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Press Pass | Lawrence on Offense Syncing, Prep for Broncos’ Pass Rush · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Is it gonna be weird?
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  Speaker 2: So is it gonna be week to see Evan Ingram
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  Speaker 2: on a different sideline this league?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it'll be.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be interesting seeing, uh, seeing Evan over there. And
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  Speaker 3: I'd be great to see him. Obviously, they're having a
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  Speaker 3: great year and I got a lot of respect for
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  Speaker 3: him and we got a great relationship. So so I'll
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  Speaker 3: talk to him a little bit before and after the game.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it'll be it'll be interesting to seeing him
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  Speaker 3: over there.
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  Speaker 1: There's nowhere around it. There's a ton riding on the
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  Speaker 1: see him, right, Yeah. I mean it's a big game.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like every I mean last week was a
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  Speaker 3: big game, Colts was a big game, and this one
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  Speaker 3: is no different.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's a big game for us.
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  Speaker 3: And at this point in the season, with where we're at,
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  Speaker 3: when you've put yourself in position like we have and
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  Speaker 3: like obviously like the Broncos have and like a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of teams in the AFC have, every game is huge
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the year, which is where you
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  Speaker 3: want to be. So I think there's no secret about
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  Speaker 3: you know how important it is, but it's still just
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a game and you got to prepare
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  Speaker 3: the same way. You can't put too much pressure on it.
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  Speaker 3: You just gotta go out there and.
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  Speaker 1: Play special a union is that that you? Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: really really good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously the numbers are historic, and the way
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  Speaker 3: they're playing and flying around, and it's not just the
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  Speaker 3: group up front, it's the whole defense every level. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're they're well coached, they're flying around, they're making plays,
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  Speaker 3: they're physical, they're really good in the back end. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: they're great at rushing the passer. It just works really
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  Speaker 3: well together. The defense is playing really well. It's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a challenge for us. So we'll have to have
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  Speaker 3: a great week of practice and a good play going
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  Speaker 3: in for a really good defense. With Bacial out, la
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  Speaker 3: Quinn's opportunities are probably gonna increase.
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  Speaker 1: Just what have you seen from him? You know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: he's been in there for third downs, but just as
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  Speaker 1: a runner as well.
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  Speaker 3: Every time he's got an opportunity with the ball, he's
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  Speaker 3: he's done something with it, you know, and obviously hasn't
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  Speaker 3: gotten a ton just because you know, it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: get it's hard to get through all three guys the
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  Speaker 3: same amount of carries and you know, Travis obviously is
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  Speaker 3: having a great year. Baseil's been doing some really good
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  Speaker 3: things for us, and the Quinn's been such a big
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  Speaker 3: factor and third down and special teams and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So but I know he's gonna be ready for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you look at every time he gets the ball,
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  Speaker 3: how hard he runs, and some of the four minute
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  Speaker 3: runs last week and before.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 3: So I know he's gonna be prepared and he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna take this opportunity to run with it and
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  Speaker 3: play well.
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  Speaker 1: I have no doubt about that.
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  Speaker 2: Liam gets a lot of credit inside the building for
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  Speaker 2: his communication skills, and I don't want to compare a
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  Speaker 2: built previous guys, but do you feel like that's what
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  Speaker 2: sets him apart.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he's a really good communicator. I think there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things, you know, that make make him unique
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  Speaker 3: in his personality, and like part of the thing, uh,
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  Speaker 3: part of one of the that's one of the things
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  Speaker 3: that's great about him is he does communicate really well,
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  Speaker 3: very intentional with how he talks to you know, the staff,
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  Speaker 3: the players, all of us as a team. You can
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  Speaker 3: tell it's it's very directed, like he knows what he
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  Speaker 3: wants to say and the message he wants to get across,
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  Speaker 3: and there's no there's no gray area. He's very black
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  Speaker 3: and white, very clear, and I think that's really important
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  Speaker 3: obviously for a leader and a head coach. And then
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  Speaker 3: I've talked about just the way he expresses himself and
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  Speaker 3: the passion and just the you can feel it coming
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  Speaker 3: from him, and I think that's something that guys have
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  Speaker 3: really latched onto. That got that that makes guys want
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  Speaker 3: to follow him because you can just see it.
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  Speaker 1: He kale seems to be the word people use about Grant.
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  Speaker 2: Just working with him so far, how's he helped you
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  Speaker 2: kind of just consistency dialed in a position.
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  Speaker 3: Just dating in, He's heeled me a lot. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I uh, he's He's really unique. I've never really met
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  Speaker 3: anyone like him. You know, the way he approaches just
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  Speaker 3: the preparation process, the attention to detail, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: the game planning in general, the things that he thinks
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  Speaker 3: about the conversations that we have throughout the whole week.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's a very very detailed process and
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  Speaker 3: it seems like, I mean, we don't leave. There's there's
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  Speaker 3: no stones that are left unturned, and his approach with
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  Speaker 3: us in the QB room and obviously Spends as well
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  Speaker 3: as a QB coach.
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  Speaker 1: We're all kind of doing it together and.
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  Speaker 3: The rest of the guys in there, so there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of a lot of hands in there that are
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  Speaker 3: that are helping making it go. But obviously Grant is
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  Speaker 3: one of the big factors and he oversees it and
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  Speaker 3: he's done a great job really just from our conversations
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  Speaker 3: back in the sp and his just I guess knowledge
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  Speaker 3: is the system and understanding the run game the past
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  Speaker 3: game and clearly communicating it to me so I could
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  Speaker 3: learn it quickly, you know, when we're installing the system.
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  Speaker 3: But then now from a game plan, there's so many
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  Speaker 3: specific things that you're looking for when you're planning against
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  Speaker 3: the defense, and he's helped me a lot see things
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  Speaker 3: quicker pick up on different tendencies the defense might have,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, he's been awesome for me.
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  Speaker 2: A compliment on they're saying, he's never seen you play
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  Speaker 2: like this, essentially, but what have you seen from him?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously going back to your guys and fundcenter now where
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of having a run this season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think just as a player overall,
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  Speaker 3: just his growth and adaptation and how he's become more versatile.
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  Speaker 3: I think you look at what he's doing out of
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  Speaker 3: the backfield. Obviously last week was pretty crazy, the three
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  Speaker 3: receiving touchdowns and the things he was able to do
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  Speaker 3: catching the ball, But just beyond that, how he's been
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  Speaker 3: able to impact the game in that way. Obviously running
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  Speaker 3: the ball, that's that's something he's always done well and
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  Speaker 3: he's seen it. He has the big playability and the
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  Speaker 3: speed and explosiveness, and I think just overall the way
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  Speaker 3: he's played his vision, his I mean just overall knowledge
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  Speaker 3: of the system and where certain plays are meant to
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  Speaker 3: go and how he reads it out. I think he's
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  Speaker 3: done an awesome job of putting in the work this
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  Speaker 3: offseason and learning a new system and how we're trying
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  Speaker 3: to target certain runs and where the whether the cutback
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  Speaker 3: or the balance or whatever's there, and learn learning how
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  Speaker 3: to read it based on the scheme.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's done an awesome job.
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  Speaker 3: And protection, I think is a huge thing where he's
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's grown a lot, and he's really sharp
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  Speaker 3: and he's done a great job of protecting when he's
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  Speaker 3: in there. Obviously, the Quinn has been in with a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the third downs, but Travis has had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of opportunities too, and he's had some great blocks.
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  Speaker 3: He had a great one against the Colts where he
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  Speaker 3: cut Zaire Franklin on a big play.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he's done an awesome job. Said, He's always
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  Speaker 1: known he's had good hands. You always know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, he's always he's always been able to catch.
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  Speaker 3: I do he's gotten better though, for sure. I think
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  Speaker 3: he's always had good hands. I think he has very
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  Speaker 3: reliable hands now and he's shown just gotten more fluid,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's it's smoother, you know, he's making tougher catches easier, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: make making them look easier. Sorry, fumble a little bit there.
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  Speaker 3: I just think it's become more fluid for him. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's always been able to catch, and he's been a
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  Speaker 3: thread out of the backfield can.
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  Speaker 1: Get pretty loud.
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  Speaker 3: How do you make sure that that crowd noise, how
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  Speaker 3: does that pact the operations of the offense. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: you know, obviously we've seems like we played a lot
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  Speaker 3: of road games. We just had two back to back
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  Speaker 3: at home, but just part of the operation that you
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  Speaker 3: get used to dealing with, especially this point in the year.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be loud. It's gonna be a great environment there.
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  Speaker 3: Just got to communicate clearly, and obviously we're gonna be
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  Speaker 3: on the silent and we got to manage that and
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  Speaker 3: get it in out the huddle so we have time
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  Speaker 3: to operate and communicate. But yeah, it's I got no
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  Speaker 3: doubt it's going to be loud. So we're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to be really, you know, really on point with our
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  Speaker 3: communication and nonverbal communication.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure we're on the same page.
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  Speaker 2: Leads you on his shoulder after when it's when he
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  Speaker 2: gets is there some anticipation now that's coming with the
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  Speaker 2: room amongst you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, we're all fired up, but we're in
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  Speaker 3: there waiting. I'm surprised, right, but he hasn't thrown on
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  Speaker 3: his shoulder. I mean I think, yeah, it's it's funny
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  Speaker 3: just seeing the juice when he comes in there. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's guys, guys get fired up about that. It's become
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  Speaker 3: kind of his thing. So I like it. It just happened
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  Speaker 3: and then it stuck and guys look forward to that,
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  Speaker 3: so it gets us going.
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  Speaker 2: Any game on Sunday, But everyone seems calm. It says
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  Speaker 2: that a very calm composed team. Are you surprised by
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  Speaker 2: that where they adapted to the personality that you bring
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  Speaker 2: to the offense. I mean it just it seems like
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  Speaker 2: there's just there in a nice spot and not too
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  Speaker 2: driven by the size.
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  Speaker 1: Of the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it's kind of like I
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  Speaker 3: was saying earlier, it's I mean, every game at this
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  Speaker 3: point of the year is big, Every game is huge,
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  Speaker 3: So I think this team is. You know, two weeks
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  Speaker 3: ago and we played the Colts, so everybody was talking
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  Speaker 3: about how big that game was too, and and we
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  Speaker 3: just came out and did our job and we were
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  Speaker 3: able to play well and execute and win the game.
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  Speaker 3: And it's gonna be no different this weekend. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that's our job is to go out there, prepare, put
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  Speaker 3: a great plan together, and go execute, try to go
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  Speaker 3: excute better than the Broncos for sixty minutes, and go
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  Speaker 3: win the game. So it's a really good team. It's
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  Speaker 3: going to be challenging, but it's the same job. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we just got to go out there and play well
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  Speaker 3: and execute.
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  Speaker 1: Essentially, that's three game stretch of your career, first three
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  Speaker 1: game stretch with no turnovers. But does it feel does
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  Speaker 1: it feel different for you right now?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like I'm seeing it really well.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm throwing it well, just offensively in general.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just it's never about just one guy. I
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  Speaker 3: think just as an offense for really SYNCD up right now,
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  Speaker 3: especially in the passing game and protecting up front.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't do anything without that.
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  Speaker 3: And those guys have done an awesome job, and guys
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  Speaker 3: are making a ton of plays down the field world.
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  Speaker 3: We all have a lot of confidence in what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: It just seems like we got the ball roll in
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  Speaker 3: the last few weeks, so it feels good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know to answer your question about compared to
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  Speaker 3: other stretches of my career. I mean, it just feels
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  Speaker 3: like I'm seeing it well. It feels like it's coming
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  Speaker 3: out good. Like I said, guys are making plays, we're
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  Speaker 3: trusting each other, and it's been fun.
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  Speaker 1: So we just to keep it rolling, all right, than
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  Speaker 1: you Sha,