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  Speaker 1: No flags on the field, didn't step out of bounds,
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  Speaker 1: make sure he caught the football. There were there were
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of things still going through my head. But
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  Speaker 1: just I've been a part of I think two walk
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  Speaker 1: off games. UM. One when I was a player in
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay. In fact, the guy on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the field, Al Harris, actually picked it off for
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  Speaker 1: us and went into the end zone. UM. And today,
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  Speaker 1: So this one was obviously a little more special, But
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  Speaker 1: just happy for the guys. Man. They never never gave up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we talked about it, you know last night
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  Speaker 1: at the hotel, we talked about it again today. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we just kept kept chipping away, you know, against a
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  Speaker 1: really good football team. I mean that's uh, that's a
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  Speaker 1: well coached you know unit. Um, you know, they they're
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  Speaker 1: they're obviously one of the top teams in the league.
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  Speaker 1: But but this this win today, I think kind of
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  Speaker 1: just gives our guys confidence in who they are as
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  Speaker 1: a team. There's a magic with a franchise quarterback. Do
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  Speaker 1: you see the belief in Trevor Lawrence in the locker room?
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  Speaker 1: How how is that growing in particularly over the last
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  Speaker 1: five or six weeks. What's that belief like? That, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the belief, the belief has always been there, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And and Trevor has done a great job of just running,
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  Speaker 1: running the show, running the team, you know, doing what
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  Speaker 1: he's capable of doing. And um, you know, just so
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  Speaker 1: happy for him, but but really for the whole the
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  Speaker 1: whole team, but just the guys. The guys are starting
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  Speaker 1: to believe in themselves too, you know, and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: important down the stretch. And and um, uh, just a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous win by by everybody's all three phases had a
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  Speaker 1: hand in it, uh, Coach, I just want to ask
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  Speaker 1: if the first half, their offensive line I thought did
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good job of keeping it at bay and
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  Speaker 1: obviously they built the lead. What had happened in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. I think that might have changed everything around.
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  Speaker 1: What was there something that you did differently? Yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 1: they obviously have a really good offensive line. They pride
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  Speaker 1: themselves on running football. They did a nice job in
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  Speaker 1: the first half, and you know, I just think it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot like last week against Tennessee. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: just at some point you just have to wake up
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, not you know enough enough, And the
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  Speaker 1: guys just hung in there. And you know, made a
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  Speaker 1: few adjustments up front as far as staying in base
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  Speaker 1: or going nickel defense things like that. But other than that,
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  Speaker 1: we we committed eleven, you know, eleven guys to the run,
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  Speaker 1: and then uh it opened up our pass rushers to
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  Speaker 1: get after you know, Doc and and you know in
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  Speaker 1: the passing game there in the second half, which really, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, helped us obviously on the last play the game,
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  Speaker 1: keeping the composure even after Trevor's fumble and they were
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  Speaker 1: covered with with whatever time they had left, you still
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  Speaker 1: had the three time outs. I mean, how important is
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  Speaker 1: it to say, hey, guys, look, stop them here, we
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  Speaker 1: get another chance. Yeah, that's exactly That's exactly the message
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  Speaker 1: we had on the sideline. You know, we have three
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  Speaker 1: time outs. There's still a lot of time. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: the ball back with maybe just under a minute to
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  Speaker 1: go and a chance to go tie the football game.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh, you know, it's what I appreciate about
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  Speaker 1: our guys, and really the coaching staff is how you know,
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  Speaker 1: we prepare our players for situations like that, right and
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  Speaker 1: and there's no panic, guys, are guys are prepared. My
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  Speaker 1: hats off to the to the staff for for putting
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  Speaker 1: them in positions to go to go win games, you know,
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  Speaker 1: or too in that case, to go tie the game.
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  Speaker 1: So just uh, just a great effort there. They tug
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  Speaker 1: the two seventeen point comebacks this year. What does that
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  Speaker 1: say about a team that's trying to figure out who
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  Speaker 1: they are and how good they can be, That you're
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  Speaker 1: able to do that twice, especially against a team like this. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean we saw you know, we we
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  Speaker 1: saw the game last night, you know, the Minnesota game.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I've been a part of games where
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  Speaker 1: we've been down and and and you work your way
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  Speaker 1: back and then listen, our guys. I don't I don't
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  Speaker 1: really think they worry you too much about where it is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what the score is. I I really don't.
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  Speaker 1: I think they just keep focusing on their job and
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  Speaker 1: and and getting better at at what they're doing in game.
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  Speaker 1: And and as I said, we just keep chipping away
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  Speaker 1: and somewhere we're gonna get a stop on defense or
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  Speaker 1: a takeaway. Somewhere we're gonna score a touchdown or a
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  Speaker 1: field goal on offense. Special teams are gonna step up,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why you play, you know, sixty minutes and uh, um,
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  Speaker 1: so it's just I think it's just a matter of
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  Speaker 1: the guys just kind of trusting in themselves and gaining
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  Speaker 1: gaining confidence as the game goes on. Trey had a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a rough day, but he gets his
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  Speaker 1: hand in there on that final pass and knocks it up.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the kind of kid that he is and
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  Speaker 1: the kind of player he is? Who was that? Trey
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  Speaker 1: Herndon gets his hand in there on that last past
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  Speaker 1: Knox stop for ray Sean had a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a rough day. Yeah, I think Roy had had an
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  Speaker 1: impact on that play too, as a d line pass rush.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think he maybe hit Dack's arm or
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  Speaker 1: something too. So yeah, I mean, you know, listen, it
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  Speaker 1: really for sixty minutes and however, you know, sixty five
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  Speaker 1: minutes or whatever it was in the game, It really
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. It comes down to players making plays.
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  Speaker 1: And those those guys, those two or three guys at
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  Speaker 1: that point and made a play and and and that's
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  Speaker 1: what games come down to. It just comes down to
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  Speaker 1: a few handful of plays and and um, they're just
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  Speaker 1: happy and proud of the guys for the way they
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  Speaker 1: hung in there. Coach Obviously this is a two part
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  Speaker 1: maybe a three part question. Okay, I will uh Jogi
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  Speaker 1: Berra had the old saying it's not over till it's over.
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  Speaker 1: We saw what happened with obviously the game yesterday with
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota in Indianapolis. So is there any kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a halftime speech when you know you're behind by a lot,
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  Speaker 1: especially against a top tier football team. There's you know, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I've been around this game a long time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from my dad coaching me and peewee leagues too. Now,
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  Speaker 1: and there's no magical speeches. There's no words you can say.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's there's It just comes down to the players.
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  Speaker 1: As we talked about players making plays and and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, these guys are these guys are our guys
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  Speaker 1: are are playing with a lot of confidence. They're playing together.
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  Speaker 1: We're playing complimentary football. We we've you know, early in
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  Speaker 1: the season we probably weren't. We're doing that now and
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know we I guess the biggest thing, too,
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  Speaker 1: is if we just continue to focus on us and
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  Speaker 1: keep it internal. Um, you know, I do think that
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  Speaker 1: that good, good things are gonna happen for this team.
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  Speaker 1: And they're starting to starting to show up. We still
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  Speaker 1: have a long way to go, even with three games.
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  Speaker 1: We're on a short week, you know, playing on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night on the road. Um, and it's it's tough, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta check out the injury situation. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: we've got our work cut out for still. And then
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  Speaker 1: the next part of the question is do you want
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  Speaker 1: to see this get to a point where the Jacksonville
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  Speaker 1: Jaguires are no longer a trap game that people are
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  Speaker 1: gonna start taking to your program a whole lot seriously. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't get into a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: as much as I want our team to understand that
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  Speaker 1: we need to be playing meaningful football games in December
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  Speaker 1: and January. And that's we've put ourselves in that position.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm proud of the guys for doing that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, our season could have gone sideways three or
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  Speaker 1: four weeks ago, you know, and and um, the guys
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  Speaker 1: weren't gonna let that happen. So I don't get caught
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  Speaker 1: up in in all the storylines and and all that
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  Speaker 1: that could the sugar could have would us. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a matter of those guys in that dressing room believing
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  Speaker 1: in themselves and getting the job done against this defense,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have to run the ball effectively. Uh, and
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  Speaker 1: Travis did that. Uh. And the stuff you ran with Jamal,
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  Speaker 1: nice little change up and everything. Uh to talk about
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  Speaker 1: how much that helped Trevor. And then you know, you
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  Speaker 1: went back to Travis almost immediately right back in the
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  Speaker 1: game after the fumble, and you know, are you the
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  Speaker 1: confidence you have in that kid obviously is it's pretty high.
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  Speaker 1: So how much did the overall run game help you today? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: You know, we felt like we had to try to
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  Speaker 1: run the ball today. You know, Um, it's a good
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  Speaker 1: past defense and they're good on third down. They create
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  Speaker 1: you know, we saw the past rush and how how
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  Speaker 1: dynamic it is, so we felt like we had we
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  Speaker 1: had to give the run game, you know, um a
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  Speaker 1: serious consideration today. And offensive line did a nice job.
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  Speaker 1: We had some misdirection runs too, you know, you saw
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  Speaker 1: Agnew on the perimeter and of course t J you know,
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  Speaker 1: between the tackles and things like that, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jamaicael Hasty had had a couple of nice runs in there. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just being able to keep a defense like
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  Speaker 1: that off balance and not really knowing where the runs
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  Speaker 1: coming from opens up some of the movement game, opens
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  Speaker 1: up some of the play action stuff, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just, uh, it was just great to see that
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  Speaker 1: that our guys were able to kind of do that
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  Speaker 1: and and create those opportunities you know, offensively. Yeah. No, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: with Travis, Um, you know, it's it's like a quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: if you throw a pick, we're gonna put the ball
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  Speaker 1: back in your hands the next the next time we
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  Speaker 1: get a touch And and I wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that that he, you know, Travis knew that we had
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  Speaker 1: still have a lot of confidence in him, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna keep feeding him the football, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and he did a nice job after that, and um,
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta keep, you know, keep coaching him and
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  Speaker 1: making him understand that, hey listen, ball securities everything. Coach
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  Speaker 1: four touchdown games today for Trevor, But talk about how
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  Speaker 1: your receivers today stepped up big to make that possible.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, these guys, these guys are it's
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  Speaker 1: an unselfish group. Um, they work hard and practice every
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  Speaker 1: single day. You know, you never know who's gonna get
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  Speaker 1: the hot hand, you know, in a game UM A
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  Speaker 1: week ago was seventeens. They had some nice catches today,
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  Speaker 1: Christian down the stretch. Marv got in the mix screen
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  Speaker 1: to TJ. I mean, there's there's all kinds of of
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  Speaker 1: things that that that took place in this game. But
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  Speaker 1: just the way these guys I think, work with one another,
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  Speaker 1: work with Trevor, the way they practice UM, the way
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  Speaker 1: they study their opponent, study the game plan says a
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  Speaker 1: lot about who they are, the type of type of
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  Speaker 1: people than men that they that they are. Hey, Doug
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  Speaker 1: cam Robinson, Juwan Taylor, can you update us on those? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll check with Furk when I'm done here. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have any updates right now. Okay, is there a fear
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  Speaker 1: that it's a severe one on camp? I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to speculate. Okay, does this Sometimes coaches just get a
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  Speaker 1: feeling about a team. What you're feeling about this team?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a feeling that it's a special team.
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  Speaker 1: And that doesn't necessarily mean you go in to Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl OXU, but you have a feel about this team.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's a special team in the sense that
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing I'm seeing this group starting to come together.
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  Speaker 1: UM playing that complementary style of football. You know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even going back to training camp, the way
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  Speaker 1: we practiced and the way we you know, did things
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  Speaker 1: back then, you had the hope and the glimmer and
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  Speaker 1: you know that that we would one day be one
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  Speaker 1: of those football teams. And it takes time. It's and
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  Speaker 1: this is you know, I've said this before. It's not
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  Speaker 1: an overnight fix, you know. But the way these guys
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  Speaker 1: continue to work together, I'm telling you, the way they
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  Speaker 1: pryor I know you guys don't see practice all the time,
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  Speaker 1: but the way they practice and they practice hard, Um,
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  Speaker 1: they just keep believing in themselves and and so from that, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a special team because I really don't
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  Speaker 1: think you win games like this if you were in
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  Speaker 1: a close group, if you didn't have the right leadership
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room, um, if you didn't practice the
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  Speaker 1: way we practice. So hats off to the guys for
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  Speaker 1: really buying into all of that. All right, guys, thank
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  Speaker 1: you