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Press Pass | Jaguars Players Emphasize Focus Ahead of Week 18 vs. Titans · Press Pass

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Speaker 1: You know, I like playing against my divisional opponents. You know,
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Speaker 1: we see him twice a year, and this is a
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Speaker 1: big game. So I feel like all our divisional games
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Speaker 1: are big games for us. So just for me to
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Speaker 1: be out there and do what I do, understand what
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Speaker 1: they're trying to do, and just execute the calls as
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Speaker 1: being called.
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Speaker 2: I know y'all hadn't been talking about like goals or
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Speaker 2: expectations or things on the line, but this one's winning
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Speaker 2: you win the South.
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Speaker 3: Did you have y'all talked about that this week at all?
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Speaker 3: Uh uh No, not necessarily.
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Speaker 1: I think we've just been focusing on about us, trying
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Speaker 1: not to let this moment get too far ahead of
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Speaker 1: us and just capture the moment. Cause this is a
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Speaker 1: good team, you know, at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: regardless of the recommend they compete and they've been playing
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Speaker 1: a lot better than the last few weeks.
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Speaker 3: So our fundamentals need.
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Speaker 1: To be on point, our communication need to be on point,
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Speaker 1: and are tackling and just everything needs to be where
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Speaker 1: they need to be.
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Speaker 4: You guys gave up a field goal the first drive
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Speaker 4: against him last time and then shut up down what
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Speaker 4: worked so well on defense last time. Against Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: Uh, for us, it's just stopping to run, you know,
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Speaker 1: playing and our pr playing our brain and uh defense, Uh,
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Speaker 1: stopping around. I think that first drive, they they kind
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Speaker 1: of went all the way down the field running the
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Speaker 1: ball big.
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Speaker 3: They came out big personnel, ran the ball.
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Speaker 1: So for us understanding now, understanding what they've been doing
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Speaker 1: for the last few weeks too.
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Speaker 3: Excuse me not under better right now, just r run
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Speaker 3: the ball.
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Speaker 1: So obviously, you know we stopped to run, you know,
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Speaker 1: find opportunities to get after the passer.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: He's been doing the head with a job as well,
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Speaker 1: escaping and making big plays for the play, making big
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Speaker 1: plays for that team.
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Speaker 3: So again, this is a good team, and you know we're.
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Speaker 1: Excited for the challenge and just closing it the way
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Speaker 1: we're supposed to be.
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Speaker 3: Last week of the.
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Speaker 1: Season, I mean, does it feel like a Whirlwinds training
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Speaker 1: camp feels like a year ago?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's kind of crazy, uh to
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Speaker 3: think that.
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Speaker 1: Uh, you know, now I feel like it's a last
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Speaker 1: game of the season, you know, but we still have
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Speaker 1: a lot more games left.
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Speaker 3: It kind of feels like we have a lot more
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Speaker 3: games left.
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Speaker 1: So, uh, it doesn't give us that you know, last
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Speaker 1: game feel, you know, which was we never had what
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Speaker 1: we haven't had in a long time here. So for
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Speaker 1: us is just you know, keep doing what we're doing,
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Speaker 1: continue to be in a moment, and continue just to
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Speaker 1: enjoy everything that we can do.
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Speaker 5: How exciting has that been to know that you have
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Speaker 5: at least one more.
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Speaker 6: Game to play over now?
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Speaker 3: I mean it's awesome. Uh, you know we can. I
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Speaker 3: think we earned the right to be.
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Speaker 1: Where we are today and we're continuing to fight and battle, offensive, defensive,
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Speaker 1: special teams.
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Speaker 3: UH.
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Speaker 1: Coaching staff puts us in a great position every week
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Speaker 1: to kind of understand what's gonna happen. UH puts us
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Speaker 1: in a position to kind of go out there and
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Speaker 1: play as fast as we can. And you know, we
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Speaker 1: just trust that process and we just go out there
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Speaker 1: and play free.
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Speaker 3: We got time to make the pictures of too Big,
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Speaker 3: but you go.
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Speaker 4: You got.
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Speaker 3: One of the best words this year has been, uh culture.
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Speaker 3: One of the buzzwords this year for you guys has
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Speaker 3: been a culture.
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Speaker 7: How important is it to kind of go out there
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Speaker 7: and no, dude, you guys are expected to do to
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Speaker 7: win this game. That's basically we got to expect to
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Speaker 7: do and capture the division titles.
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Speaker 3: I mean, nothing change.
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Speaker 1: Nothing should change the way we we've been prepping, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. Uh, I think the last I
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Speaker 1: th like these last four or five games have been
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Speaker 1: you know, m could be making break games for us,
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Speaker 1: and we just kind of went out there and handled
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Speaker 1: our business. Uh kind of started it on Wednesday, uh
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Speaker 1: today and then Thursday. We kind of just you know,
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Speaker 1: progress each and every day. And we went out there
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Speaker 1: Sunday's confident, you know, fast, physical, and we just played
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Speaker 1: our brander football. And we continue to do that, then
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Speaker 1: you know, everything will speak for us.
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Speaker 5: So go through were told about Leams a bit under
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Speaker 5: the weather and he was there for about two thirds
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Speaker 5: of practice. Just how did he seem to you and
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Speaker 5: did he have the same energy that he usually does
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Speaker 5: with you guys?
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Speaker 3: I mean he no, I mean yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean he spoke to us at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, at the end of the uh practice, you know,
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Speaker 1: to let us know that he's okay. And I mean
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Speaker 1: we all have our moments to where you know, we
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Speaker 1: just you know, sick is a dark thing air. I
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Speaker 1: think it's kind of running through the locker room, right now.
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Speaker 1: But it just speaks to the type of team that
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Speaker 1: we have.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 1: You know, Uh, regardless of how we feel, Uh, we
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Speaker 1: still got a job to do and we still got.
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Speaker 3: To execute at a high level.
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Speaker 1: And even with coaches, like we all understand, we've been
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Speaker 1: in that situation.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: So for him to kind of just come back and
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Speaker 1: be president in practice and be vocal as well, letting.
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Speaker 3: Us know that he's okay, I think that's that really
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Speaker 3: speaks value. What different on film from cam Ward and
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Speaker 3: from the first time you guys saw I mean, I
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Speaker 3: think I think it's the same. I think I'm seeing
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Speaker 3: a lot of the same things. He's just a lot
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Speaker 3: more I say, he's a lot more confident, you know.
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Speaker 1: But he's he's he's doing the same He's doing a
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Speaker 1: lot of the same things that he's did before the
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Speaker 1: last time I studied him. You know, he's a good player,
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Speaker 1: makes a lot of good plays. He can make plays
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Speaker 1: in the pocket, he can make plays outside the pocket,
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Speaker 1: and he.
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Speaker 3: Can find the receiver. Man, and and he's he's proven
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Speaker 3: at it. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Each each week, uh, one or two plays just stand
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Speaker 1: down and just say, WHOA, that's a great bar. I
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Speaker 1: know when I watch come on him. I'm like, damn,
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Speaker 1: that was a good play. That's a great ball. Uh
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Speaker 1: with two people around him, maybe it's like a gutsy
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Speaker 1: go a gutsie player, but like to be you know,
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Speaker 1: be able to have that confidence to kind of drilling
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Speaker 1: in there. Uh and the receiver to trust that you
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Speaker 1: can make the catch. You know, it's awesome. So uh,
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Speaker 1: shout out to him. Man, he's he's he's. I think
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Speaker 1: he's progressing the way he's supposed to. And uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to be another opponent for him and
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Speaker 1: face off we did's.
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Speaker 3: Does this feel like just any other week?
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Speaker 8: You talked about going just take care of your business?
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Speaker 3: Just feel like another I mean I.
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Speaker 1: Feel like a little I feel like I feel like
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Speaker 1: have the teams ib be under the weather. So I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't say I wouldn't say it feels like a normal week.
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Speaker 1: But preparation wise, uh, you know, when we're out there
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Speaker 1: in the field wise, everything's the same. You know, everybody's
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Speaker 1: sticking to the schedule. Everybody works out when they're supposed
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Speaker 1: to work out. Everybody's you know what I'm saying, everybody's
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Speaker 1: still doing what they're supposed to do. Is just you know,
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Speaker 1: I feel like people don't feel it's good. But we
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Speaker 1: got a job to do and we gotta execute at
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Speaker 1: a high level, and we all gotta be focused on
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Speaker 1: that main job.
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Speaker 4: Is this everything that you hope for when you showed
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Speaker 4: up in Jacksonville?
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Speaker 8: I mean it's always what you hope for every time
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Speaker 8: you enter a year. I mean, you know, and in
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Speaker 8: the season, always in will heartbreak. Somebody gotta win super Bowl.
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Speaker 8: So to be in a position we are to you know,
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Speaker 8: fight for that, it's a great opportunity.
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Speaker 4: How different is a cam Ward now than just about
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Speaker 4: a month ago.
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Speaker 8: Definitely looks more confident and you know, we're he's throwing
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Speaker 8: the ball and this game is starting to fit a
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Speaker 8: skill set. So we got to do our best at
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Speaker 8: you know, stop 'em and he got those we're our
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Speaker 8: angles and just stand tight to our work.
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Speaker 2: I know this.
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Speaker 5: Season, you guys haven't really spoken about goals. But is
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Speaker 5: it being talked about this week that there is an
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Speaker 5: AFC South title on the line or is it just
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Speaker 5: business as usual?
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Speaker 8: Pretty much, you just got to carry it out as
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Speaker 8: business as usual. You don't wanna kind of get into
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Speaker 8: those things. We're all aware of. You know what's going on.
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Speaker 8: But as long as you stay grounding in your process,
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Speaker 8: you don't do something out of the ordinary.
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Speaker 5: How hard is it to just kind of stay grounded
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Speaker 5: in that persons and not think that far ahead.
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Speaker 8: I mean it's been eighteen weeks, so we had a
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Speaker 8: lot of time to refine that process. It's uh, you
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Speaker 8: know throughout our routines and stuff like that. So whatever
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Speaker 8: routine you have before, keep keep at it, you know,
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Speaker 8: add to it maybe, and uh, keep on defense. Doesn't
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Speaker 8: like any running back hit seventy five yards this year,
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Speaker 8: what kind of pride do you?
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Speaker 3: Guys?
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Speaker 8: Just take it as you like I said, it's a
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Speaker 8: run defenses. It takes everybody, so everybody understands what to
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Speaker 8: do and where to be, and and everybody wants to
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Speaker 8: be accountable to their brother at the end of the day.
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Speaker 8: So that's all right, run defenses.
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Speaker 6: How much if it starts with camp and just kind
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Speaker 6: of his mindset when he stuck to you guys, h.
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Speaker 8: I mean it all starts with him.
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Speaker 3: I mean he's our leader.
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Speaker 8: Uh, and then we got leaders amongst him that kind
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Speaker 8: of reiterate that message, and uh we all believe in it,
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Speaker 8: and uh, we believe in him, so we execute that.
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Speaker 5: It's kind of a fun one for you. Any New Year's.
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Speaker 8: Resolutions, New Year's resolutions, I wanna celebrate more. I'm not
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Speaker 8: a big celebration guy in terms of like this with
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Speaker 8: my family and stuff like that. So you know, when
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Speaker 8: it's a big moment, big m you know, life milestone,
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Speaker 8: celebrate though. So that's right, that's my going on. Yeah,
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Speaker 8: not talking about it this week, right, because you win,
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Speaker 8: you win the AFC sound I.
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Speaker 2: Mean yeah, But this is a byproduct of winning the game.
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Speaker 2: So I feel like the goals don't change for us
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Speaker 2: to just go want to know and now we do that,
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Speaker 2: all the things that come with that is just want
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Speaker 2: to happen naturally.
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Speaker 3: So uh, that's the great thing about football.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's just a team sport and every time
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Speaker 2: you focus on the team objective, great thing typing for
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Speaker 2: everyone else.
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Speaker 3: Does this just feel like any other week?
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I feel like it's the biggest game because
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Speaker 2: the next one, you know, we gotta continue to just
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Speaker 2: to treat each and every game as its own individual
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Speaker 2: so we're able to go out there and focus on
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Speaker 2: just a great outcome. And now I feel like has
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Speaker 2: just just gets.
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Speaker 3: Us in a mindset to attack each and.
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Speaker 2: Every day so that we're able to go out there
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Speaker 2: Sunday and put our best product on the field. Does
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Speaker 2: when everybody's sick?
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Speaker 3: I think it is here. Now what does that change
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Speaker 3: in terms of.
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Speaker 4: Like do you guys not get together and do extra
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Speaker 4: stuff during the week and stuff?
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: Like it's got to alter something, right, I.
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Speaker 3: Mean you're thinking of of something.
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Speaker 2: I'm just why everybody said because a do nothing? But nah, man,
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Speaker 2: we just gotta just just not take some medicine and
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Speaker 2: uh get right boy, you know it's uh wash your hands,
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Speaker 2: do all the little cleanings of the things you can do,
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Speaker 2: and just continue to take medicine and try to get
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Speaker 2: ahead of it so it don't uh don't become a
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Speaker 2: big deal and uh a a widespread part deal.
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Speaker 4: And what do you see him from the Titans defense
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Speaker 4: now a few weeks ago?
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Speaker 3: Are they different now?
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Speaker 4: I mean they're kind of they're out of it one
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Speaker 4: week to go for them real they showing.
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Speaker 3: I mean, uh out of Titans. Man.
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Speaker 2: You know it's a division game, you know, man, I
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Speaker 2: feel like, uh it starts with differnt uh like you know,
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Speaker 2: the Simons is out there sway he's out there and
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Speaker 2: they're still playing really hard, although like they might not
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Speaker 2: be playing for nothing, uh post postseason playoff wise, but
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Speaker 2: they still wanna come in here and give us the
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Speaker 2: l you know. So, uh, we know they're gonna give
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Speaker 2: us their best shots. So we gotta go out there
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Speaker 2: and just be ready to be prepared. We can't go
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Speaker 2: out there Lasa Day's coal and think it's just going
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Speaker 2: to happen for us. Uh. I feel like each of
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Speaker 2: the week in this league, everything is earned, So we
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Speaker 2: gotta go out there Sunday and earn it like we
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Speaker 2: have earned every other one. And we can't, uh, we
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Speaker 2: can't look at this like anything else but a big
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Speaker 2: division Robbie game.
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Speaker 4: There's been a lot of changes on the offensive line
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Speaker 4: this year, but anybody who's stepped in has really kind
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Speaker 4: of played at a high level as well. What does
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Speaker 4: that say about that group in front of you in
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Speaker 4: the run game, especially that they can they have a
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Speaker 4: rotation of guys up there.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's this is a great feeling just knowing
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Speaker 2: that everyone in here locked into the team goal, you know,
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Speaker 2: and I feel like like you say, next man up,
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Speaker 2: and it's just a great feeling whenever some of them
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Speaker 2: goes down and you're able to have someone else step
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Speaker 2: in and it's basically no drop off, you know. So
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Speaker 2: it shows that everyone's in here, attentive, everyone here practicing.
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Speaker 2: Everybody wants to get better.
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Speaker 3: They want here.
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Speaker 2: Listening to coach and believing in what we got going on.
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Speaker 2: And this is a very thing, fun thing to seeing.
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Speaker 2: Major love that that everyone has that mindset to get better.
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Speaker 4: Just similar vibes to twenty twenty two. Last week at
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Speaker 4: the season division title on the line.
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Speaker 2: Nah, I would say, Nah, it's not the same. I
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Speaker 2: feel like that team was different. This team is different.
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Speaker 2: The vices just different. Just the mentality is different. I
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Speaker 2: feel like we're older now, we've been there, we know
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Speaker 2: what to expect, and we want to get there, and
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Speaker 2: we're more hungry than ever now.
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Speaker 3: So definitely different vibes.
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Speaker 5: Last time you guys played the Titan just a few
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Speaker 5: weeks ago, it's pretty contentious. Do you expect there to
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Speaker 5: be any pushing shoveling this week?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, you definitely expect that, But we know
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Speaker 2: we can't we can't get into that. You know, we
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Speaker 2: need everyone going into that next week, So we just
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Speaker 2: got to be levinghead, to stay calm and just let
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Speaker 2: our play in between whist to speak for us, just
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Speaker 2: a bit of a fun one.
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Speaker 5: Any New Year's resolutions for you this year?
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Speaker 3: More media?
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Speaker 7: Ye?
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Speaker 2: No media. I feel like with Marshaan said, I'm just
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Speaker 2: here so I won't get fine, you know. But new
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Speaker 2: Year's resolution, I kind of. I really haven't thought on it,
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Speaker 2: to be honest, but I feel like I want to
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Speaker 2: be more intentional. I got to book my girl got
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Speaker 2: me for Christmas, so I was supposed to read some
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Speaker 2: bits this past year.
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Speaker 3: It didn't happen.
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Speaker 2: So we're gonna just continue that when hopefully I get
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Speaker 2: one booking by in the January.
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Speaker 3: So I gotta start early and often on that.
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Speaker 4: One team Week eighteen with the titles out there too.
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Speaker 4: How do you guys balance all that this week?
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Speaker 6: As a time, it's taking it one day at a time,
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Speaker 6: one step at a time, coming in and putting in
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Speaker 6: the work today, worrying about that when the day comes up.
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Speaker 6: So I mean, that's how I look at it. So
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Speaker 6: I feel like that's how we should look at it
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Speaker 6: as a team. I would say that's the biggest thing,
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Speaker 6: just taking it one step at a time.
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Speaker 3: What are they show?
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Speaker 4: What are the Titans showing on defense last few weeks
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Speaker 4: since you guys last saw them. They're out of the race.
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Speaker 4: You know, there's not a lot for them to play for.
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Speaker 4: But how hard are they playing? What are they showing?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they're still playing, still playing very hard, still playing,
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Speaker 6: still playing tough. I've been actually been playing a lot
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Speaker 6: better in the past couple weeks. But I mean, we
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Speaker 6: just gonna come out and do what we do, and
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Speaker 6: just come out and try to dominate and do it,
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Speaker 6: do what we do, execute and just Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't mean this offense seems to be able to
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Speaker 4: spread it around, like you get a bunch of touches
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Speaker 4: one week and the next week is Parker going over
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Speaker 4: a hundred?
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Speaker 3: Then the tight end.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's hard to cover this offense right as
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Speaker 4: a defense? What does that mean for this attack? We said,
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Speaker 4: what does it mean?
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Speaker 3: For what does it mean?
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Speaker 4: I mean it could be anybody any week.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it just shows out versus how we are as
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Speaker 6: an offense. Uh, don't forget the mensions of Kobe, Kobe Parker, Strange,
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Speaker 6: anybody running running game. We all compliment each other. It
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Speaker 6: just allows us to go out there and be able
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Speaker 6: to play play fast, play free, just be like I said,
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Speaker 6: just compliment each other. Right, It's obviously only been your
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Speaker 6: second year in the league, but I'm sure you've noticed
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Speaker 6: kind of just the culture shift, you know from last
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Speaker 6: year to this year.
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Speaker 3: How important would it be to.
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Speaker 7: Kind of go out there and capture this division titles
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Speaker 7: you guys are expected to do. We kind of add
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Speaker 7: another checkpoint to changing that culture of winning around there.
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Speaker 6: It's super important, super super important for us, just like
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Speaker 6: you just said, just changing the culture around here, just
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Speaker 6: trying to do things differently and just trying to go
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Speaker 6: out there and just do what we do and do
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Speaker 6: it when when when we're supposed to do the things
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Speaker 6: that we're supposed to, just like executing, just being better,
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Speaker 6: really just getting better each and every day, each and
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Speaker 6: every game.
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Speaker 7: Seems like one of the other themes this year has
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Speaker 7: been to overcome university, which you guys have done, you know, as.
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Speaker 3: A team in individually.
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Speaker 7: You know, in years past around here, it could have
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Speaker 7: been you know that call quote unquote same old jags
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Speaker 7: and things with snowball, but you guys have been really
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Speaker 7: good about kind of stopping the buck and then changing
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Speaker 7: things around How important is that?
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Speaker 3: How you guys been able to carry that over you know,
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Speaker 3: from week to week.
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Speaker 6: Uh, It's super important. I feel like, uh that was
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Speaker 6: a little thing that we were missing last year, uh
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Speaker 6: that we were like with twell, we had so many
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Speaker 6: like one score games that didn't go our way.
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Speaker 3: UH.
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Speaker 6: So I feel like that was a that was a
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Speaker 6: big change for us coming into this year. We wanted
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Speaker 6: to win those games that we uh that we were
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Speaker 6: that we were close in and just try to change
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Speaker 6: the change the cultures, to try to be the be
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Speaker 6: the best that we can be, go out there each
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Speaker 6: and their uh play and just try to execute so
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Speaker 6: and we know that what that would lead to as