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  Speaker 1: Outside of throwing it like maybe 20 feet over his head,
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  Speaker 1: is there a place you could throw a ball to
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  Speaker 1: Parker that he could be able to catch it?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think if it's in his vicinity,
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  Speaker 2: he's shown that he can make just about any play.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's a cool thing as a quarterback
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  Speaker 2: to have that trust in a guy to where, especially
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  Speaker 2: like a situation, you know, in his catch, his touchdown
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  Speaker 2: catch on Sunday where it's third and longer, you know, it's,
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  Speaker 2: You're already in field goal range. You're not going to
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  Speaker 2: score by checking it down probably, and you get a
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  Speaker 2: one-on-one with him and just put it near him, and
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  Speaker 2: he goes and makes an unbelievable play. That feels good
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  Speaker 2: as a quarterback. He can kind of make you right
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  Speaker 2: on some of those to where there's not necessarily a
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  Speaker 2: ton of plays to get guys wide open on third and,
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  Speaker 2: what was it, 12 or 17 from the 17-yard line.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the guys have to go make plays, and
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  Speaker 2: it's cool that he's a guy that can do that.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you guys have been battle-tested for these
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  Speaker 1: first three games going against some of the corners that
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  Speaker 1: you've seen in secondaries at large.
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  Speaker 2: I think so. I think you just look at defenses
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  Speaker 2: in general, different parts of the defenses for sure, but
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  Speaker 2: especially secondary, even some of the scheme stuff has been
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  Speaker 2: really good. It's been challenging. It's been different. The defenses
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  Speaker 2: we've played every week have been completely different the first
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  Speaker 2: three weeks. So I think for us and our game
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  Speaker 2: planning and having to, go back and forth and change
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things, whether it's run game, protections, any
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  Speaker 2: of that stuff. I think it's been really good for
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  Speaker 2: us to just have to do a lot and adjust
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  Speaker 2: and week to week be able to turn the page
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  Speaker 2: and move on to a new opponent. So it's no
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  Speaker 2: different this week. Got a defense that's playing really well
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to go up against and we've got
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  Speaker 2: some great players and I'm sure they're going to have
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  Speaker 2: a good plan and be ready for us. So we've
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  Speaker 2: got to put together a great plan and it was
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  Speaker 2: a good start today.
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  Speaker 1: Since he was the viral Liam doing the chest thing,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of went, huh?
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  Speaker 2: And we all made too much of a deal about it.
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  Speaker 1: But just kind of looking at your relationship and how
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  Speaker 1: much it's grown since then, just talk a little bit about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the last 20 games with Liam.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been fun. I mean, I would say that
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  Speaker 2: what you guys saw wasn't, too far off from the,
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  Speaker 2: the experience sometimes. I mean, that is, that's just being honest.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there is that competitiveness and the back and forth. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, not all the time, obviously it's a healthy amount.
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  Speaker 2: There is some, um, some passion between both of us
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  Speaker 2: as far as like, we're both just trying to get
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  Speaker 2: it right, you know, and, and, and right the ship
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  Speaker 2: and move forward and get better. So I think that
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  Speaker 2: is a real thing. And I don't really honestly care
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  Speaker 2: too much that it got out last year. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you lose the game and it's a way bigger
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  Speaker 2: deal than if you win the game, people are, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're freaking out about it cause we lost, but, um,
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  Speaker 2: I think that he's helped me a lot. I know
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  Speaker 2: I've learned a ton from him. It's been really fun
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  Speaker 2: working with him. Like I said, I've learned a lot,
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  Speaker 2: gotten a lot better. I think our team has really
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  Speaker 2: rallied around the mindset that he's brought. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: now is necessarily the time to reflect on all that
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  Speaker 2: and go too deep down that rabbit hole, but I
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  Speaker 2: think it's no secret he's done a great job and
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  Speaker 2: definitely grateful and excited he's our coach. Yeah, I mean...
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  Speaker 2: I know Dexter really well played with him in college
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  Speaker 2: just I mean just look at the guy he's huge
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  Speaker 2: he's he's ginormous and strong and athletic that's the thing
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  Speaker 2: is he can move really well for how big he
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  Speaker 2: is he's not just a big strong guy you know
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  Speaker 2: he can move well one of the better I think
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  Speaker 2: pass rushing big guys inside in the league I think
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  Speaker 2: that makes him a challenge where they're running running the
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  Speaker 2: ball passing the ball all those things it's someone that
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  Speaker 2: you got to have in in mind when you're making
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  Speaker 2: a game plan. And yeah, he's a great player. And
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  Speaker 2: it's not just him too, is another thing. They have
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of help on that D line in
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  Speaker 2: the off season. And even some of the guys that
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  Speaker 2: have been there are playing really well. I mean, Miles
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  Speaker 2: Murphy is a guy I played with at college or
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  Speaker 2: at Clemson and he's playing great. They're doing a good
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  Speaker 2: job in the back end as well. So it's all
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  Speaker 2: tying together. And like any team, it starts up front,
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  Speaker 2: both sides of the ball. And you can see that
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  Speaker 2: with their defense right now. How has their scheme evolved
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  Speaker 2: year two on your own as a DC? I think, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: things have changed and I think they've figured out kind
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  Speaker 2: of what, what they're good at. And in some ways
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  Speaker 2: I think it's kind of simplified. I think they're playing
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  Speaker 2: really well and they're playing together and maybe not as
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  Speaker 2: crazy of looks for an offense necessary to look at
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  Speaker 2: as far as pressure and all that. They, they do
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  Speaker 2: have that in their bag of tricks, if you'll call
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  Speaker 2: it that. But I think you see a lot of
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  Speaker 2: trust in the guys that are well coached to do
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  Speaker 2: their job and to do it well and to win
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  Speaker 2: up front and guys flying around making plays in the
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  Speaker 2: secondary as well. So I think that there, Sometimes that's
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  Speaker 2: the hardest thing to go against is a really well
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  Speaker 2: coached defense that maybe not, might not bring a ton
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  Speaker 2: of pressures and all those things and have guys running free,
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  Speaker 2: but they're just always in the right spot, the right time.
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  Speaker 2: And you got to really earn every, you know, run,
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  Speaker 2: every completion, all those things. I think they're doing a
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  Speaker 2: good job of that right now. I remember four in
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  Speaker 2: a row against Cincinnati and you guys have been in
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  Speaker 2: every game, scored a lot of points in every game.
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  Speaker 2: Does that bother you? Do you just see it as
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  Speaker 2: a cyclical nature of the NFL and it's going to turn?
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  Speaker 2: How do you view that? We've got to make it turn.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to go win it. I think it does.
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely something that when you're going into this game
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  Speaker 2: that you think about. You're not sitting there thinking about
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  Speaker 2: it every second of the day and all week, but
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  Speaker 2: I've thought about it. It's a team that we haven't beat.
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  Speaker 2: We lost a tough one there earlier in the season
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  Speaker 2: last year, and that's one that we definitely want back.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's all those things. You think about it,
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  Speaker 2: and then you move on, and you've got to put
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  Speaker 2: your energy towards something that actually does something for you,
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  Speaker 2: which is preparing and getting ready to go um, put
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  Speaker 2: together a great plan to win the game. That's what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do. And that's what our plan is.
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  Speaker 2: And we've got to put our energy towards that.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor, have you learned to have a sense of pride in,
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  Speaker 1: in the play that doesn't end up in the box score? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: what do you mean by that? Maybe like the rollout,
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  Speaker 1: throwing it out of the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: On that long drive you guys had? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you obviously want to make every play, but.
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  Speaker 2: I think there, yeah, there's definitely, that's, that's a huge
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  Speaker 2: part of playing, very underrated part of playing quarterback and
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  Speaker 2: something that, um, you constantly have to remind yourself to
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  Speaker 2: do and to not try to do too much and
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  Speaker 2: to not get greedy and not try to make a
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  Speaker 2: play every single play. You know, defenses are good. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to have guys covered up and there might not
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  Speaker 2: be a play every time. And the best play is
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  Speaker 2: throwing it away and giving yourself another chance. And that's
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  Speaker 2: actually something that Grant talks a lot about in our
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  Speaker 2: room and has actually showed a bunch of clips of
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  Speaker 2: good and bad examples of just, you know, around the
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  Speaker 2: league and even in our room of me and whoever
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  Speaker 2: of showing a play where, It's just a throwaway on
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  Speaker 2: second and ten or first and ten, and then you
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  Speaker 2: see them score on that series, and then the game ends,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a two- or three-point game. And then he
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  Speaker 2: shows an example of someone turning the ball over, and
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  Speaker 2: they end up losing by three points, and they were
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  Speaker 2: already in field goal range, whatever. So you just look
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  Speaker 2: at those things, and at the end of the game,
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  Speaker 2: they always are pretty important because most games come down
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  Speaker 2: to one possession. So I think that's a good thing
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  Speaker 2: to remember for sure. It seems like a running game
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  Speaker 2: has been really efficient to start the year. How has
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  Speaker 2: that helped kind of take the pressure off the passing
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  Speaker 2: game and just clear things up and make it easier? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think you can really dictate more when you're running
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  Speaker 2: the ball well. It feels like you're going with your
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  Speaker 2: plan more and you're calling what you want to call
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  Speaker 2: as opposed to sometimes when you get behind the change,
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  Speaker 2: you feel like you're on your heels a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and you're having to make up some ground. So I
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  Speaker 2: think the feeling part of that as a player, that
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  Speaker 2: is a real thing. So I think when you can
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  Speaker 2: run the ball, it helps with that. And then also,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, some things that you have schemed up
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  Speaker 2: during the week, a lot of it's based on the
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  Speaker 2: run game and maybe play action or whatever, trying to
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  Speaker 2: get a certain matchup and it's just hard to do
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  Speaker 2: when you're behind the chains and you're not really dictating
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  Speaker 2: the terms at all. So I think that's been something
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  Speaker 2: that we've done a much better job of this year,
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  Speaker 2: especially to start the season. And it's going to show
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  Speaker 2: up big this week, too, against, like I said, a
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  Speaker 2: good front, good pass rush. We've got to be able
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  Speaker 2: to manage that and limit how those guys can get home,
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  Speaker 2: and we've got to be able to stay ahead of
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  Speaker 2: the chains. Since we just asked about the recent medical system,
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  Speaker 2: when you hear Joe Barber's name as opposed to most
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  Speaker 2: of your clients, First thing, obviously a great player, a
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  Speaker 2: guy that I have a lot of respect for. Just
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  Speaker 2: a guy that, yeah, a great player. I think he
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  Speaker 2: makes great decisions. He's been doing it really well for
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  Speaker 2: a long time now. We've crossed paths a lot. He's
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  Speaker 2: been out for a couple of the games that we've played,
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  Speaker 2: but always see him after the games. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a super close relationship with him, but
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  Speaker 2: a lot of respect for him.
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  Speaker 1: Anticipation throw to Josh Cameron in week one and then
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  Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers this past week against New England? Are those
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  Speaker 1: anticipation throws a testament to the chemistry that you've grown
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  Speaker 1: with this receiving board?
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  Speaker 2: For sure. Yeah, I mean, those plays happen because of
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  Speaker 2: the trust and the reps that you get out here
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  Speaker 2: and the timing that you've built with the guys over
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  Speaker 2: training camp, over the season. Just all those reps that
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  Speaker 2: you get, you build the trust because in games, you
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  Speaker 2: You just don't have time to wait, and guys got
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  Speaker 2: to be in the right spot at the right time,
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  Speaker 2: and I got to trust them to be there, and
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  Speaker 2: everyone's counting on that chemistry. The guys up front got
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  Speaker 2: a hard job to block those guys every single snap,
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  Speaker 2: and you got to be able to throw the ball
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  Speaker 2: a little bit early and anticipate, and I think those guys,
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  Speaker 2: the guys up front did an awesome job giving me time,
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  Speaker 2: and then the guys running the routes and on the
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  Speaker 2: perimeter have done a great job of being at the
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  Speaker 2: right spot and giving me a chance to give them
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  Speaker 2: the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Attempting those passes now than at any previous point in
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  Speaker 1: your career? Because it feels like it's almost a weekly
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  Speaker 1: occurrence at this point, at least for this season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I think, like I said, the
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  Speaker 2: chemistry with the guys, for one, and then also in
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  Speaker 2: our plan during the week, I feel like we talk about,
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  Speaker 2: I think, pretty much everything on every single play, especially
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  Speaker 2: red zone, third down, different situations that could come up.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we do a really good job in
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  Speaker 2: our room of talking about almost every coverage, every situation.
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  Speaker 2: And so I feel like I'm really prepared for having
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  Speaker 2: to get backside versus a certain look, and then I
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  Speaker 2: can play a little bit faster and get the ball out.
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  Speaker 2: And all those things end up showing up in the
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  Speaker 2: game when you can play fast.
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  Speaker 1: I think you've spent like five minutes or the last
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  Speaker 1: five minutes of games, I think just half of the
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  Speaker 1: last 10 or 11 games on the bench because you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been ahead so much. Is that like what's
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  Speaker 1: that feeling like as.
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  Speaker 2: A quarterback though that you know what it's in hand
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  Speaker 2: and i don't have to do anything it's a good
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  Speaker 2: feeling it's a great feeling um it's not the most
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  Speaker 2: normal thing i'd say in the nfl it's uh Had
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  Speaker 2: not experienced a ton of that until last year when
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  Speaker 2: we really started rolling at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think many guys really experience much of that.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, most games are one possession. So it's
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  Speaker 2: a great feeling. Obviously, when that does work out that way,
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  Speaker 2: you can't bank on it every week. There's good teams.
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  Speaker 2: But it is nice. You save a little bit on
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  Speaker 2: your body. And yeah, so those are always good for us.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you celebrate the Anton Harris block, some
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  Speaker 1: of the blocks from the break down? I mean, is
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  Speaker 1: there a real joy in some of that in the
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  Speaker 1: film room on Monday?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, definitely. I mean, that's stuff that we always highlight,
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  Speaker 2: kind of the good and the bad, but there's things
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  Speaker 2: that we need to get better at, of course. But
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  Speaker 2: those guys up front, I thought, played awesome, played really hard,
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  Speaker 2: had some huge blocks, physical, nasty, just finished great all day.
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  Speaker 2: And that's something I talked to them after the game, too,
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  Speaker 2: and just told them how good a job they did.
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  Speaker 2: Because you could feel it back there in protection, but
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  Speaker 2: also running the ball. We were moving guys up front,
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  Speaker 2: moving forward, not any negative runs, really. And then, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: of course, we watch it on Monday. And you recap
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  Speaker 2: the game and talk about that. Because those guys deserve credit.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, it's a hard position to play. And
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  Speaker 2: they don't always get as much credit as they deserve.
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  Speaker 2: They get a lot of blame when stuff doesn't go right.
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  Speaker 2: But when it looks good, they don't always get the credit.
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  Speaker 2: So those guys played an awesome game Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: On this one but uh this is the only the
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  Speaker 1: only team you can't end on this the only team
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  Speaker 1: in the fc afc you haven't beaten does it does
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  Speaker 1: it do you feel that do you i don't know
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned that you thought about yeah last.
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  Speaker 2: Year's game i don't really you don't really think about
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  Speaker 2: that i definitely know that i know we haven't we
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  Speaker 2: haven't beaten them here i didn't know it was the
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  Speaker 2: only team in the afc we had but um I.
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  Speaker 1: Think Josh has a win against Tom.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry. I was Josh. I was Josh, how that was. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't really change your preparation process. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously it's a game we want to win. It's because
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  Speaker 2: it's the next one. Really, honestly, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: But definitely want to beat these guys, and we've got
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  Speaker 2: to put together a good plan. Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.