2: So oh w that that was good. I I'm like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I I didn't get a second good look at that one.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about that one.
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  Speaker 1: But they felt like we slid in in in the
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  Speaker 1: you know, in front of the receiver.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the way that they can call that penalty.
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  Speaker 1: But the one downs down there that we we'd you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'd throw a punch and whatever.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's just wrong. But then we can't play like that.
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  Speaker 2: They came into this game with the number one red
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  Speaker 2: zone defense, So what does that mean to there or they? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I I was well aware of that cause we were
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  Speaker 1: talking our way through it and scored two times down
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  Speaker 1: in the regional The best regional defense in the NFL was.
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  Speaker 2: A good deal and there it was a was well
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  Speaker 2: good accomplishment for us. Give them credit. They're really good
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  Speaker 2: at it. And uh we found a way DK's touchdowntowns.
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  Speaker 2: What was their deal out?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I I had no no thought other than
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  Speaker 1: it was the fresh town. I didn't see any I
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the rhythm of up his feet hit
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  Speaker 1: and we could see it right stright down the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: So we we we were really clear that we had
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  Speaker 1: a real shot that y challenge it.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, obviously he wasn't that thing as we
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  Speaker 2: saw it. We saw right and he he didn't seem
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  Speaker 2: to protest to call it in complete. But you like
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  Speaker 2: s did somebody see it? Or you said you saw
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  Speaker 2: it from the sideline?
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  Speaker 1: I saw yeah, I saw it from the sideline. And
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  Speaker 1: then and then uh Taylor saw it upstairs that d to.
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  Speaker 2: To to return go going to Kolby for the for
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  Speaker 2: the winning TV or is that is he sort of
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  Speaker 2: the yeah, yeah, that's cool. It's cool because we've been
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  Speaker 2: working on it for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh, I and and to to make that
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  Speaker 1: play down there, and and he had a good match
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  Speaker 1: up and Gino threw a great ball and.
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  Speaker 2: Ripped it to him, and uh, we be it's been
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  Speaker 2: looking good in practice. So I love that we went
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  Speaker 2: to that right there, cause that was probably the last
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  Speaker 2: thing they thought was gonna hapened. We would really him
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  Speaker 2: in that situation or so, uh the they they won't
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  Speaker 2: think that anymore. What happened with Damian's lest I I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, I don't have him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, well, well I he used news storms right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what he did, but he twisted nars
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  Speaker 1: on overall, what do you make the defensive because they
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  Speaker 1: they ran it very well, but it has to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought we played way better than the second half.
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  Speaker 1: And we improved, uh with our fits and we tackled
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  Speaker 1: better in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: We stopped a lot of runs.
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  Speaker 1: Uh the first half, we've just we we got to
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  Speaker 1: over try it a little bit when we were taking
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  Speaker 1: some shots and things that we we didn't execute as
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  Speaker 1: well as.
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  Speaker 2: We had to.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, luck Clinton did a good job at half
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  Speaker 1: time and and got everybody squared away and we were
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  Speaker 1: right back to the basics of it.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't anything fancy they were doing. It was
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  Speaker 2: just that Neck is a great player. Though he's a
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  Speaker 2: great player, and uh we had to st stop him,
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  Speaker 2: and we had to stop him tackling, and we tackled.
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  Speaker 1: We've been in a second now, big big picture, the
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  Speaker 1: the the playoff situation.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're you're if you win in your head and
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  Speaker 2: it did, it appears in Minnesota. That's a good thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a cool name. Yeah yeah Si.
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  Speaker 1: This week, the holidays, this week, anything else, but thank
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  Speaker 1: you for kids.