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Press Pass | Foye Oluokun & Patrick Mekari on Playing in London vs. Rams · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Serve this uh London travel. You know, we up said
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  Speaker 1: the holds the players in the off season. It's old
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  Speaker 1: the sports science. Your thoughts going over there on Monday
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  Speaker 1: night as opposed to your.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday I've done both. I f I thank me personally.
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  Speaker 2: I like going over there early kind of just uh
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  Speaker 2: less chance of maybe somebody miss sleeping and then having
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  Speaker 2: that affect and right then then there, let's say you
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  Speaker 2: go over on a Thursday, you accidentally don't do the
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  Speaker 2: sleep right, You're you're definitely gonna be messed up for
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  Speaker 2: the games. You give yourself a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: chance to recover on a Monday, and then uh kind
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  Speaker 2: of just get the the practices done over there, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: get the layer of the land and stuff, and uh
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  Speaker 2: by the time the game's coming, it's just ready to
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  Speaker 2: be another game instead of having everything kind of hit
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  Speaker 2: you right away.
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  Speaker 1: Relief that it's only one game there this year.
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  Speaker 2: I love uh playing in London and as many times
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  Speaker 2: as the team makes me, nah, it's cool. I mean
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a good camaraderie trip. Uh the
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  Speaker 2: past years with two it does, you know it does.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's tough being away from your facilities and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and we like to play at the bank and everything,
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  Speaker 2: but it was a good way to get closer to
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  Speaker 2: the team. So, I mean, we still have a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of time out there, but just make the most
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  Speaker 2: of it and really own it whatever comes up in
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  Speaker 2: this trip, Like whoever handles the trip the best probably
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  Speaker 2: has a better chance of winning. So just beyond dialing
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  Speaker 2: on our details what we're supposed to be doing out there.
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  Speaker 1: Williams, you all.
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  Speaker 3: Having you guys together for the week before the five week, and.
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  Speaker 1: You should say that, you mean.
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  Speaker 3: You've done the sound a couple of times, you like know.
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  Speaker 2: For sure every time. Really one of the times I
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  Speaker 2: think we started a win streak after being over there
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  Speaker 2: in London one two. I think last year we won
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  Speaker 2: one of two and nothink else, you know, for the morale,
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  Speaker 2: a big time thing just winning one over there, uh
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  Speaker 2: the second game. Yeah, I mean, you have nothing else
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  Speaker 2: to do except see your friends all day. Every day
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  Speaker 2: your teammates, learn more about them, eat with them, everything.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you set up going home and getting time apart.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you gotta really become one with each other.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a good opportunity to really kind of feel
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  Speaker 2: like college again, everybody's standing in the same places and
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  Speaker 2: eating in the same places. I enjoy the trip for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yet so yeah, over sixtys, what was one game in
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  Speaker 2: the soccos kind of playing it eleven is one building
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  Speaker 2: a wall. We knew they like to bounce it a lot,
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  Speaker 2: try to hit the edges, even undesigned UH interior plays,
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  Speaker 2: And actually they didn't really run many interior plays to
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  Speaker 2: start the game. I thought they would before they tried
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  Speaker 2: to hit the stretches and stuff. So really just a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good physical play and then hunting to the football,
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  Speaker 2: multiple people the guy before, bring them down wherever we
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  Speaker 2: needed to to keep getting to the football.
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  Speaker 1: Job said yesterday, there's some similarities between the Seahawks SIS
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  Speaker 1: the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: Might those similarities then just kind of how they build
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  Speaker 2: the formations really send the same things, and then kind
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  Speaker 2: of manipulating the second level with either the run to
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  Speaker 2: play action in the UH the strikes right over the
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  Speaker 2: backer's heads with UH the hard run, and then a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of the jet motion to try to gain
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  Speaker 2: a gap or lose a gap, have people overloaded on
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  Speaker 2: the wrong side. Yeah, I mean, it's it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: a good little scheme, but you're it's all about communication
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  Speaker 2: and being in the details with the alignments and stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: then playing football from there.
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  Speaker 1: It is a crossover with what you guys want offensively
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  Speaker 1: too today, right for sure? That means that help too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping it does. You know that we just started,
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  Speaker 2: so as I'm much more and more film on them,
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  Speaker 2: I hopefully maybe we'll recognize, you know, some plays and
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  Speaker 2: uh kind of tendencies that they with their play calling
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  Speaker 2: and stuff. Obviously they'll have their own little flavor on it,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, being able to handle the offense with all
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  Speaker 2: these motions and and and shifts and stuff, and seeing
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  Speaker 2: how they most jet motion or to why shift and
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  Speaker 2: and everything like that for the run plays and you know,
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  Speaker 2: having seen it, you know you can definitely handle it
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  Speaker 2: or a different room.
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  Speaker 3: But just what's it been like getting to know him,
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  Speaker 3: seeing him kind of get added.
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  Speaker 1: The middle of the year, h on the week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just keeping him the camaraderie we're talking about. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's really the most important part. Just understanding our
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  Speaker 2: style of play, what's needed from him in that room,
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  Speaker 2: and then we have all the combatants in him. I know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll make a lot of plays for us. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited for him. I've watched him a couple of times Cleveland,
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  Speaker 2: Like they all play very hard and stuff, So I'm
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  Speaker 2: not worried about you know how he plays. Just being
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  Speaker 2: on the same page as the safeties and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the linebackers and coverages and stuff, and then just being
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  Speaker 2: in the right spots. I know he's gonna make a
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  Speaker 2: lot of plays, So I'm excited for him.
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  Speaker 1: What there was a question of what would things look
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  Speaker 1: like defensively if you guys weren't able to get turnover,
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  Speaker 1: and that obviously happened yesterday. So how do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like these guys are gonna respond to that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you saw kind of towards the end
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  Speaker 2: of the second half. We had a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 2: stops right away. I think that's really the name of
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  Speaker 2: the game when you're not getting turnover, to just get
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  Speaker 2: the ball back to the offense as soon as possible,
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  Speaker 2: get off the field and have the offense and good
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  Speaker 2: field position. It kind of became a field position game,
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  Speaker 2: trying to get them as close to the end zone
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  Speaker 2: as possible, not having them march down the field to
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  Speaker 2: have a long drive for the offense. So that's really
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  Speaker 2: the way to affect the game as a defense, Just
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  Speaker 2: get off the field as soon as possible, get the
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  Speaker 2: ball backs to the offense and better field position.
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  Speaker 1: What'd you see from Ben Tromp?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? You know he see he's at his moment. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he he got a lot of confidence from last year.
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  Speaker 2: He's uh, credit to him for staying and dialed in
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  Speaker 2: understanding you know, all the calls and stuff. And he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't really skip a beat with communication and stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: he plays a hardy, really fast physical slices in the
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  Speaker 2: run game and stuff. So it's always been a playmaker.
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  Speaker 2: It's just uh getting more and more ops and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited to see what he can do. Uh
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  Speaker 2: when his name is called again?
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  Speaker 1: Good thanks for exploria you got.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah we can uh you you you made the trip before,
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  Speaker 2: you saved the full week before.
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  Speaker 3: You Yeah once I think it was two years ago
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  Speaker 3: we went stayed for a full week, but we stayed
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  Speaker 3: at the manor not at the grove where we're saying
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  Speaker 3: that this week, so it's much different. So I'm I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: What was that like, I mean your experience you said
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  Speaker 1: the game, said that it would be a good fun
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  Speaker 1: experience of the other guys who've done it for years
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  Speaker 1: that it's really good for like the team buildings.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's definitely just a week of us
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  Speaker 3: being together. I mean we're in the building a lot
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  Speaker 3: together as it is, but then going to like go
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  Speaker 3: to your hotel room, hanging out with the guys, spend
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  Speaker 3: extra time like that. I think it really shows and
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  Speaker 3: it really pays dividends on the field when you build
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  Speaker 3: a relationship off the field. So I think it'll be good.
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  Speaker 1: Talking sensibly about the Suns and that theyved you guys
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  Speaker 1: yesterday and party bounce back from that doing that. Now
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  Speaker 1: there's tape out.
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  Speaker 3: There, Yeah, I mean, it's definitely a good learning experience
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  Speaker 3: for us, the tapes out there, So it's something that
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  Speaker 3: we gotta work on and get back to the fundamentals
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  Speaker 3: and being on top of our cues with that, And
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  Speaker 3: it's also kind of just staying out of those positions too,
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  Speaker 3: and clicking as an offense not making so many mistakes,
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  Speaker 3: so we could help each other out not being in
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  Speaker 3: that position as well.
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  Speaker 1: Do you just flush yesterday? Yeah, like the aberration and
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  Speaker 1: that's not you guys obviously have been from the first
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  Speaker 1: five games and just.
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  Speaker 3: Flush it and move on. Yeah, I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you definitely flush it at some point, but we gotta
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  Speaker 3: like look at it to the accountability for it. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: definitely like learn and grow from it. And once those
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  Speaker 3: have been set in place, then I think you flush
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  Speaker 3: it and move on. So watch the film today, correct
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  Speaker 3: the stuff that needs to be corrected, practice at it
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  Speaker 3: this week, and then not make the same mistakes, focus
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  Speaker 3: on the rams, get better.
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  Speaker 1: All the small mistakes that you guys made offensively yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: and it just kind of sebolve a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are eliminated for the money hun game.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So how how do you want it to come back?
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  Speaker 1: And what do you need to kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Yax that you know why I came back. I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we had a good a week at practice.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a small assignment, small detailed stuff that maybe
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  Speaker 3: in the big moment the big picture gets overlooked. But
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  Speaker 3: I think if we just focus on the small things,
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  Speaker 3: the big picture kind of becomes easy. It kind of
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  Speaker 3: we don't have to focus on the big picture. It
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  Speaker 3: would just come to us. But yeah, too many penalties,
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  Speaker 3: just kept beating ourselves and it's hard enough to beat
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  Speaker 3: another n NFL opponent, But if they're trying to beat
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  Speaker 3: us and we beat ourselves, it's too many uphill battles.
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  Speaker 3: Step an in for Robert last high Orders.
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  Speaker 1: So what are you kind of seeing to them?
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  Speaker 3: I think he's a great player. You know, he's a young,
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  Speaker 3: young kid. But when you talk to him, he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really seem like a rookie. Doesn't talk like a rookie.
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  Speaker 3: He knows the offense really well. Uh places hard place
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  Speaker 3: stuff and first start. I mean, hell, he's gonna get
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna get a lot of opportunities in the NFL
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  Speaker 3: and keep rolling, keep getting better. But he's nothing but
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  Speaker 3: great things to say about him. He's awesome.