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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "We had a lot of opportunities." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pumped to be back home obviously. Those are
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  Speaker 1: those are the ones you really look forward to to
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  Speaker 1: be in our stadium, Um, have our crowd here. It's
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  Speaker 1: just it's gonna be awesome first one of the season,
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  Speaker 1: especially at a division game too. It's a big one obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Any time we play the Colts, any team in our division,
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  Speaker 1: it's a big game. So it's gonna be really exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Looking back at the film, how do you feel you
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  Speaker 1: play it on Sunday? What do you think you could
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  Speaker 1: improve on? Yeah, I mean, looking back on it, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just just lacked consistency, I think from myself,
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  Speaker 1: from everyone really just being more consistent around just the
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  Speaker 1: whole offense. So um, including myself especially, I think obviously
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  Speaker 1: you look at red zone and that's something where we
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of opportunities and didn't capitalize on them.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it was a misthrow, a drop, you know whatever,
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  Speaker 1: it was a few things. You know. Obviously I'm in
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  Speaker 1: that as well with the misthrow, A couple of them
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  Speaker 1: that were you know, one to day as well that
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  Speaker 1: was close that probably missed a little bit wide. So
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  Speaker 1: you look at all those and those are I mean
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  Speaker 1: everyone kind of sees that sins are obvious, but then
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  Speaker 1: you just break down the game and you're kicking yourself
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  Speaker 1: because you had so many opportunities to win the game
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  Speaker 1: and and you didn't. So that's frustrating. But to see
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  Speaker 1: kind of how we started off really slow in the
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  Speaker 1: first half offensively and defensively, and then to be able
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  Speaker 1: to flip it after halftime and play really well pretty
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  Speaker 1: much to tell halfway through the fourth quarter and then
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta finish. But to see us battle back
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  Speaker 1: and just have that confidence to you know, we're down
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  Speaker 1: down two scores, but doesn't really matter. We know we
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  Speaker 1: got what it takes to get back in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was huge. But just keep building on that.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, divisional game this week. Um, these are
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  Speaker 1: obviously really important and we're just moving on and getting
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  Speaker 1: ready for the Colts. How much of the inconsistencies might
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  Speaker 1: be just you know, you guys are all kind of
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  Speaker 1: new coming in. You know, you have new receivers, new
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  Speaker 1: cofensive lineman, just a lot of newness this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a little bit of it. But also
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  Speaker 1: you know that's every team every year, you got new
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  Speaker 1: guys and you gotta adjust and you gotta make plays,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's what it comes down to. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we have the guys to to make those plays, so
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, there's really no excuses.
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  Speaker 1: We just gotta go make them. So we missed something
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  Speaker 1: this week, but that's why you get sixteen more opportunities
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  Speaker 1: to go to go do it this week. So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: We're taking it one game at a time and like
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  Speaker 1: I said, good good Colts team coming in here this week,
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  Speaker 1: and we feel really good about our plan so far.
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  Speaker 1: This franchise, even even before you got here, has had
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  Speaker 1: issues with slow starts to games. Um, anything that you
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  Speaker 1: can pinpoint for yourself, not not necessarily just this game,
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  Speaker 1: but how you can just get better just coming right
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  Speaker 1: out of the gate and being able to get some points,
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  Speaker 1: particularly touchdowns border early. Yeah, I mean I think there's
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of factors. Every game is different. Um,
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  Speaker 1: the way we started, I mean we've had a great drive,
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  Speaker 1: got down there and like you said, I mean end
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  Speaker 1: up kicking a field goal you'd love to score touch on.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I missed the throw to Travis. So that's
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  Speaker 1: when where we can look at and say definitely should
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  Speaker 1: have got seven here, just missed a throw and that's
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  Speaker 1: on me, and we can kind of chalk it up
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  Speaker 1: to that. But then you just look at the first
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  Speaker 1: half in general, I think, just too many self inflicted wounds.
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  Speaker 1: So making sure we come out crisp and sharp and
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  Speaker 1: not making any uh mental errors, you know, alignments, assignments,
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  Speaker 1: all the simple things that the defense doesn't affect, and
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  Speaker 1: just making sure we're sharp. I think that's a big
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  Speaker 1: part of it. Alluded to you in preseason. I think
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  Speaker 1: I can't can't remember which game it was talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe sometimes you come out you're too hyped up or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do you do you see it that way?
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  Speaker 1: Because you don't. You don't seem to have a personality
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  Speaker 1: where you're getting You seem to be more calming, even keeled,
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to being too stoked up early on in
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  Speaker 1: any game. I mean, I think everyone, especially the open
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  Speaker 1: everybody's excited, everybody's ready to play. You've been waiting the
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  Speaker 1: whole offseason for it. Um. I try to keep my
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  Speaker 1: emotions pretty level of the whole game. Obviously, at times
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  Speaker 1: I get high and you get excited, you know, at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the game, you know when we scored
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  Speaker 1: with James's touchdown the pitch, you know, that was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was pumped. Stuff like that. You get, you get excited,
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  Speaker 1: but especially as a quarterback, you trying to stay calm,
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  Speaker 1: even keel um. But I mean so I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: think it's that. I just think overall, we gotta execute
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  Speaker 1: better and that's what it comes down onto. Myself and
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  Speaker 1: everybody else went back and watched this. You see, guys,
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  Speaker 1: um the places be called for bet does that excite you?
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  Speaker 1: Guys as an offense with the Christian contin used to
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  Speaker 1: be open all the time or whatever you're trying to do,
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  Speaker 1: even if you're not extrocuting it to the lovely you want,
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  Speaker 1: is that positively? Definitely? I mean there's you know, you
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  Speaker 1: have to you have to look at the positives and
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  Speaker 1: the things that we did. And I thought we had
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  Speaker 1: a great plan. I thought we had him schemed up
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. And then you look at a lot of
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  Speaker 1: third downs, had a couple of misthrows and then also
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  Speaker 1: a couple of badded balls in the line of scrimmage
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  Speaker 1: where a guy was you know, in a stunt up
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  Speaker 1: front and was just kind of at the line of
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage and jumped up right when I threw twice, at
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  Speaker 1: least Christian was wide open. Would have been a conversion.
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  Speaker 1: So you look at those things and it's a positive
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  Speaker 1: because that's something that you had that you left out there.
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  Speaker 1: It's also negative because you left it out there. But um,
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  Speaker 1: just to see our guys winning consistently. Marvin did a
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  Speaker 1: great job. Marvin didn't get much get much love, I
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  Speaker 1: guess in the stats, but I thought he did a
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  Speaker 1: great job getting open, winning his matchups. Um. So just
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  Speaker 1: our our whole group of receivers does a good job
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  Speaker 1: with that. And UM, we're just gonna keep building and
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  Speaker 1: getting better and we'll hit those last year closer versus
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  Speaker 1: the Colts, you know, at the momentum eye. We think
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  Speaker 1: from that, that's something you kind of put in a
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  Speaker 1: rear view, you know, in the past, and you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of just as a quickly a different kind of component. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's obviously you have, Um that's how we
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  Speaker 1: finished the season. We talked about that leading into the year.
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  Speaker 1: That was a positive note something that this team, the
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  Speaker 1: team last year could take into this season. But now
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  Speaker 1: we've got a game under our belt, We've kind of
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  Speaker 1: moved on. This is a different team. They're a different team,
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  Speaker 1: different defensive coordinator, all those things. We got a new
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  Speaker 1: head coach, offense coordinator, DEFENSEI coordinator, everything, So you really
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  Speaker 1: have to just start over every week no matter who
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  Speaker 1: you're playing, especially divisional game with a bunch of coaching
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  Speaker 1: changes in personnel changes. So we're not really focusing on
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  Speaker 1: that at all. You know, that was last year. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that's something that's a little fuel for them,
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  Speaker 1: But for us, we're just eyes forward and how can
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  Speaker 1: we put the best plan together to go beat them
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  Speaker 1: this game and not really focus in the past or
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  Speaker 1: too far in the future. There's not a conversation at
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  Speaker 1: all that they might be circle in this game and
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  Speaker 1: using some motivation. I think that's just something you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially playing playing a team in your division, those are
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  Speaker 1: always circle of those six games. I mean, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what it is, if it's them playing here, we're playing there, Um,
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  Speaker 1: what part of the year it's in, they're always important.
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  Speaker 1: So um. But yeah, I mean, obviously the way that
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  Speaker 1: game went last year, I'm sure they're, Um, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be fired up for this one. Doesn't change anything for
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  Speaker 1: us that we gotta come out and play our game
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  Speaker 1: and execute. And um, this was important. Now that you've
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  Speaker 1: got a week a game prep under your belt, how
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  Speaker 1: much has your routine changed from a year ago, you're
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  Speaker 1: like game week routeam I think a little bit. Um,
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  Speaker 1: just the more I've learned, you know, how I like
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  Speaker 1: to watch film my process, that kind of the way
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  Speaker 1: the weeks laid out. And then also with a new staff,
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  Speaker 1: how coach Peterson and Press like to have their meetings
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  Speaker 1: with us here in the week, the timing of that,
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  Speaker 1: it's always a little bit different. So now getting adjusted
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  Speaker 1: to that, I feel I feel really good. I thought
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  Speaker 1: last week we were, um, we were cleaning all the
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  Speaker 1: preparation stuff, felt ready. Obviously we had an extra week,
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  Speaker 1: so really you should be at that point. So um,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was good. And uh, just like I said,
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  Speaker 1: just put another one together this week. Uh, but he's
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  Speaker 1: starting body a little bit. This is much. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's frustrating, I think. Uh, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's good to compound all those from
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  Speaker 1: the past. But also it is important to win. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: that's why we're all here. And um, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of excitement in the city and on this team in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room, and it comes to the point where, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we do. We obviously need to get a win, and
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  Speaker 1: this is a great place to start with a divisional game. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously, like the past in the past, last week,
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to win that and that's frustrating, but
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  Speaker 1: you gotta move on. Take the positives, learn from the negatives. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And we got a great opportunity this week. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we need to win. Uh, not because
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  Speaker 1: of the losses we've had in the past, but just
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  Speaker 1: because you know, we we started owing one last week
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  Speaker 1: and then we got another opportunity this week in the
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  Speaker 1: division to to get a game, especially those two teams
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  Speaker 1: they tied last week, so this would be huge force.
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  Speaker 1: This was the first game where we get to see
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  Speaker 1: Travis and James play a full game together. I was
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  Speaker 1: just curious, UM, as as as you guys were coming
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  Speaker 1: into the season, what were your thoughts about what James
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  Speaker 1: and Travis could be together, especially since they have such
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  Speaker 1: different skill sets. Yeah, I mean, I think, uh, I
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  Speaker 1: think this past game was a pretty cool look at
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  Speaker 1: what that combination could be and just the different skill sets.
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  Speaker 1: But Also, both of those guys can really do whatever
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  Speaker 1: you need them to do. I mean, obviously they have
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  Speaker 1: things that each one of them are particularly good at,
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  Speaker 1: but when you need them, they can kind of do whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So that that gives us a lot of versatility and
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  Speaker 1: different things that we can do. But just to see
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  Speaker 1: how they both impacted the game in different ways, I
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  Speaker 1: think that gives everybody a good look at you know,
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  Speaker 1: what they can do and what they bring to the table.
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  Speaker 1: And it's gonna be fun every week figuring out the
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  Speaker 1: best position to put them in to maximize what they
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  Speaker 1: can do for us. So those guys are are great.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna help us a lot. When you trying to
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  Speaker 1: measure progress to what's the most important red zone, third
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  Speaker 1: down or I think it's I think it's everything, you know,
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  Speaker 1: execution all across the board. You know, we had way
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  Speaker 1: too many third and longs ten pluses and there's five
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  Speaker 1: or six of those, so you've got to stay ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the chains. And then you look at red zone efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: Not great. Came away one time with no points and
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  Speaker 1: then a couple of field goals, so turning those into
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  Speaker 1: points and that's a that's a big I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: could have had an eleven point swing if we score
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  Speaker 1: on the first drive and then we score on the
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  Speaker 1: fourth and three from the goal line. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's eleven point swing right there that we that we
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  Speaker 1: gave them. So that's those are the obvious, and then
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  Speaker 1: you look at the stuff that a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: don't see. It's alignments, it's assignments, it's I D and
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  Speaker 1: things right, And there's always gonna be a few of
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  Speaker 1: those a game, but just how can we limit those?
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  Speaker 1: And I think every week that should get better and
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  Speaker 1: as that happens, will continue to get better. It's hard
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  Speaker 1: to play much did that last year getting Yeah? I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's I mean, didn't you go back into the
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  Speaker 1: film didn't play perfect? Is there gonna be plays where
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  Speaker 1: there's stuff that doesn't go exactly how you thought it would,
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  Speaker 1: But um, that's the goal and you strive for that
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  Speaker 1: and you just try to take it one place at
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  Speaker 1: a time. That's all you can do. When when whatever
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  Speaker 1: plays called, you just focus on your job. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the message that's always been is everybody just focus on
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  Speaker 1: their job. Don't worry about the guy next to you
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  Speaker 1: doing his If you just focus on your job, and
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  Speaker 1: get eleven guys go in the same direction. That's how
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  Speaker 1: you that's how you start, and you just put that together.
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  Speaker 1: Who can do that more times throughout a game? That's
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  Speaker 1: who usually wins on the long On the long pass
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  Speaker 1: to Marvin Jones, did the past rusher get just enough
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  Speaker 1: of your right shoulder to affect that throw? Just like barely? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean he you know, he kind of clipped me
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. And Um, end of the day, I
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  Speaker 1: think I can still make that throw with that presence there,
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  Speaker 1: So I gotta I gotta make the throw. Yeah, affected
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  Speaker 1: it a little bit, but um, that's a play we
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  Speaker 1: gotta make. That's what I was talking about where Marvin
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  Speaker 1: to take good job winning over the top. It would
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  Speaker 1: have been a huge play for us there. Down. When
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  Speaker 1: you look at this Colts defense, what do you see
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  Speaker 1: and how much has it changed from what you saw
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  Speaker 1: a year ago? It's changed a lot, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: different decordinator. Um, it's a lot of you know, looking
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  Speaker 1: at obviously what Vegas did last year. Um, same scheme obviously,
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  Speaker 1: So you know they're they're a simple group. They're really disciplined.
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  Speaker 1: They do their job, they do it well. They're not
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  Speaker 1: trying to necessarily trick you. Um, I mean third down
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  Speaker 1: might be a different story, but just you know, talking
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  Speaker 1: about base down. But they're really disciplined. Their front does
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  Speaker 1: a nice job. Obviously, their linebackers are really talented. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I think they got some guys in the back end,
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  Speaker 1: ke Annymore. Um, they got the rookie safety Nick Cross
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  Speaker 1: and then sad As Stefan Gilmour. So there's got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys across the board. I think they are
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  Speaker 1: really sound defense. UM, do a great job of keeping
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  Speaker 1: everything in front of them, So you know it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be fun game planning and and and figuring out how
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  Speaker 1: ways different ways to attack them. I think we've got
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  Speaker 1: a good start right now. And they've got some long
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  Speaker 1: guys on that defensive line. How much does that help
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  Speaker 1: make your job more difficult to find in those passing
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  Speaker 1: lanes because they could battle ball down at the line. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's something that obviously, UM, it's important to
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  Speaker 1: for me to understand. But also our guys up front,
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  Speaker 1: you know, try to keep those arms down as much
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  Speaker 1: as you can, um. But then the day he's gotta
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  Speaker 1: go play, and you know, I think that obviously they
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  Speaker 1: added a couple of guys. But we played against these
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  Speaker 1: guys last year and I kind of know their skill setting,
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  Speaker 1: what they can do and the issues they can create.
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  Speaker 1: So um, we'll be we'll be ready for the offense
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  Speaker 1: fell out of rhythm on Sunday. Did you notice the
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  Speaker 1: play calling and how much it was favored in trying
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  Speaker 1: to get you guys back and sync, because it did
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  Speaker 1: seem that once you guys fell out of rhythm a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, the next drive it kind of picked back
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit as well. And did you notice
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  Speaker 1: that that was just part of Doug and how good
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  Speaker 1: of a play caller he really is. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: I thought I thought coaches did a great job. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you look at the ebbs and flows of the game.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we always talk about, especially in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of them. You know, we're down,
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  Speaker 1: we go down, kick a field of opening drive, moving
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  Speaker 1: the ball on the field, great drive, and they come back, score,
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  Speaker 1: we punt, they score again, We're down fourteen three, and
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  Speaker 1: just the highs and the lows and just staying steady
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  Speaker 1: that and that's you know with the coaches as well,
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  Speaker 1: and they did a great job of just sticking to
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  Speaker 1: our plan, getting us back on track, and then getting
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  Speaker 1: us in a position to to win the game. And
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  Speaker 1: like I said, you gotta go, you gotta go win it.
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  Speaker 1: But we were in position, so that's all you can
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  Speaker 1: ask for. And um, it's exciting for sure. Did you
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  Speaker 1: interact or having to writing much for him? Not much?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I talked to him after the Atlanta game
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  Speaker 1: for a second last year. UM heard heard a lot
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  Speaker 1: of great things. So but now I don't really know
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  Speaker 1: him too well. Did you grow up as a Falcons
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  Speaker 1: fan being from Georgia, Yeah, a little bit. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly as a kid, I wasn't as much of an
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: NFL fan. I was big into college football, but definitely
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons were a team I rooted for just because
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's forty five minutes uh down the road
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  Speaker 1: from me. How hard is it to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: that here we go again attitude doesn't start to creep
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  Speaker 1: into the locker room? I mean, I think it's I
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  Speaker 1: think the guy has done a great job, and that's
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  Speaker 1: not really been something that's been talked about, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't that's not the thought process at all with this team.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've all it's it's Wednesday. Now we've all
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: kind of moved on. It's it's the next week, and
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: that's what it's about. You know, you're not gonna you're
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: not gonna play perfect every week, and you've got to
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: figure out a way to respond and go play well
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: the next week and go get a win. So that's
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: the that's the thought process with this team, and I
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: think the guy has done a great job. Awesome, thank
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: you all.