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Press Pass | Lawrence on Mindset, Prep for Wild Card Matchup vs. Bills · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The way.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else will.
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  Speaker 3: So video going viral.
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  Speaker 2: Love you getting squatted at a bar?
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  Speaker 1: Was that on your bucket list for twenty twenty six?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's done, so we can uh, we can all
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  Speaker 2: move on now.
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  Speaker 4: It's you guys are worried about it, but yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: pretty uh just having a good time. I guess I
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  Speaker 4: don't know how to describe this. I did not think
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  Speaker 4: that was gonna happen, so but it was interesting. Phones
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  Speaker 4: now record everything, so there you go.
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  Speaker 3: You think it was you were gonna get squatted or.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna get filmed. I mean, you wasn't get squatted.
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  Speaker 4: She didn't just pick me up and be crazy, be crazy.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, now I was just having a good times.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously it's a thousand people who asked me about that,
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  Speaker 4: but all right, got anything.
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  Speaker 2: Like a normal week for you?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's obviously that playoff feel knowing that you're
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  Speaker 4: one of the teams that's that's in the playoffs and
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  Speaker 4: a lot of teams are done, and you sell that
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  Speaker 4: stuff about all these teams that are you know, kind
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  Speaker 4: of packing up going home and to that feeling of
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  Speaker 4: still playing ball feels really good. But as far as
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  Speaker 4: the preparation of the week. It's it's the same and
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  Speaker 4: we're preparing the same way. You know, obviously the mindset
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  Speaker 4: is it's similar to how we've been playing. I feel
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  Speaker 4: like we've been playing with that playoff kind of mentality
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  Speaker 4: and one week at a time, and that's truly what
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  Speaker 4: it is now. You know, before you had your schedule
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  Speaker 4: set out and you have to you have to intentionally
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  Speaker 4: take it one week out of time. Now it's we
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  Speaker 4: got the bills this weekend. Who everyone's gets to keep playing?
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  Speaker 4: So uh, I mean everything is going into this one
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  Speaker 4: game and we're preparing the right way and just trying
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  Speaker 4: to keep our process the same as as it always is.
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  Speaker 2: We've been around.
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  Speaker 4: Someone not fun times. Uh, whether it's fun you're having
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  Speaker 4: after the game or in the locker room or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Health and fun is this right now for you?
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  Speaker 4: It's awesome. Winning's fun. Uh So it's we're having a
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  Speaker 4: lot of fun. And I think just the way we're
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  Speaker 4: doing it, the way we're playing with confidence and feeding
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  Speaker 4: off one another, and the team is really close. I
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  Speaker 4: think that's always what usually that's what made the team good,
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  Speaker 4: is that tight knit the family feel and the relationships
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  Speaker 4: with each other and the staff and the players and
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  Speaker 4: all those things, and we have all that so winning's
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  Speaker 4: fun and we just got to keep winning because you know,
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  Speaker 4: it gets more and more fun. So but it's been
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  Speaker 4: it's been a really fun year. The group coming together.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the coolest thing is just the relationship
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  Speaker 4: part of it and seeing, you know, guys have success
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  Speaker 4: and our team have success and just feeding off that.
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  Speaker 2: It's been awesome.
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  Speaker 3: A few times in your career.
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  Speaker 1: Defensively, they just kind of doing what they've always kind
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  Speaker 1: of done.
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  Speaker 2: They just kind of stick their system.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, they're always they always present a lot of
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  Speaker 4: challenges on defense.
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  Speaker 2: They do a good job.
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  Speaker 4: Their scheme has been very similar for a lot of years,
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  Speaker 4: so you kind of, I say, you know what you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna get. But they do a really good job of
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  Speaker 4: disguising and changing the picture on quarterbacks and they bring
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  Speaker 4: a lot of different pressures and they you know, they
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  Speaker 4: play that they play that game a little bit that
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  Speaker 4: you got to kind of figure out the chess match
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  Speaker 4: and they do a nice job and they present some
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  Speaker 4: challenges and it's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna be the same way this week.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, definitely similar to how they've been in the past,
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  Speaker 4: which is, you know, throw a little bit of things
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  Speaker 4: at you and you try to figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have a new appreciation for winning when you
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  Speaker 3: look at you won so much as a kid and
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  Speaker 3: in high school and college and then to not win
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  Speaker 3: maybe the last couple of years, do you you get
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  Speaker 3: a better appreciation for when y when it is this
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  Speaker 3: and it's going so well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's like I said, it's it's I mean,
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  Speaker 4: coach Swinging you said all the time, the fun is
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  Speaker 4: in the winning.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's so true.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, we're all very fortunate to play this game,
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  Speaker 4: and it is a fun game and it's awesome, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: don't get me wrong, it's it. But the fun part
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  Speaker 4: is having that success as a team. Like that's why
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  Speaker 4: you play. You know, it's not for I mean, all
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  Speaker 4: the other stuff's great too, the money and all the
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  Speaker 4: other benefits of it, but the the reason why you
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  Speaker 4: play is to to win as a team and to
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  Speaker 4: put all this work in to collectively do something together. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: It's a special feeling and it's really fun when you're
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  Speaker 4: when you're doing that. So, like I said, we just
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  Speaker 4: gotta gotta keep that going.
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  Speaker 2: Games, Uh, this is a height end atmosphere and everything
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  Speaker 2: to get field in the city.
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  Speaker 4: How do you make it normal?
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  Speaker 2: How have you done that in your career, whether.
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  Speaker 1: It was national title games or Monday night football games.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, at the end of the at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the day, it's just a it's another game. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna be sixty minutes. I mean, who knows, maybe
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  Speaker 4: maybe longer. It could go to overtime, I guess, but
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's four quarters. It's gonna it's football. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's what we've been playing. And obviously the stakes are
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  Speaker 4: a little bit higher. Whoever loses goes home. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: but you can't let that, you know, freak you out
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  Speaker 4: and play differently or do something different and try to
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  Speaker 4: or try to do too much.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's a fine line. You have to prepare
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  Speaker 2: the right way and put the work.
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  Speaker 4: In like we've been doing, but you also have to
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  Speaker 4: keep yourself calm and go out there and it's just
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  Speaker 4: a game, and you gotta go play and play free
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  Speaker 4: and continue to build upon what we've been doing this
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  Speaker 4: year and keep getting better every week. I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: can't make it bigger than what it is. At the
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  Speaker 4: end of the day. We still got to go and
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  Speaker 4: execute and play our game. And we know we're a
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  Speaker 4: good team. We know Buffalo is a good team too,
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  Speaker 4: So it's gonna be who plays better on Sunday. For
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the young guys, this is gonna the
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  Speaker 4: first time seeing postseason game. If they ask if it's different,
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  Speaker 4: what it's like, what would you tell them, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: mean just that it's it's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 4: different feeling. You know, you're pretty juiced for the game,
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  Speaker 4: But like I just said, it's still just a it's
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  Speaker 4: it's a football game, so you got to try to
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  Speaker 4: settle in as quick as possible. But I mean everyone
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  Speaker 4: is not that people aren't playing hard every Sunday. People
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  Speaker 4: are playing hard every Sunday, but there is that uptick
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  Speaker 4: of just because there's so much in the line, right,
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, you lose, you go home, So there's
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  Speaker 4: that extra that drive, the finishing plays, the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the running around guys making plays all over the field.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that extra take an effort from some players,
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  Speaker 4: I guess, But I mean this league, everybody plays hard.
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  Speaker 4: So even that, I'd say, it's it's just a game
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  Speaker 4: and you gotta just settle in.
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  Speaker 2: As quick as possible. Don't let the moment get too big.
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  Speaker 4: This is a little weird from your perspective, but Lum
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  Speaker 4: said that Carter will be able to give.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the Scout team looks of Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 2: Having a guy on roster who's tall and with the
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  Speaker 2: armtown help. Can that help the defense being able to
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  Speaker 2: see that in practice?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's I think it's really valuable. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: Josh is this really special, unique player and what he's
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  Speaker 4: able to do and create out of the pocket, and
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  Speaker 4: you know he can do it from inside the pocket too,
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  Speaker 4: which makes him really a threat.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, he's he can kind of do it all.
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  Speaker 4: But having that extra element having a guy like Carter
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  Speaker 4: who can extend plays and I've I see him a
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  Speaker 4: little bit obviously in practice and throwing from different arm
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  Speaker 4: angles and getting on the move and making plays and
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  Speaker 4: scrambling and really putting some stress on our defense of
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  Speaker 4: having to cover that and also you know, cover the
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  Speaker 4: QB scrambles and runs. I mean there's a lot that
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  Speaker 4: you have to do as a defense to be able
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  Speaker 4: to execute all that. And he's done a great job
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  Speaker 4: giving us a look all year, and it'll be really
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  Speaker 4: valuable obviously this week, like you pointed out and coach
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  Speaker 4: point out with Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Because success you have the past, you know, I guess
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  Speaker 1: you must. Craze has come after ever so much outside doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel vindicated at all?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Not really, I mean I still I just think it.
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  Speaker 4: I've said it a bunch. I mean, just gives you perspective.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I've I've always had confidence and who I am, and
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  Speaker 4: I just try to go to work every day and
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  Speaker 4: get better.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I.
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  Speaker 4: Know my career haven't always haven't always played my best
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  Speaker 4: every single Sunday, and that's part of growing and learning
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  Speaker 4: and evolving. And there's some some growing pains, and there's
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  Speaker 4: some things that you got to go through, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: I just think I have a better perspective.
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  Speaker 2: Through all of it. And at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to keep getting better.
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  Speaker 4: And and that's you know, people can say what they
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  Speaker 4: want now, all the good stuff, and I don't really
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  Speaker 4: care about any of that either. I just want to
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  Speaker 4: keep getting better and keep finding ways to win.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Thank you, I appreciate it.