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  Speaker 1: Talk talk a little bit about the strip, about the
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  Speaker 1: strip sack and again that leading to the ETM touchdown
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  Speaker 1: very next way.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that starts with a film study.
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  Speaker 3: You know that was that was afirmation based, you know, pasformation,
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  Speaker 3: and they wanted to make it seem like it was running.
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  Speaker 2: But from the film study.
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  Speaker 3: That we had on them, guys, you know, I took
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  Speaker 3: a shot, and you know I made the right call.
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  Speaker 2: I know, you know, you don't think too much about
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  Speaker 2: the future.
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  Speaker 1: You're you're having a hell of a year and a
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  Speaker 1: very timely fortunate for your career with with you.
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  Speaker 2: Being a free agent after this year or so. How
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  Speaker 2: how satisfies It just doesn't that you're having this kind
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  Speaker 2: of year so far.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, my main thing is to be consistent always.
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  Speaker 3: Uh So, you know, I'm gonna look at this tape.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think there's I think it's still being
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things I can.
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  Speaker 2: Grow from today. But you know, for me, it just
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  Speaker 2: starts with preparation.
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  Speaker 3: How well prepared I love my taking body, how long
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  Speaker 3: am I eating throughout the week? And film study so
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  Speaker 3: if I can feel comfortable at those things that I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing earlier in the week, it's don't preparing.
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  Speaker 2: To put this every week. So I'm excited. How badly
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  Speaker 2: do you want to be here five years from now?
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, this is home. You know I want this.
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  Speaker 2: I want to make this owns for me, my family
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  Speaker 2: as well. But you know I got him in business
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  Speaker 2: picture too. We just got our first home win at
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  Speaker 2: this season.
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  Speaker 4: The defense counting out with four takeaways in the game
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  Speaker 4: obviously of large part of why you guys ready quick wine,
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  Speaker 4: just how does that field being a large part of
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  Speaker 4: the one?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, it's huge, you know for them, they
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  Speaker 3: started out the play, they started out offensively, their offensive
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  Speaker 3: drive for the fifteen play drive, so we knew right
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  Speaker 3: then and there that they wasn't gonna beat us doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh you know, keep what They're.
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  Speaker 3: Not gonna score, but they keep dimming the dumping. So
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  Speaker 3: for us, he was just finding that moment, finding the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity keep the field goal, stop them on first down,
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  Speaker 3: getting getting an opportunity for us to go make a play,
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  Speaker 3: and we just capitalize on all our opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: So if we could continue to go, continue to watch
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  Speaker 2: this tape.
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  Speaker 3: Continue to to to to to.
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  Speaker 2: Evolve in the defense that we know we can be.
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  Speaker 2: I still think we left some out there twenty points man.
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  Speaker 3: We I mean, I'm disappointed that we gave him that,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, there's the room for bro. We're not
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  Speaker 3: we're not where we need to be, but we're definitely
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  Speaker 3: in the right direction. But I'm excited for next week.
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  Speaker 3: How back down there, I mean, it feels great. I
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  Speaker 3: love Smooth as a brother. So that's just to see
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  Speaker 3: him out there, see him back out there for his family.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He's a provider and he's provided now for him. He
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  Speaker 3: was providing for us as well. Uh, so I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: he made it through. And uh, you know, there's one
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  Speaker 3: game on our belt, and I think once we start
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  Speaker 3: getting to the swing of things, man, he's just gonna
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  Speaker 3: open up and I think he's gonna be unstoppablem.
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  Speaker 6: Oprahall tell me up where you think you are with
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  Speaker 6: the defense?
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  Speaker 2: After all these games?
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  Speaker 5: Are ye head up all thoughts like a lot of
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  Speaker 5: people play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a part of the team right here. I
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  Speaker 2: mean definitely, Uh, you know the main thing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the defense. We want to stop the run.
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  Speaker 3: Coach challenged us yesterday to hold this team under fifty
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  Speaker 3: fifty yards and I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know what we had what we had, what they had
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  Speaker 2: on the fifty.
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  Speaker 3: So we did we did our part and once we
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  Speaker 3: knew we just stopped that offense. That's a run heavy offense. Man,
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  Speaker 3: we knew the opportunities is going to be there. We
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  Speaker 3: just had to get home. I like the way we
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  Speaker 3: rushed up front. I think it was a little opportunities
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  Speaker 3: that we could get them down a little bit quicker.
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  Speaker 3: But as a whole, as a defense man, we're excited.
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  Speaker 3: We're definitely heading the right directions from the takeaway pot,
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  Speaker 3: stopping a run, rushing the passers, smooths back. Like the
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  Speaker 3: media said, it's a you know, we're excited, excited for
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  Speaker 3: this Thursday, start prepping the night.
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  Speaker 2: And so I mean, Ford h the top teams and teathaways.
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  Speaker 2: How much does that kin? How much you guys wear.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of a badge to kind of keep pushing
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  Speaker 2: the work into the short way. I mean, that's huge.
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  Speaker 3: If you can take the ball away, get the ball
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  Speaker 3: back to your offense, man, that's I think every defense
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  Speaker 3: wants to do that.
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  Speaker 2: So for us to be that, we're one of the top,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully we're number one.
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  Speaker 3: Now we want to be the number one defense, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I personally want to be the number one player. Ray
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  Speaker 3: wants to be the number one player. Everybody on our
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  Speaker 3: defense wants to be the best player in the whole NFL.
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  Speaker 3: So we can continue to motivate ourselves to keep ourselves
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  Speaker 3: h man, it's defenses. It's gonna be it's gonna be crazy.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't like the way we finish twenty points,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm happy we got the dub.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy we got to takeaways, but you know we
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  Speaker 3: need to start. We need to start smothering these teams,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, start start this week.
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  Speaker 2: That's up.
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  Speaker 6: You guys kind of compete with if you have to,
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  Speaker 6: you know, be one of the top guys in the sacks,
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  Speaker 6: Cisco being one of the top guys in the receptions
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  Speaker 6: that exact time.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of do with practice to compete definitely.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we compete against ourselves, but you know, we
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  Speaker 3: got to look outwards as well. You know, we obviously
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  Speaker 3: I compete with my my rushes to get the set
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  Speaker 3: before anybody else. But you know there's another step to that,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the whole NFL. And everybody knows what everybody
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  Speaker 3: else has. We're not a stat chasing but we know
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  Speaker 3: when we handle our business, you threo's opportunities come up.
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  Speaker 3: We can handles and make a lot of make a
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  Speaker 3: lot of place for us.
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  Speaker 7: Did you guys, uh reach hold of a situation where
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  Speaker 7: that play might get called or reprepared for the called
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  Speaker 7: at any time any point in the game.
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  Speaker 6: No, our re knew it was getting called.
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  Speaker 2: Our redknew was getting called.
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  Speaker 7: But did they coach and say in a certain situations
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  Speaker 7: we're gonna we may go to.
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  Speaker 2: That is the reison. It's a nice reson play. We've
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  Speaker 2: seen it on film.
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  Speaker 6: Uh think Lamark Jackson ran it and we had rent
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  Speaker 6: into practice and defense gave me a nice good look
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  Speaker 6: and I knew when I ran in.
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  Speaker 2: The practice, I was going to score.
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  Speaker 7: When Trevor Gers have played wide receivers, don't sick the
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  Speaker 7: defense know something's up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, I mean yeah, they't know something up.
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  Speaker 6: But uh, you know, they still have to respect him
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  Speaker 6: being out there because we can like do a pop
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  Speaker 6: pass the trip and he can do what he does.
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  Speaker 6: But it was a good missdireration of me just fake
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  Speaker 6: potentially faking the hand off the tank because I can
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  Speaker 6: give it. So they got to respect him also and
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  Speaker 6: just give me in space with the office linean in
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  Speaker 6: front of me and would like the odds and.
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  Speaker 7: The momentum swing coming right after the big play by Josh,
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  Speaker 7: you know with that, do you think that turned the
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  Speaker 7: corner into games?
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  Speaker 2: Most definitely?
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  Speaker 6: Most definitely just us to go out Dan, just how
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  Speaker 6: that big momentum swing. Josh definitely been playing great, be
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  Speaker 6: playing lifestyle. Miss to go out there and compl met
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  Speaker 6: them with a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you want.
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  Speaker 4: The offense had been struggling a little bit. You guys
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  Speaker 4: got two wins, but now you finally score four touchdowns
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  Speaker 4: in a game, get things rollingcause.
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  Speaker 6: This is what you want to see going down the
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  Speaker 6: most definitely, But we had to score more touchdowns. We
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  Speaker 6: had more opportunities we didn't come away with when we
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  Speaker 6: came in with points, which is a good thing, but
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  Speaker 6: uh like touchdowns in this league, you know, uh that
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  Speaker 6: way because you've seen the coast kind of get in
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  Speaker 6: the rhythm, kind of get going in a game, like
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  Speaker 6: seeing a little closer than what it really was. And
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  Speaker 6: I feel like we just scored more touchdowns. We put
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  Speaker 6: them away early and uh we just went them off
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  Speaker 6: of that had those.
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  Speaker 4: Two touchdowns early. How important was that to set the
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  Speaker 4: tone for you guys, especially because we've been having some
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  Speaker 4: slow starts to problems when it starts.
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  Speaker 6: I was very big just us to go on there
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  Speaker 6: and just get a lead early in that early in
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  Speaker 6: the game and trying to build out the momentum deep
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  Speaker 6: in the playing lights out, they get stops and then
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  Speaker 6: we just go out there and try to keep scoring
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  Speaker 6: points whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So that didn't change because last of three games, you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been jumping.
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  Speaker 2: On people, I mean, and that hadn't been the case early.
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  Speaker 1: Just better execution, attention to detail would ending change.
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  Speaker 2: I just means more.
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  Speaker 6: We just started esecuting better, we start locking in on
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  Speaker 6: the players, and we just started playing football. I feel
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  Speaker 6: like we simplified it and everybody just started playing football
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  Speaker 6: and everybody just come out there and it's all about
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  Speaker 6: doing your job and we all do our job as
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  Speaker 6: we come our hair and played great.
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  Speaker 1: This was the time of year last year you really
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  Speaker 1: started to take off as or something about this part
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  Speaker 1: of the season where you feel like you're getting the groove.
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  Speaker 2: I mean not really.
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  Speaker 6: I'm trying to be in a moo weekend and week.
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  Speaker 6: It is a week by week basis, and we played
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  Speaker 6: great defenses every week and just got to teole to
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  Speaker 6: defense give you And I'm just grateful to have my
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  Speaker 6: office in Lineman just doing a great job for me,
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  Speaker 6: a great job for Trev and we just kind of
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  Speaker 6: feed off each other and uh, just having them good.
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  Speaker 7: This thing rolling a great couple of days in the
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  Speaker 7: EACHDN family, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 6: So we both got w So they got their first
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  Speaker 6: roll win, we got our first home and so grateful
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  Speaker 6: for that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have to manage things a little bit differently?
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  Speaker 1: Two games in London, I think get fifty three touches,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not as many today, but then you got.
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  Speaker 2: A short week. I mean that's a lot of football.
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  Speaker 2: So do you have to do anything extra to take
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  Speaker 2: care of your body and manage it? Nah? I mean
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  Speaker 2: I get paid play the football. All I do is
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  Speaker 2: take care of my body and play football.
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  Speaker 6: So I feel I got to continue to keep doing
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  Speaker 6: what I've been doing. And I mean as a running back,
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  Speaker 6: as the guy you want that, you know you want that,
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  Speaker 6: I feel like this is why I played the game
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  Speaker 6: to get those touches.
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  Speaker 2: So I just gotta just lock in and just continue
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  Speaker 2: what I've been doing to stay healthy.
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  Speaker 6: That's the biggest thing any concern about Trevor and I
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  Speaker 6: chose the water these gon fight betters.
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  Speaker 7: Is there any is not a maturity this team to
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  Speaker 7: do what you did in London, to come back home
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  Speaker 7: and take her a business from this game which starts
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  Speaker 7: off three games in twelve days, just to sign a
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  Speaker 7: maturity that you guys did what you had to do today.
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  Speaker 6: All yes, sir, most definitely. I feel like we gotta
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  Speaker 6: take it, continue to taking it one game at a time.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like we can't focus too far down the
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  Speaker 6: road as long as we taking one week at a
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  Speaker 6: time to win every good.
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  Speaker 4: The firstew years was one of our first home game
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  Speaker 4: for the scenes in.
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  Speaker 2: The books in south Field, it's been for us.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we were obviously disappointed with the two previous
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  Speaker 8: home games that we had in the performance that we
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  Speaker 8: put on. So that was the point of emphasis, you know,
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  Speaker 8: for us coming back from London and being back in
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  Speaker 8: front of bar fans and you know, showing how important
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  Speaker 8: it is, you know, for us to get wins at home,
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  Speaker 8: and it was a big time win for us.
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  Speaker 9: Three straight games. You guys get off to a fast start.
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  Speaker 9: You know, it's been a problem and last year and
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  Speaker 9: then earlier this year as well. Just how good was
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  Speaker 9: that to see the carryover to the you know, to
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  Speaker 9: Jackson's also, Yeah, you know, it was great.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously, the defense has been setting the tone. You know,
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  Speaker 8: they were able to get a stop on that first
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  Speaker 8: drive after a long play drive, holding to a field goal,
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  Speaker 8: and then you know, offensively, we were able to do
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  Speaker 8: our thing and then just kind of feeding off of
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  Speaker 8: one another. Like I said, they did a great job
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  Speaker 8: of you know, providing turnovers and we were able to
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  Speaker 8: take advantage of those.
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  Speaker 4: Four touchdown day and the offense I finally feel like
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  Speaker 4: you got to go forward in that regard.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, we uh, I thought we did a
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  Speaker 8: good job of putting the ball in the end zone,
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  Speaker 8: you know, especially in the red zone. You know, but
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  Speaker 8: still you look at that fourth quarter and you know
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  Speaker 8: it wasn't clean, and you know, there's some things that
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  Speaker 8: we're kind of kicking ourselves about, and you know, we
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  Speaker 8: just hold ourselves to such a high standard, so it's
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  Speaker 8: kind of easy for us to be.
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  Speaker 2: A little upset about.
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  Speaker 8: But anytime you were able to put but you know,
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  Speaker 8: what was it, thirty seven points on the board, you
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  Speaker 8: could be pretty happy.
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  Speaker 4: Miss said a lot about you know, not letting that
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  Speaker 4: lull happen after and putting an emphasis on coming out
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  Speaker 4: and playing hard right out of the gate. Do you
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  Speaker 4: feel like that's what helped you guys obviously with the
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  Speaker 4: way things that did to get out to lead so early.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know it was it was a point of
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  Speaker 8: emphasis for us, you know, not to let whatever happen
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  Speaker 8: in London for us to lose that and you know
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  Speaker 8: have the London hangovers what we called it.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought we did a great job.
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  Speaker 8: You know, coming out today, providing energy with the sideline
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  Speaker 8: and just pregame and everything, not letting up, you know,
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  Speaker 8: especially at halftime. You know we had a pretty comfortable lead,
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  Speaker 8: but also being able to come out and finish it out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's the main thing. So I thought we
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  Speaker 2: did a great job with that.
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  Speaker 4: Under how important was it to come out get going early,
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  Speaker 4: especially after that London trip.
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  Speaker 2: It was big.
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  Speaker 5: I mean for us, that really is the key to
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  Speaker 5: success really in auto games, coming out fast, not playing
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: catch up. That was when we did a lot too
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  Speaker 5: much last year. I was play catch up in games.
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  Speaker 5: So for us getting out on front, that's that's probably
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  Speaker 5: the key success for sure.
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  Speaker 4: If they're an interception of the Is that something you
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  Speaker 4: guys have been focusing on trying to create turnovers like that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's our identity. Everybody comes from a
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  Speaker 5: turnover background. When you look at guys college careers and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: We got guys that fly around your foyer, Devin and
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  Speaker 5: they both got turnover background.
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  Speaker 2: So that's who we are.
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  Speaker 5: And then so Joshunner started and there are two reason
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  Speaker 5: of Pockey's worried about that, and he throws balls up
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  Speaker 5: that we could interce up.
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  Speaker 6: Holes and take over first place in the division.
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  Speaker 2: Was that on y'all's mind going in? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, just early picture of the playoffs and things of that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we know, we know what our key to
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  Speaker 5: getting home field advantage all those things are, and it'still
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  Speaker 5: win our division.
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  Speaker 2: So wins like this. And then went at home something
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  Speaker 2: we haven't done this year.
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  Speaker 1: That was big under how much is the next five
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  Speaker 1: days and get ready for Thursday night? Just the mentality
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  Speaker 1: because physically it's probably pretty tough. Three games in twelve days.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we started preparing for it last week,
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  Speaker 5: you know, going into this week, we know we got
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  Speaker 5: Thursday game coming up, so you know, during the week,
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  Speaker 5: we coach took care of us and just prepped us
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  Speaker 5: for you know, next ten days, you got two games,
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  Speaker 5: so you know, we'll just be tenum in the process
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  Speaker 5: we already started.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've got a lot of guys said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be a top five defense back in August.
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  Speaker 1: But are you playing it even better than maybe a
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  Speaker 1: thought in some facets against the run, getting turned over,
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  Speaker 1: those kind of things.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I think it's just manifesting things we already talked
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  Speaker 5: about envision. It's just happening on the field, and for us,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's expected, so it doesn't even feel as
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  Speaker 5: crazy what is happening because we just really expected on
• 12:21
  Speaker 5: you know, and it the show want to stats?
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  Speaker 2: However, does do you know your.
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  Speaker 4: Four takeaways against NAC sound divisional client?
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  Speaker 3: How proud are you?
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  Speaker 2: How proud are you have defense? It's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's like you walk up the field knowing
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  Speaker 5: that you left so much out there, and it's like
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  Speaker 5: it's hard to be so like satisfied with it. But
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: you know, four takeaways could have had five on Janks
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  Speaker 5: that got blown dead, and you know, it's just who
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: we are, I mean, and for us, you know, it
• 12:46
  Speaker 5: says a lot about teams that's going to be playing us,
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: and they just got to take care of the ball otherwise,
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: you know, they have to pay