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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on Offensive Performance Against the Dolphins · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, first I just want to, you know, send
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  Speaker 1: out thoughts and prayers to day would Davis, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously not anything you want to see and just would
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that from everybody else too.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously a tough, tough scene game.
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  Speaker 1: We all love and play, and see a guy go
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  Speaker 1: down like that, I know we're all thinking about him.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to say that before we start. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was what was your question? And I'm sorry just.
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  Speaker 2: About finding a rhythm so quickly tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, was there anything you can put your finger on
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  Speaker 3: as to why you guys were able to get twelve
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  Speaker 3: first downs on the first two drives?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? You guys down?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, it's a combination of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things that we did a lot. We changed
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  Speaker 1: it up, showed a lot of different looks. I think
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  Speaker 1: we had a good plan going in. We had a good,
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  Speaker 1: good scheme uh this week, and took advantage of some
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  Speaker 1: stuff that they were giving us and guys in the
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  Speaker 1: outside did a great job. We ran I mean, really,
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  Speaker 1: where it starts is running the ball. We ran the
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  Speaker 1: ball great. I don't think in those first two drives
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  Speaker 1: we had any runs really less than three yards. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I don't really, I'd have to look that up,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, we ran the ball great. And when
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  Speaker 1: you can do that and you can get them on
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  Speaker 1: their heels and you can run the ball, it really
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  Speaker 1: opens everything else up. The movement, passes, the drop back,
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  Speaker 1: all that. When they're thinking about the run and stopping
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  Speaker 1: the run, that opens everything else up.
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  Speaker 2: And that helped us a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And then our guys in the outside made plays that
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  Speaker 1: catch that Calvin made as they had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: nice plays. Christian had a big play on fourth down.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, the running backs did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: It was really a complete day for the offense. And
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  Speaker 1: even beyond those first two drives, the other guys that
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  Speaker 1: played played great. You know, we hit a couple of
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  Speaker 1: shots thought CJ and Nate played really well. The receivers
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  Speaker 1: made some big plays, still ran the ball well down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch throughout the rest of the game.
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  Speaker 2: So it was really good to see.
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  Speaker 4: Trevor. Could you talk a little bit about the balance.
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  Speaker 4: On those first two drives, you used every single one
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  Speaker 4: of your weapons, twenty four plays, one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 4: four yards. Could you just tuckle it is that pretty
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  Speaker 4: much how you wanted to look for everybody gets involved,
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  Speaker 4: it's not just relying on one or two guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's ideal obviously. I mean when you when you
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  Speaker 1: when you game plan and you go into a game,
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  Speaker 1: obviously there's certain matchups you might want to take advantage of,
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  Speaker 1: but ideally you kind of spread the wealth. You get
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  Speaker 1: everybody involved, You use all the guys that we have
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  Speaker 1: because we have so many playmakers. And it doesn't always
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  Speaker 1: go that way, as we know in the in the season,
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  Speaker 1: things can turn out differently in games.
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  Speaker 2: You just do whatever you can to win.
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  Speaker 1: But today it worked that way, and that's that's always
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  Speaker 1: good when it does. It's good to give get everybody involved,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the guy has played great.
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  Speaker 3: Trevor, you talk a lot over the last several months
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  Speaker 3: about building that relationship with Calvin and starting to get
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  Speaker 3: more comfortable with him, and then you go and the
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  Speaker 3: Blitz is coming and you find him just through camp,
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  Speaker 3: through all of the time that you've had to spend
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  Speaker 3: with him. Just how confident are you in that relationship
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  Speaker 3: as you guys enter week one in a few.
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  Speaker 1: Weeks, really really comfortable confident. It's you know, me and
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  Speaker 1: Zay were talking on the sideline it's just about you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're in a really good spot. I think we
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  Speaker 1: really attacked training camp. We got better on both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, special teams, really you name every position.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But as we all know, it's a long season and
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  Speaker 1: we got to keep getting better and we got to
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  Speaker 1: keep you know, staying hungry and just keep making the
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  Speaker 1: improvements that we've made up until this point. But I
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  Speaker 1: love where we're at. I love the relationship me and
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  Speaker 1: Calvin have. I think that chemistry is becoming really strong,
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  Speaker 1: and he's doing a great job. He's worked super hard
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  Speaker 1: that those of you guys that have watched practice, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the guy works really really hard and he deserves it.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm happy for him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy that things are going well, and I'm just excited,
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  Speaker 1: excited to have him out there, Excited to have say
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  Speaker 1: Christian Evan Trave. I mean, just you could just go
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  Speaker 1: on and on and on, but he's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about Luke Farrell, he's blocking protection.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Luke is.
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  Speaker 1: Luke's a great player. We came in together. He's just
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  Speaker 1: really versatile. He can do a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great blocker, run pass game, you name it,
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  Speaker 1: whichever one. And then in the passing game, he's really smart.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's really smart and knowing coverages in zone coverage,
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  Speaker 1: knowing where to sit, where to post up. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he just does a great job and you saw some
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  Speaker 1: of that tonight and did a nice job after the
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  Speaker 1: catch too. You know, I was able to get vertical
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  Speaker 1: and get some extra yards and that's such a huge
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  Speaker 1: part of this game, as yards after catch. If you
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  Speaker 1: can get if you can get the ball in space
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  Speaker 1: to your guys quick and let them make plays, that
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  Speaker 1: helps us a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And our guys did a great job with that.
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  Speaker 4: Not that you're not confident forevor, but was it important
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  Speaker 4: to have a couple of good drives early with the
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  Speaker 4: emphasis on starting fast this year?
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  Speaker 1: Definitely, I mean that was you know, you look back
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  Speaker 1: in our season last year. That was definitely a weaker
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  Speaker 1: spot for us is starting games slow and having to
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  Speaker 1: having to you know, play lights out in the second
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  Speaker 1: half because we started slow and put our defense in
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  Speaker 1: a buying So that's that's a big improvement. Obviously we
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  Speaker 1: got to carry that over in two weeks when we
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  Speaker 1: play but yeah, that was that was awesome to see.
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  Speaker 1: And then even in Dallas. You know, the first game
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  Speaker 1: again had the turnover and started slow there. So to
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  Speaker 1: be able to make those improvements and just stay on schedule,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was like every play we were able
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  Speaker 1: to keep it, you know, second and five, second and
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  Speaker 1: two whatever it was. It was we never behind the chains,
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  Speaker 1: really and that was that was huge.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of following up on that, Can you put your
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  Speaker 5: finger on why you guys have been able to start
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  Speaker 5: faster or why tonight and then just throughout the training
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  Speaker 5: camp and everything, you guys were able to start faster.
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  Speaker 5: I know, you guys got to still play in the
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  Speaker 5: regular season, but it seems like that's not only a
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  Speaker 5: point of infhasis, but actually being executed.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of different factors.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some stuff obviously last year happens where we
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  Speaker 1: just don't execute. Maybe I miss a throw, you know,
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  Speaker 1: miss a block, whatever it is. Different things happen on
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  Speaker 1: different drives that constall you or a penalty or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, tonight we just played cleaner. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have many penalties, especially in those first two drives.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the guys were really locked in and just
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  Speaker 1: it's all about attacking from that first snap. And really
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  Speaker 1: setting the tone. I think that that's the mindset that
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  Speaker 1: we've been trying to instill since OTA's and it's obviously working,
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  Speaker 1: and we just got to keep keep pressing that emphasis.
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  Speaker 5: Does that sort of speak to the maturity of the offense?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you guys are all now, you know, year
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  Speaker 5: three for you, year seven for other players. Just does
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  Speaker 5: it speak to how mature you guys are within this offense?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it shows just you know, how well
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  Speaker 1: we work together and also that we're willing to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: work on the things that we might not have been
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  Speaker 1: great at last year. I think that says a lot
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  Speaker 1: about a unit. And I've seen that on both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. Just us knowing kind of what we
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  Speaker 1: didn't do great last year and putting such an emphasis
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  Speaker 1: on it in this offseason and it's paying off. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got to give credit to coach Peterson
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  Speaker 1: and Press and Mike and all the offensive coaches that
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  Speaker 1: have that have helped, you know, push that along, and
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  Speaker 1: we've done a great job.
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  Speaker 4: You like the way a young guy like Tank bounced
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  Speaker 4: back after the funnel the mistake there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great, I mean great for him to learn
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  Speaker 1: from that now, you know, when when the games don't count,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why I told him, we've all we've all
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  Speaker 1: been there, we've all done that. And you know, he
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  Speaker 1: gets in that situation in the regular season, gets down
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  Speaker 1: there close to the goal line, he's gonna think about
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  Speaker 1: that and he's gonna keep the ball tight, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's all a learning experience, and the young player
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  Speaker 1: is a great player and he's gonna help us a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, things like that just guys learned from
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  Speaker 1: and he will.
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  Speaker 2: He's that, he's that type of guy.
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  Speaker 1: And I told him, I was like, I've been there before,
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  Speaker 1: but all of mine unfortunately counted in the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: So but now he's going to learn from it.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's great to see him bounce back. And
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  Speaker 1: that guy runs really hard and it's cool to watch him. Thanks,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks guys, Thank y'all.