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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence on Responding in Tight Games · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Times from the game sixty while watching it from his own.
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  Speaker 2: His seventeenth quarter A lot.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen You've seen the awful episode with the
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  Speaker 1: world's smallest eving, like the it's like the party episode.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very.
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  Speaker 1: His granddaughter, but he was tweeting health Jack.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that was awesome, mister g if you're watching this.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of watching, have you at all engaged? I know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you got home in the family's here, but with
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  Speaker 1: you know, some of the music that's been added underneath
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  Speaker 1: your game winning touchdown people? You know.
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  Speaker 2: A favorite so far? I don't know if I have
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  Speaker 2: a favorite. I've seen a couple of the thing. It's
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  Speaker 2: pretty funny. Uh, you know, you gotta gotta laugh for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it's funny because there's a good result behind it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's pretty pretty crazy still. But yeah, there's
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  Speaker 2: some some good stuff out there. Okay, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: that's a go, We'll.
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  Speaker 1: Go with that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, you guys got anything for Seattle? Is
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  Speaker 2: it difficult to mentally and physically move on from such
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  Speaker 2: a big game, emotional game as well, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: such a quick turnaround, whether it be in a Monday
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  Speaker 2: night game. Yeah, I mean that's part of this league,
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  Speaker 2: like you got to be able to you know, move
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  Speaker 2: on quickly. So I've had experience with that over the
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  Speaker 2: past few years. And i'd say physically obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 2: playing a Monday night game, it is a quicker turnaround.
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  Speaker 2: You lose you know, almost two days, so it's just
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  Speaker 2: trying to take care of your bodies and get ready
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  Speaker 2: to go because you know, today's Wednesday and we got
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  Speaker 2: to prepare for Seattle and it's really less than two
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  Speaker 2: days after our game, so that is that is always
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a challenge, but everyone has to
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  Speaker 2: do it. Everybody plays Monday night game, So it's just
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  Speaker 2: something that comes with the territory. And obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we got to get back as quick as possible and
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  Speaker 2: get a great week of preparation in for a really
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  Speaker 2: good Seattle team. Feel great about the game coming up
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  Speaker 2: or about feel good? Yeah, feel good? I mean obviously
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  Speaker 2: you a little sore coming out of a hard fought
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  Speaker 2: game like that that goes down to the end, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, feeling really good and you know, like where
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  Speaker 2: our team's at and we just got to continue to
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  Speaker 2: get better every week. That's what it's about. You're not
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  Speaker 2: a big win this past week, but now we're onto
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  Speaker 2: the next week and it's it's still early in the
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  Speaker 2: season and we have a lot more work to do
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  Speaker 2: and we got to just keep getting better. Seems sort
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  Speaker 2: of taking on lead his personality a little bit. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's really brought a lot of energy, and
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  Speaker 2: I think the team is for sure taking on some
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  Speaker 2: of that. And just the way he carries himself and
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  Speaker 2: you see you guys see him in the locker room
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  Speaker 2: and on the field, on the sideline. I mean, that
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  Speaker 2: passion and that energy is contagious and and our team
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  Speaker 2: has brought into that. So yeah, I would definitely say
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  Speaker 2: so you're not.
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  Speaker 1: But you prefer to go Hey for supposed to feed
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  Speaker 1: first when you're running.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anything like.
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  Speaker 1: Subconscious or or you said intentional to those so you
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  Speaker 1: don't give up yards and try to meet most yards.
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  Speaker 2: I think it just depends on the situation, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think head first, honestly, is has is safer, you know,
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  Speaker 2: based on my past experience and then just seeing around
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  Speaker 2: the league, I mean, guys get hit like that a lot,
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  Speaker 2: trying to trying to slide and protect themselves and end
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  Speaker 2: up making it worse. And I think also too, you
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  Speaker 2: can get a few more yards. Like, so it depend
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  Speaker 2: on the situation. If it's kind of like dead to rights,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing there, I'll go feed first and just go
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  Speaker 2: down when there's still space. But trying to get a
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  Speaker 2: first down, especially on third down in the open field,
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  Speaker 2: and trying to get as much as I can, A
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  Speaker 2: lot of times will go go ahead first and feel
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  Speaker 2: like it avoids more hits. Honestly, do you think you
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  Speaker 2: have the question and the down the stretch those last
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  Speaker 2: few games, they're a good plays that need to be
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  Speaker 2: made in the fourth quarter, and you made it. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's I mean, I think there is something to
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  Speaker 2: be said for it, not you know, not just me,
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  Speaker 2: I think just our team, like make plays when it
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  Speaker 2: matters the most. Like that's the way these games are
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL. It's gonna come down to the end
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  Speaker 2: of the game most of the time. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: some games that are a little upsided, but most of
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  Speaker 2: the time it's a one score game. So finding a
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  Speaker 2: way to make a play when when you need it,
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  Speaker 2: when you have to, you know, in order to win
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  Speaker 2: a game, that says a lot about our team. And
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, preparation equates to that a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times, just feeling confident and prepared and regardless of
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  Speaker 2: how the game has gone, you know, being able to
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  Speaker 2: move on to the next play is something that I've
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  Speaker 2: had to learn throughout my career of you know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: earlier on in my career. It's like some plays that
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  Speaker 2: I wanted back earlier in the game might affect me
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  Speaker 2: later in the game. But I've just realized that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're at the end of the game. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: come down to a series or two and whoever makes
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  Speaker 2: those plays, whichever team makes those plays, is gonna win.
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  Speaker 2: So I've just had a lot of experience of being
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  Speaker 2: that situation on the other side of it too, where
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  Speaker 2: you don't make those plays and you just learn a lot,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I think that's that's helping us, and
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  Speaker 2: we got to continue to do it. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: it's earlier in the year and we've been able to
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  Speaker 2: make some of those. But it's been cool to see
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  Speaker 2: from our team being able to respond. Everybody talks about
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  Speaker 2: the or whatever, but just the play to Bt, the
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  Speaker 2: play to Yami before that, just how conflict did that
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  Speaker 2: feel like?
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  Speaker 1: You ever get those.
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  Speaker 2: Gros yeah, it felt good. You know, I took a
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  Speaker 2: bad sack earlier in that drive, so to be able
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  Speaker 2: to hit those shots down the field and kind of
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  Speaker 2: get us in position to where now we could actually
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  Speaker 2: just play regular football and get back on track was
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  Speaker 2: was big. And we know that defense is a really
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  Speaker 2: good defense, a great scheme, and in those big moments,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna challenge you and they're gonna play some man
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  Speaker 2: coverage and guys gotta go win. And our guys did
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  Speaker 2: an awesome job with that. Obviously, Bet on the sideline
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  Speaker 2: and then Diami too on the other sideline. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: those are those are huge plays to set us up
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  Speaker 2: and get us in position to where you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: not it's not just a prayer that we score. We're
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  Speaker 2: actually in territory where we can, you know, call normal
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  Speaker 2: plays and kind of move the ball down there. You
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  Speaker 2: guys are roll a little bit. Starts wonder how this
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  Speaker 2: wool handle the success. You know, I'm not I don't really,
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't worry me, no, I mean, obviously it's something
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  Speaker 2: that we do have to handle the right way. We
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  Speaker 2: got to know that we haven't done anything. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the only thing we're guaranteed is that we're gonna win
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  Speaker 2: four games this year, which is, you know, which isn't enough.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we got a lot more work to do.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the guys know what the right mindset
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  Speaker 2: is though, And I think guys know that we play
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  Speaker 2: a really good Seattle team this week and if you're
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  Speaker 2: still thinking about the game we just won, then you
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  Speaker 2: know that's a problem. We got to move on. So
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  Speaker 2: I really like our group and how mature we are.
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  Speaker 2: We've handled everything well so far, but yeah, we got
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  Speaker 2: to continue to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I remember in the first moment was that well Williams
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  Speaker 1: will I energy.
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  Speaker 2: Here the first moment. I mean, I've I've noticed that
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  Speaker 2: ever since he's been here. Just the energy, the passion,
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  Speaker 2: the you know, I think in I guess in game moments.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed that early on, whether it was preseason or
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  Speaker 2: even just throughout the season, or even in practice through
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  Speaker 2: training camp, like us talking about different plays and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say getting into it, but just
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  Speaker 2: the competitiveness like coming out and it's been cool to
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  Speaker 2: start communication. How our relationships grown and now understanding each
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  Speaker 2: other more and more, Like I know how he works,
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  Speaker 2: he knows how I operate, and how I think and
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  Speaker 2: how I carry myself, and it's it's been cool for
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  Speaker 2: our relationship to grow and build and to really be
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  Speaker 2: able to communicate at a high level, regardless of all
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  Speaker 2: the emotions, all the stuff that happens throughout games, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because there is a lot of that, and I think
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  Speaker 2: we've both been able to manage it well. And it's it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, getting better means that the perfect balance. I
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  Speaker 2: think it is. I wouldn't use the word crazy. I
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  Speaker 2: think the intensity and I think that's brought more out
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  Speaker 2: of that from me, to be honest, in the sense
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  Speaker 2: of urgency. I think it's really he has brought some
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  Speaker 2: more out of that, some more of that out of me,
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  Speaker 2: just the way he operates. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a good balance for him too, because I'm usually
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  Speaker 2: you know, pretty, I guess even keel, you know, level headed,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll get too high, too low. But I think
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  Speaker 2: it's been a good balance of both of that for
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  Speaker 2: me and bringing some more intensity and sense of urgency
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  Speaker 2: to our offense because there's been times where we need
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  Speaker 2: more of that and we got to you know, clean
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  Speaker 2: up some of the stuff that has been you know,
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  Speaker 2: hurting us a little bit at the beginning of the
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  Speaker 2: season at strain to this offense, particularly your your game and.
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  Speaker 1: And sort of what what does.
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  Speaker 2: It mean for him to be going an ir H.
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  Speaker 2: How challenging is that gonna be? Yeah, he means a
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  Speaker 2: lot to our offense. And he's a great player, uh
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  Speaker 2: really unselfish player, really does a lot for us, passing game,
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  Speaker 2: running game, screen, game everything. I mean, he's he's just
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  Speaker 2: a He's an important piece to our offense. So you
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  Speaker 2: know we're gonna miss him. Obviously, want him to get
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  Speaker 2: healthy as fast as he can and take care of himself.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I know, you know as much as
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna miss a no one wants to be out
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  Speaker 2: there more than him. So hate that for him. And
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  Speaker 2: we got a great tight end room that's gonna step up.
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  Speaker 2: And you've seen these guys been able to come in
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  Speaker 2: and make some big plays for us already, so I
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of confidence in them. But obviously a
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  Speaker 2: player like Brenton, you are gonna miss him. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's a really good player for us. So yeah, defensively, when.
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  Speaker 1: You prepare for Seattle, what do you pull from knowing
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  Speaker 1: McDonald came for Baltimore. Do you do you look at
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  Speaker 1: other influences perhaps or pretty much just what they've been
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  Speaker 1: running up to this point this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he's just what they've been running. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's been there for a couple of year years, so
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  Speaker 2: we have we have some good stuff to to watch
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  Speaker 2: and to look at. And obviously you know it played
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  Speaker 2: against him when he was in Baltimore too, So have
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  Speaker 2: some of that. You don't have to go too I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you go too far back in the
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  Speaker 2: vault for some of that. You don't want to overload
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  Speaker 2: and just watch everything possible, but there is there's plenty
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  Speaker 2: to watch, and you know, he's a really good decordinator
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  Speaker 2: that the defense is playing really well. I think they're
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  Speaker 2: good on all three levels. They do a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things well, good after the quarterback, They're good against the run.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're They're just a solid, well coached, you
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  Speaker 2: know defense that flies around. So it's a challenge for
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  Speaker 2: us for sure, pass rush or the secondary, I mean both.
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  Speaker 2: I think when you and then especially when you put
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  Speaker 2: those things together, you know you get a pass rush
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  Speaker 2: and secondary that can cover and changes the look on
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback and does a lot of different coverage variations.
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  Speaker 2: I think those a mixture of those two things, you know,
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  Speaker 2: makes it hard for an offense. So I think obviously
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  Speaker 2: the pass rush is kind of where you start and
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  Speaker 2: you look at that and you say, all right, we
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  Speaker 2: gotta you know, we gotta, you gotta deal with this
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  Speaker 2: up front. We gotta have a good plan going in,
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  Speaker 2: and I know we will, but it will be a
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  Speaker 2: challenge for sure.
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  Speaker 1: He's played big role in that last drive Monday. Was
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  Speaker 1: it say to you that the rookies that you have
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  Speaker 1: been able to step in and play well when I.
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  Speaker 2: Had I just think the way that they prepare, you know,
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  Speaker 2: those guys are just you know, Jonah's and all these
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  Speaker 2: meetings with me and Rob and Nick and all the
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks and protection meetings throughout the week and all this
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  Speaker 2: stuff and all the work you put in just because
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  Speaker 2: you never know when when your numbers is going to
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  Speaker 2: be called. And it's called in the biggest part of
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  Speaker 2: the game for Jonah, and he didn't flinch. He was
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  Speaker 2: ready to go, and our communication really didn't change whether
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  Speaker 2: it's him or Rob out there. Obviously I have a
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  Speaker 2: lot more banked reps with Rob, but Jonah's and all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff with us, so he hears it all. He's
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  Speaker 2: taking the notes, you know, he's getting the mental reps
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  Speaker 2: every day, so he was ready to go. And that
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  Speaker 2: stuff pays off because you just never know when when
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  Speaker 2: your numbers is going to be called. So and same,
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  Speaker 2: I mean Leaquent being ready every day. He's he's been
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  Speaker 2: awesome for us, and he's really smart and plays the
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  Speaker 2: right way and you know, love having him out there.
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  Speaker 1: How how much longer until you find get Hunter into
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  Speaker 1: the end zone?
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully soon, hopefully it's very soon. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the right way. You know, he's I think all I
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  Speaker 2: think all good receivers tell you when they're open all
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  Speaker 2: the time. So uh, there's there's a little bit of that.
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  Speaker 2: But I love it. You know, he's he's awesome. The
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  Speaker 2: feedback is great and as a quarterback, like I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the guys don't mean anything by that. They
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  Speaker 2: just want they just want to let you know they
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  Speaker 2: want the ball. So uh, I love it. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: our relationship keeps just growing and growing, and just the
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  Speaker 2: whole group, I think it's coming together the right way.
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  Speaker 2: And we still got a lot to improve on and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of opportunities that are still out there for us.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the that's the great thing. And like you said,
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  Speaker 2: I mean getting him in the end zone, that'll happen,
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  Speaker 2: So not too stressed about that, but obviously, you know
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  Speaker 2: want we want to make that happen.
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  Speaker 1: College and CROs had a receiver with like that sort
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  Speaker 1: of just juice on the sideline, let alone on the field.
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  Speaker 2: It's unique, I mean, I think just no, not really,
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  Speaker 2: He's definitely unique. And the way he the way he play,
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  Speaker 2: he's the way he carries himself. Just the the energy
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  Speaker 2: I mean flying around it's like and then he's I
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  Speaker 2: mean just seeing him out there playing defense too. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of unbelievable how he's able to to play that
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  Speaker 2: many snaps and still look fresh and still be running
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  Speaker 2: around full speed. I mean, it is impressive, so that
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be taken lightly. And then to make some of
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  Speaker 2: the plays he made on Monday, I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool to see. And don't want his head to
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  Speaker 2: get too big, so I don't want to give him
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  Speaker 2: to me too much love. But now he's he's a
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  Speaker 2: he's a great guy and handles himself the right way,
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  Speaker 2: and it's been fun to play with him, so yeah,