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Geno Smith: "Our Offensive Line Took Over The Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello, how we doing.
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  Speaker 2: Do you just take the walk past the DK kind
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  Speaker 2: of what that play.
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  Speaker 1: Was and how that broke so over the way.
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  Speaker 3: Then, Yeah, that was a play that we have been
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  Speaker 3: repping all off season. You know, give DK the option
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  Speaker 3: to read that right there. If we get the coverage
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  Speaker 3: we like, he's gonna you know, take the top off it.
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  Speaker 3: So you know they're playing low quarters on that side.
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  Speaker 3: They played half to the other side. Uh, we got
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  Speaker 3: the safety in the position we want him, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: he really bit down on the the dig route and
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  Speaker 3: then you know DK was able to get behind him.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the protection was great, you know, allowed us
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  Speaker 3: that extra second we needed to get the ball downfield,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, that was a big play for us.
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  Speaker 2: It is the purpose to that have to put the
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  Speaker 2: safety spot. You can't change positions when he when.
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  Speaker 4: He that chat he's up field that he's already waning the.
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  Speaker 3: Wrong Yeah, I mean just kind of knowing coverages, you
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  Speaker 3: know that you know that safety's gonna be in the
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  Speaker 3: quarters coverage. He's gonna be more aggressive to any incuts
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  Speaker 3: or any underneath routes, and so we try to take
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  Speaker 3: advantage of that, you know, and uh, the cornerback didn't
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  Speaker 3: overlap over the top, so we were able to get,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the the exact look we wanted. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, DC read it perfect and protection was
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  Speaker 3: great and it allowed us to get the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: How about the post.
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  Speaker 3: Post, Oh yeah, yeah, that was a great catch by him,
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  Speaker 3: a great great job to keep his toes and bounds.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you got a dB with his.
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  Speaker 3: Back turn to uh, any of our targets, but especially
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  Speaker 3: a guy you know as tall as DK, you want
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  Speaker 3: to give him a shot there. And uh, he did
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  Speaker 3: a great job right there. I thought that was a
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  Speaker 3: great play.
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  Speaker 4: You know, like most of the second half of it
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  Speaker 4: was a slog, the penalties and setting guys behind the sticks.
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  Speaker 4: How impactful was it the ad to be able to
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  Speaker 4: overcome that and really put the game away with the
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  Speaker 4: run game which had been stacked it from the game,
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  Speaker 4: to be able to physically punish them that way and
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  Speaker 4: to send.
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  Speaker 1: The tony to really finish off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought Coach McDonald did a great job throughout
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  Speaker 3: the week of talking about our run game and how
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  Speaker 3: you know, and his words is a softening process. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not always gonna hit early in the game, but
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  Speaker 3: you got to keep wearing them down and you gotta
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  Speaker 3: stick to it. And I thought Grubb did a great
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  Speaker 3: job at continuing to call the runs that you know,
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  Speaker 3: we had advantaged looks, you know, and then our our
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  Speaker 3: old line took over the game. You know, really in
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  Speaker 3: the second half. One of the things we got to
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  Speaker 3: get better at is, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Just those laws. Like you said, we started out fast.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted to do that, you know, we wanted to
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  Speaker 3: come out.
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  Speaker 1: And start fast.
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  Speaker 3: But then we say, you know, put our foot on
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  Speaker 3: the gas, and I think that's what we got to take.
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  Speaker 1: The next step is where you know.
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  Speaker 3: We're up three scores or two scores, you know, let's
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  Speaker 3: keep pushing the lead.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously the.
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  Speaker 3: Their defense did a great job is stopping us to
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  Speaker 3: two turnovers that we can't have.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to do a better job with that.
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  Speaker 3: But overall, just like the way we finished and you know,
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  Speaker 3: really just gutted it out.
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  Speaker 4: Another deal was it from the defense to hold the
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  Speaker 4: three points after the first interception.
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  Speaker 3: And that uh, you know, those type of things when
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  Speaker 3: we talk about complimentary football, those are the things we
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  Speaker 3: talk about. You know, situations aren't always going to be perfect.
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  Speaker 3: And again we got to eliminate the mistakes. And it
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  Speaker 3: starts with me. I got to eliminate, you know, putting
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  Speaker 3: our defense.
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  Speaker 1: In tough spots. But to see them go out and
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  Speaker 1: you know, not flinch.
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  Speaker 3: Not bat and I go out there and put the
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  Speaker 3: clamps on that offense and you know, holding the three points,
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  Speaker 3: that's all the only points got throughout the game. And
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  Speaker 3: then they had another big time stopped late in the game,
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  Speaker 3: right before the big drive.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: So the way they're playing the lights out, man, it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna give us a chance to win every single game
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  Speaker 3: we play. But as an offense, we left a lot
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  Speaker 3: out there. And I'm be honest with you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm really pissed off of the way I performed.
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  Speaker 1: I think we got to get better.
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  Speaker 2: The first specific.
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  Speaker 3: Shoot man, just not through an interception. I don't you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't I don't you know know exactly what to say.
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  Speaker 3: They felt like the ball was just tipping up in
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  Speaker 3: the air to day. But still, you know, there's something
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  Speaker 3: I can do to make sure that don't happen.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about what about the defending him a bigger
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  Speaker 2: option today? How bored it is?
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  Speaker 1: The film people position?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know the way that teams cover us. Man,
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  Speaker 3: we got DK Metcalf, we got Tyler Lockett, Jackson no offense.
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  Speaker 1: You know Ken, Ken.
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  Speaker 3: Walker, Zach Sharpernay, you know Kenny McIntosh, pH Pharail Brown.
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  Speaker 3: You know all our guys, man, they're all capable of
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  Speaker 3: making plays. And you know, the great part about my
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  Speaker 3: job is that it's easy because I just have to
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  Speaker 3: read the defense and get the ball into the hands
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  Speaker 3: of the playmakers, and I let the defense dictate you
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  Speaker 3: know what it's going to be on that day. You know,
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  Speaker 3: if they want to double Dk, it's going to open
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  Speaker 3: up for other guys. If they want to double DK Lockett,
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  Speaker 3: then you got you know, matchups for Jackson and Noah.
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  Speaker 3: So I think all of our guys are more than capable,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the beauty of it. You know, we got
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  Speaker 3: some unselfish guys out there, and at any given time,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it could be a guy's day, you know.
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  Speaker 4: In What were you disappointed about in your game?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just the fact that we you know, we scored
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  Speaker 3: seventeen points right there in the first quarter. I felt
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  Speaker 3: like we came out great and then you know, for
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  Speaker 3: some reason, we couldn't just get over that hump, and
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  Speaker 3: I kept, you know, trying to you know, push the
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  Speaker 3: guys like, hey man, we got to you know, put
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  Speaker 3: our foot on the gas.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we got to score more points.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know I'm I'm right at the forefront
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  Speaker 3: of that. You know, I don't you know, as I said,
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  Speaker 3: man like, whatever it takes to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I can't pinpoint it right now. I'll watch
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  Speaker 1: the film.
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  Speaker 3: But whatever it takes for us to get better and
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  Speaker 3: to push ourselves and to reach that next level, that
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  Speaker 3: next step we're talking about, you know, that's something that
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  Speaker 3: you know, I laid right at my own feet and
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  Speaker 3: you know, I take it real personal.
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  Speaker 2: Yard drive me to your offense after you guys had
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  Speaker 2: some challenges change from that position.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean just the resilience that we have as
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  Speaker 3: an offense and really as a team. But if you
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  Speaker 3: look at this offense, man, like anytime you know we're
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  Speaker 3: we're stuck in the rut, or you know there's something
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  Speaker 3: negative that happens, right, throw an interception in the next play,
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  Speaker 3: touchdown the DK right, So we have a resilient group
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  Speaker 3: of guys.
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  Speaker 1: We knew right that at that.
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  Speaker 3: Moment, you know, we hadn't been doing anything in the
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  Speaker 3: second half really after the first quarter. Our defense been
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  Speaker 3: playing lights out. We got to give them something, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we got to give them something. We you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: backed up, but we got to flip the field. And
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  Speaker 3: I just thought we were determined to go out there
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  Speaker 3: and score, give us another lead and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: allow our defense to play, you know, just with that
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  Speaker 3: much more of an edge they.
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  Speaker 1: Picture you guys are three and zero.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of the divisions one and two. As you said,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of people probably get better at just
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  Speaker 2: how do you kind of feel about where you are
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  Speaker 2: right now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, anytime you can win the games that
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  Speaker 3: you play, that's that's what you play for. And that's
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  Speaker 3: all that matters is that we win however we get
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  Speaker 3: it done.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm not really.
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  Speaker 3: You know, particular about that, but yeah, three and oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a great start, but you know, we
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  Speaker 3: still got more games to play, fourteen more and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we got to lock in. Going on the
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  Speaker 3: road to Detroit, another tough environment, but you know we've
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  Speaker 3: been there before, so we got to lock in and
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  Speaker 3: make sure that, you know, we put these games behind
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  Speaker 3: us because we already played them and get ready for
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  Speaker 3: the next one.
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  Speaker 4: How far do you think you are an offense for
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  Speaker 4: where you may be or you can't be.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're right where we're supposed to be. I
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  Speaker 3: think we're right where we're supposed to be. I think
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  Speaker 3: we've won three games. We've had our ups and downs,
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  Speaker 3: we had our our great moments, and then we had
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  Speaker 3: are not so great moments. And I think that's, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that's a good sign for us because I know that
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna put it together and we're gonna start clicking
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  Speaker 3: here soon.
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  Speaker 2: You talked about resilience, but as a quarterback, in some
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks that they have a bad player or two kind
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  Speaker 2: of going through the spot down with spiral, What is
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  Speaker 2: it about you from your experience where even if you
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  Speaker 2: just have to grind it out and don't let those
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  Speaker 2: dad plays get Yeah, pushing forward.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think process over results. So trusting my process.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I know I got three interceptions on the
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  Speaker 3: season that they've all been in the most fluky of
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  Speaker 3: ways possible. And I know I'm not, you know, being
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  Speaker 3: reckless with the football. That's never my goal. But I
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  Speaker 3: trust myself. I trust my preparation, I trust the type
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  Speaker 3: of player that I am, so my confidence never waivers
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  Speaker 3: at any time no matter what happens in the game,
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  Speaker 3: good or bad. But the process is what matters the most.
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  Speaker 3: And as long as I'm going through the proper process,
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  Speaker 3: I believe that you know, I'm doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 2: Influence that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I didn't have any already.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have any down moments in my career, man,
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, Man, I've been blessed to be in
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  Speaker 3: this position for twelve years now a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: would love to be in my shoes, and so that perspective,
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  Speaker 3: I think helped me not have down moments. And anytime
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  Speaker 3: I do, you know, throw an interception or have a
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  Speaker 3: bad play, I just think about, hey
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  Speaker 1: Man, you're you, so be you simple, Thank you, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys,