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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Team Performance in Week 2 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: We can start off with Jamal followed by Mia.
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  Speaker 2: A coach. How'd you guys make it out injury wise?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a little couple of knicks here and there, but
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  Speaker 3: not any anticipated misses.
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  Speaker 2: For the Houston game. Just some things we may have
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  Speaker 2: to manage.
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  Speaker 3: You know, guys got a little nicked up, but no,
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  Speaker 3: don't anticipate missing anybody from you know, from this past
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  Speaker 3: game to the next.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of a performance that you wouldn't expect from Brian
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  Speaker 4: Thomas when you look back at it. Did did you
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  Speaker 4: try and did you get a chance to talk with
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  Speaker 4: him and see if there was something going on or
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  Speaker 4: try and get to the root of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna have a conversation here shortly. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I think ultimately, I know he's kind of got to
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's got a couple of things going on. Risk,
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  Speaker 3: you know, ad an risk injury going into the game,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, did that have a play a part
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  Speaker 3: in some of the stuff. I've got to go, you know,
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  Speaker 3: go talk to him. But you know, I think he's
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  Speaker 3: aware of it and needs to, you know, have a
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  Speaker 3: better week this week.
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  Speaker 2: I think he.
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  Speaker 3: Understands what's at stake. He understands what's going on, and
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  Speaker 3: we got to go get to the root of it.
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  Speaker 4: And can you teach a team how to close out games?
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  Speaker 4: Is that something that teams can learn how to do
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  Speaker 4: how to finish?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'd love to believe, but I don't think
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  Speaker 3: we You know, we're definitely not talking about moral.
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  Speaker 2: Victories here for sure.
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  Speaker 3: You've we definitely did some really good things in that
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  Speaker 3: game and ultimately didn't close it out.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the frustrating part. You know, you look.
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  Speaker 3: At red zone on both sides, third downs, executing some
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  Speaker 3: of the situational stuff that we probably weren't as clean
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  Speaker 3: at to ultimately go close.
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  Speaker 2: Out your opponent on the road.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, we do need to learn how to win
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  Speaker 3: as a team in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's there's a whole.
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  Speaker 3: New everything and every team needs to kind of come
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  Speaker 3: together in those moments.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a great test.
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  Speaker 3: For us to be able to see how we respond
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  Speaker 3: going into a big divisional game.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Roach, no problem, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: We'll go Mia, followed by d rock hey leam. After
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  Speaker 5: watching the tape back, did you feel like you guys,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to say a band in the run,
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  Speaker 5: but maybe could have capitalized on it a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more than you already did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there was definitely a couple of moments
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  Speaker 3: where you know, we had a couple of runs called
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  Speaker 3: that got you know, canned.
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  Speaker 2: Out of a few of them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you really look at having the opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: you know, eleven minutes left, we throw the ball into
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  Speaker 3: the end zone, you know, have the drop, and then
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  Speaker 3: you know you look at the next drive off the turnover.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's probably where we could have got a
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  Speaker 3: couple more runs off. But you know, would have been
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  Speaker 3: able to allow us to kick a field goal there
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  Speaker 3: to go up ten if we would have had the touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, there's always calls you want back, and especially
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  Speaker 3: you know, we were moving it pretty good in the
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  Speaker 3: run game, so yeah, definitely could have got a couple
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  Speaker 3: of runs called later on.
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  Speaker 5: And then just to clarify with a couple of like
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  Speaker 5: you said, you know, just nick and bruises. Nobody's going
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  Speaker 5: to be affected. But as RH I know, came off
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  Speaker 5: the field, he's good to go, obviously since he's had
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  Speaker 5: a pretty good game and he's had a pretty good
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  Speaker 5: two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah he has.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we may need to take care of him
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  Speaker 3: a little bit this week, but anticipate him being able
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  Speaker 3: to play on Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome, thank you, Thank you, d Rock, followed by Gary Alea.
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  Speaker 6: When did Brian hurt that wrist because he wasn't on
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  Speaker 6: the injury report last week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was during the I don't know
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  Speaker 3: when he did it, but it's something that's just been that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's just been kind of a little nag,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I don't think it's anything that's huge. It's
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  Speaker 3: just it's a thing that he's kind of been working through,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So you know, everybody goes through some some
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  Speaker 3: some things, and we're ultimately it's our job to get
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  Speaker 3: to the at the bottom of it and try to
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  Speaker 3: get him to feel good and play at the highest
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  Speaker 3: level he can.
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  Speaker 6: I think Trevor's first interception, the one that bounced off
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  Speaker 6: of Brian's hands, was that a situation where he sat
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  Speaker 6: and Trevor kept leading him or was he supposed to
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  Speaker 6: keep moving?
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  Speaker 3: What happened? It was a middle read route basically, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, there was nothing kind of holding the backside.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a.
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  Speaker 3: Play that we've hit a number of times in training
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  Speaker 3: camp and at Miami Joint and a few other times, and.
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  Speaker 2: I think he may just let him a.
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  Speaker 3: Little bit too far a little so if we're going
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  Speaker 3: to throw that ball, probably needed to be a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more you know, on the body there. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's getting in sync together, getting the connection together. That's
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  Speaker 3: something that we all know has been a work in progress.
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  Speaker 3: And there was definitely some bright spots. I tried to
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  Speaker 3: go at seven a little bit earlier in the game,
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  Speaker 3: especially first play the game, first drive of the game,
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  Speaker 3: try to get things going a little bit, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we just didn't capitalize in some of those other opportunities
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  Speaker 3: when he was targeted.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you were coming into this with, you know,
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  Speaker 6: Trevor and his third new offense. He obviously had the
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  Speaker 6: shoulder and hadn't played nine months and we're reworking the footwork.
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  Speaker 6: So is he where you wanted him to be after
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  Speaker 6: two weeks? I mean, I'm assuming you thought this would
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  Speaker 6: be a little bit longer process for sure, just be automatic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I think I thought he took big steps from last
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  Speaker 3: week to this week. I think he made some unbelievable
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  Speaker 3: throws in that game. There's definitely a few we'd like
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  Speaker 3: to have back and there's calls I'd like to have back,
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  Speaker 3: there's plays everybody like that back. But I am pleased
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  Speaker 3: with where he is in terms of the strides he
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  Speaker 3: made from week one to week two, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: some critical third down conversions, especially later in the game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think he can continue to use his
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  Speaker 3: legs as a weapon, you know. But I was pleased
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  Speaker 3: like the operation again, like he getting us in and
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  Speaker 3: out of calls, cans, oscars alert, like he handled a
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  Speaker 3: lot of that stuff again from for a second trade week,
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  Speaker 3: So I would I'm pleased with where he is.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I was very pleased with the way that he played
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  Speaker 3: in a lot of ways on yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank.
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  Speaker 1: You, Garry, followed by Mark.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, coach, how you doing good coach? Just your decision
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  Speaker 7: to go for it on fourth down. You were very
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  Speaker 7: quick yesterday and saying that the analytics told you to
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  Speaker 7: go for it. You and you weren't second guessing yourself.
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  Speaker 7: But are there times in future in a similar situation
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  Speaker 7: where you may have a different feeling in your gut,
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  Speaker 7: you may take a conservative route and take the field goal,
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  Speaker 7: or will you, guys, go with the analytics when they
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  Speaker 7: tell you to take that option?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's always you thinking about obviously the data,
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  Speaker 3: what is that That's the first thing that you're kind
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  Speaker 3: of hearing, okay, like from up top, what is it saying?
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  Speaker 2: And then you're going with your gut on those calls.
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  Speaker 3: And so that was a combination of data and gut
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  Speaker 3: where you're saying, okay, who's on the other side, other quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: you're opposing quarterback on the road. You know, to go
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  Speaker 3: up six there that We've watched that scenario play out
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  Speaker 3: too many times in my game management meeting for me
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  Speaker 3: to not feel one hundred percent confident with that decision.
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  Speaker 2: You watch so many opportunities where you do that.
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  Speaker 3: You take, you go up six, you kick it off,
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  Speaker 3: they get the ball at the plus thirty to thirty
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  Speaker 3: five yard line, and now their mindset is touchdown, and
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  Speaker 3: so you go down and they go down and score,
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  Speaker 3: and you lose by one point. You guys would all
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  Speaker 3: be killing me today anyway. So at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, I want to be aggressive and give ourselves
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  Speaker 3: a chance to go close games out on our terms.
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  Speaker 3: But each week, you know, those decisions definitely could change
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  Speaker 3: just based on the weather, based on where we are
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  Speaker 3: in the game. How our guys are playing, how their
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  Speaker 3: guys are playing the quarterback, all those things, how our
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  Speaker 3: defense is playing. I felt confident that if we did
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  Speaker 3: not get that, that it would take a lot for
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  Speaker 3: them to go down and drive ninety to go score.
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  Speaker 2: And it did.
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  Speaker 3: It took them two fourth down conversions and pass interference
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  Speaker 3: for them to have to have the opportunity to go
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  Speaker 3: down and score, and kudos to them they did.
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  Speaker 7: And lastly, as as a head coach, are you going
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  Speaker 7: to be one to send video of let's say that
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  Speaker 7: pass interference to the league office and ask for explanations,
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  Speaker 7: you know that and maybe the the call early on
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  Speaker 7: Trayvon where he knocked the ball out of Joe's hands.
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  Speaker 7: Are you gonna you know, you know, post some questions
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  Speaker 7: to the office about those.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, we do that every week, you know, we send
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  Speaker 3: those in and and it's not too to throw it
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  Speaker 3: in there.
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  Speaker 2: It's really to get clarity.
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  Speaker 3: So that we can go coach the situation better and
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  Speaker 3: we can go educate our players as to why this
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  Speaker 3: was ruled.
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  Speaker 2: A certain way.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I really don't believe in you know, putting
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  Speaker 3: the game in the in the rest hands, you know, ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: like that's not They're they're not trying to have one
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  Speaker 3: team or the other, you know, win or lose.
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  Speaker 6: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe that, but you know, we will send
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  Speaker 3: those in to get clarity so that we can go
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  Speaker 3: coach Travis on how to play that ball if that's
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  Speaker 3: the case. And same thing with just the understanding of
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  Speaker 3: the ruling on Trey Vaughn.
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  Speaker 2: And things like that.
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  Speaker 3: So it's more educational for us as as coaches, staff
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  Speaker 3: and players. But you definitely want to get clarity.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, We're good.
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  Speaker 5: And then Ryan o' hollering.
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  Speaker 8: Alam, what was your take on how Travis played that ball?
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  Speaker 8: But where was you know, why was the flag thrown?
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  Speaker 8: Was it maybe a little bit of the hand fighting
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  Speaker 8: because he didn't turn his head around.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was the hand fighting that they were
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  Speaker 3: they're probably going to talk about, you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: you know, he was he opened up the gate a
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  Speaker 3: little bit at the beginning, which kind of allowed him
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  Speaker 3: to get on top of him. But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there was a little hand fighting going on between the
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  Speaker 3: two of them. What I you know, what we watched
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  Speaker 3: and saw was he did still have the ability to
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  Speaker 3: get his head eyes and hand back to deflect the ball.
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  Speaker 3: You know, That's that's what we saw. But ultimately there
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  Speaker 3: was some hand fighting going on that they they they're
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  Speaker 3: probably going to say, was it I guess I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, I thought he he made a
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  Speaker 3: good play on the ball.
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  Speaker 8: Was that a pretty good glimpse of his ball skills
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  Speaker 8: when you look at the play he that went in
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  Speaker 8: to play the ball he knocked down earlier in the
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  Speaker 8: game on the sideline.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like you know, they're not a lot of guys
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  Speaker 3: can get their head around at that point and still
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  Speaker 3: see it and find it and go, you know, make
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  Speaker 3: a play on the ball. So I think definitely some
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  Speaker 3: of the natural ball skills anticipation showed up. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he played obviously a lot more snaps on on on
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  Speaker 3: defense this week, and you know, obviously had the penalty.
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  Speaker 3: But I was I was pleased. I was proud of
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  Speaker 3: the way he competed. You know, we're gonna need more
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  Speaker 3: of it. We're gonna need them to continue to ascend,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I was pleased with the way he
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  Speaker 3: played overall.
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  Speaker 8: And then on a separate note, obviously you weren't here
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  Speaker 8: last year, but this will be Trevor's first game versus
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  Speaker 8: as he's alshare.
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  Speaker 5: You have to talk to your.
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  Speaker 8: Team at all about you know, reminding them that, hey,
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  Speaker 8: this is not a time for any kind of retaliation
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  Speaker 8: or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked just now as a team and really
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  Speaker 3: just talked about the focus being on us and we
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  Speaker 3: need it to be.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have time to.
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  Speaker 3: Waste energy or emotional energy on anything else besides fixing
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  Speaker 3: and correcting the issues and mistakes from our game and
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  Speaker 3: putting our effort into you know, we got a huge
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  Speaker 3: indivision opponent this week. Yes, we have an opponent we
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  Speaker 3: have to play and prepare for, but we really have
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  Speaker 3: to focus on us right now and get some of
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  Speaker 3: this stuff cleaned up that we you know, messed up yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Coaches, players, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I think at this point it's so
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  Speaker 3: early like these you know, yeah, there may be who
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  Speaker 3: knows what emotions, you know, I can't speak to that,
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  Speaker 3: but I can say that these guys, I think they'll
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  Speaker 3: come in with the right mindset mentality this week to
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  Speaker 3: come and get this thing right in terms of the
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  Speaker 3: things we got to get fixed and be ready to
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  Speaker 3: go play a tough, physical game that we're going to
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  Speaker 3: go have to play on Sunday.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Our last two will be Ryan followed by Brent.
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  Speaker 6: If we could please keep it.
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  Speaker 3: To just one question a piece.
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  Speaker 1: I got one question, so I'll make it about Trevor
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  Speaker 1: saying after the game that.
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  Speaker 2: He's learning from you.
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  Speaker 1: To show some fire, leam, how important is that in
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  Speaker 1: your relationship that you know he's you learn from each other.
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  Speaker 1: And and even if some videos may go viral during
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  Speaker 1: the game, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I was.
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  Speaker 3: It gets made to be a thing obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the in the in this rat poison world we
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  Speaker 3: live in. But uh, it's you know, it's the it's emotional.
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  Speaker 3: It's an emotional game. It's a competitive game. We're all competitive.
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  Speaker 3: We're all emotional. I can control mind better, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he was just telling me to like move on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he wasn't telling me to go screw. He's
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  Speaker 3: just saying, dude, move on, you know, like come on guys,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's uh, but yeah, to answer to answer your question, Ryan,
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  Speaker 3: it I was very pleased with the way he you know,
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  Speaker 3: he showed something, you know, he did got ticked off
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  Speaker 3: at times. He had great dialogue with his teammates on
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  Speaker 3: the sidelines. He made some huge throws for us and
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  Speaker 3: critical moments, and if anything, I was extremely encouraged with
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  Speaker 3: with Trevor post game, and we had some great conversations
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  Speaker 3: in the locker room, on the on the plane today.
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  Speaker 3: So all as well when it comes to our relationship.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thanks, we'll see you wednesday. Thanks Ray.
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  Speaker 9: All right, coach, Uh, this that didn't feel like just
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  Speaker 9: a another loss. Perhaps yesterday he had so much going
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  Speaker 9: on there, obviously the Brian stuff, maybe everybody making it
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  Speaker 9: a bigger deal about you and wherever. And now you've
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  Speaker 9: got a division opponent coming in. You guys spoke pretty transparently.
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  Speaker 9: You knew adversity was coming at some point. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 9: feel like it's arrived. And how curious are you about
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  Speaker 9: how you guys all handle it for the next couple
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  Speaker 9: of days before you even get to Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: I think anytime you lose it, it becomes somewhat of adversity,
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  Speaker 3: right because the result that we're striving to achieve we
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  Speaker 3: did not meet.
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  Speaker 2: So you can we can say that, and I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Like Jordan Lewis said today, he's like, man, this is
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  Speaker 3: an adversity. Guys, we just lost the game, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we didn't get the result we wanted. So
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  Speaker 3: but it is our response, you know, Brent, it is
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  Speaker 3: our response. Will definitely have to show up, like the
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  Speaker 3: way that we respond in meetings, the way that we
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  Speaker 3: interact at practice, the way that we go out in practice,
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  Speaker 3: the details, the intentionality, the way that we do everything
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  Speaker 3: this week and every week. Like I told these guys,
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  Speaker 3: nothing is going to change about the way that we
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  Speaker 3: go about our business. We did not get the result
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  Speaker 3: we wanted. We need to improve every single week. That's
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  Speaker 3: the goal. There's a lot of things that we can
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  Speaker 3: continue to do to get better, a lot of self
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  Speaker 3: inflicted wounds that we need to improve upon to stop
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  Speaker 3: hurting ourselves. But there's no flinch, Like there can be
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  Speaker 3: no flinch. It's one game. It's not the result. But man,
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  Speaker 3: I'm very proud of the way that these guys plays.
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  Speaker 3: Guys play their tails off. You know, it's fun to
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  Speaker 3: watch them compete on Sundays, like for two weeks in
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  Speaker 3: a row and really throughout the preseason. I enjoy watching
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  Speaker 3: this team compete on Sundays and being a part of that.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's what I'm actually really interested to kind of
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  Speaker 3: continue to see appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you,