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Press Pass | Jaguars Players on Scoreboard Watching, December Pressure · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: To Anton, just what part of your game do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're most proud of, like how you've developed
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  Speaker 1: it this year where you've kind of come the farthest
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  Speaker 1: so far.
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  Speaker 2: Uh Mm For me, I say it's a little detail,
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  Speaker 2: but like just finishing uh for me, especially in the
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  Speaker 2: Run game, it's something I knew that I had to
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  Speaker 2: get better at just to be a more complete and
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  Speaker 2: better player and just be m the better best myself
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  Speaker 2: I can. So Uh, I'd love to say just finishing
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  Speaker 2: every play and attacking the run game good pad level.
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  Speaker 1: Would your block on Travis's first touchdown one of your
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  Speaker 1: favorite players that you've been this year? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: In the Run game? Yeah, definitely yup.
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  Speaker 1: A And then just you know the offensive line, you
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  Speaker 1: guys have got too many people play different spots. Just
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  Speaker 1: what does that kind of say about the room that
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  Speaker 1: you guys have in here?
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  Speaker 3: Getting Uh says a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Just everybody, no matter who goes down, it's always somebody
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  Speaker 2: who's ready to step up and play at the highest
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  Speaker 2: level with no drop off. And that's coolos to everybody
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  Speaker 2: who's able to do it. And I like we been
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  Speaker 2: saying it from the beginning, So we all got together,
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  Speaker 2: like everybody gotta be ready no matter what anything happened.
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  Speaker 2: And for me all the way down, I trust everybody
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  Speaker 2: to be out there and play beside me and do
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  Speaker 2: the best. So we all had that mindset. We all
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  Speaker 2: feel like we can do it and we're good.
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  Speaker 3: How do you guys avoid the uh scoreboard watching and
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  Speaker 3: standings watching this time of year?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we know how I feel. Uh the Houston game,
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  Speaker 2: we know how I feel. We don't wanna feel like
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  Speaker 2: that again. We was up alive and lost that game,
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  Speaker 2: a game we know we should have won. So just
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  Speaker 2: not wanting that feeling and knowing to dominate, to have
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  Speaker 2: that assertion that we're like whrethm guys like you don't
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  Speaker 2: wanna play us? And we do that for four quarters
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  Speaker 2: like the sky's limit.
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  Speaker 4: Any one of those guys that stepped up on multiple occasions.
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  Speaker 4: Just what have you thought about him being out of
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  Speaker 4: moving to different positions on the one Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It's great.
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  Speaker 2: Uh the things that he do a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: can't do that, affording positions and what five weeks Uh
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  Speaker 2: so scuolods and him just knowing really knowing every position,
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  Speaker 2: knowing what to do, having no drop off and playing
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  Speaker 2: it the best.
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  Speaker 3: So that's just kudos the call. How card is it
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  Speaker 3: to do something like that for someone like me, never
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  Speaker 3: done that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, let me see if I can find a good example.
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  Speaker 3: I'm be thinking too long. But it is hard.
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  Speaker 2: It's very hard, especially inside the outside left or right.
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  Speaker 2: And it's every week. You only get a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days of practice. It's not like you had all camp
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  Speaker 2: to practice at that position. You get a couple days
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  Speaker 2: and you gotta go play on Sunday against the best
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  Speaker 2: of the best. And he did it and went out
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  Speaker 2: there and dominated. So that's just showing what type of
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  Speaker 2: player he is.
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  Speaker 3: After the game last week, we heard a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guys in the locker room talking about the disrespects going
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  Speaker 3: into the game. Where does that come from? How real
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  Speaker 3: is it? And how does the driver this cheap?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: We all see it. Uh. We just try to stay here.
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  Speaker 2: We know what we got and what we do. It's
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  Speaker 2: just really just all outside noise to us. Like obviously,
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  Speaker 2: like everybody sees it. We feel like we should give
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  Speaker 2: more credit than we do, but that's not something we want. Like,
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  Speaker 2: it don't matter. We just gonna go out there and
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  Speaker 2: play with that fuel, play with that fire. Every week
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  Speaker 2: and it just keeps us going.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, here we are a week fifteen, and you know
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  Speaker 3: how difficult is it to not scoreboard watch and not
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  Speaker 3: standings watch this time of year, especially against the teamworkers
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  Speaker 3: New York team.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta do it, you know, as a professional athlete,
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  Speaker 4: you you have to go out there and put your
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  Speaker 4: best foot forward and not worry about what's gonna happen,
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  Speaker 4: and you know what previously happened. We gotta go out
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  Speaker 4: there and handle our business. The NFL win it's hard
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  Speaker 4: to come by, and and we we understood that we
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  Speaker 4: had some you know, some long ones that we pulled out,
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  Speaker 4: but it it. We can't have any letdowns.
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  Speaker 3: We can't have any.
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  Speaker 4: Games that you know, we expect to go out there
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  Speaker 4: and play well and and we don't because, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: when we score, watch and we expect to do something
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  Speaker 4: into a team where you know they have talent. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they have a lot of talents where they have break
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  Speaker 4: you know, they have a really good running back, they
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  Speaker 4: have some skilled players that's doing really well, and their
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  Speaker 4: defense is picking it up. So they been They've been
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  Speaker 4: in some really good games with some good teams. So
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  Speaker 4: we can't look at that you know, like this team
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  Speaker 4: is you know, below us or anything like that. We
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  Speaker 4: gotta go out there and put our our best foot forward.
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  Speaker 3: How difficult is it when you're looking at multiple quarterbacks?
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  Speaker 3: I mean they are on their third quarterback right now.
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  Speaker 3: A lot going on back there. But how different is
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  Speaker 3: it for your preparation is the corner?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta prepare for all of them. You gotta
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  Speaker 4: prepare for what you're gonna see, you know, and and
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  Speaker 4: what you're gonna get, you know, deal a thread or
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  Speaker 4: a guy that's gonna stand in there and want to
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  Speaker 4: throw it. So, you know, we gotta be prepared. And
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  Speaker 4: that's what we've been doing, preparing for you know, all
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  Speaker 4: three guys to go out there and play. So that's it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that's our job, like I said, to go
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  Speaker 4: out there and prepare for the guys that we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: see on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: There was a lot of talk last week about during
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  Speaker 3: the bye week, it was a lot of self scouting
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  Speaker 3: that happened and everything that happened. What happened since the
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  Speaker 3: bye week with this defense? Do you does it feel
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  Speaker 3: different since the by and Wyst?
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  Speaker 4: We just we just got closer, We got closer as
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  Speaker 4: a defense and we just start we started seeing that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, what we did well and we just executed it.
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  Speaker 4: And we've been you know, trying to master that and
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  Speaker 4: and and become a defense that can go out there
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  Speaker 4: and play whatever and go out there and dominate. So honestly,
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  Speaker 4: it comes with the trust, you know, trusting each other
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  Speaker 4: and not trying to be a hero and play hero ball,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just understanding that we have our one left
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  Speaker 4: to do and just going out there and executing that way, this.
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  Speaker 3: Team has depth down to some guys that are dinged
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  Speaker 3: up or getting back in the lineup now, and then
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  Speaker 3: those guys that were contributing are available and and rolling through.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good sign, not just for the defensive for
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  Speaker 3: the whole team.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, when you have depth like that, especially the way
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  Speaker 4: they play, they play excellent. It's it's definitely good for
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  Speaker 4: us to especially when be preparing and and we can
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  Speaker 4: get those guys going and and you know, competing at
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  Speaker 4: the same time. It's it's a great thing to see
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  Speaker 4: go all at depth and you know, we can trust
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  Speaker 4: each other. Like I said, that's the that's the key component.
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  Speaker 4: We have guys that we can trust that that are
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  Speaker 4: depth guys, and that's that's that's one thing that you
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  Speaker 4: can see with a lot of good teams, they have
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  Speaker 4: depth and they have guys that you can trust.
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  Speaker 1: But secondaries played a big part and the run defense
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  Speaker 1: being as good as it is. How much pride are
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  Speaker 1: you guys taking the back end just at that part.
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  Speaker 5: Of your game.
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  Speaker 4: That's the part of the game.
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  Speaker 5: The game.
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  Speaker 4: It is the NFL like this now, so you know
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  Speaker 4: previously it's been the past happy league, but it's getting
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  Speaker 4: back to the you know, the ground and pound thing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, ground and pound game, uh, that that I
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  Speaker 4: used to watch. So just understanding that you can you
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  Speaker 4: you have to stop the run to you know, give
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  Speaker 4: yourself a chance on defense. And that's what we were doing.
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  Speaker 4: Understand that, you know, we we have to earn the
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  Speaker 4: right to go rush a passer and get those interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: What's the titing you guys when you see guys like Trayvon,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, fight through something or want through something
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get himself ready for a big.
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  Speaker 4: Game like that though, Man, we got all the belief
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  Speaker 4: in him. When you have your teammate play like that,
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  Speaker 4: when he's hurt, he's deemed up he's keep getting you know,
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  Speaker 4: keep getting hurt, but keep coming back and giving us all.
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  Speaker 4: You can only respect that, and it gives that that
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  Speaker 4: that energy injergy boost that you need to go out
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  Speaker 4: there and execute because you you you wanna go out
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  Speaker 4: there and you don't want to let him down because
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  Speaker 4: he's giving his off. So that that belief and you know,
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  Speaker 4: that trust that we have for the guys that you
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  Speaker 4: know that are banged up and have been playing through injury.
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  Speaker 4: Gian you know, we played through the quad injury. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you can only you know, want to go out there
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  Speaker 4: and play for those guys that you know, give that they're.
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  Speaker 3: All How do you avoid scoreboard watching and standings watching
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  Speaker 3: this time of year in the place that this team.
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  Speaker 5: Is right now learning from experienced I think a lot
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  Speaker 5: of us went through that a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 5: So I think we just controlled we're supposed to control,
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  Speaker 5: handle we're supposed to handle. You know, the season looks
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  Speaker 5: how you wanted to look at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 5: I think we've done a good job of staying ahead
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  Speaker 5: of the count. Now in November, you gotta win the
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  Speaker 5: games that you're supposed to win. When these games going
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  Speaker 5: in November, because I don't think NFL configured to reward
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  Speaker 5: teams that's not winning late. So just win these games
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  Speaker 5: and you know, stay on top of that.
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  Speaker 3: Throughout your career, You've you've had a lot of stamina,
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  Speaker 3: Like end game, like from start to finish, you're flying around.
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  Speaker 3: Last week, that flying around was out there again, it
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  Speaker 3: felt like and it's week fifteen and it's not your
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  Speaker 3: rookie year anymore. Like how do you maintain that throughout
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  Speaker 3: a season and throughout a game.
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  Speaker 5: It's just seeing my boys all flying around and knowing
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  Speaker 5: that they need me in my spots where I'm supposed
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  Speaker 5: to be at. And then you know, I'm out there
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  Speaker 5: for a reason, and that's to get to the ball
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  Speaker 5: and you know, provide energy for the boys. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: if I'm out there on a Sunday, I got nothing
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  Speaker 5: else better to do, so I just dive all the
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  Speaker 5: way into it and just feel like I've been productive
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  Speaker 5: doing that. To just keep doing that for the team.
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  Speaker 3: It's tough enough to prepare for one quarterback, but you
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  Speaker 3: got to prepare for multiple quarterbacks possibilities at least this week.
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  Speaker 3: What are some of the differences. How difficult is the
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  Speaker 3: prep on a week like.
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  Speaker 5: This that does causes certain challenges. It's in itself, but
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  Speaker 5: you know, they put some tape out there with multiple
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  Speaker 5: different quarterbacks and stuff, so it's really on nice to
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  Speaker 5: keep watching that tape see what the differences are. Luckily,
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  Speaker 5: those two quarterbacks are kind of similar. They do they
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  Speaker 5: know athletic and then even the guy they had come
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  Speaker 5: in cook last week still still somewhat athletics. So it's
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  Speaker 5: really you know, specific, got to have it plays or
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  Speaker 5: go to plays to feel like maybe on a keeper
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  Speaker 5: or something, or maybe a quarterback run design play. But
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  Speaker 5: for the most part, their offense is still their offense.
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  Speaker 5: Just preparing for that.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of depth in this team. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: the injured guys are getting back in the line lin
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  Speaker 3: up now, but guys who have contributed in those places
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  Speaker 3: are available. That's a great sign for this defense and
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  Speaker 3: this team as a hole down the stretch. Right that
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  Speaker 3: the depth is there and it's a pretty healthy football team.
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  Speaker 5: It feels like, yeah, it's good getting guys back, you know,
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  Speaker 5: but very commendable for the guys who are stepping in place,
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  Speaker 5: not really skipping a beat or growing very quickly helping
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  Speaker 5: the team along. I feel like we're a very deep
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  Speaker 5: football team. You know, no matter who's out there playing role,
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  Speaker 5: expected to rise to the occasion, do our job and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So kind of moving with that standard. I think help
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  Speaker 5: people along, but then getting guys back is going to
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  Speaker 5: get them back on the right track when they step
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  Speaker 5: back on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, I think