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  Speaker 1: Older of the week. Is it when you know, did
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  Speaker 1: it like early in the week that you're gonna start
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  Speaker 1: on something. Yeah, I think every week it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: new week and you can just take a deep breath
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  Speaker 1: and attack each day. So today we're focused on practice,
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  Speaker 1: walk throughs, meetings, and definitely watch the tape and learn
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  Speaker 1: from it. And that's the NFL. You got to be
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  Speaker 1: ready to play the next week because it's it's really
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  Speaker 1: a one week league, so you just got to change
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  Speaker 1: the narrative and be ready.
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  Speaker 2: How much did you learn about what happened last week?
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  Speaker 1: What you were able to sort of accomplish, And yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we played with the good tempo in and
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  Speaker 1: out of the huddle. Obviously there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: to work on throughout the game, but it boils down
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  Speaker 1: to finishing better by me. I thought I left three
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  Speaker 1: plays out there, and if you change those three plays
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  Speaker 1: and maybe the outcome is a little different. So that's
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  Speaker 1: how I'm looking at it. That's the truth, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna learn from it and move on and been here before,
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  Speaker 1: which is tough, but you also have one one choice,
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  Speaker 1: and that's to get up and keep going. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do lead the team and show confidence
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  Speaker 1: not only in them, but also in myself because we
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  Speaker 1: work really hard and the coaches put us in in
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  Speaker 1: great position to be ready each week. And and that's
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  Speaker 1: our goal as an offense and as a team, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: to just get everyone playing together. The defense got a
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  Speaker 1: personality they have. Yeah, obviously Aaron Glenn does a great job.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they're they're sound all around, they do everything
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  Speaker 1: well together, and they play very physical. It's a physical group. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The fan base is is awesome, and you know, playing
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  Speaker 1: at Ford Field will be great and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: that whole city embodies football and and uh tough football.
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  Speaker 1: That's obviously the the mantra of the head coach, and
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  Speaker 1: he's done a great job there I think a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago. Just turn it around and really just
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  Speaker 1: been impressed watching them throughout the years how they play offense,
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  Speaker 1: defense and special teams. So it's a big challenge when
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  Speaker 1: you got great players in great coaching and you put
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  Speaker 1: those together. But we just got to focus on us
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  Speaker 1: and and really just play each play, one play at
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  Speaker 1: a time for six seconds. And that's what it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to.
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  Speaker 2: How important is it for the offense as a whole.
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  Speaker 2: Really for BT just being able to get involved whatever
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  Speaker 2: however that looks.
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  Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, I think you just you can't chase it.
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  Speaker 1: You just gotta distribute the ball, whether it's a handoff
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  Speaker 1: or a throw or quarterback run, whatever that may be.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, you got to distribute the ball, and
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  Speaker 1: my job is to get it to the open guy
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  Speaker 1: and do that on a consistent basis. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: like BT's an awesome player. He's done a great job
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  Speaker 1: in his rookie season. You know, I've been a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough. There's a lot of information coming at you.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, he's done a great job, and I definitely
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  Speaker 1: want to give him the ball and just stick to
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  Speaker 1: my keys as well and get him going and get
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  Speaker 1: the whole team going. I think really, as a game
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  Speaker 1: goes along, if you're moving the ball, well, everyone's getting it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just sometimes tough, you know, in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, just not having as many plays and trying
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  Speaker 1: to get into that rhythm. So we're definitely trying to
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  Speaker 1: find that.
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  Speaker 2: Is it tough to.
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  Speaker 1: Manage the emotions with how the seasons one goes What
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  Speaker 1: do you mean not to get down and try to
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  Speaker 1: pushing forward with the energy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I talked about, the first thing I said
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  Speaker 1: was just like each week is is you kind of
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  Speaker 1: have a new week, and it's crazy. It's almost like
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  Speaker 1: it's it's an entire year and one week because you're
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  Speaker 1: focusing on that week alone, regardless if you won or
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  Speaker 1: if you lost. The process should stay the same, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you make adjustments based on what you need to improve,
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we're gonna come
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  Speaker 1: and work. And this team works really hard. And I've
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  Speaker 1: been impressed with with everybody, coaches and players since the
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  Speaker 1: day I've gotten here, how well everyone's worked on the field,
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  Speaker 1: off the field, in the weight room. So continue to
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  Speaker 1: do that and don't chase it, you know too much
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  Speaker 1: the emotion of it. Just kind of stick to it
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  Speaker 1: objectively and kind of go from there. Frank Camp, you
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  Speaker 1: you talked about Baker and learning about the resilience. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I like that. Does that wail you.
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  Speaker 2: At all during this time Now that you have this opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just want to put your best foot forward.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you want to win anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I think it just gets back to
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  Speaker 1: just playing fundamental football, and that's obviously an emotional thing
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  Speaker 1: and people will fail and get back up and keep trying.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm gonna do, and what our team's
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  Speaker 1: done all years is come to work on Monday, Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: and Wednesday and and go all the way through the
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  Speaker 1: week to put yourself in position to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: And every week is different. Every week it's a new opponent,
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  Speaker 1: they bring new challenges. As a quarterback, you just have
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  Speaker 1: to kind of stick to the fundamentals of playing quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and like I talked about, it's leading the team tempo
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  Speaker 1: and out of the huddle and really just taking care
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  Speaker 1: of the football. I think when you do that, you
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to win in the NFL, And when
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  Speaker 1: you don't, clearly you know you don't.
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  Speaker 2: So you've been in the locker room long enough now
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  Speaker 2: to get a feel for it. What would you say
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  Speaker 2: has kind of kept his team from not letting go
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  Speaker 2: of the rope so to speak, That they that regardless
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  Speaker 2: of what adversities they face, they they seem to just
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  Speaker 2: stay resilient.
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  Speaker 1: All the time. Yeah, I think we definitely saw that
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  Speaker 1: last week. I feel like we definitely fought and I
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  Speaker 1: left a few plays out there at the end. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to. But I feel like
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  Speaker 1: the defense special teams in offense, that's what we do.
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  Speaker 1: We fight, And I think it comes from coach Peterson
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  Speaker 1: and the message that he displays each week. And he's
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  Speaker 1: he's a great public speaker, but he also means what
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  Speaker 1: he says, and we're all buying into what he's saying,
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  Speaker 1: and it's to keep working and put your head down
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  Speaker 1: and trust each other and the people in this building.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the exciting part is is we can continue
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  Speaker 1: to do that regardless. You know, the result is a result,
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  Speaker 1: and we're trying to win every game. We're putting our
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  Speaker 1: best foot forward, but we're going to follow our leader,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the players and the coaches.
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  Speaker 2: To at least consider or think about how important this
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  Speaker 2: is for you moving forward. Obviously, contract wise, you want
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  Speaker 2: to get us starting quarterback. You want to get another
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  Speaker 2: chance to start a quarterback like this little window can
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  Speaker 2: be what the teams are looking at.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. I mean, everybody's trying to play well each game,
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  Speaker 1: and my goal is to focus on this week and
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  Speaker 1: I've historically done a really good job of that, and
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  Speaker 1: I need to get back to like I said, playing fundamental,
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  Speaker 1: you know, quarterback, and that's just the simple things going
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  Speaker 1: through my reads, uh, taking what the defense gives and
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  Speaker 1: uh leading the team down the field and you know
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  Speaker 1: during practice and all that as well. So trying to
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  Speaker 1: focus on the now and the present. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: best way to do it. You know, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to get generalized and look for the future look back.
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  Speaker 1: So I understand that. You know, this league is about opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: and we have a great one this week. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank