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Ernest Jones IV: "We Just Have To Go Out There And Be Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So rivalries, are they real or are they just fan fiction?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it just depends on how you define rivalry.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is two really good teams who always.
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  Speaker 3: Had a battle.
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  Speaker 2: About to have another one.
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  Speaker 4: You played them late in the season twice. That's obviously
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  Speaker 4: tape you can go to. There's a lot of continuity
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  Speaker 4: for both teams. How do you balance looking at what
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  Speaker 4: you did last year that worked versus not? leaning on
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  Speaker 4: that and assuming, oh, because we did this to them
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  Speaker 4: in January, we're going to have their number again this time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, none of what happened last year matters. It's
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  Speaker 2: a new year, new season. They got a hell of
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  Speaker 2: a group. They've put together really, what, four, week four, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: four good games, won every one of them. So this
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  Speaker 2: is a new team, just like we have a new team.
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  Speaker 2: They got a new team. They're doing some different things.
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  Speaker 2: We just got to go out there and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: do our job.
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  Speaker 4: How does Kyle Shanahan put a lot of pressure compared
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  Speaker 4: to other offensive coordinators out there, other play callers.
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  Speaker 3: On you guys in the middle with the way that
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  Speaker 3: you have to play your coverage? What does he do
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  Speaker 3: that makes it true? I mean, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 3: personally don't think it's anything different.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, just with the athletes that he
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  Speaker 2: has over there, he's able to– they're able to do more.
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  Speaker 3: They help him out a lot just like he helps
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  Speaker 3: them out a lot. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When you can give the ball to McCaffrey and he
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  Speaker 2: can do the rest and it could be a five-yard
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  Speaker 2: route or a 10-yard route, you know, that's, that's just
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  Speaker 2: kind of what it is. So we just got to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and just be us, play our style,
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  Speaker 2: play the calls that might cause and just execute.
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  Speaker 4: What does Mike Evans do to that offense?
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  Speaker 2: Um, I think, you know, stretches them out there. They're
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  Speaker 2: able to pause, stretches, stretches, stretches it out, pause. But
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  Speaker 2: he's able to do a lot of things, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from different points on the field. Um, Fades in the
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  Speaker 2: red zone. Just a freak out there, really, when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to, you know, just getting the ball to him.
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  Speaker 3: He's able to do a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So our corners, we've got to go out there, be
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  Speaker 2: tight in coverage, and just go execute.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's only got like 17 receptions. Now, granted,
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  Speaker 4: he's made some big catches. But when he is not
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  Speaker 4: getting the ball, what else is he doing to make.
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  Speaker 5: Your life difficult?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's blocking. Just him being on the field alone,
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  Speaker 2: you have to account for him. So that's what we
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  Speaker 2: have to be ready for, just, you know, when he
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  Speaker 2: does get the ball. When he doesn't get the ball,
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  Speaker 2: we just be in our spots and execute.
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  Speaker 3: What are you seeing from Brock Purdy on tape?
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  Speaker 1: It looks like he's playing some of his best football
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's playing really good. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: Getting the ball out really decisive, making the throws, not
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  Speaker 2: putting the ball in jeopardy. I believe he only has
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  Speaker 2: one interception through four weeks, which is, you know, crazy. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's playing really smart, and then he's out
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  Speaker 2: there extending plays with his legs. Like, he's doing it
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  Speaker 2: all right now, playing at a really high level. So,
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  Speaker 2: like I've been saying, we've got to go execute. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to go play at a really high level because
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  Speaker 2: they are.
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  Speaker 1: They usually live in 21 personnel, and Kyle Juszczyk's always there,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not going to be there this week. Does
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  Speaker 1: that complicate your game planning, trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: they're going to do without him?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think they had number nine doing a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of that last week. It's still there. They're able
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  Speaker 2: to still get to it. So we'll account for how
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  Speaker 2: much of, you know, 21 we'll see. I guess we'll
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  Speaker 2: have to wait until Sunday and see, you know, what
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  Speaker 2: they have planned for. But I think they're still capable
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  Speaker 2: of getting to it because they have guys and bodies
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  Speaker 2: that are able to do, you know, similar to what
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  Speaker 2: he's able to do.
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  Speaker 3: Ernest, you said on.
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  Speaker 5: Sunday that you guys were going to need to talk
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  Speaker 5: to get through the penalties and all the issues, and
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  Speaker 5: it sounds like that happened from what Jaron told us yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: How did you kind of feel that that went and
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  Speaker 5: kind of the– the response from the guys talking about,
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  Speaker 5: talking your way through all that and what you saw?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think a couple of other guys
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  Speaker 2: hit on the penalties. I had other things that I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to kind of focus on. But, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: we got through to each other.
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  Speaker 3: We talked. We had, you know, man-to-man conversations in that room.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we have an understanding of what we
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  Speaker 2: have to do and what we need to do.
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  Speaker 1: Why you decide to do that and when– How many
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  Speaker 1: times generally in a season do you think you need
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  Speaker 1: to speak up to the team?
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  Speaker 3: Just once.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think we got to you kind of
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  Speaker 2: address that and you address other things in the same situation.
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  Speaker 3: So you don't have to get to it later. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just once.
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  Speaker 4: Why can the message sometimes mean more coming from each other,
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  Speaker 4: from players than if the coaches are, you know, in
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  Speaker 4: here telling you guys don't do this or do this or.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're honestly, you know, the ones going out
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  Speaker 2: there doing it, putting our bodies on the line. So
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  Speaker 2: we don't want to be doing it and costing the team.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it just simply, I don't think it
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  Speaker 2: means more coming from one person, but I think just having,
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  Speaker 2: you know, your brother speak to you and come to you,
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  Speaker 2: I think it just, it may do a little different.
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  Speaker 1: There was a clip recently of you during the game repeating.
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  Speaker 5: Best in the world, best in the world to others,
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  Speaker 5: and just kind of repeating that and repeating that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious if you think that's important.
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  Speaker 1: What sort of goes into the thought process of continuing
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  Speaker 1: to pump guys up with that kind of stuff throughout
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  Speaker 1: a game?
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  Speaker 2: Well, one, I believe we are. And then two, it's
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  Speaker 2: just kind of just what you said. I just pump
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  Speaker 2: guys up, man. Leo said it to me about two
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago. Like, when he hears that and he hears
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  Speaker 2: me say that, that kind of gives him energy in
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  Speaker 2: his mind and knowing that, okay, he's down.
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  Speaker 3: He's ready to go to war with me.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just lifting guys up, making sure guys
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  Speaker 2: know the standard that we have and what we said
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to be.
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  Speaker 4: Away from the penalty, what was the biggest focal point
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  Speaker 4: for you guys defensively coming out of that game on
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  Speaker 4: Sunday and getting ready to play this really good 49ers offense?
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  Speaker 2: I think just overall just communication. Could have been tighter
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  Speaker 2: on the communication on a certain thing, getting in and
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  Speaker 2: out of checks. And that's going to be big this week.
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  Speaker 2: We carry a big crowd, they carry one too. So
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  Speaker 2: it'll be a good game, be a really loud game.
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  Speaker 2: So I think communication is going to carry us through
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  Speaker 2: and then we just got to go tackle.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you think of the play that Drake Thomas made?
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  Speaker 5: I think it was the scramble where he levels the
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  Speaker 5: fullback and the tackle.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's Drake for you, man. He run into
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  Speaker 2: somebody and they make a big play. That's what he's
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  Speaker 2: been doing since I got here, just crashing people. So
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  Speaker 2: that's a hell of a play by him. Like that's
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  Speaker 2: what we see almost daily.
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  Speaker 3: Going off of that, like.
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  Speaker 5: To succeed at his size, being a little bit smaller
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  Speaker 5: than he is, like the fearlessness that he has to
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  Speaker 5: both shoot the gaps in the run game and all those,
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  Speaker 5: how much does that kind of impress you when you
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  Speaker 5: see him throw himself.
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  Speaker 3: Around like that? I mean, it does. It does.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, I'm a big size. It is
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  Speaker 2: what it is. God bless you some more than others.
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  Speaker 2: You just got to do what you can with it.
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  Speaker 2: And he does a great job, you know, with, with his,
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  Speaker 2: his size. He's a hell of a linebacker. You know,
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  Speaker 2: one of the best playing right now. So, It impresses
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  Speaker 2: me daily, but I've been seeing Drake do this. So
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  Speaker 2: it's good to see him getting his recognition for it, though.
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  Speaker 1: After the beating you guys put on them in the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs last year, the 49ers have been pretty open about
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  Speaker 1: how much they've circled this game this week. Did that
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  Speaker 1: change anything for you guys, or do you notice when
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about how big this game is in their mind?
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  Speaker 3: No, we're not going to make it bigger than what
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  Speaker 3: it is. For us, it's, what, week five.
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  Speaker 2: Like, there's going to be, what, plethora of games after
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  Speaker 2: this that we have to win. And this is just
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  Speaker 2: the next person on the schedule. And it just so
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  Speaker 2: happens to be them. With what happened last year, they
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  Speaker 2: can take it however you want to. That's last year.
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  Speaker 2: This is this year. We're looking to win the game.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.