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Press Pass | C.J. Beathard: "I'm Preparing As If I'll Have to Go Sunday..." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Is this is this really any different for you than
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  Speaker 1: the other previous weeks when when Trevor was a little
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: bit iffy or a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit No, No, yeah, no, it's I mean to me,
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  Speaker 2: it's the same. I mean, I'm taking a lot more
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  Speaker 2: reps in practice and stuff, but you know, prepared in
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  Speaker 2: the same way. You gotta prepare as if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be going and then you know, hopefully you know,
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  Speaker 2: Trevor Clear's crush from protocol by the end of this
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  Speaker 2: week for sure. How you balanced figuring out just how
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  Speaker 2: to do that Over the course of your career, I
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of a lot of practice head I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whether it's here or where you know, where
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  Speaker 2: I used to be. I think the mindset as being
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  Speaker 2: my seventh year in the league, it's just a lot
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  Speaker 2: of experience. Even even the games where you know the
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  Speaker 2: starter isn't banged up or whatever, just preparing like you
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  Speaker 2: know you might have to go into the game and
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  Speaker 2: that's just kind of what you have to do. So
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  Speaker 2: at this point, it's really just just a mindset. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I feel like this year I've I've actually,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you gotta I've gotten to practice a lot
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  Speaker 2: more than years past, as far as with the with
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  Speaker 2: the starters, you know, when trev has missed a couple
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  Speaker 2: of practice here there, and it's so it's only you know,
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  Speaker 2: benefit of me and helped me in the long run
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  Speaker 2: of just getting rest with certain guys and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Significant.
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  Speaker 2: Is that just getting those reps in the week as
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  Speaker 2: opposed to maybe coming off the bench cold like you
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  Speaker 2: did against Cincinnati. Yeah, I mean it it helps a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can't really simulate throwing you know, an
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  Speaker 2: out route or go route to Calvin, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: the with the speed he has in a way he
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  Speaker 2: runs routes. So uh, definitely helps getting getting routes with
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  Speaker 2: with the the starting guys in there.
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  Speaker 3: What's the the mindset this week when you don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you're going to if Trevor could clear tomorrow, could
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  Speaker 3: clear Friday or whatever day today.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, Saturday. I mean, how how does that impact
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  Speaker 1: the way you approach it?
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  Speaker 2: Again? It it doesn't. It's it's the same, you know,
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  Speaker 2: alright right now, I'm preparing as if I am gonna
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  Speaker 2: be playing on Sunday, and then you know, if tomorrow, Friday,
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  Speaker 2: whenever that day comes, that he'd he uh clears it,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it's it's that's great news for us.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, but right now I'm preparing as if, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I'll have to go someday and and then uh, let's
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  Speaker 2: just see, you know, hopefully, you know, praying he he
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  Speaker 2: clears protocol. By the end of the week, I have
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  Speaker 2: not no. Yeah, shoulder feeling a little bit better than
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  Speaker 2: it did a couple of years. Yeah, definitely, It's just
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  Speaker 2: it's progressively gotten better over the last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you, uh, how much do you you know,
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  Speaker 1: if if you do get get to start this week,
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  Speaker 1: how much do you lean on your last experiences? Is
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  Speaker 1: starting in San Francisco where you know, you you you
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  Speaker 1: had some pretty good showings there those last few games,
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  Speaker 1: and it does that Is that sort of mental positive
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  Speaker 1: past recall help you at all?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it helps, just knowing that
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  Speaker 2: the last you know, several times I've been out there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know, it did go well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it's kind of crazy think about that
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  Speaker 2: was back in twenty twenty, so it's still three years ago.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's it doesn't feel like three years because
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  Speaker 2: you know, you kind of base it off of playing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't feel like that was three years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I've learned a lot over the three
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  Speaker 2: years since then, and you know it's helped me, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, hopefully, you know, I like to think I've
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  Speaker 2: gained a lot of experience from the sidelines, from practice
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  Speaker 2: and everything even since then. But again, I know, each
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  Speaker 2: game and each situation presents its own set of circumstances,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that may be.
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  Speaker 1: So you have you have family coming down for this game?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, probably not No, No, it's Christmas Eve. They're all
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're they're not going to be flying to
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  Speaker 2: Tampa and then trying to get back before for Santa
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  Speaker 2: Claus makes it in town. You know, so he's playing
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  Speaker 2: on like Christmas Eve, Christmas Day?
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  Speaker 3: Holiday type of thing?
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  Speaker 1: Is that players okay with that?
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  Speaker 2: Hate it?
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  Speaker 1: Don't like it?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I think we're cool with it. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, most guys, a lot of guys do have families,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, I think playing on Christmas Day isn't as
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  Speaker 2: sought after as Yeah, I think I think having a
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night game this week is like you hit the
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  Speaker 2: jackpot for sure, you know, Like we did last year.
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  Speaker 2: That was that was we were all pretty fired of
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  Speaker 2: about that, just because you know, you do get to
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  Speaker 2: spend you know, Christmas with your family and stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day too, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the same with Thanksgiving games. Thanksgiving games, are you want
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  Speaker 2: to play in those games because you know everybody's watching
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  Speaker 2: on Thanksgiving and Christmas, everyone is going to be tuned
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  Speaker 2: in at their house and watching whatever games are on,
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  Speaker 2: and that that's a pretty cool feeling to know and
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  Speaker 2: of itself as well.
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, you obviously the game plan is tailored to
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  Speaker 3: you and to Trevor, whichever one is gonna play. But
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  Speaker 3: if there are a lot of things that you and
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  Speaker 3: Trevor like equally.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we we have a lot of similarities and
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  Speaker 2: what we like and kind of you know, makes it
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  Speaker 2: easy for for Press and Doug and those guys to
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  Speaker 2: to game plan it and scheme it. Just uh, we
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of the same stuff and you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to change a ton of things.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you said that you'd like to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: have Trevor obviously be ready to play? Do you allow
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  Speaker 3: yourself to get excited about the potential There have been
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  Speaker 3: a lot of backup quarterbacks that have played this year
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  Speaker 3: and had some measure of success or you excited about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I uh, you know, you see a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the backups around league. There's been a lot of them
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  Speaker 2: that have played this year, I'd say more than than
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  Speaker 2: most years. But yeah, I think I've learned from experience
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  Speaker 2: you can't get over excited or over you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: just you just got to stay even keeled through it
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  Speaker 2: all because you truly don't know what's gonna happen. And
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  Speaker 2: then I mean like Cincinnati a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: that's you know that that year, in one phase in
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  Speaker 2: the game, then all of a sudden, in the flip
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  Speaker 2: of the switch, you have to like totally change your
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  Speaker 2: mindset and you're you're in there. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like that. You know, you're preparing the same way. You're
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  Speaker 2: not getting over excited. You're just trying to do the
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  Speaker 2: best that you can to help help us win the
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  Speaker 2: next game, whether it's today in practice, tomorrow in practice,
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  Speaker 2: or being out there on Sunday whatever that is. I
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  Speaker 2: know accing today will help us one on Sunday, even
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  Speaker 2: if it's not me and they're playing. But to some extent,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna help us, you know, get a victory on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: So that's I take pride in that for sure.
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  Speaker 1: How's how's Trevor doing. He talked to him this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's doing better. He's uh, he's been in
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  Speaker 2: the building today. I get to talk to him and
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  Speaker 2: hang out with them today, So he's doing good. When
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  Speaker 2: you've had concussions, I'm ssuming have you had a concussion
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  Speaker 2: and famis.
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  Speaker 1: I have not?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean not since not in the NFL for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Remember what's what's kind of going on right now?
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  Speaker 2: As far as I mean, you still able to talk
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  Speaker 2: to people, function things like that? Yeah, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's uh, I think it's more uh probably just you know,
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  Speaker 2: headache type stuff or uh maybe failing tire or follow
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  Speaker 2: you that that type of thing. But yeah, you're functioning
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  Speaker 2: as a normal person. There's nothing nothing crazy about that
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  Speaker 2: that side of things, you know. But yeah a Hofle, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: execute the best