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  Speaker 1: What's it mean to pull out a game like that
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  Speaker 1: on the road?
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  Speaker 2: It's a great team win. It wasn't pretty. Still, we
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  Speaker 2: fought it to the end. I mean, it's just last
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: year we came up here with a different feeling. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a great team win.
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  Speaker 1: What's that like out there? I mean, so many good
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  Speaker 1: plays and then pulled back by penalties and almost. I mean,
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: even Parker looked like you had iced the game. What's
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  Speaker 1: that like just from a flow standpoint?
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  Speaker 2: It's just hard to get in the rhythm. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like you got a good play and then
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  Speaker 2: it's called back. I mean, we just got to clean
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  Speaker 2: up all our mistakes, though. and just come out next
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: week and be better.
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  Speaker 1: Does it say something, though, a little bit about the
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: mentality of this football team? I mean, you can easily
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  Speaker 1: lose a game where you make so many mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I mean, we fighters. We're going to
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: fight to the end. I mean, we're going to go
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  Speaker 2: out there and do everything we can just to come
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  Speaker 2: out on top. I mean, like I said, we've got
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  Speaker 2: to clean up what we've got to clean up and
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  Speaker 2: then come out next week and just execute better. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it just goes to show how good we can be
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  Speaker 2: if we come out and execute.
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  Speaker 1: What's it like to be that open in the end zone?
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't happen often.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels great. I mean, this is the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: National Football League, so I mean, being able to be
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  Speaker 2: that open, it's not really seen a lot. So I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just being able to be that open, I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: felt great. Felt great to get my first touchdown this season.
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  Speaker 3: Big win, big win. Obviously, I think everyone kind of
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  Speaker 3: knows our situation. We're playing away a lot. So these
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  Speaker 3: are the gritty and gutty wins that we need to have.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was a great bump. Obviously, they have
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  Speaker 3: a great offense, explosive offense. I think we came to compete.
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  Speaker 2: We bumped. It was a great bump.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was good on good, and I think
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  Speaker 3: we competed at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: What was that matchup like for you today? Everybody's got
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  Speaker 1: their hands full with number five.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the kind of matchups that I live for. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: it was me and him on the boundary a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It was one-on-one.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he won some, but I won some too,
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  Speaker 3: and that's kind of what you ask for. I think
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  Speaker 3: they're some of the best in the league, and I
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  Speaker 3: think I am too.
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  Speaker 1: Give us a sense of how you guys are feeling
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  Speaker 1: that you're up 12, give up a touchdown to get
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  Speaker 1: the ball back. They start making big plays right away,
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  Speaker 1: plenty of time to go. I mean, do you feel
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  Speaker 1: on your heels at all in that spot?
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  Speaker 3: No, never on our heels.
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  Speaker 2: We're never on our heels.
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  Speaker 3: We're in a tag defense. We don't really care kind
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  Speaker 3: of what happens. It's always the next play mentality, and
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  Speaker 3: that's something that we work on, and it's instilled in us.
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  Speaker 3: We know that if we compete in the high level
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  Speaker 3: and we're playing how we're playing, you have to get
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  Speaker 3: in the end zone. No matter how many plays you make,
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  Speaker 3: what play you make, your job is to get in
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  Speaker 3: the end zone. If you don't score no points, you
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  Speaker 3: can't win. That's what we believe in.
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  Speaker 1: I know you were busy on the play, but when
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  Speaker 1: did you see what Rayon had did in terms of
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  Speaker 1: tackling him short?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, they was kind of coming at me a
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  Speaker 3: little bit on that drive. I had my hands full
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  Speaker 3: on that drive. I didn't really see what happened, but
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  Speaker 3: I seen him celebrating, and I knew the game was over.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, great story, great story.
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  Speaker 1: How about the play? I mean, he has to step in.
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  Speaker 1: You're stepping in. Travis is still a young guy. Murray
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  Speaker 1: goes out. I mean, next man up, I know. But
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  Speaker 1: what kind of performance do you think this will do
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  Speaker 1: for confidence.
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  Speaker 3: For the young guys? I think this was big for him, obviously.
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  Speaker 3: And this was not like a– I mean, obviously it
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  Speaker 3: was a– a regular game, like regular season game, but
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  Speaker 3: I think this was against a good quality opponent, a
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  Speaker 3: great offense, and for them to step in and make plays,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a huge boost to their confidence.