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Press Pass | Christian Kirk: “All It Took Was Us Banning Together, Growing Even Closer.” · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: The game when touchdown? What did you see on that way?
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  Speaker 2: And uh, because you think it was gonna work as
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  Speaker 2: well as it did because you were fairly touched. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was actually a play that we had
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  Speaker 2: ran in London. Uh didn't have the opportunity to hit.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a play that we know well and
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  Speaker 2: in situations like that, it's kind of good versall. But
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  Speaker 2: when I motioned over, Uh, they had Tyron Matthew down
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  Speaker 2: low and I didn't think necessarily he was gonna match me.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, after he popped out after the snap,
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  Speaker 2: I knew I was running my my option route off
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  Speaker 2: of him. So it was just really beating him. And
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  Speaker 2: then you know, hopefully what she did the mental linebacker
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  Speaker 2: went with Travis because Travis went to the field and
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  Speaker 2: you know just had to you know, win against Tyron.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, Trevor did a great job stepping
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  Speaker 2: up in the pocket giving me an opportunity to catch
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  Speaker 2: and run Buffalo. Yep, Trevor had gotten pressured, but you
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  Speaker 2: know we kind of had a similar look where you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of matched up inside and had the
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  Speaker 2: ability to to.
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  Speaker 1: To run my route off of you know, somebody one
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  Speaker 1: on one.
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  Speaker 2: Seen you run that past who said that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think I've run that fast like college.
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  Speaker 2: That was that was some some some vintage stuff, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: but it was I'm glad I was able to do
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  Speaker 2: it in that moment. The offense hadn't really done much
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  Speaker 2: in the second half for whatever reason, and needed a
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  Speaker 2: big play like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, glad they kind of turned to you to kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of spark it. Yeah, you know, we definitely got to
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  Speaker 2: be better in the second half, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: coming out, you know, not going through and out. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we hit that that loll that we've been seeing in
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  Speaker 2: the past couple of weeks. So I know that's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a point of emphasis for us of just you know,
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  Speaker 2: finding ways to you know, not find ourselves in these situations,
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  Speaker 2: you know, especially when you had a lead like we did. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you get into a lull like that,
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  Speaker 2: you give good teams an opportunity to come back. So
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  Speaker 2: you know that stuff will get us beat ultimately. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm just glad we were able to make a play
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  Speaker 2: when it mattered, But we definitely have some some room
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  Speaker 2: for improvement.
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  Speaker 1: As to see Trevor running as much as he did.
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  Speaker 1: And what did you think the way.
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  Speaker 2: He played, you know, with the need I thought he
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  Speaker 2: did awesome, you know, for the fact that you know,
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  Speaker 2: he really didn't take any snaps all week.
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  Speaker 1: But that just shows how much of a pro he is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he sat back, took a lot of mental
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  Speaker 2: reps and he didn't miss a beat. I was locked
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  Speaker 2: into the game plan and the fact that he was
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  Speaker 2: able to get mobile. I thought the offensive line did
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  Speaker 2: a great job of, you know, being able to protect
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  Speaker 2: up front. Didn't really get hit too much tonight, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, all things bearing, you know, being able to
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  Speaker 2: fight through his knee injury and come out and play
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  Speaker 2: the way he did.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: But say his team overall, twelve I mean, I have
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  Speaker 2: three games twelve days, a short week to.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of get this one out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think it shows a lot about
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  Speaker 2: the character, the professionalism in our room, not shying away
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  Speaker 2: from adversity. You know, before we went over to London,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're we're pretty down on ourselves. But all
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  Speaker 2: it took was just us kind of banding together, growing
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  Speaker 2: even closer, and just all we needed was one and
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  Speaker 2: we knew, you know, the flood games had kind of open.
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  Speaker 2: So I like where we're at right now. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: we definitely have a lot of work to do. But
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  Speaker 2: the fact that we're able to turn around and you know,
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  Speaker 2: play four games in nineteen days and be able to
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  Speaker 2: be on you know, four o is it says a
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  Speaker 2: lot about our team.
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  Speaker 1: Think happened on that well that you were talking about
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  Speaker 1: what changed?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think it starts on first and second down.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's some some times where we had penalties,
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  Speaker 2: you know, either we were you know runs, you know
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  Speaker 2: that we're getting tackled in the backfield and whatnot, just
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff execution wise that we could do a lot better.
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  Speaker 2: But it's hard, you know, when you get behind the
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  Speaker 2: sticks and you know they're getting some momentum and whatnot,
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  Speaker 2: you know you have to you know, make some plays
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  Speaker 2: in those situations. So, you know, I think it starts
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  Speaker 2: with us. It'll always be about us and how we
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  Speaker 2: execute and how we go about our business.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of do you think this.
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  Speaker 2: Team will take from what Trevor was able to give
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  Speaker 2: you today, It suggesting it was a Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Performance or anything like that. But when you when you
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  Speaker 1: have those kind of adverse circumstances, the uncertainty of his injury,
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  Speaker 1: and yet if he delivered when the game was on
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  Speaker 1: the line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it just confirms, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: what we all knew is that no matter what, he's
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  Speaker 2: going to do his best to get out there and
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna play at a high level. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 2: one thing to get out there and play injured and
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  Speaker 2: perform the way he did, you know, rather than going
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  Speaker 2: out there and playing injured and you know, not having
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  Speaker 2: the best performance. So we know that, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna fight through that stuff, and you no matter what
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  Speaker 2: if he's banged or nicked up, he's gonna go out
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  Speaker 2: there and play a high level.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier this week, for you always confident that he was
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  Speaker 1: gonna play.
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  Speaker 2: To do you guys feel like, uh, early in the
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  Speaker 2: week it was pretty I mean from my my standpoint
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  Speaker 2: was pretty fifty to fifty.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of just let let him do his own thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got the whole world asking him if
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  Speaker 2: he's okay, So I just, uh, I just let.
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  Speaker 1: Him do his thing.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, then around I guess, you know, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we made the trip over Thursday, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of had a feeling that he was going
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  Speaker 2: to give it a go, and so I just I
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  Speaker 2: try to leave him alone, keep it normal, not ask
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  Speaker 2: him about how he's feeling, and you know, I was
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  Speaker 2: really proud of, you know, how he's able to get
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  Speaker 2: out there and play tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks. Thanks, guys, appreciate it.