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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "It's a great time to turn that corner..." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: You know, I think it comes from Mr Khan and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think he has a passion to to
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  Speaker 1: spread the game and to play over here. And honestly
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  Speaker 1: too as players, we really enjoy it. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: flight isn't always the easiest over here with the time
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  Speaker 1: change and everything, but besides that, we really enjoy playing
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  Speaker 1: over here. The fans are awesome. They always they always
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  Speaker 1: packed the stadium. UM, come out supports cool seeing just
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  Speaker 1: all the different jerseys all that, a lot of Jags
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  Speaker 1: fans over here. Like you said, we've been playing over
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  Speaker 1: here for a while, so you know, I think we
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  Speaker 1: really enjoy it. Um. And then obviously you know last year,
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  Speaker 1: I've only played one game here and want to I
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  Speaker 1: want to know, so hopefully go to and oh this
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  Speaker 1: year that's the plan. And uh yeah, I mean we
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  Speaker 1: just we we enjoy being over here. Yeah. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's been really good, you know, just that we have
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  Speaker 1: that that relationship already, UM, and I think it adds
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  Speaker 1: a level of comfort really for both of us and
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  Speaker 1: just the way we can talk to each other. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is our this this is now our fourth year
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  Speaker 1: playing together. So I mean that's that's that's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Just having him back there, and then you kind of
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  Speaker 1: see him getting more and more comfortable every week, starting
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  Speaker 1: to make more and more plays, and just having a
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  Speaker 1: guy like like him who can turn like I was saying,
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  Speaker 1: it can turn a five yard run into a sixty
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  Speaker 1: yard run with just a little bit of space. That
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  Speaker 1: changes your offense. And I think he's gonna or I
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  Speaker 1: know he's gonna help us a lot. So I'm just
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  Speaker 1: excited to have him back there. I think it's been
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  Speaker 1: good for both of us just to to have that, um,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, that comfortability with each other. So it's been
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  Speaker 1: it's been really good. Yeah, it's been a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of times. You know, I think early on,
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to get his feet wet. He's still kind
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  Speaker 1: of getting into the flow of the game. Obviously missed
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  Speaker 1: a whole season, Um, kind of getting used to full speed,
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  Speaker 1: full contact, the flow of the game, the speed of
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  Speaker 1: the game too. I mean it's a lot different than college.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it took him a second just to
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  Speaker 1: kind of get comfortable. But you see the last few weeks, Um,
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  Speaker 1: really since early on in the season, he's been he's
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  Speaker 1: been playing great, and I mean, you see flashes for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Just like I said, if he gets a little a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of space, he can he can make a
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  Speaker 1: huge play happen. So, Um, he's done a great job
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  Speaker 1: for us, gets getting better and better every week. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And just you know, I think he's gonna continue to
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  Speaker 1: do that. It's gonna be really good. Yeah. Yeah, Coach
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  Speaker 1: has been Coach has been really good. Um, just from
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  Speaker 1: the way he leads. I think obviously there was an
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  Speaker 1: interesting um dynamic after last season kind of going into
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  Speaker 1: the offseason, a lot of uncertainties with players, coaches, staff,
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  Speaker 1: everything kind of coming into O T A S. And
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  Speaker 1: the way he was able just to kind of smooth
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  Speaker 1: everything over came in really gained the guy's trust. I
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  Speaker 1: think that was one thing he did really well, was
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  Speaker 1: he took it slow. He really gained our trust, um,
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  Speaker 1: and we just all we have a lot of respect
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  Speaker 1: for him. The way he carries himself. He's really up front, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and you know exactly what he expects of you. There's
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  Speaker 1: no there's no gray and what he has of you
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  Speaker 1: to do. So he's really clear. I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: great communicator obviously, that's important for for a head coach
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  Speaker 1: especially and I think he does a really good job
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  Speaker 1: obviously with the staff and the players and UM and
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  Speaker 1: then being a quarterback in his background, UM haven't played
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  Speaker 1: in the in the league, coaching the league, won a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl as a player and a coach. UM obviously
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for that. And he knows
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  Speaker 1: he knows how to get there. He knows he knows
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  Speaker 1: how to do it. So I think that's obviously a bonus. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And just he's been he's been really good for us.
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  Speaker 1: You guys last time, you know, great, start being here
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  Speaker 1: something energizing. This is such a different environment. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can. You can look at that way. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's good to look at it that way. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you get a chance to come over here and Um,
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  Speaker 1: I get to play somewhere different. Um not. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously both teams are traveling for this game. Game and
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, though, it's it's about
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  Speaker 1: what you do in those three hours on Sunday, and
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter where it's at, what time it's at,
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  Speaker 1: what day it's on. Um, you gotta play well. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what that's that's just the focus right now.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of stuff going on, obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: travel and kind of the time change and getting used
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  Speaker 1: to everything. But at the end of the day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: come tomorrow morning, it's a normal schedule day before game.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta focus in and get ready to go play
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. And I think we did a great job
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  Speaker 1: of that last year and really confident we're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: the same thing this year. And at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, whoever executes the best on Sundays in a win.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, shoot, I'm really excited obviously. Uh, I've never
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  Speaker 1: been there and never seen it. I've heard it's incredible. Um,
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  Speaker 1: just really excited to be in there and play. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be that'll be awesome. So I'm excited to see it. Um,
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  Speaker 1: excited to see all the fans come out, and it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a fun day. Yeah, it's uh. I mean
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  Speaker 1: every week the past rush is good. I think obviously
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  Speaker 1: there's there's certain teams who have a really good pass
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  Speaker 1: rush and that's kind of the strength of their team. Um, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: this defense is is really good all the way around.
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  Speaker 1: You look at I wouldn't even say obviously the pass
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  Speaker 1: rush is really good, but then you look at their
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  Speaker 1: their back in the secondary linebackers are playing great, So
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  Speaker 1: they're all really really good. I think it's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: staying on schedule, not letting those guys get a chance
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  Speaker 1: to tee off on you and really rush, you know,
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  Speaker 1: keeping them on their heels. Obviously, it's all of us.
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  Speaker 1: It's the old line, it's me, it's the running backs,
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  Speaker 1: it's the receivers being on time, all those things, and
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  Speaker 1: we just got to execute and be clean and um,
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  Speaker 1: I think we've got a great plan for it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it's a really good group up front. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: we've got a good plan for it. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just just another opportunity for us to to show the
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  Speaker 1: team we are in a different different country, different stadium,
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  Speaker 1: different atmosphere, and I mean we're just excited for that.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime we get a chance to play, it's special. You
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  Speaker 1: don't get many of them, so but much less you know,
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  Speaker 1: are even more so being over here, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's even makes it even more special. So just trying
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  Speaker 1: to really take advantage of this opportunity, play our best
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  Speaker 1: and and and just obviously come out of here with
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  Speaker 1: a win. That's the that's the main goal coming over here.
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  Speaker 1: We're excited for the experience and um to play there
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  Speaker 1: and all that, but the one thing is we gotta
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  Speaker 1: come up with a win. So yeah, I think obviously, uh,
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  Speaker 1: just your preparation and having confidence in that and trying
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  Speaker 1: to stay on schedule um as best you can, especially
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  Speaker 1: in a situation like this when your schedule gets thrown
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  Speaker 1: off a little bit with travel. Just really sticking to
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  Speaker 1: your preparation and making sure you get everything done. And
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  Speaker 1: for me, I think that's where my confidence comes from.
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  Speaker 1: If I feel like I'm prepared and I know our
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  Speaker 1: plan and I know the opponent all those things, I
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  Speaker 1: can go and play free on Sunday. Um. If you
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  Speaker 1: if you don't feel that way, then it makes it
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  Speaker 1: a lot harder, and you got a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: you know, distractions and you're thinking a little bit too
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  Speaker 1: much when you're out there. So I think it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to that every week, and it's gonna be the
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  Speaker 1: same this week. Sorry, would you say I missed the
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  Speaker 1: first part A little bit? Got you? Yeah? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean you look at you know this this season we've
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  Speaker 1: had some little bit of adversity, some ups and downs.
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  Speaker 1: You know, We've we've we've played really well in a
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  Speaker 1: few games, and um, not so well in a few games.
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  Speaker 1: We've lost a lot of close ones, and um, it's
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  Speaker 1: a great time to turn that corner and get on
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  Speaker 1: a go on a run right now. Obviously, look at
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  Speaker 1: where we're in the season, almost right in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of this thing. Uh, this is kind of where a
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  Speaker 1: teams start to separate. So you know, we got to
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  Speaker 1: make that decision to to go and to execute, to
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  Speaker 1: play clean, to go and win those close games down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch. And I think that's that's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: And we got the right guys to do it. But
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  Speaker 1: we gotta kind of turn that corner and make those
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  Speaker 1: plays and um, finish these games. And I think this
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  Speaker 1: is a great opportunity on Sunday to start that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: moving forward, I mean we're we're late in October. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's time to you gotta really flip that switch. And um,
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  Speaker 1: it's about how you finished this season from here on out.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously the first um seven games were important, but
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  Speaker 1: these these next ones are really important. So