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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on Team Mindset Before Week 5 vs. Colts · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: There has been a before that Doug has lost the locker.
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  Speaker 1: Room, and I just want to ask you, what is
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  Speaker 1: your observations about any change in terms of the relationship
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  Speaker 1: that that regard.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I shouldn't even have to You gotta do
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  Speaker 3: your job, so you gotta ask it. But I shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: even have to answer it. I mean, not at all.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where that's coming from. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: even want to really expand on something that's just not true.
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  Speaker 2: So there's the frustration level at with this team right
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  Speaker 2: now as you're kind of getting close but haven't been
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  Speaker 2: able to kind of get that first one of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I mean, it's it's frustrating, obviously, it's it's hard.
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  Speaker 3: The hardest part in which is, I mean, we've done
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  Speaker 3: a good job of to be honest, and obviously we
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  Speaker 3: haven't gotten the results we wanted, like I've said, But
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  Speaker 3: the hardest part is, you know, dealing with it Sunday
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  Speaker 3: and not getting the results you want and just the
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  Speaker 3: next couple of days, like you're thinking about every situation,
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  Speaker 3: you're thinking about, you know, one play here or there
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  Speaker 3: that could have changed the game. You know, obviously three
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  Speaker 3: of our four losses have been right there and it
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  Speaker 3: comes down to a couple of plays, and so that's
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  Speaker 3: hard to kind of get over that hump and then
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  Speaker 3: to get back Like now Wednesday, we've we've finally flushed
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  Speaker 3: it and now our ready to prepare for Indie and
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  Speaker 3: we have a great plan put together that we've started.
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  Speaker 3: You know, obvious it's going to grow as the week
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  Speaker 3: goes on. But that's the hard I think part of
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  Speaker 3: the week to get through is just because you're just sick.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you put all the time in for these games,
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  Speaker 3: and then when you don't perform and you don't get
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  Speaker 3: the results you wanted, you know, it's just it's it's
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  Speaker 3: a bad feeling, especially when you put the time in.
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  Speaker 3: So I'd say that is the frustrating part, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But now we're on to Indy and you know, we
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  Speaker 3: had to put another great week together preparing to beat
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  Speaker 3: them here at home. Big opportunity to get on track
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  Speaker 3: and just take it one week at a time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we the start of the season was what it was.
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  Speaker 3: We can't go back now, and we just have to
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  Speaker 3: take it one game at a time and and get
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  Speaker 3: this thing going on the right track.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, what can you.
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  Speaker 2: Say about Ryan and just how he's responded to like
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  Speaker 2: being added to his played the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a great job.
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  Speaker 3: You know, He's been prepared, he's he's known. The plan obviously,
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  Speaker 3: is his skill set and talents you see him every week,
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  Speaker 3: and his ability to really just do everything that we
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  Speaker 3: need him to do. Win down the field, get open,
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  Speaker 3: create separation, you know, and he's done a great job
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  Speaker 3: that all season. So I thought Sunday was one of
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  Speaker 3: his best games and should have been even bigger. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we had some more opportunities down the field that we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna connect on in the future. So I'm it's exciting
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  Speaker 3: watching him play and just seeing how much better he's
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  Speaker 3: gotten through the first four games. I mean, it's he's
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  Speaker 3: still so young, I think twenty one, twenty two. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know when his birthday is, but so it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be fun to see him just keep getting better. His
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  Speaker 3: competitiveness on the field, especially after big plays and just
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  Speaker 3: what have you seen just outside of him just shows
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  Speaker 3: up and plays like he makes the plays that come
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  Speaker 3: to him, you know, like we've we've said the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't talk too much.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's kind of a quiet, quieter guy, but
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  Speaker 3: then on the field he just comes alive and you
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  Speaker 3: see some of that spark and some of that competitiveness
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  Speaker 3: when he makes place. You see the celebrating or whatever
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  Speaker 3: it is, and he'll let the dB know about it.
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  Speaker 3: So it's cool to it's cool to watch the quarterback
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  Speaker 3: and see a guy that's really really fired up to
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  Speaker 3: play and loves the game.
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  Speaker 2: Off the field, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's come out a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: He's just a quieter guy naturally, but he's definitely come
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  Speaker 3: out of his shell. He's talking more in meetings and
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  Speaker 3: just when we watch him tape after practice and all
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  Speaker 3: those things, and just hanging out with the guys.
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  Speaker 1: He's starting to be around a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: So, Yeah, he's definitely come out of his shell, I think, naturally,
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  Speaker 3: just more of an introverted guy, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's different.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been it's been great getting to know him.
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  Speaker 2: Funny or or whatever your reaction was when he jumped
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  Speaker 2: up and started napping a jail right after the affairs
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  Speaker 2: like that, was that shocking for all you guys, kind
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  Speaker 2: of knowing what he'd done before, you know.
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  Speaker 3: What I mean yeah, because I mean I don't think
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  Speaker 3: he you know, he would do you know, he would
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  Speaker 3: get competitive and get a little fiery and practice, but
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  Speaker 3: not quite as much. It's your it's your own team,
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  Speaker 3: you know, stuff like that, but hadn't got a chance
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  Speaker 3: to really see it as much like live I've end game.
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  Speaker 3: So it was cool to see that, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: think anybody knew what to expect, and it's it's been
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  Speaker 3: fun seeing him come out of his shell, like you
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  Speaker 3: said in game day and when he makes plays.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, he said to James.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I don't think we ever talked about it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what he said.
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  Speaker 3: I think he was just lett him know that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it should have been touchdown and he got beat.
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  Speaker 2: Defenses kind of like have to start to respect him.
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  Speaker 2: And what did I say, because considered it's just you know.
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  Speaker 1: Four games in his career.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's obvious that you have to
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  Speaker 3: respect him. You know, you look at our our offense earlyer.
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  Speaker 3: We have a lot of playmakers on the perimeter and everywhere,
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  Speaker 3: so I think, yeah, of course you have to respect him.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're still getting a decent amount of man
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  Speaker 3: coverage though out there with him, So that's that's great,
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  Speaker 3: giving us opportunities. So but yeah, I think obviously teams
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  Speaker 3: are gonna start to respect him more and more as
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  Speaker 3: he continues to make plays, and I'm sure game plans
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  Speaker 3: will change and people will try take him out of
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  Speaker 3: the game a little bit more, but usually that opens
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  Speaker 3: up somebody else, So you know, you kind of go
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  Speaker 3: week tweak basis on who you're playing and what the
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  Speaker 3: plan is. But I definitely think, you know, teams are
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  Speaker 3: obviously gonna have to expect what he's done so far.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty two, you guys have a losing streak in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the season with five games and then
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden nights which kind of comes on
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  Speaker 2: start browing off wins. Are there any similarities you can
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  Speaker 2: kind of take from that or lessons you learned during
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  Speaker 2: that season to apply to what's going on now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, I've dealt with a few
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  Speaker 3: few of these in my career. Unfortunately, it's never fun,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's like every time it happens. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just you have to be very thick skinned and
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  Speaker 3: you have to be just persistent.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is a this is a tough sport.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tough game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're gonna every week, especially when you're in
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  Speaker 3: a situation like this, you have to be very thick
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  Speaker 3: skinned and have to keep your head down and keep working.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I have no doubt that we're gonna we're gonna find
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  Speaker 3: our way out of this and we're gonna be really
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  Speaker 3: good moving forward. And the frustrating part, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: is we we all feel like it should have happened already, right,
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  Speaker 3: and it's like it hasn't happened in the first four weeks,
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  Speaker 3: which is really frustrating because we feel like we've done
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  Speaker 3: everything right during the week, we've prepared the right way,
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  Speaker 3: we're detailed, you know, and and some sometimes that hasn't
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  Speaker 3: carried over on Sunday, So that is frustrating. But I've
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  Speaker 3: been in this situation before. I've been on teams where
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  Speaker 3: we've come out of it and won after that. I
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  Speaker 3: think we won six straight after we lost five straight
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  Speaker 3: and or whatever it ended up being. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: been on the opposite side of it last year where
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  Speaker 3: we were I think we won five or six straight
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  Speaker 3: and then we lost.
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  Speaker 1: We lost a bunch straight. So it's a long season,
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  Speaker 1: and you just have to keep playing.
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  Speaker 3: You can't get too far ahead of yourself, and you
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  Speaker 3: can't you can't sulk in the past either. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we're at where we're at. We've lost our first four games. Sucks,
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  Speaker 3: but you can't go back and change it. So all
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  Speaker 3: you have, all you have is this week, and you
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  Speaker 3: can't look ahead to You can't go get four in
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  Speaker 3: one week either. You know, all we can do is
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  Speaker 3: just win this game this week. So I think that's
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  Speaker 3: the message, and that's where I truly believe that because
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  Speaker 3: I've experienced it and I know that that's what it
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  Speaker 3: takes to get out of these ruts and to really
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  Speaker 3: get the team going and get some momentum.
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  Speaker 1: It just takes one.
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  Speaker 3: So whatever whatever we have to do, each individual to
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  Speaker 3: feel their best, play their best on So we need
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  Speaker 3: to do this week, keep practicing hard. I mean, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, we put the work in. It's not that
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  Speaker 3: it's just carrying everything over to the game and just
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  Speaker 3: making the plays, you know, and speaking to myself too,
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  Speaker 3: and I got confidence in that you're gonna hate this, but.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like twenty twenty one then talked back
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  Speaker 2: to Jean's point like that was I assume that's the
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  Speaker 2: only time in your playing career where you really fell.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean definitely doesn't like Defean's like twenty twenty one. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: even in twenty twenty one, I mean, being a rookie
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  Speaker 3: and pretty naive, like I didn't really understand the situation
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  Speaker 3: either until obviously later in the season. That's when it
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  Speaker 3: started to feel pretty uh, I guess, Graham.
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  Speaker 1: You know, towards the end.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, at this point, even in twenty one, I think
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  Speaker 3: Week four was Cincinnati and we'd lost a close one.
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  Speaker 3: Not to bring up anyways, we lost a close one
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  Speaker 3: in Cincinnati on Thursday night. We lost on a walk
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  Speaker 3: off field goal to Cincinnati, who ended up going to
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  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl that year. So it wasn't even like
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  Speaker 3: and this is you know, this is a much better
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  Speaker 3: team as far as from a lot of standpoints, but
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  Speaker 3: talent wise, and we just got to click and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we got to go prove it. Obviously, the talent only
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  Speaker 3: gets you so far. And we've been saying that we're
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  Speaker 3: a good team, and we got to go win some
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  Speaker 3: games so we know that I can keep saying that,
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  Speaker 3: and we got to go prove it, But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I have a lot of faith in this team.
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  Speaker 1: The group we have is a tight knit group. We've
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  Speaker 1: got some good leadership.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we just have to Like I said, it just
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  Speaker 3: takes one and we got to go do it this week.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, Sunday with the throwbacks honoring Tom.
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  Speaker 2: How just all the history being important on that day
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  Speaker 2: does not make that game just a little bit more game,
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  Speaker 2: but for just what that game's kind of, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Showing about the team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that, and I mean just playing at home.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is only our second home game We've
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  Speaker 3: We've been on the road a lot this year, so
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  Speaker 3: I think that is like we're obviously really excited to
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  Speaker 3: be back home in our own stadium. And of course
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  Speaker 3: the throwbacks, the history here, coach Kauflin, and the ring
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  Speaker 3: of honor, I mean, everything he's done for the team.
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  Speaker 1: Just a great man.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I've obviously interacted with him a lot since
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  Speaker 3: I've been here and done some stuff with the j Fund.
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  Speaker 3: Just what he does and what he does for others
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  Speaker 3: has been cool to see that. Obviously, he didn't coach me,
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  Speaker 3: so I didn't. I didn't get to see that part.
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  Speaker 3: But I have a lot of respect for what he
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  Speaker 3: was able to do on the field, but off of
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  Speaker 3: it too. You know, his legacy speaks for itself, so
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  Speaker 3: that means a lot. The throwbacks, obviously, the uniforms are
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  Speaker 3: sweet and just distribute for you know the history of
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  Speaker 3: this team and you know it's been what thirty thirty
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  Speaker 3: years or so, So it's cool to be able to
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  Speaker 3: wear those uniforms and put them back on and represent
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  Speaker 3: this city the right way on Sunday. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: but we got to worry about just find a way
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  Speaker 3: to win the game. That's that'll be the best way
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  Speaker 3: to represent the city is go win the game. It
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  Speaker 3: is appreciate that for Birthday Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome, Thank y'all.