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Press Pass | Jaguars Players on Containing Ladd McConkey · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: I don't really consider it much of like a challenge,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I think it's just getting back to what
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  Speaker 1: I've always done, you know, I mean I'm not new
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  Speaker 1: to you know, playing Niklas kind of what I played
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  Speaker 1: last year. So I think it's, you know, just stepping
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  Speaker 1: over when other team needs me, just doing his job.
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  Speaker 2: How about the the opponent this week and and what
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  Speaker 2: Herbert brings to the table.
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  Speaker 3: What stands out when you see him on table?
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  Speaker 1: Uh dynamic arm can uh make a lot of throws
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  Speaker 1: and uh they do a good job of with the
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  Speaker 1: weapons they have of you know what I'm saying, playing
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  Speaker 1: to their strengths. You know, so we got a good
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  Speaker 1: matchup this weekend. You know what I'm saying, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: bring our best.
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  Speaker 2: Little McConkey uh and the slot there so skill set
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  Speaker 2: for him. And how do you defend the guy like.
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  Speaker 1: La Uh nice to see if uh you know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of his route is marry up. He's uh kind
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  Speaker 1: of crafty at the top of the route, and you
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  Speaker 1: know he does a good job of uh being deceptive
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  Speaker 1: for his route. You know, so he just gotta you know,
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  Speaker 1: play with technique and you know what I'm saying, be
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  Speaker 1: on top of everything, cause he he he's a solid receiver.
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  Speaker 2: Give us the vibe in this locker room this week
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  Speaker 2: coming out of last week's game, but still hate seventh seed.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of important football out there for this.
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  Speaker 1: Team, right, I think you just see a lot of
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  Speaker 1: hungry dudes. Uh, tied n tied, like the same old Jags,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, We just you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, It's just gonna be right the narrative. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think you see a lot of guys that's tired
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  Speaker 1: of the same old, same old. We feel me so
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  Speaker 1: I think you can kind of see it in the
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  Speaker 1: way we practicing, the way we come to work. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, We just tired. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think we just ready to get get another one.
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  Speaker 3: Get that text in. I know it's been like a
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  Speaker 3: month since you played in the stadium, right the home
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  Speaker 3: gravel R. Yeah, I loved him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so happy back uh playing in Florida, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like we've been on the road like every week,
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  Speaker 1: like even when we weren't playing in London, like it
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  Speaker 1: was a home game, but it's like fifty hours from
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  Speaker 1: the house. So I felim He's kind of excited to
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  Speaker 1: be back at home. It was uh, obviously, you know
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  Speaker 1: you and Georgian have been close this year. What what's
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  Speaker 1: he done to kind of help you these last.
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  Speaker 3: Couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 4: I know, Camp said, even when he hasn't been in
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  Speaker 4: the game, he's been communicating with everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I talked. I I literally think we talked,
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  Speaker 1: like after every play, like I looked to the sidelines
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  Speaker 1: just look at him. You know what I'm saying, makes
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  Speaker 1: it I did right?
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  Speaker 3: Like I I did it right.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. He get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: thumbs up. But I think he's been kind of everything
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  Speaker 1: to me. You know, we watch a lot of film together.
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  Speaker 1: I pick up a lot of stuff from his game.
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  Speaker 1: They been doing it for a long time, so I
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  Speaker 1: think he was exactly what I needed. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. For this year, and you're in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of your second year now, just reflecting where you were
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  Speaker 1: this time last year, how much have you?
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  Speaker 3: How far have you?
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  Speaker 1: Really kind of comes to I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: my growth has been like off the field, as far
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  Speaker 1: as like how I prepare, how I watch family. Know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, it becoming more of a prolect Last year,
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  Speaker 1: it was just kind of like, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: I could play with a ball player, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But now I'm starting to put it all
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  Speaker 1: the good. So I think big credit to Jordan Eric
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  Speaker 1: for that.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of important football. Every week's important. But there's
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  Speaker 2: still everything out there for this team.
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  Speaker 5: Right Oh yeah, I mean you're still in the hunt.
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  Speaker 5: You gotta play good football and let's go on a run,
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  Speaker 5: catch a run. But it's all important to focus on
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  Speaker 5: our details all the way through the game, learn how
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  Speaker 5: to win them games, and then keep that momentum going forward.
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  Speaker 5: We gotta start it off, so we gotta come out
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  Speaker 5: this game, play in the right way, keep that momentum
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  Speaker 5: for the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 3: How tough, wasn't the day after last tough?
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  Speaker 5: But you know you learn from those those things. You
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  Speaker 5: gotta take them as lessons. But you know, everything gotta
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  Speaker 5: be applicable right now. You know it hurt, but uh
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  Speaker 5: use that pain to propel you forward.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of good players on this defense, So
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  Speaker 2: where can you guys make the most improvement on defense
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  Speaker 2: in the last eight weeks?
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  Speaker 5: Being on our details and trusting the the assignment of
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  Speaker 5: the guy next to us and stuff, and just playing
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  Speaker 5: eleven is one and flying around the ball player with
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  Speaker 5: that same energy and passion that we're cussling to playing with.
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  Speaker 2: Scouting report time, Give us your scouting report on Justin
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  Speaker 2: Herbert at quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: Great player. Uh uh you know, tall, good arm, good legs,
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  Speaker 5: runs with it, reads the coverage as well. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I put on Yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 5: see a lot of similarity to him and him and Trevor
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  Speaker 5: to be ones with you, like just watching him play
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  Speaker 5: the game and how they throw the ball and all
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  Speaker 5: that stuff. So, uh, you know, a very good player,
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  Speaker 5: and uh, there's a lot of plays for.
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  Speaker 2: Them, and Ladd mcconkey's making a lot of plays for
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  Speaker 2: him to down the field and in the passing game.
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  Speaker 2: What's it about the way he runs routes and and
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  Speaker 2: gets open.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just tell her he's just doing his scheme and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously they got Keenan Allen over there too, so I
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  Speaker 5: learned a lot from now from him this year and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So they run routes off each other well and understand
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  Speaker 5: the leverage is when an option, when to break it
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  Speaker 5: off and stuff. So it's a lot of timing and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: He got good hands and get right after the catch.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like this team hasn't played at ever Bank
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  Speaker 2: in like forever. It's been about over thirty days.
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  Speaker 3: I think. So good to be back home.
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  Speaker 5: And we want to get a way back home for sure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that'd be good for us.
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  Speaker 2: From your perspective, you're you and Schumer are guys that
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  Speaker 2: have to be up and ready no matter what happens.
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  Speaker 3: So how challenging is that?
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  Speaker 2: And how do you be ready for gaming?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's kind of our role, right, Like being
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  Speaker 4: in the backups, we kind of need to know everywhere
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  Speaker 4: along the line, and you know, every given week, like
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  Speaker 4: your role could change. So he's kind of you got
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  Speaker 4: to be ready for four or five positions and you
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  Speaker 4: embrace the role and whatever it takes. All this team wins.
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  Speaker 2: So and you in game the other week, then in
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  Speaker 2: Vegas you're you're like trying to figure out the silent count.
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  Speaker 3: You're playing tied end. A lot happening there in game
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  Speaker 3: when the team needed it. So how do you study
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  Speaker 3: all of that throughout the week?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and we kind of know our job,
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  Speaker 4: our role will go through our plays throughout the week
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  Speaker 4: and you just got to study. You know, it's just
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  Speaker 4: another position tight end. You know, fundamentals are the same
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  Speaker 4: as what we're already doing. You're just one over. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: silent common stuff is tough, but you kind of learn
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  Speaker 4: on the fly, like those basically first time doing it,
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  Speaker 4: and as the game went on, you kind of learn
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  Speaker 4: what you got to do, the cues you got to
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  Speaker 4: pick up on in the game, and kind of just
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  Speaker 4: let it fly.
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  Speaker 2: So what about the mentality this offensive line in offense
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  Speaker 2: as a whole, but mainly you guys up front, the
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  Speaker 2: physicality that you guys want to play with?
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  Speaker 3: Is it? There is there more out there for this group?
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  Speaker 4: Both for sure, we definitely that's one of our most
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  Speaker 4: is we gotta be physical. I think we've been doing
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  Speaker 4: a good job of that, but there's always more. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we want to be the most physical group in the NFL,
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  Speaker 4: and there's definitely times where we feel we are, but
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  Speaker 4: there's definitely times where we know we need to be
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  Speaker 4: better and that's something we can continue to preach every
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  Speaker 4: week and we just got to continue to be more physical.
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  Speaker 2: So it always feels like week to week there's always
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  Speaker 2: like big time stat defensive linemen on the other side.
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  Speaker 3: It's the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: It's just how but give us a brief scattering port
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  Speaker 2: if you can on the Chargers up front this week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so the ends in particular, you know, they got
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  Speaker 4: several women that played both sides, so tackles we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: need to be ready for. Multiple guys are gonna be
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  Speaker 4: going against out the game. Some teams you know, limited
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  Speaker 4: the left or right a lot of power. You got
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  Speaker 4: some big guys on the inside. I mean, like you said, physicality,
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  Speaker 4: are go need to be very physical this week and
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  Speaker 4: move some guys off the ball.
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  Speaker 2: I know there were probably some tough conversations in here
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  Speaker 2: on Monday after the game in Houston, But now moving ahead,
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  Speaker 2: seven seed, eight games left, a lot of football still
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  Speaker 2: ahead for this team and everything's still out there, right,
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  Speaker 2: that's got to be the mindset.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a ton of football left.
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  Speaker 4: You know, losses always suck at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: but you gotta move forward. It's a one and no mentality.
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  Speaker 4: Every week's important. And you know, now we're under the charges.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you get a w