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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "We're going to be in games like this." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think it's uh affected them a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, you know. I mean obviously, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: can't turn the ball over five times like we did
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  Speaker 1: and expect you know, good things to happen. And um,
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  Speaker 1: you know we're we're gonna be in games like this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where where the conditions aren't gonna be favorable,
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know we just have to we just
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  Speaker 1: have to you know, do our part to hang on
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  Speaker 1: the ball all of a a sudden. Well, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about it all the time. It's just we've
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  Speaker 1: just got to focus on us, right and Um, anytime
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  Speaker 1: you you know, make the mistakes we did, turn the
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  Speaker 1: ball over like we did, it's just and and where
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  Speaker 1: we turned the ball over, you know, you just you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna keep good teams out of the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: And um, that's really the difference in the football game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm proud of our guys for you know,
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  Speaker 1: they fought there to the end, gave us a chance
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  Speaker 1: to at least see what was going to happen there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the game. But um,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the turnovers and and mental errors that really
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  Speaker 1: cost us today. It was great, Yeah, it's great. It's
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  Speaker 1: a great crowd. Um, great welcome. Um you know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. It was good before the game, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't. I mean, I was just my normal routine, Um,
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  Speaker 1: just seeing guys. But uh, you know, at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, you know, I've got a job to
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  Speaker 1: do it and get the Jags ready to play, and
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  Speaker 1: and um, but it was good to see a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people. And um, you know, when you spend spend
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  Speaker 1: as much time here as we did, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: do the things we did, it was it was good
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  Speaker 1: to see a lot of people. I mean once the
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  Speaker 1: game started. No, I mean it's just the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you're you're looking a little different perspective, but on the
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  Speaker 1: other sideline. But you know, obviously spend a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time in that stadium, and and um, you know, fans
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  Speaker 1: were great today as expected, and um, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: unfortunate for us. Yeah, I think obviously short term memory
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  Speaker 1: number one. We gotta fix the fix those mistakes with him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, correct him, show him, Um, keep keep teaching him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and um, he's gonna be better for it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we'll be better for it obviously down the road.
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  Speaker 1: And um, you know, Uh, he's he's great about fixing
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  Speaker 1: things and being a pro about it and and that's
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  Speaker 1: what we expect, you know, and and he'll he'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: We just didn't have enough touches, i mean turnovers, and
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  Speaker 1: you just don't have enough touches, you know, and you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to get the ball to this guy and that
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  Speaker 1: guy and do to you know, stick to your plan
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you just can't turn the ball over
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  Speaker 1: like we did. You just don't get enough enough opportunities. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's hard. You know, it's hard. We
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  Speaker 1: just again, you know, we can't as much as we try,
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  Speaker 1: we can't let the elements affect you know, what we do.
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  Speaker 1: And um, you might have to modify some things, but
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  Speaker 1: but you really, um you really, you know have to
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  Speaker 1: stick to your plan and uh, you know, do the
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  Speaker 1: do the things that you know that that we've been
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  Speaker 1: able to have success with you know, uh the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Need you know, how hard is that
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  Speaker 1: for an offense when the other team knows you're probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna right are you talking about what they did at
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  Speaker 1: the end? Well, look, I mean that's you know, as
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  Speaker 1: we know, that's that's a good offensive line. Know all
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  Speaker 1: those guys and UM know how they're coached and and
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  Speaker 1: they're well coached, and it's just that's what they've pride
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  Speaker 1: themselves in, you know, UM, and you know they we've
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  Speaker 1: we've got to be better. You know. On the defensive side,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta stay in gaps and we gotta we gotta
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  Speaker 1: somehow you know, UM try to slow down the rush,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as best we can. But UM, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's that's uh, that's how you win games at
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  Speaker 1: the end. You know, when you got the lead, you
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  Speaker 1: just you know, run behind the big offensive line and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as long as you make first downs stay
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  Speaker 1: on the field, you got a chance to win the game,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I mean it's those are those are obvious plays, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know we have to we have to convert.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta make you know, we gotta make those and
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  Speaker 1: and you know when you when you have guys open
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  Speaker 1: like that, and you know, UM, just do the best
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  Speaker 1: we can to to to execute those plays. And then again,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on on the flip side of it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: staying disciplined in our um you know, in our rush
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  Speaker 1: lanes and UM, trying to get get the ball Carey
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. I think I got a great feel
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  Speaker 1: for this football team. These guys are mad, and they're
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  Speaker 1: kind of a little bit ticked off, you know, Um,
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  Speaker 1: and they should be, you know, they should hate losing
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  Speaker 1: more than they enjoy winning. And so I told him
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  Speaker 1: after the game, and uh, you know, um twenty four hours,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get in the film room tomorrow and we'll look
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  Speaker 1: at it. We'll fix fix it, make the corrections and
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  Speaker 1: then move on. You know. But um, that's a good
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  Speaker 1: group of men in there, and and they're you know,
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  Speaker 1: they hurt just like I do. And um, they want
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  Speaker 1: it just like I do. And um, you know, we'll
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  Speaker 1: we'll get it fixed. The temperature and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was more more just him physically. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he tried to try to run on it, you know
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  Speaker 1: pre game or you know, before pregame and sort of
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  Speaker 1: a game time decision. And you know, look, I just
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big believer that if if if a player
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  Speaker 1: is not feeling it mentally, you just don't want to
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to risk it, right, you just don't
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  Speaker 1: want to put him out there. And of course then
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  Speaker 1: the elements, but um, you know it's only week four,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and there's a lot of football ahead
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  Speaker 1: of us still, and um, I just didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: put you know, put him in a a in a
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  Speaker 1: situation that could set him back, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully get him back this week. You know, I don't yet,
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  Speaker 1: Um you know some of the injuries we have. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta just check with with our docs here when
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  Speaker 1: I get done and probably have a better update tomorrow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he's a he's a big part
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  Speaker 1: of the run defense obviously, and and pushes the pockets
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  Speaker 1: just you know, makes you a little bit thin. But um,
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  Speaker 1: I thought the guys around him stepped up, did a
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  Speaker 1: nice job. But um, you know, we'll see where he's at.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to get him healthy for next week. Talk to
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  Speaker 1: each other after the game, any anything you can share
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  Speaker 1: about that obviously, you know. Yeah, No, I just told
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  Speaker 1: him I was proud of him, and and uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: UM just wished him well the rest of the season,
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  Speaker 1: and and um, you know, just just how he's you know,
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  Speaker 1: really turned into the leader that we all thought he
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  Speaker 1: was going to be. And and is um and um,
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted him to know that, did you guys
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  Speaker 1: have to practice we were. We were in the rain
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  Speaker 1: a little bit on Wednesday, Um, Thursday it rained kind
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  Speaker 1: of like this, but we were inside indoors down there
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  Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. And then Friday it was beautiful Friday, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, we uh we missed the bulk of the storm.
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  Speaker 1: Um stayed stayed south and east of us and we
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  Speaker 1: got lucky there. But um, you know, so yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: we practice one day in the rain conditions are going
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  Speaker 1: to bed. Yeah, we do. I mean we do. We
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  Speaker 1: try to, especially if we have i would say, multiple
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  Speaker 1: dry games in a row and we know there's some
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  Speaker 1: weather coming in. You know, we try to. We try
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  Speaker 1: to do that. But listen, we uh you know, we
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  Speaker 1: live in Florida, and and it rains quite a bit,
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  Speaker 1: you know down there, and and uh, you know, anytime,
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  Speaker 1: even if we do practice and there's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of rain, you know, we're gonna go outside, uh and
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  Speaker 1: and and practicing the elements we can. It's hard to tell.
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  Speaker 1: On the screen replay, it looked like it just was
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  Speaker 1: a drop snap, you know, Um, something that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we obviously can't happen in those situations, and we got
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  Speaker 1: to clean that up. You feel like, yeah, it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to tell I, you know, until we really honestly look
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  Speaker 1: at the film and see what other options he might have,
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  Speaker 1: you know at that time. But just just knowing that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you just gotta keep two hands on the
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  Speaker 1: football and and and try to try to hang on
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  Speaker 1: to it. I mean we we talked even during the game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and told him that we just we just
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  Speaker 1: gotta keep fighting, you know, keep pushing and plugging away.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he listen, he he he understands, he knows. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he's a professional and and uh, um, it's just something
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  Speaker 1: we just got to continue to work on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with him, with him and with everybody, with everybody that
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  Speaker 1: touches the football. And you know, this is this is
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be a good We're gonna be good. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be okay. You know, we'll be fine. Um, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, we'll we'll learn from this and uh and
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  Speaker 1: um you know, make the necessary corrections. Thanks all right,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for