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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "...our money or house money, we’re here.” · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna onside kick again to start the game
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  Speaker 1: to get that. Um, you know, listen, when you're when
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  Speaker 1: you're playing, you gotta play discipline football number one. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you're playing a well coached team or a disciplined football team.
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  Speaker 1: We have to be prepared for them too. Is they've
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of weeks now to really, um maybe
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  Speaker 1: come up with some wrinkles of their own, right, And
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's coach Read and uh, he'll have he'll
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  Speaker 1: have some some wrinkles up his sleeve, I know. But
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  Speaker 1: for us, it's just a matter of just staying discipline
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  Speaker 1: and trusting what we're doing and just understand your role
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  Speaker 1: within your game plan right and and and just execute
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  Speaker 1: each play one at the time. No, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they still have to line up and get set, you know. So, Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's fun and everything, and it's exciting and players
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  Speaker 1: love it. I mean, I've been there with coach Read
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  Speaker 1: when when things like that happened and the players are engaged.
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  Speaker 1: Players probably came up with it quite honestly. Um, but
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  Speaker 1: you don't spend too much time. Eventually, they got to
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  Speaker 1: get lined up within the forty second time limit. How
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  Speaker 1: often do you talk to him during we talked, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talked during the season. Um, we do. Um, obviously
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  Speaker 1: this week is different. But and when we played him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a while back. But um, I still listen.
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  Speaker 1: I I owe a lot to coach reat you know,
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  Speaker 1: my career not only is a player, but as a coach.
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  Speaker 1: And and I still want to I want to pick
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  Speaker 1: his brain and learn. He's been doing this a long
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  Speaker 1: time and he's been you know, really really successful, you know,
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  Speaker 1: at it. So anything I can learn and take away
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  Speaker 1: from him is as a blessing for me. The image
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas game you have included last twelve seven
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  Speaker 1: interceptions in five falls which had him lost. You worry
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  Speaker 1: about that? I mean, how do you bring a string
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  Speaker 1: of the turnovers and focus on the down beside? It's
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  Speaker 1: a problem, Yes, you you worried about it. Um, we're fortunate.
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  Speaker 1: We're very fortunate. We're very fortunate the other night that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen, you know, for five five takeaways or five
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  Speaker 1: giveaways and and come back and win a football game.
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  Speaker 1: That just does not happen. And that's something that we
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  Speaker 1: we address our team a lot about. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to over emphasize it. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time they have to understand that the seriousness of
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  Speaker 1: keeping the football and the seriousness of creating takeaways. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, our defense has also been you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: the ball a little bit here too, so that's that's
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  Speaker 1: been a bonus for us. But you know, offensively, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we just can't give it away like we've been doing
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  Speaker 1: in order to to win these games, especially now where
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  Speaker 1: we're at. After looking at the film materfestions how many
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  Speaker 1: four the person was chipped, but how many forward result
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  Speaker 1: of a batship? Probably two of them, you know, honestly, Um,
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  Speaker 1: but listen, you know he gets credit for four, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's unfortunate that that happened. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't make excuses for it. We just look at it.
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  Speaker 1: We try to correct it, you know, and and as coaches,
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  Speaker 1: we we help help our players, you know, not not
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  Speaker 1: turn the ball over, and especially the quarterback. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: he understands it, We understand it, and you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we're better for it. And I'm going to ask
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  Speaker 1: you what you learned about her the other night that
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  Speaker 1: you probably already knew that he had the type of
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  Speaker 1: character with your mass back from that, do what he
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  Speaker 1: is like to happen? You know, you saw it during
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  Speaker 1: the game, just the expression on his face. He never
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  Speaker 1: he never wavered. You know, I'm you know, a play
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  Speaker 1: like that's going to happen. You don't want it to happen,
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  Speaker 1: but it does. And when it and when it does,
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  Speaker 1: you just you you shake it off, You move on,
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  Speaker 1: You move to the next play. And he did a
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  Speaker 1: great job of that, you know. And and so that's
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  Speaker 1: that's a credit to to where he is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from a maturity standpoint in his in his development was
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  Speaker 1: up and down p vality wine wine and he's that
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  Speaker 1: And so is that kind of why you always make
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  Speaker 1: it which coach your friends anyway? Anymore? Like did you
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  Speaker 1: play for a guy like that? And did that influence
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  Speaker 1: the way you can treat You're always you know, the
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  Speaker 1: coaches I've played for, we're all very level headed demeanor. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Never got too high, never got too low. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: can get emotional, you know, but but never never really
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  Speaker 1: coached that way. UM stayed stayed level headed. UM. And
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  Speaker 1: that's probably where you know, I get some of it from,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just learning from that. Any different in terms
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  Speaker 1: of treating this team, dreams, players or person otherwise any
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  Speaker 1: were a billy at all or now? No, Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just think I just think you learned from you know,
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  Speaker 1: your time where where I was before, and and uh
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's big picture, right, It's just sometimes you get
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  Speaker 1: you get you know, you can't see the forest through
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  Speaker 1: the trees, and and now you kind of look at
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  Speaker 1: things a little bit big picture and and I have
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  Speaker 1: a little different perspective. And those are all things that
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  Speaker 1: are learned, have angelus you? But why does Andy how
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  Speaker 1: does it come back to Andy on all the time? Well,
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  Speaker 1: when I first went to Green Bay, okay until now?
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  Speaker 1: How many years is that? It's a lot of years. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's twenty how many it's twenty years, almost thirty years,
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  Speaker 1: So that's thirty years my my professional life that I've
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  Speaker 1: I've been influenced by him. So that's why it always
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  Speaker 1: comes back to him. It's more than half. What am I?
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  Speaker 1: I'm fifty I'll be fifty five and two weeks. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you've had the windy You're back the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks with the fans here your team is playing in
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  Speaker 1: the noise, but now you'll have it your face and
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  Speaker 1: that's a different animal obviously, So how do you do
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  Speaker 1: does this last wee week's helping the team in any
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  Speaker 1: way to play in the noise? How do you get
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  Speaker 1: them ready for that? It's it does help us, but
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  Speaker 1: it's nothing prepares you for that. I can, I can
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  Speaker 1: turn the noise here as loud as I want, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to make an impact, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but it's out for them, you know, it's a loud
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  Speaker 1: for their defense and and um, you know we both
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  Speaker 1: have to play in it obviously, but it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a great atmosphere and and these fans are, um, they're
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  Speaker 1: they're passionate about the Chiefs obviously, and uh, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: the loudest for a reason. And we've just gotta be
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  Speaker 1: able to go in there and just it just it
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  Speaker 1: just focuses you in you know, more specifically on your job.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta be able to hear in the
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  Speaker 1: huddle things of that nature, and um, you just gotta
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of the nonverbal communication, you know, on
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  Speaker 1: point helping all haven't already been there this year or
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  Speaker 1: his playoffs just kind of different now, it does it
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  Speaker 1: does just the environment being there, seeing it some of
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  Speaker 1: the guys haven't been there before, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: having gone there, you know, during the season helps a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. But this will be this will be different. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, playoff football is different, the crowds are different,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, um, this one, yeah, this one will be
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  Speaker 1: pretty loud kind of season Chris Jones have from any
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  Speaker 1: defensive line for them, He's had a great season. Um.
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  Speaker 1: This guy, Um, probably one of the best, if not
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  Speaker 1: the best, we've seen, you know, this season. And and
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  Speaker 1: we've played some good ones, you know, these interior d
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  Speaker 1: lineman and you know, he's uh, he's explosive, he's powerful,
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  Speaker 1: he can move guys off spots, rush the past or
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just there's not a whole lot he
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  Speaker 1: can't do. And um, we've got to be uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: understand where he is. You know, Teams try to put
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  Speaker 1: as many hands on him as possible and and and
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  Speaker 1: he still gets there. So great player. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: respect for him, love watching him play. Um. And also
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  Speaker 1: also you know, our guys understand that, and they'll play
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  Speaker 1: hard because you guys have had this late surge kind
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  Speaker 1: of come out of nowhere about as much as any
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  Speaker 1: other team in the playoffs. You know, there's there's the
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  Speaker 1: narrative out there that, Okay, now the Jaguars are playing
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  Speaker 1: with house money, but your experience as a as a
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  Speaker 1: coach and player, I mean, you can't just say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if we don't win this week, not a
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  Speaker 1: big deal to play the past money. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: have to race these opportunities. You're there's no guarantee you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna keep getting them year after year after year, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's our money or house money. Um, we're here. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a credit to those players in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: and the coaching staff for you know, believing in each other,
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  Speaker 1: obviously working hard. Um what we've done down the stretch,
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  Speaker 1: you know, regardless of the mishaps, we're here, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and UM, you know I try to block out
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  Speaker 1: the best I can with the team. You just block
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  Speaker 1: out the noise, You block out the negativity, You block
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  Speaker 1: out whether it's lack of respect or whatever. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we have a young quarterback or whatever it might be. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're one of four in the a f
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  Speaker 1: C left and um that says a lot, says a
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  Speaker 1: lot about these guys. And um, you know we're excited
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  Speaker 1: for the opportunity. A lot of people would consider, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having to go to Arrowhead, you know, as as probably
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  Speaker 1: as much as daunting task as I guess any other
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  Speaker 1: venue that you would go to. Right, But what would
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  Speaker 1: be your message to your players? I mean we I
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  Speaker 1: would think it would be to embrace this opportunity, no
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: matter how challenging it may seem. Sometimes, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: you overcome the biggest you're right, you're right, And he
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  Speaker 1: kind of took the words out of my mouth. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a great atmosphere. We gotta embrace it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, no one expects us to do anything, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so go play, have fun, enjoy the moment um, and
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  Speaker 1: let's see what happens. You know, we've we've we've we've
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  Speaker 1: put ourselves in this position to be one of the
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  Speaker 1: four remaining a f C teams and you know, you
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  Speaker 1: got a lot to play for and uh, whether we win,
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  Speaker 1: whether we lose. You know, our season was a huge success,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from from that standpoint, first year together, overcome
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  Speaker 1: a lot of adversity from last year to this year
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  Speaker 1: and pushing these guys through and um, just go go
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  Speaker 1: play and have fun. Are you aware that Trevor Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: has never lost him on a Saturday. This guy pretty
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  Speaker 1: and oh high school college. That's pretty impressed. Uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a lot, a lot. Next question, absolutely right, do you
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  Speaker 1: go back and looking at him with fresh eyes this week?
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  Speaker 1: Do you see anything that stands out that you know? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I do. You know, we obviously we studied that one,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I think, Um, offensively, we know we
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  Speaker 1: can play better. We didn't execute early in that game
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  Speaker 1: very well. Um, had opportunities. We missed some kicks earlier
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  Speaker 1: that probably could have kept us in the football game,
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  Speaker 1: made a little bit closer. Um, we had a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: call back, you know, things of that nature. We just
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  Speaker 1: got to execute better. Looking at that, and defensively, um,
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  Speaker 1: we settled down in the second half. But again, um,
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  Speaker 1: just the mental mistakes, you know, the errors that we
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  Speaker 1: made of you know, being out of position or you know,
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  Speaker 1: out of alignments and gaps and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll go back and obviously look at that.
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  Speaker 1: We've made the correction since then. Um, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully hopefully go out and put a you know, a
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter game together. Cisco had two pretty big hits
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  Speaker 1: in that game. Because in your experience. Is that something
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  Speaker 1: that lingers in like the opposing team's minds when they
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: get in another shign. Not really, I mean it's usually
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  Speaker 1: over with, you know. Um so yeah, no,