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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on Prep for Monday Night Football vs. Chiefs · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Marissa is good at that. So the.
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  Speaker 2: Spot we went to, this was my first time. I've
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  Speaker 2: been one to go there though, so yeah, I've never
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  Speaker 2: been to Ginger so.
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  Speaker 1: That was my first time.
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  Speaker 2: But now it was cool. Marissa kind of said some stuffup.
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  Speaker 2: I thought we were just going to dinner, and she
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  Speaker 2: had just a couple of guys from the team and
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  Speaker 2: a good, good little setup for me. So it was
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  Speaker 2: it was cool. She's good at doing that that type
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. Yeah, just trying to find like the I
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  Speaker 2: guess that was she was just trying to find the
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  Speaker 2: best day to do something where it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we had an next It was good. This week we
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  Speaker 2: had an extra off day with the Monday night game,
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  Speaker 2: so gave us a little bit more time. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: be having fun on my birthday Monday night football. Where
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  Speaker 2: else would you rather be exactly one hundred percent'd be fun.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna win on Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: Football would be a great birthday gift.
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  Speaker 3: You're gone a couple of times now what el collar.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a uh decoordinator and play caller, and defenses
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  Speaker 2: they're always I think it's just the the feeling of
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  Speaker 2: like chaos of the defense. You never know, you never
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  Speaker 2: quite know what they're gonna bring, because they could They've
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  Speaker 2: shown so many different things. But they're pretty i shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: say pretty sound there, very sound defensively as far as
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  Speaker 2: especially for all the different pressures they bring. You know
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times when teams do that, you feel
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  Speaker 2: like there's kind of holes everywhere. But they do a
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  Speaker 2: good job of you know, matching different route concepts and
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  Speaker 2: playing different coverages that you know, give them some flexibility
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  Speaker 2: and what they can bring. So they do a great
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  Speaker 2: job always have. You know, it's it's always a big
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  Speaker 2: week as far as game plan wise of what we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do and having a plan going in you.
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  Speaker 3: Reds of these frontown games right like when to night football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, of course, just the opportunity for for
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  Speaker 2: you know, this team, it's just the next opportunity. It's
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  Speaker 2: the next game doesn't count for more than the other ones,
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  Speaker 2: but it is a big opportunity for us. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's on a big stage. Everybody's gonna be watching, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a you know, good next step for
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  Speaker 2: our team to take and obviously a good opponent the
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  Speaker 2: chief big AFC games, So it's a it's a big
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  Speaker 2: one for us. Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't played AFC defensive player at the month.
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome, man. I'm just you know, proud of proud
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  Speaker 2: of him the way he's been playing. I mean, just
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  Speaker 2: we've been here together a few few years now and
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  Speaker 2: seeing how hard he's worked and all the all the
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  Speaker 2: things that are put in behind the scenes that people
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  Speaker 2: don't see, and to see all that pain off for
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  Speaker 2: him and you know, him just playing with confidence and
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  Speaker 2: flying around and making a bunch of plays Like there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing better than seeing a guy that that deserves it,
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  Speaker 2: that is actually going out there and doing it and
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  Speaker 2: playing so good, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just proud of them and you know, keep
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  Speaker 1: it rolling.
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  Speaker 3: Remember how gratifying was the play To Travis Sunday, he
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  Speaker 3: said that it's play you guys tried and practice, hadn't
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  Speaker 3: really practiced it all that well at times, but obviously
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  Speaker 3: in a big spot.
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  Speaker 2: Out down the Travis Hunter on the scene right there, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was actually, I mean, he's exactly right. It's a
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  Speaker 2: play that, I mean, honestly, just doesn't come up that much.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're running a dagger concept and usually you're
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  Speaker 2: throwing the dagger to check down or maybe your backside
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  Speaker 2: single and then this specific coverage, the safety's got some
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  Speaker 2: width and the middle was open. You know, usually that's
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  Speaker 2: just kind of pulling coverage out. But we always talk
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  Speaker 2: about running all these routes full speed and like you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get the ball because you just don't know when
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: So that was a big third and fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: And it doesn't happen if Travis doesn't, you know, take
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  Speaker 2: the top off running full speed, you know, get behind
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  Speaker 2: Fred and have an opportunity to catch the ball. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, a lot of credit to him and us
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  Speaker 2: for just being on the same page and seeing the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity there and hitting it because that throw doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: come up very often.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, why the defense is playing allow you to play
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more free.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to feel like you ever PRIs to
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  Speaker 2: make plays. Yeah, I mean they're they're playing really well.
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  Speaker 2: And I think when you're getting these turnovers, obviously it's
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  Speaker 2: big for us as an offense. We get more opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: takes points off the board for the other team. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: when you when you get the turnovers and get better
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  Speaker 2: field position, all those things for us you know, for
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  Speaker 2: for us, I think obviously it was big just having
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  Speaker 2: no turnovers and having that differential really made the games,
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  Speaker 2: our defense getting all of them and then us taking
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  Speaker 2: care of the ball. But yeah, I think we're playing free.
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  Speaker 2: But there's just some more execution things that we got
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  Speaker 2: to clean up on offense. Like I've said, like I've
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  Speaker 2: talked about that, I'm excited just to continue to build
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  Speaker 2: on because I know how I know how good we
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  Speaker 2: could be as an offense. I know we haven't even
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  Speaker 2: showed that yet, and obviously we've done some things really well,
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  Speaker 2: but I think put it all together, that's what's exciting,
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  Speaker 2: is there's still a lot more that we can achieve
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  Speaker 2: and that we can do offensively. So I'm just excited
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  Speaker 2: to put it all together.
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  Speaker 1: The payment for this offense all around, it's been huge.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that position you ask a lot of them obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, blocking, catching a lot of responsibility just in
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  Speaker 2: every single play, whether it we're in two tight ends,
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  Speaker 2: one tight end, whoever it is out there. Britain does
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  Speaker 2: a great job in the run game, and then you
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  Speaker 2: see him get his opportunities in the passing game. And
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  Speaker 2: then a guy like Hunter obviously has been just you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many catches he's had this year,
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  Speaker 2: but most of them have been touchdowns. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: just whenever his number is called, makes the big play.
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  Speaker 2: It's always ready. I mean, that's not the easiest thing
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  Speaker 2: to do. For Hunter, who's obviously, you know, Britain is
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  Speaker 2: getting a lot of opportunies in the passing game. Is
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  Speaker 2: the tight end, and then when Hunter comes in, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when he does have a shot, making all those plays,
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  Speaker 2: it's not always the easiest thing to do without getting
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  Speaker 2: in a rhythm. So a lot of credit to him
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  Speaker 2: just for being ready. He's really smart. I've been impressed
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  Speaker 2: by how much he knows just about the offense and
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  Speaker 2: he always knows what to do and you can kind
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  Speaker 2: of interchange him and move him around.
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  Speaker 1: And the same thing for Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Johnny hasn't quite had the same opportunities in
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  Speaker 2: the passing game yet, but it's a long season and
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  Speaker 2: he does a lot of things well also, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: that whole room has been has been awesome. And obviously
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  Speaker 2: Quentin stepping up too has been has been great. So
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  Speaker 2: that's like one of my favorite positions, tight end room,
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  Speaker 2: and they're they're awesome.
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  Speaker 1: While those guys are great, few different games this year
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  Speaker 1: we haven't been Zach, how big of rump.
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  Speaker 2: Has that offensive only taken they've been. They've been great
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  Speaker 2: all year. I mean really we've played some played some
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  Speaker 2: good defenses, and and that those guys have not only
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  Speaker 2: have we moved the line of scrimmage, ran the ball well,
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  Speaker 2: but we've protected well. And and that's why I've said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just excited for the passing game to continue to
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  Speaker 2: grow and grow because those guys up front are giving
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  Speaker 2: us opportunities, and you can protect like they've been doing,
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  Speaker 2: we can push the ball downfield, and we're gonna eventually,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hit some of these plays down the field
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  Speaker 2: that I feel like we missed a couple on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: and a couple of weeks, the last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, they keep doing what they're doing, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have opportunities. Obviously, running the ball is huge, the
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  Speaker 2: way they've been moving the line of scrimmage, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: all those things, we just got to continue to build
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 1: Just those guys have been great, so going to continue
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  Speaker 1: to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Be frustrated at all if the passing gig hasAge clicked.
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  Speaker 3: In as well as the running game.
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  Speaker 2: It definitely a little frustrated. I mean, obviously that's something
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  Speaker 2: that you want to do well. You want to feel
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  Speaker 2: like you come out of the game, and as a quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: that's a that's a huge part.
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  Speaker 1: Of my job obviously.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's running the whole offense and getting us
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  Speaker 2: in the right play and all that stuff, but it's
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  Speaker 2: it's throwing and catching too, and you know, I take
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  Speaker 2: responsibility for the throws I might miss or the ones
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  Speaker 2: where we're not on the same page, mean white outs
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  Speaker 2: or tight ends or whoever it is. And I just
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  Speaker 2: think there's a lot of meat on the bone that
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  Speaker 2: we're leaving out there. So it's it's something that we've
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  Speaker 2: been working on in practice, and I think we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: definitely see some improvements in that. I know we are so,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, it's definitely frustrating. I think the whole room
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  Speaker 2: feels like that because we know what we're capable of and.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't quite done it yet.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, we've we've been winning games
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  Speaker 2: and we've been final ways to win.
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  Speaker 1: But eventually we're.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna have to be able to, you know, push the
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  Speaker 2: ball down the field and make the big explosive plays
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  Speaker 2: in the passing game, you know, and then that's gonna happen, But.
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  Speaker 1: We had to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, obviously it's not everything that you've wanted
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  Speaker 2: through four weeks. But what are you most proud of
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  Speaker 2: you were playing this offense.
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  Speaker 1: Through four weeks so far. Just the whole team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a very cliche answer, but I think
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  Speaker 2: the whole team playing together. I think we've played very complimentary.
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  Speaker 2: It hasn't always been clean, I know, offensively, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: we've had had some things that we want to clean up.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as making plays when we need them,
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  Speaker 2: whether it was the four minute drive last week or
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  Speaker 2: against Houston, didn't play really great offensively the whole game,
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  Speaker 2: but we had the big drive to to go up
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  Speaker 2: and then obviously the defense had the huge stop at
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  Speaker 2: the end. So I think just the complimentary football, feeding
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  Speaker 2: off one another, making plays when we have to make them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that those are signs of us going in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction and finding ways to win games even
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  Speaker 2: if you don't play perfect. And I think that's that's
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  Speaker 2: a good feeling as a player and as a team.
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  Speaker 2: Like when you when you know you're in those big
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  Speaker 2: moments and you have confidence in the defense, the offense,
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  Speaker 2: special teams, whoever it is that that guys, someone's going
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  Speaker 2: to make a play. Chiefs now three times in your
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  Speaker 2: career at this point.
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  Speaker 1: What's when when I say Chiefs, what's the first thing
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  Speaker 1: for you personally that comes to mind?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just it's it's been the I mean, just
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  Speaker 2: looking at what it is, it's been the team to
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  Speaker 2: beat in AFC, Like they've been the top dog and
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  Speaker 2: they've kind of ran the conference, and this is an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for us to you know, show what kind of
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  Speaker 2: team we are. And that's that's all I think about,
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  Speaker 2: is just how you know this is a good opponent
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  Speaker 2: and just what we have to do to win this game.
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  Speaker 2: And we have to play well. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's like Liam talked about, you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to be Superman or anything like that, but we do
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  Speaker 2: have to play well.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good team.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I do think of a team that
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  Speaker 2: obviously is has played a lot of good football, and
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  Speaker 2: you got to be on your p's and q's if
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  Speaker 2: you want to beat them, just because they've won a
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  Speaker 2: lot together and they know how to win and got
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  Speaker 2: to play a full sixty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think the.
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  Speaker 3: Frustration the passing game is just natural growing.
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  Speaker 1: Page with a new offense or.
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  Speaker 3: Is it just more on the side of just not executing.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's both, you know, I think it's.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say a little bit more just not executing at times,
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  Speaker 2: because I think these are all things that you look
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  Speaker 2: over the spring and training camp and now in the
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  Speaker 2: season that we have done well at times, and I
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  Speaker 2: think there's just been a little bit of a lack
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  Speaker 2: of execution.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there is some stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I think with a new system, there is some growing pains,
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  Speaker 2: and we have some young players and skill positions and
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  Speaker 2: guys that are filling in. Obviously Diami was out last
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  Speaker 2: week and guys stepping up having to play different positions,
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  Speaker 2: So there's a little bit of that element.
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  Speaker 1: But either way, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, we're all responsible for, you know, how we play
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday, and you know, obviously that's me included.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of things I can do better.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's a little bit of both though,
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  Speaker 2: to answer your question, and those are things that we
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  Speaker 2: just got to sharpened up, and I feel like we're
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  Speaker 2: definitely heading the right direction. We just got to make
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  Speaker 2: a few more plays