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DK Metcalf: "That Win Boosted Our Confidence" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You just said, and so he was talking about your contributions.
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  Speaker 2: On the final try that you rocked the house and
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  Speaker 2: you were the one.
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  Speaker 1: Who took over the game.
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  Speaker 2: When you go back and look at that and think
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  Speaker 2: about the efforts, how do you characterized your.
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  Speaker 1: Contributions just standing the game and just playing sixty minutes
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  Speaker 1: and you know, not just playing, uh you know when
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  Speaker 1: it counted, but you know, even the the drives before that,
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  Speaker 1: just standing the game, whether that was blocking or being
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  Speaker 1: the decoy uh on some uh backside routes, just playing
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  Speaker 1: uh sixty four minutes or not, you know, giving up
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  Speaker 1: even you know, on the last drive or the drive
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  Speaker 1: before that, just k uh continued playing. You mentioned being a.
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  Speaker 2: Decoy on some of those earlier us. How much of
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  Speaker 2: what you were doing early in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Set up those opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: On the final track.
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  Speaker 1: I mean just a lot of it. Uh all ties together,
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  Speaker 1: whether that's uh me running around me blocking backside UH,
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  Speaker 1: it's always wearing the dB down UH to wearing the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. You know he's tired, he's more tired than me,
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  Speaker 1: and UH unfocused and worried about the wrong thing him
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  Speaker 1: not not his coverage, but UH worried about trying to
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  Speaker 1: get uh blocked by me? So I think it all
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  Speaker 1: just ties together.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, which of those three catches was your best?
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  Speaker 1: Was the best? Uh? Jackson's were I didn't score cause
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  Speaker 1: so Jackson's Jackson's catch was the best one on that drive.
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  Speaker 2: That they should replay you doing the big old fist
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  Speaker 2: pump after he he he caught.
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  Speaker 1: And what was your view of a Did you know
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  Speaker 1: right away that he'd all.
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  Speaker 2: Been in and all that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm'a be honest, No, Uh, I didn't know he he
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  Speaker 1: caught it? Uh and me and signed you were talking
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  Speaker 1: about this earlier. Whenever somebody scores, we always look around
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  Speaker 1: to see number one is their flag and number two
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  Speaker 1: did the ref signal touchdown? So I was waiting until
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  Speaker 1: the ref signal touchdown. And once he did, uh man,
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  Speaker 1: all happiness just left my body and I was just
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  Speaker 1: ecstatic for one Jackson, UH two US and then uh
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  Speaker 1: just three for the for the offense and for uh
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  Speaker 1: Drew did that play. Drew Metchi as soon as he
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  Speaker 1: saw that, look saw Jackson one one even do that's
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  Speaker 1: where it's gone. Yeah, did you know, Savage, I had
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  Speaker 1: Jackson's about this, so leaving the hudder I heard Drew
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  Speaker 1: tail Jackson, Hey, if it's one on one, I'm coming
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  Speaker 1: to you. And while I'm motioning across, I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: pray as one on one, uh, cause I was tired.
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  Speaker 1: I did not wanna keep going. I I wanted Jackson
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  Speaker 1: to score or uh somebody to score it, just so
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  Speaker 1: we can get back to the sideline. But once I
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  Speaker 1: saw the safety drop down on his side and I
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  Speaker 1: saw Drew launch it over there, I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's about to catch it.
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  Speaker 2: The second uh of your three catches on the final drive,
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  Speaker 2: the one for six service. Did you realized that, like
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  Speaker 2: it was basically in brad or his hands when you
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  Speaker 2: snatched it away.
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  Speaker 1: No, I was just trying to prevent a interception and
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  Speaker 1: it just so happened to get pinned to my legs.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, might as well just stick the ball
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  Speaker 1: on my leg and not move. He he mentioned how
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  Speaker 1: you immediately ran the ball back I got back in
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I I maybe that's a basic thing,
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  Speaker 1: but it but kind of in the chaos of the
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  Speaker 1: moment and stuff. Is that something you kind of have
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  Speaker 1: to think about or what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: I I guess it. How did that you know.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing to do that in that moment. Uh, I got
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  Speaker 1: in trouble with my rookie year for not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So that still haunts me to this day to where
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be the guy messes that up.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where all of that stems from. What game?
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember that game? No? It was in practice.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, we do two minute uh after every walkthrough
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  Speaker 1: and if you throw the ball to the guy spot
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  Speaker 1: in the ball, he makes you start all the way over.
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  Speaker 1: And my rookie year, I did it and we had
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  Speaker 1: to start all the way over. So I wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: trying to you know, be a repeat offender totally. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty early like week two or three and Shoty yelled
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  Speaker 1: at me, Pete got on me, and I was like, alright,
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  Speaker 1: I got you, it won't happen again. How happy were
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  Speaker 1: all you for Drew to get that moment? Very happy
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  Speaker 1: number one with the adversity he battled through and then
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  Speaker 1: uh us not knowing who was really gonna play between
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  Speaker 1: Geno and Drew but him for f but for him
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  Speaker 1: to just be ready the whole week prepare like he
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  Speaker 1: was playing, and you know, it was just happy to
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  Speaker 1: see him go out there and perform the way he did,
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  Speaker 1: you know, take us down there on the final drive
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  Speaker 1: to score, and then just a smile on his face,
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  Speaker 1: uh walking off the field. It was just a happy
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  Speaker 1: moment for all of us now before.
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  Speaker 2: Game, moving straight like the way he did, and then
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  Speaker 2: to pull it off in the manner and what you
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  Speaker 2: did the other night. What can a win like that
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  Speaker 2: in that fashion do for a team going forward.
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  Speaker 1: In the end?
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  Speaker 2: Receiver?
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  Speaker 1: Uh boost our confidence man cause Uh, for a team
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  Speaker 1: like us who was searching for a win, Uh, just
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  Speaker 1: to get it against a team that good in the
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere that we did in front of our our home team,
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  Speaker 1: in front of our home crowd. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: with Drew at quarterback. So now we get to go
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  Speaker 1: back and basically start over from scratch. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: know what we did last week. But let's try to
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  Speaker 1: continue to build on that and finish out the r
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  Speaker 1: uh these last three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Julia Love was.
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  Speaker 1: Honored or recognized to speak, defensive player of the week.
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  Speaker 1: He said after the game, But it was actually an all
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  Speaker 1: state receiver in high school or so. Oh he told
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  Speaker 1: you that. He didn't tell us that, for he told
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  Speaker 1: he told the right person that. I don't believe anything
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  Speaker 1: that man says after that statement. They they catch the
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  Speaker 1: the interception, yes, to see about one out there. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it seems like I'm hating on'em. But I told
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  Speaker 1: Trey when we were watching the highlights and the team meeting,
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  Speaker 1: I said, you helped him keep his foot f uh
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  Speaker 1: his feet in cause his left leg I think hit
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  Speaker 1: trays and it made him uh made one of his
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  Speaker 1: feet hit the ground. So I was like, Julian doesn't
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  Speaker 1: deserve credit for that touch. I mean that interception, San, how.
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  Speaker 2: Much does it help obviously to have a healthy Ken
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  Speaker 2: Walker and a healthy offensive line all the way through?
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  Speaker 2: It's like first time since I think Week one, he
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  Speaker 2: guys up had everyone healthy, you know two spots.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. I'm I believe in the third quarter we only
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  Speaker 1: threw the ball one time on the our touchdown drive.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean you can see the amount of yards
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  Speaker 1: we can get, uh just by handing the ball off
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  Speaker 1: and just going straight downhill and uh you handing the
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  Speaker 1: ball to either Ken or Zach or whoever's a running back.
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  Speaker 1: Cause those old line are gonna block their ass off
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  Speaker 1: every play that uh, every chance that they get. You
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  Speaker 1: take Briden, you're blocking? Ho how Drew locked you blocking
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  Speaker 1: on the touchdown road? I thought Drew had the ball
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  Speaker 1: from my angle, uh until he got to the sideline
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  Speaker 1: and everybody was shaking Ken's hand and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? But uh, I mean he throwing his
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  Speaker 1: body out there. That's always good to see. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we need him for the remainder of the game,
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  Speaker 1: so he needs to be smarter next time.
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  Speaker 2: What's he been like on the sideline and his last
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  Speaker 2: two starts. P has kind of noted how poised he's been,
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  Speaker 2: which he made take for granted for a guy who's
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  Speaker 2: playing for the first time in a while.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I mean he's very good at at communicating and
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  Speaker 1: trying to fix the mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know that that happened on previous drives, so he
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  Speaker 1: was always coming down there trying to talk to the
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  Speaker 1: receivers like, hey, this is what I see. What do
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  Speaker 1: you guys see? So he ha, he did a very
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  Speaker 1: good job of uh communicating between us tight ends, running
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  Speaker 1: backs and everybody. DK.
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  Speaker 2: You're obvious seeing a pretty good move here today.
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  Speaker 1: Just how much did you guys need that that win?
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  Speaker 1: From Monday night? Just to kind of get out of
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  Speaker 1: that loving the street and get some good feelings back.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I'm always in good mood, but uh, just
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  Speaker 1: for us to be back on the winning side of
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  Speaker 1: of everything. I mean, it just gives us hope and
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta continue to believe in each other h
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  Speaker 1: these last few weeks. But we gotta take it one
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  Speaker 1: game at a time. So uh, like I said earlier, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a big, big wave of confidence, uh flowing
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  Speaker 1: through this building. But you know, hopefully we can ride
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  Speaker 1: that these last three weeks. We talked to a few
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  Speaker 1: about offensive identity before that third quarter and the the
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  Speaker 1: run pass. What kind of way you ran it? Is
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  Speaker 1: that closer to what you guys wanna be here than
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  Speaker 1: your final stretch? Correct? Yes, sir, setting up the run,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, running the ball to help us set
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  Speaker 1: up the pass and play pass your down play.
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  Speaker 2: I mean your contribution a little bit and and all that,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean you take pride in being able to
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 1: Mean pizza, you took over the game basically to get
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  Speaker 1: you guys down there. Uh. I just ran the routes
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  Speaker 1: that were called uh, and it just so happened the
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  Speaker 1: ball found me. Uh. For three straight plays. But give
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  Speaker 1: uh hats off to Drew for on the last catch
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  Speaker 1: uh that I had. Uh, I had a curl route
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  Speaker 1: at first, and then he looked out and gave me
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  Speaker 1: a signal and changed my route. So just kudos for
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  Speaker 1: him for seeing that, putting the ball up and just
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  Speaker 1: giving me an opportunity to make a play. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we we we ran the plays that Shane called,
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  Speaker 1: which is brought him to life.
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  Speaker 2: When you're tracking the ball in the air, can you
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  Speaker 2: see twenty one out of your for a free coming
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  Speaker 2: at you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Is that I mean difficult knowing that you're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: hit like as soon as you catch the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, But I know what I signed up for,
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  Speaker 1: and if I can make the catch, it's gonna feel
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot better than me dropping it. So alright,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you,