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Press Pass | Liam Coen on Prep for Week 13 vs. Titans · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Do you worry about the team's focus this is holiday
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  Speaker 1: week going into a divisional matchup? Is that something you
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  Speaker 1: have to kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of believe, you know, I hope not. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: hope not.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's these guys, know, I think that they
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  Speaker 3: understand as much as anything with a division game, this
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  Speaker 3: is a team that just on if you just watch
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  Speaker 3: the tape, which doesn't lie. Typically, this is not a
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  Speaker 3: team that thinks are playing like they're one in ten.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's the reality. And so they got they
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  Speaker 3: have enough game wreckers and players that can can impact
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  Speaker 3: the game in all three phases that we cannot feel,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's just no room for that. And so
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  Speaker 3: I hope and believe that we are mature enough and
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  Speaker 3: honest enough with ourselves and with each other that this is.
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  Speaker 2: A team that you know is going to be hungry
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  Speaker 2: for a win.
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  Speaker 3: They there's a lot of reasons, and it's the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: right like they there's a lot of pride in what
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  Speaker 3: we do and for us as well, like this is
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  Speaker 3: another great opportunity and test to go again on the
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  Speaker 3: road in division in as you head into late November
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  Speaker 3: early December, these are football games that we need to win.
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  Speaker 1: And our early Sportsmanship Board nominee of what have you
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  Speaker 1: seen from Travis this year?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll he'll also be nominated as a game captain
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  Speaker 3: as well this week. So TJ, since I think I've
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  Speaker 3: said this a few times, like since we got here,
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  Speaker 3: has has really done nothing but try to try to
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  Speaker 3: be the best version of himself. I think he's really
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  Speaker 3: dominated his role in terms of like wanting to improve
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  Speaker 3: in the areas that we talked about, wanting to improve,
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  Speaker 3: consistent only putting good things on tape, from his habits
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  Speaker 3: in practice, from his preparation during the week with Chad,
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  Speaker 3: with his preparation on his body and his treatment. Just
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  Speaker 3: have been so pleased with TJ's consistency throughout this time
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  Speaker 3: with him. And then the playmaking right, Like you can't
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  Speaker 3: argue guys that go out and make people miss and
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  Speaker 3: get hard yards and have been a huge reason why
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  Speaker 3: we've had the success that we've had this season. You
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  Speaker 3: got three reviews in his room, Quinnon, what's his leadership
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  Speaker 3: like for those guys?
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  Speaker 2: I have you kind of seen it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean TJ was a guy that got you know,
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  Speaker 3: numerous votes for captain when we did the voting and
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  Speaker 3: I think that obviously past history always helps from a
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  Speaker 3: team standpoint, right, Like a lot of the guys that
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  Speaker 3: have been here, But when you have three Rooks in
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  Speaker 3: the room that you know, you're consistently trying to elevate
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  Speaker 3: and raise the standards in the room, and not just
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  Speaker 3: that room, but all rooms. And Chad obviously has tried
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  Speaker 3: to do that and lead that. But you don't do
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  Speaker 3: those things without a guy who's setting the tone, who's
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  Speaker 3: able to follow and push that message and try to
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  Speaker 3: lead that room. So in his own way, you know,
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  Speaker 3: his own way. He's not the most vocal guy out there.
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  Speaker 3: Rah rah, that's not him, but he's done it by
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  Speaker 3: the way that he walks through, the way that he meets,
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  Speaker 3: the way that he practices has all been within a
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  Speaker 3: high standard, and I've appreciated that it works.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff you guys did with Trevor at the beginning or
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  Speaker 2: the spring or whatever, how's that held up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a lot of good examples of
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  Speaker 3: his footwork looking you know, more and more of what we're.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to get to.
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  Speaker 3: And it was a great example of the down the
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  Speaker 3: Parker last week where it was play action stepped up
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  Speaker 3: in the pocket. You know, like talked about that opposite
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  Speaker 3: peck movement, one hitch throw, there was numerous others where
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  Speaker 3: you just see the more and more we can continue
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  Speaker 3: to have Trev be grounded and get all this cleats
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  Speaker 3: in the ground to generate as much power and accuracy
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  Speaker 3: as possible. Typically we talk about that boxer mentality to
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  Speaker 3: where you're always in a position to be able to
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  Speaker 3: throw a punch, always in a position to be able
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  Speaker 3: to throw the ball. When you get tozy as a
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  Speaker 3: quarterback or really any you know player for that matter,
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  Speaker 3: when you're when you're on your toes or your momentum
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  Speaker 3: is going up and down, well then it has to
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  Speaker 3: come back to this position to throw. So we're constantly
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  Speaker 3: working on that. And you know, I think that from
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  Speaker 3: a footwork standpoint, I've been pleased with him.
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  Speaker 1: This is averaging over thirty points since the bye week.
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  Speaker 1: Is that just kind of everything started to find a
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  Speaker 1: groove a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that there's probably a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at the negative plays, I
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  Speaker 3: think that that's maybe an area in which we've made
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  Speaker 3: some growth and some strides with a the penalties, right,
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  Speaker 3: like the penalties of being in second in Excel so
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  Speaker 3: often you could look at maybe you call it pre
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  Speaker 3: buy in a lot of ways where you're in second
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  Speaker 3: and fifteen second and twenty second and twelve second and thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: I mean those are hard downs, hard drives to overcome
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  Speaker 3: when you have negatives on a drive. So I think
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  Speaker 3: that's one area of improvement we've made. And then you know,
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  Speaker 3: just the consistent execution right, like you have seventy plays
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  Speaker 3: in a game you're looking for obviously like eighty plus
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  Speaker 3: percent execution.
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  Speaker 2: Right, You're not always going to win.
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  Speaker 3: You I was gonna make the one on one play, right,
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  Speaker 3: that's football. But from an execution, mental error, mental you know, assignment, alignment, execution.
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  Speaker 3: I think that has improved over the last X amount
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  Speaker 3: of weeks level.
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  Speaker 1: With Trayvon's MEI there hasn't practiced in two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's just day to day for us. I
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  Speaker 3: mean we we really uh it's it's at this point,
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  Speaker 3: you know, pain, there's things that we can control and
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  Speaker 3: there's things you can and this is one of those
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  Speaker 3: that we can't really control. It's it's an injury that
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  Speaker 3: we have to deal with and hopefully we get him
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  Speaker 3: back as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Guys were together in Kentucky in twenty one. What kind
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  Speaker 2: of job did he do there? What kind of a
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  Speaker 2: coach is he? He's an absolute stud.
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  Speaker 3: I bought his house in Kentucky and then didn't ever
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  Speaker 3: live in it. Uh moved went to the Rams after that.
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  Speaker 3: So Sammy and I are very close. I've got a
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  Speaker 3: ton of respect for John Sumrall as a man, as
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  Speaker 3: a person, as a coach. He can connect with all
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  Speaker 3: walks of life, recruits is There's not many better recruiters
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  Speaker 3: I've been around at all positions, not just on defense
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  Speaker 3: but the entirety of it. And I know his teams
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  Speaker 3: play their tails off. That's something that you just continue
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  Speaker 3: to see. Our linebackers at Kentucky that he coached. I
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  Speaker 3: mean they were at his house all the time. He
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  Speaker 3: had the players at his house all the time. There
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  Speaker 3: was a natural connection that he had with the players
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  Speaker 3: and the people in the building that you could just
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  Speaker 3: see that he has. He's a football coach. Like if
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  Speaker 3: you talk about like a ball coach, I mean that's
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  Speaker 3: John summerw This.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like he's about ready to go back into the game,
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  Speaker 2: just in terms of what he can bring to the table.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how how much excitement do you guys have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great to see him back out on the
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  Speaker 3: on the practice field as much as possible. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think Jordan's done a great job of helping those
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  Speaker 3: other guys as much as possible without being out on
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  Speaker 3: the grass on Sundays. You know, as much as you
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  Speaker 3: can get him out there is you need. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's just the confidence, the swagger, the communication, the way
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  Speaker 3: he sees the game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that.
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  Speaker 3: Always helps when you got a guy out there, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you have captains not out in the grass.
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  Speaker 2: That's always hard.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, in a playmaker, right, He's made some
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  Speaker 3: critical plays for us this season. Been very pleased as
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  Speaker 3: I've mentioned with Jarian, with braz with those guys you
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  Speaker 3: know that have stepped up and had to play a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more because of Jay Lou being out. So
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  Speaker 3: you feel confident in those guys for sure. But it's
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  Speaker 3: always nice to have that depth back Kobe.
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  Speaker 1: Parker and Tim Patrick can kind of give me some
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  Speaker 1: consistency at wide receiver in the last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: maybe getting BT backs. Ye, do you slow play him
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  Speaker 1: back into the lineup to not like disrupt that or
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  Speaker 1: do you just thrust him back in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I though I think you saw.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys watched practice yesterday a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. He brought some juice to practice yesterday in
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  Speaker 3: a big way in terms of being able to get
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  Speaker 3: that connection, you know, going again.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's something that.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to need during down this stretch and when
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  Speaker 3: you have somebody that you know he's feeling better, he's
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  Speaker 3: getting healthier. I mean, that's so big for our offense
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  Speaker 3: to be able to attack people now, you know, at
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  Speaker 3: all three levels. So you know, we'll see what the
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  Speaker 3: rep count comes out to be, because you do still
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  Speaker 3: have to monitor and make sure that you know, when
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  Speaker 3: you have a guy coming off of a high ankle
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  Speaker 3: sprain that plays a position that involves running and cutting
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  Speaker 3: and doing all those things, you want to make sure
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  Speaker 3: you're similar to Brenton, I think you'd say last week,
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  Speaker 3: where you're just trying to make sure that hey, we
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  Speaker 3: want to get him going. We need to get him
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  Speaker 3: going because it'll help our team and our offense. Just
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  Speaker 3: don't want to make sure you're putting him in any
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  Speaker 3: position and that it could end up hurting it.
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  Speaker 1: You're going down to the stretch like this and you're getting
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  Speaker 1: a guy like BT back, You're getting Jordan Lewis back.
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  Speaker 1: It almost looks like you're just starting to get a
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  Speaker 1: little bit healthier in the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Run Is that good? Good?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's like two steps forward when you know
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  Speaker 3: and down at this time. It's, uh, it's just the
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  Speaker 3: way it goes, right. Guys like at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the season, you're just nobody's gonna feel great. But the guys,
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  Speaker 3: I would to agree to your point, the guys that
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  Speaker 3: are coming back from not playing, you would think that
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  Speaker 3: they'd be able to provide a little bit of a
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  Speaker 3: spark just in terms of the way they feel and
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  Speaker 3: the way that they can maybe go out and provide,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's energy, whether it's just you know, bouncing around
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  Speaker 3: out there and playmaking that is extremely important down the
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  Speaker 3: stretch and as we head into December football. So, but
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  Speaker 3: you're you're in the rest of the roster and the
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  Speaker 3: guys that have been playing, You're you're not feeling like
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  Speaker 3: you did in Week two or three by any means.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a lot of guys all more week one
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  Speaker 1: starters of the seven and playing a lot of stamps
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  Speaker 1: this year. What was that kind of talking just about
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  Speaker 1: your get and about the.
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  Speaker 2: Guys that you have in the MAO. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: it speaks to.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think we did a nice job in
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  Speaker 3: the offseason at identifying some role players, if you will,
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  Speaker 3: and guys that we saw you know, obviously the physical
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  Speaker 3: football traits, but also the personal intangibles that you're looking for,
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  Speaker 3: whether it was in pro free agency, whether it was
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  Speaker 3: in the draft or post draft, in you know, the
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  Speaker 3: college free agency world. So those guys have made you know,
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  Speaker 3: played meaningful snaps for us, whether it's through special teams, offense, defense,
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  Speaker 3: have all been contributors. And as you go throughout this stretch,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the more guys that can help you win,
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  Speaker 3: the better, right. I mean, you only have eleven out
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  Speaker 3: there every play, but when you've got thirteen, fourteen, fifteen
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  Speaker 3: in terms of guys that have been able to play
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  Speaker 3: and impact all three phases, that's going to help.
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  Speaker 2: Us tremendously, hopefully down the stretch.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, they're not thrusting them into roles this
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  Speaker 3: late in the season and.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, whoa shoot, this is an NFL game, this.
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  Speaker 3: Is a critical GUTA habit moment on third down or
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  Speaker 3: in the red zone, or in two minute or four
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  Speaker 3: minute late in the season, when man, these games obviously
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  Speaker 3: really really matter in terms of, you know, playoffs and
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  Speaker 3: all the implications, and just for us as a team
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  Speaker 3: getting better each week. I think it helps that just
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  Speaker 3: the nerves and go in and play with a quieted mind.
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  Speaker 3: Picture or you just know, Yeah, we haven't talked to
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  Speaker 3: any big picture at all. I honestly could not tell
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  Speaker 3: you at all where we stand in terms of where
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  Speaker 3: we are where, what implications that every game has, Like
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  Speaker 3: I swear to I have no idea. So I think
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  Speaker 3: it's best to keep it that way for all of
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  Speaker 3: us and really just take it one day at a time,
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  Speaker 3: one game at a time, because you know, we all
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  Speaker 3: know how volatile this league is. And when you're just
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  Speaker 3: steady focused on improvement and you're focused on yourselves, knowing, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: this is this is the team that we're playing, this
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  Speaker 3: is the.
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  Speaker 2: Players that we have to be aware of. This is their.
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  Speaker 3: Offensive, defensive, and special team structures.
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  Speaker 2: But it's us. It's us attacking them.
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  Speaker 3: It's our process and our operation that truly matters. And
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  Speaker 3: so the more we can keep the main thing, the
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  Speaker 3: main thing, the better coach.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you great