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Geno Smith: "We Are Going To Fight To The Finish" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Do you know what you take the field for the
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  Speaker 1: final drive? Which is going through your head?
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  Speaker 2: And do you even go consider the stakes and the seasons,
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  Speaker 2: ramification all last.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know, I'm thinking, you know, just like last week.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I feel like Dream did a great job
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  Speaker 3: last week, and uh we had a chance to match
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  Speaker 3: it this week. And uh, you know, as I'm going
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  Speaker 3: out there, you know, I'm not thinking about anything else
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  Speaker 3: besides the situation. You know, when we got four hours, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I think we had two or three time when I
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  Speaker 3: was left, so we had a bunch of time about
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  Speaker 3: three minutes, you know, thinking about the situation and and
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  Speaker 3: how we can get in the engine. I thought Shane
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  Speaker 3: did a great job. I thought protection held up great.
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  Speaker 3: Uh obviously receivers did a great job of getting open
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  Speaker 3: and then Kobe made a heck of a catch, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to see the deal right there?
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  Speaker 4: What any tells about that place sounds like it's you
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  Speaker 4: guys been trying to get to that for a while now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We been practicing, man, I feel like we practiced it
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  Speaker 3: every day, you know, since it started training camp. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's just the situation hasn't come yet. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, at the right time, at the perfect time. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, coach called it and we knew exactly what
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna do. You know, we rapped it so many
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  Speaker 3: times and we hope we knew exactly how you know,
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  Speaker 3: the ball's gonna come and u uh shoot man strong.
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  Speaker 1: Hands made that catch, got got an end zone. That
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  Speaker 1: was great.
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  Speaker 5: The uh now the the touchdown of the DK on
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  Speaker 5: the drive before it the take us through that kind
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  Speaker 5: of what you saw there are Yeah, what you thought
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  Speaker 5: it was was brought on the challenge area.
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  Speaker 3: Uh so yeah, I mean there was uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously in those situations, a lot of teams like the
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  Speaker 3: double DK, they were playing a bunch of seventy seven
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  Speaker 3: which is double DK.
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  Speaker 1: Or locket and sometimes they were double uh Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But that one, you know, particular time was one on
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  Speaker 1: one in DK. Uh. We had a double move on.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. The corner was sitting off kind of inside, kind
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  Speaker 3: of bit on the first move.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: DK did a great job. He col collisioned him. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he fought through it. You know, once I saw the
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  Speaker 3: ball hit his hand uh uh uh saw him drag
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  Speaker 3: his toe. You know, usually those are good, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when you put the ball in the area. Uh, a
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  Speaker 3: guy like DK Metcalf. So uh, I thought it was
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  Speaker 3: a great call. Uh, perfect call in the situation. They
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  Speaker 3: didn't double 'em. You know, we read it right.
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  Speaker 1: He made a heck of a catch, and you know
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  Speaker 1: that's what it was.
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  Speaker 2: The final drive, the the past of Metcalf that became
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  Speaker 2: the PI. He's on the sideline the previous two plays,
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  Speaker 2: so in the back of your mind you think he's.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the guy good one go to here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that Uh, you know again, these these were every
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  Speaker 3: every dawn was a new situation.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you gotta play the game there.
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  Speaker 3: So we had a we had a play on where
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  Speaker 3: you know, we had a post on that w and
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  Speaker 3: uh they actually went cover zero. So I had to
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  Speaker 3: go and and and t make a check out the
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  Speaker 3: line of scrimmage to get us into a max protect
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  Speaker 3: and it.
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  Speaker 1: Was cover zero. So he was one on one again.
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  Speaker 3: You know, wish we'd a you know, got the touchdown
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  Speaker 3: on that, so you know he can get the touchdown,
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  Speaker 3: but uh, he fought through contact. Again the guy kind
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  Speaker 3: of hooked him, uh, kept preventing him from getting the ball,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know that was another player.
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  Speaker 1: That helped us get down there and and getting the
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  Speaker 1: scoring position.
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  Speaker 4: They hit the number one red zone, that scoring defense
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  Speaker 4: coming into this game, and you guys had the two
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  Speaker 4: real close missings in the first half. Did you feel
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  Speaker 4: like maybe there was a little bit of a tidening
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  Speaker 4: issue early on and missing the last couple of games
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  Speaker 4: there seemed like it was just that table.
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  Speaker 3: Late on those through Nah, they went late. It's just incomplete.
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  Speaker 3: That's how football goes. You don't hit 'em all, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you don't hit every pass. That's just football. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, uh, you know, we did a great
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  Speaker 3: job of making sure we corrected those at uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the second half, and that's why there is two half.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I feel like, uh, you know, we could
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  Speaker 3: always do a better job of tryna score every single
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  Speaker 3: time in the red zone. But again, man, we're facing
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  Speaker 3: a defense that's gonna trying to stop us.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, those calls, those passes were like a you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, a inch you know from being a touchdown, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, you gotta got to kind of live
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  Speaker 3: with those at times. And uh, you know, I wish
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  Speaker 3: I'd have thrown it sooner, like you said, wish out
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  Speaker 3: had thrown it a little more flatball. To Jackson, I thought,
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  Speaker 3: I d you know, did a pretty good job. To Kobe,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you got one foot in, wasn't able to
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  Speaker 3: get that second down. But overall, you gotta, you know,
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  Speaker 3: learn from those things, and I think we corrected those
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  Speaker 3: in the second half.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you've had four this is your fourth thing
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  Speaker 5: winning drive of the season, or if you've who knew
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  Speaker 5: that her now?
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  Speaker 1: But what what can you.
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  Speaker 4: Say about your mentality and your comfort in those situations?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's preparation. Coach prepares us for these opportunities,
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  Speaker 3: for these moments. Uh. And if we met you know,
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  Speaker 3: every single day, we'd go over two minute a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of different situations and scenarios and it it w It
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  Speaker 3: helps you know when you get out there on the field,
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  Speaker 3: you used to it, you know what to do. Guys
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  Speaker 3: are calm, they know their assignments and I mean, y
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  Speaker 3: you saw, it doesn't matter who the quarterback is. You know,
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  Speaker 3: coach prepares to t to be in those situations and
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  Speaker 3: and to make those plays. And that's what we're about
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  Speaker 3: at Seahawks. Man, We're gonna fight to the finish, and
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  Speaker 3: if the balls in our hands, as an offense, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we wanna make sure we close it out.
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  Speaker 2: Did you You've been on a few teams now, is
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  Speaker 2: that unusual the emphasis on two minutes that Carroll does
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  Speaker 2: a little different.
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  Speaker 1: I think we do it a lot. M uh uh,
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  Speaker 1: a lot more than you know, a lot of teams.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, guys coming from other places they mentioned that,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, I think there's a reason why,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we've been able to win games. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: just over the course of Coach Carroll's career here, been
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  Speaker 3: able to win games late in the fourth quarter and in.
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  Speaker 1: Those game winning drives. So that speaks.
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  Speaker 3: Volumes to the preparation and the coaching and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the players all.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously got to go execute.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, it feels like we've been in those
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  Speaker 3: situations a million times.
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  Speaker 5: We see team drowning league where there's like they're cut
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  Speaker 5: number one receiver. It's the dominant chair of the targets
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  Speaker 5: as a quarterback, wasn't due for you when.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Jackson, Tyler Dca, all those guys that you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do any time. I think it's big, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And you can add the tight ends and the running.
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  Speaker 3: Backs and that as well, I think it's huge for
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  Speaker 3: us as an offense to not be one dimensional in
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  Speaker 3: any area, any aspect. And you know, obviously we got
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  Speaker 3: a guy like DK Metcalf who's gonna draw so much
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  Speaker 3: attention though he's a true out for true number one.
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  Speaker 3: They every single team has a plan for him. They're
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  Speaker 3: gonna try and double him. And I love the patience
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  Speaker 3: that he shows, you know, knowing that you know, Jackson's
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to get some targets, you know, t uh
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  Speaker 3: Tiler's gonna have to get some to some of those targets,
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  Speaker 3: and the tight ends as well, because he opens up
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  Speaker 3: the game for those guys. You know they're doubling him.
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  Speaker 3: That's a l you know, one less guy in coverage
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  Speaker 3: on the other side. So when you got guys like that, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: all those guys can make plays. Just drop back, read
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  Speaker 3: the field, you know, throw to the open guy. And
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  Speaker 3: uh that's that's the special part of his offense.
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  Speaker 4: W Jackson in particular, he had the game when he
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  Speaker 4: touched down last week, and then this week that third
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  Speaker 4: and fourteen played for him to come up step up big.
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  Speaker 1: There get that etenior catch. What are you seeing from
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  Speaker 1: him with this emergence here in this second half.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's getting better every single week, man, uh I,
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  Speaker 3: And I love the way that he's preparing in practice.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's working extremely hard in practice. He's getting
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  Speaker 3: better every single day in practice. He's he's really getting
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  Speaker 3: more comfortable in the offense, just learning his assignment. It's, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the routes to depths, all the things that we talk about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, him being great at and obviously he's the
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  Speaker 3: natural receiver when it comes to catching the football and
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  Speaker 3: making plays. But you know, I think the way that
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  Speaker 3: those guys are feeding off one another, the way that
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  Speaker 3: you know, each guy steps up.
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  Speaker 1: In different areas, Uh, it just makes our offense that
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  Speaker 1: much better. How are how are you doing? Physically? Oh? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: gotta get better, but a lot better than you know
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. Look like if you there was
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  Speaker 1: one place you kind of came up slow, I mean
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  Speaker 1: to day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was just a football man. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna get some bumps and bruises. You gotta keep fighting.
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  Speaker 5: Just pig picture he gets as far around and one
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  Speaker 5: turning around your controller.
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  Speaker 1: Around destiny for the playoffs? Just hey, you doing botans
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  Speaker 1: to that you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I think we just got to take it one
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  Speaker 3: game at a time, one practice at a time.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I love being around these guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I feel like I never wanted this stuff
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  Speaker 3: the end, and you know, I know that we understand
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  Speaker 3: what's at stake, but we also know that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we have to go and handle our business our business.
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  Speaker 3: So just one practice at the time, one game at
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  Speaker 3: the time, one reap at the time. That's all we
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  Speaker 3: can do is control that and uh, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: c continue to fight to the end.
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  Speaker 1: What's this last week that, like Eugenia, Uh, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of roller coaster of Monday night and then you lead up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, game winning drive today to get through synthon straight.
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  Speaker 1: When shoot, man, it's a typical week.
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  Speaker 3: Uh the life of a quarterback NFL quarterback and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm just appreciative of, uh, this team, this organization,
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  Speaker 3: all my teammates, you know, all the fans, everybody. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a it's a great place. I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, guys do things the right way around here,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, it's it's been great. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm a part of this team. Uh, everyone's
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  Speaker 3: got each other's back. And uh, that's the special part about.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, jam I calmly get the same from you. Is
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  Speaker 1: that Christmas