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Press Pass | Oluokun & Strange on Road Success, Liam Coen's Leadership · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I mean the off season early this season, at any
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  Speaker 1: point was there something that like you saw or heard
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  Speaker 1: or it just clicked and you were like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: this this is different.
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  Speaker 2: I think teams do a good job and off seasons
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  Speaker 2: always having positivity that you're working towards a good goal.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's kind of starting the year, you
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  Speaker 2: always feel like you got the good.
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  Speaker 3: Equation in the building and everything's going to work out.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was really as the year started going
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  Speaker 2: on when we started realizing if we played we were
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  Speaker 2: supposed to play, we can win any game. Like I
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  Speaker 2: think the Rams was the only team early that we're like,
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  Speaker 2: oh we lost that one, but the rest were you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're in every game. We feel like we should be
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  Speaker 2: winning every game. And obviously we didn't come out the
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  Speaker 2: way that we wanted to against the Rams, and that happened.
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  Speaker 2: So like we felt like, when we take control of
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  Speaker 2: what we're supposed to take care of, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be in a position to really win every game.
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  Speaker 3: We should win every game.
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  Speaker 2: So it was kind of as that year started, and
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  Speaker 2: then even in our losses that we had earlier in
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  Speaker 2: the year, we felt like, you know, it was us,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not being disciplined or beating ourselves a little
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  Speaker 2: bit that we take care of that will be in
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  Speaker 2: position to win games going forward.
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  Speaker 1: And what's your favorite thing about coach camps defense?
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  Speaker 2: Just attacking games? Eleven is one. Everybody owning their roles
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  Speaker 2: in their game is not. No persons are going to
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  Speaker 2: shine just doing their own thing. Everybody has a little
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  Speaker 2: little role to do in the defense. And then we
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  Speaker 2: are a very opportunistic getting the ball back. But it's
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  Speaker 2: all with communication and being the right spot, so everybody
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  Speaker 2: it playing around. So it's been very fun to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you for you. Appreciate you Mark long than to
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  Speaker 3: d rock.
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  Speaker 4: Belts in the locker room? Is that the first time
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  Speaker 4: or last time? Our best time?
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  Speaker 2: It gonna be a TikTok thing for the kids. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, man, belts, I know what it means. We
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  Speaker 2: got two more games to keep doing that. Though I
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  Speaker 2: love the energy and stuff. I didn't bring no belts.
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  Speaker 2: I told people to have their kids.
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  Speaker 3: Man. Yeah, shout out to my dad. It was all
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  Speaker 3: love the energy in the locker room after the games.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we we put a lot of hard
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  Speaker 2: work into the week and uh to come out with
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  Speaker 2: the victory like that. You know, everybody celebrates how they want,
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  Speaker 2: but it was it was a very deserving victory and
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  Speaker 2: but it's a testament to the process that we had
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  Speaker 2: through the week.
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  Speaker 4: There's a there's a lot of things you can maybe
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  Speaker 4: fake or manufacturing. It's like you can't fake that, right,
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  Speaker 4: That's that's genuine, like real, This is who this team is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're we are We are ourselves in
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  Speaker 2: the building and we don't really care about outside of
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  Speaker 2: the buildings. So obviously their cameras showing that stuff for
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  Speaker 2: outside the media and all that stuff, but we are
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  Speaker 2: you know, we took it upon ourselves earlier in the
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  Speaker 2: year to just look inward and be you know, part
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  Speaker 2: of this little brotherhood. Just got a community that we're
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  Speaker 2: forming inside this building, and everybody's really coming together tighter,
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  Speaker 2: so everybody's allowed to just be themselves and be happy
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  Speaker 2: after these wins. We know what it takes to to
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  Speaker 2: really come out on top. And obviously it's the game
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  Speaker 2: that you guys marked up to be. Whatever it was,
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  Speaker 2: it was just the next game for us, and I
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  Speaker 2: think we liked the world that we're going on and
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  Speaker 2: you just got to continue that all the way through
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  Speaker 2: the season.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you indeed, de Rock.
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  Speaker 5: Then to Justin, well, hey, guys get hurt on defense,
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  Speaker 5: specially in the secondary, and then the next guy just
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  Speaker 5: gets in and it doesn't seem to be any kind
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  Speaker 5: of you know, drop off or anything like that. And
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  Speaker 5: I know that it's always the next man up mantra,
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  Speaker 5: but generally there is a little bit of a drop.
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  Speaker 3: Off when you're in those situations.
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  Speaker 5: So why has there not been one here with you
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  Speaker 5: guys this year, especially in the secondary.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we've kind of gone through some things
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the year, and the secondary, I know Eric
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  Speaker 2: goes out for a little bit, corners have been rotated
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  Speaker 2: through with injuries and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I remember Jordan was hurt.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of these younger guys have been able
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  Speaker 2: to step up earlier in the year and we had
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  Speaker 2: to learn early learn what it takes to be successful there.
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  Speaker 2: But they're all ready to play with the communication, the
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  Speaker 2: standard that we challenging routes and being in the right spots,
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  Speaker 2: and then as our defense grows and being more comfortable
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  Speaker 2: with our own calls, understanding how teams attack us so
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  Speaker 2: that when the next guy comes up, this stuff that
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  Speaker 2: they've already seen or raugh, they know how to handle.
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  Speaker 5: All coaches use motivational stuff, whether it's stuff the media
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  Speaker 5: says or whatever. But does Liam Cohen actually take it
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  Speaker 5: as personal as it looks like he's taking it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Liam had a problem with that for sure, And
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  Speaker 2: I like the energy that he comes with what he
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  Speaker 2: says somebody small market. You know, he didn't like that
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  Speaker 2: little brother field. Maybe maybe they had some deep going
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  Speaker 2: from before that, you know, but obviously that that's the
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  Speaker 2: mindset he came out with through week. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: the untrained I might say like, oh, that was just
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  Speaker 2: a nice comment, like I thought he called us a
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  Speaker 2: good team, but you know, we don't like the little
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  Speaker 2: brother field. So that's really the kind of energy that
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  Speaker 2: he brought to the to locker room this week. And
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  Speaker 2: then obviously as leaders on the team, we have our
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  Speaker 2: own little things that we tell the team throughout the week,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we're a fighting team. We're ready to fight,
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  Speaker 2: you know, all the way through the scene. And because
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people kind of doubted us and still
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  Speaker 2: doubt us or expecting us to lose events at some point,
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  Speaker 2: so it's like we got to stop looking at I'll say,
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  Speaker 2: y'all is outside and just keep looking inward and appreciate
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  Speaker 2: these winds for the work that we put out through
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  Speaker 2: throughout the week.
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  Speaker 5: Have you ever been around a coach that takes that
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  Speaker 5: stuff as personally as he does?
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  Speaker 3: It's normally I have.
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  Speaker 2: Some good coaches in my life, but I like the
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  Speaker 2: energy that he brings, and it's definitely refreshing for to
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  Speaker 2: be around another one like that. So I know exactly
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  Speaker 2: where he's coming from, and I know how to relate
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  Speaker 2: to him with that stuff because I take a lot
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  Speaker 2: of yeah, yeah, yeah, so I relate to him, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I definitely bring a lot. I appreciate the energy brings
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  Speaker 2: each week.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, but I appreciate it. Thank you. This will be
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  Speaker 3: the last two. Justin Ben Shipley.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, Yeah, I don't mean this in a weird way,
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  Speaker 6: but why are you guys so good on the rain?
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  Speaker 6: What is it about these road troops that you guys
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  Speaker 6: can really keep the energy even playing in a hostile environment.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just fun for us kind of and
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  Speaker 2: like we were talking about earlier, with the kind of
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  Speaker 2: chip on the shoulders seeing fans cheer for other people
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  Speaker 2: and not us, and then the booze that we get
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  Speaker 2: running out of the locker room really excites me as well.
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  Speaker 3: And then just to see them quiet, and it said
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Really it's fun experience, I guess as a competitor on
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  Speaker 2: the road, but I think really just from the time
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  Speaker 2: what Friday, you get your low recovery in Saturday on
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  Speaker 2: the plane, everybody's together the whole time, fly get these meeting.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're in the hotel together. We just set your
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  Speaker 3: mindset to.
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  Speaker 2: Go out, and we're already in game game mindset, like
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  Speaker 2: just from my whole flight and stuff. So it's the
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  Speaker 2: part of the routine that you just get accustomed to
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  Speaker 2: what you're going on playing and then as you by
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  Speaker 2: the time you get to the game, you're already ready
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  Speaker 2: there for the for the war that they had.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, yeah, last one Shipley, hey boy, thanks for
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  Speaker 3: doing this.
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  Speaker 7: The broadcast showed Camp talking to you guys after the
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  Speaker 7: touchdown run the second half. Just what was his message
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  Speaker 7: and why did it seem to, you know, really resonate
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  Speaker 7: with you guys. You guys came up firing after that.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not that went enough to our standard, and
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  Speaker 2: we know that, you know, we got to play four
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  Speaker 2: quarters football, and we had an opportunity I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 2: to dead them earlier in the game, but not to
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  Speaker 2: give them hope coming out of half. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: some penalties or whatever extended to drive and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't finish on that test that that wasn't nice.
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  Speaker 3: We had to get back to what we do, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and we know the way that we should
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  Speaker 3: be playing.
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  Speaker 2: So just everybody got on that mindset and hunting, everybody
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  Speaker 2: running the ball eleven is one and then obviously we
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  Speaker 2: started doing better things.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for thank you, Thanks for you. Yeah, just what
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  Speaker 3: you said.
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  Speaker 8: I think we have so many different options and so
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  Speaker 8: many different weapons that you have to cover, and uh,
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  Speaker 8: if you want to focus on one person and the
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  Speaker 8: other person just an opportunity to eat. So I think
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  Speaker 8: we do a good job of that. And we're all
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  Speaker 8: super selfless too. We all won each other to succeed,
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  Speaker 8: and I think that's what I love the most about
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  Speaker 8: this group.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to Jamal, then to justin Britain.
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  Speaker 1: Can you think back a little bit to maybe early
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  Speaker 1: this season or even in the off season, do you
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  Speaker 1: remember the first time that something happened across your mind
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  Speaker 1: that this team, this group has a chance to be special.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, man, just In OTA's and coming in from the beginning,
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  Speaker 8: you know, you kind of realize what we have. And
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  Speaker 8: I mean even from the years past, I feel like
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  Speaker 8: we've had a special group. You know, we have always
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  Speaker 8: had talented players, and I think now we're just starting
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  Speaker 8: to put it together. We're starting to figure out what
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  Speaker 8: it takes each and every week. And I think we
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  Speaker 8: do that through our preparation. We do a great job
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  Speaker 8: and Coach does a great job of preparing us every
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  Speaker 8: single week.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's I think we have a special group.
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  Speaker 8: I always think we have a special group, and I
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  Speaker 8: think we're just figuring out, like how to do it now.
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  Speaker 6: So appreciate you bringin good to Justin than to d Rocket,
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  Speaker 6: Hey Brandon, what is it about these road trips that
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  Speaker 6: you guys are able to find so much success in
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  Speaker 6: hostile environments?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know, man, We've done a great job this
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  Speaker 8: year of going on the road and getting wins. I personally,
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  Speaker 8: I love playing for the Duval. I don't like playing
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  Speaker 8: anywhere else really, but I also love going on the road,
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  Speaker 8: and you know, going in someone else's environment and you know,
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  Speaker 8: just letting the crowd get more and more silent throughout
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  Speaker 8: the entire game. It's good going in somewhere else and
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  Speaker 8: just taking over. So I love that feeling as well.
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  Speaker 8: But it ain't no better feeling than playing in front
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  Speaker 8: of Duval.
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  Speaker 6: And then you've known Parker the longest on this team.
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  Speaker 6: What was it like for you seeing him have that
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  Speaker 6: career day yesterday and kind of just you know, providing
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  Speaker 6: that spark for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's nothing new for me.
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  Speaker 8: I've been seeing it, Like you said, I've known him
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  Speaker 8: for a super long time, so it's nothing.
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  Speaker 3: New for me. I know. That's what Parker can do.
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  Speaker 3: Parker is super special.
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  Speaker 8: He's a talented player, and he always comes to work
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  Speaker 8: and works hard.
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  Speaker 3: So he deserves every single bit of it. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: go to d Rock.
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  Speaker 5: Hey Breton, are you guys the best team in the
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  Speaker 5: AFC Uh?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think we are.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I think that we do the things that
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  Speaker 8: we need to do, and we just need to keep
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  Speaker 8: being us, man. That's that's the biggest thing, is just
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  Speaker 8: keep being us weekend and week out and doing what
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  Speaker 8: we need to do to prepare and everything else will
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  Speaker 8: take care of itself. You know, you can't really say
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  Speaker 8: anything until till it's all over, that final whistle in
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  Speaker 8: that final game. So we're not looking ahead. We're gonna
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  Speaker 8: be be where our feet are. But I think that
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  Speaker 8: we have the confidence and I think that we know
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  Speaker 8: what we have in this in this building.
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  Speaker 5: When you say keep being us, what does that mean exactly?
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  Speaker 3: Like? What what is us? What are you?
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  Speaker 8: You know, something that Liam and Gladstone and Tony they
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  Speaker 8: always say is be us. And you know, that's something
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  Speaker 8: that I love that they say because it's kind of
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  Speaker 8: something that I've gone through my whole entire life. Is
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  Speaker 8: just every time I step on that field, I feel like,
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  Speaker 8: personally myself, I don't have to do anything else but
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  Speaker 8: be who.
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  Speaker 3: I am and that'll that'll do the job for me.
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  Speaker 8: So I always feel like it's a selfless opponent or
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  Speaker 8: a faceless opponent in front of me, and I'm just
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  Speaker 8: I'm battling trying to be the best version of myself.
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  Speaker 8: And I think that they do a great job of
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  Speaker 8: just pulling that out of us each and every week.
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  Speaker 5: And you guys have obviously been talking about you felt
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  Speaker 5: like you've been disrespected for a long time. This season
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  Speaker 5: or all season or whatever. And it's understandable when players
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  Speaker 5: kind of take that to heart. But does Liam kind
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  Speaker 5: of take that as much to heart as you guys do.
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  Speaker 5: Does it annoy him as much as it annoys you guys.
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  Speaker 8: I can't really speak for anybody else, but you know,
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  Speaker 8: I think that Liam does a great job of giving
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  Speaker 8: us an edge each and every single week.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he he does a great job at what
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  Speaker 3: he does.
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  Speaker 8: Like I said, he does a great job of preparing
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  Speaker 8: us and getting us ready our mindset before the game
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  Speaker 8: and having us ready for everything that the defense could
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  Speaker 8: present to us. So I'm super thankful to have a
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  Speaker 8: coach like that and the coaching staff that gets us
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  Speaker 8: ready each and every week.
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  Speaker 5: And more and more, for me, it seems like you
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  Speaker 5: guys a players really are just waiting for him to
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  Speaker 5: come in there and do that fist pump or shoulder
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  Speaker 5: throw whatever it is. It's like, are you guys all
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  Speaker 5: just staying around just like can't wait for him to
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  Speaker 5: throw that thing out there?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not sure what it is either, if it's
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  Speaker 8: a fist pump or whatever, but yeah, it's pretty exciting
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  Speaker 8: every single week to see him come in and just
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  Speaker 8: have the juice and energy you know, to our leader.
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  Speaker 8: To have that just it gives us juice and energy
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  Speaker 8: as well. It makes us want to fight for him,
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  Speaker 8: and fight for the organization and fight for everybody in
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  Speaker 8: the building even more so. We love Coach Limb and
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  Speaker 8: everything that he's done for us and it's going to
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  Speaker 8: continue to do for us.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, boy, appreciate it. This is our last one.
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  Speaker 4: Mark long and following up a little bit on that,
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  Speaker 4: were the Belts locker room new? Was that a new
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  Speaker 4: twist this week?
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  Speaker 3: Just having a little bit of fun with it? Man.
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  Speaker 8: It's it's a fun game. It's it's an emotional game,
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  Speaker 8: and we just we want to have fun with it.
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  Speaker 8: We put a lot of work into this and we
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  Speaker 8: work really hard, so it's it's good to be able to,
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  Speaker 8: you know, just come in and just enjoy it after
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  Speaker 8: the win, and enjoy it as a team and just
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  Speaker 8: just mess around a little bit because at the end
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  Speaker 8: of the day, it's a kids game. You know, we're
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  Speaker 8: grown man, but it's a kids game and we just
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  Speaker 8: love playing the sport. We played the sports since week,
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  Speaker 8: since we've been kids, and it's nothing different.
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  Speaker 4: Does Liam's message It changes every week, right, is that
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  Speaker 4: it takes some work, right to change it up every
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  Speaker 4: single week and keep you guys on edge and motivated.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I think we are a motivated team.
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  Speaker 8: But he definitely keeps us in the right headspace all
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  Speaker 8: the time and brings us back to being level when
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  Speaker 8: we need to be level, and and just just helps
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  Speaker 8: us realize the opportunity that we have in front of us.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 8: It's just him him showing us the opportunity that we
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  Speaker 8: have in front of us. But you know, at the
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  Speaker 8: end of the day, I feel like that we're a
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  Speaker 8: motivated team and we want to we all have the
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  Speaker 8: same goals.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.