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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "Battling through the adversity was awesome." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It felt great. I mean, I think just even the way,
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  Speaker 1: even the way we had to win to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get out of this rut UM, I mean, down seventeen
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  Speaker 1: zero and first half UM and just had to overcome
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  Speaker 1: a lot and it really took all phases. I think
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  Speaker 1: every every part of our team. UM made some huge plays.
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  Speaker 1: UM offensively made some big plays, big stops. Defensively, obviously
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  Speaker 1: special teams did a great job acting the return game,
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  Speaker 1: UM rally making that kick at the end. All that,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, every phase played a partner. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: what makes it great too. It's not like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the offensively defense had to carry us for this one.
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  Speaker 1: That was just everybody playing together. Nobody panicked when we
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  Speaker 1: got in that hole early UM, and just it was
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  Speaker 1: obviously it feels good to win one. Dugs talked about, UM,
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  Speaker 1: they need to find a way to find learn how
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  Speaker 1: to win and maybe even learn how not to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this can be like maybe a launching
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  Speaker 1: point for you guys or spark of now we figured
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  Speaker 1: out how to win these close games. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously that's that's what you hope for. And I think that's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's something that we definitely learned, and I
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  Speaker 1: think more so kind of getting over that hump as
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  Speaker 1: far as just um that feeling of being able to
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  Speaker 1: win this close games and and especially like I said,
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  Speaker 1: being down seventeen nothing early, there was really no panic,
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  Speaker 1: no one. I mean, we knew we were gonna win
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  Speaker 1: that game. We just had to you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of go time at that point into the first half.
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  Speaker 1: Put together a scoring drive on offense defense. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we get the ball back, um, you know, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of the middle eight we talked about into the first half,
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  Speaker 1: beating of the second half, get the ball back with
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  Speaker 1: you know, forty five seconds and kick a field goal
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  Speaker 1: and then come out and score first possession of the
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  Speaker 1: second half. And then from there, I mean, defense stone
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  Speaker 1: him in the second half. So really just playing complimentary ball.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously not every place, and to go your way. There
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  Speaker 1: was plays today both sides of the ball that that
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  Speaker 1: that the other team made. You know, we had to
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  Speaker 1: turn over early, um, and we were driving in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone and you know, obviously you don't want that
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  Speaker 1: and we'll learn from that one. But that's like stuff
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  Speaker 1: is gonna happen in games, and you gotta be find
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  Speaker 1: ways to overcome them. And I think that was the
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  Speaker 1: coolest thing is we found ways overcome the to day.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like played perfect, but um, we found a
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  Speaker 1: way to win. So we're gonna go win that game
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  Speaker 1: because that doesn't just just the belief and I think
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  Speaker 1: the whole energy this week, Um, we knew we we
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  Speaker 1: kind of knew we had to go get this one
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  Speaker 1: this week. Obviously, Um, you don't try to put more
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  Speaker 1: pressure on yourselves and than you need to, but everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows that you know where we're at right now in
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  Speaker 1: our season, we really gotta we gotta turn the same
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  Speaker 1: around and get some wins. So we felt that and
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  Speaker 1: just had a lot of confidence in our prep. And
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  Speaker 1: I know, offensively, obviously we didn't score the first three possessions,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, honestly, it wasn't it wasn't it really
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  Speaker 1: anything they did that stopped us. We just kind of
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  Speaker 1: shot ourselves in the foot. Um and obviously you know
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  Speaker 1: that they made the play. But uh so we knew offensively,
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  Speaker 1: once we could just eliminate some of those airs early
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  Speaker 1: and keep a drive going, we were gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: We thought our plan was great, and you could see
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  Speaker 1: today everybody kind of we were rolling. So it was
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  Speaker 1: awesome Driver, talk about the work of the offensive one
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  Speaker 1: because you look so comfortable back here today. They kept
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  Speaker 1: to glean for the most part tell us about was
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  Speaker 1: that the best game you've seen them playing? Fun? Shoot,
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  Speaker 1: they've played. I wouldn't necessarily say that just because there's
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  Speaker 1: been There's been a lot of games this year where
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  Speaker 1: I think they've they've played great. Um, pretty much every
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  Speaker 1: game I thought they've they've played good enough for us
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  Speaker 1: to win, and and just past game, run game, all
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  Speaker 1: all those things that the guys up front, that's where
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  Speaker 1: it starts, both sides of the ball. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's where the games won. And obviously they had they
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  Speaker 1: had some some really good players on the edges and
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  Speaker 1: that was a challenge for us this week. And and
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  Speaker 1: really just seeing those guys step up like they do
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  Speaker 1: every week was was awesome to see. And um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was great. I thought we handled it well. They're gonna,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, it's never gonna be perfect. That that
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  Speaker 1: team is paid to play too, and they're gonna make plays,
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  Speaker 1: but just kind of battling through the adversity was was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor over here, what does it say about your ability
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  Speaker 1: to bounce back. How important is that for a young quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you didn't play as well as you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to last week, but then come out and play the
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  Speaker 1: way you did today. How is that important for you confidence?
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  Speaker 1: And then just you know, development wise, just a part
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  Speaker 1: of growing, you know, I've you know, some of the
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  Speaker 1: guys in some of the Raiders, guys like man, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta get the ball so fast, Like I've had to
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  Speaker 1: learn the hard way, you know. So I've I've learned
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  Speaker 1: my lessons. You know, that's still a lot more I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna learn years to come and games to come, all
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  Speaker 1: those things that it's a growing experience. But um, I
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  Speaker 1: think just for my for my confidence, for the team's confidence,
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  Speaker 1: just for us to be able to balance back as
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  Speaker 1: a whole and and go and win this game, especially
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  Speaker 1: under the circumstances that we were in early. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: think it says a lot about um yeah, myself, but
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  Speaker 1: also just this whole team. And we got a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of fighters and guys that aren't gonna quit. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: same thing, Like I told you guys, we started two
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  Speaker 1: and one and one, those two games back to back,
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  Speaker 1: and we're playing great. It doesn't really matter what other
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  Speaker 1: people say. It's always about us and that's what coach
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  Speaker 1: has been saying to us. And obviously we've had some
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  Speaker 1: ups and downs this season, but it's a long season. UM,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, we're just looking forward to being able to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hopefully ride this momentum and use this juice
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  Speaker 1: this week. Obviously, we've got a big game in Kansas City, UM,
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  Speaker 1: great challenge for us. So we'll enjoy it today and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get back to work. To one. Hey, Trevor, talking
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  Speaker 1: to Dewey in the locker room, he described it as
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  Speaker 1: everybody had to kind of surrender to what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Not surrender like give up, but just surrender to things
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  Speaker 1: are going to happen and we have to react. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: do you agree with that assessment? Number two? For you
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  Speaker 1: as a quarterback? How much how difficult is that to
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  Speaker 1: be thinking of a million things but also be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it as it goes? Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: do he's been has been awesome voice in our locker room. UM.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the stuff he's he shared with us has
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  Speaker 1: been has been really good. And he's right. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this game you can't play tight. You can't be worried
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  Speaker 1: about the next play, you can't be worried about what
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  Speaker 1: happened to last play. It's just that specific moment and
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  Speaker 1: doing that over and over again for the whole game.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's what you saw today. You're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna win every single moment, but if you can, if
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  Speaker 1: you can flip the page and go to the next
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  Speaker 1: one and forget the last one, that gives you the
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  Speaker 1: best shot to win. And I think our whole team
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  Speaker 1: did that today. Obviously there's there's plays you're always gonna
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  Speaker 1: leave out there and you learn from those. But um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's huge, just not playing tight, playing loose, just
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  Speaker 1: being yourself. And I think most most of are all
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  Speaker 1: the guys did that today. So it was fun. There's
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  Speaker 1: been moments leading up to today that maybe you yourself
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  Speaker 1: and played a little didn't immediately go to the next
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  Speaker 1: page at times, and so maybe, like you know, this
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  Speaker 1: was growth today. Yeah. I think there's always. There's not always,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of times there's there's plays, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a couple, a series of plays or a few plays
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  Speaker 1: that you're streaing together where you feel like you might
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  Speaker 1: have been thinking about the last one, or you didn't
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  Speaker 1: feel like you didn't move on quick enough from the
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  Speaker 1: last play if it was you know, good play, bad play,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was, and just trying to That's what we
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  Speaker 1: on the offense we talked about a lot is just
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  Speaker 1: each play is its own play and just moving on
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  Speaker 1: to the next one every time. That's what talked about
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  Speaker 1: with the guys up front, and we kind of remind
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  Speaker 1: each other throughout the game, next play, next play, So
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  Speaker 1: you know that's that's the key, and it's easier said
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  Speaker 1: than done, but you kind of saw today what it
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  Speaker 1: looks like when you when you're able to do that. Trevor,
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  Speaker 1: how much is that work the other way over? How
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  Speaker 1: much does that work the other way? I think you
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  Speaker 1: had fifteen in a row at one time completions with
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  Speaker 1: the spike in there, you know, so it probably doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get out of this fifteen or like, like, did you
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  Speaker 1: know that? Do you feel that, like even though you're
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  Speaker 1: coming in out series of different drives, feel that just
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  Speaker 1: the next play? It just feel the momentum that you
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  Speaker 1: have that, I mean, the momentum is so big in
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  Speaker 1: this game, and um, it's real, like everyone can feel
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  Speaker 1: that that's in the stadium and obviously had no momentum
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  Speaker 1: when when they went up and scored a couple of
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  Speaker 1: times and we had a punt and a turnover, whatever
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  Speaker 1: it was. And then when you flip that momentum and
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  Speaker 1: can keep it like we were able to do today,
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  Speaker 1: obviously that's huge that plays. That plays a big part
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  Speaker 1: in this game. Um, But just as far as managing
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  Speaker 1: your emotions when you're on the other side of that
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  Speaker 1: momentum when when they have it, how do you manage
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  Speaker 1: your emotions? How do you play each play as its
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  Speaker 1: own um to kind of get out of that whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is, you know, whether it's a couple of three
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  Speaker 1: and outs, you know, a couple of bad plays, miss throws,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. It's just how do you manage the
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  Speaker 1: next play? And I think, like myself, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I it that well today, but I feel like our
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  Speaker 1: whole offense and our the whole unit did it well,
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  Speaker 1: so it was great. Do you think the early runs
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  Speaker 1: helped you? Um, like runs from myself you're saying, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's just each game is different. You know, there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be times, there's gonna opportunities where I can use my
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  Speaker 1: legs and today it was one of those times, and um,
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  Speaker 1: just giving us some space. And there's a couple of
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  Speaker 1: times when I dropped a bunch of guys out underneath
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  Speaker 1: and took some things away, and UM, so just use
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  Speaker 1: my legs when when I can. But I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's something I've talked about before. I like doing that.
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  Speaker 1: I like, you know, being able to affect the game
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  Speaker 1: that way when it's when it's necessary, when it's needed,
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  Speaker 1: And um, I think think it helped us to say
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  Speaker 1: I just want more. Trevor just wondering was there some
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  Speaker 1: validation too after the fumble off first pitch play and
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  Speaker 1: getting stopped on the second pitch play for Travis to
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  Speaker 1: score the go ahead to be to go ahead touchdown
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  Speaker 1: on another pitch play, was there some validation for you
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  Speaker 1: guys on the pitch plays in particular, but also for
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  Speaker 1: Ducks play calling. Yeah, it's just it's it's the same
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  Speaker 1: message I just mentioned. Is it's all about us. You
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  Speaker 1: know that you look at those plays and everyone can
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  Speaker 1: say this on every play each team, but it really is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we control what happens, and there's all these
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  Speaker 1: these players, whether it's a a TfL it's a fumble.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we control that, and it's something where you know,
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  Speaker 1: someone missing assignment, didn't make the play whatever, not a
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  Speaker 1: great pitch to hasty on the one um, that's all
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  Speaker 1: stuff that we can control. And the same thing in
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  Speaker 1: the positive way when you when you kind of make
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  Speaker 1: the flip and you start playing really well, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just shows the coaching staff how they trust us and
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  Speaker 1: didn't let any of that affect the game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we just kept playing. I don't think we we never
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  Speaker 1: shelled up and kind of got conservative and try to
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  Speaker 1: get out. We just kept playing and I think that
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  Speaker 1: was that was really cool to see and I know
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  Speaker 1: the guys are fired up, so awesome. Thank you all.