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  Speaker 1: How long does it kind of take you to just
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  Speaker 1: sort of, you know, forget what happens Sunday, whether great
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  Speaker 1: result for you or a terrible result for you, to
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  Speaker 1: just sort of move on. I mean, i'd say usually
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  Speaker 1: obviously Sunday or pretty frustrated, especially after a game like that,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, if you win, you're kind of celebrating,
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  Speaker 1: hanging out whatever, whatever it is, um, and then Monday
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  Speaker 1: kind of relive it, go back through the film, made
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  Speaker 1: those corrections with everyone, you know, kind of hold everybody accountable, um,
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  Speaker 1: when you're all together, uh. And then after you finished Monday,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's kind of onto the next so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I start my prep for the next opponent Monday when
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  Speaker 1: we break meetings here, and then from then on, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not really looking back. Obviously, there's there's things you're still
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  Speaker 1: frustrating the back of your head, and you kind of
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  Speaker 1: carry that into the week of Practice's just of um,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of gives you a sense of urgency, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think the whole team has that, um after after
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  Speaker 1: what happened Sunday in the past two weeks. Really, so
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  Speaker 1: I mean you carry that and you use that as fuel,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't you can't really dwell in the past.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta move on to your next opponent. How many
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  Speaker 1: people lead, whether friends or whatever sort of tell you
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can't let you know, whatever happened on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday carry carry into the next carry into the next week,
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  Speaker 1: right because you know it's just gonna it's just gonna
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  Speaker 1: impact your your your preparations from the next one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can't. You can't let that stuff bother you. You
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  Speaker 1: can't let it affect you for sure. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: worst thing you can do is hold onto that as
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  Speaker 1: far as just mentally and let that affect whether that's
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  Speaker 1: your confidence or you're hesitating a little bit because of
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  Speaker 1: what happened a week before, or just in general, you
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  Speaker 1: kind of let let that affect your next week because
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get ready to play a totally different opponent. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna especially whence the division game, We're going another
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  Speaker 1: chance to those guys in January, so we'll see them
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  Speaker 1: again and we can kind of circle that one when
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  Speaker 1: we come to it. But um, for right now, it's
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  Speaker 1: we got we got another division game, and in the
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  Speaker 1: huge game obviously that you know they're gonna come out
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  Speaker 1: ready to play, and we've got to prepare ourselves uh
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  Speaker 1: that way as well, between taking what's safe, what's underneath,
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  Speaker 1: and trying to hit the time run. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's that's something you're you're always You're never gonna
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  Speaker 1: be perfect on that. You know, as a quarterback, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna make some mistakes. But it's what we
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  Speaker 1: talked about, especially yesterday, and that's kind of my goal
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  Speaker 1: just moving forward. And I've always thought about it, but
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  Speaker 1: especially now after the last couple of games. Just don't
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  Speaker 1: make a bad play worse as far as if if
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  Speaker 1: we're not if we didn't get the look we necessarily
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  Speaker 1: thought we were gonna have, or the first couple of
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  Speaker 1: guys aren't open. You don't make a bad play worse,
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  Speaker 1: throw the ball away, scramble for no gain, a yard
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  Speaker 1: or two, whatever it is, and move on to the
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  Speaker 1: next play. And you know, that's kind of the lesson
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  Speaker 1: to learn. Just you relearn these things all the time
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  Speaker 1: playing the sport, because it's it's, uh, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: think you got something and then you make that that
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  Speaker 1: mistake again and you just have to keep going back
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  Speaker 1: to um the little thing. So I think, for for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's just um, being a being a great player is yes,
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  Speaker 1: making all the routine plays, even the great plays, but
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  Speaker 1: it's also how do I minimize the bad plays? And
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  Speaker 1: how do I make a bad play? Maybe I misread something,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't turn into interception, it's just na poleation.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're thrown away. So stuff like that. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's where the great ones, that's what they
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  Speaker 1: do really well, is they don't make bad plays worse
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  Speaker 1: and they really minimize them. So all that what I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking saying about, how do you vouns that about being
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  Speaker 1: like we gotta get Yeah, yeah, I mean there's a
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  Speaker 1: there's there's a fine line obviously because we got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of we have a lot of really good players
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  Speaker 1: that can help us and um kind of spread the wealth.
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  Speaker 1: One it helps everyone, you know, everyone's a part of
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  Speaker 1: the game plan. But also it keeps the defense on
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  Speaker 1: their heels because you have so many different UM weapons
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  Speaker 1: in different ways to attack certain parts of defense. So
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  Speaker 1: it's it's important for a lot of different reasons. But obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Christian Is is a great player and we
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  Speaker 1: gotta get in the ball. You've kind of seen how
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  Speaker 1: productive he can be and how much he helps us
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  Speaker 1: when he when he gets a lot of touches. So
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  Speaker 1: obviously that's that's important. Any great player you have, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta you gotta find a way to get him the ball.
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  Speaker 1: So Um, that's definitely just that's an every week thing,
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  Speaker 1: and people's he's no secret. You know, people have seen
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  Speaker 1: what he can do. So it's not gonna sneak up
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  Speaker 1: on anybody. But for us, it's just how do we
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  Speaker 1: put him in um really good in situations to succeed,
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  Speaker 1: to be open, to get touches all that, You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to start Sunday as good as Ben in the plane.
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  Speaker 1: Trylotte bring a level experience that position. Yeah, no, he's uh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I love both those guys. Those are two
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite favorite teammates. Honestly, not just saying that
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  Speaker 1: because I'm because I'm up here. Those are really are
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  Speaker 1: just two of the best, two of the best guys.
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  Speaker 1: So Um, obviously I hate that for Bars, hate it
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  Speaker 1: for our team. I think he's he was playing great.
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  Speaker 1: Um made a lot of strides, He's had a great offseason,
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  Speaker 1: and I just thought he was doing a really good job.
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  Speaker 1: So I hate that his season got cut short. But
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know what Tyler brings to the table.
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  Speaker 1: He's a guy it's always ready. I mean, if that's
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  Speaker 1: a guy you want on your team, just as far
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  Speaker 1: as the type of person is, but just how he
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  Speaker 1: prepares himself every week. It's like he's a starter, where
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  Speaker 1: that's a center or guard, so any of those three
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  Speaker 1: spots in the middle. If something happens like what happened
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  Speaker 1: to Ben, you know, he's ready to step up, and
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  Speaker 1: he's he when he's in there, it's it's really seamless.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously there are two different players, but he's
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  Speaker 1: he's done a great job. So and the same thing
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  Speaker 1: had to come in the game, wasn't expecting to really
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  Speaker 1: play and had to come in end of I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that was into the first half of the
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in the second half exactly when that happened, but
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  Speaker 1: he came in and played the rest of the game,
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  Speaker 1: played well. So yeah, this is really kind of longer.
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  Speaker 1: But does it seemed like he wants a little bit
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  Speaker 1: in based on what you're asking me to do, like
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  Speaker 1: and how every kind of off that it's really it
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  Speaker 1: just depends, you know. I think we have the type
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  Speaker 1: of players who can when their numbers called, they can
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  Speaker 1: make that play to spark us and to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get us on a roll. You know that we have
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  Speaker 1: running backs that can do that, guys in the outside
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  Speaker 1: Christian the slot or the outside with tight ends all that. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it really depends on the game. I think
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  Speaker 1: if you look at our success, especially um early on
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  Speaker 1: in the season, it was stemming kind of starting with
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit. You know, I think he kind
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  Speaker 1: of sparked us. So he does a good job at that.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, he's just a guy that really
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  Speaker 1: knows how to position himself, runs great routes. It's really smart.
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  Speaker 1: So um, Naturally he's kind of in that spot that
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  Speaker 1: has a lot of that that's gonna get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of touches. So um, I think that's part coincidence, part
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  Speaker 1: just the design and how the type of player he
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  Speaker 1: is across the seven thousand yards thresh home for his career,
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of been like a reliable that's awesome. He's
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  Speaker 1: kind of been like a reliable target for you just
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  Speaker 1: what what type of guy is he? And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just you know him better than we do. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's awesome. Yeah, he's I mean we clicked early on
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  Speaker 1: when I came in last year, and we've had a
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  Speaker 1: really good relationship since then. And obviously last year was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of a lot of ups
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  Speaker 1: and downs, crazy year, and we were I mean we
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  Speaker 1: sat by each other on the planes, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: all the road games, and our lockers are really close
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  Speaker 1: to each other, and so we would talk all the
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  Speaker 1: time and just we we kind of bonded a lot
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  Speaker 1: last season, and then going into this offseason obviously got
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  Speaker 1: a new a lot of new faces, but just being
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  Speaker 1: that veteran presence in that in that room, I think
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  Speaker 1: he does a great job. And to kind of see
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  Speaker 1: how he's always been a huge part of the offenses.
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  Speaker 1: He's in especial the last few years, and especially with
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  Speaker 1: us last season, you know, we struggled to get things going,
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  Speaker 1: and he was always a guy that I could rely
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  Speaker 1: on and did a great job. Um. And then to
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  Speaker 1: see kind of early on this season didn't quite get
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  Speaker 1: as many catches or you know, as many touches is
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  Speaker 1: probably um he would have liked. Obviously everybody wants the ball,
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  Speaker 1: but just the way he he kind of came to
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  Speaker 1: work every day and never said anything never complained, how
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  Speaker 1: smile on his face and just just worked and obviously
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  Speaker 1: had a big game this past game. But for him, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know he'd rather win the game. So I think
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  Speaker 1: that's that says a lot about him, just the way
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  Speaker 1: he carries himself. And we've got a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: that are selfless like that is the most important thing
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  Speaker 1: is winning the game, and guys aren't happy unless we win,
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  Speaker 1: even if they had whatever hundred yards or whatever it
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  Speaker 1: may be. Um And I think you need a room
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  Speaker 1: full of guys like that, and he does a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Travis kind of settle in now he's got a couple
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  Speaker 1: of games on urthers, but yeah, I think he's he's running,
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  Speaker 1: he's running the ball great right now with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of confidence. I know all all of us around him
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence in him, especially the coaches
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  Speaker 1: really love kind of how he's progressed. And I mean
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  Speaker 1: I've known he's he's a great player, but just it's
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  Speaker 1: been cool to see him settle in. Obviously didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the experience last year, so it took him a little
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  Speaker 1: bit to settle in just through preseason stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he looks great, he's running, running, great, has that burst.
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  Speaker 1: He's really explosive um and just helps us in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of different ways. And I think
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  Speaker 1: he's starting to really master the offense especially like so
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  Speaker 1: we can we can do a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: with them. So it's been great. Well does that do
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  Speaker 1: for years at quarterback when maybe at the offense is
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  Speaker 1: starting a little slow that you know, he can get
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  Speaker 1: those exposed to plays right, Just as many as many
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  Speaker 1: playmakers as you can have around you, just where whoever
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  Speaker 1: it is that gets that gets the ball, can can
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  Speaker 1: make the play to kind of spark us and get
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  Speaker 1: us going. And we have someone like that in every position,
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's the main thing. So you've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of confidence in those guys, and especially having two
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  Speaker 1: backs and Hasty as well. You know those guys that
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  Speaker 1: can just come in and whatever you need him to
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  Speaker 1: do with it's passing game, running game, they can do
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  Speaker 1: it all. And I mean obviously we we kind of
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  Speaker 1: rotate those guys and they do a good job and
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  Speaker 1: same thing, super unselfish. As long as we're as long
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  Speaker 1: as we're winning and we're doing with it whatever's best
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  Speaker 1: with the team, they're happy. So it's it's fun to
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  Speaker 1: play with those guys ver time. Way to say home
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  Speaker 1: the same set and threw it close together last week. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: what did you learn on that? And how does that?
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  Speaker 1: You know how the coming games weird you do a
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  Speaker 1: little bit or it's a little bit different, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's Um, it's nice because you get a get another
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  Speaker 1: crack at at like I said, like for example, the Texans,
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  Speaker 1: we play them in January, get another chance to play them.
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  Speaker 1: So it's nice having two opportunities to play a team. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Plant going into this game against the Colts, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: always a little bit of a balancing act. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you know their scheme obviously because you're prepared for it
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  Speaker 1: for a week already, but um, you just don't know
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  Speaker 1: what all they're gonna throw at you the next time.
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  Speaker 1: There's gonna be some wrinkles, um, and there may not
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  Speaker 1: be as many as you think, but you gotta prepare
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  Speaker 1: yourself and you kind of got to do all your
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  Speaker 1: homework and see all that's available and make sure you're
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  Speaker 1: kind of covering all your bases. So um, there's a
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  Speaker 1: balancing act of you don't want to chase ghosts, but
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  Speaker 1: you also got to be ready for anything that can
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  Speaker 1: come at you because you don't really know they they've had,
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  Speaker 1: especially they're coming off a Thursday night game, so ten
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  Speaker 1: days to prepare for this one. Um, obviously they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be well rested all all those things and having a
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  Speaker 1: couple extra days of practice, so it's, uh, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to adjust when the game starts kind of see are
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  Speaker 1: they doing anything different? Obviously, Gus, you know, their scheme
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  Speaker 1: is their scheme, and they're really disciplined and they do
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  Speaker 1: a good job. So, um, it'll be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: kind of what what the new wrinkles are, if there
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  Speaker 1: are any, and we'll just have to adjust as a
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  Speaker 1: game goes on. Stepan Gilmore has looked like he's settled
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  Speaker 1: into that defense a little bit now that the season
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  Speaker 1: has kind of moved going. What is he shown you
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  Speaker 1: on film that maybe they didn't do the first time
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  Speaker 1: you guys played him. I mean, he's he's a he's
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  Speaker 1: a great player. I mean, even going going into that game,
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  Speaker 1: we knew that just his his career kind of speaks
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  Speaker 1: for itself. And I think the one thing he does
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  Speaker 1: really well among other things, but it's really good down
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  Speaker 1: the field covering guys vertical. Um just doesn't give guys
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  Speaker 1: any space, you know, he just widens them, pushes him
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  Speaker 1: to the sideline and doesn't really give you an area
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  Speaker 1: to throw the ball, doesn't give those guys a chance
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  Speaker 1: to get over the top. So I think he does
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  Speaker 1: a great job playing all the verticals, and like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you can see him selling into the scheme and it's
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  Speaker 1: feeling more and more comfortable and confident. And it's it's
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  Speaker 1: tough when you play a veteran corner like that because
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  Speaker 1: you know you have you know, they have their rules
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  Speaker 1: of their scheme. But then you have a guy like
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  Speaker 1: him who's played a lot of football and recognizes things,
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  Speaker 1: and so he does a few things differently than other
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  Speaker 1: guys will He doesn't necessarily play everything by the book,
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  Speaker 1: so you have to you gotta have an eye on him.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously he's a playmaker, and um, you gotta pick
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  Speaker 1: your spots and and just kind of know what your
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  Speaker 1: matchup is at all times. So but he's been doing
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  Speaker 1: a really good job. Awesome, thank you all.