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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "We All Know What's at Stake." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, knowing that you are not above storing up
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  Speaker 1: motivational fuel. How much is going up against a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: like CJ. Straud who's being tabbed as this young upcoming
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  Speaker 1: Does that do anything for you from a motivational standpoint
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  Speaker 1: or is it just about it being a division game
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  Speaker 1: it's the Texans.
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  Speaker 2: Not really. I think there's there's plenty of motivation for
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  Speaker 2: this game anyways.
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  Speaker 3: You look at kind of what the Texans have done
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  Speaker 3: this year and being in our division, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're getting down here at the end of the season, and.
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  Speaker 2: All these games matter.
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  Speaker 3: They all matter, you know, when you go back and
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  Speaker 3: look at your season, every game you've played has implications,
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  Speaker 3: but especially when you get to this point. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we got seven games left. It's a tight race in
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  Speaker 3: our division overall. You look at the AFC, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's a ton of teams that are kind of in
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  Speaker 3: the hunt. So every game matters, even more so that
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  Speaker 3: it is a division game. This is huge. So I
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  Speaker 3: think that that's enough. That's enough motivation as is. But
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  Speaker 3: I think gets motivation too. You look at the Texans
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  Speaker 3: and what they're doing. They're playing really good football right now.
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  Speaker 3: They got a good team good young team. They're they're
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  Speaker 3: playing really well, so it's a team that obviously there's
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  Speaker 3: motivation to beat. They beat us here pretty bad here
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  Speaker 3: at home, you know, earlier in the season, so there's
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  Speaker 3: plenty of motivation just in those in those areas.
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  Speaker 1: When you were when you were a kid growing up
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  Speaker 1: watching football on television, is there any NFL quarterback rivalries
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  Speaker 1: that intrigued you at all, where two you know, star
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks or league quarterbacks that you enjoyed watching.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, of course, obviously Tom and Peyton. That's when
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  Speaker 3: I was a little bit younger, I guess, and that
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  Speaker 3: was kind of minutes prime. But that was a big one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think there's been There's been a ton
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  Speaker 3: trying to.
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  Speaker 2: Think of another one.
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  Speaker 3: That was probably the main one because Peyton was my
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  Speaker 3: favorite player growing up, and obviously player Tom was his
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  Speaker 3: whole career. I mean, every time he was on TV.
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  Speaker 3: Wanted to watch him just the way he plays the game,
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  Speaker 3: So that was that was probably, I.
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  Speaker 2: Guess the biggest one. Shoot.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, even growing up in Georgia, you know sometimes
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  Speaker 3: the Matt Ryan and Drew Brees, you know all that.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a couple that I that I watched growing up.
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  Speaker 3: How much does that first game against the Texans play into.
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  Speaker 2: This one as in just.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it wasn't a performance that you guys
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  Speaker 3: liked out on the field. How much does that add
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  Speaker 3: to I guess, fuel to the fire of sorts? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean it does obviously because we remember what that
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  Speaker 3: felt like and dropping a division game earlier in the
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  Speaker 3: season and not playing well. We remember that feeling and
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  Speaker 3: that gives you a little bit of motivation. But either way,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's this game is is big. This game
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  Speaker 3: is big for the Texans. You know, we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: how big it for us to pick for them too,
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  Speaker 3: So you know they got motivation. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: only goes so far in this league. You still got
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  Speaker 3: to go and you know, prepare and have a great
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  Speaker 3: plan and go execute on Sunday. You know, you can
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  Speaker 3: have all the motivation in the world. I feel, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, I feel like we've been prepared in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of games and maybe didn't play well and you know,
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  Speaker 3: so you got to go.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta go execute on Sunday. That's what it's about.
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  Speaker 3: You know who the better team is for three hours
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  Speaker 3: and Sunday, So of course, you use everything you can,
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  Speaker 3: but you got to keep in mind that everybody's motivated
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  Speaker 3: for these games, especially when you're trying to make a
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  Speaker 3: push at the end of the season. So we all
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  Speaker 3: know what's at stake. There's no height in it. You
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  Speaker 3: know you're not gonna you're not gonna pull any fast
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  Speaker 3: ones on anybody. We all know kind of how big
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  Speaker 3: this game is and what it could mean at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the year down stretch run.
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  Speaker 4: How do you avoid the distractions, you know, the holidays
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  Speaker 4: and Christmas and all that stuff and tighten your focus
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  Speaker 4: down because it seems like the great teams in this
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  Speaker 4: league find your focus at this end of the year
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  Speaker 4: and don't let the little.
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  Speaker 1: Things get them off track.
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  Speaker 4: Is that something you challenge your teammates, You got to
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  Speaker 4: challenge each other to that.
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  Speaker 1: Or how do you do how do you dial in focus?
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  Speaker 3: That's something we talked about today, actually, you know, coach
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  Speaker 3: Coach Peterson mentioned and I think it's important. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you got to recognize this is a crazy time of
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  Speaker 3: year with holidays and obviously family and friends and just
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  Speaker 3: a lot going going on, But then you also got
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  Speaker 3: the most important part of your season right in front
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  Speaker 3: of you, and that's when that's when the good and
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  Speaker 3: great teams play well, is when it matters, especially at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the year. So you know, we understand
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  Speaker 3: that we were in a position last year obviously where
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  Speaker 3: we didn't have a choice back was against the wall
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  Speaker 3: and we had to make that pushed the end of
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  Speaker 3: the year and we were able to do that. So
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  Speaker 3: we have some experience obviously playing well and playing our
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  Speaker 3: best ball at the end of the year. But we
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  Speaker 3: gotta do that again this year. You know, that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: carry over, you know, So I think that is that
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  Speaker 3: is on our that is on our mind. That's something
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  Speaker 3: that we're aware of, and I think you have to
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  Speaker 3: be because you know, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: this is our job and you can't let all the
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  Speaker 3: outside distractions get to you because there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 3: lot going on, you know. Coach mentioned you know we
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  Speaker 3: talk about holidays and families and all this stuff. For
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  Speaker 3: those For those people usually it's vacation for them, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're hanging out and whether they come to
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  Speaker 3: your house or whatever it is for them, that's that's
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  Speaker 3: a vacation. They're taking time off work. We're we're working
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  Speaker 3: every day is important. You can't miss a day and
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  Speaker 3: obviously we gotta we got to put put everything together
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  Speaker 3: before Sunday, so you can't afford to just take days
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  Speaker 3: off and all those things. Obviously, you know you got
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  Speaker 3: thanks given. Of course, you can celebrate and you know,
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  Speaker 3: spend some time together, fellowship all that.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you've got to keep in mind.
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  Speaker 3: You know what time of year it is, how important
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  Speaker 3: these games are for us, and our guys know that.
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  Speaker 3: I think we have a mature group that that can
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  Speaker 3: handle it.
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  Speaker 5: AFC Offensive Player of the Week, those sorts of accolades
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  Speaker 5: mean anything to you during the season.
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  Speaker 2: I mean not really.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate the I guess the recognition, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really give you anything. I guess it just people saying
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  Speaker 3: that you play a good game. So that's all it
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  Speaker 3: is at the end of the day, So it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really it doesn't mean too much. You know, I appreciate
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  Speaker 3: the recognition, but there's a lot of guys that go
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  Speaker 3: into that, and you know, I think, especially being the quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: when you get something like that, obviously the guys around
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  Speaker 3: you had to play really well. It doesn't go without
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  Speaker 3: without them, So you know, that's kind of I guess
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a boost for all of us,
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  Speaker 3: but that's all. It is, nothing more than that.
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  Speaker 6: Did you in this offense need that game to not
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  Speaker 6: only bounce back from sand Fraan, but to kind of
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  Speaker 6: play the way you thought this would go most of
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  Speaker 6: the year on the offensive end.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good question, you know. I don't I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if a need would be the right word. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's I definitely think it's a positive. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you look at where we're at, Like you said, we're
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  Speaker 3: getting into the back half of the season and haven't
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  Speaker 3: felt like we really That's probably the most complete game
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  Speaker 3: we played as an offense. So to take that step
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  Speaker 3: and to be playing some of our better football as
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  Speaker 3: this season is getting towards the back half, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's a positive. And you use that
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  Speaker 3: and you let that kind of push you forward and
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  Speaker 3: you keep striving to play like that every week and
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  Speaker 3: play even better. There was still a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 3: that we left out there, so I think, yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: do use that and that gives you that gives you
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  Speaker 3: a little motivation and kind of get you going and show, wow,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is what we could do every week.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we just have to we just have to
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  Speaker 3: be dialed in. We got to be detail, We got
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  Speaker 3: to execute and make the plays that are there. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that, I mean need is kind of a
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  Speaker 3: tough word, but I do think that it was big
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  Speaker 3: for us, and I think it gives us confidence. And
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  Speaker 3: when you continue to play like that the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the way. Has your offensive line gotten enough love for
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  Speaker 3: the job they did last week?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, they don't. They don't get
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  Speaker 2: much love. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like that's a tough that's a tough room
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  Speaker 3: to be in just for recognition, and they understand that
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  Speaker 3: and they handle it like champs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they always joke about it.
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  Speaker 3: But those guys are doing a great job and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, stuff like that doesn't happen. The offense
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  Speaker 3: doesn't go like that when when the guys up front
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  Speaker 3: aren't leading the charge. And that's what they did, and
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  Speaker 3: they took a lot of just took a lot of
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  Speaker 3: it on themselves last week of you know, they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna do great in the run game, They're gonna
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  Speaker 3: protect all these things, give us time to shoot the
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  Speaker 3: ball downfield, and we're able to do that, so it.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't go without them.
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  Speaker 3: And I think sometimes, you know, I should mention it
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  Speaker 3: more because people don't understand that. I understand that, and
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  Speaker 3: we talk about a lot in our group, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: we we love those guys up because it is a
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  Speaker 3: tough job. It's the most selfless job on the field.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you you you do your job, you do
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  Speaker 3: your job great. No one talks about you, you give
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  Speaker 3: up a sack. Everybody's talking about you. It's the opposite
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  Speaker 3: of other positions, you know. It's like you do you
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  Speaker 3: do your job the right way, you don't get much
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  Speaker 3: recognition for it. So those guys, you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: they deserve all the all the credit. That's a tough
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  Speaker 3: job and they're doing an awesome job, and we just
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  Speaker 3: gotta keep getting better every week.
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  Speaker 5: The idea why this team is pretty dialed in on
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  Speaker 5: the road has been this year. Is it easier to
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  Speaker 5: be dialed in.
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  Speaker 2: On the road sometimes, you know, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what the answer to that is.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think that's something we emphasized for sure
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  Speaker 3: this this season is we weren't great on the road
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  Speaker 3: last year, especially early in the year, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 3: and that was an emphasis.
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  Speaker 2: That was a point emphasis.
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  Speaker 3: I know in training camp that we talked about we
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  Speaker 3: talked about our season, the things that we need to
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  Speaker 3: get better at. Maybe some things we did well and
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  Speaker 3: that was something that we thought we needed to get
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  Speaker 3: better at. And maybe it is something you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think when you get out of here, there is something
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  Speaker 3: to you get out of here a day early.
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  Speaker 2: A day early, you get a hotel.
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  Speaker 3: It's just you got time to prepare and do all
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  Speaker 3: your stuff, no distractions. I think there is some some
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  Speaker 3: merit to that as well. You know, who knows how
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  Speaker 3: big of a part that plays. But like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I think we're all professionals, so we take care of
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  Speaker 3: our business here too. So but yeah, we gotta we
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  Speaker 3: got to keep that going. Obviously, it's a big road game.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna play in big road games to finish the
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  Speaker 3: year that you're gonna have to win. So this is
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  Speaker 3: a good, good challenge for us this week.
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  Speaker 5: Because you know, when you go away in college, the
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  Speaker 5: stadiums or bigger, the fans might be even more hostile.
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  Speaker 5: But do you get to players now, they're not They're
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  Speaker 5: never intimidated by an away apples here and need do
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  Speaker 5: you feed off of it. Do you feed off the
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  Speaker 5: other fans screaming and yelling and being into this hostile environments.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think from obviously a communication standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: it's not to your advantage, but I do think there
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  Speaker 3: is some there is something cool about being able to
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  Speaker 3: go in someone else's stadium and the goal is always
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  Speaker 3: to quiet the crowd by the fourth quarter. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that's something that we've tried to do, try to
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  Speaker 3: make an emphasis in our on our games on the road,
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  Speaker 3: is to try to do that, because that's a cool
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  Speaker 3: feeling when you can go to someone else's stadium and
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  Speaker 3: get into into a position where they're not even allowed
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  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter. So I think that's something that
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  Speaker 3: you kind of look forward to and that challenge and
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  Speaker 3: everybody against you, kind of back against the wall. That
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  Speaker 3: feeling of being on the road is a real thing,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that there's you should use all that
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  Speaker 3: to play better. But then from a practical standpoint, obviously
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  Speaker 3: communication becomes more challenging when when it's really loud, you
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  Speaker 3: can't hear critical situations. Just have to really communicate, really
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  Speaker 3: be on the same page, and you know, have to
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  Speaker 3: be prepared and especially in those situations when communication is limited,
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  Speaker 3: you have to really be prepared and know your job.
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  Speaker 1: Can we get your three most irresistible Thanksgiving Day?
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  Speaker 2: Where is this going on? Golly uh? Three just dishes?
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  Speaker 2: You would just really crazy? Swoop Taino cast.
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  Speaker 3: Role would be one of them. The other one like
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  Speaker 3: green bean or like broccoli castrole. Those are two that
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  Speaker 3: I really like. I would say that's one other one though,
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  Speaker 3: and the third one? What are some other ones? Can
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  Speaker 3: you guys throw some out there?
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  Speaker 2: Like deserve good one pecan pie