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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "Victories like this start in practice." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: As far as the you know, the victory obviously on
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  Speaker 1: the road, UM against a great football team, you know
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  Speaker 1: here in Nashville, where you know we obviously haven't done
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  Speaker 1: done well. UM means a lot, means a lot to myself,
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  Speaker 1: the organization, to the cons you know, to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do that, and you know, and then for the
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  Speaker 1: players to to really play play well. They listen, they
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  Speaker 1: bounced back from from last week. You know, we've talked
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  Speaker 1: a lot about that and how we all felt from
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  Speaker 1: last week. And and UM, you know, knew this was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a four quarter football game. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then Trevor, I thought, Trevor, you know, for the
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  Speaker 1: limited amount of practice this week, played played tough, played physical,
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  Speaker 1: played smart, Um made some heck you know, heck heck
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  Speaker 1: of you know, great throws actually in this football game.
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  Speaker 1: And UM defense, the four takeaways, you know, we were
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  Speaker 1: able to capitalize off of I think three or three
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  Speaker 1: of those, I believe, UM in this game. And and um,
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  Speaker 1: the sacks, getting pressure and all the things we keep
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  Speaker 1: talking about kind of showed up in this football game.
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  Speaker 1: And and UM, proud of proud of the guys. I
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  Speaker 1: think pressure on the quarterback, you know, you put pressure
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  Speaker 1: on the quarterback and you know balls, balls tend to
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  Speaker 1: to to either you know, miss the targets a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think the pressure and then the guys
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  Speaker 1: were in the right spots and made some made some
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  Speaker 1: really critical or key I should say, takeaways in this
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  Speaker 1: football game. Um, but hats off to the defense. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's a little bit of a rough start,
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  Speaker 1: you know with them running the football, which we knew
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  Speaker 1: coming in that that's what they do and they do
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  Speaker 1: it well. Um, but you know, kind of settled into
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  Speaker 1: the football game and handled you know, handled our business
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  Speaker 1: much better. You know, it means a lot, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the pride factor, um with everybody. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: again they understood last week was was an embarrassment, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and um, you know we we don't never want
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  Speaker 1: to coach and play that way. And uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: uh victory it is like this, you know, starting practice
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  Speaker 1: and and the way they the players handled themselves this
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  Speaker 1: week I thought was really really good. And and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta do it again this week England today and
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  Speaker 1: was that is he gonna be talking about big part
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  Speaker 1: of the game plan anyway, and you know he's he's
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  Speaker 1: always part of the game plan. Um, you just never
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  Speaker 1: know who's gonna have the hot hand at times, and
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know he had it there and and
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  Speaker 1: UH played played tough and and made some outstanding catches,
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  Speaker 1: made some mouth standing plays and and UH played played
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  Speaker 1: well today two yards in the second half. But look
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  Speaker 1: like you're gonna have a game the first quarter. Is
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  Speaker 1: there anything you guys did to adjust or you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we talked all week about it's gonna take eleven
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  Speaker 1: on defense to stop you know, stop this run game.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a really good run game. Um, and we
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  Speaker 1: were able to do that, you know, penetration, getting getting
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  Speaker 1: some guys you know in the backfield on early downs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to to trip him up. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say this too, I mean, you know, offensively, when
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  Speaker 1: you get a lead, and I've been on the other
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  Speaker 1: side where you know we're we're behind, and then the
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  Speaker 1: next thing, you know, you gotta put the ball in
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  Speaker 1: the air and it kind of takes a guy like
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  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry out. You're not obviously out of the game,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, UH minimizes his opportunities. So, um, just
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  Speaker 1: a great job our defense. You know, after that first
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  Speaker 1: you know, quarter and a half or so. UM of
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  Speaker 1: doing that, I guess kind of show him he can
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  Speaker 1: put this team on his shoulders and carry him when
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  Speaker 1: needed against the Ravens and certainly today when the run
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  Speaker 1: game is not working. Is there any question you have
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  Speaker 1: left about him that he hasn't answered yet other than
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  Speaker 1: winning a Super Bowl? Um? You know, I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's he's UM. He's been able to handle everything,
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  Speaker 1: and now he's battling you know, the injury this week. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And to put the team sort of his back like
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  Speaker 1: did again today just shows a type of player and
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  Speaker 1: person that he is and and how tough he is. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he's the right leader, you know for us, And UM,
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  Speaker 1: you know we're excited to have him as our quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And and UM he can only get you can only
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  Speaker 1: get better, you know. And and that's the UM. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's the one thing that you know, I'm most
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  Speaker 1: encouraged about, is just just how much more we can
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  Speaker 1: we can pour into him and and uh, UM, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as he leads this team this this game starts in
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  Speaker 1: practice last week, what did you see from the guys
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  Speaker 1: that gave you a good feeling hit into today? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think the you know, uh, the energy level, um,
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  Speaker 1: sort of a sense of urgency to to you know,
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  Speaker 1: the way we practice, you know, and guys were guys
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  Speaker 1: were dialed in you know during the week. And that's
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  Speaker 1: just something I think we learned, um through the course
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  Speaker 1: of the year, you know. And and in our business too,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a repetitive business right now, and now
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  Speaker 1: we got to do it again, and you got to
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  Speaker 1: do it even better you know against another really really
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  Speaker 1: good football to team you know, next next weekend. So, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I just think the attention to detail, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: understanding their jobs, their roles, you know, leadership, stepping up
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  Speaker 1: all of that was a factor. And you know, victories
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  Speaker 1: like this started the day with the force bumble, how
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  Speaker 1: much do you think that really got the ball ruling
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the defense? Yeah, anytime you know,
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  Speaker 1: you create turnovers early and and uh you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: it just it just sets the tone. You know, offense
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  Speaker 1: was able to capitalize off of that and and and
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  Speaker 1: put points on the board, and um, you know it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's huge, you know. And that's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: something we talked about every week, you know, try to
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  Speaker 1: create takeaways. Um, and defense did a nice job with
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  Speaker 1: that today to show you on that on that play
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  Speaker 1: in terms of how he was able to strip Sectanio,
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  Speaker 1: I mean just all day. You see his athleticism. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he came out of a three point stance a little
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  Speaker 1: bit today, you know where he gets some explosion and
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  Speaker 1: explosion and length and his physicality and that's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: plays like at is um kind of what it takes
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  Speaker 1: with him, you know, And that's the type of athlete
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  Speaker 1: that he is. And and Um, you know I thought
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  Speaker 1: that not only him, but you know Ard and Key
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just go right down the line, Smooth
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  Speaker 1: and Roy. These guys were all around the quarterback a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So it was really good bounce back week for them
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  Speaker 1: to forever show you on the one yard touchdown run.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on the one yard touchdown run. I'll let him
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  Speaker 1: explain that play. Quarter comes in. Ask him. It's almost
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  Speaker 1: say ask him shout a quarterman comes in. I think
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  Speaker 1: way for a couple of plays. But you know, one
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  Speaker 1: of the plays was was huge. He forced the fumble.
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  Speaker 1: What does it say about a guy that could come
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  Speaker 1: up the bench like that and then make a play
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  Speaker 1: for your team. You know, it's it's it's great for him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he hasn't a ton of snaps obviously of
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  Speaker 1: the defense. He's a special teams guy. But he's one
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  Speaker 1: of those players that you love to have on your team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's a core special teams player. He's a
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  Speaker 1: hard worker, you know. And then he gets an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and makes a a and and um excited for him,
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  Speaker 1: and and and how he uh you know made that play.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was a great hit on a on
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  Speaker 1: a big big back and um, yeah, excited to see
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  Speaker 1: that from him when you don't have your quarterback on
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  Speaker 1: the Wednesday and Thursday of a practice week. I guess, really,
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  Speaker 1: how how challenging is that for for people don't really
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  Speaker 1: don't understand it. How much pressure did that may be
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  Speaker 1: put on his Trevor's need for like mental preparation and
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  Speaker 1: staying bucked in despite not being out there with these guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: what people don't understand too. Um, we're very fortunate have C. J.
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  Speaker 1: Beth's our backup. And you know we went into this
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  Speaker 1: week not missing the beat in practice, what meaning you know,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have to change anything game plan, wise, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because c j was taking the reps during the week,
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  Speaker 1: especially early on, so really when Trevor comes back, we
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  Speaker 1: just kind of plug and play. And you know that
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  Speaker 1: that's the thing about it. You don't have to go
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  Speaker 1: and and and redo a whole game plan, right, and
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  Speaker 1: then Trevor's study, uh and his preparation mentally on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: and Thursday, you know, just really kept everybody sort of
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  Speaker 1: locked in. We didn't have to change you know, route
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  Speaker 1: combinations or plays or scheme or anything like that during
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  Speaker 1: the week just because Trevor didn't you know, didn't take snaps.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's a credit to c j Um you know,
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  Speaker 1: as a backup quarterback coming in and doing that during
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  Speaker 1: the week. Guys like class Josh who had really kind
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  Speaker 1: of struggled to get anything going recently, and then they
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  Speaker 1: both come up being on a game like this today.
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  Speaker 1: How do you get them to continue that momentum? You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just yeah, I mean, obviously you gotta show him
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  Speaker 1: on the tape. You gotta just keep you know, encouraging
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  Speaker 1: them and and you know, finding finding new and challenging
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  Speaker 1: ways each week in practice, you know, put them in
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  Speaker 1: situations to to to benefit us on on game day
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  Speaker 1: and and and the more I think, the more success
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  Speaker 1: that they have and see themselves doing that, it kind
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  Speaker 1: of fuels their emotion right as they play, as they
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  Speaker 1: play games, and um, you know, and and and these
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  Speaker 1: two guys, I mean, they're they're they're good pass rushers.
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  Speaker 1: Were get great pass rushers really, and and they work
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  Speaker 1: well together, the complementary together with some of the games
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  Speaker 1: we did today, and um, but those are all things
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  Speaker 1: we gotta keep working in practice. And you know, this
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  Speaker 1: game is already over and we're moving on to next week.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's the way the players have to handle
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  Speaker 1: it to Thanks all right, Thank you guys.