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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I could put a number
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  Speaker 1: on it. Like like you said to start, I think
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  Speaker 1: every turnover is different. I think there's a number of
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  Speaker 1: different reasons for each play particularly and sometimes again it's
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  Speaker 1: not all him. But at the same time, he understands
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  Speaker 1: the importance of protecting the football, ending the down with
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  Speaker 1: the football. You know, there's times you're fighting for a
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  Speaker 1: couple more seconds, potentially you're fighting through to get out
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  Speaker 1: of traffic in the pocket where those are all what
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  Speaker 1: we describe as danger zones. There's a number of different areas,
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  Speaker 1: and again it's not all him. We as a unit,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're thirty first in the league and giveaways
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  Speaker 1: and so that that's just unacceptable, and that's been the
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  Speaker 1: reason we've kind of been on the slide we've been on,
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  Speaker 1: is what we believe.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of different quarterbacks go through turnover playing.
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  Speaker 1: How much of it do you feel ways on Trevor
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  Speaker 1: as compared to just other quarterbacks he dealt with In
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  Speaker 1: terms of way On, I don't know how much it
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  Speaker 1: compares to anybody else, you know, I think he takes
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  Speaker 1: that very personal. He's very accountable. That's one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that we really like about Trevor. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: understands where his responsibilities lie in terms of protecting the
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  Speaker 1: football for this team, and so he takes responsibility of that.
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  Speaker 4: Not a lot of tight ends have caught a hundred
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  Speaker 4: balls this season, and Evan's sort of on the verge
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  Speaker 4: of that. Anything. He just needs two more. Do you
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  Speaker 4: envision that kind of production out of him? And I
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  Speaker 4: know part of it's partly because you know, Zay's hurt
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  Speaker 4: and Christians hurt, but he was on pretty good pace anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in terms of who catches what and where they're
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  Speaker 1: aligne it really doesn't matter, you know, Evans. We utilize
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  Speaker 1: Evan and whatever role we see fit. He plays outside receiver,
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  Speaker 1: he plays single, he plays the one or the two
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  Speaker 1: and three by one formations, He plays all the way
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  Speaker 1: out at one. So he just happens to be a
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  Speaker 1: tight end. We just view him as one of our
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  Speaker 1: five eligibles. And so the fact he's caught all these
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  Speaker 1: balls is it's a it's a you know, credit to
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  Speaker 1: him and the way he prepares and the way he
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  Speaker 1: works in his chemistry at the quarterbacks. And I think
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  Speaker 1: one of the more impressive things is his you know,
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  Speaker 1: his catch percentage when he's targeted. You know, he's I
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  Speaker 1: think he's got whatever ninety eight catches what you said.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's like a hundred and thirty targets, which
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  Speaker 1: is pretty impressive numbers of when we're throwing the ball
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  Speaker 1: to him, he's catching it and he's open that. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a good chemistry with their quarterbacks so far at
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  Speaker 1: this point, you know, with.
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  Speaker 4: The injuries to the other guys, at his trust level
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  Speaker 4: with Trevor right now, he's got to be you know,
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  Speaker 4: a huge help at this point. Like he's probably the
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  Speaker 4: guy that Travor trusts the most at this.
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  Speaker 5: Point right now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd compare it to one or
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  Speaker 1: the other. I know he trust him a lot. Just
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  Speaker 1: he's he's proven that over two years time than working together,
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to where he's supposed to be. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to catch it when he needs to. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we all have a lot of confidence in having.
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  Speaker 5: Yes Cam comes back this week. It's another lineup change
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  Speaker 5: on that offensive line. How good would it be to
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  Speaker 5: have him out on the field. But how much of
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  Speaker 5: a challenge is it when that line has kind of
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  Speaker 5: been for evolving door with injuries this year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like, like we've said everybody, that's always tough.
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  Speaker 1: You want continuity with the group. You want to put
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  Speaker 1: the best five out there. That's the biggest thing, and
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  Speaker 1: how they work together obviously impacts the way things go.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're excited to have Cam back. Cam. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if he makes it up to game on Sunday, Cam
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  Speaker 1: is a great player for us, and so if he
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  Speaker 1: makes it and fits that five and gives us the
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  Speaker 1: best opportunity, then help me out there, ready to roll.
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  Speaker 3: Doug has kind of talked about the hand signals, the
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  Speaker 3: communication stuff between the quarterback and the receivers, that kind
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  Speaker 3: of stuff being missed. Obviously, there's a bunch of players
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  Speaker 3: out new players coming in, so it makes sense why
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  Speaker 3: it might be missed. But at what point do you
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  Speaker 3: sort of maybe simplify that even further or or have
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  Speaker 3: you thought about that and how much of a concern
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  Speaker 3: is it moving forward?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that was certainly an issue that kind
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  Speaker 1: of ruder said the other day, and it was they're
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  Speaker 1: not subtle hand signals. There's kills and alerts where we
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  Speaker 1: just got to be on the same page of what
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  Speaker 1: we're killing and alerting to that's just spending time in
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  Speaker 1: the huddle making sure as you approach the line, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of times it gives us the right
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  Speaker 1: play versus the right look. But it's not worth it
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  Speaker 1: if we're not going to be able to understand what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing. Now. You know, we go back. We always
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  Speaker 1: show them the game reps where things went wrong, the
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  Speaker 1: practice reps did it go wrong there, and we review
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  Speaker 1: that ourselves, and so you know, we'll continue to try
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  Speaker 1: to do everything we can to put our players in
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  Speaker 1: the best position. Sometimes that's getting to the right play.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes that's just taking one more thing away from them
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  Speaker 1: for their mental load, I guess, to be able to play.
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  Speaker 5: Quickly as part of that. Just some of the young
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  Speaker 5: guys that are in the lineup now too.
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody's kind of had their hand in a
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  Speaker 1: number of issues. And you know, we certainly haven't played
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  Speaker 1: well enough as a unit, and I think everybody has
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  Speaker 1: their hand in that.
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  Speaker 3: It kills and alerts.
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  Speaker 2: I know they were issue there with that. It could
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  Speaker 2: have been a little bit of an issue all year
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  Speaker 2: in terms of miscommunication on rows and interceptions and so no.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of kills and alerts, I wouldn't say that
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  Speaker 1: necessarily game Yeah, there were a couple in this game
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  Speaker 1: that showed.
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  Speaker 5: Up another week, Trevor dealing with another injury. I guess
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  Speaker 5: at this point, you guys are pretty comfortable with how
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  Speaker 5: to handle it during the week through practice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we all have ultimate confidence in CJ that
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  Speaker 1: he'll get himself ready to play the game. Same with Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: He will get himself as ready as he possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: We'll figure out where he is in terms of getting
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  Speaker 1: physical reps, where he is in terms of making it
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  Speaker 1: on game day. But you know, we expect both those
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  Speaker 1: guys to be prepared and ready to play.
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  Speaker 4: Elijah had three catches in that first half. Unfortunately, I
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  Speaker 4: don't think he had to target in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: What did you see from them in his first extended
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  Speaker 1: run and he try to get him involved more in the.
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  Speaker 5: Offense this week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did a good job with the opportunites that
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  Speaker 1: went his way. He did a good job. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he caught a big dagger on third down. He had
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  Speaker 1: a check down as well on third down. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: as we as we build it, we're continuing to be
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  Speaker 1: mindful of who we have, how they're available and what
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  Speaker 1: their skill set is and what they do really well
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  Speaker 1: and what meshes with how we want to attack the defense.
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  Speaker 1: So the guys will continue to get opportunities as they
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  Speaker 1: as they prove worthy of that as it goes through
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 4: When's the last time you felt like the offense was
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  Speaker 4: really interpreting because it's been a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's been bits and pieces. There's been plays,
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  Speaker 1: drives here and there, and then uh, you know, ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: I think at Baltimore there were times removed the ball,
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  Speaker 1: but we didn't get in the end zone. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate goal. So whether you're moving it or not,
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  Speaker 1: the goals to score and score more than the other team.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't been able to do that the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks. But yeah, I think there's just been bits
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  Speaker 1: and pieces, but there hasn't been the consistency that we're
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  Speaker 1: striving for in terms of finishing the drive with points.
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  Speaker 3: How hard is that.
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  Speaker 4: On a play caller because obviously, you know, you set
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  Speaker 4: up stuff what you all before, but when you can't
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  Speaker 4: get into that rhythm to do that, how hard is
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  Speaker 4: that to kind of find the rhythm?
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  Speaker 1: I guess, Yeah, I think one of the toughest things.
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  Speaker 1: The dynamics of the game have gotten us out of
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  Speaker 1: the way we want to play. We want to be
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  Speaker 1: in first and second down. We want to be attacking
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  Speaker 1: with you know, all the stuff that we spend Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: building and putting in and practicing and repping. But you
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  Speaker 1: fall behind quickly. You know, you're counting the number of
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  Speaker 1: possessions you have remaining in the game, and maybe you
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  Speaker 1: get an opportunity, maybe you have to get away from
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  Speaker 1: some of the plan that you hope to put in
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  Speaker 1: and attack a certain way. So sometimes the game dictates
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  Speaker 1: that way. That obviously makes it tough. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: want to be an aggressive attacking utilizing the run, utilizing
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  Speaker 1: the threat of the run, and then you find yourself
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  Speaker 1: behind with limited possessions and behind however many scores, you
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  Speaker 1: maybe have to get away from that plan initially, what
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  Speaker 1: did you.
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  Speaker 5: Make a go ahead?
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  Speaker 2: You feel like Trevor has lost confidence in maybe some
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  Speaker 2: of the things offensively, or some of the guys around him,
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  Speaker 2: or you know that comment he had after the game
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  Speaker 2: about it looks like we don't even practice. It's pretty damning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I don't think he's lost confidence. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think anybody in our group has lost confidence. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's frustration because we're not performing to the level we
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  Speaker 1: expect of ourselves in the standard that we hold ourselves
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  Speaker 1: at as a unit. So I think it's all that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a loss of confidence, a lack
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  Speaker 1: of trust and anything like that. You know, it just
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  Speaker 1: needs to carry over. We need to play our best.
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  Speaker 4: What did you make of Carolina watching them out take
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  Speaker 4: effort they showed against the specifically their their defense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, their defense is really good. They've been, you know,
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  Speaker 1: top ten pretty much all year. Great respect for coach
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  Speaker 1: Overro and the way he's coordinated his defense. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we played him in Denver. They gave us a ton
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  Speaker 1: of fits. Structure wise, it's still very similar with a
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  Speaker 1: different group of personnel. Obviously, they have really good players
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  Speaker 1: Brian Burns and Derek Brown or as good as anybody
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  Speaker 1: we see in terms of d tackles and defensive defensive
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  Speaker 1: ends or outside linebackers, whatever you want to call them there.
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  Speaker 1: So they have a great unit. They've done a great
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  Speaker 1: job all season long giving people tons of fits, and
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  Speaker 1: so we certainly have our work cut out for us.