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Press Pass | Walker, Davis & Engram Talk Performance in Week One vs. Dolphins · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We definitely put a lot of great things out on tape,
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  Speaker 1: but we also put some of those things though just
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  Speaker 1: a little small detailed things, uh that once we got
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, just contin continuously go over and
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  Speaker 1: correct those things.
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  Speaker 2: Parisacsill start the year though.
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  Speaker 3: Great way, great way to start. Wish we would have
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  Speaker 3: got a dub, but you know later.
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  Speaker 4: Can you speak to how illusive to it was just
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  Speaker 4: throughout the course of the game for you guys as
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  Speaker 4: the pass rush trying to get after him.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the offense they did a great job
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  Speaker 1: the scheme that with what they in uh got the
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  Speaker 1: ball out quick. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: They attacked.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, they know they had some the edge rushers that
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  Speaker 1: they had and the screen game. I feel like we
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  Speaker 1: coulda did a better job redirecting getting out uh to
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  Speaker 1: help the dvs make those tackles on the edge. But UH,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like they did a great job of getting
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  Speaker 1: the ball out quick.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned putting a lot of good film on tape. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: pass rush or not pass rush?
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  Speaker 3: UH?
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  Speaker 4: Stopping the run especially, UH, can you speak to that
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  Speaker 4: a little bit and how your unit then?
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  Speaker 1: Uh stopping the run? That's our number one Kia as
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  Speaker 1: a as a defensive front. Uh, we stopped the run
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  Speaker 1: and at least everything else. We'll get to the pass
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  Speaker 1: rush and things like that later on once we stopped around.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how helpful is it to come home when you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for a win front of the home things?
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  Speaker 1: I said that won't repeat that one.
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  Speaker 2: How helpful is it to be coming home to the
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  Speaker 2: bank when you're still looking for that first one?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's definitely helpful. Obviously playing at home and home environment.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I said, it's just the first game. So
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  Speaker 1: hopefully the fans realize that. Obviously they know that we
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  Speaker 1: a coming together as a team, still building their chemistry,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, just helping him to still be able to
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  Speaker 1: feed off that in energy at.
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  Speaker 4: Home rushing with Eric for the first time in a game.
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  Speaker 3: Just how that feel? How that got? Love it? I
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  Speaker 3: love it.
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  Speaker 1: He was at three Tech prob one time that I
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  Speaker 1: can vividly remember. Uh, I loved it. Uh, it just
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  Speaker 1: has flowed naturally. We haven't got too many practice Russians
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  Speaker 1: at that obviously knowing that he just got back and
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  Speaker 1: just got back into the floor of things. But I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's gonna be pretty good the whole unit
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  Speaker 1: as well, not.
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  Speaker 3: Just Eric, Well, how is the communication the first time
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  Speaker 3: in the new system.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like the communication was good.
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  Speaker 3: To you guys on defense?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? I, I definitely feel like the communication was good.
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  Speaker 1: It could've obviously been better on like certain occasions, but
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  Speaker 1: as far as going out at first game, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it was pretty short. We always can find room
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  Speaker 1: for improvement.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of football left in the season of
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  Speaker 5: you know, sixteen left to go, so a lot of
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  Speaker 5: good things this defense can still do. How do you
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  Speaker 5: guys get to that next step?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Like I say, coming in today, watching the film, obviously
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  Speaker 1: knowing the good, the bad, and the ugly, and just
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  Speaker 1: fine tuning those little little small things that we made
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  Speaker 1: mistakes on down the wire. If that's conditioning or just
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  Speaker 1: taking this minor step here and redirecting or whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: it's correcting those little small details.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that conditioning is a question too, right, And that's
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  Speaker 5: first time going in a full game in a long time.
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  Speaker 5: So did that come into play towards the end? I
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  Speaker 5: mean both sides probably had that same issue.
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  Speaker 3: OUH.
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  Speaker 1: For me personally, I wouldn't really say it's so much
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  Speaker 1: of the condition it's just the fact of you really
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  Speaker 1: won't be in the game shape until you actually plan
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  Speaker 1: to the play in that first game or the first
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  Speaker 1: two games. You get acclimated it once you start catching
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  Speaker 1: your second win and you just start flowing from there.
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  Speaker 6: Nah, that wasn't a tendency. We were making some plays
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  Speaker 6: down the field. Uh so, I mean obviously trying to
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  Speaker 6: stab us a run game, and I felt like we
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  Speaker 6: were doing a pretty good job. Again, we just gotta
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  Speaker 6: finish all this.
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  Speaker 5: What was Jalen or what was Brian saying to Jalen?
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  Speaker 6: I have no idea he I don't know what he
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  Speaker 6: was saying, but uh, good to see.
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  Speaker 3: Good to see that come out of you know, bt.
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  Speaker 6: He was he played hard and then uh he had
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  Speaker 6: a great effort on run plays and obviously in the
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  Speaker 6: past game. So it was definitely fun to watch.
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  Speaker 3: But he's so quiet. Yeah, yeah, exactly that right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It was like kind of like alter kind of thing
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  Speaker 6: setting him out there talking. So it's it was it
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  Speaker 6: was exciting to see.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, is this is it ever as bad as you think?
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  Speaker 5: Or is it ever as good as you think? The
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  Speaker 5: day after? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, yeah, it's I it's never as bad as you think, right,
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  Speaker 6: you go around and you watch the tape. You see
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  Speaker 6: guys freaking flying around making big plays on defense and offense.
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  Speaker 6: It's just little things that are controllables that we let
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  Speaker 6: slip out of our hands. And you know that that's
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  Speaker 6: why the game ended.
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  Speaker 3: Up way it was.
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  Speaker 2: With the way it ended, it was some hard to
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  Speaker 2: flush it all.
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  Speaker 6: Nah, Nah, it's week one at sixteen week. I mean again,
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  Speaker 6: if you put on the tape, defense, offense, best teams,
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  Speaker 6: everyone just flying around the ball, trying to make plays, hustling.
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  Speaker 6: It was also, I I mean it was it was
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  Speaker 6: really good to see the tape to see that you know,
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  Speaker 6: we're that close.
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  Speaker 7: Gave the two best offensive drives of today. You could
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  Speaker 7: make a case for when they backed you up inside
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  Speaker 7: the five and then you guys wanted scored on one
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  Speaker 7: and then the other one was before Travis Fumber. But
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  Speaker 7: what does that say for the offense that you guys
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  Speaker 7: can get yourselves out of that kind of hole.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, we just take it one play at
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  Speaker 6: a time, So try to excute him at what the
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  Speaker 6: situation is, whether you know we're in the red zone
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  Speaker 6: or backed up on our two yard line to be
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  Speaker 6: able to go out there and excute the way we
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  Speaker 6: know how.
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  Speaker 7: First game, whichever regular season game, just how that feel.
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  Speaker 6: Just get on the sack page with them. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 6: it felt good. I feel We've been working on camp,
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  Speaker 6: uh to build our chemistry up. I felt it went
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  Speaker 6: pretty well. Every time he was able to get me
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  Speaker 6: the ball. You know, we're able to make something happen.
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  Speaker 6: So uh, just keep it going, keep working and you know,
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  Speaker 6: find ways to get better each and every week.
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  Speaker 2: That don't catch with Brian for a touchdown, Evan said
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  Speaker 2: it was one of the better throws he seen in
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  Speaker 2: a while.
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  Speaker 3: Just your thoughts on.
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  Speaker 6: Him, Yeah, I mean if you pause that clip for
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  Speaker 6: when he was throwing the ball, I mean, BET's kind
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  Speaker 6: of crossing the field and he's throwing it towards the
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  Speaker 6: back pylon with uh Poor and Ramsey on me. So
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  Speaker 6: it's pretty I mean, and he floated it too. I
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  Speaker 6: mean to have that conference be able to make that
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  Speaker 6: kind of a tight throw, especially getting hit something special.
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  Speaker 4: Does that not surprise you based on kind of what
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  Speaker 4: you saw throughout camp, just uh from Trevor from.
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  Speaker 6: BT check, Yeah, no, it doesn't surprise me at all.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: We put in a lot of work, put a lot
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  Speaker 6: of time. Uh, Doug has uh prepared us for for
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  Speaker 6: those type of moments and nothing nothing special to see
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  Speaker 6: when you see that, I mean something that you expect
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  Speaker 6: every single week.
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  Speaker 5: What kind of opportunity is this coming home this week
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  Speaker 5: against the Browns to get back on track.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you gotta win at home. You know this isld
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  Speaker 6: be a big, big game for us, and excited that
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  Speaker 6: we get to go do it at our home stadium.
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  Speaker 3: It's not hard to flush with all. W We're on
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  Speaker 3: to the next one.
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  Speaker 2: Would you think thik Dops got a little too conservative
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  Speaker 2: in the second half.
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  Speaker 3: Or uh no, I mean we just didn't execute.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like you know where it was just everybody
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  Speaker 3: had their mishap at the wrong time. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: take a lot of credit. I didn't play well. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't execute to my best ability. So I think, uh
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  Speaker 3: we all just kind of hold each other accountable to
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  Speaker 3: the small things and just be better next week.
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  Speaker 7: There's a lot of self inflicted mistakes on both sides
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  Speaker 7: and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Does that have the same feel?
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  Speaker 3: Is is what happened last season when things were going
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  Speaker 3: to well.
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  Speaker 5: I just you know, kind of beating yourself. Did Was
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  Speaker 5: there any that ever?
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  Speaker 3: End of your mind at all or nah, I I'm
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  Speaker 3: we're we're we're way past last year. We have a
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  Speaker 3: way better team. M We're a lot more focused. We
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  Speaker 3: prepare way better. Uh, we just didn't finish. And that's
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  Speaker 3: like I said, that's the frustrating thing is, uh, we
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  Speaker 3: saw what we're capable of against a really good team
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  Speaker 3: a g against a really good offense and a good defense.
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  Speaker 3: So I think, uh, yeah, there's definitely things to learn,
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  Speaker 3: but we're we're pasted all that that happened last year.
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  Speaker 3: I think, Uh, that's what's m frustrating about you know
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  Speaker 3: this morning is uh, we tasted the the greatness that
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  Speaker 3: we can be. H. We just didn't finish.
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  Speaker 4: How much do you attribute week one to you know,
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  Speaker 4: not go in the full sixty you know, you there,
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  Speaker 4: its thirty great minutes and then kind of falls off it.
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  Speaker 4: Can that be attributed to week one at all? Or
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  Speaker 4: is that something that you gotta kind of settle into
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  Speaker 4: over the.
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  Speaker 3: Course of the year, I mean to our standard. Uh No,
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's you know, it's kind of as a
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  Speaker 3: kind of an excuse, you know, week one, you know,
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  Speaker 3: trying to find our way whatever. But that's across the
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  Speaker 3: whole league. Everybody's trying to you know, get back going.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's on the steady inclined starting week one, and I think, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I think that we just to our standard. We're we're
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  Speaker 3: better than we how we finished yesterday. So that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of don't wanna make excuses about week one. It's early.
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  Speaker 3: We're learning. Uh, we feel like we're we're a great team.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're gonna continue to work to be a great team.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Where great teams finish, and that's what we gotta get
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  Speaker 3: better at.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think about BT's touchdown?
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  Speaker 3: Ah, Man, I mean, probably the best, but definitely the
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  Speaker 3: best player of the day offensively, best best throw I've
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  Speaker 3: seen in a while. I'm just anticipation and just credit
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  Speaker 3: to trev And and BT. BT's since day one he
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  Speaker 3: walked in here, he's been locked in, trying to get better,
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  Speaker 3: you know, working through things, Uh, just finding his way,
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  Speaker 3: finding his you know, his uh, his footing in this league.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I talked about the young guys that
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  Speaker 3: contributed to our team yesterday. Uh, they're gonna continue to help.
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  Speaker 3: But that played with that was a special play. That's
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  Speaker 3: just that's the capability that's you know, That's that's what
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about. The frustration is like we have that
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  Speaker 3: ability to make play like that, We have the guys
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  Speaker 3: to do that, we just gotta do it for a
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  Speaker 3: full sixty minutes when you're.
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  Speaker 2: Still looking for that first one of the year. How
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  Speaker 2: helpful is that the next game is back at home
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  Speaker 2: at the Bank.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, It's it's big. We got a you know, a
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  Speaker 3: Northern team coming down south, the team that you know,
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  Speaker 3: we know we went to battle with last year in
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  Speaker 3: their place, uh and so and definitely, Uh, the feeling
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  Speaker 3: of yesterday. We're gonna we're gonna be ready to work
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  Speaker 3: this week and go, you know, right the ship. I'm
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  Speaker 3: at home and try to get you know, we gotta
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  Speaker 3: protect the band. We gotta win at home. And that's
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  Speaker 3: our that's our that's gonna be our goal.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have talked about Brian doesn't say it whole
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  Speaker 2: at a lot, but he had some stuff to say
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  Speaker 2: to Jalen.
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  Speaker 3: Did you hear what he didn't hear what he said?
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  Speaker 3: But I love seeing it. Uh, I love seeing it
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  Speaker 3: and uh definitely, Uh, that's that brings a lot to
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  Speaker 3: our team. That that definitely got the juices going and
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  Speaker 3: everybody on the sideline. It was it was right there.
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  Speaker 3: We all saw it. And you know that's uh that's
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  Speaker 3: probably the most I've seen him talk, honestly, But uh
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  Speaker 3: I love it, and I think, uh I think he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna start to open up a little bit. He's he's
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  Speaker 3: gaining confidence and uh he showed it yesterday. Uh what
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  Speaker 3: he's capable of, and uh he's gonna be a big
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  Speaker 3: weapon for us, and he's gonna a lot more confidence.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna come, for sure. So it was a surprise
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  Speaker 3: to see him talking. I I mean, yeah, I was
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  Speaker 3: actually surprised. Uh, especially that you know at at at
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  Speaker 3: at five too. It was cool to see and it's
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  Speaker 3: just uh it was good for our team to see too.
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  Speaker 3: It it kind of seem like Jalen was falling him
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  Speaker 3: a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: What does that say about the respect he's already.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of mandage. I mean you y you watched the tape. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I mean their their defense had a lot of respect
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  Speaker 3: for seven. Uh you got that type of speed and
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  Speaker 3: the big play capability. Uh, they have to respect it.
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  Speaker 3: So uh it says a lot about him, his his
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  Speaker 3: his ability and uh just for him to be a rookie,
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  Speaker 3: and you know it's only up from here too, so
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  Speaker 3: it's says a lot