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Geno Smith: "We Have A Big Chance In Front Of Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good. Good. How you feeling general?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Have better days, but getting there, I would feel like
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  Speaker 1: compared to how you did post game Sunday, Uh, I
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  Speaker 1: feel a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: Definite, feel a little bit better after Uh you know
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what do you think the yards are that you
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  Speaker 3: play Thursday?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we'll see how it goes. Uh, it's up to coach.
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  Speaker 3: Is the plan still to not really do much in
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  Speaker 3: practice until Wednesday?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's up to coach. I just uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: do what I'm told.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to this defense that you're facing, you
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  Speaker 3: face a number of top defenses, but what is it
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  Speaker 3: about the niers that separates them? And and maybe that's
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  Speaker 3: secondary with all the interceptions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think you gotta start up front.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they got uh obviously one of the better
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  Speaker 2: d lines in the in the league, A lot of
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  Speaker 2: first rounders on that on that front seven.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. You know they have a really good uh.
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  Speaker 2: Mic linebacker with Fred Warner and Drake Drake Greenlaw uh
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  Speaker 2: is also a great player. And then you look at
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  Speaker 2: the secondary. You know their corners are are very aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. They like to attack the football.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. They like to uh you know, really press your corners,
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  Speaker 2: I mean pressure receivers. Uh, challenge your receivers, and you
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  Speaker 2: know they're they're a really good bunch man. They fly around,
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  Speaker 2: they play hard, Uh, they make plays and so as
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  Speaker 2: always every single week, you know it's gonna be a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, you know, I I love those challenges.
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  Speaker 3: How are you guys as an offense better prepared to
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  Speaker 3: face them than you were a year when you FI
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  Speaker 3: saw that last season?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: We have to find out on Thursday night. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a question we have to answer on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night. I don't think nothing I can say up
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  Speaker 2: here is gonna help us in that regard. Uh, So
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  Speaker 2: we just gotta go out and execute.
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  Speaker 3: How how early have you been here the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of days retreat?
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  Speaker 2: Uh just been around the clock, just all day and night,
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  Speaker 2: just working on it, trying to you know, get it,
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  Speaker 2: uh to feel as great as it can.
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  Speaker 1: Would you be able to play the game as to that? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, that's up to coach you personally.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like you'd be right?
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  Speaker 1: I would leave it up to coach.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever played a game you didn't practice between games?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I mean you have usually on those Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: UH night games when it when it's a short week,
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  Speaker 2: you really don't practice much as usually walk through.
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  Speaker 1: So uh this is to me no different.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the Niners players already talking you about what
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  Speaker 3: the advice that will be like on Thursday. What do
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  Speaker 3: you know to beat your the twelves in this prime
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  Speaker 3: time game of the environment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I uh, I can't wait to see just all
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  Speaker 2: the fans and uh man, you know, think about playing
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  Speaker 2: on you know, Thanksgiving, and just how electric our fans
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  Speaker 2: are gonna be in the building. Uh division opponent, rivalry game. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: big game for us, big game for them, and uh shoot, man,
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  Speaker 2: I know our fans are gonna come and bring everything
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  Speaker 2: they got. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We really really look forward to that.
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  Speaker 3: The biggest uh what needs to be the biggest difference
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  Speaker 3: offensively for you guys in this game versus the three
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  Speaker 3: games from last year against the Niners.
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  Speaker 2: It starts with protecting the football, you know, not turning
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  Speaker 2: the ball over. Uh. It starts with, uh, converting on
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  Speaker 2: third downs, something we talk about every single week. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, going out there and executing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: especially in the red zone, getting touchdowns, trying to get
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  Speaker 2: more touchdowns and field goals. Uh, and then overall just
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  Speaker 2: you know, winning the game. However, however, we can whatever
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  Speaker 2: it takes to you know, go out there and get
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  Speaker 2: a win. Obviously, they beat us three times last year
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  Speaker 2: and you know, to me, that's unacceptable.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, you know, we gotta do whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 2: We got to you know, fight scratching claw to get
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  Speaker 2: it done.
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  Speaker 3: How do you guys have offensive find more consistency?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously last game you started.
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  Speaker 3: Grade four for four down to start the game, and
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  Speaker 3: then obviously it wasn't a productive later.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's football. See, you start four for four,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna feel good about it. If they stop you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the next two or three times. If they
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  Speaker 2: stop your next four times, you're fifty percent, right. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just football. And I think overall it just comes
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  Speaker 2: down to execution and winning on third downs. But you
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  Speaker 2: know it's obviously you got you know, two other downs
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  Speaker 2: before that that mattered as well. So being great on
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  Speaker 2: first and second down will help you out on third down.
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  Speaker 3: How difficult for you physically was it when you came
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  Speaker 3: back in the game on Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty difficult, you know, in a lot of pain, But
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  Speaker 2: you know, just try to suck it up and go
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  Speaker 2: out there and do my best.
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  Speaker 3: You you mentioned on Sunday about the speaker going out
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  Speaker 3: on that last that last play call. I guess for
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  Speaker 3: fans who don't know, how often does does that happen?
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  Speaker 3: Where the speaker might for the signal might not come through.
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  Speaker 1: From the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: That could happen in any game home more homework way, Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know it happens.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say often, but it does happen from time
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  Speaker 2: to time. And uh, you you know, we always talk
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  Speaker 2: about having, you know, plans for that type of situation, so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback always knows that there's a plan that you know,
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  Speaker 2: in place. And if it isn't a two minute situation,
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  Speaker 2: or you got to get on the ball and you know,
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  Speaker 2: get a play call quickly, then you could, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, kind of relate to the sideline. But in that moment,
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  Speaker 1: you just.
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  Speaker 2: Got to get a play called and try to get
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  Speaker 2: it off.
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  Speaker 1: You speakers in yours?
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  Speaker 3: Or is there only one?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? We both both do you?
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  Speaker 3: Pete was saying that that that play, if it had
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  Speaker 3: been blocked right, he could have really gone.
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  Speaker 1: Is that that's sort of what you're hinting at.
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  Speaker 3: I guess afterwards that if we kind of looked at it,
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  Speaker 3: that's what we see.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, hindsight's always twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, you know, I just feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in that situation, I think j Man had made a
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  Speaker 2: fifty four yarder. Uh, the one right there was a
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  Speaker 2: fifty five yarder and uh, you know, in that situation,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you don't know exactly how many yards DK
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  Speaker 2: got on the catch, but you do know how much
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  Speaker 2: time you got and really, you know, one or two
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  Speaker 2: plays left to maybe get off. So there's a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of different ways you can go about it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: We're usually the type of team that gets right on
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  Speaker 2: the football and have a play called. In that situation,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we thought we had the right play call
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  Speaker 2: that we could have got off and you know, could
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  Speaker 2: have got some more yards. Didn't exactly work out the
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  Speaker 2: way we plan, but you know, that's just something we
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  Speaker 2: gotta work work on getting better at. But overall, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm signed with my decision making and I feel good
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  Speaker 2: about what we did.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in terms of staying.
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  Speaker 3: On schedule first and second, getting the third down and manageable.
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  Speaker 3: It's then a mindset that has to happen for the
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  Speaker 3: offense or is it a little bit of patience like
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  Speaker 3: you're saying, and stay within the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's every All thirty two teams in
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  Speaker 2: the league are trying to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Stay on third and manageable.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the percentages to convert third and long seven
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  Speaker 2: plus aren't that high, you know. So the more you
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  Speaker 2: can be in those five to you know, one or
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  Speaker 2: two situations, the better the percentages are, the odds are
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  Speaker 2: more in your favor to get those first down. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's critical on first and second down to be on
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  Speaker 2: schedule to make the right plays and so that you
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  Speaker 2: can be in a manager's situation on third down, which
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  Speaker 2: will allow you know, your percentages to go up.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, with all.
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  Speaker 3: That's happened, you know how big of an opportunity is
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  Speaker 3: for the team Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: Huge opportunity, huge opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: You know again, man, we're right in in the think
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  Speaker 2: of the playoff race. You know, we're right right in
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  Speaker 2: the think of you know, our division race, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: we got a big chance in front of us. But
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  Speaker 2: it's also you know, a big opponent, tough opponent. Man,
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  Speaker 2: They're a really good team and we look forward to
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  Speaker 2: going up against these guys. I know the type of
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  Speaker 2: team that we have, the type of guys we have.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it is a big game because it's the
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  Speaker 2: next game. You know, all of our games are big games,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know this one is just just our
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  Speaker 2: next one.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like the action green uniforms or yeah? I
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  Speaker 1: think they're pretty sweet. I like them. Have you have
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  Speaker 1: you question?
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  Speaker 3: Have you always wanted to play a big game on Thanksgiving?
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  Speaker 1: I always have. Yeah, I don't know if I have
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  Speaker 1: in my career.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I have, so uh, this will definitely
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  Speaker 2: be one of the first for me, and it'll be.
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  Speaker 1: A special one, you know, not that I can remember.
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  Speaker 2: Remember.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, last year is unacceptable because I feel like that's
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  Speaker 3: a kind of common sense around everybody here.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't speak for everybody. I just think that's how
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  Speaker 2: I look at it. But uh, you know I know
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  Speaker 2: that we definitely you can't think about last year.
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  Speaker 1: That's over with. But you know, for me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you want to.
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  Speaker 2: Win every single game, and uh, you know, anytime you
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  Speaker 2: lose three times to the same opponent, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: would say that's unacceptable, But I won't speak for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys,