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Drew Lock: "This Building Is So Special" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it. Drew, how are you feeling?
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  Speaker 3: Mike told us you suffered an oblique injury as well
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  Speaker 3: during the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know. We'll get it looked at tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I was able to finish with it, but, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we'll get it looked.
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  Speaker 2: At and go from there. But not too bad.
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  Speaker 1: How's it on that incompletion to James Senn?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was a scramble. Or not a scramble. It
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  Speaker 2: was a movement. It was a keeper. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was third-ish quarter maybe. How did it affect you? I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't say it did.
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  Speaker 4: Went into the tent, had it looked at, came back out,
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  Speaker 4: just let me see how it feels throwing the ball.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, wait, I've already thrown the ball. All right,
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  Speaker 4: went through it. I mean, you feel it, but it's
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  Speaker 4: nothing that was going to keep me on the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: What about the elbow injury? How was it playing through that? Good.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I mentioned it out on the field, I believe,
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  Speaker 4: but I the staff here, um, the training staff, the
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  Speaker 4: strength staff, coach Mike, like everybody handled it so great today,
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  Speaker 4: this week, Jalen Milrow.
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  Speaker 2: Um, it was, I think it was really well done.
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  Speaker 4: Um, just, just hats off to this building, to this team, um,
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  Speaker 4: for being able to, stick with me throughout this week
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  Speaker 4: and get us here to Sunday as healthy and as
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  Speaker 4: ready as we could be.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of downplayed the amount of limited you were
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  Speaker 3: when we talked to you on Thursday, but your teammates
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  Speaker 3: have said you only had so many throws and all that.
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  Speaker 3: How hard was getting ready or what was kind of
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  Speaker 3: the key to being prepared for this game when you
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  Speaker 3: weren't able to get full reps?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I would say the walkthroughs are obviously huge. Everybody understanding
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  Speaker 4: that I I wasn't going to throw during those. With
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  Speaker 4: us playing on a Monday night, being able to do
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  Speaker 4: a walk-through practice Wednesday, not throw there, I think it all,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, the building, coaching staff, strength staff, training staff,
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  Speaker 4: all having a piece in on this.
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  Speaker 2: Was fantastic. It really worked well.
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  Speaker 4: And to go back to probably something I've said before,
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  Speaker 4: but I feel like I've found my way as a
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  Speaker 4: guy that doesn't get reps as a backup, to be
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  Speaker 4: ready for a game.
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  Speaker 2: And, um, so when we got to this.
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  Speaker 4: Week, it was, you know, it's not something that I
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  Speaker 4: wasn't used to, to say the least. Um, just mentally
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  Speaker 4: being as prepared as I can with tape, walk through reps,
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  Speaker 4: rewatching practices and being ready to come out here and
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  Speaker 4: spin it around.
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  Speaker 2: So as a takeaway, the practice is overrated.
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  Speaker 4: No, but you can kind of click into the, well,
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  Speaker 4: we don't ever really fully practice on Thursday nights and
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  Speaker 4: we go out and play on Thursday night games and
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  Speaker 4: kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to yourself that way.
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  Speaker 4: So, How much did you throw this week compared to
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  Speaker 4: what you would in a normal week when.
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  Speaker 2: You would be starting? Yeah. The only balls I threw
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  Speaker 2: were on Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: And we did a little bit of a split there,
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  Speaker 4: but I'd say I took the majority of the reps Thursday,
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  Speaker 4: and that was it.
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  Speaker 2: It looked like you didn't throw much pregame, like you
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  Speaker 2: kind of just came out. Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 4: They had, again, a great plan, discussed basically all day
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  Speaker 4: Saturday on how we wanted to handle this And, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it was executed perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Hats off to everybody.
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  Speaker 4: And, yeah, waited to throw until finally got the shoulder
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  Speaker 4: pads and helmets on.
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  Speaker 2: Was it kind of similar to.
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  Speaker 4: What you saw Sam kind of deal with in the
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  Speaker 4: playoffs last year?
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  Speaker 3: Like how the lead up in management kind of went
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  Speaker 3: with that?
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  Speaker 4: It was basically the same template. Like a three-minute tweak
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  Speaker 4: in the middle of it, but that was it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they'd been through it before the previous. And, again, going
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  Speaker 4: back to your question, Seeing Sam do it in a
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  Speaker 4: previous year and not practice, I was practicing for him.
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  Speaker 2: Then him being able to come out on a Sunday and.
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  Speaker 4: Play really, really good football throughout the playoffs was.
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  Speaker 2: Something I could hang my hat on and say I
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  Speaker 2: could model myself this week on what he did. Did
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  Speaker 2: you feel pretty dialed right from the jumper? Did it
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  Speaker 2: take a little bit of time to kind of get.
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  Speaker 4: Up and speed with it? No, I'd say I felt
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  Speaker 4: pretty good going into it. The arm felt fresh.
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  Speaker 2: It felt good. you know, to start the game.
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  Speaker 4: And that's kind of all the confidence I needed to
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  Speaker 4: be able to go out and not think about it
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  Speaker 4: and just play football.
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  Speaker 3: This is only the second game this year that Zach
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  Speaker 3: and J.D. have been able to play together. Just between
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  Speaker 3: the physicality and then.
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  Speaker 1: You know, J.D.
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  Speaker 3: 's ability to make guys miss, just how much were you.
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  Speaker 2: Feeling both of them?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, I'll probably get in trouble for a
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  Speaker 4: couple rips, but handing it off, not doing a fantastic,
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  Speaker 4: you know, keeper out because I was– looking back and
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  Speaker 4: watching Zach and J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Run sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: They were fighting through contact. First guy wasn't tackling. The
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  Speaker 4: line was making great holes, tight ends. I mean, it
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  Speaker 4: was a classic run game from Zach and J.D. tonight,
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  Speaker 4: along with our offensive line just playing their butts off, man.
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  Speaker 2: It was so fun.
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  Speaker 1: Just your injury situation, obviously. You guys were missing a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of guys on both sides of the ball today.
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  Speaker 1: To win the way that you did with physicality and
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  Speaker 1: ball control and all that kind of stuff, just how
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  Speaker 1: gratifying is it to see the way that you guys
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  Speaker 1: were able to control the game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Mike preaches it, the ready squad. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's 70 guys ready to roll at any time. It's
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  Speaker 4: kind of just the mentality that this building has. So
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  Speaker 4: we knew that whoever it was stepping up, playing their
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  Speaker 4: first game, playing their 100th snap, whatever it was, guys
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  Speaker 4: were going to be ready, guys were going to be focused.
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  Speaker 4: The coaching staff did a great job of putting together
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  Speaker 4: a plan on both sides of the ball for guys
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  Speaker 4: that haven't played.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe all year. This is awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I keep going back to it, but this building is
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  Speaker 4: so special, this coaching staff. Going into games, you feel
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  Speaker 4: confident as you've ever been, and if we can just
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  Speaker 4: keep doing that, keep progressing, and keep getting better, the
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  Speaker 4: sky's the limit.
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  Speaker 3: The drive before the half, it looked like you guys
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  Speaker 3: got really aggressive after maybe you got.
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  Speaker 2: That first first down and started throwing it downfield. Was
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  Speaker 2: that just kind of planned there? Did you see something there?
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  Speaker 4: No, I think it's just Fleury feeling the game, feeling
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  Speaker 4: it out. As it always is, it's my job to
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  Speaker 4: go out and execute and operationally get us up to
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  Speaker 4: the ball, keep the false starts minimal, and when he
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  Speaker 4: calls it downfield, I'm going to take it. Drop back,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to take it. Quick game, we'll go from there.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's just Fleury feeling it. with the ready throws,
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  Speaker 4: you really felt it or that you felt like you couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Make it because of the injury?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's a crazy experience of being out there and
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  Speaker 4: just not feeling anything. Adrenaline, how important it is, it
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  Speaker 4: just kind of goes away. You kind of don't think
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  Speaker 4: about it until you come sit down on the sideline
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  Speaker 4: and you're like, oh yeah, that's still there.
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't feel like there was anything I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do as far as throwing goes.
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  Speaker 4: I remember relayed that to the sideline and we just
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  Speaker 4: kept moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: It's cliche around the league, but now that's three games
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  Speaker 2: you haven't turned the ball over.
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  Speaker 3: How much with this defense are you, is that really
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  Speaker 3: what it comes down to?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If you take care of the ball, the defense is.
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  Speaker 4: Going to win the game. I know that that's a big,
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  Speaker 4: a big thing for me going into every week. Knowing
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  Speaker 4: that we can control the game with the run, you know,
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  Speaker 4: operate on third downs well, keep the ball in our hands,
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  Speaker 4: allow our defense to have, you know, Long fields to defend.
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  Speaker 2: Not giving the team the.
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  Speaker 4: Ball on the 30 or the 20 or whatever it
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  Speaker 4: may be, even at the 50. Playing complimentary football, we
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  Speaker 4: have the best punter in the world. So getting to
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  Speaker 4: fourth down, it is what it is when you have
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  Speaker 4: Michael Dixon being able to punt and pin guys deep
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  Speaker 4: and allow our defense to have a 90-yard.
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  Speaker 2: Cushion, so to say. Through that first touchdown drive, Jadarian
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  Speaker 2: and Zach combined for 53 of the 55 yards on
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  Speaker 2: the drive.
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  Speaker 4: Just to see a running back group that's kind of
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  Speaker 4: maybe struggled to find its whole self this year as
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  Speaker 4: a collective to kind of put.
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  Speaker 1: Together that kind of a drive for you guys and
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  Speaker 1: contribute that much.
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  Speaker 2: How big can that be to maybe springboard that.
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  Speaker 1: Whole unit going forward?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, those guys are, you know, they're the workhorses of
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  Speaker 4: this team. I think it says a lot about the
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  Speaker 4: running back room in general. Knowing that we didn't have
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  Speaker 4: sharps early in the year, then we lost J.D. to
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  Speaker 4: the I.R., with E-Man and George and even Valus being
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  Speaker 4: able to step up, make plays when their number was called,
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  Speaker 4: to be able to then get Zach and J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Back.
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  Speaker 4: Zach having a couple games under his belt now after
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  Speaker 4: a very serious injury, obviously. You're just going to keep
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  Speaker 4: seeing him come more and more to life. Hats off
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  Speaker 4: to that room. All of them have had their number
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  Speaker 4: called at some point, and personally, in my opinion, they've
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  Speaker 4: all been ready. And, yeah, they're just huge for us.
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  Speaker 2: You hit some tight passing windows over the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the field.
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  Speaker 3: What did those mental reps, what role did they play
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  Speaker 3: in you being able to do that despite not having
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  Speaker 3: all the practice time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it, I mean, I'll actually, I'll give
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  Speaker 2: you the real truth.
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  Speaker 4: That first drive, similar route to Jack's, I kind of
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  Speaker 4: threw it in front of him a little too much.
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  Speaker 4: And we had a conversation on the sideline. I was like, look, dude,
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  Speaker 4: I was ready for you to kind of like rip
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  Speaker 4: through there and then run into that. And he's like,
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  Speaker 4: talking to me about the safety and the backers and
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  Speaker 4: the holes. He was feeling like he was going to sit.
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  Speaker 2: Up a little bit. I was like, all right. He
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  Speaker 2: did exactly what he told me he was going to
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  Speaker 2: do those next couple times.
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  Speaker 4: We ended up running that route, and I went up
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  Speaker 4: to him after that drive, and I said, never, ever
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  Speaker 4: let me tell you how to run a route again
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  Speaker 4: because you keep.
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  Speaker 2: Doing what you're doing. Tell me where you're going to be,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll make it work. So are you pretty confident
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  Speaker 2: you'll be able to play next week? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Anything else?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. Thanks.