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Press Pass | Jaguars Players on Wild Card Matchup vs. Bills & Josh Allen · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, I feel like all the guys in
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  Speaker 2: this locker room, we've been winning our seasons, so I
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  Speaker 2: feel like we we obviously used to winning at this point. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's time just continues to keep building. We know, we
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  Speaker 2: know they ain't go. That's to go one to know
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  Speaker 2: every week?
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  Speaker 1: What sort of challenges a guy like Josh had Hols.
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  Speaker 2: What challenges him? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: What sort of challenges playing a quarterback like that? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I mean he he's experienced. He's one of those ones
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  Speaker 2: that he he's been there and he he has a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pressure on his shoulder as well from uh
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  Speaker 2: from other outside noises or whatever. But he's he's a
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  Speaker 2: great player. He's been in this position before. H He's
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  Speaker 2: just he's a great quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of time spend for James Cook. Just what
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  Speaker 3: kind of player is he?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, he's a hard worker.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, he's a g He's one of those
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  Speaker 2: hard working guys that's gonna come in and try to
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  Speaker 2: get the job done as well. He's gonna do these
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be in the right position.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how m how much do you look at it?
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  Speaker 4: Does?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta don't wanna go, you know, plan for them,
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  Speaker 3: But it's really about you guys playing the way you've played.
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  Speaker 2: That's a hundred percent of what it is. It's nothing
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  Speaker 2: that they do. It's not gonna make us change anything
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  Speaker 2: different from what we supposed.
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  Speaker 3: To be doing.
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  Speaker 1: You gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel do you feel like you're playing so
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  Speaker 3: much better than you were earlier in the season or
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  Speaker 3: is it just been a build towards what you're doing
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  Speaker 3: now for as.
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  Speaker 2: A team A hundred per honestly, from I just say
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  Speaker 2: from the Houston game alone, I feel like the Houston
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  Speaker 2: game really left a mark on us that we didn't
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  Speaker 2: like that taste that we had in our mouth mouth
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  Speaker 2: coming out of that game, and we've just obviously been
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  Speaker 2: building one percent every day from there.
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  Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot to talk about lack of
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  Speaker 3: experience in this room in the playoffs maybe versus that
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  Speaker 3: we've been there just about every year. Do you think
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  Speaker 3: that's a factor?
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  Speaker 2: I do not. I feel like there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: guys on this team who's won championship set some of
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  Speaker 2: the highest levels regardless of NFL, we played in the
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  Speaker 2: big games like that, So it's it's all about what
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  Speaker 2: we make it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We it. The stage is how it is because we're
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  Speaker 2: in it is.
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  Speaker 1: The next one we get to play another game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this week. You know what a great opportunity for for
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  Speaker 1: us to be the only team playing at one o'clock tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Great opportunity for us to maximize what we can do
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  Speaker 1: and being on a platform to where we can act.
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  Speaker 1: See you know, people can watch our games everywhere and
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  Speaker 1: see what type of team we are?
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  Speaker 5: Does this feel like?
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  Speaker 3: Does this feel like a normal week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: I think our purpose is the same. I think the
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  Speaker 1: coaches has kept it as uh normal as possible of
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  Speaker 1: installed and what we've been doing. A couple of changes
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  Speaker 1: here and there because of the players that they have,
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  Speaker 1: rightfully so, but everything else has been, you know, been
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  Speaker 1: the same challenges.
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  Speaker 2: What's the sort of challenges Josh Allen?
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  Speaker 1: I mean today today was just you know, run fits
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  Speaker 1: and tomorrow will be more his day what we look
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  Speaker 1: forward to. So, uh, too bad, y'all don't speak to
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  Speaker 1: me any more. I can give you a bad answer.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, obviously he's uh, you know, we all
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  Speaker 1: know who he is, and he's one of those guys
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  Speaker 1: that can make a lot of plays, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the era on his feet. So you know, we just
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  Speaker 1: gotta be dialed in on that and understand, you know
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  Speaker 1: what we're going through, what we're gonna play with. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's about us and
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  Speaker 1: as long as our opportunity is our mindset is based
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  Speaker 1: on us. We can talk to nah, nuh, stick to
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  Speaker 1: the routine. They can't change up.
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  Speaker 6: How important is it to not get discouraged if Josh
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  Speaker 6: Allen does make a pusson.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's football, you know what I mean. Like
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  Speaker 1: they scored the first drive last last week, you know
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  Speaker 1: it's okay, next play mentality, get a ball back to
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  Speaker 1: our offense mentality, south to run mentality. We can kind
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  Speaker 1: of get back to doing what we do there you know,
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  Speaker 1: will be where we need to be. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think they're I think this year, man,
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  Speaker 1: their running game has been a lot better, relying on
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  Speaker 1: James Cook. He's been dominating all year. And you know
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  Speaker 1: that's the matchup that it's probady number one to us,
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  Speaker 1: you know, regardless of who they have. And by the
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  Speaker 1: time they't focus and we can start that, man, we
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  Speaker 1: can you know, we'll do what.
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  Speaker 7: We do best.
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  Speaker 4: You love it fun.
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  Speaker 3: You've been here before obviously in the playoffs we do.
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  Speaker 3: This is team having a swagger, kind of a difference
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  Speaker 3: in terms of the confidence of this moment because of
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  Speaker 3: the way you guys are playing going into it.
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  Speaker 1: I just think we're uh, I would say, more of
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  Speaker 1: a you know, mature, mature team in the way of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've been there before. A lot of those
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  Speaker 1: guys that have been in this team been there before,
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  Speaker 1: we can say, played in big time games.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We brought guys in that played in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: big time games. We got leaderships that can kind of
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  Speaker 1: keep the locker room kind of like in check and
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  Speaker 1: make sure that we're not peaking too high or too low.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we're just a lot you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: a more mature team to share and you know, our
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  Speaker 1: expectations is to do what we do best, play at
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  Speaker 1: our standard, and uh, play with that edge that everybody
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  Speaker 1: usually has each each game.
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  Speaker 3: We did you see the video of the girls squad.
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  Speaker 2: And Trump, But did what did you think?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: No comment. I'm worried about the Buffaloville's this week man,
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  Speaker 1: and uh making sure that everybody's on the same page
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  Speaker 1: and we're flying around having fun.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like you paid your body out? Do
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  Speaker 3: you feel like you've paste your body out well for
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  Speaker 3: this time of year?
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  Speaker 1: Like because I don't pay, so I go full throttle.
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  Speaker 1: You know, every day I take care of my body
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  Speaker 1: the things that I know I need to take care of.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I work out when I need to work out,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't play in there. You know, none of
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  Speaker 1: us do. And I think that's why. You know, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the guys that are playing at a high
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  Speaker 1: level and taking care of about it is still doing
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. So for me and it's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: each week is a what's my mentality this week? And
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  Speaker 1: go out there and execute at a high level and
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  Speaker 1: run to the ball. Uh. I know my teammates depend
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  Speaker 1: on me to do all that every play. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why I want to give it to No Diddy.
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  Speaker 7: Just don't change that we've been doing this whole season.
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  Speaker 7: You know you're coming with the expectation to win, but
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  Speaker 7: it starts today, So just just continue to be our
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  Speaker 7: step and put good things on the field on the field.
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  Speaker 5: Uh what do you guys playing one and oh mindset?
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  Speaker 7: Every week?
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  Speaker 5: Just how much easier is it?
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  Speaker 7: Is?
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  Speaker 5: It gonna be this week.
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  Speaker 8: To kind of make that switch.
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  Speaker 7: And just keep doing what you're doing. I mean, I
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't say it's easy at all. I feel like it's
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  Speaker 7: just uh, just discipline, you know. And I feel like
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  Speaker 7: coach Kloryn does a great job of just getting ready
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  Speaker 7: and just keep us in that mindset. We know this
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  Speaker 7: is a big week. It is the biggest week of
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  Speaker 7: the season, so we definitely gotta be ready and just
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  Speaker 7: got to prepare on the front end for it. So
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  Speaker 7: whenever Suddy come, we just out there just playing free
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  Speaker 7: and fast.
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  Speaker 3: You've not playing a bunch of big games in your
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  Speaker 3: career in college here, it does it feel different? Uh
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  Speaker 3: the night before when you still when you wake up
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday morning?
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  Speaker 2: Nah?
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  Speaker 7: Nah, nah it it don't. Honestly, Uh. I mean I
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  Speaker 7: feel like, I guess, since just been in those positions
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  Speaker 7: and uh just having appetendions for myself and teammates and
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  Speaker 7: just been on great teams throughout my life, you just
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  Speaker 7: can't make it bigger than what it is. I feel
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  Speaker 7: like some guys who haven't been in this position might
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  Speaker 7: get to there and just kind of just confuse that
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  Speaker 7: anxiety with nervousness when You're just really excited to just
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  Speaker 7: do something you love, you know, and like just have
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  Speaker 7: an opportunity to just be in a primetime game. Have
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  Speaker 7: everybody know what the whole football is gonna be watching this.
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  Speaker 7: So I feel like you're gonna be very exciting. So
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  Speaker 7: now we get opportunity to chances people who have have
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  Speaker 7: I've been seeing that, we get to show them who
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  Speaker 7: we are. And so I feel like it just people
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  Speaker 7: confuse that the anxiety for nerves is when they really
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  Speaker 7: decided for the moment.
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  Speaker 3: You've had I think fifty nine carries in the last
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  Speaker 3: four weeks.
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  Speaker 6: That's not a heavy load you used to. More than that,
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  Speaker 6: you feel pretty good for this time of year. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I get it, it's a long season, but do you
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  Speaker 6: feel almost refreshed because it's been thrownaball a lot?
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  Speaker 7: Now? I feel great, Honestly, man, I feel like I
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  Speaker 7: feel as good as I could feel in this moment,
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  Speaker 7: in this position, and I'm just grateful, you know. I
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  Speaker 7: feel like this is where running by separate themselves. You know,
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  Speaker 7: the great ones shoved when it matters the most. And uh,
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  Speaker 7: it's one game season at a time. So we're gonna
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  Speaker 7: go out there and just play our ass off, each
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  Speaker 7: and every player and uh just see what things happen.
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  Speaker 5: What's the Bill's defense offer? What do they show on tape?
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  Speaker 7: Just very fundamental, fundamentally sound. Just a great team just
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  Speaker 7: flying around, not gonna give you anything. They're gonna keep
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  Speaker 7: the ball in front of in front of them. You
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  Speaker 7: gotta just glad, damn mate.
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  Speaker 5: Players know, and.
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  Speaker 7: It's a little bit a very physical game. It's two
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  Speaker 7: great teams. We know they're gonna come out there to
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  Speaker 7: play hard, rally to the ball, So we just have
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  Speaker 7: to lock the ball left, protect the ball, and then
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  Speaker 7: just take it one play at the times.
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  Speaker 5: There we are playoff football.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the fun part, right, Yeah, Yeah, this
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  Speaker 4: is this is why we play. You know, we're exactly
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  Speaker 4: where we want to be up to this point. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we got a home playoff game. Yeah, I mean, this
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  Speaker 4: is exactly where we want to be.
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  Speaker 5: You guys have been the best run defense in football
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  Speaker 5: this year. They're the best run offense in football this year.
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  Speaker 5: Running back quarterback duo. What adds to the challenge when
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  Speaker 5: you have to account for those two positions running with football?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, anytime the quarterback is a runner, that
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  Speaker 4: presents challenges to the defense, whether it's design quarterback runs
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  Speaker 4: or quarterback scrambles. So I gotta have a good plan obviously,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gotta have good rush lanes. When he does scramble,
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  Speaker 4: and then the quarterback design runs, they're obviously pulling a
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  Speaker 4: guy out the box, so they just gained an additional gap.
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  Speaker 4: So guys got to strike blocks, off blocks and make
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  Speaker 4: place the biggest.
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  Speaker 5: Josh Allen And then how do you technically physically tackle
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  Speaker 5: a guy like that at quarterback?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's a big dude, big athletic guy.
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  Speaker 4: You got to hit the strike zone. We talked about
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  Speaker 4: it earlier today, you know, just hit him as if
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  Speaker 4: he was a tight end or any other ball carrier,
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  Speaker 4: you know, illegally and just try to tackle him. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's a bigger guy, so he's not like a regular
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  Speaker 4: quarterback where you can kind of just grab him and
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  Speaker 4: go down like you gotta grab, wrap, squeeze, drive your feet.
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  Speaker 5: So, yeah, what kind of home field advantage will there'll
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  Speaker 5: be at the Bank this week?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm already anticipating it's gonna be electric. It's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be similar to you know, the Chargers game, even that
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  Speaker 4: Titans game, and we've had some great crowds this year,
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  Speaker 4: like the Monday night game. I'm expecting it to be electric.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's gonna show out, and even though it's one pm game,
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  Speaker 4: I'm certain that everybody's gonna be there. It's gonna be great.
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  Speaker 5: All right, playoff football, This is what everybody builds towards, right,
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  Speaker 5: This is.
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  Speaker 8: The fun part, certainly. Yeah, excited. I mean, you work
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  Speaker 8: all year to get here, and kind of it's not
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  Speaker 8: quite a full restart, but it's a reset. Now you're
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  Speaker 8: in the dance and you got every opportunity in front
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  Speaker 8: of you. But so as everyone else. We're all on
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  Speaker 8: the same spot.
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  Speaker 5: And I guess I know the answer. But the approach
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  Speaker 5: this week against the Bills front doesn't change much for
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  Speaker 5: you guys week to week. Gotta still have that physical edge.
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  Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, Technique and fundamentals are gonna say it all
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  Speaker 8: the time, like I truly believe in those things, But
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  Speaker 8: it's how can I hone them in just a little
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  Speaker 8: bit more, a little bit tighter, a little bit cleaner,
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  Speaker 8: be myself and to the best of my ability, and
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  Speaker 8: then be ourselves as a unit to the best of
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  Speaker 8: our ability.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the trick. On a week like this playoff week,
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  Speaker 5: you don't want to do too much more now, but
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  Speaker 5: there's still a little more that anxiety, but there's more
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  Speaker 5: of an edge, right well.
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  Speaker 8: I mean we got here for a reason, and we
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  Speaker 8: got here because of how we prepared and how we performed.
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  Speaker 8: Every week, no matter how well you do or how
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  Speaker 8: poorly you feel you do, usually it's never as good
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  Speaker 8: or as bad as you think, but you're always going
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  Speaker 8: to try to find those little things to improve on
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  Speaker 8: the finite edge. This week no different. Like I said,
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  Speaker 8: everyone's in the dance now. It's a one one game
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  Speaker 8: season every week and who can do it the most weeks.
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  Speaker 5: How fun has the last two months been building up
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  Speaker 5: to this as an offense?
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  Speaker 8: Pretty awesome, Pretty awesome. It's been very rewarding to see
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  Speaker 8: how we've played and how we've come together and grown
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  Speaker 8: as a unit and offense as a team as a whole.
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  Speaker 8: The camaraderie amongst this entire locker room is is very high.
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  Speaker 8: It's a high level and that's that makes it That
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  Speaker 8: makes something even more fun. And you know, the excitement
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  Speaker 8: we have in the locker room in those post games
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  Speaker 8: like that's that sh it's real. It's a fun group
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  Speaker 8: to be around and excited to take it as far
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  Speaker 8: as we can.
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  Speaker 5: And then you got sixteen throwing around like he's doing
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  Speaker 5: right now.
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  Speaker 8: That's the next level, no doubt, no doubt. The girls
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  Speaker 8: in doesn't matter, whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 5: What are you getting yours?
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  Speaker 8: Wellever he gets them?
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  Speaker 1: For me?
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  Speaker 5: That's not the gift for the old lines, I guess.
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  Speaker 8: Not someone that someone dropped the ball there, probably Jarry
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  Speaker 8: and I probably him.
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  Speaker 5: Last question for me the Bill's defense. What do they offer?
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  Speaker 5: What are they the best at defensive?
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  Speaker 8: I think they give us a variety of looks, as
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  Speaker 8: a lot of defenses do. But we got to be
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  Speaker 8: ready for that. There's different zero looks or third downs
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  Speaker 8: are gonna come up, get everyone up on the line
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  Speaker 8: standing up, not standing up, or he's gonna take some
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  Speaker 8: deciphering at the line and the game plan ready to
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  Speaker 8: go into that.