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Press Pass | Coach Pederson: "We want to finish this thing the right way." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Doug, just your bral thoughts about the game and what
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  Speaker 1: it means to you to get a season sweep over.
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  Speaker 2: The Titans found a way to win.
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  Speaker 1: Proud of the guys, just so happy for them and
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff. The way these guys hang together, they stick together,
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  Speaker 1: there's no quit they keep fighting.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I keep telling them. You know, you never
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  Speaker 2: know when the plays come in your way, and.
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  Speaker 1: When it does, just just make it. And and you
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  Speaker 1: saw at the end there Antonio Johnson made the play
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  Speaker 1: and and you win the game.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of good efforts in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Defense created a takeaway, you know, offense was was was
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  Speaker 1: effective and good in the red zone today.
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  Speaker 2: Just a good team, good team win.
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  Speaker 3: With the way the last two weeks have gone, Doug,
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  Speaker 3: is this one particularly emotional? Did you find it to
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  Speaker 3: be an emotional locker room afterwards?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think I think it is definitely emotional the way
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  Speaker 1: our season's gone. You know, obviously we've we've talked a
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  Speaker 1: lot about this, you know, just the disappointment and the expectation.
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  Speaker 2: Not where it you know is or should be.
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  Speaker 1: But anytime you get a chance to win a game,
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  Speaker 1: especially against a good football team and division opponents always great.
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  Speaker 1: The locker room is excited, probably a little bit of relief,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as well, just to get another win. And
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  Speaker 1: and you know it's part of part of what we
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  Speaker 1: keep talking about every day. We want to finish this
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  Speaker 1: thing the right way.
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  Speaker 3: But what more can you say about what Brian Thomas
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  Speaker 3: has done this year?
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  Speaker 2: I think he tied a record rookie record Randy Moss owned. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I was, uh, you know, I said Randy Moss.
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  Speaker 1: I was on a sideline in Green Bay when when
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  Speaker 1: Randy had a big day in Minnesota against US. I
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  Speaker 1: remember that his rookie season. And you know, Randy Moss
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  Speaker 1: is a heck of a receiver.
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  Speaker 2: And and.
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  Speaker 1: You know Brian, just Brian just keeps to keeps impressing
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  Speaker 1: each week each week, and and can't say enough good
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  Speaker 1: things about Brian, and and just happy for him, and
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  Speaker 1: and and but it just goes to show you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just with him, and speaking of Brian and just the
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  Speaker 1: way he works, he handles himself.
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  Speaker 2: For a young kid, very impressive, very impressive, Brian.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, can you telling us what how you feel about
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  Speaker 3: Mac Jones and how he's been playing down the stress
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  Speaker 3: to help you finish the season.
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  Speaker 1: I thought Mac played, you know, probably obviously one of
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  Speaker 1: his better games today. I thought he did a great
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  Speaker 1: job of just putting the ball and play and taking
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  Speaker 1: what the defense gave him. And some really good scrambles
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  Speaker 1: early in the game to keep us on the field,
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  Speaker 1: helped us in our third down you know, conversion rate
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  Speaker 1: today and the touchdown passed to Brian Thomas, and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just just doing things that that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we asked him to do a great performance, you know
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  Speaker 1: by Mac and and and he's one of you know,
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  Speaker 1: many guys that that really had a hand in this win.
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  Speaker 2: But but he played really well today.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, you mentioned Brian Thomas coming out at the backfield
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  Speaker 1: some earlier this week, just seeing what he can do
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  Speaker 1: out of there just as a peer runner.
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  Speaker 2: How much value does that add to the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it adds a lot, you know, and it's an
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  Speaker 1: element of surprise to the defense a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: today on a little you know, arounds, you know, different
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  Speaker 1: things and giving him the football in space, and guys
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  Speaker 1: just did a great job too blocking for him.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: But but anytime you get Brian Thomas, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: ball in his hands, it's it's pretty pretty electric and
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  Speaker 1: he does some great things with it. So I just
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  Speaker 1: want to continue to expand you know, that role for him.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, be smart and you know,
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  Speaker 1: if it helps the offense, and then we're gonna do it.
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  Speaker 3: We know the margin for error is pretty small for
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  Speaker 3: you guys. How important was it to play a cleaning
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  Speaker 3: football game pretty much on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's been it's been a minute since
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  Speaker 1: we've done that. And really I think all three phases,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even even down to the two minute situations
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  Speaker 1: you know today, both both at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: half and end of the game. Different scenarios there that
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's tough we talk about and our players
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  Speaker 1: did a great job of execution there and like I said,
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  Speaker 1: defense came up big, you know, the takeaway offense scored
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  Speaker 1: and then the turnover on downs here at the end.
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  Speaker 1: So just a complete football game. Just excited for all
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  Speaker 1: those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, when you.
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  Speaker 4: Get to this time of the year, you guys got
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  Speaker 4: the record you have have, you had to have conversations
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  Speaker 4: with your coaches for them to stay engaged and stay
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  Speaker 4: positive and encouraging when at a time of year. Well,
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  Speaker 4: let's be honest, a lot of coaches sometimes are our
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  Speaker 4: job hunting because they fear the worst.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it, you have. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it's it's more about just having some one
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  Speaker 1: off conversations. I don't get them together and say, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is what needs I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're adults, and we understand. We see the you know,
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  Speaker 1: we see what's being written, what's being said, and listen.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, obviously we put ourselves and you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm the leader of that ship, right, so the
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  Speaker 1: captain of that ship. So I mean, obviously we've put
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in this situation. So just having one off conversations
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  Speaker 1: and trying to you know, for me still to encourage
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  Speaker 1: them as well, you know, and and get them to
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  Speaker 1: understand that, hey, we're we've got a lot to play
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  Speaker 1: for and coach for, and and you know, you put
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  Speaker 1: your best foot forward and and you give it everything
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  Speaker 1: you have during the week and and then when you're
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  Speaker 1: rewarded like we were today, just makes it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that makes it sweeter.
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  Speaker 4: Is there a slipper of consolation for you that these
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  Speaker 4: last four or five six weeks that you guys have
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  Speaker 4: stayed engaged, put in a pretty good effort to get
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  Speaker 4: yourself a position to win game if you haven't won
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  Speaker 4: a lot of them. But you're you're not letting go
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  Speaker 4: of the rope.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for reminding me.
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  Speaker 1: But it's obvious. I mean, it's right. I mean, and
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  Speaker 1: the guys aren't. The thing is, the guys aren't. They're
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  Speaker 1: not waving the white flag, you know. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think even when you talk to them in the locker room,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're not They're they're they're busting their tails during
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  Speaker 1: the week. I mean, they're doing everything that I'm asking
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  Speaker 1: them to do, coaches and players, and and look, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever happens at the end of the season is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. We still got one game left, right and
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  Speaker 1: before today we had two games left, and and for
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  Speaker 1: us to finish the way we want to finish, whatever happens, regardless,
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  Speaker 1: we want to finish this thing the right way. And
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, we won today and that's a
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  Speaker 1: huge step.
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  Speaker 2: And then we move on to the next one.
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  Speaker 1: You put another game plan together, you go practice, and
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  Speaker 1: you try to do it again on the road, and
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  Speaker 1: then and then whatever happens is going to happen, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, just proud of the way the coaches and
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  Speaker 1: players have just stuck together and hung together. And and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we were rewarded today, you know, speaks
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  Speaker 1: to that.
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  Speaker 3: Doug, congrats on the wind.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I know the record is not going to show it
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the season, but next week you
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  Speaker 3: have chance to finish four and two in the division.
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  Speaker 3: I know at this point it's it's little victories at
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  Speaker 3: that point, But what do you say about that. I
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  Speaker 3: know the schedule has been brutal in a lot of
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  Speaker 3: close losses.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that that would be something to be
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  Speaker 1: very proud of, you know, in the in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of you know, a disappointing season, right, I mean, to
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  Speaker 1: finish four and two, that'd be great and and it
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  Speaker 1: just goes to show you and I think it goes
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  Speaker 1: to show our team that that, you know, these close games,
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  Speaker 1: the plays we made today were the ones we weren't
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  Speaker 1: making in those close games. And if it goes the
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  Speaker 1: other way, then maybe we win a few more of
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  Speaker 1: those games and it's a different story. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just think that that you know, to finish that way,
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  Speaker 1: to finish strong, you know, it sends a good message
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  Speaker 1: to the team that that you can still have a
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  Speaker 1: hold I think on your division, right if if you
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  Speaker 1: get it, if if you do that next week, you
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  Speaker 1: got to win the game, obviously, but but it just
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  Speaker 1: shows you that you can. You can, you can kind
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  Speaker 1: of control it. You control your own destiny, right you're
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  Speaker 1: in and year out, and and it would be it
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  Speaker 1: would be a good message to the guys if if
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  Speaker 1: you know, if we can accomplish that, try Thank you.