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Press Pass | Lawrence: "We Need to Get Back on Track This Week." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: And speaking terms next week.
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  Speaker 2: Who Luke Fortner, We're on speaking terms already, were talking
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  Speaker 2: about what are you talking about? Oh? So locked in
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  Speaker 2: on this week? I don't even know. Yeah, it's yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a that's a pretty big rivalry, rivalry typically Clemson Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: So no, I feel I feel good about our boys.
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  Speaker 2: But we got Josh Josh Allen too, So yeah, it'll
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  Speaker 2: be fun. We'll have we'll probably messing with each other
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  Speaker 2: all week. Yeah, it's next week.
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  Speaker 1: Rights two weeks, two weeks and Friday, Christmas weeks. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: wonder we missed?
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  Speaker 2: Was excited for that.
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  Speaker 1: So would you expound a little bit how have you
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  Speaker 1: and the receivers, you know, I'm sure you've had communication
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  Speaker 1: with them just to kind of iron out last week.
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  Speaker 1: And how much you think now that they're going through
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  Speaker 1: a second week without Christian being there and that things
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  Speaker 1: will be you know, a little bit more buttoned up
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  Speaker 1: this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I have a lot of confidence, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and and those guys in our offense and bounce
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  Speaker 2: them back this week. You know, there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of things that we didn't do well
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  Speaker 2: out there, really, you know, in all aspects of the game,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, and the good thing is what I've
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  Speaker 2: learned through playing for a while now is the tape
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  Speaker 2: is usually never as good or as bad as you think.
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  Speaker 2: So you watch it and it is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: There's corrections, obviously, there's things that we did in the
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  Speaker 2: game that are uncharacteristic and mistakes you know, all the
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  Speaker 2: way around that we can't make. But it is what
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  Speaker 2: it is, and you got to correct them and move on.
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  Speaker 2: And same thing when you feel like you played great,
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  Speaker 2: there's usually stuff on the tape where you're like, eh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I didn't play as good as I thought I did.
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  Speaker 2: I left a lot out there. So you know, good
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  Speaker 2: or bad, you got to assess it and you got
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  Speaker 2: to look at it for what it is, and you
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  Speaker 2: got to make the adjustments and corrections moving forward. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: we had a great start to the day today and
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  Speaker 2: got practice obviously here in a little bit and be
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  Speaker 2: important to be sharp and just communicate and all those
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  Speaker 2: things which we've already kind of you know, fixed a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the issues. So I feel really good about it.
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  Speaker 1: Show some uncommon visible frustration on on the interception in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone. How does that work? I mean, look
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  Speaker 1: at it everybody's got frustration at each moment. Is that
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  Speaker 1: stuff that gets quickly resolved because I mean, you're almost
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  Speaker 1: you're outdated to do it right because you got to
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  Speaker 1: move on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's something where you know, I really
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  Speaker 2: I really try to keep my emotions out of stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. Typically. I think there's there's a time and
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  Speaker 2: a place, you know. And I have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: respect too for you know, my teammates and how hard
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  Speaker 2: it is for all of us do our job. I
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  Speaker 2: know for me, you know, I got a hard job,
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  Speaker 2: but so do all those guys. So I understand that
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  Speaker 2: this is an easy game and there's gonna be mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: And there's been a lot of times where I've made
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  Speaker 2: some mistakes, some bad mistakes, and guys, don't you know,
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  Speaker 2: come out of left field chewing me out. So I've
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  Speaker 2: always tried to keep the right perspective. But I do
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  Speaker 2: think think as a leader, it's important at certain times
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  Speaker 2: to show your frustration into there needs to be a
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  Speaker 2: sense of urgency to correct things and to play better,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So I think that there's things like that
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  Speaker 2: that obviously you want to address, and not even pointing
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  Speaker 2: to anything specific from Sunday just in general. So I
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  Speaker 2: think that it's kind of twofold on that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's important to do both. But you know, I always
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  Speaker 2: try to be respectful of my teammates and understand the
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  Speaker 2: position we're in. And yeah, I mean that's just kind
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  Speaker 2: of how I look at it. And I think also
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of that, if there is an issue,
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  Speaker 2: if there's a conversation that needs to be had, it
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  Speaker 2: needs to be a conversation. It's not just you know,
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  Speaker 2: freaking out on the field and then you just move
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  Speaker 2: on like and brush it off. I think there and
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  Speaker 2: there's always conversations between myself and the guys, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, receivers, guys up front, running backs, whatever tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're always having those conversations where we got
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  Speaker 2: to be on the same page. More than anything. It's
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  Speaker 2: not about you know, who is right or wrong. It's
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  Speaker 2: next time this happens, we just need to be on
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  Speaker 2: the same page, you know. I think we all have
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  Speaker 2: some fault in most things. Miscommunications and things happened, so
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  Speaker 2: there's just us there's a way to go about it,
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  Speaker 2: and I think our team handles that the right way.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that we got a maturity and maturity
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  Speaker 2: about us. That that lets us handle some conflict and
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  Speaker 2: some issues that come up, as they will every every
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  Speaker 2: game every year. The ankle feeling this week feels good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's feeling. It's feeling better. You know, thankfully made
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  Speaker 2: out of the game pretty clean. You know, didn't didn't
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  Speaker 2: reaggravate it or really you know, mess it up anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel good and just trying to keep getting
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  Speaker 2: better every day. Hopefully feels even better this week. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was able to move around decent on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: so that was that was a positive, So try to
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  Speaker 2: keep that going.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see from the Ravens pass rush to
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  Speaker 1: leave the league with forty nine sacks and the win percentage?
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  Speaker 1: I think second, how do you handle them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, they do a really good job. They
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  Speaker 2: have a I mean, they just have a great defense
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  Speaker 2: all the way around, not even not even just pass
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  Speaker 2: for us. You know, on the back end, they're linebackers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they have some of the best linebackers in football.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Kyle Hamilton too is another guy I've played
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  Speaker 2: in college, and I think he might have been hurt
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  Speaker 2: last year when we played them, But that's a guy
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  Speaker 2: I'm somewhat familiar with. He's a great player. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they got they just have their really talented defense. But
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  Speaker 2: they're also really smart. You know, they do a great
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  Speaker 2: job and playing you know, sound and and really on
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  Speaker 2: the same page. Everyone knows their assignment and knows what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing, and they play really fast. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the biggest thing is they know what they're doing, and
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  Speaker 2: they play fast and they're physical. So you combine all
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  Speaker 2: those things and that that's a good defense. So it's
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  Speaker 2: the pass rush. Those guys up front are great players.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're doing a great job winning their matchups.
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  Speaker 2: But it's also the pressures and the way they're able
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  Speaker 2: to you know, get guys either unblocked or get get
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  Speaker 2: a mismatch in the scheme. You know, they do a
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  Speaker 2: really good job with all those things. So we got
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  Speaker 2: to have a great plan and it's a team you
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  Speaker 2: got to be prepared for because they do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different things. Played the number one defense last week
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  Speaker 2: in Cleveland and now you get the number two defense.
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  Speaker 1: I just talk about playing you know, top Andy Leade
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  Speaker 1: defense is in back to back weeks, and that is helpful.
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  Speaker 2: They have based Cleveland last year. Yeah, I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: it's too different defenses, different schemes. But you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: played this was God, we've played some We've played some
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  Speaker 2: really good defenses this year, So I think it's it's
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  Speaker 2: good to do that though. I mean, you're gonna play,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if if you want to get to where
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  Speaker 2: you know at the end of the season where we're
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  Speaker 2: all trying to get, you're gonna play teams with great defenses.
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  Speaker 2: That's what That's what gets you there. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: a big part of why teams are good is because
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  Speaker 2: their defense is so I think that obviously goes hand
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  Speaker 2: in hand. You know, Baltimore is the top team the
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  Speaker 2: AFC right now. You know, I don't watch the off
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  Speaker 2: side offensive side of the ball, but obviously you know
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  Speaker 2: they're doing some good things on that side as well.
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  Speaker 2: But defensively, you know, they're playing lights out. So it's
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  Speaker 2: a good challenge for us, and we got to treat
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  Speaker 2: it like any other week. We got to just go
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  Speaker 2: about our process and put a great plan together and
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  Speaker 2: be prepared and go out Sunday and execute. You know that,
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  Speaker 2: that's all it's about. It's late in the season. Some
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  Speaker 2: of the miscommunications and things that are popping up as
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  Speaker 2: if frustrated for you when you're at this point in
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  Speaker 2: the year, those mistakes are still showing up. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's frustrating for all of us, you know. I
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  Speaker 2: think you ask any guy on the offense side of
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  Speaker 2: the ball, defense whoever, and any guy team it's frustrating
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  Speaker 2: to have mistakes, obviously, and stuff that you can control.
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  Speaker 2: You're not gonna make every play. You're not gonna you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be things where the defense makes makes plays
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  Speaker 2: and does some things well that hey, you got to
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  Speaker 2: give them. You get you just got to give that
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  Speaker 2: one to them. But you know, stuff that we can control,
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  Speaker 2: and there was stuff, you know, speaking candidly in the
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  Speaker 2: game where I, you know, made some mistakes that I
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  Speaker 2: typically don't make, and I thought some of my progressions
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  Speaker 2: were off, and some of the decisions I made, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I would I want back. So it's all of us
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  Speaker 2: that have a hand in it. So I think we're
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  Speaker 2: all frustrated when you come in Monday and you watch
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  Speaker 2: the tape and you're just trying to make the corrections
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  Speaker 2: and move on. You just want to get another chance
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  Speaker 2: to play and get that out of your system. So
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  Speaker 2: we all feel that way, and yeah, we're frustrated, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a good frustration. It's something that we should be,
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  Speaker 2: you know, after you're not playing well and after all
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  Speaker 2: that still having a chance to win the game. I
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  Speaker 2: think it just shows that if we can clean up
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  Speaker 2: some of these mistakes and just play more efficiently, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a hard team to stop. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've been shooting ourselves in the foot too much. You
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  Speaker 2: feel like there's still enough time in the season too
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  Speaker 2: clean up those mistakes, for sure. Yeah, I mean definitely.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we got we got four four games left.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're we're we're in a fine position, you
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  Speaker 2: know where we're at record wise. We we gotta take
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  Speaker 2: care of business this week and and moving forward. But
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  Speaker 2: we got to take it one week at a time
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  Speaker 2: and need to get back on track this week for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, there's still plenty of time. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: look at where we're at. If if we could have
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  Speaker 2: been in this position last year, we would have we
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  Speaker 2: would have given a lot to be here. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's no panic, but there is sense urgency where this
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  Speaker 2: time of year, December going into January. You got to
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  Speaker 2: be playing your best football and we're not there yet,
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  Speaker 2: so we got some work to do.
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  Speaker 1: Another game. That does a villain ever get old playing
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  Speaker 1: in these type of games. You've had a few so far.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's it's exciting, but like I said,
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  Speaker 2: for the Monday night game, it's just another game. You know,
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  Speaker 2: for us, nothing changes. We just play a little bit
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  Speaker 2: later Sunday night, so we can't make it more than
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  Speaker 2: it is. Obviously, it's a great opportunity for us to
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of and to play well and in front
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  Speaker 2: of a I guess a bigger audience and you know
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  Speaker 2: crowd and all that, and it's gonna be a night
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  Speaker 2: game and it's gonna be the only game on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: So you know that's exciting for for us, but it
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  Speaker 2: really honestly doesn't change much. You know, we still have
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  Speaker 2: a job to do, and you know, look back at
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  Speaker 2: the Monday night game, we end up losing the game
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  Speaker 2: and not much to show if we're playing on a
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  Speaker 2: primetime game and you lose, So you know that that's
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  Speaker 2: something where we just got to focus on our job
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  Speaker 2: and take care of business no matter what, what time
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  Speaker 2: or what day, the game's on. Thank you all,