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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "You're never out of it." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: I felt I felt like the right time to wear.
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  Speaker 1: I've had in my locker for a couple of weeks, agl,
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  Speaker 1: I've had these made for a couple of weeks, but
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  Speaker 1: I felt like the right day. Got brutal Florida sto
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  Speaker 1: our newspaper. Congrats on a huge win. So the biggest
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  Speaker 1: question for you for first half interceptions probably the worst
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  Speaker 1: half of football you played, maybe in your football life
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  Speaker 1: so far, but you managed to bounce back lead the
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  Speaker 1: team to victory. How are you able to do that?
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't coach tell you what? To tell it yourself? Thank you? Um,
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  Speaker 1: I mean they just kind of set it that for
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  Speaker 1: the game. It kind of just sums up our season that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the game tonight. Um. And for myself, you know, obviously, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: wors definitely the worst half of my football life, of
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people's football life too. So some type
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  Speaker 1: of history probably in that stat but I mean, really
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  Speaker 1: just you know, I felt like only one of those
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  Speaker 1: plays was was a bad decision, So I felt like
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  Speaker 1: I was seeing things all right. Uh, A couple they
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  Speaker 1: made a couple of great plays. You know. There was
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  Speaker 1: one where you know, Zay got tangled up and you know,
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  Speaker 1: for whatever, We'll leave it at that. And uh, it
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  Speaker 1: was the guy made good play though you know on
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  Speaker 1: the first or the fourth down you know, earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the game, and then the one when we were backed
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  Speaker 1: up was bad decision. So I felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I've seen it all right and just
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  Speaker 1: need to settle in. You know, we didn't really get
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  Speaker 1: any momentum going. We couldn't get a drive going. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so I really just like, we need to settle in.
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  Speaker 1: And then our defense just kept getting stops for us.
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  Speaker 1: And I knew once we get the ball and kind
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  Speaker 1: of get rolling for that first score like we did
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the half, Once we kind of
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  Speaker 1: got that and got the momentum back, felt good about.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've been in that situation before, not that
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  Speaker 1: many points, but you know, similar situations. So that's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just the belief in this team. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of I mean, it's really cool to see what what
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  Speaker 1: can happen when when everybody believes and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have been able to do what I did today
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  Speaker 1: and what the offense was able to do in the
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  Speaker 1: second half to bounce back. Also the defense, if we
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  Speaker 1: didn't believe in one another. Um that was you know,
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  Speaker 1: through four picks in the first half, and those guys
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  Speaker 1: beside me on offense and the guys on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball did never lose faith in me.
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's that's one thing that makes it easier
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  Speaker 1: when you know you've got guys that believe in you,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what the circumstances are. Trevor Doug's play call
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  Speaker 1: on that fourth and one to hand off the Travis
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  Speaker 1: him calling time out right before, kind of maybe get
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  Speaker 1: you guys settled down. Can you just talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: really the confidence you guys having to line up for
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  Speaker 1: that and just confidence and dougg in his play call. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there was you know, we actually had it.
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  Speaker 1: We had a different call on before and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: he didn't like the look that the defense was in.
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  Speaker 1: And it's Partaty smart, you know, looking back at us
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  Speaker 1: got the time out off. I was kind of mad
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  Speaker 1: at first because I thought it was gonna work, so
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  Speaker 1: I was and then he you know, teld me what he' saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, all right, it sounds good. So
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  Speaker 1: then he got the new call in and just you know,
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  Speaker 1: get the ball in traps his hands and makes a
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  Speaker 1: play like that, you know, wins the game for essentially
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  Speaker 1: obviously Riley won the game. But putting a sim position there, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it takes a lot of guts there the fourth and one,
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  Speaker 1: you know, game on the line, and just the guys
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  Speaker 1: up front, um, I mean they just mashed him. They
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  Speaker 1: they set the edge and Travis was rolling Trevor. Some
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  Speaker 1: close losses early in the season for the Jags. But
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  Speaker 1: where did the belief to to battle lot of a
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  Speaker 1: deficit like this one come? I mean late in the year,
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  Speaker 1: you guys have been comeback left and right. Where did that,
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  Speaker 1: I guess come from. I think I think we've always
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  Speaker 1: had it, and we just we did We weren't. We
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  Speaker 1: weren't on the right side of him for you know,
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks. But I really think we we never
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  Speaker 1: stopped believing that. That was the main thing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we had five losses, those five losses in a row,
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  Speaker 1: all one score games, had opportunities to win it. And
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  Speaker 1: even after that fifth one, it's like never wavered, never
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  Speaker 1: lost belief. Coach didn't lose belief in us um. And
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  Speaker 1: that's how we dug our way out of it and
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  Speaker 1: the same thing we did tonight. That's why I said
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  Speaker 1: it kind of epitomizes our season. You know, you're never
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  Speaker 1: out of it. And I think that's the one lesson
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  Speaker 1: that we've that we've all learned. I know I've learned
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  Speaker 1: this year. Is just like I said, when you when
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  Speaker 1: you believe and everybody believes, it's it's cool what you
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  Speaker 1: can accomplish. And you know, tonight was one of those
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  Speaker 1: one of those games, Trevor, how do you top what
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  Speaker 1: you guys just did tonight and what you did tonight?
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we don't have to. Hopefully we play a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better next week. H So you know, the hats
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  Speaker 1: of the defense, hopefully they played just like they did
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  Speaker 1: a night. They did a great job. But offensively, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't you can't. You can't turn the ball over
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  Speaker 1: that many times and expect to win. We found a
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  Speaker 1: way tonight, but it's probably not a good formula moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: So um, I know for my just personally, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it shouldn't take that type of second half to go
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  Speaker 1: win the game. You know, if you just play better
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  Speaker 1: in the first half and take care of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I didn't play my best tonight. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch the table. There's gonna be so much
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  Speaker 1: to learn from. Um. But it honestly, I mean we
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  Speaker 1: could you you couldn't write a better script than to
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  Speaker 1: win a game like that tonight, so it makes it
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  Speaker 1: more special. But don't want to do that again. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta take care of the ball. That's
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  Speaker 1: where it starts. You know. I think besides that, it
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty you know, all phases played pretty well,
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  Speaker 1: besides just the turnovers on offense. You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: we can be right now. We can be better on
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  Speaker 1: third down. We weren't great tonight, so another area to
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  Speaker 1: improve on, but took advantage of our red zone opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: scored on most of those or all of those. Um,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, just just hang on to the ball, Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: You uh, your receivers said that as the interception turnovers
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  Speaker 1: are piling up, that you kept the huddle level, you
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  Speaker 1: kept the level of mindset. How do you do that
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  Speaker 1: inside your own head? How do you keep your head level? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: It's uh, like I said, I didn't didn't really, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I honestly didn't have a choice. You know, we've we've
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  Speaker 1: come this far, and those guys are depending on me
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  Speaker 1: and you know, to win games in general in this sleepe,
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  Speaker 1: but especially in the playoffs. Quarterback as played well. Um
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  Speaker 1: wasn't playing well, and I knew, I knew it was
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  Speaker 1: gonna take a lot to turn around. But there's no
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  Speaker 1: I told the guys in the huddle, there's no twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven point place. You know, it's gonna be one play
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  Speaker 1: at a time. And that's that's what it took. One
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  Speaker 1: play at a time, all the way down the field,
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  Speaker 1: just again and again and again. And all we can
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  Speaker 1: do at this point with ourselves and this whole all
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  Speaker 1: we can do is just trying to score every drive.
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  Speaker 1: You know, then trust our defense and they get a stop, great,
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  Speaker 1: gives no chance to score. If they don't, great, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get the ball back. We'll go score again. So that
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  Speaker 1: was our mindset, Um, And you just gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep playing with confidence. That was the one thing, just
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  Speaker 1: self talk in my head. You know, you're going back
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  Speaker 1: and forth. It's tough, you know, when you're struggling and
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  Speaker 1: not playing well. But if I don't continue to be myself,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have a shot to win, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: then I'm gonna miss the plays that I usually make,
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  Speaker 1: so I just had to keep my confidence. Missed a
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  Speaker 1: few throws, you know, I think where you know, some
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  Speaker 1: of those turnovers where I was being a little being
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  Speaker 1: a little cautious, just you know, So after that, I
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  Speaker 1: felt like I kind of got back, got back on
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  Speaker 1: track and settled in rever just do a piggyback on
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit. Is that a learned thing to
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  Speaker 1: be able to overcome that kind of failure or I
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  Speaker 1: mean you could you do that? I mean back in
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  Speaker 1: high school or college. I know you didn't have this
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  Speaker 1: kind of failure in high school or college, but like
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  Speaker 1: did did you? Would you have been able to have
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  Speaker 1: that second half last year even? I mean it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of hard to say. Probably not like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: just the I mean really it's you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: able to turn around and play well in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: but it's all stems from the collective belief of the team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you get in that situation and you
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  Speaker 1: don't and you feel like everyone doesn't really believe you
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  Speaker 1: got a shot and things start to crumble around you,
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  Speaker 1: Like that's defense offense. That's kind of when you're in
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  Speaker 1: trouble and it doesn't feel like you gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 1: shot to win it, and that there was never that
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  Speaker 1: feeling even a half time and thinks twenty seven and
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  Speaker 1: seven down and fully brought everybody up and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna win this game. We're gonna find a way
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  Speaker 1: to win this game. You gotta believe it, and we
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  Speaker 1: all we all believed it. We really did. And that's
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  Speaker 1: that's the crazy thing is it's easy to say it after,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't win a game like that if you
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  Speaker 1: really don't, if you if you don't really believe it.
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  Speaker 1: So ah, man, I don't. I don't really know what
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  Speaker 1: else to say. I'm kind of rambling because, uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a special night. I mean, I'm just I'm just
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  Speaker 1: proud of the group, the city. I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 1: a special night for a lot of people and just
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  Speaker 1: thankful for for everybody that that played a part in it.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think this team seems to have thrive
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  Speaker 1: on doing things sort of the hard way? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like it back from three and seven to win the division.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Coach showed a video of I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you guys heard of Jocko. Guys can look
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  Speaker 1: it up. It's this video he talks about good, and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, no matter what happens, that's your response. Good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, through four picks in the first half. Good.
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  Speaker 1: You know you showed that back in I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it was training camp or during the season, maybe
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  Speaker 1: when we were on that losing strick. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: when it was, but it's just been our mindset, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Then we stayed on the sideline joking around one of
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  Speaker 1: the linemen I for who was said to me after
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  Speaker 1: I threw three or four picks, he was like good,
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  Speaker 1: just looking at him, like all right, all right, not
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  Speaker 1: not the time, but you know, it's just it's just
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  Speaker 1: the mindset of this group. And like I said, you
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  Speaker 1: can't make a living on I'm doing it the hard
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  Speaker 1: way all the time. But um it's it's you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to sometimes. And then we had to tonight and
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  Speaker 1: we were ever good done. Trevor. You've played in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of big games in your life. This is your
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  Speaker 1: first career playoff game. Where does this one kind of
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  Speaker 1: stack up for you with with with the games that
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  Speaker 1: you've played in, It's up there. It's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: special one. Definitely one I'll never forget. First playoff win.
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  Speaker 1: Like we talked about obviously the ups and downs of
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  Speaker 1: the game. I mean, it kind of speaks for itself.
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  Speaker 1: So it's special. And just there's something about this team,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just the way we've been able to stick together.
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  Speaker 1: It's really honestly kind of leaves your speechless sometimes just
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  Speaker 1: how how like I've said it a million times, but
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  Speaker 1: just the belief it's it's really cool. So I'm proud
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of it. And um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just the beginning for us