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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "We've been expecting this & we're ready for it." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a big, big win for us, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with a lot of the distractions kind of
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  Speaker 1: round this week and knowing what's what's in store now
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  Speaker 1: for this next week. You know, I thought we handled
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  Speaker 1: our business today and that was the plan to come
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  Speaker 1: in here, start fast, and um control the game, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought we did that. You know, Offensively, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff to clean up. Didn't play our cleanest ball today,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, the defense played great and special teams
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  Speaker 1: was awesome, so kind of made up for it, and
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  Speaker 1: then we had some huge players on offense, so good
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  Speaker 1: enough to win. Obviously, it's not our cleanest game we've
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  Speaker 1: we've had, but um, at this point in the year,
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  Speaker 1: it's just about winning and so I mean, obviously we're
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  Speaker 1: happy with that and to be able to win that way,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it shows the growth of this team
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  Speaker 1: when you don't necessary to play your best, especially offensively,
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  Speaker 1: and you can still dominate a game like that. So
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  Speaker 1: it's it's cool to see our team continue to come together.
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  Speaker 1: And um, we all know what what's kind of at
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  Speaker 1: hand this week, so we're we're excited for the challenge
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  Speaker 1: and ready to get back to work. For that. How
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  Speaker 1: much does it help you personally getting played in such
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  Speaker 1: huge games, uh at Clemson, getting read you for a
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  Speaker 1: game like this, it's for the a f C South title.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I think all guys have played
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  Speaker 1: in games like this, all the different guys on our team,
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  Speaker 1: different places, maybe maybe here, you know, years past, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. Um, So the biggest thing is you
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  Speaker 1: can't treat any different than any other game. You can't
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  Speaker 1: try to do more or less or you just have
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  Speaker 1: to trust your process and what got us here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we've we've gotten in a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: groove of just the way we prepare, the way we
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  Speaker 1: get ready for these games. You see, it's been paying
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  Speaker 1: off for us the past month and a half. So
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta trust that. You can't try to do
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of things new just because you're in a
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  Speaker 1: position where it's a must win, you know, to get in.
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  Speaker 1: You know, for us, it's it's the same as any
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  Speaker 1: other game. You know. That's that's kind of been our
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  Speaker 1: mindset the past two months. So for us, we just
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  Speaker 1: gotta continue to do what we've been doing, prepare the
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  Speaker 1: same way. UM, have a great week of prep and
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  Speaker 1: put ourselves in position to win on on Sunday or whenever,
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  Speaker 1: whenever the game is gonna be TMS touchdown run just
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  Speaker 1: him running now. I saw actually, you know, they had
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  Speaker 1: a great lock. They had safety filled filled the lane
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  Speaker 1: and Zay got just enough of them, got a shoulder
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  Speaker 1: and kind of knocked him out of the hole. Then
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think Travis had to even cut.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he broke that one tackle on the second
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  Speaker 1: level from the safety and he was gone. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had we had that play up pretty good and
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  Speaker 1: Zay and Christians specifically did a really good job on
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  Speaker 1: the perimeter making that thing go just treated in the
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  Speaker 1: next game. But isn't there a little part of you
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  Speaker 1: that goes, you know, holy cow. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: this is for h this is our lives for the season.
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  Speaker 1: How do you not let that creep in? I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's what you look at the situation we put ourselves in.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of been honestly, the feeling every week for
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  Speaker 1: us is just because if we didn't win what today
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  Speaker 1: was was four in a row. If we didn't win
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  Speaker 1: these games, we wouldn't be in a position to do
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  Speaker 1: this next week. So for for us, that that pressure
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  Speaker 1: or whatever you wanna call. It's been there and you
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  Speaker 1: know we've responded great to it. And now that this moment,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we talked a lot about, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks ago, this season is gonna come down to
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  Speaker 1: Week eight. Team. We knew we had to take care
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  Speaker 1: of business these prior weeks, but we had a feeling
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  Speaker 1: we're going to put ourselves in position to where we
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  Speaker 1: k team is gonna decide the you know, our our
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  Speaker 1: playoff berth and where we where we head after that.
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  Speaker 1: And so we've we've been expecting this um and we're
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  Speaker 1: ready for it. And I think, like I said, you
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  Speaker 1: can't treat it. You know, it's a big game, because
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  Speaker 1: you're right, it is for for our season and to
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  Speaker 1: keep to earn the right to keep playing. But it's
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  Speaker 1: still a game. It's still played the same way, still
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  Speaker 1: the same length of time, all that stuff. It's the
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  Speaker 1: same game. So you can't can't freak out and make
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  Speaker 1: it bigger than it is. You gotta, you know, stick
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  Speaker 1: to what you know in your process. Someone already asked it,
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  Speaker 1: but we asked for you. Every week. While snapping another
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  Speaker 1: streak with his franchise, issue nine in a row of
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  Speaker 1: the Texans got that go on. Yeah, it feels good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of guys in that locker
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  Speaker 1: room that have been a part of that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been a part of three of them. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: it feels good to get this one obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just it's it's hard to win in this league, so
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  Speaker 1: you appreciate all of them. Especially a division game where
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  Speaker 1: you haven't beat this team in a while, it feels
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  Speaker 1: really good, especially do it at their place. Um, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: But you know this one's gonna be short lived for us.
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  Speaker 1: We know we've got a big week in front of us.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was. It was great to get the
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  Speaker 1: win to no kind of defense they are Gosh Brady
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  Speaker 1: maybe to play how big was getting a touched out
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  Speaker 1: of the first drive. You know, they their their defense
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  Speaker 1: has played really, really great all year. Um, just really disciplined,
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  Speaker 1: well coached. Um. They do what they do and they
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  Speaker 1: do it well. And they're they're physical too. So we
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  Speaker 1: knew starting fast would be it would be big for us,
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  Speaker 1: something that we weren't able to do. We played them
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the season, so to be able to jump
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  Speaker 1: out of that lead earlier than our defense just be
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  Speaker 1: able to pin their ears back and get after them.
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  Speaker 1: Really the whole game I think put us in a
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  Speaker 1: good position. And then, like I talked about though before,
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  Speaker 1: just not playing our best on offense. We had a
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  Speaker 1: couple opportunities to add on to that even earlier, and
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  Speaker 1: and we stalled out and had some some miscommunications some
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that early on that we need to clean up.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, other than that, and I thought that
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  Speaker 1: the first drive and the third quarter was really good
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  Speaker 1: for for all of us, just to be clean, to
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  Speaker 1: go all the way down the field, to score there, um,
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  Speaker 1: and to finish kind of the right way. Obviously a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the guys still played after that, but for
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  Speaker 1: for me, you know, I wanted to really have a clean,
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  Speaker 1: dry cause I didn't think we executed very clean in
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  Speaker 1: the first half of the majority of the time you
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  Speaker 1: take in Christian games, a thousand yards receiving it's awesome,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I told him kind of after the game
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  Speaker 1: or middle of the game, when when I realized like
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  Speaker 1: shooting said the thousand, Like congrats, man, Like just he's
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  Speaker 1: earned it, you know, he's worked super hard, and obviously, um,
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's a big part of our offense is
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  Speaker 1: a thousand yards. It's a lot of production from him,
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  Speaker 1: and just to see him him have success and just
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  Speaker 1: the amount of work he's put in and the work
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  Speaker 1: that we've put in together and to see how it's
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  Speaker 1: paid off and just the connection to the chemistry that
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  Speaker 1: we have. It's been really cool and um just happy
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  Speaker 1: for him, so just keep building on it. Awesome, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you all. Ye