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Press Pass | Oluokun, Thomas, Wingard, Bigsby, Etienne & Engram on Jaguars' Preparation Ahead of Week 8 vs. Packers · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: I feel I feel great. I feel uh happy to
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: be back out with the boys and stuff, starting to
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: get back in the swinging things. Uh, just really happy
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: to to be playing ball with the with the team again.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How hard was it to miss the last few games?
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  Speaker 2: I have to watch?
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  Speaker 1: That's not something i'd say, I'm I'm used to doing.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: But you know, definitely, Uh you feel, you feel the
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  Speaker 1: love for the game, just seeing being out, you know, watching, uh,
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  Speaker 1: hoping the best for everybody staying in it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: still gonna going over game plans, telling telling your boys
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  Speaker 1: little notes and shit that might help or stuff that
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  Speaker 1: might help them. I you love the game. I don't
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  Speaker 1: ever wanna leave it.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kind of feeling you get when you're away
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  Speaker 1: from it. Uh So it's I appreciative of it. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely ready to get back on the field.
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: I think you gonna be ready Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: That's uh, that's what we're shooting for. I still got
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  Speaker 1: practice to do, so I'll tell you how practice is
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  Speaker 1: going throughout the week.
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  Speaker 5: There was a I mean, let's have the s This
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  Speaker 5: team had the same records two years ago and made
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  Speaker 5: that run. So what when did that turn when did
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  Speaker 5: you guys? And is the same mind so this year
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  Speaker 5: game to.
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  Speaker 1: Game, game to game, I think we made that royal
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  Speaker 1: when we uh blocked out outside noise. When we focus
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: on one week at a time, Uh, winning played instead
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  Speaker 1: of winning the whole game, and you start worrying about
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  Speaker 1: the end result during the middle of the game. You
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  Speaker 1: know you're not playing at your best. You just gotta
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  Speaker 1: play hard, play fast, worry about our style of play
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  Speaker 1: and the rest to take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Two of the last three. Do you feel like the
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  Speaker 3: team's starting to kind of turn the corner a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we're working out worried up this game. Obviously, we
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  Speaker 1: had that London trip you know, came. All you can
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  Speaker 1: do is spend time with each other.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I think we got a little closer to the team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, new team every year, so it's always cool
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  Speaker 1: to be out there. Uh get close with all the
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  Speaker 1: boys and stuff. Uh, new new mindset. We're we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about like attacking a week this week. That's how I'm
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  Speaker 1: focused on, you know, a week. It's all different.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
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  Speaker 7: How do you tell when the foot is like full
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  Speaker 7: go full ready? You don't you trust it like you
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  Speaker 7: did before?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Uh, throughout practice, Uh, getting some more live reps.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we didn't have all the paths and stuff today,
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  Speaker 1: so uh just keep implementing myself in those situations. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, adrenaline obviously takes over a lot of it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh playing fashion. I think they say you're gonna feel
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  Speaker 1: a little slower anyway. So as long as I know
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  Speaker 1: the soreness outfield, I'll be alright.
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  Speaker 2: How did great folks?
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  Speaker 7: Says coach Peterson today said that he envisions a scenario
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  Speaker 7: of you and Vendrell potentially playing side by side moving forward? Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: Uh what would that mean for for you? What would
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  Speaker 7: that mean for him?
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  Speaker 2: Mean?
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  Speaker 3: Defense?
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  Speaker 4: For the defense?
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  Speaker 1: I mean just watching him play, you know, electric, you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting to the ball. They call him missile and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. You know, it's just definitely contagious, the energy
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  Speaker 1: that he brings. You know, still a young guy. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of teaches him the nuances of the game.
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  Speaker 1: That's all he really needs now. Just understanding you know,
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  Speaker 1: where they're attacking him and stuff. But bright spot for sure,
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  Speaker 1: and just keep building on his game. He's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a lights out player. So I'm I'm gonna enjoy you know,
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  Speaker 1: con continue to teach him and play alongside of him.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we have a talented linebacker room. We got Devin.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing well too. So really watching them is gonna
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  Speaker 1: make me step my own game up. To be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, I got a uh a responsibility on the
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  Speaker 1: field to be able to be a player at my
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  Speaker 1: best at all time. So yeah, uh, I think you
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  Speaker 1: know high rod water raises all boats.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 1: I I definitely away watching them two ball out and enjoy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, balling out with them.
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  Speaker 5: Just Gottaford on Love quarterback as he's playing right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he's playing well, Scott and report. You know he's
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  Speaker 1: lighting teams up. You know, you see it. Definitely, you
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  Speaker 1: know they do. They do take shots early and downs.
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  Speaker 1: They'd like to stay on track. They got the whole
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  Speaker 1: Riders thing. Look at the sideline. They can't go hurry
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  Speaker 1: up on you.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He checks it down at the right times. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of times they flood zones and stuff in thoder to
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  Speaker 1: put the ball. So also an athletic dude who can
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  Speaker 1: roll out and hit throws too. So kind of a
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  Speaker 1: mobile quarterback that can make all the throws that you
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  Speaker 1: that he needs to make. We gotta be on our coverages,
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  Speaker 1: keep in the pocket, kind of same thing we can
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  Speaker 1: week out with these.
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  Speaker 9: Mobile guys, packers, corners. What do you see from them
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  Speaker 9: on tap?
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  Speaker 8: They got a good group, a good group of dbs.
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  Speaker 8: I got some pretty good dvs back there. But I mean,
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  Speaker 8: we just gonna come out this week and try to
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  Speaker 8: do what we've been doing to try to come out
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  Speaker 8: there and get better and practice and go out there
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  Speaker 8: on Sunday and beat the best.
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  Speaker 10: That we can beat as a group is out here.
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  Speaker 10: Obviously is a guy that likes to chart. It's a
• 4:00
  Speaker 10: game when you aren't afraid the chart just kind of
• 4:04
  Speaker 10: going into that game. Is that Christian said, it's part
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  Speaker 10: of the game, something that kind of makes it a
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  Speaker 10: little bit funny.
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  Speaker 8: You feel the same way, Yeah, for sure. I mean
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  Speaker 8: that's that's football. This don't happen. It happens all the time.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you gotta keep playing. Don't let them really
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  Speaker 8: let that get to you. Just keep playing.
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  Speaker 2: You like to play.
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  Speaker 4: Guys that'll talk back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it don't matter to me. I mean it
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  Speaker 2: is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: We can talk because keeping football.
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  Speaker 9: Jorian said that he felt like last week being there
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  Speaker 9: for ten plus days was so important for bringing this
• 4:35
  Speaker 9: whole group together. How would you evaluate that off the
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  Speaker 9: field part of it.
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  Speaker 8: I would say the same. I feel like it was
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  Speaker 8: big for us as the team, just coming together. I
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  Speaker 8: feel like it bonded us closer together. We were able
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  Speaker 8: to go out there Sunday play for each other rather
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  Speaker 8: than just playing for ourselves ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it helped us out a lot. What's
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  Speaker 3: your forensic motivation?
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  Speaker 7: What kind of gets you going off of the field
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  Speaker 7: outside of wins, loss and motivation?
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  Speaker 4: Really motivates at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 8: Really just me wanting to be the best that I
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  Speaker 8: can be. Me just wanting to be the best in general.
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  Speaker 8: I would say that's my motivation, Just always wanting to
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  Speaker 8: be the best at everything I do.
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  Speaker 11: Seven games in, does it feel like the game's kind
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  Speaker 11: of slowing down a little bit getting adjusted in the
• 5:16
  Speaker 11: NFL speed?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, not for sure.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like each and every game in ends to
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  Speaker 8: slow down a little bit, just getting better, just getting
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  Speaker 8: more reps throughout practicing, just seeing different defensive looks. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: I feel like the game is going down a lot.
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  Speaker 9: When you're on the field. Can you feel like the
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  Speaker 9: run game and the emphasis on the run game opening
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  Speaker 9: up more for you. Yeah, you said, yeah, Like can
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  Speaker 9: you when you're running the ball seventeen times, do you
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  Speaker 9: feel like that, like on the field, can you physically
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  Speaker 9: feel like that's opening up opportunities for you guys like
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  Speaker 9: passing game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah for sure.
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  Speaker 8: Just as we were able to run the ball pretty
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  Speaker 8: very well last game. As long as we like just
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  Speaker 8: keep chipping away in the run game, I feel like
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  Speaker 8: it'll open up the past game for us. So yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I feel like it helps out a lot. Sure.
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  Speaker 12: No differences in tribal life as a pro compared to college,
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  Speaker 12: you guys, just London?
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: How different is that for you this year?
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  Speaker 8: It's very different, just being we have travel a lot more.
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  Speaker 8: You got more games and stuff, and we were able
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  Speaker 8: to go out there and go to London.
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  Speaker 11: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: In college, I mean you don't really you don't really
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  Speaker 8: have that, But I mean you just gotta take a
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  Speaker 8: step by step and just adapt to it. Yeah, But
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  Speaker 8: I mean it's cool with just being able to go
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  Speaker 8: over to London and do experience things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Though.
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  Speaker 9: Have you been able to take a second and reflect
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  Speaker 9: upon the last seven weeks and what you've been able
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  Speaker 9: to do uh.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, recently I have just I mean, but I'm trying
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  Speaker 8: to like keep going, just stay in the moment and
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  Speaker 8: just keep going, just keep taking the day by day,
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  Speaker 8: step by step, and just keep getting better and do
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  Speaker 8: even better, do bigger things.
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  Speaker 9: What was kind of the moment that forced you to reflect,
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  Speaker 9: Like was it like on the plane or was there
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  Speaker 9: just like the second where you went, wow, I can't
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  Speaker 9: believe this is happening.
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  Speaker 8: I think it was just like more of like a while,
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  Speaker 8: I can't believe this is happening, just like like after
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  Speaker 8: the game, like yeah, almost all them plane ride home,
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  Speaker 8: just just up thinking about like just like little things
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  Speaker 8: like that you surprise yourself. I wouldn't say I surprised myself.
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  Speaker 8: I mean I know my abilities. I know what I'm
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  Speaker 8: capable of, so I just try to come out and
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  Speaker 8: just be the best that I can be and do
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  Speaker 8: what I know I can do.
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  Speaker 13: First mate, I mean, I had like a broken hand
• 7:11
  Speaker 13: in high school. I think I broke my hand once
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  Speaker 13: my rookie year too. But I've never missed more than
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  Speaker 13: one game at a time. So as bad as you
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  Speaker 13: want to be back on the field, is there anything
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  Speaker 13: a game from that kind of perspective.
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  Speaker 3: Just seeing things happen from the outside a little bit.
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  Speaker 13: Absolutely, you you gain a ton of perspective. I'm just
• 7:30
  Speaker 13: watching the game, how it's played, what it takes to
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  Speaker 13: win games, and stuff like that. And I was telling
• 7:35
  Speaker 13: everyone when I got hurd all, I did a lot
• 7:37
  Speaker 13: of mental work and everything I do in the off
• 7:39
  Speaker 13: season thinking it was going to prepare me for football,
• 7:41
  Speaker 13: but actually prepared me for this injury. And I haven't
• 7:44
  Speaker 13: been you know, I haven't been sulking, I haven't been
• 7:46
  Speaker 13: depressed wallin. I've just been attacking the rehab and attacking
• 7:49
  Speaker 13: everything and trying to stay in my playbook and be
• 7:51
  Speaker 13: ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: And today felt good. There wasn't a lot of thinking.
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  Speaker 13: It was just all the thinking I did for three
• 7:57
  Speaker 13: months kind of just manifested itself and act and it
• 8:00
  Speaker 13: felt good. I know Doug has said before going to
• 8:02
  Speaker 13: London and kind of got ben eyed you guys because
• 8:04
  Speaker 13: basically a round each other for two weeks.
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: Do you feel like I kind of had the same
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  Speaker 3: effect again this year? Absolutely?
• 8:09
  Speaker 13: I mean you, once meetings are over at five o'clock,
• 8:12
  Speaker 13: you got nothing to do but sit in the mail
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  Speaker 13: room with the guys and just talk and I think
• 8:16
  Speaker 13: that was a really big thing for us, and he
• 8:18
  Speaker 13: even said it this morning, and we can't lose that
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  Speaker 13: coming back here. We can't just go our separate ways now,
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  Speaker 13: and staying together, staying tight, is going to be the
• 8:26
  Speaker 13: key going on this round we got here.
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: With the next four games, it's.
• 8:30
  Speaker 7: Hard to know exactly how it would have played out,
• 8:31
  Speaker 7: but it sure looked like from an outsider's perspective that
• 8:34
  Speaker 7: you were going to win a starting job going into season.
• 8:38
  Speaker 7: Did you feel like that that make it any more
• 8:41
  Speaker 7: disappointing that you felt like you had had maybe your
• 8:43
  Speaker 7: best camp to that point.
• 8:46
  Speaker 13: It's pure speculation. You never know, but I know what
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  Speaker 13: I from what I could control. I was definitely playing
• 8:52
  Speaker 13: the best football in my life. And it's definitely disappointing
• 8:56
  Speaker 13: because when you come back, you don't know if you're
• 8:58
  Speaker 13: going to be the same or not. So that's just
• 9:00
  Speaker 13: kind of the unknown. But like I said earlier, the
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  Speaker 13: mentals are good. I'm still confident in my abilities and stuff,
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  Speaker 13: and I'm just gonna need reps. I'm just gonna need
• 9:10
  Speaker 13: reps to get the playbook back and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 13: So I'm not sure if it'll be this week or
• 9:14
  Speaker 13: next week, but in a good spot for sure, and
• 9:17
  Speaker 13: hopefully once I get my chance, I can just go
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  Speaker 13: ball out.
• 9:20
  Speaker 7: Do you want to temper expectations? I mean, the fan
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  Speaker 7: base loves you anyway. Now you're considered the savior of
• 9:26
  Speaker 7: the defense. Just on some level here you need to
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  Speaker 7: temper expect.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't always like that, was it? Sorry? What was
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: the question? I I kind of got just sidetracked.
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  Speaker 13: I was like, that's just it's crazy where I've come
• 9:39
  Speaker 13: from man to hear to hear you say I'm the savior.
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  Speaker 7: The fan base definitely thinks that. I'm sure, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: because they love you anyway. Right, Yeah, So do you
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  Speaker 7: have to need a temper expectations?
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  Speaker 3: I mean you kind of just did saying I need
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  Speaker 3: some reps.
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  Speaker 13: No, put the expectations. I'm We're gonna freaking ball when
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  Speaker 13: I'm back out there, for sure. But I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 13: do what I do. Bring bring my leadership, bring my energy,
• 10:01
  Speaker 13: bring my want to my will, my not going to
• 10:04
  Speaker 13: take no for an answer, Like they wake up and
• 10:07
  Speaker 13: pray to the same god I prayed to. Type mentality,
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  Speaker 13: It's true, that's how you have to approach this thing.
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  Speaker 13: So whenever it is whether it's I can't control results,
• 10:16
  Speaker 13: but I can control running around with my head on fire,
• 10:21
  Speaker 13: hair on fire, and plan as hard as I can
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  Speaker 13: to get dubbed.
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  Speaker 9: So you have to worry about not being too emotional
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  Speaker 9: when that return does come.
• 10:28
  Speaker 13: No doubt, Yeah, because you're kind of no doubt absolutely,
• 10:31
  Speaker 13: you know you don't want to don't want to lose
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  Speaker 13: your head, and you want to stay even keel. But
• 10:36
  Speaker 13: motivation is not going to be an issue. And that's
• 10:38
  Speaker 13: why I feel really good. Is you know, I even
• 10:41
  Speaker 13: said this before, like the heroes of this team are
• 10:44
  Speaker 13: going to be the guys that were zero and four,
• 10:46
  Speaker 13: one and five when we do turn it around, They're
• 10:48
  Speaker 13: going to be the ones because they've been going at
• 10:51
  Speaker 13: it since August and they've had no rest. And for
• 10:54
  Speaker 13: a guy like me, I'm coming in fresh legs, fresh energy,
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  Speaker 13: fresh motivation. So that's my big that's my biggest thing
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  Speaker 13: is I'm coming in with just a lot of piece
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  Speaker 13: and stuff like that, and I'm you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 13: bogged down. But the season, so just looking forward to
• 11:08
  Speaker 13: that opportunity.
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: You were here in twenty two, that team was two
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  Speaker 3: and five. Yeah, have the switch went on.
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: The run made it to the playoffs.
• 11:14
  Speaker 11: Are there any lessons you can share with some of
• 11:16
  Speaker 11: the young guys the team about there's still a lot
• 11:18
  Speaker 11: of games left to play.
• 11:19
  Speaker 13: It's just crazy because like nothing changed that year. It
• 11:23
  Speaker 13: wasn't like there was just some x's and o's scheme.
• 11:27
  Speaker 13: We just kept kept chipping away and started getting dubs.
• 11:30
  Speaker 13: And I think when we get into these late, you know,
• 11:34
  Speaker 13: early November games, I think this when we get dangerous. Honestly,
• 11:39
  Speaker 13: teams are starting to look at playoff pictures. They're starting
• 11:42
  Speaker 13: to look at divisional races and they're not really thinking
• 11:44
  Speaker 13: about us, and I think that's when we can, you know,
• 11:46
  Speaker 13: sort of jump on teams. And that's really what we
• 11:48
  Speaker 13: did late in twenty two. I mean jumped on Dallas,
• 11:51
  Speaker 13: jumped on Baltimore or stuff like that. So and it's
• 11:54
  Speaker 13: not gonna take I mean, if you were to look
• 11:56
  Speaker 13: at it on paper, you'd say, oh god, we played
• 11:59
  Speaker 13: we play Minnesota, we played Green Bay, we played Detroit.
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: But it's like we have such a talented team.
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  Speaker 13: And I've been on bad teams here, like bad teams
• 12:08
  Speaker 13: that you knew we're gonna lose, like you literally had
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  Speaker 13: no chance. But this team is seriously so good. And
• 12:14
  Speaker 13: I can't remember who asked it, But back to your
• 12:15
  Speaker 13: point about being away from it, like this team is
• 12:17
  Speaker 13: damn good. We got a damn good team. It's just
• 12:21
  Speaker 13: you gotta go make plays. And I think we didn't
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  Speaker 13: make plays early, but you take that variance, the things
• 12:28
  Speaker 13: are gonna flip. And as long as we just stay
• 12:31
  Speaker 13: you know, ten toes down and just put up, push
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  Speaker 13: all the chips into the middle, we're gonna be fine.
• 12:36
  Speaker 7: What's clear, intrinsic motivation throughout these tough times, what really
• 12:39
  Speaker 7: kind of gets you up away from the game.
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: You're not to go through something like this. Intrinsic motivation,
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: love that, love that wording.
• 12:47
  Speaker 13: My motivation is just to have no regrets, to to
• 12:51
  Speaker 13: put all my chips in and whatever happens happened.
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  Speaker 3: So I've definitely been motivated.
• 12:56
  Speaker 13: And you know, being on the sideline when you when
• 12:58
  Speaker 13: you come back, you can get lazy of not staying
• 13:01
  Speaker 13: in your playbook, not get keeping up on your conditioning.
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  Speaker 13: So I've been Those have been two big things for me.
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  Speaker 13: And I just love the ball. I love that feeling,
• 13:10
  Speaker 13: you know, winning games, making plays.
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: Flying around. So that's that's my motivation.
• 13:15
  Speaker 9: I'm sure you go into games saying, hey, I wanna
• 13:17
  Speaker 9: break tack you. So I want to be that guy
• 13:19
  Speaker 9: that keeps going.
• 13:19
  Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, just just just whenever you get opportunity
• 13:22
  Speaker 14: to be at open field. Of course, you know the
• 13:24
  Speaker 14: line work details off to get us there, so why
• 13:27
  Speaker 14: not finish the guys off and you know, make somebody
• 13:30
  Speaker 14: miss and do do what.
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: You're supposed to do out there.
• 13:32
  Speaker 14: So just keep working and taking the day by day
• 13:36
  Speaker 14: and trusting the process and being where.
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: I fee that.
• 13:38
  Speaker 9: So, why has this run game been so successful the
• 13:40
  Speaker 9: last three weeks?
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: Tak it been?
• 13:43
  Speaker 14: It been successful because you know, we just stick to
• 13:46
  Speaker 14: it and uh, we come back to it when when
• 13:48
  Speaker 14: it's a bad run or it's a good run, we stick.
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: With it and we pound and pound and pound. And
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: the guys.
• 13:53
  Speaker 14: Up front have been doing at great job. You know,
• 13:56
  Speaker 14: all those guys have been on great been doing a
• 13:58
  Speaker 14: great job. And it's just a blessing to be able
• 14:02
  Speaker 14: to see those guys work together, me working with those
• 14:05
  Speaker 14: guys and the other backs work and I'm sure it
• 14:08
  Speaker 14: just feel like sometimes we all on the same page
• 14:11
  Speaker 14: and that's the best feeling.
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: Sorry, we got it in a little bit late.
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: Have you ever been on a team that's run the
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: ball seventeen straight times in the football game before?
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: How long ago was.
• 14:19
  Speaker 14: That seventeen times front of Gus mazin my freshman year.
• 14:25
  Speaker 14: We definitely pound the ball a lot with Gus Mazine,
• 14:29
  Speaker 14: but you know, seventeen times, that's a lot. I didn't
• 14:33
  Speaker 14: know we did that until we got into the meetings. Yeah,
• 14:35
  Speaker 14: and he coach Prince said it.
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: That's gotta be a good feeling though, when hey, it's
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: going that well, why would you throw the ball right
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: as a player in the huddle when you hear that again,
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: that's got to give you a Okay, let's let's keep
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: let's keep this ball rolling.
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, let's keep it going.
• 14:48
  Speaker 14: You know, just keep trying to keep us ahead and
• 14:51
  Speaker 14: sticks get some positive ever run. And that's what it
• 14:54
  Speaker 14: comes down to. Those guys up front doing a great job,
• 14:57
  Speaker 14: Tripped doing a great job. We just got to keep
• 14:59
  Speaker 14: clicking as a team and take the lift things series
• 15:02
  Speaker 14: And that's what I feel like we're doing right now.
• 15:04
  Speaker 14: And I just thank God for all us coming closer
• 15:06
  Speaker 14: and get those opportunities.
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just is is that sustainable?
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Moving ahead?
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: What happened last week?
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: The kind of the team coming.
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: Together at the grove, comes out with a win, bringing
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: back over here. Is that a real thing?
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Can that carry over?
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: You know it come over. You know we all got
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: team bun the time.
• 15:22
  Speaker 14: We all got to sit there and the grove and
• 15:23
  Speaker 14: look at each other's face all day.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: You know, all day.
• 15:28
  Speaker 14: Actually I'm talking about all day. So you know, it's
• 15:31
  Speaker 14: an energy thing. I feel like it. It came back.
• 15:33
  Speaker 14: We had a great practice today, but we just got
• 15:34
  Speaker 14: to take care of the lift things and go out
• 15:36
  Speaker 14: and secure.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: A high level.
• 15:37
  Speaker 9: What se what do you seeping the Packers defensive front
• 15:40
  Speaker 9: on tape.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, those guys are real good, you know.
• 15:42
  Speaker 14: Uh they d line, the linebackers, Uh, the safeties, the corners,
• 15:45
  Speaker 14: they real good.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: They good defense, fly around, they move fast.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 15:49
  Speaker 14: Just looking forward to see what those guys come with Sunday.
• 15:52
  Speaker 14: They I know they're they're they play fast and I'm
• 15:54
  Speaker 14: looking forward to playing with those guys.
• 15:56
  Speaker 11: They take for you personally, how great is it to
• 15:58
  Speaker 11: be able to get in a rhythm as a running
• 16:00
  Speaker 11: back in the game, we saw what's the point you
• 16:02
  Speaker 11: guys in the region you kind of signature the out
• 16:04
  Speaker 11: one to feed you and they did just that and
• 16:05
  Speaker 11: just talk about how they go into the rhythm can
• 16:07
  Speaker 11: help you.
• 16:07
  Speaker 14: Oh that's I feel like that's how the game come
• 16:09
  Speaker 14: down to. You know, I'm consistent to pray that. Then
• 16:13
  Speaker 14: I just get going, just just get in the floor
• 16:15
  Speaker 14: of things and feel the game out. You know, as
• 16:18
  Speaker 14: a runner, you feel the game out, the.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: Better the game gonna be. And uh it's it's just like.
• 16:23
  Speaker 14: You get one run and you don't get another one
• 16:26
  Speaker 14: to ten players after you.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: It's kind of like the first run of the game.
• 16:30
  Speaker 14: So when you come back to back to back, it's like, Okay,
• 16:32
  Speaker 14: I can see this, or I can see this, Oh
• 16:34
  Speaker 14: I can make this. Guy missed al we run the
• 16:36
  Speaker 14: same run one time and then we come back to
• 16:39
  Speaker 14: it and it didn't work, but you missed it. Then
• 16:41
  Speaker 14: you hit it for longer this time. So it just
• 16:43
  Speaker 14: it be things like that. Just getting really miss very
• 16:45
  Speaker 14: important as a running back and the old line. But
• 16:47
  Speaker 14: I I feel like running ball, get the old line going.
• 16:50
  Speaker 12: Just running the ball, just kept running, run and running
• 16:52
  Speaker 12: it and uh, I just always getting getting downinate what
• 16:54
  Speaker 12: you coulda came up with points. But at the end
• 16:56
  Speaker 12: of the day, I feel like that kind of we
• 16:57
  Speaker 12: kind of post out will on them.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: You know, we gotta continue to do that to be
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: successful in this league.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: What was your review of Parker's touchdown?
• 17:03
  Speaker 12: Now, it was crazy So when he scored, he came
• 17:05
  Speaker 12: to outside, like, man, you definitely had that plan because
• 17:07
  Speaker 12: like he had a celebration and everything ready, So he
• 17:10
  Speaker 12: definitely had that going into Sunday.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: What's been your intrinsic motivation? I mean throughout this time
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: where it's just kind of been up and down for
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: you. You don't know if you're feeling healthier or not.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: What what's really motivated you out of the field, out
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: of coming back?
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: What's really been your motivation?
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Just to be the best player that I can be?
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like.
• 17:28
  Speaker 12: I just wanna be the best player and the best
• 17:29
  Speaker 12: team that I can be. I feel like my motivation
• 17:32
  Speaker 12: is to colme here and win games. I mean, uh,
• 17:34
  Speaker 12: losing weekend week out, man, you can kind of get
• 17:36
  Speaker 12: depressed and uh, no one wants to ever be there,
• 17:38
  Speaker 12: and uh, it's truly motivation to win games.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 17:41
  Speaker 12: Let's see, I'm heart we still want so I feel
• 17:44
  Speaker 12: like that makes me feel great and I just gotta
• 17:45
  Speaker 12: get back and get healthy so I can help the
• 17:47
  Speaker 12: guys whenever they need me. So I feel I just
• 17:49
  Speaker 12: gotta just be better for myself and for the team.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: I was just the rehab going how far away do
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: you think you might be?
• 17:55
  Speaker 12: I feel like he's going good. I mean, I feel
• 17:57
  Speaker 12: like it's going They could be this week, could be
• 17:58
  Speaker 12: next week. But I feel like I got to keep
• 18:01
  Speaker 12: pushing it, keep seeing where I'm at and seeing how
• 18:02
  Speaker 12: far I can go and without aggravating anything, and just
• 18:06
  Speaker 12: try to keep pushing myself to be better for Sunday.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: I mean, and seeing Tank on the side, you're on
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: the sideline the whole game, seeing that go, I mean,
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: as a running back in this offense, the way this
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: thing has been going, that's gotta be.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a different view for you.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: How was that view of what happened on the Sunday
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: pretty good?
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I mean it was amazing.
• 18:25
  Speaker 12: I mean, I feel like anytime we run the ball
• 18:27
  Speaker 12: in one and twenty times, I feel like we give
• 18:29
  Speaker 12: ourselves a.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Great chance to win a game.
• 18:31
  Speaker 12: And you can go look at that statistically, and that's
• 18:33
  Speaker 12: what it has been the past couple of years, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 12: I feel like there's a formulas success for our team.
• 18:37
  Speaker 12: We got to just keep leaning on to that, keep
• 18:38
  Speaker 12: leaning on in the running game, and I find ways
• 18:40
  Speaker 12: to get to keep a defense on the sideline, let
• 18:43
  Speaker 12: them get rest of them get rested up. And I
• 18:45
  Speaker 12: feel like I love when the game is played through
• 18:46
  Speaker 12: the running backs. I mean, I'm running back myself. So
• 18:49
  Speaker 12: it was pretty amazing, pretty inspirational to see the guys.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Go out there and have a great day like they did.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: And final one for.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Me, it feels like this team's getting healthier defensive side,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: especially some guys are coming back. Feels like this week
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: you're getting closer. What can this team do with a
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: full allotment of players off the injured list?
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, the Scot's a lembit for us.
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: I feel like for us, we kind of dug ourselves
• 19:11
  Speaker 12: a whole. So we got to keep taking in one
• 19:12
  Speaker 12: week at a time and realizing that what we want
• 19:15
  Speaker 12: in the end stars now, and we had no room
• 19:17
  Speaker 12: for Era. And I feel like we all learned from
• 19:19
  Speaker 12: the stakes that we've been kind of putting on a
• 19:20
  Speaker 12: film weekend and week out, and we kind of know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 12: we kind of know what we.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Want kind of we want to go.
• 19:25
  Speaker 12: There's only one roads to get There's no shortcuts and
• 19:27
  Speaker 12: with everyone getting back getting healthy is going to make
• 19:29
  Speaker 12: the team even much better.
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: I know a couple of guys have said that it
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: was what you guys needed to bond off the field.
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: How would you evaluate off the field impact of.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Being over there?
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, you really have no choice over there. But
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: we actually do like we really are family, We really
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: do love each oub, we love working together, so kind
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: of put us back in a little training camp mode.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Definitely.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: The first weekend was a good little punch in the
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: face some more adversity for us to overcome, and we
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: really did that throughout the week. I thought energy was great,
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: attention to detail was great, and it showed on Sunday, Uh,
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: complete domination. Obviously things are clean up, but we gotta
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: keep building on that. We have to be consistent with
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: all of that and make account as we go forward.
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: Have you ever been a part of a team that's
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: run the ball seventeen straight times?
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: It was Yeah, I mean the game was kind of weird.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: Honestly, it felt like a blur, So maybe that was
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: that's the reason for sure, But yeah, I mean, I
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: mean that's a that's a mentality type of description of
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: a of a you know, a part of the game
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: running the ball seventeenth straight times. That's that's moving the football,
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: that's being dominant up front, that's controlling the trenches, and
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: that's running backs making good cuts. It's a great compliment
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: for all offense. So, like I said, I gotta keep
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: building on that.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Heated up over the last three weeks. What do you
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: think that's the reason.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: He's resilient. Yeah, I mean he's resilient. That's simply put.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Whenever adversity hits, uh, he takes it personally. He gets better,
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: He attacks the things that he needs to get better at,
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: and he pushes through.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: He's our leader, he's our captain. He's a great example
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: of things aren't gonna always go your way. There's gonna
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: be some adversity at that position. You're gonna hear about it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: But he, you know, he shut down the noise and
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: went to work. Uh, and he's not done. He still
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: wants to be better. He's still gonna keep improving.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: So that's that's just example of being resilient. We're gonna
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: continue that too.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: You guys don't have back to back home games here
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: in Jacksonville.
• 21:26
  Speaker 12: You're traveled to London.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: How can that impact.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: You guys in the long run on the road games
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: and just life on the road.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, we don't really. It is what it is.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: We're gonna kick it off at one one pm somewhere,
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: so but uh yeah, I definitely, uh, you know, throughout
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: the years here, we've always kind of felt like our
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: backsman against the wall. So obviously being on the road,
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: uh contributes to that. But we trying to win games,
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: so wherever we are, we gotta do that.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: I know, a couple of weeks ago, how does the
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: field Just being back on the field healthy after this
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: week's on.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: The sideline, Man, it's it's a blessing. I'm for like
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: a kid, you know, getting back out there. Definitely it
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: was weird, you know, being out Obviously it was tough. Definitely, Uh,
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: you know, God, I felt like, I really believe God
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: was showing me a different perspective, especially first year being
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: the captain. Just being able to sit back and kind
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: of see things. I think that was definitely by divine purpose.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: So obviously hate being away, but took advantage of it
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: and I felt great out there, felt great getting back
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: in the groove and just helping our offense and whatever
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: I'm assive to do, just trying to be great at it,
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: and I just want to continue to be that for
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: the team.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: What's the jams out about this Packers?
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Besides the takeaways?
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Physical, fast, they're athletic, they played with some juice. They
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: got some guys that could talk over there. They'll they'll
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: they'll get they'll get going, and they're rolling. Had a
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: big game winning field goal last week, so they're gonna
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: have some juice.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Coming in here.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: And uh, it's a it's a good team in my face,
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: and it'll be a good It's gonna be a great
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: test for us. Everything that we're trying to do this year,
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: we need to win these games. So it's gonna be
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: a great, great week for us to get to work,
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: a great opponent for us to go and try to
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: beat and see where we're at.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Are you a talker? You're not. You've been in sing
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: a long time.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't really see you talking a.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Lot back, right, Uh nah, I'm not really.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: Uh There'll be times where I get going a little bit,
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: but I just kind of like to stay a lot
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: on what I'm doing and what I.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Have to do.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Uh Yeah, that's that's about it.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah,