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Press Pass | Pederson: "I just think there's a confidence level." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Your career, your f you're familiar with the situation. Gardner
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  Speaker 1: Minshew and guys like him are in where they did
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  Speaker 1: the back up and they get their opportunity. Uh what's
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  Speaker 1: probably going through his mind a little bit as he
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  Speaker 1: prepared and he had a little bit of this with
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles last year and everything. But what's uh, what's
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  Speaker 1: the thrill level of the excitement level going through a
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  Speaker 1: guy's mind when he knows he's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna get a shot? I mean it, it's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Uh you get your opportunity to start lead your football team.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, do everything you can.
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  Speaker 3: I you know, there's really no pressure, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: only the pressure you put on yourself to perform.
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  Speaker 2: But you know he can.
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  Speaker 3: He can obviously come in and relax and play and
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  Speaker 3: and you know he's gonna uh he's gonna be excited
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  Speaker 3: and and ready to go and and uh, our you know,
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  Speaker 3: our guys on defense need to need to pay attention
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  Speaker 3: to to that energy and uh and be ready for that.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned, uh yesterday your Monday that you had some
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  Speaker 1: film on and there you know, he's played enough to
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  Speaker 1: everybody's has some tape on everything. But also you get
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  Speaker 1: some guys here on the defense familiar with him, played
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  Speaker 1: against them in practice and so you know, you guys
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  Speaker 1: feel like your defense knows and knowses Tennessee's.
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  Speaker 2: Knows as Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I I think I think there's enough,
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  Speaker 3: uh enough information and obviously you gotta you gotta study
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  Speaker 3: the tape and and you know, understand what they're trying
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  Speaker 3: to do as well, you know, as an offense and
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  Speaker 3: how they're trying to attack you. I mean, they you know,
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  Speaker 3: they they've got a really good running game. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they can they can get going and that can help
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  Speaker 3: your quarterback too.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, defense is playing well.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think there's enough enough information there to
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  Speaker 3: to really have a a good understanding to to who
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  Speaker 3: you're playing. Injury update, will you Walker and z Ay,
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  Speaker 3: you know, both of their images and everything were good,
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  Speaker 3: were clear, but both are gonna they're gonna miss today.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna be day to day h as we go.
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  Speaker 3: Cam is fine with left elbow. Just had a little
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  Speaker 3: little hyper extension during the game, but went back in
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  Speaker 3: the football game you know Sunday, But he's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be good. Uh, we get Devin back in
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  Speaker 3: practice today. Devin Lloyd uh back out there today. You
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  Speaker 3: know you'll see a protected pad and bandages and stuff
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  Speaker 3: on his on his hand, but you'll he'll be fine,
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  Speaker 3: He'll be He'll be back out there.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting close uh with devaugh Hamilton, you know, of
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  Speaker 3: of of getting him into some some practice.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we haven't.
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  Speaker 3: Opened up his his window yet, but but he's getting
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  Speaker 3: he's getting closer, you know each uh uh each week,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and everybody else is uh anybody else there that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, move's fine.
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  Speaker 3: You know he uh we activated him last week and
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  Speaker 3: in London, and uh, he'll have another week this week
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, hopefully if everything goes well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's there's a chance that he could he could make
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  Speaker 3: this football game.
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  Speaker 2: How did you.
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  Speaker 4: Feel Cam did coming back? He obviously missed the first
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  Speaker 4: four weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he did well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, obviously a a a really good pass rush
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  Speaker 3: that we went up against last week and and uh, but.
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  Speaker 2: He was in a really good frame of mind. He
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  Speaker 2: prepared well, had a good week of preparation.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Last week, I'd I thought he overall coming back did
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  Speaker 2: a nice job. Now he'll be better this week.
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  Speaker 3: Just understanding game speed again, you know, but uh did well.
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  Speaker 5: And then uh.
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  Speaker 1: Moving forward, if Walkers forced to miss this game, would
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  Speaker 1: it be Shatley that fills in or or are you
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  Speaker 1: gonna go back at.
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  Speaker 3: BArch or Yeah, I mean Shatley's the one that that
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  Speaker 3: you know has played recently. It tends to be a
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  Speaker 3: little more in his favor right now. You know, to
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  Speaker 3: have to have Tyler in there, and you know Cam
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  Speaker 3: at Cam at left tackle.
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  Speaker 6: So how do you tweeked the week to maybe give
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  Speaker 6: your guys a little bit more of a break.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean that's a that's obviously a concern,
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  Speaker 3: you know, coming back from a ten day trip and
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  Speaker 3: the jet lag is real and and all of that,
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  Speaker 3: you know for a couple of the days. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: just spend more time walkthroughs, kind of slow the pace
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  Speaker 3: down a little bit, try to get their their bodies
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  Speaker 3: and minds kind of rejuvenated again. You know. Obviously the
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  Speaker 3: onus is on the player for understanding the game plan
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  Speaker 3: and getting the game planned down. But I can do
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  Speaker 3: my part by by helping them and maybe getting them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, out of the building a little bit sooner
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  Speaker 3: where they can not so much get them out of
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  Speaker 3: the building, but get them off the field where they
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  Speaker 3: can continue their their rehab and treatments and you know,
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  Speaker 3: hydration is important, nutrition is important, and then making sure
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  Speaker 3: that they get rest at night.
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  Speaker 6: How will you or will you even know how they
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  Speaker 6: respond before Sunday we build to gauge.
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  Speaker 2: That on thirty you can gauge it. You can gauge it.
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  Speaker 3: You know today today has been good so far with
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  Speaker 3: the guys that are here, you know, just just talking
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  Speaker 3: to them and how they feel, how how I feel,
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  Speaker 3: you know, how you know and all that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you'll have a really good understanding and you know, we
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  Speaker 3: need to guard against I think a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a lull, you know that that sort of happened to
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  Speaker 3: us last year when we when we came back and
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  Speaker 3: something that I'll continue to talk to the team about
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  Speaker 3: the staff.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of stuff did you do the changes.
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  Speaker 3: For the coaching Nothing, we're grinding, man, absolutely nothing. Well, Monday,
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  Speaker 3: when we got back, we we came straight to the
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  Speaker 3: office and and started working on game planning for this week.
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  Speaker 2: And then we got two games in nine days.
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  Speaker 3: So we've got a lot of film to pour over
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  Speaker 3: here in the next week and a half. But just
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  Speaker 3: got him in here Monday early and then got him
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  Speaker 3: out little bit earlier Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: You know. But other than that, it's it's business as
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  Speaker 2: usual for us.
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  Speaker 4: I know you chose not to have a five week
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  Speaker 4: this week, but did you have any input on the
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  Speaker 4: team you're playing this week?
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  Speaker 2: No, what impresses you so far about the coach? What
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  Speaker 2: did you see on tape?
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  Speaker 4: It stands out about their three and two start.
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  Speaker 2: Which is good as struck. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously the Anthony Richardson has made a difference. His ability
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  Speaker 3: to run, you know, the ball he's thrown them by.
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  Speaker 3: They they've made plays offensively quite frankly. And the run game,
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  Speaker 3: you know, is is really uh kind of spark them.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: In defense, defense is solid.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they obviously it's a it's a it's a
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  Speaker 3: penetrating style of front.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: There, I think I think it's that you're Alexander Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: he's leading the league and tackles right now, He's all
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  Speaker 3: over the field. He kind of that field general for them.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's a he's a really good player and
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  Speaker 3: he's playing well. You know right now we know we
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  Speaker 3: know DeForest and his size and length and and what
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  Speaker 3: he did against us in the first game, and then you.
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  Speaker 2: Know Grover right there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, these guys are it's a solid defense is
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  Speaker 3: keeping them in football games, and they've had some some
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  Speaker 3: really good wins. Obviously, you know we're both three and two,
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  Speaker 3: uh obviously, and but uh, it's just you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Shane's got him got him playing extremely well and extremely
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  Speaker 3: confident right now as he wanted to see.
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  Speaker 5: It back and also to prepare for this week ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Why do you say the offense was finally able to
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  Speaker 5: get into a rhythm last week, especially Calvin?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think that.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of kind of I guess what I've been saying
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  Speaker 3: all along. It takes a little time, right, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it takes that work in practice and and and kind
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  Speaker 3: of seeing things, you know, seeing yourself in these game
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  Speaker 3: situations and making the necessary adjustments and corrections, and continuing
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  Speaker 3: to work the following week, uh to get better and
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  Speaker 3: working on timing and all of that, and Calvin understanding
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh more of the offense and what we're
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  Speaker 3: asking of him. And you know it's, uh, it's been
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  Speaker 3: it's been good. It's not still not where we need
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  Speaker 3: it to be. Obviously, there's still a lot left out there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we can't turn the ball over in the
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  Speaker 3: red zone like we did and give up points. Defensively,
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  Speaker 3: we can't have the breakdowns in the back end, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for big plays. It's all communication stuff and and those
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  Speaker 3: are all things that we continue to work through.
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  Speaker 2: But just the execution has gotten better.
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  Speaker 4: Had some work to do on his confidence last year
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  Speaker 4: when he got here.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see that gradually rise.
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  Speaker 6: As he started to have some more success, especially late
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  Speaker 6: in the season last year?
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  Speaker 2: And where is it now?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think, yeah, Evans Evan's in a good place.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, there was obviously you know a lot
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  Speaker 3: of I think criticism outside criticism on him about the
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  Speaker 3: drops and different things. But you know, he he's a
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  Speaker 3: hard worker. He works on that, he works on his craft.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to be a pro. His confidence level right
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  Speaker 3: now is extremely high. And I think it's it's easy
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  Speaker 3: to say or safe to say that it's well behind
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  Speaker 3: him now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, run defense has been really stout, even with the
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  Speaker 6: two pot I think there were two big plays thirty
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  Speaker 6: eight to Vijon and thirty one to the Chaco. But
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  Speaker 6: is there any reason on the grave people thought that
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  Speaker 6: that might take a step back because of Hamilton's injury.
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  Speaker 6: Is there any one reason, maybe two reasons why that
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  Speaker 6: that run defense has been so good?
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  Speaker 3: You know we've been obviously Angela Blackson getting him in
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  Speaker 3: here when we did, UH has helped that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Roy's Roy's playing playing well, Adam Goats is getting more opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Jeremiah Ledbetter's playing good. And then the addition
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  Speaker 3: of Tyler Lacy. You know, all these guys are uh
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  Speaker 3: are playing playing solid, consistent football right now, and and
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  Speaker 3: and they're really they're staying discipline with their with their
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  Speaker 3: gap integrity and all of that. And you know we're
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  Speaker 3: w we're tackling better uh on the perimeter. Uh, there's
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  Speaker 3: a there's a there's a sense of urgency there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: guys are flying around making plays. You saw Jank you
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  Speaker 3: know a Sunday against the Bills coming through there and
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  Speaker 3: making some great, great tackles for losses things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And I just think there's a confidence level that's uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know uh with the defense right now that that
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  Speaker 3: that they they they kind of pride themselves on on
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  Speaker 3: that maybe.
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  Speaker 5: See you on Sunday and goes right into the starting
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  Speaker 5: line up on special teams. What do you think of
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  Speaker 5: this performance, and also couldn't he see increased role, especially
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  Speaker 5: knowing how much you guys have enjoyed that pretty safety
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  Speaker 5: of at times.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it was good to get him back
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  Speaker 3: out there. You know, he was probably going to start
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  Speaker 3: the season, you know, with the the Chris Claybrooks deal,
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  Speaker 3: you know, probably as a gunner for us on special team.
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  Speaker 3: So we kind of picked up where he left off,
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  Speaker 3: you know, right there, and and then getting him in
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  Speaker 3: and we we've always I thought he was coming out
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  Speaker 3: of camp in a really good place. He was improving
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  Speaker 3: each day and week, you know, during training camp, and
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  Speaker 3: really in a good position to help us on defense.
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  Speaker 3: And and I do I do think that his role
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  Speaker 3: in he'll get more reps obviously on defense, maybe more
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  Speaker 3: dime situations or three four if we go you know,
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  Speaker 3: the three safety looks.
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  Speaker 2: I know Dewey's been in there.
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  Speaker 3: If you go dime, he can he can obviously athletic
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  Speaker 3: enough to cover tight ends and running backs and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that. So you know, again, I think you'd be
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  Speaker 3: smart with it. Don't overwhelm him with a lot of information,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of stuff right now, and just let him
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  Speaker 3: go play, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But he did. He did a good job.
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  Speaker 4: Sunday, Are your Misstapple numbers significantly down last year?
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  Speaker 3: I haven't really paid a tounch of a lot of
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  Speaker 3: attention to that right now. It feels that way, you know,
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  Speaker 3: But I'd have to I'd have to ask our analytics.
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  Speaker 2: Do home win streak versus Coles?
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  Speaker 1: Is that something players care or talk about?
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  Speaker 2: I don't, No, they don't really.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's focused on one game at a time mentality,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just getting ready for the next one.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously we understand division opponent AFC South.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's a there's a lot on the line,
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  Speaker 3: you know, obviously with this football game, and so they
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  Speaker 3: don't really pay attention to the streaks and all that.
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  Speaker 2: It's just kind of, you know, get yourself ready to play.
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  Speaker 5: Does that just being a divisional game in big game?
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  Speaker 1: Does that kind of help with just the nature of
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  Speaker 1: this week, you know?
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  Speaker 2: Coming back? I think it does. I think it does.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think there's the guys understand going away
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  Speaker 3: for ten days was good for us and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: but we've got to bring that energy back. We can't
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  Speaker 3: leave it in London, right and and so that's a
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  Speaker 3: big part of this week. But but playing division opponent,
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  Speaker 3: you know, can help that.
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  Speaker 4: The team bonding you guys are able to do over
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  Speaker 4: in London.
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  Speaker 5: How much can that carry over now throughout the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the season.
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  Speaker 2: What you guys were to accomplish there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, that's that's just it. We we've got
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  Speaker 3: to continue that. The energy that I saw the last
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  Speaker 3: two games on the sideline, you know at Wembley and
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  Speaker 3: and Tottenham there and the way the guys were flying
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  Speaker 3: around again, we.
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  Speaker 2: We can't leave it in London.
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  Speaker 3: It's got to come back with us and we gotta
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  Speaker 3: we got to experience that again this Sunday. So it's
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  Speaker 3: a week to week business, but the emotions run so
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  Speaker 3: high each and every week that you know, it's you
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  Speaker 3: gotta be a little bit better each week, right the
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  Speaker 3: next week and the next week, and but keeping it,
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  Speaker 3: keeping it real, keeping it, you know, to what we
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  Speaker 3: do and our process here and you know, getting better
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  Speaker 3: today and then tomorrow and you know, just focusing on
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  Speaker 3: one day at a time.
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  Speaker 4: Attle bit more at times on the sideline in London
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  Speaker 4: even said that that so and some of that kind
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  Speaker 4: of is good at times after the game, is that
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  Speaker 4: after seeing how the team reacted to that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you maybe not be.
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  Speaker 4: As calm at times and let that that show up
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  Speaker 4: sometimes or is that just adjusting to how the guys
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  Speaker 4: react to you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I do think they react to to
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  Speaker 3: how I go, you know, and and you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: as coaches, we get we get caught up sometimes in
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  Speaker 3: the emotion of the game and and feel it just
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. And you get excited for for great
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  Speaker 3: plays out there and things that are.
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  Speaker 2: That are happening.
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  Speaker 3: And I tell our players all the time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: let your personality show, you know, out there and and
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  Speaker 3: it's no different for us for me, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: do the same thing. So I'm excited for the players.
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  Speaker 3: And and uh, you know when when you play big
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  Speaker 3: games like that against great football teams, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: and they were there, they're still a good football team.
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  Speaker 3: There's still you know, a powerful football team, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 2: Able to do and come away with that win.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just you just let your emotions go
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  Speaker 3: and have fun with it.
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  Speaker 4: Like is there a like this hole coming back in
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  Speaker 4: the week and all that stuff?
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  Speaker 1: Is that harder?
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  Speaker 5: Do you think on like the bigger.
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  Speaker 4: Guys or the skill guys or does you know, kind
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  Speaker 4: of just individually.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's individual honestly, how each how each person
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  Speaker 3: handles it. You know, it's hard to say if it's
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  Speaker 3: you know, one body type or position group.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we did have some guys that cramp during
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 3: It was warm over there, so making sure that you know,
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  Speaker 3: then then the long flight coming back and having a
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  Speaker 3: couple of days, making sure that you know they're well
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  Speaker 3: hydrated again, you know, going.
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  Speaker 2: Into this week and.
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  Speaker 3: They're getting the proper rest and nutrition and all that
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  Speaker 3: stuff plays a big part of that.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously getting a goal, but is drawing a holding pilty
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  Speaker 4: almost as good as that?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'd rather be second and sixteen, not first and
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  Speaker 3: twenty y.
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  Speaker 2: That's a gene question.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, thanks Gene.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then set off and he made a trip
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  Speaker 5: with you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we wanted to take him be around the team
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  Speaker 3: and get his get his conditioning and work out over there.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing he's doing well. He's still on track.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: He's not not necessarily ready to put a lot of
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: load bearing, you know, and wait on that on that
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: knee right now. But he's another one that's getting close