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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "I expect the coaches to hold me accountable." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think we can all lead better.
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  Speaker 1: I think, including myself. Obviously, we're not doing everything the
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  Speaker 1: right way, or this wouldn't be happening. I think if
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  Speaker 1: we were, this wouldn't be happening. So, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think that we need to have a heightened sense of
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  Speaker 1: just attention to detail. Too many bad plays and critical
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  Speaker 1: moments and critical situations not getting any momentum. We're not
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  Speaker 1: complimenting each other on either side of the ball, especially today,
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  Speaker 1: We're just leaving a lot out there, and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty bad feeling come in that locker room when
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  Speaker 1: you leave all that out there and you play like
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  Speaker 1: you do today, and you play like, oh, we did
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  Speaker 1: offensively last week. And so, like I said, there's not
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  Speaker 1: much you can say to you know, ease that over.
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  Speaker 1: We got to go out and play better, and we
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  Speaker 1: got the right guys. I got confidence in that. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, get tired of hearing and saying that. So
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  Speaker 1: we got confidence in our group and we just gotta
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  Speaker 1: we gotta, we have to execute better and that's all
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  Speaker 1: it is. We gotta make the throws, we gotta make
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  Speaker 1: the catches, we gotta block, we gotta do the simple stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That we're typically really good at and that we're just
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  Speaker 1: not doing really good right now. And that's just talking
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  Speaker 1: about offensively, so you know, and and we're gonna get there.
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  Speaker 1: I got no doubt about that, got all the confidence,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously a lot of people probably don't want to
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  Speaker 1: hear that.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, obviously a bad day.
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  Speaker 3: Trevor. You know, the one one of the few positives
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  Speaker 3: was that you didn't get sacked today. But I also
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  Speaker 3: noticed that you were also having a lot of three
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  Speaker 3: step going back three steps and then throwing. Are you
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  Speaker 3: having to compensate, uh, in these first few games for
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  Speaker 3: what you probably a normal you normally drop with a
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  Speaker 3: five step or a seven step.
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  Speaker 1: I think every every week the game plan is different.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously last week, you know, especially passing situations, passing downs,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't do a great job, including myself and just
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting the ball out and protecting and all
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  Speaker 1: those things. So I think obviously that's there's more of
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  Speaker 1: a sense of that going into this week, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought we had a good plan. Plan doesn't mean anything though,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't go execute it, So it doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: matter how good your plan was if you don't make
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  Speaker 1: the plays. So it doesn't really matter. But I thought
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  Speaker 1: we had a good plan. I thought we did some
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  Speaker 1: things well. I thought we were in rhythm almost the
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  Speaker 1: whole day. Then we would just shoot ourselves in the
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  Speaker 1: foot repeatedly, just couldn't get out of our own way.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't ever feel like they were doing anything
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  Speaker 1: that we weren't prepared for that, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: we stayed in a rhythm. I don't know if we
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  Speaker 1: had any three and outs today. I thought we were
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  Speaker 1: moving the ball consistently and we would just make that
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  Speaker 1: play that you don't need to make, and we did.
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  Speaker 2: That five or six times.
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  Speaker 4: So, Yeah, Doug came in here and said, guys can't
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  Speaker 4: get out of your own way everybody, when it's a
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  Speaker 4: team made up of mostly the same guys from last year,
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  Speaker 4: why does that happen? Should you be beyond that even
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  Speaker 4: though it's early in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you would obviously you never want that
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  Speaker 1: to be the case. And it doesn't matter. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say this, like, doesn't matter who you play, when
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  Speaker 1: you play, where you play. If you don't execute and
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  Speaker 1: you do stuff like that, you won't win a game.
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  Speaker 1: You won't beat anybody. And the way we play today.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, we just can't expect to win playing that way.
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  Speaker 1: And there just has to be there has to be
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  Speaker 1: some give, there has to be a sense urgency. There's
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's not okay to make the same mistakes
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  Speaker 1: that we've been making, to do to have the dumb penalties,
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  Speaker 1: to have the the bad place to throw a pick,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and late in the game like I did,
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  Speaker 1: Just to do stuff like that, it's like, it's not
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  Speaker 1: all right. You know, we all have to look in
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  Speaker 1: the mirror, take accountability, you know, take that and own
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  Speaker 1: it and and move on.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's the plan. That's what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, like you said, it's frustrating that
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  Speaker 1: this is a team that has played together a lot,
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  Speaker 1: has won a lot of big games, has played great
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch last season, and to not click so
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  Speaker 1: far is definitely frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: And but we have the.
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  Speaker 1: Right guys, and there's there's the locker room is tight.
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  Speaker 1: We believe in one another. That's not gonna change, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna get through it. We're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: over it. And just excited to get out to get
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  Speaker 1: out of here, get to London and go win those
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  Speaker 1: two games out there, So we got to move on, Trevor.
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel like it is the perfect time to
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  Speaker 5: do something like that, to have this reset, so to speak,
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  Speaker 5: to have two weeks away from home in London.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what the team needs right now in your opinion?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think, yeah, I think if we use
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  Speaker 2: it the right way, it could be good for us.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that we should need that to you know,
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  Speaker 1: get the sense of urgency and to play better and
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  Speaker 1: to execute. I don't think that we should need that.
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  Speaker 1: But if that's what we need, then it's coming at
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  Speaker 1: the right time and we're gonna take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see. I mean I think that I know
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna respond the right way. But yeah, I hope
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  Speaker 1: this would be good for us, and we'll respond, Trevor.
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  Speaker 6: Two part question number one? Have you found yourself having
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  Speaker 6: to become more vocal this season compared to the previous
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  Speaker 6: two in a leadership r and then secondly offensively coming
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  Speaker 6: out of the locker room at halftime, you guys seem
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  Speaker 6: to be moving up and down the field a lot easier.
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  Speaker 6: What changed?
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  Speaker 1: I think definitely, you know, being more vocal, just I
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  Speaker 1: think pressing the issue of just to be who we are,
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  Speaker 1: like let's not let's not overthink this thing and make
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  Speaker 1: it harder than it is. Like, we got really good
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  Speaker 1: players who have been really good in their careers, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's here other places, whether it was last year, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: We got great players that have proven that they can
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  Speaker 1: play and play well in this league. And for some
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, right now, it's just not all clicking
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  Speaker 1: and we gotta we gotta figure that out. And I
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  Speaker 1: think leading and just and still in confidence in those guys,
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  Speaker 1: but also, like I said, that sense of urgency of
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  Speaker 1: it's not all right, all right, we're getting to the
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  Speaker 1: point where it's not okay, Like it's I get it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And I'm gonna miss some throws and you
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  Speaker 1: guys hold me accountable. I'm not gonna There's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: plays that I want back. There's you know, three or
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  Speaker 1: four today that I went back where I didn't do
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  Speaker 1: my job, and I expect the coaches to hold me accountable,
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  Speaker 1: and they will. And I'm gonna hold the white out,
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  Speaker 1: the tight ends, the running backs to line accountable as
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  Speaker 1: well for stuff that you know they're not doing the
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  Speaker 1: best in their job, so we all no one can
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  Speaker 1: get their feelings er and we don't have guys that do.
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  Speaker 1: But we all have to have that accountability and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's the biggest thing, and we all have to
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  Speaker 1: lead in that way of taking accountability for what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the second half we got.
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  Speaker 1: In a rhythm. I thought the tempo was good for us.
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  Speaker 1: We had them on their heels, did some good things.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously scored real quick to kind of give us a shot.
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  Speaker 1: And then, like I said, just we weren't playing complimentary
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, I ended up having to turnover
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  Speaker 1: later and I think maybe the next series is two
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  Speaker 1: series later, so just you know, kind of get some
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  Speaker 1: momentum and then you just it just kind of dissolved.
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  Speaker 7: Trevor. One of the things that Evan said in the
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  Speaker 7: locker room afterwards was somebody asked him a question about,
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  Speaker 7: you know, getting solace from what you guys did last
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  Speaker 7: year when you guys climbed out of that three and
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  Speaker 7: seven hole, and Evan said, you know, we can't hang
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  Speaker 7: on last year.
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  Speaker 2: We get it, we get it, we gotta do better
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  Speaker 2: this year.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm sure you agree with that, but I mean,
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  Speaker 7: what what is it that you think that you guys
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  Speaker 7: really need to do. Is it just a matter of
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  Speaker 7: just getting back to work and just grinding it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think there's I said, just just
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  Speaker 1: making the play that's there that we all know we
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  Speaker 1: can make, and that it's different positions every play that
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  Speaker 1: you know are having these mishaps and including myself. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just making the simple plays, doing your job, only
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  Speaker 1: focusing on that, Like, just focus on one play at
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  Speaker 1: a time and just execute it and don't worry about
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  Speaker 1: don't worry about the score, don't worry about you know,
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  Speaker 1: winning the game in that moment. Just execute one play
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  Speaker 1: at a time and play the game one play at
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  Speaker 1: a time.
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  Speaker 2: You have to. You can't look ahead in this league.
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  Speaker 2: You can't.
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  Speaker 1: So I think to Evan's point, last year's gone, Last
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  Speaker 1: year's done. It was a great, great season. There was
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  Speaker 1: a great ending, great run that we went on. But one,
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  Speaker 1: we want to accomplish more there. We feel like there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot more for us. And two, this is a
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  Speaker 1: different team, this is a different season obviously hasn't started
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  Speaker 1: the way we wanted. And I think that's what thing is.
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  Speaker 1: We can't expect to we can't expect the ball to
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  Speaker 1: just bounce our way every game. We can't put ourselves
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  Speaker 1: in seventeen point holes and expect that we're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: figure it out because it's it's hard in this league
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  Speaker 1: and you're not gonna be able to do it every week.
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  Speaker 1: And of course that we believe it, and halftime, you
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  Speaker 1: know we're in there seventeen nothing and we got no
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  Speaker 1: doubt we're gonna go win this game.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna find a way.
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  Speaker 1: And we started off good and then ended up obviously
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  Speaker 1: not playing well. But it's just it's not feasible to
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  Speaker 1: do that every week, and we gotta we can't wait
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  Speaker 1: until our backs against the wall to make a play.
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  Speaker 1: We got to do it from the first play to
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  Speaker 1: the last, and we're not doing that, and we're we
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  Speaker 1: need to have more urgency every play and treat every
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  Speaker 1: play like it's the play that's gonna change the game,
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  Speaker 1: because you never know which one it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you, I was actually going to ask you just
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  Speaker 8: about that, when you go down seventeen points in an
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  Speaker 8: NFL game, how difficult an opts to go is that
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  Speaker 8: to overcome? And how do you reset and forget the
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  Speaker 8: score and get get get get in the right direction again.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we didn't execute great today, didn't do
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  Speaker 1: necessarily a good job of it.
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  Speaker 2: But I I mean.
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  Speaker 1: With this group, what we talking about, I guess pulling
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  Speaker 1: some of that confidence from last season is that is
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  Speaker 1: one thing that we don't lack. We don't lack belief,
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  Speaker 1: especially in circumstances like that where we're down by a
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  Speaker 1: few scores.
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  Speaker 2: We don't like that at all. So there's not a
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  Speaker 2: there's not.
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  Speaker 1: Really a huge need for getting everyone to believe because
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  Speaker 1: we all feel that we know that we're never out
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  Speaker 1: of a game. But to my point is, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're just not gonna be able to every week. You're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be able to go down seventeen points and
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  Speaker 1: come back and win. You can't rely on that. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that we need to have more since the
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  Speaker 1: urgency early in games, we got to play better offensively.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we got the ball I think on the
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  Speaker 1: fifty on the first drive and get a first down
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  Speaker 1: and then somehow end up not getting any points and
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  Speaker 1: then putting then giving them pretty good field position, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So it's like stuff like that can't happen. That changes
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  Speaker 1: the game that flips the momentum, you know, and we got.
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  Speaker 2: To start better.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I think that the belief is there,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter when you're not When you're not winning,
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  Speaker 1: that's the this business is about, you know, wins and losses,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously we're on the wrong side of it last
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  Speaker 1: couple of.
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  Speaker 5: Weeksvor, Trevor, you get to work through a lot of
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  Speaker 5: good stuff bad stuff with Evan and Christian and those
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  Speaker 5: guys last year. How do you do that right now
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  Speaker 5: with Calvin?
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  Speaker 8: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: With with a daylight today and some of the stuff
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  Speaker 5: from from last week as well.
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  Speaker 2: What was the beginning of that question that worked through?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you worked through the good and the bad stuff,
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  Speaker 5: whether it's you know, not everything was clicking. But obviously
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  Speaker 5: right now do you have to do that a little
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  Speaker 5: bit with with Calvin?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's something that you know, we we
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  Speaker 1: got to be better together, you know, I gotta, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta continue to work on that chemistry. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean Calvin is a Calvin is a great player. He's
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  Speaker 1: proven it in this league. He's proven it this season
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  Speaker 1: at times too, And just continue to trust him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I got all the faith in the world on him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he he goes about his business the right way.
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  Speaker 1: He works hard every day, comes to work with the
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  Speaker 1: right mindset. And you know, I got we were talking
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  Speaker 1: to the locker room. I got all the faith in
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  Speaker 1: the world. I'm not I'm not worried about him not
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  Speaker 1: being able to bounce back any of that. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be just fine, and we're gonna continue to work that.
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  Speaker 1: And I gotta be better for him too, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta. And there's certain certain looks where I gotta
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  Speaker 1: give him a shot. There's certain plays, you know, might
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  Speaker 1: I missed a throw to him today? You know, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta get him going early too. So it's not just him.
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  Speaker 1: It's never just one guy. But yeah, I think we've
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  Speaker 1: talked to him too. Like he he expects a lot
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  Speaker 1: of himself. He he he's one. He's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: really expects a lot of himself. And I know he's
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  Speaker 1: he's doing everything to to get back right, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see him continue to get better. In
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  Speaker 1: our chemistry to keep you know, growing takes sure. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: make sure