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Press Pass | Jaguars Players on Team Chemistry, Week 14 Outlook · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Eight and four teams coming into the bank week fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: This is what you played the whole season to get
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  Speaker 1: to this point. Definitely, this is what you asked for
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  Speaker 1: December football. This is what the best football happens December
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  Speaker 1: in January. So we're happy to still be playing for something.
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  Speaker 1: We know that was the goal at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the year, to playing for something in December. So we
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  Speaker 1: gotta go out there and do what we do. Offensive
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  Speaker 1: line had changes again last week injury block. But it
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  Speaker 1: seems like every week somebody steps in and changes happen,
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  Speaker 1: but you guys still produce.
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  Speaker 2: What does that tell you about this group?
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  Speaker 3: Just tell you how locked and everybody in, how locked
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  Speaker 3: in everybody is from the top to the bottom. No
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  Speaker 3: matter what somebody go down, somebody's ready to go. No
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  Speaker 3: matter we had what seven guys sewed up last week
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  Speaker 3: and somebody still got hurt, and somebody's ready to go
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  Speaker 3: with no drop off. So we just pride of ourselves
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  Speaker 3: in that trying to be the typest group on the team,
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  Speaker 3: really trying to lead the team, and if they see
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  Speaker 3: us fighting through whatever we fighting through and still balling,
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  Speaker 3: everybody going to do it. So just having that mindset
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  Speaker 3: to be that dog team and you go every week
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  Speaker 3: and do it.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have that physical mentality. That's when you're at
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  Speaker 1: your best upfront. How important is it this week against
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  Speaker 1: this front? Yeah, they're without DeForest Buckner, but they got
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  Speaker 1: other guys that can play too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, It's important every week, but definitely this week.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's division game. You know how those games go.
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  Speaker 3: It's always gonna be gritty in the trenches on line
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  Speaker 3: D line. That's going to start the game and finish
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  Speaker 3: the game. So we know that's how we want to play,
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  Speaker 3: and we would next for none more. So you gotta
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  Speaker 3: go out there, dominate the trenches, do our jobs. And
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  Speaker 3: I thought we'd be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Get gritty on the sideline too, apparently last week, right yeah, definitely, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just befitting my teammates man, doing what was best for
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  Speaker 1: the team.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of the villages we went to, for instance,
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  Speaker 4: one place we went a place called West Pacott It's
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  Speaker 4: very desert and dry compared to kind of the region
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  Speaker 4: of Katali is more up in the top of the
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  Speaker 4: mountain and uh some more you know, rivers and creeks
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  Speaker 4: and stuff. But uh, in the desert area, I mean
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  Speaker 4: it was just so dry and so desolate, and this
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  Speaker 4: this it was cool to see this one well in particular,
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  Speaker 4: that one of the ones we had fun before the
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  Speaker 4: foundation got started. We got to go visit there and
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  Speaker 4: visit those people. And you see it before picture the
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  Speaker 4: whale was drilled and it's just ready clay desert, a
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  Speaker 4: couple little mosquite looking trees, and then you see it
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  Speaker 4: two years later and there's literally just banana trees growing
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  Speaker 4: behind it and the whole garden and they've created their
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  Speaker 4: whole ecosystem with the way they dug trenches and stuff
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  Speaker 4: to be able to water, to be able to garden
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  Speaker 4: instead of having to walk somewhere else to get them.
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  Speaker 4: But that village in particular, I was taking pictures of
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  Speaker 4: these kids into the well and these kids were kind
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  Speaker 4: of smiling. I took a picture of them, and they
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  Speaker 4: ran over there and looked at it and they were
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  Speaker 4: just losing their mind. And I was real, like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was funny. And then Taylor, who were
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  Speaker 4: with he was like, they've never seen themselves before. So
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  Speaker 4: that was like one of the most eye opening things
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  Speaker 4: to me, was like these kids are you know, eight, nine,
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  Speaker 4: ten years old and they've literally never seen themselves, so
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  Speaker 4: that was that was a very open experience. And I
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  Speaker 4: mean those kids, you know, they see you coming and
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  Speaker 4: they get so excited and happy and they're they're awesome.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not about just drinking water and water vesentation.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's growing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And the way those started, Zoe was again the organization
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  Speaker 4: we partner with. They started as a as a orphanage,
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  Speaker 4: and then slowly they saw need for water and some
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  Speaker 4: of these places where some of these kids were living,
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  Speaker 4: and that kind of slowly developed into the Water Mission.
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  Speaker 4: And then now that's the side of it that we
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  Speaker 4: that we support. And before I even was very involved
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  Speaker 4: with them, I think clean water. I'm thinking drinking water,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that's really all I thought. But it's more
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  Speaker 4: of an empowerment side of it. The way they can well.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, before they even drill a well in
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  Speaker 4: these places, it's not like they shoot a well and
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  Speaker 4: take off and go to another village there. They bring
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  Speaker 4: three to four people in from this village and kind
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  Speaker 4: of train them at their their their base there in Katali,
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  Speaker 4: and uh kind of kind of you know, teach them
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  Speaker 4: the ways of gardening, of washing clothes of doing things
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  Speaker 4: they've never you know, they've always done in the river
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  Speaker 4: and walk somewhere else to get food and kind of
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  Speaker 4: teach them the way, you know, to kind of take
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  Speaker 4: care of the well and as well before they actually
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  Speaker 4: go spend money to drill a well there. So it's
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  Speaker 4: all about empowerment and helping these people out. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: the last time they got travel for water, the more
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  Speaker 4: they can you know, go to school and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: So intensity last week in the game, clear, but that's
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  Speaker 1: what we can expect on the stretch, right with these
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  Speaker 1: division games that important December games.
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  Speaker 2: For this team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, definitely intensity. Uh, there's definitely some thing that
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  Speaker 4: there's definitely some uh plays that have stuck around longer
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  Speaker 4: than I thought they'd stick around. And uh, just being honest,
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  Speaker 4: when you see your name get talked around the media
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  Speaker 4: in certain ways, that's that's not the funnest thing. And
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  Speaker 4: there's an alleged things get said. It's you know, it's tough,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, I'll never apologize for sticking up for
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  Speaker 4: my teammates. But that there is a side of it
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  Speaker 4: that you know, it's just football and stuff happens, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and that's definitely something I'm I'm kind of trying to
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  Speaker 4: get over right now, just because that's you kind of
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  Speaker 4: see your face out there in the light that a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people are trying to put it out there
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  Speaker 4: and that's not really that's not really what it is,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So, but yeah, definitely some
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  Speaker 4: aggression in some future games and from our team, and
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  Speaker 4: it's fun to see, you know, see the way we're
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  Speaker 4: rolling and kind of keep this thing rolling and keep
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  Speaker 4: it rolling in January.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, I was real big. But as a competitor,
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  Speaker 2: you never want to like, uh, increase the magnitude of
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  Speaker 2: the game. You know, you want to cheat like the
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  Speaker 2: next one and understanding that we still have a long
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  Speaker 2: way to go and one game doesn't divide in our season,
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  Speaker 2: but this is a very important game. We have to
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  Speaker 2: approach you that so but so you have to find
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  Speaker 2: that balance as a competitor. But we know it's at stake.
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  Speaker 2: So as long as we go out there ready, ready
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  Speaker 2: to play and put our best foot for it. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you live with whatever happens.
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  Speaker 4: You played in some exciting atmospheres here a couple of
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  Speaker 4: times about your career.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of juice does that kind of crowd kind
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  Speaker 2: of give you. Just as a player, I get you
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  Speaker 2: a lot of jews, man, just being able to feed
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  Speaker 2: off the crowd the energy, you know, just I know,
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  Speaker 2: you make a play and the crowd is going wild.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as a as a player on that field,
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  Speaker 2: it just gives you a gentleman. You just keep going,
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  Speaker 2: keep going, and uh, you don't get tired out there.
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  Speaker 2: You just you just kind of get into a flow state.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like and ah, man, it's a sightey series.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna look like Sunday. Didn't run the ball much last week.
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  Speaker 2: Can you run on this team?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like we're going to in a team
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  Speaker 2: we play against, you know. Uh, just gotta be detailed.
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  Speaker 2: Stick to my kids, just uh read every play like
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  Speaker 2: its own, you know. And it's gonna be raining Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like that works in our favorite So
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  Speaker 2: it's excited for the game. Man, he decided to get there,
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  Speaker 2: but you know how to take those steps in order
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  Speaker 2: to get there, so prepared for the moment.
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  Speaker 1: You like a sloppy game like weatherwise.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jmima. Being at home as a kid, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's when I want supposed to go outside and play football.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to supposed to go outside at all
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  Speaker 2: cause it's raining, just going outside of my brother and
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  Speaker 2: my friends, just sneaking and going and play football in
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  Speaker 2: the rainy field, just sliding everywhere, and it kind of
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  Speaker 2: brings that field, you know. So just go out there,
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  Speaker 2: play free, just do something that we've been doing the
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  Speaker 2: whole life. And man, just play for love of the game.
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  Speaker 5: Whatte thighs of yards again mean to you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, uh, I mean it's a great feature.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Just just having to sess in this league is really hard,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I feel like it's just testament to
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  Speaker 2: my own line, just testament to just all the whole
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  Speaker 2: work we put in the off season and just those
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  Speaker 2: guys just out there moving people from me. And I
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  Speaker 2: just feel like it just be a great moment for
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  Speaker 2: the team, you know, but we still have to just
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  Speaker 2: keep going. I know it's probably hard to look at it.
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  Speaker 5: Man, you might not even look back on anything until
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  Speaker 5: after the year. But do you think this is your
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  Speaker 5: best year that you've had here?
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  Speaker 2: This year? Uh? Yeah, I mean, uh I I feel
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  Speaker 2: like my uh I would say yeah, just in terms
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  Speaker 2: of I feel like I just keeping your better each
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  Speaker 2: and every year. I play the game and uh, just learning,
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  Speaker 2: but I feel like I'm numbers wise. I feel like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: one year, I just feel like averaging maybe like uh
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  Speaker 2: four point eighty care or something like that. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like that year was really exciting, just uh just being
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  Speaker 2: here fresh and everything, or the either had the most touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: cause I feel I like touchdowns, but I like touchdown
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  Speaker 2: but I don't really like one year I touchdowns. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like those, uh those aren't really doing nothing for
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  Speaker 2: me at all. So I just like the longest ones
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  Speaker 2: if I can get in that zone and just feel
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  Speaker 2: good to celebrate with my teammates, you know. But I
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  Speaker 2: f like this has been a great year for me,
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  Speaker 2: just just just finding my love, my love for the
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  Speaker 2: game again.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's just plenty of the people, Uh, just just a
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  Speaker 2: team camaraderie. I feel like we have this year. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like that's probably been the best part of this
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  Speaker 2: team is just we all playing for each other. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're all playing for love of the game, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: this is a genuine connection around here. So that's what
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  Speaker 2: made this year just so special.
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  Speaker 5: You skip to all those one yards, that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: He take that one yard, and I feel like when
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  Speaker 2: when my son watching my highlights, I don't want him
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  Speaker 2: to be like, oh, Dad was just just just just
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  Speaker 2: just running behind the line. Gain in my son to
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  Speaker 2: see me just doing something nice.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Like, how would you describe la Quint's on field personality?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's great. I mean, as a football player,
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  Speaker 2: you need that. You need that, Uh, you need somebody
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  Speaker 2: out to just agitating people, you know, just get him
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  Speaker 2: off the game, just getting in their heads. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: I for he does a great job of that. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like, uh, I kind of that. I call him
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  Speaker 2: the neutralizing just uh whoever that whoever the uh the
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  Speaker 2: game worker is. We just send him out there to
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  Speaker 2: go neutralize him, know, just get him off that game,
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  Speaker 2: just kind of get him thinking about just something else
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  Speaker 2: besides football. And then I feel he does a great
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  Speaker 2: job of that.
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  Speaker 5: He's there a little bit of craziness to that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I mean him. I mean, honestly, we ain't get
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  Speaker 2: to the NFL. I don't think nobody in the locker
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  Speaker 2: room got their head on straight, you know, so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: everybody gotta high have a little sum missing to him
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  Speaker 2: to be playing football at this level.
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  Speaker 5: You guys, just send him after Simmons and Max Crosby
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  Speaker 5: to all that guy.
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  Speaker 2: So so definitely, he definitely got a limit crazy and
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  Speaker 2: everybody else because he don't care who it is. Like
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  Speaker 2: you said, you just named MaTx, Crosby, Simmons. He's just
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  Speaker 2: going out there. It's the town as if there was
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  Speaker 2: a linebacker. So uh he definitely, Uh yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: for sure now we need that. I feel like it's
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  Speaker 2: great for us, you know, when you go out there,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, just neutralize the best defender or get
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  Speaker 2: the defenders to get some penuries or something, get him
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  Speaker 2: out of the game, just gets the amount of football.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that just makes it much easier for
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  Speaker 2: us to go in there and like we just played ball.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't go pissyp off. So we just come back
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  Speaker 2: there and kind of enforce.
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  Speaker 5: Him something you don't have to worry about doing.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, ain't got it. He do
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  Speaker 2: it for me. He do all the dirty away for me,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So it's great having a guy like that,