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Press Pass | Lawrence: "We're better than that." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Trevor, You guys were really good on third down last year.
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  Speaker 1: The first two games this season, I think it's been
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  Speaker 1: three or twelve both outings. Is there anything you can
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  Speaker 1: pinpoint that why the situational football and third down hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been as good as it was last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of different things that are contributing to us not
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  Speaker 3: being good on third down. We're just not executing really
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  Speaker 3: at every position at different times, you know, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: the a throw at times, a protection, a drop, whatever
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  Speaker 3: it is. We're all just having, you know, some mistakes
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  Speaker 3: and critical situations and we just got to play better.
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  Speaker 3: We got to make the plays for one another at times,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we got to make it easier on each other.
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  Speaker 3: And I think right now we're just had some you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously some issues and whether it's communication or what, we
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  Speaker 3: gotta we gotta look and we gotta we gotta fix it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we didn't play well at all situationally third
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  Speaker 3: down or red zone. Today.
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  Speaker 4: You had forty one pass attempts and ran at five times,
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  Speaker 4: but only twelve carries by the backs. Uh, what what
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  Speaker 4: went on today? As far as the lack of flow,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when it came to running the ball, particularly
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  Speaker 4: with those running backs.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we had a lot of miscues, especially early
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  Speaker 3: on in the game on first downs, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that that hurt us, and that put us
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  Speaker 3: in some second and longs. And you know this, that
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  Speaker 3: defense does a really good job. They bring a lot
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  Speaker 3: of pressures, they try to they try to secure the
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  Speaker 3: edges and stop the runs and do things like that.
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  Speaker 3: And I think a lot of times too, we ended
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  Speaker 3: up getting the ball on the perimeter on plays where
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's basically a run if they bring a
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  Speaker 3: pressure and you spit the ball out. I think we
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  Speaker 3: had six or seven of those today. So and those
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  Speaker 3: are times too where a run might be called and
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  Speaker 3: you get the ball out on the perimeter, and so
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  Speaker 3: it makes it look like, you know, we didn't have
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  Speaker 3: a ton of runs to the back today, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: that defense does a good job of packing the box
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  Speaker 3: and bringing pressure. And but I would say the biggest
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  Speaker 3: thing is we got to be better on first first
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  Speaker 3: down and not getting second and long and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: you feel like you got to kind of get some
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  Speaker 3: back and just didn't have much success.
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  Speaker 5: With it today.
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  Speaker 6: Two parts for each wherever. First, for you immediate aftermath
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  Speaker 6: of this one, who do you talk to? What's the
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  Speaker 6: conversation with the coaching staff? And secondly, did you feel
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  Speaker 6: like the play calling and the order of place perhaps
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  Speaker 6: was disjointed and that led to the choppy nature of
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  Speaker 6: not maybe getting a fluid play, fluid offense today?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think we you know, I'd have to go
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  Speaker 3: back and watch the game and kind of see it all.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously it's fresh and a lot just happened, and the
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  Speaker 3: in the game situation is kind of what I'm thinking
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  Speaker 3: about most in my head, and where we just you know,
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  Speaker 3: didn't execute. But no, I think as players we got
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  Speaker 3: to execute better. You know, we had too many mistakes,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we I mean some some flute plays too,
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  Speaker 3: like the you know, trying to get the ball to
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  Speaker 3: ag and it ends up being a fumble and they
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  Speaker 3: recover it at midfield and stuff like that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we didn't get a fourth down early on obviously in
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  Speaker 3: the red zone, Like I said, I think we were
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  Speaker 3: zero for four. And when our defense is playing as
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  Speaker 3: good as they are and their offense is sputtering like
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  Speaker 3: like they did today, and obviously we were too we
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  Speaker 3: got to capitalize on those opportunities in the red zone,
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  Speaker 3: and we had our opportunities, and we had a couple
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  Speaker 3: of plays that were that close, you know, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: day in the back of the end zone where we
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  Speaker 3: make the catch and you know they push us out
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  Speaker 3: or whatever it is. We just got to find a
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  Speaker 3: way to make those plays. You know, I missed a
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  Speaker 3: thrower too in the red zone where we had a chance.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we got first and goal on the one
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  Speaker 3: yard line and ended up kicking a field goal when
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  Speaker 3: we're down eight. That was a big possession when you
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  Speaker 3: look back at the game. So we just had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of opportunities. As you know, is dis joined as
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  Speaker 3: some of the things kind of were throughout the game.
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  Speaker 3: It was just a sloppy game, I think, all over
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  Speaker 3: the place. But we had our opportunities. We were in
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  Speaker 3: the red zone four times and came away with nine points,
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  Speaker 3: and that's you know, can't do that. You're not going
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  Speaker 3: to beat good teams when you do that. So we
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  Speaker 3: got to be better.
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  Speaker 7: Trevor, just expanding on that a little bit more. What
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  Speaker 7: you can say about the opportunities of the defense created
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  Speaker 7: today and just their level of playing this game.
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  Speaker 3: Played great, they're flying around. I mean back to back
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  Speaker 3: weeks they've they've played awesome. You know, kept the teams
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  Speaker 3: out of the end zone, have created turnovers, given us
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  Speaker 3: a good field position on you know, numerous occasions. It's
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  Speaker 3: just we got to be better. We got to help
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  Speaker 3: them out. I mean, they were on the field a
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  Speaker 3: lot today and we had a lot of bad possessions
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  Speaker 3: where we put them, they'd get a turnover, we put
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  Speaker 3: them right back on the field, and really just their
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  Speaker 3: back was against the wall the whole day. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: they played great, you know, and we got to play better.
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  Speaker 5: We got to help them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that was just just bad by us.
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  Speaker 2: Trevor, when you walked off the field today, how would
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  Speaker 2: you describe your motion of not getting your offense not
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  Speaker 2: getting into the end zone for an entire game, which
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  Speaker 2: is you know, pretty big rarity.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just, you know, we're better than that, and
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  Speaker 3: we're a better team. We're a better offense than that.
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  Speaker 3: And that's I think that's what's disappointing, is when you
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  Speaker 3: know what you're capable of, and they the guys that
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  Speaker 3: we have, whether it's up front, you know myself, the
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  Speaker 3: running backs, receivers like we got, you know, so many
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  Speaker 3: weapons like what you know, we got to be able
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  Speaker 3: to put points on the board and score, and that's
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  Speaker 3: just it's kind of embarrassing.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's a similar feeling, honestly to when we played Houston
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  Speaker 3: here last year and just didn't offensively, just didn't get
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  Speaker 3: any and going had some some just bad plays, bad execution,
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  Speaker 3: let them hang around all game. And then you know,
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  Speaker 3: our same thing. Our defense played great that game too,
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  Speaker 3: and we just got to help them and we gotta
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  Speaker 3: we gotta play better.
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  Speaker 5: Trevor, you level of concern with almost everybody back with
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  Speaker 5: the offense, second ear in the system that it hasn't
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  Speaker 5: just gone more smoothly. Is that a big issue for
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  Speaker 5: you or is that just more of a week to
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  Speaker 5: week thing.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, it's it's something we got to fix,
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  Speaker 3: So it is an issue. Obviously, we're not I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we scored a lot of points last week, but still didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we played to our standard and how
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  Speaker 3: good we can play, and this week not even close.
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  Speaker 3: I mean just all I mean, every every play, every series,
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  Speaker 3: there's something we all can do better. Really sloppy. So
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say, I'm not concerned, but it's something we
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  Speaker 3: gotta fix. It's definitely an issue. So you know, we
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  Speaker 3: got to all look in the mirror and you know,
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  Speaker 3: be accountable and be critical of ourselves. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's all of us. There's like we guys talked about
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  Speaker 3: it after the game, just there's plays that we all
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  Speaker 3: missed on different series, different plays, whatever it is, and
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  Speaker 3: we got to make them. You know, we gotta. We
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  Speaker 3: got to make those plays. And that's what the good
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  Speaker 3: and great teams do, and we didn't. We didn't do
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  Speaker 3: it today. But you know, I'm not I'm not concerned,
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  Speaker 3: but we got to do it.
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  Speaker 7: Surevor you use the words disappointing and frustrating, Doug said,
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  Speaker 7: ticked and mad in the locker room. Can you just
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  Speaker 7: give us maybe an idea of how pissed off you
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  Speaker 7: guys are with the performance?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you you know, you wait, a, this
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  Speaker 3: is a team that beat us in the playoffs last year,
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  Speaker 3: and you kind of have that freshen your mind all
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  Speaker 3: off season and schedule comes out to get Week two,
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  Speaker 3: got Kansas City and obviously took care of business Week one,
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  Speaker 3: and then we got our shot here at home and
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  Speaker 3: lay an egg offensively, it's pretty frustrating. Yeah, pretty frustrating,
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  Speaker 3: especially like I said, when you feel like you let
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  Speaker 3: your defense down when they played so well, got so
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  Speaker 3: many turnovers, you know, played or flying around. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it was fun to watch those guys. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: definitely really really frustrating when you leave that much out there,
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  Speaker 3: especially being in the red zone. Like I said, four
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  Speaker 3: times and no points, and you just think back to
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  Speaker 3: all those plays. If you score, are one of those possessions,
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  Speaker 3: games completely different. You know, if we score on that one,
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  Speaker 3: we got the on the one yard line, we score
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  Speaker 3: on that possession, get the two point conversion. It's a
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  Speaker 3: tire game, so there's a lot of things, but it's
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  Speaker 3: definitely really frustrating. Good thanks,