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  Speaker 1: I can talk from both sides of defensive player. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's running for the first down. I could see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you running giving your max effort, but just
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  Speaker 1: the way that he went.
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  Speaker 2: About the actual tackle part of it.
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  Speaker 1: But Trevor slid, you know, quarterback slide, and it was
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  Speaker 1: he slid, so you you going low anyway, Like what
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  Speaker 1: was you aiming for? And then you know you made
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  Speaker 1: that It was a dirty It was a dirty play.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say he was a dirty person, but
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was a dirty play. And uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know better. I think in his mind he knows he
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have done that. And uh, you know, as a defender,
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  Speaker 1: I understand being aggressive and want to make every play.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I saw he said something about, you know, trying to
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  Speaker 1: hit everybody as hard as he can.
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  Speaker 2: For sure understanding that mindset. But you know, you.
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  Speaker 1: Understand how the game is played, especially today, and there's
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  Speaker 1: no room for that in the game right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I kind of wanted to follow with that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just from a linebacker's perspective, what's the challenge there?
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  Speaker 4: When the quarterbacks about the side, you're running full speed?
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  Speaker 4: How difficult is that?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I understand being aggressive. I understand making sure running
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  Speaker 1: he don't get the first down. He slid and he's
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  Speaker 1: slid and you went low like like if you didn't slide,
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  Speaker 1: he was going low.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's how you go and tack a little quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: That's just that's weird anyway, Like your quarterback, he's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna stand him up and run the feet
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  Speaker 1: drive him back. Instead, you saw him slide and you
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  Speaker 1: went down after he slid. Basically, so mindset wise, understand
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  Speaker 1: the attacking mindset. I don't understand that the finish of
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  Speaker 1: the play, and I'm not you know, I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to throw him under the bus, but you gotta you know,
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  Speaker 1: as a defender, you know, I understand playing on defense
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  Speaker 1: the mindset we had while trying to run up and
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  Speaker 1: make a tackle.
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  Speaker 2: But he did.
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  Speaker 1: He slid pretty You understand that you you messed up.
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  Speaker 1: He understands that he messed up.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, d Rock, Hey boy, what was the sense
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  Speaker 3: you got from the guys this morning coming in? You know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously there was still a chance at the playoffs, you know,
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  Speaker 3: or achieve me at the division title before yesterday, and
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  Speaker 3: now that's kind of out the door here. So what
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  Speaker 3: was your sense of how the attitude the guys was
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  Speaker 3: in the atmosphere in the locker room was this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're more just trying to get it right
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  Speaker 1: on our end. I think that division title race, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's that's that was going to be taken care
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  Speaker 1: of if we got things right on our end, and
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  Speaker 1: then we haven't done that yet, so it's still we
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  Speaker 1: got five games and trying to make stuff look right
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  Speaker 1: in our preparation and uh, just the way the way
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  Speaker 1: that we take our preparation to the game. So there's
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  Speaker 1: bigger fish to fry than division championship right now. I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as as being professionals and the talent that
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  Speaker 1: we have, not being able to get it right is
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  Speaker 1: what we need to focus on.
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  Speaker 2: Weekend.
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  Speaker 3: We got what's your personal frustration level with the inability
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  Speaker 3: of it to get right? I mean you were here
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  Speaker 3: when it was right obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: My personal frustration is I feel like I want to
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  Speaker 1: be not only a player that place where I want
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  Speaker 1: to be a player that you know, can lead his
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  Speaker 1: team to win and that people can look at and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, all right, he's he's been a winner.
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  Speaker 2: In the league.
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  Speaker 1: So my personal frustration is that, you know, it kind
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  Speaker 1: of punts your head like, one, am I not doing right?
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  Speaker 1: You know, o'bously done a lot of good things up
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  Speaker 1: until this point in my career, Like what what do
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  Speaker 1: I need to keep getting better at? Like it's just
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  Speaker 1: that those little questions that creep into your head. But
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  Speaker 1: you got to keep stay confident out there. But clearly
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  Speaker 1: you gotta I gotta look at myself in the mirror,
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  Speaker 1: go back in the drawing board whenever that time comes,
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  Speaker 1: and see what I have to do differently coming into
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  Speaker 1: the year or during the year, during these next five weeks,
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  Speaker 1: just to uh get people going the right way.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any talk at all in the locker room
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  Speaker 3: about you know, changes that could be coming in terms
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  Speaker 3: of Doug Peterson.
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  Speaker 2: That would be handled when it's handled.
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody right now is just trying to get
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  Speaker 1: these next five weeks right, starting with this week up.
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  Speaker 1: I think you got to understand, like this is a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good locker room in terms of focusing on the
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  Speaker 1: next play. Nobody's pointing fingers that ship or stuff. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I definitely had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: respect for the guys in the locker room because you've
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  Speaker 1: heard about other teams and these type of situations kind
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  Speaker 1: of cave and start.
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  Speaker 2: It becomes a crap shoot. I would say.
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  Speaker 1: So, everybody's kind of being professional about it, and we're researching,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, we need to take ownership and and get
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  Speaker 1: these things right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: By nature, you guys fight back to to get to
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  Speaker 5: overcome injury. Right, you fight through injury, you deal and
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  Speaker 5: play through. Would you guys be okay with the team
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  Speaker 5: shutting Trevor down for.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of the year. Well, I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: he has.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he has a bum shoulder and a percussion.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I don't know the greater the shoulder, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know the severity the concussion.
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  Speaker 2: That's up to Trevor. Don't ask me about Trevor. I
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  Speaker 2: feel if.
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  Speaker 1: He feels that he can come out and play well
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  Speaker 1: and make the team better, I'd say he can do it.
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  Speaker 1: If the Jaguars is a business, you want to talk
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  Speaker 1: to me about being inside of football, I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do that on this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, if he feels he can come out and
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  Speaker 1: make the team better and he really wants to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and he should be allowed to do it if he
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  Speaker 1: feels like, you know, he's like you said, that shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's gonna do in the off
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  Speaker 1: season with it and the concussion. And we got five games,
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  Speaker 1: Like as a team, I said, we're already trying to
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  Speaker 1: get stuff right. If he feels like he's not able
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  Speaker 1: to help that and the team wants to hit him down,
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  Speaker 1: that's their decision to make.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: And secondly, Walker got his contract, are you know me?
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  Speaker 5: As guys get paid here, you know, who have put
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  Speaker 5: in their time and done it the right way. Is
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  Speaker 5: nice to see guys getting rewarded like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, It's always good to see the next guy get
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  Speaker 1: their reward like that. And that's a guy who comes
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  Speaker 1: in and works every every weekend. He's playing better and better.
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  Speaker 1: So it's always good. And I'm always you know, pro teammates.
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  Speaker 1: So I seen him work, I seen him put in
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  Speaker 1: those hours and stuff, and I've been with him in
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  Speaker 1: the training room and stuff. It's always cool to see
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  Speaker 1: somebody get there get what they deserve.
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  Speaker 4: Coming up, Hey Walker, congrats. Just your reaction to the
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  Speaker 4: extension and what does it mean to sort of be
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  Speaker 4: solidified for the next few years.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean obviously super excited about it. I love Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 6: A love this I love this team, of the group
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  Speaker 6: of guys, of the people I got to come to
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  Speaker 6: work with every day, really love the city. So I
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  Speaker 6: always wanted to stay here. Obviously, going into a contract
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  Speaker 6: you this year, didn't know if it would happen or not.
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  Speaker 6: But I was really good we're able to work something
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  Speaker 6: out and be able to be here for a few
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  Speaker 6: more years.
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  Speaker 4: When did the contract talk sort of start and was
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  Speaker 4: it always the plan to sort of get this done
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  Speaker 4: before the season ended.
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  Speaker 6: No, I mean, I'll be honest, I didn't anticipate anything
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  Speaker 6: done before the season ended, but we started talking over
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  Speaker 6: the bye week and then yeah, so over the bye
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  Speaker 6: weekend of last week, things just progressed and we were
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  Speaker 6: able to get a deal done kind of by the
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  Speaker 6: end of the day Saturday, and it's able to sign
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  Speaker 6: before the game yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: And then just last last thing for me, how have
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  Speaker 4: you felt like you've sort of, you know, gotten comfortable
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  Speaker 4: in that role at left tackle. I know you've done
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  Speaker 4: it over the years, but just being the starter now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, No, it's been nice to be able to start,
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  Speaker 6: you know, consecutive games in a row, and just I
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  Speaker 6: feel like I'm able to steadily play a little better
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  Speaker 6: each game and just get and groove and yeah, it's
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  Speaker 6: been really nice.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead and Mark, Hey, what about your performance yesterday?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously you get that kind of contract, you're
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  Speaker 5: going against those two ends, and you really stepped up
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  Speaker 5: and played played really well. Did you feel like I
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  Speaker 5: don't want to, you know, I want to showcase myself
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  Speaker 5: here in this on this stage after signing that deal.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, honestly, there wasn't that much thought about
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  Speaker 6: the deal at that point. I'd say once I signed it,
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  Speaker 6: just kind of moved on to the game. And I
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  Speaker 6: mean I wanted to play well in the game, regardless
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  Speaker 6: of the dealer. And no, obviously I didn't really know
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  Speaker 6: that was going to be a piece of that story,
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  Speaker 6: I guess until I was able to sign it Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 6: So I was just prepared to play in the game
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  Speaker 6: and go out and try to play well.
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  Speaker 5: What does it mean to maybe this would look like
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  Speaker 5: you have your right tackle days behind you, and certainly
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  Speaker 5: your left guard days. What does that mean to you
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  Speaker 5: to know that this is my spot moving forward? You
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  Speaker 5: know for at least the next three years.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, No, it's nice. I mean it's just nice, you know,
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  Speaker 6: being able to kind of know where you're going to
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  Speaker 6: be in practice and prepare in a single position. Honestly,
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure it helped me kind of moving around and
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  Speaker 6: learning different parts of the line, but it is nice
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  Speaker 6: just having one spot.
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  Speaker 2: Now, thank you. All right, we're gonna go to Gene
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  Speaker 2: and then d Rock.
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  Speaker 7: Hey Walker, it sounded from your initial response about the
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  Speaker 7: contract that you were surprised that this thing actually happened
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  Speaker 7: because the general manager has been on record before saying
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  Speaker 7: that he doesn't do deals during the season. So I'm
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  Speaker 7: just how surprised were you?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess I was more surprised, just like what
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  Speaker 6: you said, just getting done during the season. I was
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  Speaker 6: anticipating if I was going to get an extension done,
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  Speaker 6: it would probably be after the season. So when they
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  Speaker 6: reached out on the bye week, I definitely wasn't expected,
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  Speaker 6: but it was a nice surprise. And then yeah, we
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  Speaker 6: were able to kind of start working on and we're
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  Speaker 6: able to get it done before the Texans game.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, So, as a follow up, so even if you
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  Speaker 7: had gone into the offseason without a deal with anybody,
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  Speaker 7: you would have preferred to stay here as opposed to
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  Speaker 7: go elsewhere for potentially more money.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think at that point it's hard
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  Speaker 6: to predict how that would have gone. Playing six more
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  Speaker 6: games Obviously part of the decision too, if getting extended
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  Speaker 6: now is securing myself with six more games and kind
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  Speaker 6: of lessening the threat of getting injured and kind of
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  Speaker 6: hurting my own self. So I don't know exactly how
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  Speaker 6: that would have gone, but definitely would have been an
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  Speaker 6: option for me to stay here after the season, regardless
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  Speaker 6: of what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Yep, hey Walker.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously there's no more uncertainty for you, but there certainly
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  Speaker 3: is still some uncertainty regarding Doug and whatever potential changes
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  Speaker 3: there could be. So is there a lot of talk
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  Speaker 3: about that in the locker room? How hard is it
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  Speaker 3: to kind of focus in these last five weeks when
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of all whirling around.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I would say, this team's just that
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  Speaker 6: we've done a really good job all year. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: there's been a lot of talk, I feel like, since
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  Speaker 6: the beginning of the season about the whole organization, players,
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  Speaker 6: what we're doing, and I think We've done a really
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  Speaker 6: good job of just focusing each week on the next opponent,
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  Speaker 6: each individually trying to play really well and just win. Honestly,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I think everyone of this team just really
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  Speaker 6: wants to win, so so short answered, No, we have
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  Speaker 6: not many discussions at all about coaching changes, about organization changes,
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  Speaker 6: anything like that. You know, we're focused last week, We're
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  Speaker 6: focused on Houston. Now we're going to be focused on Tennessee.
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  Speaker 6: It's a big division opponent that is always tough, and
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  Speaker 6: you know we're going there obviously, and it's going to
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  Speaker 6: be a tough place to play, and they have a
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  Speaker 6: really good defense, so you know we're getting ready for them.
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people always make or talk about,
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  Speaker 3: like a coach losing a locker room, is a locker
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  Speaker 3: room really that fragile, you know, as a general rule.
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  Speaker 6: I can't really speak for other locker rooms, obviously, I
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  Speaker 6: think our locker rooms really strong. I think we have
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  Speaker 6: really great leaders from the top down, and I feel
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  Speaker 6: like everyone here works really really hard. I would say
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  Speaker 6: that's you know, even in a season like this where
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  Speaker 6: we haven't had the success we want, It's one thing
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  Speaker 6: I've been most impressed with this team, it's just how
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  Speaker 6: we come to practice each week. We work really hard,
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  Speaker 6: we stay dedicated to the game plans, and obviously we're
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  Speaker 6: trying to figure things out and trying to figure out
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  Speaker 6: how to get some of these especially some of these
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  Speaker 6: close games that we think we should have won and
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  Speaker 6: actually turned them into wins. I think it'll happen. You know,
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  Speaker 6: we were dedicated to kind of, you know, changing that
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  Speaker 6: through these last five games.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously, you know Trevor's injury yesterday and he's already
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  Speaker 3: dealing with the shoulder potential. You know, the team could
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  Speaker 3: shut him down for the rest of the season. Would
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  Speaker 3: what would your reaction be to that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I don't know. I mean that's a
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  Speaker 6: decision obviously, that that Trevor's going have to make and
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  Speaker 6: that the medical staffs have to make. I'm sure coaches
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  Speaker 6: will be involved a little in that. I'd love to
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  Speaker 6: see him play again, but you know, it's a decision
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  Speaker 6: for them to make.