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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on Expanding Offensive Opportunities and Prep for Chargers · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've been really good up their down. Defensively, what
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  Speaker 1: stands out when you watch the Chargers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean really good defense. You look at every level.
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  Speaker 2: I think up front, obviously they generate a good pass rush.
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  Speaker 2: They got a couple of good guys in the edge,
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  Speaker 2: and the interiors played really well as well. And then
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  Speaker 2: at linebacker they fly around the field. Obviously they also
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  Speaker 2: move derwent around safety nickel linebacker, move him around everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: He's a valuable piece for him where they can kind
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  Speaker 2: of put them in different spots to give different presentations.
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  Speaker 2: So he's done a nice job. In their back end
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  Speaker 2: has played well, and they do a good job of
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  Speaker 2: you know, matching different concepts and pressuring at times, and
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  Speaker 2: they do a lot of different a lot of different things,
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  Speaker 2: and they're well coached. I think they changed the look
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  Speaker 2: for the quarterbacks. So be a big week obviously a
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  Speaker 2: preparation to get ready for this. This defense. They're a
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  Speaker 2: good defense.
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  Speaker 3: That two dollars a.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's us a crazy game, I think just
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously good memories with that, you know, for
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  Speaker 2: for us and our team. Obviously a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: aren't here anymore, and the teams have changed a lot,
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  Speaker 2: so not really much in our minds about that game
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  Speaker 2: going into this one. Just totally different here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: different set of circumstances, but obviously great memories from from
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  Speaker 2: that game.
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  Speaker 3: You've said he talk to you about just letting it rip.
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  Speaker 2: You know, was that you feel like you haven't been
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  Speaker 2: doing that or you need to do it more?
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  Speaker 3: Or how did you take that?
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  Speaker 1: What you talked to you about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've had you know, we've had some great conversations
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  Speaker 2: just throughout the season, just checking in week to week,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whether you know it's coming off a win, lost, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: you know, every week we've really kind of checked in
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  Speaker 2: and just talked. And I think that was something that
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  Speaker 2: we talked a lot about this week and over the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of days, of just going out there and
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  Speaker 2: cutting it loose and feeling a little bit more freedom
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  Speaker 2: to let some things go, to take some shots. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think that's the balance of playing quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: right is the you know, the balance of aggressiveness of
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  Speaker 2: when to take the shot, when to you know, take completions,
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  Speaker 2: when to protect the ball. And I think that's something
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  Speaker 2: where just specifically looking at this last game, I think
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  Speaker 2: there was you know, probably a few opportunities where I
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  Speaker 2: could have maybe thrown a couple of balls a little earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Give our guys some chances down the field, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you might not hit all of them, but try to
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  Speaker 2: avoid some of those sacks. And then you look at
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  Speaker 2: just overall being a little bit more aggressive when we
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  Speaker 2: have some opportunities down the field. I think that's something
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  Speaker 2: that this year maybe haven't taken as many shots. So
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  Speaker 2: that's that's something I know I can do well. I
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  Speaker 2: know our offense can do well that we have done
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  Speaker 2: in the past, so I know that we can make
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  Speaker 2: some improvement. So I think that's the biggest thing is
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  Speaker 2: just going out there cutting to lose trust to myself.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you know, Liam's got my back, the
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  Speaker 2: whole team, the whole offense has my back, and just
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  Speaker 2: you know, going out there and playing free.
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  Speaker 3: That's similar to what you told yourself a little bit
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  Speaker 3: back in twenty two after that first half of the year.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I remember you kind of just yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you just just play more free. I mean, is that
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  Speaker 3: similar to this or is that different?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to think of different circumstances where we
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  Speaker 2: were at as a team. I felt like trying to
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  Speaker 2: think back onto like that that time in twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was a little bit different, but I
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  Speaker 2: would say for a quarterback it's a similar thought process
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  Speaker 2: of you know, I feel like at times this year, offensively,
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  Speaker 2: we've just struggled to get in a rhythm and stay
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  Speaker 2: in a rhythm. Even when we have gotten a rhythm,
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  Speaker 2: at times have kind of fallen out of that. So
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  Speaker 2: for me, it's just continuing to trust what I see,
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  Speaker 2: play fast, you know, and just cut it loose. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's that's the biggest thing, is uh, you know, no,
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  Speaker 2: I can make every throw out there. I know, I
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm seeing, So just trust it and go
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  Speaker 2: play and help us get in a rhythm faster and
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  Speaker 2: hit some of these throws down the field and you know,
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  Speaker 2: open up our offense somewhere is.
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  Speaker 3: Playing in your third offense, third end coach, third offense coordinator.
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  Speaker 3: Does that factor into that at all? A little bit
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  Speaker 3: like your hesitancy to cut it loose of time just your.
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  Speaker 2: Well, not necessarily, you know, at this point, I feel
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  Speaker 2: pretty I feel pretty selling into the system. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I've had a lot of time on task up up
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  Speaker 2: until this point. I think, yeah, early on in the
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  Speaker 2: season and even even in the off season in the spring,
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  Speaker 2: trying to get everything down and learn a new system,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously you're not going to play quite as fast
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  Speaker 2: as you want to when you're when you're doing something
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  Speaker 2: for the first time. So that's gotten better. I just
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  Speaker 2: think at times, you know, early on in the year,
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  Speaker 2: we had we had had a lot of turnovers, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that's something where I feel like I got
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more, you know, focus on taking some
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  Speaker 2: completions throughout the last few weeks, and then you look
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  Speaker 2: at where we're at now, and just if you look
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  Speaker 2: at the whole season, I think that's what we've been lacking,
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  Speaker 2: is some of the explosives down the field, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you still got to play quarterback the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: read it out, take what's there and be smart. But
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  Speaker 2: I think we will have some opportunities and I know
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  Speaker 2: that we can make those plays. So I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 1: To give you guys some contributions on Sunday, What was
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  Speaker 1: that week like with him and how important was that
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  Speaker 1: first step to building a big time relationship with Jakobe Myers.
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  Speaker 2: It was great, you know, I was impressed just how
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  Speaker 2: he handled himself the whole week preparing himself to go
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  Speaker 2: play and was asked to do more than I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys would have been able to handle
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  Speaker 2: on such short notice. I think he got here basically
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday and was ready to play on Sunday. And our
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  Speaker 2: system isn't the easiest to learn, and he did a
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  Speaker 2: great job and was able to play a lot of
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  Speaker 2: snaps for us. So he did an awesome job. Excited
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  Speaker 2: just to build on that this week. I think he
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  Speaker 2: brings some great things to the table as far as
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  Speaker 2: obviously you know, his hands, his route running ability. He's
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  Speaker 2: really physical, he can block, can run the whole route tree,
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  Speaker 2: it's good with the ball in his hands after him. Mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's a really good player, and I'm excited just
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  Speaker 2: to continue to grow with him. A good Breton back
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  Speaker 2: to be huge. You know, he's a big part of
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  Speaker 2: our offense, and obviously we haven't had him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the last month or so, so I'm just you know,
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  Speaker 2: excited to get him back, whether that's this week or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously want to do what's best for him and make
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  Speaker 2: sure he's he's ready to go. When he does come back.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, obviously I'm hoping that's, you know, sooner rather
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  Speaker 2: than later, because I think he's it's no secret how
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  Speaker 2: important he is to our offense and what he can
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  Speaker 2: do run game, pass game, just how versatile he is.
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  Speaker 1: Your trust between tread before he ever just split it
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  Speaker 1: about him and still set a masonry subject trustworthy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: part of me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know the way he like I've said,
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  Speaker 2: I've said it in the past, you know, he was
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  Speaker 2: he really learned a lot from Evan, you know, being
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  Speaker 2: behind him for a couple of years and really just
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  Speaker 2: I think Evan said a great example. And Evan was
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  Speaker 2: always with the quarterbacks. He spent a lot of time
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  Speaker 2: with me and so Brenton a lot of times was
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  Speaker 2: with us as well, and I think he picked up
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  Speaker 2: on how important it is the communication with myself and
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  Speaker 2: you know, the other quarterbacks just here in practice where
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  Speaker 2: whether it's certain routes, technique, whatever, you know. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's done a great job of communicating. So we're always talking.
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  Speaker 2: So then now when he you know, at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the year, obviously he's been out for the last
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  Speaker 2: few weeks, but when he was playing and he's the
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  Speaker 2: guy and he's getting all these targets. It's these reps
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  Speaker 2: that we've talked about in the past. It might not
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  Speaker 2: have been him doing it, but you can get up
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  Speaker 2: to speed a lot faster because you've talked about it
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  Speaker 2: and you have a bunch of banked reps from practice.
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  Speaker 2: So and he's been asked to step up before, you know,
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  Speaker 2: before this year, and he's played really well. So I've
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  Speaker 2: always had trust in them. Not gonna find a guy
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  Speaker 2: that works harder, so you know, he's doing all the
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  Speaker 2: right things.
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  Speaker 3: How much do you think this is a test for
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  Speaker 3: this locker room on the bops, back the asiliency, the
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  Speaker 3: angle of diversity after Winter Inspired Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely a test. I mean it's every week
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  Speaker 2: is a test of your your team and your locker
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  Speaker 2: room and your culture. I mean, in this league, it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, win or lose. It's always it's a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's hard to win. It's uh, as you can
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  Speaker 2: see every it's a week to week league and you
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  Speaker 2: got to bring your best and you got to finish
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  Speaker 2: these games. I think it's a learning lesson for our team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we've we've played fairly well in one score
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  Speaker 2: games this year, if you look at especially compared to
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  Speaker 2: last year, that was something that we struggled with and
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  Speaker 2: made that improvement. Obviously, we we didn't get it done
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  Speaker 2: last week. You know, we didn't finish the game well,
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  Speaker 2: and we own that and we have to move on
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  Speaker 2: and go, you know, go try to beat a really
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  Speaker 2: good Chargers team this week. So that's the thing about
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  Speaker 2: the NFL is it doesn't it doesn't let up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so you can't you can't stay in the rear view
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  Speaker 2: mirror thinking about the last one because this one is
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  Speaker 2: is just as important. So I think it's a great
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  Speaker 2: learning experience. You gotta take it for what it is,
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  Speaker 2: which you got to move on. You gotta take the
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  Speaker 2: accountability and look at you know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: plays that I want back that I think I could
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  Speaker 2: have done more to help our team and you know,
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  Speaker 2: get a couple first downs the end of the game,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is. But you know, we're onto the next
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  Speaker 2: week and you got to be able to bounce back.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it is a good test for our team.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I like the data price we had today.
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  Speaker 2: We were flying around, had some good energy and got
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  Speaker 2: to keep preparing that way right, Thank good, all right,
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  Speaker 2: thank you,