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Press Pass | HC Doug Pederson Meets With the Media · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's your message to the fans after a performance like
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  Speaker 1: this and a one in five close.
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  Speaker 2: To the season. Yeah, it's just disappointing. It's disappointing the
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  Speaker 2: way we finished our season. Obviously, it's it's definitely not
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  Speaker 2: good enough. You know, things start with me, and I
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  Speaker 2: gotta make sure that you know, I'm holding myself accountable
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  Speaker 2: and I'm doing all I can to you know, help
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  Speaker 2: our football team win on and off the football field.
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  Speaker 2: But just not good enough.
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  Speaker 1: What in terms of run defense, where there's some things
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  Speaker 1: today even pinpoint that led to Henry and Spears having
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  Speaker 1: such a good day.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and not until I really dive into the tape,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, obviously we had mistackles again and some
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  Speaker 2: of the same self inflicted you know, gap integrity rules
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  Speaker 2: things like that I I I would I would venture
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  Speaker 2: to say would show up today. But you know, until
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  Speaker 2: we really dive into the tape, it's it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: you know, fully comment on that.
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  Speaker 1: The missus Trevor had was that lack of practice time
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  Speaker 1: you think for the last few weeks or anything that
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  Speaker 1: you didn't need.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it it could be you know, it could
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  Speaker 2: be uh, but you know those are those are obviously
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  Speaker 2: plays that he knows that that he can make, and
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  Speaker 2: and just unfortunate at the end, we're just you know,
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  Speaker 2: a couple inches away from either either scoring or catching
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  Speaker 2: that deep all at the end. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: all something we have to process now moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: The sequence on goal line third one, uh, the throw
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  Speaker 1: and then and then the sneak. Are are you hopeful
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  Speaker 1: that next year like these guys can generate more of
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  Speaker 1: a push.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like a short yardage was an issue all year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those are all things that we'll have to take a
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  Speaker 2: look at the spring.
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  Speaker 1: I don't love you're as old got in here, but
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  Speaker 1: the field goal the.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I you know, at that point it you
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  Speaker 2: know where it was in the game, the three points
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  Speaker 2: really didn't matter. You were gonna need a touchdown at
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  Speaker 2: some point. So you get the touchdown on the two
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  Speaker 2: point right there, and you're you're back in the game.
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  Speaker 2: That where do you mention? Yeah, you're a feeling right
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  Speaker 2: now after that. I mean me personally, it's just I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm frustrated, I'm disappointed, I'm mad, angry. You know, my
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  Speaker 2: heart hurts. Obviously for the players coaches involved, there's they've
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  Speaker 2: they've they've worked their tails off, but you know it's
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  Speaker 2: today's game was sort of our season in a nutshell. Really.
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  Speaker 2: The mistakes, the penalties, the turnovers, mistackles, and those are
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  Speaker 2: all things that you know, hurt us, you know down
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  Speaker 2: the stretch. Is it more? Do you made a more frustration?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's I think it's the disappointment. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I know we're a good football team, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I see it during the week and how the guys
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  Speaker 2: prepare and and I I gotta look at why it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't show up on game day, and those are all
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  Speaker 2: things that I'll I'll take a look at, you know
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  Speaker 2: in the coming weeks. That the last six weeks felt
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  Speaker 2: like they were just looking the first mark and then
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  Speaker 2: would never be able to.
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  Speaker 3: Find more how to get that sets too, cause they
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  Speaker 3: seem to find it last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's I think that's accurate. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we thing is and you know, you can't sit around
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  Speaker 2: and wait for a spark. You got you gotta be
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  Speaker 2: the spark, right that's either that's either me being it
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  Speaker 2: or Josh being it, or Trevor being it or something.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, and then then your team. You know, catches,
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  Speaker 2: fire and and those are all that's all part of
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  Speaker 2: learning how to win, learning how to do things right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, repeatedly week in and week out, and and
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  Speaker 2: it's a long season, and I know there's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be losses during the year. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna lose a game. You're gonna might lose a player,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the injury and things like that. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't change you know, your attitude and your mentality
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  Speaker 2: towards towards trying to win games.
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  Speaker 1: What put into the uh you and I apologize to
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  Speaker 1: you guys, just uh of the Trevor stretching the arm
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  Speaker 1: out for their something. You feel like he didn't because
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  Speaker 1: of his length that he could get there.
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  Speaker 2: You know it was a full yard ago. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Trevor's trying to make a play. Obviously he
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  Speaker 2: had success in the past on it. You know, just
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  Speaker 2: came up, came up inch of short. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: can't fault him for trying to make a play.
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  Speaker 1: Was it was?
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  Speaker 3: It was that the call play the get go or
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  Speaker 3: is it something that you went to at the line
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  Speaker 3: because he.
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  Speaker 2: Saw something, he saw something. It wasn't an actual play call,
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  Speaker 2: but it he saw something there and he had an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to uh sneak it and and you know, with
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  Speaker 2: his length usually uh usually that that uh that works.
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  Speaker 1: Church. What was the uh what was the single biggest
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  Speaker 1: issue this season and kept you guys out of the playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: Gosh it, I don't think there was one single issue.
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  Speaker 2: I think there there's multiple issues. I I look at
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  Speaker 2: you know, we we talked a lot all season, you know, execution,
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  Speaker 2: you know, third down, red zone, You look at the turnovers,
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  Speaker 2: you know versus the the takeaways, you know, the penalties.
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  Speaker 2: All those things just just add up, right, So there's
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  Speaker 2: there's multiple things. I think that we just didn't play
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  Speaker 2: clean football games and and down the stretch. I think
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  Speaker 2: that was our you know, the amount of turnovers we
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  Speaker 2: had in the last four or five games. You know,
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  Speaker 2: those things add up and you just can't you can't
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  Speaker 2: give your opponents that many opportunities in in games. You
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  Speaker 2: just you just can't. It's hard to overcome. And and
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  Speaker 2: you know, so those there there's I think there's a
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  Speaker 2: few things you can really kind of pinpoint, Doug.
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  Speaker 3: Last season, you guys had a you know, an ability
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  Speaker 3: to finish right, like down the stretch of last season.
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  Speaker 3: This year, if you guys aren't able to to have
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  Speaker 3: that for some reason despite having really the the same personnel,
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  Speaker 3: how do you maybe make sense of that just not
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  Speaker 3: being able to finish and execute when when you do
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  Speaker 3: have like the same cast the guys that we're able
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 2: It last season. Well, y, y, you gotta remember this
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  Speaker 2: is this is a new this is a new year.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't last year. You know, yah. Teams we play
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  Speaker 2: are good football teams. You know, they they get they
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  Speaker 2: get paid to stop us, and we get paid to
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  Speaker 2: you know, stop them, and and and move the football
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  Speaker 2: and and vice versa. And you know, I, I it's
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  Speaker 2: you gotta take everything, and y, you gotta it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of case by case, right, it's year by year.
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  Speaker 2: It's game by game. This is a week to week business.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's it's how well can you perform
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  Speaker 2: for three hours on a Sunday afternoon? Right? And then y,
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  Speaker 2: you put that one behind you and you go to
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  Speaker 2: the next one. You put that behind you and you
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  Speaker 2: go to the next one. And we didn't do that
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  Speaker 2: consistently enough, right, And and it goes back to the
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  Speaker 2: the penalties and the turnovers. You can't you can't. You
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  Speaker 2: won't be consistent if you don't get that fixed, right.
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  Speaker 2: If you if you don't stop the run or at
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  Speaker 2: least slower run run team down right, you just can't
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  Speaker 2: gain the consistency you want. It always puts you behind.
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  Speaker 2: And again, those are all things that we need to
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  Speaker 2: and I need to look at and moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: How difficult is the last peyer sort of figure out
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  Speaker 1: how much of it is execution by the players, how
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  Speaker 1: much of it is system and coaching, and figure out
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  Speaker 1: exactly what you have to do to fix.
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  Speaker 2: This for next season? Well, I think I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of everything. But again it just comes
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  Speaker 2: down to now, you know, taking time and going back
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  Speaker 2: through everything and and and really studying it and evaluating it.
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  Speaker 2: And I I I think it's you know, as coaches,
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  Speaker 2: our biggest what we need to do is we need
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  Speaker 2: to commune kate right with with our players and make
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  Speaker 2: sure they understand the game plan or the technique or
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  Speaker 2: or the scheme for that week. And then it's the
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  Speaker 2: players who take it. They have to study it based
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  Speaker 2: on the tape, you know, and and then go do
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  Speaker 2: their job right and and go let their talent take over.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's it's a two way street, right. But
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  Speaker 2: obviously you know, coaches are held accountable, and that'll start with.
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  Speaker 1: Me having sometimes eight or in the box.
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  Speaker 3: And you weren't able to slow down Derrick Henry the
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  Speaker 3: way you were worn.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean it's that's the that's the that's
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  Speaker 2: the whole game plan, right, I mean, that's what you
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  Speaker 2: gotta do. And and you know that coming in, and
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  Speaker 2: that's that's the frustrating part. That's the disappointing part that
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know what's coming and you and you
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  Speaker 2: still can't stop it. And great player, Listen to me,
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  Speaker 2: he's a he's a great player, and he's a load
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  Speaker 2: and uh been credit. You know, he had a he
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  Speaker 2: had a good game today. Alright, thanks going, thank thank you,