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  Speaker 1: I mean it it just means that he's getting healthy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and obviously we don't want any set back,
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  Speaker 1: so this will be a this will be a slow
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  Speaker 1: gradual process, but it'll be good to get him out there.
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  Speaker 2: Just having his leadership out on the practice field with
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  Speaker 2: the team help.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And he's he's been around the team. He
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  Speaker 1: just necessarily hasn't been out on the field. But it'll
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  Speaker 1: be good to get him back, you know with the guys.
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  Speaker 3: We're slow gradual process. What would you put it on that.
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  Speaker 1: Not a betting man can't do that, can't put odds.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Right now, he's just day to day. We
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  Speaker 1: just got to see where he is at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the week.
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  Speaker 4: What does it say about him just the way he's
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  Speaker 4: attacked and rehab process to even put himself in this position.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he he knew I think in his mind
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  Speaker 1: that uh, you know, shooting for week eighteen or you know,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully you know, round one of the postseason if if
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  Speaker 1: if so be so. You know, it just shows the
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  Speaker 1: type of person that he is and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the care for the team.
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  Speaker 3: You expect Trevor to try to be trying to be
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  Speaker 3: alimited participant in practice or.
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  Speaker 1: More a little bit more of a limited you know basis.
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  Speaker 1: Today he is feeling better again. He's another one that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of day to day as we go this week.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think from Ryan Tannehill he's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: starting for the Titans this week?
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  Speaker 1: Well, obviously, you know, you know, Will Levis has played
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  Speaker 1: majority of you know, the season for them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but early in the year. You know, obviously he's he's
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  Speaker 1: the type of he's a veteran guy, I mean, veteran quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: He's smart. You saw him last week just you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting the ball out of his hand. He's smart. He knows,
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  Speaker 1: he knows where to go with the football. Obviously, he
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  Speaker 1: relies on that run game, you know, to get that going,
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  Speaker 1: and had some success last week a little bit doing
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  Speaker 1: that and in the the couple of games that he
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  Speaker 1: played early in the season, so you know, you just
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  Speaker 1: expect that from him. You know, a veteran guy that
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  Speaker 1: is just gonna run their offense, and.
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  Speaker 2: These rivalry kind of games, especially with as much as
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  Speaker 2: this team has on the line, you know you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get the best shot from the Titans team.
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  Speaker 1: You always do. I mean, my goodness, you just go
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  Speaker 1: back to last year, Week eighteen came down to everything
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  Speaker 1: for both teams really and it was a tough, tough
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  Speaker 1: game right to the end. And it's gonna be no different.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the AFC South rivalry type games. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot to be played for, you know, on
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  Speaker 1: both sides really quite honestly, and it doesn't matter who's
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  Speaker 1: out there playing, They're gonna play hard, We're gonna play hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a physical football game like it always is,
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  Speaker 1: and and you got to prepare that way.
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  Speaker 5: Could you talk a little bit about the impact of
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  Speaker 5: this game for your tenure here, you know, getting a
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  Speaker 5: back to back division title if you win the game,
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  Speaker 5: and regardless of what happens to the postseason, I would
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  Speaker 5: think as a co you wanna continue that.
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  Speaker 6: String and put together a string of postseason runs because
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  Speaker 6: it also help It helps in free can see, it
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  Speaker 6: helps the culture just everything.
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  Speaker 1: All that does. You look at the history of the
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  Speaker 1: AFC South, I mean it's been dominated by Tennessee. Of
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  Speaker 1: late Houston's had their their run Indie obviously, you know
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  Speaker 1: back in the Peyton days and they had they had
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  Speaker 1: their run of AFC South And I think you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jags have only had two, you know, so we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to we're trying to make our mark. Obviously, it's a
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  Speaker 1: great division and got great teams in there, great uh
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  Speaker 1: great coaches and leaders and good football players and so
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  Speaker 1: you know, for us to be in this position again
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  Speaker 1: second year, I mean, it's a credit to our players
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room, coaching staff to to work as
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  Speaker 1: hard as we do and and the players to work
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  Speaker 1: as hard as they do.
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  Speaker 6: I want to bring up one point when you're going
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  Speaker 6: back to your days and feel like everybody, of course
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  Speaker 6: you're he your super will run, but there was a
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  Speaker 6: continuation there. You came back the following year, won a
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  Speaker 6: playoff game, came back the year after that, went to
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  Speaker 6: the playoffs.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, how much is that? Do you think that
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  Speaker 7: stuff matters that that it's not just a you know,
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  Speaker 7: one and done thing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think there's you know, when when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about our team and our players, I think they they
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  Speaker 1: see that and they recognize that from me right the
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  Speaker 1: places that that that I've been and you know, so
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  Speaker 1: for you know, there's credibility. I guess let's call it.
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  Speaker 1: In the locker room with the guys and so when
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  Speaker 1: you say certain things, you're you're you're you're speaking from experience,
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  Speaker 1: and so I think that that can go a long
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  Speaker 1: way with these guys. Got a young team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: eager to eager to win, and and their desire to win,
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  Speaker 1: and so all of that can just help us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this year, next year, and however long that goes.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know all the playoffs scenarios for you guys,
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  Speaker 6: or do you just focus on the.
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  Speaker 1: It's only one. There's only one. There's only one that
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  Speaker 1: matters right now for us.
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  Speaker 5: So how when you tell the team you won't tell them?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's all I need to tell the team.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's nothing other than trying to win this game
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday.
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  Speaker 6: M from a tenant. Oh is that just make things
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  Speaker 6: so much simpler. And you're not giving them too much.
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  Speaker 1: In their any I'm not gonna cloud their mind with
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  Speaker 1: with stuff. You know, obviously, you know, our focus is
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  Speaker 1: is trying to beat you know, Tennessee, And regardless of
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  Speaker 1: of records and who's playing, who's not playing, this is
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  Speaker 1: always a really good football game. And it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a four quarter game, and and and that's our focus.
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  Speaker 1: Right now?
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  Speaker 3: What is it about Mike rabel teams that like people
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  Speaker 3: people always say that they're like my Rabel teams are
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  Speaker 3: coach different from your perspective as the off op closing
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  Speaker 3: head coach.
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  Speaker 4: What is about his teams?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've known Mike for a lot of years,
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  Speaker 1: and I knew him as a player, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: with New England and and he's been raised in this
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  Speaker 1: league the right way, and and he's been on championship
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  Speaker 1: teams and and I think being a former player and
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  Speaker 1: being in those positions, he's he's been able to use
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  Speaker 1: that again much like my experience here in a positive
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  Speaker 1: way for them. And you know, obviously a defensive guy,
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  Speaker 1: and and just a lot of he's had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of great defensive players. And then and there's a there's
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  Speaker 1: a level of intensity and physicality with with Tennessee and
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  Speaker 1: Mike's teams over the years, and and he's done a
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  Speaker 1: nice job. And again it's regardless of you know, where
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  Speaker 1: they might be right now or whatever the situation. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are gonna play hard for Mike and and
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  Speaker 1: and Mike's gonna, you know, do everything he can to
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  Speaker 1: to win this game. And his teams always feed off
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  Speaker 1: of that and and it's a credit to what he's
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  Speaker 1: done there.
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  Speaker 6: Do you having been in the situation last year, do
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  Speaker 6: you feel better about how your team.
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  Speaker 4: Mindset is going into this game.
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  Speaker 3: It's just not their first time being able to win
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  Speaker 3: and their in kind of deal.
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  Speaker 8: You know, there's yeah, you know, being having gone through it,
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  Speaker 8: you know what to expect, you know the level of
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  Speaker 8: intensity and again, but it just it just boils down
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  Speaker 8: to having a good good Wednesday, a good Thursday, good Friday,
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  Speaker 8: you know, stringing some good practices together and understanding the
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  Speaker 8: game plan.
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  Speaker 1: And going to going to play. I mean, this year
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  Speaker 1: is way different than last year, even though it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: the similarities of coming down to week eighteen, you know
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  Speaker 1: are similar for us. But you know, we just have
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  Speaker 1: to just continue to trust the things that we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, as coaches, we trust our players and
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  Speaker 1: put them in positions to be successful in game day.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned stringing together some good practices. I think Josh
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  Speaker 2: Allen said he felt like last week was the best
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  Speaker 2: practice lay that all year. Can you tell just how
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  Speaker 2: focus the team is when you see them out on
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  Speaker 2: the practice field throughout the week.
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  Speaker 1: You can you can. You can tell just how they
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  Speaker 1: attack the practice, where they are mentally, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: energy level, all those kinds of things. Things even this
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  Speaker 1: this late in the season, here at the end, and
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  Speaker 1: it pays off, you know, And and this is when
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  Speaker 1: you you lean on your leadership of the of the
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  Speaker 1: team obviously to drive that and to motivate that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was, it was a good week last week. We
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  Speaker 1: got to you know, do the same or even more
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  Speaker 1: this week.
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  Speaker 4: A team have a big game mentality you did last
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  Speaker 4: year for sure, but some of the big games on
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  Speaker 4: the schedule this year haven't gone your way.
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  Speaker 6: Did they have the right big game mentality going into the.
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  Speaker 1: Biggest game of the season. You're right in the sense
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  Speaker 1: that we haven't performed well in the big game yet.
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  Speaker 1: And these are the things that I keep stressing to
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  Speaker 1: our team. You know, expect to be in big games, right,
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  Speaker 1: Expect to be in these types of football games, in
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  Speaker 1: these types of moments where there's a little maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little added pressure and you kind of feel that pressure.
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  Speaker 1: And and you know, we haven't handled that extremely well
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  Speaker 1: this year. But you know, listen, one thing about it.
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  Speaker 1: This team, as you guys know, they come out and
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  Speaker 1: play hard when they're backs against the wall a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: They seem to find comfort in that. But uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know it, I'll keep I'll keep talking to them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and uh and and we'll get it figured out.
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  Speaker 4: Was the winn against Carolina an example of that, I
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  Speaker 4: mean Vacks again is the law if you lose, potentially
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  Speaker 4: you're not even playing for a playoff spot this week,
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  Speaker 4: you know, is it was that sort of the big
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  Speaker 4: game and how do you want to see?
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you know, to come out and play as well,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't perfect, but to play well and defense played
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  Speaker 1: really good, you know, c J stepping up like he did,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and filling in and you know, the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line in the second half, you know, kind of taking
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  Speaker 1: taking control there and in the run game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, it's it's steps in the right direction. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: What does that do for for the confidence? I mean
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  Speaker 4: you're now you're hitting to the postseason potentially, just the
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  Speaker 4: confidence at this time the.
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  Speaker 1: Year, well, I mean before Carolina you would say that
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  Speaker 1: our confidence was shaken a little bit, right, four game skid,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, win a win can can help get
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  Speaker 1: your confidence back, and so definitely we needed that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we needed that win to to be in this position
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  Speaker 1: in week eighteen. So it does give you a little
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  Speaker 1: confidence and and but yet you still have to you
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  Speaker 1: still got to put in the work. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta put in the time this week, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: you treat each game as if it's a playoff game if.
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  Speaker 2: You do need CJ this week. Does it help his
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  Speaker 2: confidence that he played last week as a win under
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  Speaker 2: his belt? Does that go a long way with the.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it helps with him, helps with the team
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  Speaker 1: just knowing, you know, knowing how he operates, you know,
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  Speaker 1: end game.
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  Speaker 3: What did you see from Tyson? And was off last
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  Speaker 3: week about the gradual his his his getting his feet
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  Speaker 3: his sea legs back under him. What did you see
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  Speaker 3: from him? And then of course gowing up against theonder
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  Speaker 3: hocket to just play a five win team. It's over
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  Speaker 3: one thousand yards away.
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  Speaker 1: Again, Yeah, Number one, d Hop the great great receivers
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  Speaker 1: had you know, a great career so far, and he's
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  Speaker 1: done some really good things there and and the reason
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  Speaker 1: why they they got him obviously, And on Tyson, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he he did play better last week, and you know
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  Speaker 1: they had some they had some good receivers last week
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  Speaker 1: and Shark and Theland and the guys there, so it'll
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  Speaker 1: be it'll be interesting again. You know, he's taking progressive steps. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: this will be big for him. He came out healthy,
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  Speaker 1: which is helps his confidence moving forward. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the challenge again is to to go out and do
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  Speaker 1: it again.
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  Speaker 6: You feel like you're gonna run back the offensive line
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  Speaker 6: lineup you had last week or is that still a
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  Speaker 6: fluid situation?
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  Speaker 1: Still fluid? You know, cam Cam was good, wasn't great?
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  Speaker 1: He can improve? Shatley was good, you know, Uh, the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line as a whole was good. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with Ezra and Walker getting healthier, we'll see, We'll see
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  Speaker 1: how it goes, you know, this week in practice and
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  Speaker 1: have a better feel for that towards the end of
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  Speaker 1: the week.
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  Speaker 7: All the same tips is he.
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  Speaker 1: Zay will be out there today and hopefully you know
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  Speaker 1: he's he's in a day to day mode again. But
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  Speaker 1: but he's he's better than he was last week, So uh,
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  Speaker 1: I would anticipate him doing more in practice.
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  Speaker 7: Is there anybody else that came out of the game
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  Speaker 7: a little nicked up?
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  Speaker 1: Just Jamal? He is the only one that you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but no a Trayvon just everybody's just kind of sore.
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  Speaker 1: CJ sore. I mean all the guys are beat up
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  Speaker 1: right now. It's just the way it is. We K
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  Speaker 1: team has been a long year.
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  Speaker 2: Do you just make guys pushing themselves and pushing their
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  Speaker 2: rehab a little bit harder, a little bit faster given
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  Speaker 2: the stakes and where you're at in the season.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they'd do it. I mean, your body
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  Speaker 1: heals how your body heals. But this time of year,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's more important that you take care of yourself
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  Speaker 1: more right, meaning getting rest at night. You know. I
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  Speaker 1: think the proper dration, nutrition, all that stuff plays a
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  Speaker 1: part in in in you know, your body and healing.
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  Speaker 1: And guys do take advantage of the extra time that
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  Speaker 1: I give them during the week to you know, use
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  Speaker 1: all the amenities downstairs to to make sure their bodies
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  Speaker 1: are as fresh as possible on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: I know you've brought them up just because he's sore,
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  Speaker 3: But Trayvon nine SAPs now come and Josh twenty five
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  Speaker 3: and a half. I asked him with most games, I'll
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  Speaker 3: ask you, you know, for those who questioned Trayvon for
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  Speaker 3: you as his head coach, what does this him being
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  Speaker 3: at this moment in his you know, young career means yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, both of those guys really, you know, speaking
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  Speaker 1: on Josh first, I mean he's I think he's third
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL right now at sixteen and a half
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  Speaker 1: and just a half sack away, you know, from being
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  Speaker 1: up there, and he's done a great job for us
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  Speaker 1: this year. And Trayvon, it just you know, you just
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  Speaker 1: see the gradual improvement and you're you're seeing him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: move around a little bit more on the front, you know,
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  Speaker 1: games and stunts and he's just he's just the games evolving.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's a young player that continues to learn.
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  Speaker 1: And to see him where he's at and what he's
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  Speaker 1: done this year, you know, I think sky's the limit still,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for him, and he can you know, I
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  Speaker 1: know Josh has made the comment that that hopefully Trayvon
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  Speaker 1: breaks breaks his record, and I think he's on the
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  Speaker 1: right right track to possibly do that at some point.
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  Speaker 3: But do you think Trevor got anything out of watching
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  Speaker 3: from the sideline either?
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  Speaker 5: Does that help him?
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  Speaker 1: And Oh yeah, I think I think he did. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's I think it definitely helps a guy like Trevor,
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  Speaker 1: your quarterback who you're seeing the game with a little
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  Speaker 1: bit calmer, a little you know, that thirty thousand foot perspective.
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  Speaker 1: He sees things differently, how he would handle situations, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, there's definitely things that I think he took
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  Speaker 1: away that he can definitely use, you know, or use
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  Speaker 1: the next time he gets an opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: The need to maybe slide a little more.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to hold it.
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  Speaker 1: DJ about that, dude, I was yelling, but they didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear me.
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  Speaker 7: What when did you first get wind of Josh and
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  Speaker 7: Trayvon moving inside? Is this something that Mike brought brought
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  Speaker 7: up to you last week or did you suggest it
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  Speaker 7: to him?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's something that he and I we've
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about it, you know, for a few weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and and just you know, you try to put your
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  Speaker 1: best players in situations to be successful and help your team,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it's a little different look for our defense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to put put those two guys inside like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, he and I, he and I
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  Speaker 1: had we've been having some conversations in the last last
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  Speaker 1: few weeks.
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  Speaker 6: I like putting that thing in the opponent's head.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's no different than them putting stuff
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  Speaker 1: on tape that we have to work on, right, so
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  Speaker 1: vice versa. If if we see something, we have to
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  Speaker 1: work on it. If they see something, they got to
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  Speaker 1: work on it and be prepared as well.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have to expect everything this week?
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  Speaker 2: Given that they have nothing, they have nothing to lose, Right,
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  Speaker 2: it's like empty the bag in.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Terms of you've got to be so disciplined. Your eyes
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: have got to be in the right spots. You know,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: you can't you can't go chase in place. You make
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: the ones that come to you. You know, they'll they'll
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: have they'll have opportunities. You know they did in the
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: first game, right, a little little flea flicker type past
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: that got us. And you know, just things like that,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: you just have to be you know, you got to
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: be so focused and dialed in, you know, and you know,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: with with games, with games like this,