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Press Pass | Jones: "We just hold ourselves to a high standard." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: How you feeling about the offense so far?
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  Speaker 2: Good?
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  Speaker 3: Exciting to get a win on the road against the
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  Speaker 3: division opponent. So some things we need to clean up on,
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  Speaker 3: but it's just exciting to get back into some real
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  Speaker 3: football that you had.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a.
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  Speaker 3: It was a like a curl concept that we had,
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  Speaker 3: and we have the ability to put a double move
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  Speaker 3: on it if we if we want. And Trevor made
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  Speaker 3: the call and so I kind of just ran up there,
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  Speaker 3: did my did my little stutter, and uh, I knew
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  Speaker 3: that in those situations the ball is going to be
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  Speaker 3: kind of put back further.
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  Speaker 2: So I had to try to maneuver around to.
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  Speaker 3: Get there and was able to make an extending catch
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  Speaker 3: for my team, which was exciting.
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  Speaker 4: Those teams had some third and fourth down issues on offense,
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  Speaker 4: but you guys favely converted that fourth down on the
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  Speaker 4: go ahead touchdown. Trying to you how about that play
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  Speaker 4: in the mindset on those plays, gotta.
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  Speaker 3: Have the right Yeah, critical situations, we know we got
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  Speaker 3: to have it.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about execution.
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  Speaker 3: We know in some cases that we do need to
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  Speaker 3: execute better in order to take advantage of those downs
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  Speaker 3: because we don't know how many opportunities that we're going
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  Speaker 3: to get. Grateful, grateful and lucky that our defense had
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  Speaker 3: played phenomenal and special teams had did a lot of
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  Speaker 3: good stuff to put us in position to make plays.
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  Speaker 3: Tyson's turnover, the way that Josh Allen played, the way
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  Speaker 3: that those guys flew around on defense giving us those opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: We need to capitalize them more when we have those chances.
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  Speaker 3: But just ultimately really excited that we got the win
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  Speaker 3: because we know how hard it is to win in this.
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  Speaker 2: League, which I'm sure you know you guys watch a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ball. You don't understand how hard it is.
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  Speaker 1: How important is it that you got that first win,
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  Speaker 1: took that first step, but know that you want to
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  Speaker 1: I guess start putting all the pieces together later on
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  Speaker 1: when seasons as a team can really peak.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, it's hard to win this league.
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  Speaker 3: And when you can go into those type of environments
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  Speaker 3: with their fan base, they have a lot of energy,
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  Speaker 3: you know, surrounding their quarterback and the team that they're building,
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  Speaker 3: and to get that win it means a lot for us,
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  Speaker 3: especially playing the division. But it's you know, you gotta
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  Speaker 3: have put those things to bed and have a short
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  Speaker 3: mind frame, one that you've got to move on. So
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  Speaker 3: we're moving to Kansas City now, which is another really
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  Speaker 3: good football team.
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  Speaker 2: Start studying those guys, get our bodies back recovered, and
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  Speaker 2: just looking forward to playing them.
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  Speaker 1: Now, do you think back to that last game against
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs at all as you get ready for this one?
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  Speaker 3: No, I haven't, to be honest, I'm not reflecting on that,
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  Speaker 3: more so just staying present and positive.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, who's on their their roster? Still?
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  Speaker 3: What do they like to do? Do they do a
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  Speaker 3: lot of zone? Do they do a lot of man
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  Speaker 3: things like that? And then begin to have these conversations
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  Speaker 3: with our coaches and players like how do we see
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  Speaker 3: this game plan working and seeing things come together?
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  Speaker 2: As more so where I'm at right now.
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  Speaker 5: Both of the games last year against Kansas City Road
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  Speaker 5: is going to be at home.
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  Speaker 4: How does that kind of change things.
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  Speaker 2: Where you guys going there?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be awesome with our fan base
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  Speaker 3: being here. I know, guys, families and everyone's coming into town,
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  Speaker 3: and I know our fan base is very excited to
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  Speaker 3: have our home opener here.
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  Speaker 2: With the energy that they bring.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's well known now across Jack's the type
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  Speaker 3: of environment that we can have here at home. So
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  Speaker 3: we're all super excited about that and jacked up. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, when the ball gets snapped, we still got
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  Speaker 3: to execute and do what we have to do.
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  Speaker 1: Can you talk a little bit about Tank. He was
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  Speaker 1: in on a couple of I guess the turnover plays
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  Speaker 1: early in the game, but the teams still trusted him,
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  Speaker 1: knew that in crunch time in the fourth quarter you
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  Speaker 1: can hand the ball to a rookie, and knew that
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  Speaker 1: he was gonna be able to get the job done.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Tank is awesome man. He's first and foremost, He's fun
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  Speaker 3: to be around, got a lot of great energy. He's
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  Speaker 3: given me a nickname. He calls me Spider. Just he
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  Speaker 3: says the way that I run in my legs, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, he calls me spider. So Tank's nickname is
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  Speaker 3: super say for me because of the dragon ball Z,
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  Speaker 3: So saying the Spider's pretty cool. But he runs hard,
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  Speaker 3: he plays hard. I don't know all the details of
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  Speaker 3: the running back room like coach Palmley does, but I
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  Speaker 3: can just tell that he's given his best effort. None
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  Speaker 3: of us are perfect out there on that football field,
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  Speaker 3: So whatever goes on, we have his back, and it's
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  Speaker 3: just excited to see such a young player, like really
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  Speaker 3: that young thriving and scoring and very excited for him
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  Speaker 3: and his future here with the Jags.
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  Speaker 5: With so many weapons in this offense is sort of
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  Speaker 5: be ready when your numbers falls. So see how much
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  Speaker 5: pride do you take in your reliability along his lines
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  Speaker 5: and when it goes to you being.
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  Speaker 3: Ready, you know, I I kind of classify as just
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  Speaker 3: doing my job. You know, That's that's why I'm here,
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm supposed to do. Christian Kirk said the
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  Speaker 3: other day, he was like, you know, we really you
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  Speaker 3: have to appreciate these third down moments as we were
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  Speaker 3: alluding to earlier, and how important they are, Like we
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  Speaker 3: should want those moments, And then coach Chad talked about
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  Speaker 3: how pressure is are privileged to be in those moments
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  Speaker 3: and to not shy away from it.
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  Speaker 2: So I think just.
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  Speaker 3: Having revering that moment and revering kind of like that
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  Speaker 3: mindset for us of understanding, Okay, this is why we
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  Speaker 3: are here.
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  Speaker 2: We have enough to do it here, so let's get
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  Speaker 2: the job done.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't think it's more so pride as it
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  Speaker 3: is like, you know, I just respect and honor kind
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  Speaker 3: of my job and why I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: Zay would you're on the sidelines about take the field
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  Speaker 1: and you see return like Jamal hidyes, dry, what's that
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  Speaker 1: really do for any energy?
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  Speaker 2: It's electric?
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  Speaker 3: It's it means so much as an offense to start,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with only half the field. It's it does
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  Speaker 3: a lot for just your momentum. I know for our
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  Speaker 3: coaches too. Okay, now we can look at we don't
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  Speaker 3: have to go eighty seventy yards. Let's let's look at
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  Speaker 3: our game plan from right here. Okay, where's our field
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  Speaker 3: goal range? Where do we just have to get to
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  Speaker 3: secure a field goal with the great kicker that we have.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that we need to appreciate what Jamal
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  Speaker 3: Agneu has done for this for this football team over these.
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  Speaker 2: Over these years.
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  Speaker 3: And he's a special talent and it really just you know,
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  Speaker 3: boost everyone up, reinvigorates us to just get excited.
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  Speaker 2: And have an opportunity to score.
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  Speaker 5: You even realize the precious call and plays compared to Doe.
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  Speaker 3: And I'd be lying if I said, yeah, I'm just
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  Speaker 3: more so what's the next call? Maybe as time goes on,
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more, But no, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think they both have done a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all scored thirty one points, and it seems like everybody
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  Speaker 1: feels like y'all didn't play maybe the best game you could. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, does that just kind of say to I,
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  Speaker 1: guess the field you guys have about what this offense
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  Speaker 1: can do when it when it's clicking on all cylinders.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we just hold ourselves to a high standard.
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  Speaker 3: We're not really on like the happy to be here trained.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're more so we have unfinished you know,
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  Speaker 3: business to.
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  Speaker 2: Do, and we know we can do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I just I just think that we're still just
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  Speaker 3: very hungry and things weren't as clean as we would
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  Speaker 3: want them to be. I mean, I made plenty of
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  Speaker 3: mistakes still in that game, guys made mistakes, and so
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  Speaker 3: I think our mindset is just like, let's clean up
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  Speaker 3: the mistakes and go play a full game as an offense,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a complete from first quarter to fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I just I think that's where we're at
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  Speaker 3: right now. Hopefully I can speak for the guys and
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  Speaker 3: no one's like, oh no, it's not true, but you
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, How did it.
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  Speaker 5: Feel seon out and out there, It's first game, six
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  Speaker 5: eighty six days.
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  Speaker 2: Just how hate love man?
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  Speaker 3: For anybody who said he had to knock the rust
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  Speaker 3: off was dead wrong. He looked, He looked incredible, great speed,
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  Speaker 3: great hands, just played with a lot of confidence and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of swag. I was very happy for him
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  Speaker 3: to get in the end zone, I guess rightfully, so
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  Speaker 3: first for us, you know, And and it was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was very fitting just the way that
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  Speaker 3: you guys who were here in training camp, you saw
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  Speaker 3: the flashes of him early in training camp, and I
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  Speaker 3: think that carried over to the first game. It was
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  Speaker 3: like kind of just jumped off at you immediately, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what he did in the in the regular season opener.
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  Speaker 3: So just very excited for him and his family, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad, glad to be on his team and a
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  Speaker 3: part of part of it with him.
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  Speaker 1: Can start in the year on the road, be good
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  Speaker 1: for a team.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I've had experiences with both. I don't
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that truly matters. Maybe it does,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. That's a great question. I've never been
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  Speaker 2: asked that question before.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, thy, Thanks, thank, appreciate, appreciate