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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on Challenges Posed by Packers · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: How much fun of is playing behind this line? Not
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  Speaker 1: getting sacked for second.
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  Speaker 2: Time in three weeks.
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  Speaker 3: It's great. I mean, those guys are playing great up front. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: it all starts there, you know, as far as not
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  Speaker 3: just protection, but run game too, and I think they've
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  Speaker 3: done a great job, so should to keep that going.
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  Speaker 3: You know, those guys, it's just testament to the work
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  Speaker 3: they put in. And I think everybody's gelling together. So
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  Speaker 3: they've done a really nice job and just got to
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  Speaker 3: keep keep doing it. So it's I mean that's for
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  Speaker 3: all of us. I think it's it's awesome to see, uh,
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  Speaker 3: those guys play cohesively.
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  Speaker 2: And then also you know the run game.
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  Speaker 3: Last week was was cool and you know those guys
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  Speaker 3: feed off that and to see them really get rolling
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  Speaker 3: and dominating the run game was was fun to watch.
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  Speaker 3: What's been uh in your mind?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, the critical proponent to you be able.
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  Speaker 1: To cut down on turnovers ship, particularly on.
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  Speaker 3: The lost bumbles front, because it just you know, sort
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  Speaker 3: of got lost in the shuffle because the team hasn't.
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  Speaker 2: Been winning, but you have been taking care of better,
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  Speaker 2: much better take taking care of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Just for the record, remember who changed.
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  Speaker 2: You, Jsu?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, It's something I definitely worked on this offseason and
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  Speaker 3: you know, training camp and OTAs and there's something that's
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  Speaker 3: been on my mind is you know, to take care
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  Speaker 3: of the ball in the pocket and out in space
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  Speaker 3: running with it, same thing. You know, I think part
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  Speaker 3: of playing the game is playing quarterback, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: have interceptions at some point, so definitely you want to
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  Speaker 3: limit them, and you want to make good decisions, and
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  Speaker 3: you want to be accurate all those things. But you
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  Speaker 3: throw the ball a lot in this league and at
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  Speaker 3: some point you're probably gonna throw an interception, so it's
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  Speaker 3: all about limiting those. But I think as far as
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  Speaker 3: the fumbles go, that's that is something where you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the last few years of my career or the
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  Speaker 3: first few years of my career, I've had, you know,
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  Speaker 3: some problems in the pocket and out in space. So
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  Speaker 3: that's definitely something that I've looked at and addressed, and
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  Speaker 3: it's just a constant. It's it's something has to be
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  Speaker 3: on your mind, not necessarily worried about it, but just
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  Speaker 3: to focus because it is a priority. And all every
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  Speaker 3: team's going for the ball. The d lines when they rush,
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  Speaker 3: they're they're looking to get their hands on the ball,
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to disrupt it in the pocket. So it's
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  Speaker 3: just something I've worked on and it's paid off for
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  Speaker 3: me so far. So just got to keep doing that,
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  Speaker 3: and you can't lose focus, it can't. You got to
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  Speaker 3: emphasize it every week because every defense you play, that's
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  Speaker 3: their goal is to get the ball. How is it
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  Speaker 3: that you can go about working on something like that
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  Speaker 3: if you're not actually on the field and having contact
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  Speaker 3: with players and all.
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  Speaker 2: That other stuff.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of drills that we do, ball security drills,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and most of that stuff with the team
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  Speaker 3: is more carrying the ball, you know, whether it's in
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  Speaker 3: traffic or going to the ground or getting up off
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  Speaker 3: the ground, or while you're making a move, just times
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  Speaker 3: where the ball can get loose. You work on all
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  Speaker 3: those things, and then in the pocket, it's really just
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  Speaker 3: doing that and all of our individual drills. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: working pocket movement in Indie, just working holding on to
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  Speaker 3: it with two hands when I escape, keeping two on it.
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  Speaker 2: Not separating. You know.
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  Speaker 3: There's been a lot of times where I've gone to
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  Speaker 3: I've kind of transitioned to where if it's crowded, I
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  Speaker 3: kind of tuck it as I escape, and then I
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  Speaker 3: become a thrower again once I get out of pockets.
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  Speaker 3: There's a couple of different things that you can do
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  Speaker 3: that I've just been working on to try to take
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  Speaker 3: care of the ball better because it's the most important
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  Speaker 3: part of the game is turnovers. I mean, on both sides,
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  Speaker 3: getting turnovers as a defense or or not turning over
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  Speaker 3: as an offense. So it's definitely important.
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  Speaker 1: Your last sandwich is way in the last three games.
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  Speaker 2: Your percentage is way up complete.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like you're playing significantly better? Is there
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  Speaker 1: if you've takens in your mind last three weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I felt like I've I definitely feel
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  Speaker 3: like I've played played better. Just talking about from an
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  Speaker 3: individual perspective, I think I've played better the last few weeks,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think that, Yeah, there is some some
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  Speaker 3: correlation between that and the completion percentage of being up.
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  Speaker 3: I think some of our our our plans the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks have been really good and starting the games,
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  Speaker 3: and I feel like we've started pretty quick the last
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  Speaker 3: few weeks, which is which has been good for something
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  Speaker 3: that we really wanted to improve on after the first
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  Speaker 3: you know, few games where we started slow. So I
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  Speaker 3: think it's been you know, I've been playing better. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I've been seeing it great. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I've been pretty accurate the last few weeks, corrected a
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  Speaker 3: couple of things. And I also like as an offense,
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  Speaker 3: we're kind of settling in and you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: just been going a little bit smoother.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been it's been good.
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  Speaker 1: Change anything, right, other than correcting a couple of things
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  Speaker 1: from the stuff you were doing before, like stay pretty
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  Speaker 1: consistent preparation wise and everything else.
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  Speaker 2: That you do.
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  Speaker 1: To do ad to stay consistent with that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's it's important because you know, you prepare
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  Speaker 3: the same way every week, regardless of who the opponent is. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: your plan changes and you want to put together the
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  Speaker 3: best plan to beat the team that you're playing. And
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  Speaker 3: there's defenses are different, so you have to adjust. So
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  Speaker 3: you can't, you know, you can't put your head in
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  Speaker 3: the sand and just always do the same things as
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  Speaker 3: far as offensively. So I think we've done a good
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  Speaker 3: job of adapting over the season and looked at things
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  Speaker 3: where hey, maybe this isn't something that we're doing great
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  Speaker 3: right now. Or maybe this is something that we've had
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  Speaker 3: some success with, like let's do more of it. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that's part of it. Then as an individual too,
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  Speaker 3: it's I prepare the same way every week, go through
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  Speaker 3: my same process because it gives you confidence and it
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  Speaker 3: gives you a blueprint of you know, you're not trying
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  Speaker 3: to find something out every week, like you're not searching
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  Speaker 3: for something. You have your same process that you stick to,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's you know, the way you watch tape, the
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  Speaker 3: order in which you watch it, the kind of the timing,
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  Speaker 3: which days, you know, all that stuff. I stayed pretty consistent.
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  Speaker 3: And then I think situationally, the last few weeks, we've
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  Speaker 3: done a good job of scheming some things up and
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  Speaker 3: having a good plan for different situations that have helped us.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we've been a lot better on third down,
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  Speaker 3: so that's been something that we've been wanting to improve
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  Speaker 3: that we struggled with and the last.
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  Speaker 2: Few weeks have been a lot better.
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  Speaker 3: So we just got to keep doing it and keep
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  Speaker 3: putting together good plans and executing them.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have won two of the last three games.
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  Speaker 1: You feel like you're kind of starting a corner, and
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  Speaker 1: how do you kind of keep that momentum rolling.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely feel like we have some momentum, you know,
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  Speaker 3: especially compared to where we were the first month of
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  Speaker 3: the season. So yeah, I think we have some momentum.
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  Speaker 3: I think we played our best game as a team
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  Speaker 3: last Sunday. I still think there's a lot more out
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  Speaker 3: there that we can improve on, you know, even just
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  Speaker 3: speaking for the offensive side of the ball, there's some
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  Speaker 3: situations where I think we could have put the game
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  Speaker 3: away even faster and really finished on that long drive
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  Speaker 3: when we turn it over on downs at the end,
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  Speaker 3: finding a way to get a first down, keep the
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  Speaker 3: ball in our hands, take more time off the clock
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  Speaker 3: and score to get in the game right there.
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  Speaker 2: That's one example.
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  Speaker 3: But I feel like we do have a lot of momentum,
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  Speaker 3: and we just gotta keep doing what got us here,
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  Speaker 3: the things that got us here. Obviously it hasn't always
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  Speaker 3: been perfect, but I really do feel like we've trusted,
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  Speaker 3: like we said, trusted our process. We've trusted you know,
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  Speaker 3: the coaches, the players, our teammates around us, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we have found some success here lately, and we just
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  Speaker 3: have to do it again this Sunday. Every week's different.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta play with confidence. You know, we have, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, we have some momentum, and let's let's run
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  Speaker 3: with that and just put together another good week and
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  Speaker 3: take it one out of time you personally get.
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  Speaker 1: On like a little bit of a hot streak. Does
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  Speaker 1: it feel different, if that makes any sense, You feel
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  Speaker 1: different on the people during the week, or like hay Man,
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  Speaker 1: don't really rolling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's definitely. You feel you feel a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more, a little looser. I think just when
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  Speaker 3: you're when you're playing better and when you're winning, especially,
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  Speaker 3: you feel a little bit looser, a little lighter coming
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  Speaker 3: into work and at practice and all those things, because
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  Speaker 3: it's just, I mean, it sucks losing and everybody feels that,
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  Speaker 3: and it's hard in this league when you it's a
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  Speaker 3: results business and when you're not getting the result that
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  Speaker 3: you want that you're working for, you know, it's frustrating.
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  Speaker 3: So I think obviously getting those wins on Sunday feels great,
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  Speaker 3: and coming in on Monday and then coming back to
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  Speaker 3: practice on Wednesday, it's there's a little bit more pep
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  Speaker 3: in your steps sometimes, and that's that's where I think
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  Speaker 3: we've done a good job of, you know, we lost
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  Speaker 3: four in a row and then we won one, and
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  Speaker 3: then we had a rough game against Chicago, and we
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  Speaker 3: still found ways to you know, have that energy in
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  Speaker 3: practice and really enjoy being around one another, because it
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  Speaker 3: can be hard sometimes when you're when you're not having success.
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  Speaker 3: So we got to continue to do that. And I
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  Speaker 3: know as an individual too, like you Gin, you gain
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  Speaker 3: confidence with the success you have to as a team
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  Speaker 3: and you see, I know I've it like I've just
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  Speaker 3: seen the offense start to gel together and that gets
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  Speaker 3: me excited, and you know it's it's it's at the
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  Speaker 3: right time. So we just got to keep it going.
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  Speaker 1: Yourself streaky in a way and over the first pretty
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  Speaker 1: half years of your career, like you got really hot
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  Speaker 1: second half of twenty twenty two and carry that over
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and then got hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously that was part of it. But you said you
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  Speaker 2: didn't really start.
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  Speaker 1: Real well this year, but then kind of got a
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  Speaker 1: roll in the last three. Do you kind of feel
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  Speaker 1: like you can you're a little streaky at.
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  Speaker 2: Times or no, I mean not really. I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's it's part of this game, is you know,
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  Speaker 3: you want to be as consistent as you can, and
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  Speaker 3: I definitely think that. You know, I'm not a perfect player,
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  Speaker 3: and I've had times where I have been inconsistent for
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  Speaker 3: sure in my career.
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  Speaker 2: I've said that up here with you guys.
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  Speaker 3: So but you know, as far as you're going to
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  Speaker 3: have some rough games in this league, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have some some times where it's it's things seem a
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  Speaker 3: little bit difficult. I mean, these are good teams, you're
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  Speaker 3: playing against some really good defenses. Sometimes it's wat to
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  Speaker 3: settle in. You know, there's no excuses. I think the
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  Speaker 3: goal that you strive for perfection and you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to be perfect. You're never gonna get there,
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  Speaker 3: but you know you want to be as consistent as possible.
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  Speaker 3: So that's something I've challenged myself with, you know, over
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  Speaker 3: the past years to do that, and I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I have in a lot of ways. There's been some
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  Speaker 3: areas where I haven't played perfect, but I think some
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  Speaker 3: of the areas that I wanted to improve on, I've
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  Speaker 3: made some big improvements on. So I got to continue
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  Speaker 3: doing that and and just keep keep being the guy
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  Speaker 3: every week for my team that I need to be.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever that is. You know, it might not be might
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  Speaker 3: not be four hundred yards and a bunch of touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: It might be just doing all the little things the
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  Speaker 3: right way and putting a position to win, taking care
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  Speaker 3: of the ball. That could change every week. So I
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  Speaker 3: just got to bring whatever it takes to win.
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  Speaker 1: The Packers defense franks pretty high across the board.
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  Speaker 2: What is it that you see the tape that they're
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  Speaker 2: kind of doing well?
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  Speaker 3: Man, they play hard, they have I mean, they have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of really good players obviously everywhere, but just
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  Speaker 3: they're physical, they play fast, they fly around, and good
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  Speaker 3: at taking the ball away. That's definitely something obviously that
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  Speaker 3: we always emphasize, but especially this week because this team
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  Speaker 3: is up there one of the you know, highest in
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  Speaker 3: the league as far as for forcing turnovers. So that's
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  Speaker 3: something that they do a great job of. They get
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  Speaker 3: after the quarterback. You know, the d line does a
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  Speaker 3: really good job. Some of the pressure stuff they present
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  Speaker 3: on third down and different situations is really good. So
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of challenges. You know, I think they're
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  Speaker 3: every level, they're really good and they they do things well.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a challenge for us. And they've been playing well.
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  Speaker 3: They're flying around. You can tell that they're all on
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  Speaker 3: the same page. They're definitely meshing as a defense. So
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  Speaker 3: it's a challenge for us and they'll be exciting on
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  Speaker 3: Sunday and then when.
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  Speaker 1: Travis does come back with Tank emerging. How much you
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  Speaker 1: canna help the quarterback just having two different guys they
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of similar things, where they also do.
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  Speaker 3: Different things pretty well, I think it helps a lot,
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  Speaker 3: you know, quarterback, yeah, but just a team as a team,
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  Speaker 3: it helps us because you know, running back is it's
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  Speaker 3: a tough physical position, and I think the more guys
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  Speaker 3: you can have and you throw the yearness in that
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  Speaker 3: mix too, the more guys you can.
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  Speaker 2: Have that.
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  Speaker 3: One know what to do, do it the right way
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  Speaker 3: and also can make plays. And all three of those
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  Speaker 3: guys can do that. So and they're all a little bit different,
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  Speaker 3: like you said, but just the more you can have,
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  Speaker 3: you keep guys healthy, You can rotate.
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  Speaker 2: Them, keep them fresh.
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  Speaker 3: If it is a game like Sunday where we run
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  Speaker 3: the ball so much and you want to keep guys
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  Speaker 3: fresh and rolling, if you only got one guy that
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  Speaker 3: you trust, it's kind of hard to do that.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's a lot on a running back just to
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  Speaker 3: keep pounding it over and over again if it's one guy.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, fortunately for us, that's not the case.
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  Speaker 3: We have a bunch of guys that can that can
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  Speaker 3: play and play at a high level. So it's been
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  Speaker 3: really good for us and we got to keep building
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  Speaker 3: off of it.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a hide sense of focus knowing that you
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  Speaker 1: can't drop many more games this year and hunt your
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  Speaker 1: ticket to the playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think there is.
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  Speaker 3: We understand the situation we're in, and you know, we
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  Speaker 3: put ourselves in this situation, so we gotta we gotta
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  Speaker 3: find a way to just you know, there is, but
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  Speaker 3: you kind of it's it's tough, it's you play. You
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  Speaker 3: kind of have to think about it one week at
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  Speaker 3: a time, which can be hard when you're thinking about
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  Speaker 3: you can't think about all the ones that you didn't
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  Speaker 3: win and all the ones that you have to win
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  Speaker 3: moving forward. You really have to put all your effort
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  Speaker 3: and focus onto the one right in front of you,
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  Speaker 3: which I think we've done a good job of doing that,
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  Speaker 3: and we got to do it again this week. And
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  Speaker 3: that's like it sounds like a broken record. I know
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  Speaker 3: it's boring, but it is true. Like when you're in
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  Speaker 3: this position. You can't look at all the games that
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  Speaker 3: you feel like you got to get back. It's just
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  Speaker 3: one at a time because if we can stream together
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  Speaker 3: a few of those by doing it one at a time,
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  Speaker 3: then we find ourselves in a position where we do
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  Speaker 3: have a chance and we're back on track. So that's
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  Speaker 3: just a situation that we're in and we know that.
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  Speaker 3: But you don't have to be perfect. You can't play perfect,
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  Speaker 3: like we said. I mean, obviously the details and the
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  Speaker 3: attention to detail and the focus, you're trying to be.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect in that way.
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  Speaker 3: But there it's football, and you can't let one mistake snowball,
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  Speaker 3: and you can't feel like because you made a mistake,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have a chance.
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  Speaker 2: You got to play loose and free, and you can't
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  Speaker 2: play tight.
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  Speaker 3: So I think we've done a good job of balancing
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  Speaker 3: those things right Like in the situation we're in, it's
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  Speaker 3: been you know, you have to remind yourself it's still
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  Speaker 3: a game and I gotta go out there and play
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  Speaker 3: with confidence and cut it loose. Especially as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta trust what I see be able to go
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  Speaker 3: cut lose. I can't be afraid to make a mistake
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  Speaker 3: because of the situation we're in. So I do think
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  Speaker 3: you have to have a lot of those those dialogues
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  Speaker 3: as a team and within yourself, honestly, all right, thank you' all.