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Press Pass | Liam Coen Recaps Victory Over the Colts in Week 14 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Stakes were obviously so big today. What you see in
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  Speaker 1: terms of toughness and focus out of your team, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think our guys, you know, took took control of
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  Speaker 1: the moment. I guess you could say in terms of
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  Speaker 1: understanding that, Yeah, this was a big game in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways, and I think our guys have responded
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  Speaker 1: in so many ways in these big games.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You look at obviously at Kansas City San Francisco, some
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  Speaker 1: of those moments where you know, I think they ultimately
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  Speaker 1: always kind of feel disrespected, and that's something that continues
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  Speaker 1: to feed our team.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I in your first year, you've won a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different ways. But what's it been like the last
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  Speaker 3: two weeks there against a visional opponent to get out
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  Speaker 3: early and you know, increase the lead, but be able
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  Speaker 3: to hang on to that league. What's have been like
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  Speaker 3: the last two weeks?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, starting fast was something we didn't really do it
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  Speaker 1: a great job of at times this season, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we've done a better job of executing early in
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  Speaker 1: games and also taking the momentum and using it like
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  Speaker 1: actually coming and playing complimentary football. And our defense did
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  Speaker 1: an unbelievable job again creating turnovers and then we were
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  Speaker 1: able to take advantage of them. So I think this
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  Speaker 1: team is continuing to gain confidence, especially our quarterback right now,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's something that ultimately is going to continue
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  Speaker 1: to hopefully lead us.
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  Speaker 4: Trevor had a lot of success throwing downfield today. Just
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  Speaker 4: what did you see from him? And how Bacon unlocking
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  Speaker 4: that part of the offense really be for.
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  Speaker 1: You guys, huge, huge, when you can attack. You know,
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  Speaker 1: every blade of grass is something that ultimately we want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do and to get BTJ going
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  Speaker 1: down the field vertically. Some great throws and catches from
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  Speaker 1: those guys. Tim Patrick made a few big plays down
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  Speaker 1: the field as well. You know, that's a huge part
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  Speaker 1: of this game is being able to stretch people vertically.
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  Speaker 1: So much of our past game has been a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more intermediate and trying to create more zones and
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  Speaker 1: catch and run and to make these guys just made
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  Speaker 1: plays today in a lot of ways, like those weren't
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  Speaker 1: phenomenally schemed up plays. Those are our players going out
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  Speaker 1: and being special.
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  Speaker 4: And then just seeing Travis E ten and what he
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  Speaker 4: was able to do in the run game. How important
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  Speaker 4: was that today?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was huge In those kind of games you've
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be able to grind out some clock,
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  Speaker 1: continue to have balance. The huge turnover that we got
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  Speaker 1: and then we hit the twenty eight or whatever it
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  Speaker 1: was yard run. You know, create being explosive in the
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  Speaker 1: run game in some points, but also grinding out some
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  Speaker 1: of those hard physical runs. You know, that's that's got
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  Speaker 1: to be a recipe for our success as we move forward.
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  Speaker 2: Liam Trevor's confidence in those deep balls that just doesn't
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  Speaker 2: happen overnight. Is that product of maybe some of their
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  Speaker 2: way they're playing defense, the way you guys are running
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  Speaker 2: the ball, or is it him like you finally got
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  Speaker 2: into him let it go man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we've we have worked pretty hard, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, and throughout the whole season in practice, watching
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  Speaker 1: tape and really trying to detail and get more reps
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  Speaker 1: at throwing the ball down the field. We've we've been
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  Speaker 1: pretty diligent about every Wednesday in our Mamba, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going and throwing the ball. Just let's throw a go ball.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just keep throwing it down the field a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And then again this Thursday we try to do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing with him and BT on the first play
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  Speaker 1: of Mamba again. So we've tried, We've worked at it.
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  Speaker 1: Credit these guys for sticking with it and continuing to
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  Speaker 1: have confidence in each other, right in each other to
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  Speaker 1: go make plays. So, you know, I think that us
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  Speaker 1: being able to run it may have helped in some
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  Speaker 1: of those, but really a few of those were just
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  Speaker 1: like those guys going out and making huge plays.
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  Speaker 3: When do you have a team that feeds on disrespect,
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  Speaker 3: how do you does that continue to go when maybe
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  Speaker 3: the respect starts to come, which might be where you.
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  Speaker 1: Are will ever really get it? So that's the beauty
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  Speaker 1: of it. I ain't coming. You know that it's not
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  Speaker 1: so and that's the beauty of it. And that's totally fine.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it's one of those things that I
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  Speaker 1: think the group right now. Houston was good for us.
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  Speaker 1: I do believe that, you know, the end of Houston
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  Speaker 1: was good for us. And to know that each game
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a sixty minute football game in
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  Speaker 1: our mindset, mentality has to be that way. And when
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  Speaker 1: you get into December and you're going to go play
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  Speaker 1: some really difficult games on the schedule coming up, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone counts. Trevor just said it. Everyone is exactly the
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  Speaker 1: same right now, moving forward for us and very proud
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  Speaker 1: of these guys getting the nine wins, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of work to be done.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like you don't honestly want the respect to come.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it helps, you know. I mean
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  Speaker 1: they've heard the rat poison before, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everybody loves you when you're doing it well, and then
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  Speaker 1: you know you're always going to find something. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's the competitive advantage that you have. Every player has
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  Speaker 1: to get themselves into a place, right. You always hear
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  Speaker 1: the stories about Jordan and how he would create things
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  Speaker 1: to get himself into a place to go compete. So
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  Speaker 1: our guys just keep finding ways to get a little
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  Speaker 1: bit picked, you know, pissed off, and go play their
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  Speaker 1: tails off and execute though at a higher level. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the thing that we're starting to see
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better since the Chargers game, is you know,
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  Speaker 1: playing with an edge, but also going out and executing
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  Speaker 1: the plan at a higher level.
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  Speaker 3: I apologize for bringing up last year, but when you
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  Speaker 3: watch the film, you saw the complete lack of complementary football.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned it a moment ago. I mean, to get
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  Speaker 3: those takeaways and then turn right around one play later
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  Speaker 3: score and again get points off of takeaways. How important
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  Speaker 3: that is to this stand.
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  Speaker 1: It's so big. I mean, it's one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: aspects of Campi's defense that I've appreciated from day one was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we want to stop the run and limit
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  Speaker 1: the run, and we want to try to take the
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  Speaker 1: ball away. And now those were two things that we
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  Speaker 1: really tried to emphasize from the moment that we got
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  Speaker 1: here together as a staff. They did a phenomenal job
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  Speaker 1: all throughout OTA's Mini camp training camp, uh really preaching
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  Speaker 1: the ball disruption and to continue to be able to
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, punch hammer rake, be opportunistic the zone
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  Speaker 1: coverage drops. We've worked so much at and to see
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  Speaker 1: some of those come to fruition is is exactly why
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  Speaker 1: you coach. It's you know, you typically get what you
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  Speaker 1: emphasize in this league.
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  Speaker 3: M hm.
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  Speaker 4: How impressed were you by Trayvon Walker just being able
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  Speaker 4: to go out there after what he's been through with
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  Speaker 4: the knee injury, gets that fourth down stop. Just how
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  Speaker 4: impressed it was that?
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  Speaker 1: Very proud of Trayvon. You know, he's I know, he's
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  Speaker 1: been chomping at the bit to get back out there
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  Speaker 1: and go put go put it on tape, and and
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  Speaker 1: that's what he's been trying to go do and he's
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  Speaker 1: stayed consistent. He worked his tail off from a rehab
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  Speaker 1: standpoint and was able to go out there and make
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  Speaker 1: a difference for us today. He's somebody that we lean
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  Speaker 1: on heavily. We count on him to go out and
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  Speaker 1: make plays for us, and I was very proud of
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  Speaker 1: him today.
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  Speaker 4: Fiddling up Jonathan Taylor for most of the game. Just
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  Speaker 4: what does that say about your guys?
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  Speaker 2: Defense?
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  Speaker 1: Defense? Yeah, it's it's the number one pillar of our defense.
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  Speaker 1: And and and that's that standard has to continue to
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  Speaker 1: remain the theme and uh, just keeping the standards high
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  Speaker 1: of that. That's the kind of football team that we
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  Speaker 1: would like to be. That's the kind of football team
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  Speaker 1: that we are right now. Is having the ability to
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  Speaker 1: go stop the run and whether it's in single high
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  Speaker 1: or too high. You guys know that helps you more
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  Speaker 1: than anything when you're able to do both. So credit
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  Speaker 1: the defense can't be the staff, but the players going
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  Speaker 1: out and executing the plan. And really it comes down
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  Speaker 1: to whooping blocks. Like you know, you can call a
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  Speaker 1: million different plays and calls, but our guys have a
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  Speaker 1: mindset mentality did not stay blocked, and that's the critical thing, right,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks