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  Speaker 1: Red here really just you know, it really is just
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  Speaker 1: the consistency that we just want to continue to see
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  Speaker 1: the growth that we feel like we've started to see
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  Speaker 1: on a more consistent basis. Obviously has put two good
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  Speaker 1: games in a road together. Um and as a unit,
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  Speaker 1: that's really where we need to be, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we want to as a unit and as a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: specifically want to clean up our red zone in efficiencies. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: turning the football over has been the biggest thing that's
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  Speaker 1: hindered us in that situation. I think we have four
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  Speaker 1: turnovers inside the twenty, which is inexcusable. It's too many
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  Speaker 1: for a season, too many for you know, that was
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  Speaker 1: all throughout the first eight nine weeks this season, which
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  Speaker 1: has really held us back. And then just the consistency,
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  Speaker 1: you know, throughout the game, understanding all the situations that
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  Speaker 1: we come across, how we can best handle that from
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback position for ourselves, just as an entire unit.
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  Speaker 1: And what did you the last couple of games, what
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  Speaker 1: do you like the most out of what he's done. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of just taken with the defense gives him.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really the biggest thing. Over and over understand
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  Speaker 1: the plan really well understand the situation, putting the ball
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  Speaker 1: and play, giving our guys opportunities. Um, you know, that
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  Speaker 1: gives our guys the opportunity to get the ball in
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  Speaker 1: space and create afterwards. That gives the line the trust
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  Speaker 1: that all right, they called past, the ball is gonna
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  Speaker 1: get out of his hand, he's gonna take the completion, um.
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  Speaker 1: And then that just overall that kind of builds up
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  Speaker 1: that trust, that chemistry as a unit when they can
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  Speaker 1: when they can be confident the ball is coming out,
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  Speaker 1: going to the right spot at the right time, and
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  Speaker 1: we're spreading the ball around and we're being able to
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  Speaker 1: just play and dictate the terms. I just talked about
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  Speaker 1: the second year of the system, and I know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: Carson took off in that second year. Do you see
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  Speaker 1: similarities to the where they were stage wise at this
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  Speaker 1: point in the first year between you and I know
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  Speaker 1: he was a rookie rust year, so that's a little different. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think, you hope. So I think just
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  Speaker 1: you see it week to week of the kind of
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  Speaker 1: the mastery of the system coming out and not just
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  Speaker 1: him again everybody. So now when he says something at
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Everybody's just blinking and playing. It's
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  Speaker 1: not taking a long process. And we have we surrounded him,
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  Speaker 1: I think, with a lot of smart guys to be
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  Speaker 1: able to do that. Um, but then guys just even
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  Speaker 1: expecting him to do that. It's kind of the next
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  Speaker 1: level as a as a unit that we want to take.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think that's where you do see growth
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  Speaker 1: just year to year of guys getting continuity and system
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  Speaker 1: continuity playing together. I think that's that's definitely gonna help
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  Speaker 1: playing with the most confidences played with it. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean probably ten games in, I would think, so I
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  Speaker 1: would hope, I would hope everybody is uh, And I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody across the unit is at this point just confident.
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  Speaker 1: And I think they come in Monday, they understand what
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  Speaker 1: Monday looks like Tuesday. There's just familiarity, comfort and what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing. And then we feel like we've been able
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  Speaker 1: to put together some good plans, put guys in good positions,
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  Speaker 1: so that trust factors building to where we want these
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  Speaker 1: guys just be full of confidence on someday that they
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  Speaker 1: know what they're doing, they know what they're gonna see,
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  Speaker 1: and they know how to react what makes this Ravens
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  Speaker 1: defense a dangerous unit. They're good on all levels. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're they've they've added this to the second level of
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  Speaker 1: defense with Roquan Smith obviously is one of the top
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  Speaker 1: tacklers in the league. You know, from earlier in the
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  Speaker 1: season in Chicago to even they're just super productive. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a good player for a long time. UM, So
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  Speaker 1: they're solid at all levels. Their experience in the system.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a first year defense coordinator, but he
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  Speaker 1: grew up in Baltimore basically, So the system you see
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  Speaker 1: guys that have played it a long time. They're able
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  Speaker 1: to play a lot of different defenses, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different coverages, fronts, pressures, all that, um, and then they
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  Speaker 1: have chemistry with one another. So a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: guys have played in the system, in the same style
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  Speaker 1: system for a long time. It's kind of the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: system really, regardless of who's calling the place. So talent
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  Speaker 1: at all levels, experience in the system, confidence in their ability,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, just good players that make timely
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  Speaker 1: plays for him. It's it's kind of feels like a
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  Speaker 1: whole organizational DNA of run the football, stop to run,
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  Speaker 1: play good defense. And that that's that's what you've come
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  Speaker 1: to know from the Ravens for a long time. And
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  Speaker 1: then this defense is no different. Is there anything about
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  Speaker 1: decision making when you go against the defense like this
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  Speaker 1: has corners like Peters and Humphrey are just known for
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  Speaker 1: being ball hawks. Yeah, we're certainly aware of dbs or
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  Speaker 1: you know, second level players that have ball skills. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's certain things and we talked about this kind of
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  Speaker 1: with our own guys of there's certain corners that are
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  Speaker 1: great corners and you know it's gonna be hard to
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  Speaker 1: get completions, but you know they can't take the football away.
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  Speaker 1: We may be more willing to throw the ball down
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  Speaker 1: the field, know when they don't have great ball skills,
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  Speaker 1: and this might end up in a PVU or you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's true fifty fifty versus there's guys that if you
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  Speaker 1: miss or they have vision on you, they have a
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity to taking the football away. So something that'll
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  Speaker 1: that'll change at certain times. Um, But I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's necessarily this particular unit. It's really just the
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  Speaker 1: DVS in general. We always kind of give our scouting
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  Speaker 1: reporter on those guys to our guys and even let
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  Speaker 1: our guys kind of talk about their experiences playing. These
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  Speaker 1: guys were now some veteran receivers that sometimes they'll give
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  Speaker 1: their opinion or their experiences planning to get certain guys too.
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  Speaker 1: You're always had allow of running on further and not
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  Speaker 1: so much the last Mollie, what are teams doing? Take there? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City had a great plan for just kind of
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  Speaker 1: stringing things out and trying to run things down, um
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  Speaker 1: and made it tough and so later on in the game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're trying to get some interior runs if
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  Speaker 1: we could, uh, and then you fall behind, you end
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  Speaker 1: up throwing the ball a little more so it changes
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  Speaker 1: the terms of the game kind of change a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But I think Kansas City just did a good job
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  Speaker 1: of stringing some things out, um and you know, we
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  Speaker 1: had some things we're gonna get to obviously behind you
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  Speaker 1: d throwing the ball a little bit more so it
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  Speaker 1: changes that. But Kansas they have a lot of talent.
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  Speaker 1: To Chris Jones is as good a players we've played
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  Speaker 1: on the defensive line. He did a good job. How
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  Speaker 1: important is it to get Travis maybe more involved in
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  Speaker 1: the past game and you know, we've seen him obviously
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  Speaker 1: run the ball pretty well, like a couple of targets
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  Speaker 1: here and there. Yeah, we certainly want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to give him a number of ways to get touches
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  Speaker 1: out in space, whether that's tossing the ball, throwing the ball, screens, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, quick game concepts where he's featured, just different things.
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  Speaker 1: We we kind of have all that week to week,
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  Speaker 1: and it's again it's a matter of how you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get to those sort of sort of things and the
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  Speaker 1: terms of the game, being able to stay on schedule
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  Speaker 1: and play that way. But yeah, he's certainly got it's
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  Speaker 1: capable of doing it, and that's something you know, we
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  Speaker 1: always want to be able to get our best players
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  Speaker 1: the best opportunity to get to football. It was a
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  Speaker 1: great story. Also, where have you seen him sort of
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  Speaker 1: improve that in that area in practice? Obviously he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: had the opportunities too much in the games by the
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  Speaker 1: practice where you've seen him improving the pads skip, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just understanding what how he's being defended, how coverages play,
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  Speaker 1: where sweet spots are, and coverages, understand his own looks,
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  Speaker 1: man looks match coverages. I think that's all just kind
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  Speaker 1: of a young player just growing up, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: not having the experience on the grass last year. Uh So,
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  Speaker 1: he's just kind of continuing to grow as as a
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  Speaker 1: pass catcher and a receiver in the offense press. There's
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  Speaker 1: a great story after the Bears game last week for
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields. Even though he's heard, you know, he went
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  Speaker 1: up to his teammates on the said, I let you down.
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  Speaker 1: This is my fall. And as you know, Trevor stands
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  Speaker 1: up and takes accountability every time there's a loss, every
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  Speaker 1: time he has a gamer a play that's not up
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  Speaker 1: to his years standards. Do you think part of being
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  Speaker 1: a great quarterback in this league is accepting the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you may get too much as the blame, you
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  Speaker 1: may get too much of the credit, but you're always
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  Speaker 1: going to be a countable regard and his Trevor understand
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  Speaker 1: that instinctively. Yeah, I think so. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that was the way he's raised by his parents
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  Speaker 1: and he was coached up at some point in time,
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  Speaker 1: but I think he has a great understanding of taking accountability.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's on you know, the head coach and the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback are gonna take more than their fair share. Of
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  Speaker 1: blame or praise either way, and either one can be
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  Speaker 1: dangerous if you let it seep into you. So there's
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  Speaker 1: an understanding, there's a humility that comes with a position
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  Speaker 1: of understanding. Okay, you've got this title, you've got this role.
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  Speaker 1: You're the faith quote unquote, the face of the franchise um.
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  Speaker 1: So you've gotta be able to be able to stand
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  Speaker 1: up there and take the arrows and then be able
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  Speaker 1: to distribute the praise as well. So there's times where
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  Speaker 1: people want to heap it on him. He's playing great, well,
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  Speaker 1: the Lions playing great. He needs to make sure he
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  Speaker 1: he takes ownership or he takes and spreads the credit
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  Speaker 1: of that type of thing. And then there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: times where he stands up here and takes the blame
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  Speaker 1: that's really not on him. But he's got the ability,
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  Speaker 1: he's got the confidence himself to stand there and say that.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of times when you're in these situations
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  Speaker 1: talking to you guys, you're talking to the locker room,
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  Speaker 1: and so you've got the ability because again, everything we
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  Speaker 1: say here's gonna get blasted out. We know that if
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  Speaker 1: you slip up, it gets out there and get taken
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  Speaker 1: out of context, whatever it may be. So you've got
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  Speaker 1: to be accountable for all that. And I think Trevor's
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  Speaker 1: got thick skin, but I think he understands all that
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  Speaker 1: comes with the role of being quarterback of an NFL
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  Speaker 1: team and being able to accept that. Appreciate, prest appreciate,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, guys,