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  Speaker 1: No again, it just kind of happens. You know, Um,
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  Speaker 1: great performance by him obviously, Um you know to uh
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  Speaker 1: um to do the things that he did. You know,
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  Speaker 1: played tough, played physical, as I mentioned after the game.
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  Speaker 1: But you know it's kind of again this guy, that
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  Speaker 1: guy that gets the hot hand, you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: continue to find ways to uh, you know, get him
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  Speaker 1: the ball. You know you are talk about that and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people talk about the NFL being a
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  Speaker 1: week to weekly when you look when you look back
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  Speaker 1: on your whole stete season, it almost seems like your
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  Speaker 1: own team is almost like a quarter to quarter team
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  Speaker 1: that you know, things flip around so quick for good,
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  Speaker 1: for bad, for whatever. And could just talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about that, how much your team seems to just change,
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  Speaker 1: not just week to week, but almost moment to moment.
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's you know where we are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to stay in the present, um, understanding that you know
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  Speaker 1: there there's gonna be ebb and flow of a game,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you never want to get too high
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  Speaker 1: and never get too low. Kind of stay right in
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  Speaker 1: the middle and make adjustments as games go. Um. You know, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we do say it's it's a week to week league,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, each game plan is a little bit different. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes you get in the flow of the game
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you kind of stick with what works
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  Speaker 1: if it's If it doesn't work, you need to change
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  Speaker 1: in a hurry and do something else, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: go in a different direction. And and and sometimes that, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's happened to us this year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and with with the quarters and you know, I've I've
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  Speaker 1: made an emphasis last week too, we need to start
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  Speaker 1: games better, we need to start games faster, and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it kind of somewhat backfired with with us
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  Speaker 1: because they went down and scored, but it's not the
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  Speaker 1: it's not the right start that I wanted. But we
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  Speaker 1: were able to you know, capitalize on the turnover after
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  Speaker 1: that and sort of sort of get the momentum a
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  Speaker 1: bad feeling and your stuff. When you saw me first
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  Speaker 1: quarters ending and Derek, he's got ninety six yards, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's not you know, listen, we talked last week's too.
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  Speaker 1: Mean's a tremendous back and he's going to get a
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  Speaker 1: ton of yards. And yeah, no, you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: look up at the end of the first quarter and
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  Speaker 1: have that many, you know, have that many yards. But
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  Speaker 1: I you know, defense really did a great job. As
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  Speaker 1: we talked about at the end of the game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it took all eleven guys to really buy into that
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  Speaker 1: and committing to stop and stopping the run, he said,
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  Speaker 1: you said numerous times when you got the shop and
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  Speaker 1: in preseason this might not be a quick fix. However,
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  Speaker 1: we're sitting here, You're gonna be playing a home game
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  Speaker 1: a week before Christmas against one of the NFL's brands,
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  Speaker 1: iconic brands. It was a playoff atmosphere with everything still
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  Speaker 1: right in front of you. Do you think in your
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  Speaker 1: wildest dreams that you'd be in a position where you
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  Speaker 1: could be playing such a meaningful game to Slate in December?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, you you you know that's why you
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  Speaker 1: get into this business, is to is to win games.
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  Speaker 1: But when you look at the big picture of things,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't know necessarily if we were going
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  Speaker 1: to be in this position or not. I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 1: it could be better, as we know, um and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we are where we are because of you know, our
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  Speaker 1: own doing. But you know, it's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: I keep challenging our football team with, is is you
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  Speaker 1: want to be playing meaningful games, you know, in December
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  Speaker 1: and January, and you know, the last two have been
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  Speaker 1: for us, have been meaningful obviously with Baltimore Detroit. I
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  Speaker 1: suld say the last three Baltimore Detroit and then Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: and now you know, moving forward, you know, we have
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys this week and and um, you know there
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  Speaker 1: I believe ten and three and they're they're one of
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  Speaker 1: the top teams in the NFC, and they're playing really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, really well and and coming off of you know,
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  Speaker 1: a good win for them, you know, this weekend, So
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a great opportunity for our you know,
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  Speaker 1: for our for our team to you know, I want
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  Speaker 1: our guys to experience these these moments, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: we hope one day that you know, if if things
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  Speaker 1: go well, that we're we're playing and hopefully in the
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason all that, but these are moments that
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  Speaker 1: you want to you want to be in and and
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  Speaker 1: see where your team actually is against really good, you know,
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  Speaker 1: really good opponents name or you happy what you've been
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  Speaker 1: getting out of it when you're trying to go see
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  Speaker 1: a little more, I mean, you'd love to see a
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  Speaker 1: little more um, you know, uh, it's it's still um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, each week again it's still kind of a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of work in progress. You know. Um, you
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  Speaker 1: try to you try to do some things, and obviously
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  Speaker 1: you have enough in your your arsenal in the run
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  Speaker 1: game to to make changes. Right if you want to
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  Speaker 1: attack the perimeter and that doesn't work, then you work
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  Speaker 1: inside and you do things that way. And um, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you'd love to see a little more production there and
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  Speaker 1: and um and get more out of it. But again,
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  Speaker 1: when you look at the game yesterday and and um
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  Speaker 1: it just happened to throwing the ball was you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: just as good, you know. Uh. Then then running playing
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  Speaker 1: sands wasn't crazy. We're kind of expecting based on what
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  Speaker 1: you said, he should I guess he should have end
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  Speaker 1: it off T T instead of running himself. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a read, it wasn't a it wasn't a QB pull that.
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  Speaker 1: It was a handoff. And that's why I said, ask him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and maybe he maybe he would give you,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he would give you a straight answer. But um,
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  Speaker 1: you know he listen, he's he he's a sharp guy.
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  Speaker 1: And the linebacker fifty three came off the edge and
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  Speaker 1: he saw him kind of flash and kind of bend
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  Speaker 1: off the corner, and he instinctively pulled the football, stiff
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  Speaker 1: armed him and dove into the end zone. Um, sort
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  Speaker 1: of a bewildered look on the sideline from me and
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  Speaker 1: everybody else, like what is he doing? But um, he
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  Speaker 1: knew what he was doing, and uh, just a good playing. Well.
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  Speaker 1: My philosophy is he always coach off the touchdowns, right
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  Speaker 1: it in good plays, that's the best time to the
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  Speaker 1: best time to coach guys. But um, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, we don't want to make a habit
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  Speaker 1: of it, you know, obviously, and he knows that. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, um, if it works
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  Speaker 1: and it's a successful play, whether it's you know, a
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  Speaker 1: score for a touchdown or maybe picking up a key
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  Speaker 1: first down in the game, you know, Um, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna fault him for it because it's something he saw.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to get lost Eddie. George got hit
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  Speaker 1: and that stripped once back guy and it changed Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: for being ability to coke. He was regulars. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna compare to shack the radulars, but I will say
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  Speaker 1: that did you see the team feed off of that,
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  Speaker 1: because that's like walking up to the biggest guy in
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  Speaker 1: the bar. Question. Yeah, I mean, I I even go
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  Speaker 1: back to you know earlier, you know, Trayvon, you know
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  Speaker 1: that that sack fumble. You know that they gave us
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  Speaker 1: the ball. We went in and scored and tied the
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  Speaker 1: game at seven, and and then we come right back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they go down to score and Shaq made
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  Speaker 1: a just a a great hit. Uh you know, Derek
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  Speaker 1: kind of cut back inside and Shock was right there
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  Speaker 1: and made a great hit. And then just I mean
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  Speaker 1: I'm standing right there and the ball just kind of
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  Speaker 1: pops up into Josh Allen's hands, and um, you know
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  Speaker 1: those are things that we need. We need those and
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  Speaker 1: teams need those. You create. We talked about creating turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: and we did that right. We we created takeaways, and um,
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  Speaker 1: the defense, you know, the defense was able to uh
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, get the ball four times and and
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  Speaker 1: obviously the offense was able to you know, protect it.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know those are those are obviously recipes
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  Speaker 1: for uh success if you can continue to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Off the loss to Detroit, you talked about the intensity
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  Speaker 1: to prepare throughout the week A lot of the players
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  Speaker 1: were talking about it started on Monday in the weight
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  Speaker 1: room and carried throughout the week. How do you recreate
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  Speaker 1: that now that you're coming off a win. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you just got to continue that, right, This is a um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a short term memory business. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a twenty four hour rule. After a game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're onto the next and you try to remember
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  Speaker 1: what you did last week and and build on it
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  Speaker 1: and and do a little bit more this week, and
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  Speaker 1: and then you do more next week, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. And and um, I thought the guy's
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  Speaker 1: really you know now you know, we also talked about
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  Speaker 1: that loss, how that loss, you know, how it affects everybody,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, um, guys have a lot of pride,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't they don't want to be remembered that way.
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  Speaker 1: And so they really took it to heart, had a
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  Speaker 1: great week of preparation. Um, and it paid off, right. Um,
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  Speaker 1: they went out and they played well. It wasn't perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but played well and got the win. And and so
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  Speaker 1: this week they almost have to like forget that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just like you with the film, right, you just put
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  Speaker 1: it in the trash can and light it on fire
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  Speaker 1: and forget it and uh and move on to you
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  Speaker 1: know this week, are you play the limit Trevor throughout
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  Speaker 1: practice this week or kind of behind him now? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we'll see how he is on Wednesday. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously he's gonna be sore. You know, Um, if he
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  Speaker 1: can go, I'd rather him go than than not. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, very capable obviously the way c J you know,
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  Speaker 1: practice last week and took all the reps and Trevor
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  Speaker 1: you know, did a nice job of getting the mental
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  Speaker 1: reps during the week, and um, but if if Trevor
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  Speaker 1: can practice some you know, I definitely want to get
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  Speaker 1: him out there. By the way, Yeah, I'm still waiting
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  Speaker 1: on actually uh in the MR I m R I
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  Speaker 1: report to come back, so I'll have you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we have more information this afternoon. You mentioned wanting fast stars.
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  Speaker 1: But do you like the fact that the team came.
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  Speaker 1: I got three women there right hand where you can
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  Speaker 1: signing and come back from Yeah, I mean yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: like the way this team hangs together. There's not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of panic, you know, or or finger pointing on
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  Speaker 1: the sideline. You know, guys, just you know, just tighten up.
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  Speaker 1: You know and understand their roles and their jobs and
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  Speaker 1: and uh make the necessary adjustments on the sideline or
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  Speaker 1: at halftime, and and and again there's no you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's no panic and no quit. Uh stick to the
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  Speaker 1: game plan. Um, trust it. And uh, you know we've
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  Speaker 1: been able to you know, strength some wins together because
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  Speaker 1: of that. So that's that's really good to see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from from a young team. Well, yeah, that that's obviously
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  Speaker 1: between me and me and the team. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna get into a ton of that you as a
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  Speaker 1: motivational thing or you know, you got the reason. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've shown a lot of videos, you know, to the
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  Speaker 1: team over there over the season. You know, it just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Are you okay with
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  Speaker 1: your quarterback going after a defensive line and after listen, Um,
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  Speaker 1: they protect him, he protects them, you know, And and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm okay with it. You know, I'm fine
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  Speaker 1: with it. I think it. I think it shows a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of grit and determination, shows that
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  Speaker 1: he cares. Um. You know, in situations like that, we
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: do coach that situation too. You know, you gotta protect yourself, right, Um,
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: those are I've been on both sides of that where
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  Speaker 1: you know you're you're obviously behind and you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: kind of the heat of the moment and things happen,
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  Speaker 1: but it's still one play in a football game that
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: you gotta protect yourself and be prepared for yd handling.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought he didn't it did a good job,
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  Speaker 1: much better. Um, you know, still some things to learn
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  Speaker 1: and correct, but I thought he really settled down and
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  Speaker 1: the game didn't seem too big. You know, he was
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  Speaker 1: made some plays and and some tackles and um, you know,
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: it'd be good for him to see this, see this
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  Speaker 1: tape and and really um sort of catapult him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. But I thought he did some some good
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  Speaker 1: things and switching the secondary there, Trey Herndon had been
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  Speaker 1: a healthy scratch for a few games back in the lineup,
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  Speaker 1: moved him inside to the nicol Darius Wins on the outside.
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  Speaker 1: Did you like the way that worked out? Is that
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  Speaker 1: the plan for the rest of the year. I did.
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  Speaker 1: I like the way that that did work out. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Darius is uh really good on the outside. That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of his kind of his spot, I would say, And
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: you know, going back to our team when we had
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  Speaker 1: chat Griffin out there. You know, Darius was a natural
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  Speaker 1: fit inside, but I think now having him outside, he's
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: you know, he can see things. He uses athleticism and
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  Speaker 1: speed out there. Um. And and Trey is comfortable inside
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  Speaker 1: and you know he's he's the type of guy that uh,
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe a touch bigger, you know, it doesn't mind. Um,
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: you know, the physicality and the type of play that
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: a nickel dB has to have. And and I thought
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  Speaker 1: that combination worked worked well between those two. Will take
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: time to just figure out where some guys are most comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: like a Darius, instead of playing him in the nickel
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  Speaker 1: eventually moving out after the tastes. Just getting the no guys,
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  Speaker 1: it does, it does, um you know, uh, kind of
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  Speaker 1: getting to the the flow of the team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and how things are shaping out, and um, you know
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: it's it's good to you know, again, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to experiment during the regular season, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: kind of understanding and going back and even just watching them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where they came from, like Darius with Rams
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  Speaker 1: and and stuff like that, and just kind of see
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  Speaker 1: the history and and and where they're more most comfortable
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  Speaker 1: playing and and trying to keep him in those spots. Yeah,
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be okay, He's he's gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: To be a little sore, you know, this weep'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: And it's got interesting with you know, you get these
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: alerts when somebody comes out and said and younger shoulder
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  Speaker 1: return as questionable was forever question any question in your mind. No,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: not at all, Not at all. Um, you know, a tough,
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  Speaker 1: tough kid, you know. Obviously, Um, that was a that
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  Speaker 1: was a good shot. He took over there, the good
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  Speaker 1: tackle on the sideline and and just out for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of plays and came back, came back in. So
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  Speaker 1: it just shows his toughness. But he's he's he's good
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  Speaker 1: to go. Just something that has to be worse. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you overtake it a little bit, you know, not really
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  Speaker 1: get to punished because you da back. Yeah you can't.
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  Speaker 1: You know obviously those two guys they understand can't happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can't do that. Can't put the ball
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  Speaker 1: on the forty yard line, you know, for your opponent
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  Speaker 1: there and um, I think I think the first one,
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Riley just tried to overkick it, you know, Um, and
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  Speaker 1: just pulled it and the second one, um, you know,
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: we were actually in a hard squib you know, right
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: before the half there, and uh, they had kind of
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: pinched the middle, you know with their return team, and
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  Speaker 1: so it turns into a sort of sky kick and
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  Speaker 1: just Logan just put a little bit too far, too
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  Speaker 1: far to the right and went out of bounds. But
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: you know, both guys are capable of making those kicks. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, no concern obviously moving forward, but you know
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: you can't have to, uh, you know, could be costly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, mistakes if if you know, if there was
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  Speaker 1: more time let's say, on the clock, you know, for
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: the opponent of the P word, or you just focus
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  Speaker 1: on on the P word playoffs? Will you will you
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: make me? Did you make messure of that at all? No?
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I thought it was a D word. I
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: could I didn't know what it was like word that
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  Speaker 1: you would throw out there? Or do you just focus
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: on the opponent? No, you don't know. I really don't, Um,
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  Speaker 1: But yet I do want to show the team kind
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: of where we are and what's in front of us
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  Speaker 1: and kind of what's at stake. I think it's it's
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: my job to kind of keep those goals in front
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  Speaker 1: of us. But you know, I want us to focus
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  Speaker 1: on this week. I want us to get better this week.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a um you know, this is
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  Speaker 1: a great football it's a good football team again, a
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  Speaker 1: well coached football team that's uh you know, playing playing
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  Speaker 1: really well in that division and obviously playing playing well
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC. So, um, our work will be cut
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: out for Uce in practice this week. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to move too for you know,
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  Speaker 1: too far forward was passing in affairs. Uh yeah, he's
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: doing good. I think he's gonna be day to day again.
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  Speaker 1: You know this week, Um shoulders getting better, Chess is
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: getting better, and you know, um yeah we should uh well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm optimistic that he'll you know, he'll have
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  Speaker 1: another full week of practice again and then we'll see
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  Speaker 1: where he is at the end of the week. Thanks,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: thank you,