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  Speaker 1: You don't we Uh no, We're we're celebrating as a
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  Speaker 1: as a team today. No, So just you know, this
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  Speaker 1: is your first Christmas here in Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 2: Just how are you going to be celebrating? Obviously have
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  Speaker 2: a bits of the season too.
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  Speaker 1: Florida for Christmas a lot actually since my dad moved
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  Speaker 1: to Florida, like when I was in college. He but
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  Speaker 1: we got a place in Florida for down in what
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  Speaker 1: is it Rotunda West? It was like down to Port
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte Englewood area, And so I've done Florida for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, you know, for down Christmas time and different
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  Speaker 1: than the Northeast for sure, you know, but no, I
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  Speaker 1: love it well today, uh tonight be able to have
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  Speaker 1: a little family time at some point here. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure exactly what time I'll be making at home tonight,
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  Speaker 1: but hopefully for dinner or so maybe later dinner.
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  Speaker 2: But then tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of bumped everything back for the staff and
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  Speaker 1: the players and be able to have Christmas Morning with
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  Speaker 1: their families and then come in around I think eleven
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  Speaker 1: so twelve.
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  Speaker 2: And do a smaller portion.
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  Speaker 1: It was just easier for us than coming back from
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  Speaker 1: Denver and pushing everything back a day and not doing
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  Speaker 1: anything tomorrow that would have been very challenging on staff
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  Speaker 1: and players.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what we're.
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  Speaker 1: Doing for a guy looking for motivation and edge.
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  Speaker 3: Is the Pro Bowl a gift wrapped present this week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I would imagine that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: It's like where a question.
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  Speaker 1: We can't control those decisions unforetun you know, and we
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of players that very prideful and have
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  Speaker 1: done some really cool things, right and to be eleven
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  Speaker 1: and four and you know.
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  Speaker 2: Have one that's that's just speaks volumes.
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  Speaker 4: There was According to Camping Grant, there wasn't celebration.
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  Speaker 1: Monday night when you guys clinched, just kind of business
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  Speaker 1: as usual.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's more.
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  Speaker 1: That's not we haven't like talked about goal, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like those kind of goals, and it's more so just
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  Speaker 1: trying to compete like champions every every week, every day
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  Speaker 1: and go throughout the process and see what happened. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the guys are I'm sure people are excited
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  Speaker 1: to know that there is more football ahead of us,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, we're really trying to just stick within
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  Speaker 1: this day and be where we're at, where our feet are,
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  Speaker 1: and go compete against a good colts team this week.
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  Speaker 2: On Philip Rivers. Now, what stands out when you watch him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is, first of all, a ton of respect
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  Speaker 1: for what he's doing, Uh, the player that he's been
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  Speaker 1: throughout his entire career.
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  Speaker 2: I've watched him at NC State.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I've watched them obviously the Chargers, and over
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  Speaker 1: the years of how much command he has at the
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  Speaker 1: lant of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: The competitor.
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  Speaker 1: That I've always really respected and appreciated his game. So
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  Speaker 1: he's able to command, he knows the system. They obviously
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  Speaker 1: have a very strong connection with him in Shane and
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  Speaker 1: that staff, and so you can see that there's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's running their offense. He's able to make checks
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  Speaker 1: and get to things that he knows are beaters against
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  Speaker 1: certain looks and coverages, and those guys are making plays
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  Speaker 1: for him out on the perimeter. So nothing's really changed
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  Speaker 1: in terms of our preparation of how we were going
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  Speaker 1: into this game the first time against Daniel and and
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  Speaker 1: what that looked like. So very good offense still, as
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  Speaker 1: you guys saw the other night, So I had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of tape on him coming out. I was in
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  Speaker 1: la as An assistant receivers, assistant quarterrest coach. I can't
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  Speaker 1: remember what I was at the time, but I remember
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  Speaker 1: watching him a ton coming out of since and.
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  Speaker 2: He can fly.
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  Speaker 1: He's making one on one plays all over the field,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's in deep shots.
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  Speaker 2: Third downs, red zone.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, there's definitely a trust factor there and he's got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of confidence right now.
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  Speaker 4: And there's so much conversation about Trevor's growth and the
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  Speaker 4: offensive growth, But how about yours? How how much do
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  Speaker 4: you think you've grown since September as a maybe a
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  Speaker 4: play caller combined with all your head coaching duties and
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  Speaker 4: how you've handled it.
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  Speaker 2: Good question.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, you don't get a lot of often
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  Speaker 1: time to self reflect on that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a fun year in terms of getting to
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  Speaker 1: grow within a team and grow within doing something new
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  Speaker 1: for the first time, right with some guys that you're
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  Speaker 1: you're excited about doing it with on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 1: and James and Tony, they're they've been unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, being.
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  Speaker 1: Able to learn more about your players on a day
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  Speaker 1: to day basis.
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  Speaker 2: And what uh they become really good at?
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  Speaker 1: Would it become all these are the weaknesses that we
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  Speaker 1: either need to improve or hey, maybe not right now,
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  Speaker 1: and let's work around that and calling the game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to their strengths hopefully as much as possible. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of figure out what you're good at by
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  Speaker 1: a certain time, and you try to focus more on
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  Speaker 1: those things and do them a little differently, and that
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  Speaker 1: becomes the fun challenge of preparation, of competing, of plays
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  Speaker 1: off of plays, and those kind of you know, thought processes.
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  Speaker 2: So for so long there you're trying.
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  Speaker 1: To figure out what you're good at, you know, and Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're trying things out and you're you're doing things that
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  Speaker 1: you think, you know, you know what it takes to
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  Speaker 1: go compete and put them in a position to succeed.
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  Speaker 1: But now it's really fun because they're showing who they are,
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  Speaker 1: their personalities come out more, and you can just go
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  Speaker 1: play for you maybe.
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  Speaker 4: Last year with the Bucks, I mean just feel in
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  Speaker 4: that play sheet and the cadence of the game is
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  Speaker 4: that similar.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, Look, when you're able to score
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  Speaker 1: and guys are making plays, it definitely makes your job
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  Speaker 1: easier in ways, but also puts more pressure on you
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week to make sure that you're putting them
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  Speaker 1: in continuously positions to be successful. But it's fun being
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  Speaker 1: able to you know, call a play and those guys
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  Speaker 1: go and you throw a five yard out and he
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  Speaker 1: takes it fifty or whatever it is, sixty, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so it's like that makes it really fun, and you
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  Speaker 1: know you want to try to do more for them
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  Speaker 1: as a coach, like you want to work harder throughout
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  Speaker 1: the week to try to find those edges to be
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  Speaker 1: able to put them in a position to succeed.
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  Speaker 3: You're focused on you, But how much do you go
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  Speaker 3: back to that meeting a couple of weeks ago and
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  Speaker 3: what was the biggest takeaway in areas you guys needed
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  Speaker 3: to grow or change things on gas buyers?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you look at where the scene is now
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  Speaker 1: versus do you go back and watch that team and say,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't do this, Well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, yeah we were because they only had to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you've got two games in between, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you're usually working off at least a four game initial
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  Speaker 1: break and you're watching everything from the season, but in
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  Speaker 1: your break, you're talking four to six game break, and
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  Speaker 1: so we're right in the break and so when you're
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  Speaker 1: showing players your cutups and you're showing them, Okay, these
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  Speaker 1: are the third noun coverage the red zone. Butever we're
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  Speaker 1: in those cut ups, so they're constantly seeing that game.
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  Speaker 1: I think that obviously we executed you're talking about specifically
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  Speaker 1: on offense. Offensively, I think early on it's just starting faster.
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  Speaker 1: We started fast, We moved it all right, We had
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  Speaker 1: a good first drive going. We just faltered there on
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  Speaker 1: that drive and then the complimentary football showed up again
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  Speaker 1: where we get the turnover score home. Now we're rolling
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  Speaker 1: and we've seen that movie a few times and so
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing. But offensively specifically, just sustaining early on,
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  Speaker 1: like struggled obviously the other day against Denver to get
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  Speaker 1: going on those first two drives. Credit them as well
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  Speaker 1: for playing good defense, but I think that's something we
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  Speaker 1: got to look at, making sure that we start fast,
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  Speaker 1: especially going on the road, knowing that they've been able
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  Speaker 1: to start fast a little bit as a team all
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  Speaker 1: year and with Philip playing quarterback now so and then defensively,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we stopped the run really well and played
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  Speaker 1: the run very well, and that's something we got to
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  Speaker 1: do again this week and do a great job in
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  Speaker 1: the back end, like.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that the Texans game is Saturday, so you
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  Speaker 3: could actually hit that game on Sunday knowing, hey, if
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  Speaker 3: we win, if the Texans losing, you guys win.
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  Speaker 2: No, okay, don't care where they're playing.
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  Speaker 3: Running ability has been on display all year, but it
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  Speaker 3: seems like lately it's been even more effective.
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  Speaker 4: What do you like about.
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  Speaker 2: Trevor as a runner?
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  Speaker 1: He's keeping his eyes down the field, I think at
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  Speaker 1: a higher rate as well in terms of when you
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  Speaker 1: are able to get out and extend. That makes you
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  Speaker 1: so much more dangerous as a quarterback right where you're
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  Speaker 1: in the pocket, and all of us want the play
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  Speaker 1: to be executed within the timing and rhythm, right, that's
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  Speaker 1: for the quarterback to stay upright, that's for the plays
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  Speaker 1: to be able to be on time, to catch and
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  Speaker 1: run and all those things. But so much I think
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  Speaker 1: about playing this position is feel is living in the gray,
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  Speaker 1: and that's such a thing I think for quarterbacks when
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  Speaker 1: they're playing with that free mind and just going out
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  Speaker 1: and competing, that's football, Like, that's.
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  Speaker 2: What you got.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you see high school all the time, you
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  Speaker 1: see it in the pop Warner. You're seeing college. It's
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  Speaker 1: part of the game, scramble, making plays, extending guys.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him break off and breaking off my route,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna go find space Like that's backyard.
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  Speaker 1: That's playing football, that's winning football. And so I think
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  Speaker 1: that's harder to defend than when Okay, the quarterbacks always
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  Speaker 1: in time and in rhythm. You know the ball's coming
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  Speaker 1: out in this time period, and you're able to make
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  Speaker 1: them defend more and longer. I know you've talked about
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  Speaker 1: him for tons this year, but just how special of
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  Speaker 1: the players he's been, not just running the ball but
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  Speaker 1: catching the ball. Yeah, he's been. He's very prideful about
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  Speaker 1: what he can do. He is, and he's always kind
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  Speaker 1: of nudge throwing little comments at me about throwing him
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  Speaker 1: the ball more, and you know he just uh and
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  Speaker 1: we've listened in some ways. Right, It's you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: able to make plays in space, win those one on
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  Speaker 1: one matchups.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Excited for TJ this week especially and during the next
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  Speaker 1: few games. Here is for us to get our run
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  Speaker 1: game going again and get it to where it really
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  Speaker 1: needs to be. It's an all eleven approach right, and
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  Speaker 1: it also involves his patients, his footwork, his landmarks, his reads,
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  Speaker 1: and man, when he's on, you know, that's when we
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  Speaker 1: can be really dangerous. So I've really appreciated TJ's work
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  Speaker 1: ethic this year, the way that he's approached every week,
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  Speaker 1: the way that he competes on Sundays, and so we're
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  Speaker 1: going to continue to need that.
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  Speaker 4: Just you know what a team's been doing to sort
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  Speaker 4: of stop your rescue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little bit of a combination.
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  Speaker 1: I think of, Okay, you're a running team, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: early on in the season, right, and the past game
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  Speaker 1: was the thing that needed to catch up right and
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, And then you take time
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  Speaker 1: in detail and work on some of those things, and
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  Speaker 1: then you look at, okay, what is our quarterback doing
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  Speaker 1: well and wanting to continue to foster that. And early
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  Speaker 1: on we were seeing probably a little bit more single
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  Speaker 1: high because we were running it more and a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more man coverage, which now you're saying as a coach, well,
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  Speaker 1: they got one more than we really want to have
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  Speaker 1: to block, let's try to throw it. As we start
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  Speaker 1: to maybe do that better and see maybe a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more honest coverages and structures. Then we've got to
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  Speaker 1: make sure we pick and choose the right spots to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get those off. But we also have
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  Speaker 1: to sustain blocks longer at the first and second level.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to finish better.
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  Speaker 1: We also need to block well on the perimeter, which
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  Speaker 1: I think our white house did a really nice job
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  Speaker 1: last week of actually blocking on the perimeter. But those
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  Speaker 1: are those things that it's not just one guy, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not just one play or scheme. It's okay making
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  Speaker 1: sure that you're trying to run it versus Shell if
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  Speaker 1: you can, but man, they got an extra hat in there.
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  Speaker 2: Who cares.
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  Speaker 1: We got to make a miss, We've got to make
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  Speaker 1: a block, whatever it is. I think it just sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's this, but for us to really go where we
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  Speaker 1: need to go, that needs to balance out.
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  Speaker 4: Buck Nerve's back wasn't there in the last matter?
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  Speaker 2: How big were focus is he?
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  Speaker 1: And what's yeah? I mean a ton when I was
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  Speaker 1: out in l A against him and Eric in there,
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  Speaker 1: and man, that was those were brutal times for us
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  Speaker 1: and trying to game plan for those guys.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of respect for him as a player.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, it's just that length that you really have
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  Speaker 1: to understand as a guard, as a center, wherever you're
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  Speaker 1: at inside against him, we get a great dose of
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  Speaker 1: it in some ways with Eric and understanding that. But
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  Speaker 1: every player is their own They're different in their own ways.
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  Speaker 1: But got to be prepared for his length, especially with
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  Speaker 1: you know, tip balls and quick game drop back, getting
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  Speaker 1: his hands down and then man, he had some good
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  Speaker 1: get offs in the other night in the run game
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  Speaker 1: and getting the line.
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  Speaker 2: Of scrimmers going back that way. So definitely in our
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  Speaker 2: thoughts in preparation.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember that. I think he
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  Speaker 4: ran that. He said that he they into different plays.
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  Speaker 4: I think Guy Jacobe and Parker.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the zero yep where he hit Parker on
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  Speaker 1: our sideline?
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: Does that happen more often?
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  Speaker 3: At what?
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  Speaker 4: You can make something out of a play where stuff
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  Speaker 4: gets a little messed up?
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  Speaker 2: Not that much, I mean it does.
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  Speaker 1: It's happened maybe a little bit more, i'd say over
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  Speaker 1: the I guess you could call it since the buye,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I mean some ways, but
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  Speaker 1: that was a situation where uh we it was a
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  Speaker 1: zero deal. It was a pressure check and you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jacoby got it. Parker didn't, and but I think he
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  Speaker 1: started to realize as he was running his initial route
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  Speaker 1: what it was, and so he just got to the
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  Speaker 1: spot that he was supposed to end up getting to.
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  Speaker 2: So that's cool to see.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like, all right, guys, hey, we need
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  Speaker 1: to get the check all right, but great, you know,
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  Speaker 1: great being a football player and getting to the right
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  Speaker 1: spot and the quarterback trusting.
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  Speaker 2: That you're going to be in the right spot, and
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  Speaker 2: and uh, that's cool. It's cool to see.
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  Speaker 1: So it allows us to keep coaching. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was loud, it was all that, and that's great
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  Speaker 1: learning experience for us. Okay, yeah, we have is our
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  Speaker 1: hand signal?
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  Speaker 2: Where are we at with that?
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  Speaker 1: The communication, you know, echoing it as you get it.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, we can coach off it. But great
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  Speaker 1: to see guys going out and making plays.
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  Speaker 3: I know your focus start with the Colts this week obviously,
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  Speaker 3: but when you look big pitched, just for a second,
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  Speaker 3: have you had a moment, even half.
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  Speaker 1: A second teaching meself?
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  Speaker 3: Moment to think Matt first year as a head coach,
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  Speaker 3: I've taken this team.
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  Speaker 1: To the playoffs, haven't had a ton of that time
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  Speaker 1: to reflect on I'm proud of this team. I'm proud
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  Speaker 1: of the how we're trying to do things for sure,
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  Speaker 1: And you know, the guys make it really fun, so
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  Speaker 1: that that's the fun part about being a coach or
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  Speaker 1: a teacher is when you see the people that you're
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  Speaker 1: working with improve. That's that's fulfilling for sure. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a fun group to be around.