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Press Pass | Liam Coen Recaps Win Over Bengals · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think you look at the last
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  Speaker 1: time we were in this locker room last year, weren't
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  Speaker 1: able to close out a game, you know, in a similar,
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  Speaker 1: not obviously the same type of fashion, but similar, right,
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  Speaker 1: in a two-minute where we weren't able to get it
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  Speaker 1: done offensively, and the defense had to hold strong, and
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  Speaker 1: we ended up, you know, a game of inches, get
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  Speaker 1: it by a yard, so proud of the growth, proud
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  Speaker 1: of the group for sticking with it and overcoming a
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  Speaker 1: lot of bad stuff, a lot of self-inflicted wounds that
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  Speaker 1: felt a little bit like last year in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ways. So have to go look at that tape
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  Speaker 1: and see what it looks like, obviously. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: winning in the NFL isn't easy, and it's a good team.
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  Speaker 2: And just for Ray O'Leary to be able to come
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  Speaker 2: in there after two safeties to go down and make
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  Speaker 2: the game safe and tackle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was huge, man. I mean, we had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys step in today. A lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: contribute to the win. Credit Ray for coming in, the preparation,
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  Speaker 1: going through it. Campy, I thought, did a really nice
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  Speaker 1: job of calling it with him in mind in some
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  Speaker 1: ways and putting him in a position to be successful. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: definitely needed everybody today. I think so.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, in a lot of ways, it's an identity piece.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pillar of our defense. It's something that they
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  Speaker 1: practice over and over and over again on a daily basis. Wednesday, Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: Friday is about ball disruption. It's every single day. So
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  Speaker 1: the amount of detail in which Campy coaches it with
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of the defensive coaches, the players take
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  Speaker 1: it personally. They take it seriously, and they know it's
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  Speaker 1: an edge for us. They know it's something that obviously
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  Speaker 1: can help us win football games. So I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: believe it's a part of our DNA at this point.
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  Speaker 3: How hard is it to coach when there's no flow
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  Speaker 3: on either side? I think there was 24 total penalties
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  Speaker 3: out there.
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  Speaker 1: That was wild. I've never been a part of anything
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  Speaker 1: like that before in my life. I mean, it just was–
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say anything to get fined, but
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  Speaker 1: that was– I was trying to be that team. No,
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  Speaker 1: I know. That was just mental. It was mental. I've
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  Speaker 1: just never quite seen something that much in the first
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  Speaker 1: half of a football game. Brian Thomas Jr.
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  Speaker 3: huge week, as you said, and a couple of receptions,
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  Speaker 3: including the touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, everybody's going to try to continue to
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  Speaker 1: create a narrative anytime there's maybe isn't a star day
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  Speaker 1: for somebody. Everybody's going to try to create a narrative,
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  Speaker 1: and all we've been is consistent with our messaging to BT,
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  Speaker 1: to everybody else, to this locker room, and all he
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  Speaker 1: continues to do is stay the course and showed up
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  Speaker 1: in a major way for us today.
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  Speaker 2: How good was the Rodriguez TD to kind of put
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  Speaker 2: it up there?
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  Speaker 1: That was huge. You know, I felt like we missed
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  Speaker 1: a wide open. Trev's pissed. You know, he missed Strange
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  Speaker 1: over the middle there, which was like probably the easier
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  Speaker 1: throw that he had of the day that he ended
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  Speaker 1: up missing. He was bummed out about it. But then
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  Speaker 1: to get the explosive off and get that one, that
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  Speaker 1: was huge. I thought that since he did a nice job,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, against our run in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ways. It was kind of grimy. We had to
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  Speaker 1: earn a lot of the yards that we did gain,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, that was a huge one for us to
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  Speaker 1: break that thing open a little bit, give us a
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  Speaker 1: little breathing room.
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  Speaker 3: Liam, was that just a case of stick with the run,
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  Speaker 3: eventually it's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to pop? Yeah, that's right. I mean, it wasn't, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we weren't getting chunks. We I felt like we started
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  Speaker 1: the game off running it okay. We had the long one,
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  Speaker 1: the two, and then we had a negative. It was
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  Speaker 1: like an ebbs and flow type of day. It was good.
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  Speaker 1: It was positive. And then we went and we kind
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  Speaker 1: of took some more negatives. But very proud of the
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  Speaker 1: way that those guys stayed the course up front. The backs,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, ran really hard for the most part throughout
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  Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, that was huge. How did you handle
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  Speaker 1: the backs?
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  Speaker 3: How do you think you guys handled the backs?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. What did he end up with? Do
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  Speaker 1: you guys know what he's ended up statistically? I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: I think we missed him. He had the one sack.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know for a fact our plan was
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  Speaker 1: a lot about him, and a lot of our runs
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  Speaker 1: were designed to double him and to get four hands
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  Speaker 1: on him. I don't necessarily know if he, like, wrecked
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  Speaker 1: the game, so I would say that we did well.
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  Speaker 1: But he's a damn– what did he end up with?
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  Speaker 1: Three tackles, one sack. Yeah, I mean, it's not bad.
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  Speaker 1: One sack. one solo tackle, so I would say we
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  Speaker 1: did pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: What did they do to kind of take away Parker?
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  Speaker 1: You know, Turner was matching him. You know, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get Park involved, like, super early, right? Kobe had the
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  Speaker 1: first couple catches early. Then we got off schedule. Strange
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  Speaker 1: then gets the long one on third down. We canned
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  Speaker 1: a play that we had Parker on, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: a go-ball situation that we thought we had a matchup on,
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  Speaker 1: so we were wrong there. um, thought we had them
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  Speaker 1: obviously on the deep one. I just don't think we connected. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but that's why you have other good players, right? That's
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  Speaker 1: why you have other guys that make plays and step up.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure Parker will get plenty next week.
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati was already down a couple of receivers to.
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  Speaker 3: Begin with, but how much did the chase injury.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of get back? Huge. I would imagine. Right. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: they walked down the field in a, two-minute with neither
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  Speaker 1: of those guys out there and three plays and put
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  Speaker 1: them in scoring position. But I would say the down-in, down-out,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it affected some of their game plan, especially
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  Speaker 1: when you have a lot designed to go to those
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  Speaker 1: two guys and then you're without them. I know for
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  Speaker 1: me that would be extremely frustrating, and then you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to design a bunch of other stuff or, hey, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to put Tinsley in a spot or somebody else
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  Speaker 1: in a spot. I can't speak for Zach, but I
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  Speaker 1: would imagine that that was probably a little bit frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Moore.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Lewis and Poye Oluo can come up with the interceptions.
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  Speaker 2: What does it say about the two of the older
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  Speaker 2: guys in the locker room being.
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  Speaker 1: Able to come away with those? Huge, huge. Leaders, captains,
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  Speaker 1: guys that in times of crisis, your best players need
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  Speaker 1: to step up and make plays. And I mean, our
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  Speaker 1: defense just keeps doing it, but especially being led by
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  Speaker 1: those guys that at the second level, I thought J.
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  Speaker 1: Lou had a good game in the run game as well.
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  Speaker 1: He stuck his nose in there and a lot of tackles.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, To only get them to rush for 23
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  Speaker 1: yards was critical for us.
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  Speaker 3: In the lineup for the field goal, I guess, kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of dropped off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nah, we weren't going to go for that. And
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't the field goal. We didn't love the distance
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  Speaker 1: going into that end, which was the end that historically
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been. It's like a four-yard difference or five-yard difference
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  Speaker 1: or so. so we were just going to try to
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  Speaker 1: draw him off, punt and pin. We didn't execute the pin, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: even though we were really close to Antonio, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Who was it that tried to throw it back? I forget.
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  Speaker 1: Tried to throw it. I think it was Antonio. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was Antonio. It was because Ransaw was out
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  Speaker 1: as a gunner. Antonio had to go in. We were
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  Speaker 1: trying to get the punt and pin. Didn't execute it
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  Speaker 1: to our standard. If we would have got him at
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  Speaker 1: the one or inside the five, you're like, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Got some breathing room. You feel better about them having
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  Speaker 1: to go, obviously, the distance.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned some similarities from a year ago. It was
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  Speaker 3: almost the identical spot where Travis turned around.
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  Speaker 1: And made the play.
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  Speaker 3: And he ended up having a really good game.
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  Speaker 1: What's your thoughts there? He played his ass off today.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he had the pick that gets called back.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he had a ton of PBUs. He was
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  Speaker 1: in there. I mean, he had the huge tackle, right,
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  Speaker 1: where he ended up knocking the dude out pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought Trav balled today, and we knew with
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  Speaker 1: Buster being down and Braswell being down, he's going to
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  Speaker 1: play every single snap of the game. Had some things
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  Speaker 1: for him on offense, but we just didn't feel like
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  Speaker 1: putting him out there. Oh, man, he gets hurt on offense.
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  Speaker 1: We're in a real bad spot. So didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: put ourselves at risk there, and I was very proud
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  Speaker 1: of the way Travis played defensively today.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, guys. Appreciate it, man.