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  Speaker 1: Absolute confidence whenever he's back there that he's going to
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  Speaker 1: put us in the right position to get to our
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  Speaker 1: jobs and make plays. You saw it on some of
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  Speaker 1: the touchdowns, him adjusting the protection and scoring points off that.
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  Speaker 2: That's really awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then last year you guys had a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of penalties three weeks into the season.
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  Speaker 4: This year you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys are the third fewest.
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  Speaker 5: Just in terms of the discipline and what you've seen
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  Speaker 5: from year one to year two, how do you feel
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  Speaker 5: like the offense is operating?
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  Speaker 1: I think we're operating really well. I can't say exactly why.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're never trying to have penalties. Sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: happens and you've got to deal with them. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the difference is. I know it's not
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  Speaker 1: something we take lightly. We feel very accountable for it
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  Speaker 1: and it's talked about a lot and we try to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when it comes to holding and stuff, the
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  Speaker 1: pre-snap penalties especially, you know, got to get rid of those.
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  Speaker 1: Post-snap penalties are going to happen, but we've done a
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  Speaker 1: better job with the pre-snap. Maybe it's because we have
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  Speaker 1: a better understanding of what we're doing a year into
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  Speaker 1: this offense. We're not thinking as much, so You hear
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  Speaker 1: the play call, you know your possible jobs, and you
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  Speaker 1: lock into the cadence and see what they're doing. That
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  Speaker 1: could be it, but it's always going to be something
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  Speaker 1: that we're emphasizing and trying to take advantage of.
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  Speaker 6: How do you keep the momentum rolling for the defense?
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  Speaker 6: You guys pitched a great game against the Patriots. You're
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  Speaker 6: going against a challenging Bengals offense. How do you keep
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  Speaker 6: playing to that standard and keep pushing it higher?
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  Speaker 7: Like Coach said, man, we just keep focusing on ourselves,
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  Speaker 7: kind of looking at the film areas that we need
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  Speaker 7: to improve on, and just working it throughout the week.
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  Speaker 7: I know for us, we're just doing what we do best,
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  Speaker 7: executing the calls, being where we're supposed to be, and
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  Speaker 7: good things happen.
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  Speaker 6: I think last week we were talking a little bit
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  Speaker 6: about practice, since Liam said the week before it wasn't
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  Speaker 6: the practice you guys expected. Camp said last week you
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  Speaker 6: guys were pissed off on the practice field all week long.
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel that same kind of pissed off energy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we definitely had a chip today.
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  Speaker 7: Still being challenged by everybody, all the coaches, because they
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  Speaker 7: think we can play a lot better. We know we
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  Speaker 7: can play a lot better, so Still continue to be challenged,
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  Speaker 7: still continue to play at our level.
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  Speaker 2: But taking it up a notch is where we need
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  Speaker 2: to be at.
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  Speaker 7: And we wanna be considered the best defense when we
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  Speaker 7: have to play that way.
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  Speaker 2: Every single day.
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  Speaker 8: How much has this team grown since that week two
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  Speaker 8: matchup versus the Bengals last year?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, we just came in the next week knowing
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  Speaker 7: what we needed to do during practice and just played
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  Speaker 7: our game, played our brand of football.
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  Speaker 2: And we have another week to prove that. Josh, what
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  Speaker 2: do you like about where the rush and the cover
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  Speaker 2: are melding right now?
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  Speaker 7: I think we're in a good spot. I think the
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  Speaker 7: DBs have done a hell of a job so far
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  Speaker 7: up front.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we can do better.
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  Speaker 7: But, again, that's why we have another opportunity to go
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  Speaker 7: out there and to prove where we belong. And another
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  Speaker 7: great opportunity for us. A team that likes to throw
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  Speaker 7: the ball. Still running the ball. Good run game.
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  Speaker 2: So, obviously, our MOs stopped the run.
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  Speaker 7: But it's a team that like to throw the ball
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  Speaker 7: regardless of how they're getting it out. They like to
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  Speaker 7: throw the ball, so these are opportunities for us to
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  Speaker 7: take advantage of.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry, I meant from like that week two game last
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  Speaker 8: year against the Bengals to now, like how have you
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  Speaker 8: guys come together as a team in quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we had a whole season right after that.
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  Speaker 7: That was just like last year. You know, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: that was just like, you know, responding from losing to Denver.
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  Speaker 2: And we responded.
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  Speaker 7: We came back in, you know, obviously had to execute better,
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  Speaker 7: came doing practice.
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  Speaker 2: Got right week three. So, I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I don't know. We did grow a lot.
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  Speaker 2: How good's Ham been playing for you guys? Who? D.
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  Speaker 4: Ham. D.
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  Speaker 9: Ham.
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  Speaker 7: Best nose in the game, and he's continuing to prove
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  Speaker 7: it every single day.
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  Speaker 8: You were saying that maybe before everybody else noticed it.
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  Speaker 6: What did you see that maybe took a little minute
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  Speaker 6: for everybody else on D.
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  Speaker 10: Ham?
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  Speaker 2: I see what y'all don't see.
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  Speaker 7: You know, obviously when you're watching, you know, the live games,
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  Speaker 7: you're watching TV, you don't watch the big guys in
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  Speaker 7: the middle.
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  Speaker 2: You watch where the ball is.
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  Speaker 7: And so when you can watch all the different types
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  Speaker 7: of cutouts or angles, you can really pinpoint why we
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  Speaker 7: have so much success in stopping the run. It's because
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  Speaker 7: of him. You look around the league and you look
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  Speaker 7: at guys being able to run the ball, you look
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  Speaker 7: in the middle, and we have a guy that's been dominant.
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  Speaker 2: But not only him, we have Eric, we have Dickey.
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  Speaker 7: We have Root, Trey, and myself, just really owning in
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  Speaker 7: to stopping the run.
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  Speaker 2: But it starts with the hand.
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  Speaker 7: If they can't run the ball in the middle, they're
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  Speaker 7: going to test the edges.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we do a great job on there
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 9: Everybody's been discussing this ball boy interaction.
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  Speaker 4: What took place from your.
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  Speaker 3: Point of view?
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  Speaker 2: No comment.
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  Speaker 5: Josh, you guys are leading in a lot of different categories.
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  Speaker 5: Statistics look pretty good defensively. Do you feel like you're
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  Speaker 5: an elite defense? Do you feel there's more room to
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  Speaker 5: get there?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there's still room to grow. I think– Obviously,
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  Speaker 7: you want to be your hardest critic. I think we
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  Speaker 7: definitely are. I think there's areas where we can still
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  Speaker 7: be better in a lot of positions and a lot
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  Speaker 7: of situational calls, even though we're playing great defense, we're
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  Speaker 7: stopping people from scoring, but.
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  Speaker 2: There's still plays within a drive that we're like, damn,
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  Speaker 2: I wish we had that play back.
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  Speaker 7: Coaching staff and players as well. I think we haven't
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  Speaker 7: really hit our full ceiling yet, but we're trying to
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  Speaker 7: get there.
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  Speaker 2: We're pushing every day to see what that looks like.
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  Speaker 10: Josh, I know it's a week ahead of time, but
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  Speaker 10: how much does the.
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  Speaker 2: Fact that you guys have been over to London, you
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  Speaker 2: two personally.
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  Speaker 10: So many times, does that just erase any anxiety that
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  Speaker 10: you guys have? Looking ahead, saying, oh gosh, we've got
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  Speaker 10: London in two weeks, or when the schedule comes out,
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  Speaker 10: looking like, oh gosh, we've got two games in London.
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  Speaker 10: Does that help ease the anxiety that you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Have done at some of the time?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: What's been.
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  Speaker 4: The worst trip there? Is that the one.
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  Speaker 5: Where you guys went early in the week?
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  Speaker 10: Or do you leave early?
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  Speaker 7: You know, whenever we touch down, we touch down.
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  Speaker 2: We leave early, we leave later.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we're leaving out there whenever we get out there.
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  Speaker 7: I know where I'm going to be. I'm going to
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  Speaker 7: go to my restaurant's. what I typically do. So, you know,
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  Speaker 7: I enjoy going to London, you know, so yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 7: excited to play two good teams out there.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Do you sense people start giving up on the run
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  Speaker 5: because of what you guys have done the last 20
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  Speaker 5: games against it?
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 5: Or do you think they're still trying?
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  Speaker 2: They still try to run the ball.
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  Speaker 7: I think people still try to, try to stay within,
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  Speaker 7: you know, their game plan, especially last week. You know, they,
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  Speaker 7: you know, we got up big on them and they
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  Speaker 7: were still committed to the run. you know, getting quick passes. So,
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  Speaker 7: you know, for us, it's like we're going to have
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  Speaker 7: an opportunity when we can just pin our ears back
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  Speaker 7: and just go first, second, third down. But, you know,
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  Speaker 7: until that time comes, we got to stay, we got
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  Speaker 7: to play true, not create rushing.
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  Speaker 2: Lanes or run lanes and just be where our feet are.
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  Speaker 8: He's a great receiver and he's paired with a great
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  Speaker 8: quarterback and he also has a.
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  Speaker 9: Good counterpart on the opposite side.
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  Speaker 11: You talk about a receiver, he just has great contact balance,
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  Speaker 11: great yak, good ball skills. So it's going to be
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  Speaker 11: a challenge and I'm excited for it.
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  Speaker 8: You were saying earlier that you guys have to have
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  Speaker 8: kind of like a goldfish mentality when you play someone
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  Speaker 8: like him because he's going to get yards no matter what.
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  Speaker 8: How do you kind of train yourself to do that?
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  Speaker 8: Are you good at having a goldfish mentality?
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  Speaker 11: I think you kind of got to be messed up
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  Speaker 11: to play DB anyway. I'm a ball player.
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  Speaker 9: I line up, I play ball I play fast. I'm
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  Speaker 9: going to hit you. You know what I'm saying? So
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  Speaker 9: I just think we just do what we do. Obviously,
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  Speaker 9: he's great.
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  Speaker 11: They're going to find a way to give him the ball.
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  Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying? He's going to line up everywhere.
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  Speaker 11: He's going to get the ball. So there's not an
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  Speaker 11: if and a but about that. He's going to get
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  Speaker 11: the ball. I just think we just kind of make
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  Speaker 11: the whole game uncomfortable for.
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  Speaker 9: All of them.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously, you guys played the Bengals last year in week two.
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  Speaker 8: That was so early in Liam's tenure. Just how much
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  Speaker 8: do you feel like you guys have changed and grown
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  Speaker 8: since that game and come together?
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  Speaker 9: I think we're completely different.
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  Speaker 11: I watched the tape, and I think I'm a completely
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  Speaker 11: different player than I was then. That game was probably
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  Speaker 11: my second game playing corner in three, four years. When
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  Speaker 11: I was at Florida State, I was a four-time nickel,
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  Speaker 11: came to the league. I was a four-time nickel, so
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  Speaker 11: that game was really early on in my career. Playing
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  Speaker 11: outside corner, it was all kind of new. I obviously
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  Speaker 11: never played in the zone system before. So I just
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  Speaker 11: think I'm a completely different player. And I think we've
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  Speaker 11: grown closer as a team now than we were last year.
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  Speaker 8: What do you think is the biggest thing you've seen
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  Speaker 8: in your game kind of grow and change since then?
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  Speaker 11: I just think I'm a lot more comfortable playing zone.
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  Speaker 11: I was a man corner. That's what I kind of
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  Speaker 11: did in college. But now I'm a lot more comfortable
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  Speaker 11: playing zone and knowing what I'm looking at. And the
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  Speaker 11: coaches tell me all the time to believe.
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  Speaker 9: What I see.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I think I'm at my best when I'm
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  Speaker 11: just going. I'm not really thinking about too much. So
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  Speaker 11: they always tell me to just believe what I see.
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  Speaker 11: And I think that's what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think there's any extra juice going into this one?
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  Speaker 11: I don't really pay attention to stuff like that. Everyone
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  Speaker 11: outside of us is putting a lot on the game,
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  Speaker 11: but it's the NFL.
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  Speaker 9: Every week you're going to play somebody good.
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  Speaker 11: We just went against somebody that was in the Super
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  Speaker 11: Bowl six months ago. Nobody put as much into that
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  Speaker 11: game as they are into this one.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not really. I'm going out there to play ball.
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  Speaker 8: Liam talked a lot about the fact that last week
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  Speaker 8: you proved you could bounce back. Now this week it's
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  Speaker 8: kind of retaining that momentum into just another week.
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  Speaker 9: How do you guys do that?
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  Speaker 11: I think the hardest thing to do is, you know
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  Speaker 11: what I'm saying, do something twice. And that's something we're
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  Speaker 11: trying to do. Prove that nothing that we did.
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  Speaker 9: Was a fluke.
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  Speaker 11: Obviously we had a rough week, week two, and that's
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  Speaker 11: something that is what it is. But I don't want
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  Speaker 11: that to be the narrative of what the team is.
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  Speaker 11: And I think we've proved what type of team we
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  Speaker 11: are But now the hard part is just doing it
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  Speaker 11: every single week.
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  Speaker 9: And that's what we're striving for, the consistency of that.
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  Speaker 8: Did you kind of expect to not get that many
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  Speaker 8: touches last week?
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  Speaker 4: Or is that a bit of a surprise to you?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I just go out there each and every week.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just.
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  Speaker 3: Give it everything I got, go out there and try
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  Speaker 3: to play to my best ability. I mean, I just
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  Speaker 3: go out there and just play.
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  Speaker 2: Liam has said that don't be sick of yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Don't be sick of the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 9: Especially after last week.
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  Speaker 4: Why is it so familiar for you guys to tweet
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  Speaker 4: at a time? Oh, I mean, because we are our
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  Speaker 4: biggest critics.
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  Speaker 10: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: We know what we can do. We know what we've
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  Speaker 4: got to go out there and do.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, we feel like if we go out
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  Speaker 3: there and do what we do and play how we play,
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  Speaker 3: we feel like nobody can beat us.
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  Speaker 5: What are you seeing out of Trevor right now?
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  Speaker 3: Continuing playing great. Picking up from where he was last season.
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  Speaker 3: I just keep, like I said, keep continuing to play great.
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  Speaker 3: I'll keep continuing to play great.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think he's more willing to just unleash it
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  Speaker 5: because of that confidence, the swagger, and give you guys
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  Speaker 5: a chance?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 3: All the work that we put in this offseason, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like it's paying off. Just, I mean, like you say,
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  Speaker 3: the one that he threw to Parker, just having the
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  Speaker 3: trust in him to go out there and make a play.
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  Speaker 3: They worked on a lot of the stuff this offseason,
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  Speaker 3: and just having that confidence and that trust in him
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and make a play.
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  Speaker 6: How do you guys maintain the confidence you've built over
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  Speaker 6: the last week, just being able to stay consistent?
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  Speaker 4: Say it again.
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  Speaker 7: How do you sort of build on that confidence that
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  Speaker 7: you guys gained last week and just staying consistent?
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  Speaker 3: Just keep going, keep approaching it each week like it's
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  Speaker 3: a new week and just keep going, keep taking it
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  Speaker 3: day by day, step by step. And I just keep
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  Speaker 3: pushing to be the best version of yourself that you
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  Speaker 3: can be each and every day.
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  Speaker 5: That's a marvelous man, Parker.
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  Speaker 4: He's the biggest guy in the world.
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  Speaker 5: But he has a pretty big catch radius.
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  Speaker 10: Is that unusual for a guy that might not be?
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  Speaker 2: Like, you have a.
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  Speaker 4: Big catch radius.
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  Speaker 9: Not surprising because you're being long-armed and stuff.
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  Speaker 10: But is it surprising for a guy his size to have.
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  Speaker 4: It?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I would say if it's a guy his size, I mean, yeah. But,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it just goes to show all the work
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  Speaker 3: that he puts in.
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  Speaker 4: He loves it.
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  Speaker 3: It's really just him being able to go up there,
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  Speaker 3: high point the ball, and being able to come down
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  Speaker 3: with it. So, yeah, it just goes to show all
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  Speaker 3: the work that he puts out.
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  Speaker 10: Is there a guy like him maybe the higher pros
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  Speaker 10: are a little bit worse?
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  Speaker 4: Not for him. I mean, you ever seen his?
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  Speaker 2: He goes.
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  Speaker 3: He can jump. So, I mean, I don't think so
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  Speaker 3: for him. I feel like he's actually– I feel like
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  Speaker 3: he likes.
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  Speaker 4: Those high catches.
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  Speaker 3: Being able to go up there, high point the ball,
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  Speaker 3: just be able to come down with it over– Smaller
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  Speaker 3: defenders sometimes are on him, or even bigger defenders.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like that's one of his strong suits.
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  Speaker 9: For sure.
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  Speaker 10: Did it surprise you the first time you saw him
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  Speaker 10: do that, whether it was in practice or a game
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  Speaker 10: or not? Or impress you, maybe impress you?
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  Speaker 3: It definitely impressed me because I think it might have
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  Speaker 3: been my rookie year. I've seen him go up, like
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  Speaker 3: jump up and just make a crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Catch like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's just to see how high he gets. Just being
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  Speaker 3: him being able to go up to the high point,
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  Speaker 3: it was surprising for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Any other things you want to mention going into Cincinnati
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  Speaker 5: after last year's heartbreaker?
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, each and every day you get an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to go out there and play football, play a
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  Speaker 3: sport that we grew up playing since kids. It's always
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  Speaker 3: a great feeling, a great opportunity.