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Press Pass: Trevor Lawrence: "You've got to finish strong." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: By your own a mission. The two games you could
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  Speaker 1: kind of like to have back this year Denver in Houston. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you don't get that with Denver, but you give another
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  Speaker 1: crack of these guys. Is in any way motivation this
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  Speaker 1: week to play better than you did against Houston before? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you look at obviously the way we played
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  Speaker 1: the first game, especially just watching the tape um this week,
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  Speaker 1: going back through it, it's just like some of stuff
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  Speaker 1: is hard to watch, you know, offensively and personally, like
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  Speaker 1: didn't play didn't play near my best um, and we
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  Speaker 1: just left a lot out there. So I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: good to watch it. Obviously you learn a lot and
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  Speaker 1: you see the growth and where we're at now, and
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  Speaker 1: you know individually where I'm at, but also just as
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  Speaker 1: an offense, the level we're playing is, it's it's where
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  Speaker 1: you want to be. You wanna be playing, you wanna
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  Speaker 1: be playing well at the right time. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to go back and change any of it,
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  Speaker 1: because I think that's helped get us to here. But
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  Speaker 1: obviously you know, for me, definitely I want to play
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  Speaker 1: better and you know it give us give us a
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  Speaker 1: chance to win obviously, and that's the that's the goal
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  Speaker 1: every week from from here on out, and um, every
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  Speaker 1: game is important and really just put together a great
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  Speaker 1: game plan because these guys, I mean, they play really hard,
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  Speaker 1: they're a really good team, really good defense, they're not
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  Speaker 1: giving up many points, they're really good in the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we didn't score much on them when we were
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  Speaker 1: here in October. Um, so this is a this is
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  Speaker 1: a challenge for us. So we're we're excited and um,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good group. What was reaction this morning when
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  Speaker 1: Don kind of said full speed ahead, We're not We're
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  Speaker 1: not resting anybody. We're gonna go in there and treat
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  Speaker 1: just like any other game. I mean, no reaction from us.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of what we expected. You know, we know
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  Speaker 1: at this point in the season, that's what we expected.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we want. Um, and you gotta finish strong,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the that's the message. And these are two
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  Speaker 1: division games that we have left. I mean, that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: always work out that way. We get to finish with
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  Speaker 1: two division games, So it's a great opportunity for us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously, not we lost this team. You know,
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  Speaker 1: like like I said a month or two or two
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  Speaker 1: months ago, whenever it was. Um, so getting a chance
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  Speaker 1: to play them again at their stadium. I haven't haven't
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  Speaker 1: beat this team in a while, you know, I've never
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  Speaker 1: beat the Texans in the last two years, you know,
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  Speaker 1: three games. So for me, it's a game I definitely
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  Speaker 1: want to win, and our whole team feels that way.
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  Speaker 1: And it's it's another opportunity just to just to show
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  Speaker 1: who we are, to to put to put our best
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  Speaker 1: foot forward, to play another complete game, to keep this
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  Speaker 1: momentum that we have, you know, and if you go
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  Speaker 1: out there and and lay an egg, no one's feeling
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  Speaker 1: good about that, you know, especially head into the last week.
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  Speaker 1: So for us, this game is is as big as
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  Speaker 1: any game we've played all year. Um, And that's the mindset.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a division game and we're treating it just
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  Speaker 1: like that. Go and look at the game and you
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  Speaker 1: see what happened. Does that look like a whole different team?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys seem to be playing in a
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  Speaker 1: whole different level right now. Offensively as ever. Does it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like forever ago? Definitely, it seems like a seems
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  Speaker 1: like a different different offense, different team. Um, there's, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, we're just playing so much better right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that things like that take time, and
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  Speaker 1: you've seen the chemistry and everything kind of just come
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  Speaker 1: together at the right time. But also you know, personally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm playing better and like I, like I've
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  Speaker 1: said before, like if in order to win in this league,
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  Speaker 1: like your quarterback has to play well, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: play well that day, didn't win the game. And from
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  Speaker 1: there on, you know, just as the season's gone on,
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  Speaker 1: just learning from my mistakes and offensively learning from things
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  Speaker 1: that that we can do better as a unit. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I think every position group is playing better than they
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  Speaker 1: were at that point in the season. So we've just
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  Speaker 1: gotten better. And that's that's all you can ask for,
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  Speaker 1: is every week to get a little bit better. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we've done. So another opportunity, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: to do it again this week. That the way you're
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  Speaker 1: playing right now, the way this offense is playing right now.
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  Speaker 1: If you think back to you know, getting drafted and
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  Speaker 1: thinking about what was going to happen in your NFL career,
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  Speaker 1: did you expect this was going to happen? Probably earlier, right,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just sort of had you envisioned? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's kind of tough question. You obviously see yourself
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  Speaker 1: having success and doing well and um, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: the player that I know that I could be, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, like you said, obviously took a little longer
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  Speaker 1: maybe than I wanted at times, and some setbacks and
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  Speaker 1: all those things, but I mean it all kind of
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  Speaker 1: shaped into the player I'm becoming. And that's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: We can't act like we've arrived though, because we we
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  Speaker 1: We still haven't clinched anything. We still haven't made the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have two games left to to continue
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  Speaker 1: to prove who we are and to put one ft
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  Speaker 1: in front of the next and just keep stacking these games.
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  Speaker 1: So we can't look too far ahead and say this
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  Speaker 1: is the team we are now. You know, we have
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  Speaker 1: to do it every week. You're only as good as
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  Speaker 1: what you can do every Sunday. So I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: really for us. It's just about being consistent, continuing to
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  Speaker 1: do this. And that's with great teams win win these games.
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  Speaker 1: Games that you gotta win, you win them. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're trying to become as a great team. And
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  Speaker 1: I think we're on our way, but um, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep doing this consistently, and I gotta keep doing it too,
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  Speaker 1: as a as the quarterback, um and as a player
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  Speaker 1: on this team. Like it's all about consistency. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've played, I've played well the past month or whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is, but I gotta keep doing that. Especially you
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  Speaker 1: want to make a run in the playoffs, you want
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  Speaker 1: to go deep in the playoffs, then you gotta do
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  Speaker 1: that even more so. So, I mean that's how I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at as week to week. And I think our
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  Speaker 1: team is matured a lot as the season's gone on,
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  Speaker 1: and we've had a lot ups and downs, and I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about that little stretch where we were losing a
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  Speaker 1: lot in a row and then now we've kind of
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  Speaker 1: bounced back, so we I think we understand more. You know,
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  Speaker 1: how to win, how to handle those emotions, and how
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  Speaker 1: to just move on to the next week. I think
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  Speaker 1: we've done a great job of that. So that's the
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  Speaker 1: challenge every week, and especially this at this point in
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  Speaker 1: the year. You gotta flip the page and and just
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  Speaker 1: take a week to week. Doug said earlier today that
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  Speaker 1: disappointed the season. You know, I'm trying not to look
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  Speaker 1: at hand. That's what you really need your leaders to
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  Speaker 1: step up. What do you kind of see your place?
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  Speaker 1: And that just stopping the team's focused stay on the easton. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's just I mean, honestly, the
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  Speaker 1: guys have been been great this week, just haven't There's
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  Speaker 1: not much conversation about next week and what's to come
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  Speaker 1: and all that. Each week will take care of itself,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta you gotta take care of business
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  Speaker 1: one week at a time. That's that's the message. And um,
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  Speaker 1: I mean more than anything, regardless of of of you
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  Speaker 1: know who who we're playing, what game it is, how
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  Speaker 1: many games we have left, Like, like I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to keep this momentum that we have. We're
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  Speaker 1: playing playing really good team ball, we're playing complimentary, putting
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  Speaker 1: together a great game. So why would you wanna why
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  Speaker 1: would you want to jeopardize that at this point in
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  Speaker 1: our season and we're kind of hitting our stride, like
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  Speaker 1: this's just another opportunity to keep doing that and to
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  Speaker 1: keep playing great together and um and to get another win.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it's a good team. So that's the mindset for us,
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  Speaker 1: and I know the guys believe that, and and our
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  Speaker 1: mindset is let's not let's not lose anymore this season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what we got in front of us,
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  Speaker 1: kind of what we have to do if we want
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  Speaker 1: to get to where we want to be. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: that's the mindset, and I think that's kind of what
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  Speaker 1: has to be in order to do that. You gotta win,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta go want to know every week,
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  Speaker 1: and that's been the message this whole season, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's working for us, So we shoulda keep
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  Speaker 1: doing that street every week now at this point where
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  Speaker 1: it's twenty in a road and NFC teams or fourteen
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  Speaker 1: in a row on the road, that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Is that as much a sign of what the culture
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  Speaker 1: change but went on here as it is you know,
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  Speaker 1: just better football being played. I think it's both, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just yeah, I mean, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: that's a great it's a great step in the right
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  Speaker 1: direction to to break things like that. Obviously, you never
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  Speaker 1: want those to be there in the first place, those
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  Speaker 1: those bad streaks. But you know, for us to be
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  Speaker 1: able to not I mean we haven't. We don't talk
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  Speaker 1: about that stuff. That's not something we think about. We
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  Speaker 1: don't go into a game like, oh, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: haven't won a road game and however long like that's
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  Speaker 1: not something we think about. It's just I think when
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  Speaker 1: you're so focused on your job and putting one foot
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  Speaker 1: in front of the next and just building your coach
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  Speaker 1: talks about building your part of the wall, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's what everyone's been able to do this year.
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  Speaker 1: Keep focusing on your job and things are gonna come together.
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  Speaker 1: And I think everyone's been able to do that even
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  Speaker 1: when things weren't going great. Everyone just kept focusing on
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  Speaker 1: their job. No one pointed the finger, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of the result of that. And in every
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  Speaker 1: game we go into, you know, we have that confidence
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  Speaker 1: we can we can win it, and we can beat anybody.
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  Speaker 1: And you've seen that this season. Um so I think it.
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  Speaker 1: It is, it's part of the culture change and just
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  Speaker 1: the mindset of this team is has been awesome. It's
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  Speaker 1: really been cool to be a part of and just
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  Speaker 1: to see that confidence really just build and build every week,
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  Speaker 1: and to be a part of it and be in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of it, it's been It's been really cool
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  Speaker 1: and you can feel it, and I'm sure you guys
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  Speaker 1: feel it too, and when you watch the games and
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean I think it's the culture changing,
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  Speaker 1: it's playing good ball, it's having having really good players,
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  Speaker 1: It's it's all those things. I think guys are playing
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  Speaker 1: well at the right time. It's it's all that. But um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously Christian has done a lot on the field,
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  Speaker 1: but just how important has he been for the team
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  Speaker 1: off the field, you know, in his preparation, what he's
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  Speaker 1: been able to do each and every day, um, to
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  Speaker 1: kind of help you guys move forward. He's been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Just you know, he approaches things the right way, he
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  Speaker 1: handles his business. He's a he's a pro. Um, He's
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  Speaker 1: a guy you never have to worry about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially as a quarterback. Just always knows his job, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to every every possible detail. You know, we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: almost every situation, so we're always in the same page.
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  Speaker 1: And then just being you know, one of the leaders
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  Speaker 1: in that room, the receiver room too. For young guys,
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  Speaker 1: they have a guy to look at that does things
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  Speaker 1: the right way and you can kind of follow in
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  Speaker 1: his footsteps along with Za and Marv and other guys
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  Speaker 1: we have too. But yeah, Marvin Christian has been a
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  Speaker 1: great addition for us, not only just his obviously his production.
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  Speaker 1: He's had a great year, but I think off the
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  Speaker 1: field and the way he's led and the way he's
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  Speaker 1: just really led by example and goes about his business,
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  Speaker 1: I think has been impressive. And um, we we're close
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  Speaker 1: to us. He's a good friend of mine. I think
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  Speaker 1: that aspect of it plays into it too, and um,
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  Speaker 1: it all goes together. And got a lot of respect
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  Speaker 1: for him and what he's been able to do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, what does he need? Twelve yards? I
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  Speaker 1: hope we can get him twelve yards and I can't
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  Speaker 1: do that. I have other problems. So we'll see that
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  Speaker 1: that number of thousand yards doesn't mean something. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people saying it doesn't. Is there a number
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  Speaker 1: for a quarterback mean Something's the four thousand yards which
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  Speaker 1: you've got a lot of pretty good chance of cracking
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  Speaker 1: as well? Is that a number to mean anything to
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  Speaker 1: you or no? I mean I guess you could say,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that that would be a cool accomplishment.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really even know what what typically quarterbacks throw
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  Speaker 1: for in a year, so I couldn't even answer if
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  Speaker 1: that's good I guess that's you know, what's yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: I mean that really just for me, the main number
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  Speaker 1: I think about is like turnovers, and that's something that
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year, you're you kind of
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  Speaker 1: you don't say, Okay, I want to have no more
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  Speaker 1: than this amount of you know, picks or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you don't you don't really say that, But
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  Speaker 1: it's just trying to limit that as much as possible.
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  Speaker 1: And I think as far as no interceptions, I've done
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  Speaker 1: a good job of limiting those and that's been a
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  Speaker 1: big improvement from last season. So I'm I'm I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: with that, and um, just being more efficient like things
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  Speaker 1: like that. You know, I don't really think about I
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  Speaker 1: never really do that. I've never done the numbers thing
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  Speaker 1: where I'm like, I need four thousand yards and need
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  Speaker 1: thirty touchdowns and need less than however many interceptions. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really play the game that way. I just I
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  Speaker 1: think when you worry about that, you kind of are
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  Speaker 1: thinking about the wrong things. But I do think that obviously,
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  Speaker 1: your stats do tell a story of how you're playing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they don't tell the whole story, but um,
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  Speaker 1: I think it does show it paints a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: picture of kind of how you're playing. So obviously you
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  Speaker 1: want to have good stats because it means you you
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  Speaker 1: played well. So, uh, you know you want to have
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  Speaker 1: all those but I don't really there's not a specific
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  Speaker 1: number I've been thinking about or anything like that. And
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  Speaker 1: then on the toe, I just today was precautionary. Is
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  Speaker 1: it considerably better than it was? Maybe you could go
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  Speaker 1: or two weeks ago. It's getting better. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those things. It's it's sore after games and
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  Speaker 1: after moving around, but um, it's something that you know,
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  Speaker 1: just you gotta gott a monitor and take care of
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  Speaker 1: and be smart just to where I, you know, feel
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  Speaker 1: my best on Sunday and I can go play and
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  Speaker 1: not worry about it. So it is feeling better, though,
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  Speaker 1: I will say, you know, compared to the every week
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  Speaker 1: it's felt a little better. So we're heading in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction. You're gonna deal with this and tell the
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  Speaker 1: off season those that the tow really you know, being
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  Speaker 1: not an issue, but being there basically. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: I think I was gonna make a joke kind of listen,
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's still there, but no, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna kind of be the way it is, and
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  Speaker 1: there's at this point of the year a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are dealing with things like that, you know, on
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  Speaker 1: every team. But it's just one of those things where
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  Speaker 1: you just play through it and it's fine. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it hasn't obviously, you know, we've we've been playing fine
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  Speaker 1: with it and you know, been able to win win
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  Speaker 1: some games. So I'm not worried about it. But it's
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  Speaker 1: probably one of those things where I won't feel hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent until probably after this season and get off of
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  Speaker 1: it for a couple of weeks and all that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so awesome. Thank you all.