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Drew Lock On Preparing To Start Week 9 vs. Cardinals · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Totally. All right, let's do it. Drew, how are you feeling?
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  Speaker 1: How's your elbow doing? It's doing a lot better. It's
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  Speaker 1: doing good. I'm excited to be back out there. It
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  Speaker 1: felt great to get under center and grip some balls yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Feels good. What's the rest of this week going to
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  Speaker 1: look like in terms of how much you're able to throw? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going at it like a normal week. If the
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  Speaker 1: training staff I want to pull it back a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and let them make that decision, but I'm expecting
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  Speaker 1: to go take every rep. What can you tell us
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  Speaker 1: about what happened and when it happened? You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: been going on a couple weeks. You know, just a
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  Speaker 1: little arm injury for a couple weeks.
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  Speaker 2: If this had happened a couple weeks ago where Sam
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  Speaker 2: was not going to be able to play, would you
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  Speaker 2: have been able to play a couple weeks ago?
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  Speaker 1: Like the last time we played the Cardinals? Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: mean like... When you first got injured. Yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: would have been fine. I feel like the obvious was
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  Speaker 1: when I think we came out and said I was
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  Speaker 1: the three. Yeah, those weeks, no. But the previous ones, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that Sam had cracked his rib? Did
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  Speaker 1: he tell you that during the game? No. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know the extent of it, but after going through a
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  Speaker 1: whole season... And, you know, having a Hawkeye on him
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  Speaker 1: for most of all those games, I could tell pretty
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  Speaker 1: early that it was bothering him. And he was an
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  Speaker 1: absolute soldier out there playing through that. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my hat goes off to him. And it just shows
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  Speaker 1: how much he cares about this football team, how much
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  Speaker 1: he loves football, and what he's willing to do for us.
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  Speaker 1: It's a special thing from a starting quarterback. How could
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  Speaker 1: you tell? How could I tell? Yeah. Are you married?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not, no. Did you have a girlfriend for a
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  Speaker 1: really long time? I've had a girlfriend before, yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know when she was upset? She didn't have to
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  Speaker 1: say anything to you? Spent a lot of time with Sam.
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  Speaker 1: Practiced watching every rep, games, watching every single rep. I just,
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  Speaker 1: I can tell. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: How does coming in, substituting this time, feel compared to
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  Speaker 2: when you came in the first couple weeks? with where
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  Speaker 2: the team is, with where you are?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, personally, I don't feel like any difference because I'm
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  Speaker 1: focusing on doing my job the best I can for
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  Speaker 1: this team. Whatever vibe or feeling or trying to get
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  Speaker 1: projected into here, it's not in my headspace. It's not
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  Speaker 1: in our players' headspace. We're attacking each day, and we're
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  Speaker 1: focusing on this Thursday and moving forward and trying to
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  Speaker 1: go get a win. You've started a lot of games,
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  Speaker 1: so this is nothing new to you, but to have
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  Speaker 1: the success you had this season in this offense with
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  Speaker 1: this team, what kind of confidence does that give you
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  Speaker 1: going into the stretch here? Yeah, the other 10 guys
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  Speaker 1: that I play with give me great confidence to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and toss the ball around and know that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to do their job to the best of
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  Speaker 1: their ability, and that ability's pretty good for the guys
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  Speaker 1: on our team, and same with the defensive side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball and special teams. This is a well-rounded football team,
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  Speaker 1: and We go out and all do our job, all
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  Speaker 1: do our responsibilities, all three teams, where we're hard to beat.
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  Speaker 1: You just got to go do that.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anything about the preparation that becomes more efficient
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  Speaker 2: because of the couple of weeks that you had earlier.
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  Speaker 1: In the season? Yeah, definitely going into this week, kind
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  Speaker 1: of probably some of the things I talked about the
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  Speaker 1: last time we were doing this, just learning what it's
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  Speaker 1: like to come in here, talk to you all. I
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  Speaker 1: was prepared for this today. I was ready. I knew
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  Speaker 1: what I needed to do beforehand this morning to go
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  Speaker 1: upstairs and be really ready for practice with the limited
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  Speaker 1: time now. So, like, no, I feel like I've got
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  Speaker 1: a better process now from the first time to this time,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just about going and executing at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Does much change about what you guys do when you're
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback as opposed to Sam?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I try not to think too much into
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  Speaker 1: it or dig too deep into it. And my easy
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  Speaker 1: response would say no. Whatever the coaches feel like is
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  Speaker 1: the best fit for us against the scheme that we're
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  Speaker 1: going against, I'd like to think they'd put that out
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  Speaker 1: in front of us regardless of who's playing quarterback, but
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  Speaker 1: it is something that it's not necessarily on your mind.
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  Speaker 1: You look at this, you've got all these runs, all
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  Speaker 1: these passes, I'm going to study those and get right
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  Speaker 1: and be ready to roll and leave all that stuff
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  Speaker 1: to whatever they think.
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  Speaker 2: Does it help at all that you're facing the same
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  Speaker 2: team you faced the last time you started?
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know if it helps. It doesn't hurt,
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  Speaker 1: but from week two to now, they're a different football team.
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  Speaker 1: We're a different football team. You'll recognize faces, but they
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  Speaker 1: can go do whatever they want. We can go do
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  Speaker 1: whatever we want. It's our job to just do it
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  Speaker 1: at a really high level and be ready for whatever
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  Speaker 1: they throw at us. This is always a sizable opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for a backup quarterback to start, but how big of
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity is this for you personally for what that
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  Speaker 1: weight you after this season? Yeah, I think I may
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  Speaker 1: have said it after the game. Eight years now. Was
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  Speaker 1: a starter going into a season, lost it the next year.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what the situation is, I personally look at
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  Speaker 1: it as a big thing. It's an awesome thing. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: like being like a big deal isn't the right word.
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  Speaker 1: More of like an excitement, a gratitude. like a thankfulness
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  Speaker 1: towards this that I'm sitting here today and I get
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  Speaker 1: to go be the starting quarterback this weekend for the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Eight years in, two kids, a wife. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Something that's me 10 years ago. I'd be
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  Speaker 1: a starting quarterback for a team on a Sunday. Two kids,
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  Speaker 1: a wife. It's pretty amazing and I'm blessed to say
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  Speaker 1: the least.
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  Speaker 2: Drew, what strides have you seen from Jalen as he
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  Speaker 2: kind of has gotten the chance to be Ready to
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  Speaker 2: go in case it happens and to kind of maybe
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  Speaker 2: have a chance to get in if something happens.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I've, you know, I've been through this process too.
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  Speaker 1: There's the, I'm a backup. I'm not playing, but I
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  Speaker 1: might actually play. And then when you're in that three,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, I'm going to be ready, but I'm definitely
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  Speaker 1: not playing. We saw a different last week, but there's
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  Speaker 1: different mindsets that you can like fall into, get trapped into.
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  Speaker 1: And for him to be, you know, thrusted into this
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  Speaker 1: backup role, taking some snaps yesterday to being able to like,
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  Speaker 1: kind of, I don't know, here it is. Like you're
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  Speaker 1: in this role now and it's time to go. That's huge.
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  Speaker 1: My biggest thing has always been reps for quarterbacks is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, better than any tape they can watch, better
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  Speaker 1: than any footwork drills they can go do on the side.
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  Speaker 1: Like getting in, playing and experiencing what it's like to
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  Speaker 1: prep and be ready and play is the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: for quarterbacks. And when you take one step closer to
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  Speaker 1: being that guy, heightened awareness and situation and kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get you ready faster.
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  Speaker 2: Last time you played, you left with the highest pass
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  Speaker 2: rating in the entire NFL. You were screaming at the
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  Speaker 2: sideline after throwing touchdowns. How much are you kind of
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to being able to get out there and
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  Speaker 2: spin it again?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really excited. I'm really excited, especially after a
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  Speaker 1: couple weeks, you know, not throwing too much and being
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  Speaker 1: able to get out in the huddle with the guys
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  Speaker 1: and Throw the football, spin it around. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: any chance you get to go out there and do that,
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  Speaker 1: it's an exciting time. And hopefully in those moments, if
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  Speaker 1: we get some this weekend, my blackout of excitement, it's
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  Speaker 1: nothing too stupid or crazy. Did you throw it all
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  Speaker 1: those weeks that you were in active emergency third? Last week? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I threw in individual periods.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel like is where this team is
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  Speaker 1: at right now, being 4-4? Yeah. Obviously, we'd love to
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  Speaker 1: be 8-0, but I feel like at this point, seeing
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  Speaker 1: the things that we do good, seeing the things that
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  Speaker 1: we do bad, and it's given us an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: kind of have a little adversity, fight through the seal
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  Speaker 1: we're made of, have a chip on our shoulder, go
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  Speaker 1: out there, prove ourselves right, go out and be the
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  Speaker 1: team that we say we are, that we think we are,
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  Speaker 1: and it's fun to feel that, be in that room,
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  Speaker 1: and Excited to go out on Sunday and try to
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  Speaker 1: prove that to ourselves.