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  Speaker 1: You're right where you want to be when you go
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  Speaker 1: into your bike weekend. Then just keep the main thing,
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  Speaker 1: the main thing. Understand that it's about weet out of vacation,
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  Speaker 1: and just try to get my body back to where
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  Speaker 1: I can be successful and keep helping the team win.
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  Speaker 2: I have an overrun a lot different October than what
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  Speaker 2: you guys had a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, definitely much different. I mean I really didn't realize
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  Speaker 1: that we had when an against October last year. Tell
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  Speaker 1: Press set it today and I was like, dang, this
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  Speaker 1: is much better feeling. I know everyone's feeling much better,
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  Speaker 1: and we're grateful for it, you know, because we know
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  Speaker 1: what it to be like on the other side. And
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  Speaker 1: now we just want to enjoy this moment and it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of soaking it right now. But don't get to
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  Speaker 1: too stuck in the moment the way we don't be
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  Speaker 1: able to move forward.
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  Speaker 2: How important is it to kind of take some time
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  Speaker 2: to get away maybe a little bit this week, but
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  Speaker 2: also get ready for the home stretching the season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's very important. I feel like it just
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  Speaker 1: puts things respective, Like I feel like for us as
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  Speaker 1: we want to get our body back for the loan,
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  Speaker 1: right understand that this is our last break our lives,
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  Speaker 1: like chances for to get like one hundred percent healthy
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  Speaker 1: before we go in this long run. What is well,
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  Speaker 1: keep this offense do better as a whole. We thought
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  Speaker 1: self scouted the byeway well pressures, put up some notes
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  Speaker 1: and we got the most fumbers in the league. We
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  Speaker 1: wereint thirty second. So I feel like for us it's
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  Speaker 1: boss security, just not hurting ourselves in positions and just
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  Speaker 1: getting points in the red zone. I feel like we've
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  Speaker 1: been in a good red zone team at times, but
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  Speaker 1: we have similar improvement and I feel like it just
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  Speaker 1: starts a boss security and that's something that we could fix.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, we're gonna work out to get better.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, how about this team handled getting a lot of
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  Speaker 3: love and praise now that you guys are sticking two
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  Speaker 3: and one of the elite teams in the AFC.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we just kind of just block out the
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  Speaker 1: outside noise, try to keep the main thing the main thing.
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  Speaker 1: We know last year we was on five and no
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  Speaker 1: one's talking about us, and we just kind of just
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  Speaker 1: trying not to hear the outside noise and just understand
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  Speaker 1: that if we don't want games, nobody but talk about us.
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  Speaker 1: So the way we keep getting them to talk is
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  Speaker 1: just keep coming here and being one to know each
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  Speaker 1: and every week and just keep putting good football on
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  Speaker 1: display and ball security, take care of the go.
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  Speaker 4: What about you personally?
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  Speaker 2: You get a lot more love when you're scoring touchdowns
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  Speaker 2: like this from the fantasy football people and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I get love, but I'm scoring touchdowns and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not, honestly, so this is much better than not
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  Speaker 1: scoring and I appreciate that. But I feel like I've
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  Speaker 1: been a good running back my whole career, so this
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  Speaker 1: is not new to me. And I've always been one
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  Speaker 1: to kind of shot with my attentions and I feel
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  Speaker 1: like now I'm at the part of my career. But
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  Speaker 1: I just have to embrace that because it's not going nowhere.
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  Speaker 4: I've been trying to Renfron.
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  Speaker 1: My whole life, but I just gotta understand I am
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  Speaker 1: who I am and just kind of just step into
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  Speaker 1: that role and just become who God put me here
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 2: You've been a bell cow back at different times in
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  Speaker 2: your career. This year doing the same thing, getting a
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  Speaker 2: lot of touches. People are starting to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: can you handle those touches for the full season. This
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  Speaker 2: isn't anything new for you.
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  Speaker 4: No, this is just football.
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  Speaker 1: I just come in a weekend and the week at
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  Speaker 1: work on my body. This is why I get paid
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  Speaker 1: to dude, And like, I'm not doing the field like
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  Speaker 1: it's just we have that for one purpose, just to
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  Speaker 1: win a game and whatever coach calls. And now you're
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  Speaker 1: not so much drilling and pump andy and just something like
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  Speaker 1: I love playing football. So like all the other stuff
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  Speaker 1: about like just just wearing too their things like that,
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  Speaker 1: this is out the window. Honestly, when you're on the field,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not think about minute that. You just thinking
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  Speaker 1: about what can I do to help my team win?
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  Speaker 1: And uh, just winning.
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  Speaker 2: So the furthest thing from your mind is that you're
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  Speaker 2: one of the guys lead in the NFL and touches.
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  Speaker 2: You don't you want the ball?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I don't playing like that. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's why I played football. I want to be the
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  Speaker 1: one to score touchdowns. I didn't get in the game
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  Speaker 1: not to score touchdowns. I mean, I never never want
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  Speaker 1: to play deeper because I don't understand chasing guys. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I always wanted to be one of the chasing me
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  Speaker 1: and getting intin. So I feel like I'm doing what
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  Speaker 1: I every want to do my whole life, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just enjoying and just being president. Just uh, just just being.
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  Speaker 4: Who I was called here to be.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just knowing how hard it is to win in
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  Speaker 5: this league. We just look week by week. Honestly, we
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  Speaker 5: don't even worry about, oh, what we wanted the last game,
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  Speaker 5: so you know, we're expected to win this game. We
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  Speaker 5: understand that nothing's game teed and so really it's just
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  Speaker 5: want to know every week that's our that's our goal.
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  Speaker 3: Can you guys be good front runners? Now that you've
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  Speaker 3: got you're building something, people are gonna start talking about you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's kind of a different mentality. They're gonna
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  Speaker 3: come for you now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we've always looked at ourselves as the ones being hunted,
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  Speaker 5: especially knowing the success we had going to the playoffs
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  Speaker 5: last year. But we don't worry about, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: outside noise. People are gonna say what they're gonna say.
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  Speaker 5: And even if you know, we do go and we
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  Speaker 5: see certain things, we don't let that affect us. You know,
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  Speaker 5: as players, as coaches, we're all locked in on our
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  Speaker 5: next opponent and do what we have to do to
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  Speaker 5: prepare so we can continue to have success the way
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  Speaker 5: we've had to.
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  Speaker 3: Think last year from September, October, November to December. Not
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  Speaker 3: wins losses. I'm talking about just the style of ball
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  Speaker 3: as it gets deeper into the season.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think once the games start to become increasingly important,
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  Speaker 5: everybody has a heightened sense of urgency and everyone just
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  Speaker 5: plays for the people next to them even more so.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you don't want to be the guy that
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  Speaker 5: let your team down, or let your brother down, or
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  Speaker 5: you know, didn't pick them up. You know, you want
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  Speaker 5: to be the one that is uplifting everyone and doing
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  Speaker 5: what you have to do so we can win.
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  Speaker 3: About just tell, where are you at versus say, three
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  Speaker 3: d and sixty five days ago?
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  Speaker 4: What was three hundred and sixty five days ago?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll just say I'm in a much better place
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  Speaker 5: as far as just understanding the scheme, just as far
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  Speaker 5: as you know, believing and all my abilities and just
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  Speaker 5: going out and put it on full display for you know,
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  Speaker 5: everyone to see, and just just really just being in
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  Speaker 5: the right spirits, you know, letting God control everything and
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  Speaker 5: me just giving it all to God. And understanding that
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  Speaker 5: everything's gonna work out the way it's supposed.
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  Speaker 4: To and I just need to do my part. Is
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  Speaker 4: it fun again, Yeah, it's definitely fun.
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  Speaker 5: Winning is fun, So when you're winning, it's always going
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  Speaker 5: to be fun. But playing ball, specifically when you're playing well,
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  Speaker 5: it's especially fun. And we you guys can see, you know,
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  Speaker 5: everyone's having a ball out on the field and we're
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  Speaker 5: all playing together. So it's great.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, man, we can focus on the present moment.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, stay in that moment throughout the game, throughout the
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  Speaker 6: situation man, and stop the run cre you take away
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  Speaker 6: these pressure the quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: That's a defense we can win any game.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 6: That's office and obviously it's showing we need six to
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  Speaker 6: two for a reason. So we continue to do that. Man,
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  Speaker 6: we'll be we'll be good.
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  Speaker 3: How much are you actively working on not getting too
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  Speaker 3: high after a wins and at this point being where
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  Speaker 3: you're at, knowing there's so much more to y it
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  Speaker 3: looks like you are really focused on not getting there
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  Speaker 3: for you again.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I mean, like you said, uh, it really
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  Speaker 6: comes back to leadership. Uh, you know, as myself to
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  Speaker 6: having this success right now is to you know, be
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  Speaker 6: know why I'm having success.
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  Speaker 4: And focus on that.
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  Speaker 6: You know, It's like we all want to focus on
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  Speaker 6: the end goal and goal end goal, but it's the
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  Speaker 6: process is the front part is to know what you're
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  Speaker 6: doing throughout the week to find a way to be
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  Speaker 6: successful on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: That's the part that I want to chase. That's that's
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  Speaker 4: the part that I'm happy about.
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  Speaker 6: So if I continue to do that individually, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the outcome is gonna be the outcome.
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  Speaker 4: And like I said, man, not just get too high.
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  Speaker 6: I've been on this team if we haven't we won
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  Speaker 6: one game, I've been onto when we won three games.
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  Speaker 6: So right now it's we're halfway through and I've been
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  Speaker 6: on a team where we lost five and then won
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  Speaker 6: the rest. So it's like we're at a position to
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  Speaker 6: where we can we are successful, but if we don't
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  Speaker 6: come in with the same mentality, we can lose the
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  Speaker 6: rest of the games.
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  Speaker 4: And that's something that we don't want to do. But
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  Speaker 4: it goes back to leadership.
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  Speaker 6: That goes back to myself, It goes back to for,
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  Speaker 6: it goes back to Roy, goes back to KC, it
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  Speaker 6: goes it's just a tricker the Ray it's trickering that
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  Speaker 6: effect on how well can we handle this?
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  Speaker 4: And we got a lot of guys that handle it
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  Speaker 4: really well.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of guys are excited about winning, a lot
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  Speaker 6: of guys that don't want to lose.
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  Speaker 4: And it's gonna do whatever it takes not to get
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  Speaker 4: to that feeling.
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  Speaker 6: So we continue to play like this, man, this guy's
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  Speaker 6: gonna be a limit for us.
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  Speaker 3: Your sense that most don't want to move because the
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  Speaker 3: guys that got you at this point got you at
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  Speaker 3: this point.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I really can't, you know, control what they
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  Speaker 6: see in us or wanting us or adding us or
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  Speaker 6: take away. We love every guy in here, you know.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we're a family, and we'll embrace whoever they
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  Speaker 6: decide to bring in here, you know, to the family,
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  Speaker 6: and and let him know welcome. They got it him
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  Speaker 6: there for a reason and make us feel better, make
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  Speaker 6: us get better as the team, and you know, it
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  Speaker 6: is what it is. But as of right now, man,
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  Speaker 6: I think we're we're on a good pace and we
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  Speaker 6: got our rhythm. We're not even playing a complete team,
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  Speaker 6: like we haven't played a complete game yet offensively, defensively,
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  Speaker 6: special teams. And but once we get those and get
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  Speaker 6: that taste of how that feels.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna get rolling.
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  Speaker 3: The body need a break.
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  Speaker 5: I love playing football, so it was it was kind
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  Speaker 5: of hard resting out there today. Want to get some reps.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, we get is you know, to mentally recover,
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  Speaker 5: physically recover, and we have a nice stretch ahead of us.
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  Speaker 5: So it is good for a break, but ready to
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  Speaker 5: get back and we're excited to get back already here over.
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  Speaker 3: The years, like the game's changed, November December starts to
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  Speaker 3: feel different.
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  Speaker 4: Is that true? And how is that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I mean it's yeah, those those are the games that counts.
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  Speaker 5: Those are the games that you know, you can gain
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  Speaker 5: confidence and get on the role going to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 5: or you could fall off and lose and you know, hurt,
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  Speaker 5: you suit yourself in the foot, put yourself in a
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  Speaker 5: bad situation or whatever. So obviously we're playing really well
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  Speaker 5: now and we've been rolling, and but we have to
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  Speaker 5: make sure you know we're we're doing this in the
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  Speaker 5: end too and finishing strong.
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  Speaker 4: You guys are good.
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  Speaker 3: Can you be a good front running team? I mean
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  Speaker 3: is that more mentality than.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I just I think that's you know, kind of thinking
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  Speaker 5: too much and trying to think about it too much.
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  Speaker 5: I think we just keep playing our football, keep playing
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  Speaker 5: our brand of ball.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be fine. So scout as an offense, what's the
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  Speaker 4: most maybe two three things? You guys need to do
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  Speaker 4: better on turnovers.
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  Speaker 5: Gotta stop the turnovers better, better on third downs. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: we need more touchdowns in the red zone, protecting the
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  Speaker 5: ball in the red zone. A lot of our turnovers
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  Speaker 5: have been kind of on the you know, the defense's territory,
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  Speaker 5: so I just gotta clean those up. Get more touchdowns.
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  Speaker 5: I think we we help our defense out, you know,
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  Speaker 5: getting six points more often. Obviously mcmahonus has been really
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  Speaker 5: good and been really clutched, but the way our defense
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  Speaker 5: is playing, we can, you know, give them some cushions.
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  Speaker 4: And that's just we just got to score
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  Speaker 5: More points in the red zone and protect football