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Press Pass | Greg Newsome II & Travis Etienne Jr. On Coen’s Impact and Bye Week Reset · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Like in Cleveland, we played man coverage pretty much, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the time, so I wasn't in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: zone things. But I think now, like just like I said,
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  Speaker 1: understanding what they want from me, I've been able to
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  Speaker 1: see that. So I'm definitely super excited moving forward and
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  Speaker 1: just make more players out there.
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  Speaker 2: What have you kind of learned from the other guys
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  Speaker 2: in the corner about the other guys and the corner
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  Speaker 2: rooms that you got here, like Travis.
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  Speaker 1: Bust your Yeah, they're dogs, like I love to compete
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  Speaker 1: from from all of them. Like we all want to
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  Speaker 1: be out there, we all want to play hard. But
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing is like it's a family, like you're
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  Speaker 1: stepping in. Like leaving Cleveland, like I had a very
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  Speaker 1: family feel and coming here, I feel the exact same way.
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  Speaker 1: Like guys want each other to succeed. Guys are selfless
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  Speaker 1: and guys are willing to teach people. So I really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate them for that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you for me taking on a guy like Max
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  Speaker 3: Cross or Brock Bowers.
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  Speaker 2: That's for him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be super excited. He's a he's a great player.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of great players, so a guy
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  Speaker 1: like that is just super physical.
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  Speaker 4: But can run routes at a very elite level.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a fun, fun game. But you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying as a competitor, these are these are the
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  Speaker 1: games that we want.
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  Speaker 5: How crucial was it seeing that accountability speech and being
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  Speaker 5: a part of that team room from the opponent going
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  Speaker 5: viral people seeing that kind of access and him taking
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  Speaker 5: a kind of his own part in that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think when you're when your leader takes accountability,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy for you know, guys underneath to take accountability.
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  Speaker 1: So that just shows what type of team, shows what
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  Speaker 1: type of coach he is, Like, he's not one of
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  Speaker 1: those coaches that are just gonna point fingers at the players.
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  Speaker 1: So that gives us like motivation, that gives us a
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  Speaker 1: sense of like we want to play for a guy
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm super super proud and like super like it's.
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  Speaker 1: Great that he did that because it definitely makes me
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  Speaker 1: want to play for him even more.
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  Speaker 3: Last one for me, I think people are getting overlooked
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  Speaker 3: about the two losses, but Jacks, you're still in playoff contentions.
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  Speaker 3: What's it like to be going into the byway coming
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  Speaker 3: out of by It's still being playoffability.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's great.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, at the end of the day, we
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  Speaker 1: just gotta take it a game at a time, and
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna start this week. But just still being in
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  Speaker 1: the in the in the neck, in the thick of
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  Speaker 1: things is great. Like we're in an amazing position right now,
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  Speaker 1: and we just got to just take it day by day,
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  Speaker 1: game game at a time, and I think.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the season will be where.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be. You've been traveling a bunch this year.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you do on the bye week?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So my bye week, it was my daughter's birthday
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  Speaker 1: October first, so I threw her her first birthday party.
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  Speaker 1: I went back to Arizona, kicked it with my fiance
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  Speaker 1: and my daughter and just just spend a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time with the family.
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  Speaker 6: What did you find out about the offense the bye week?
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  Speaker 2: And then personally, what did you you know.
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  Speaker 4: Take away from your game in the first seven games.
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  Speaker 6: I'll just take away too away from the offense the
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  Speaker 6: whole we just uh, we haven't played our besootball. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: we can shoot ourselves in the foot, but that's how
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  Speaker 6: to say we can't be our best selves in the
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  Speaker 6: second half of the season, so I feel like everybody
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  Speaker 6: had a chance to reflect on what we did, and
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  Speaker 6: I feel like it was more situational with like how
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  Speaker 6: can I be better to help my teammates, how can
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  Speaker 6: I do my be my best self? So I helped
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  Speaker 6: the one and left and everybody to do their job,
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  Speaker 6: and well, I just took away just watching my brother
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  Speaker 6: play after the.
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  Speaker 2: Game talking to him.
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  Speaker 6: He was like, uh, he was talking to Rico and
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  Speaker 6: they're talking about the situation and how things going, and
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  Speaker 6: it just provided me just the just perspective.
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  Speaker 2: It's all my perspective. My brother, he was just.
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  Speaker 6: Happy to go out there and be a punk, return
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  Speaker 6: to kick return to get two carries. And I feel
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  Speaker 6: like whenever you just have perspective and just understanding the
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  Speaker 6: way you are and just being great where your feet are,
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  Speaker 6: you just have to focus on that, you know. So
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  Speaker 6: I feel like for me the last ten games of
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  Speaker 6: the season, it's all we have guaranteed. It's just like,
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  Speaker 6: be my best self each and every week. Don't take
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  Speaker 6: anything for granted. Because I had the injury that season
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  Speaker 6: end the injury to where excuse me, to where I
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  Speaker 6: couldn't I couldn't play. I couldn't dress out, I just said,
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  Speaker 6: and watch. So just to be grateful to go out
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  Speaker 6: there and playing on Sundays, that's all I can ask for.
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  Speaker 6: And I just got to just work doing it. We
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  Speaker 6: just be my best self so I could put a
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  Speaker 6: great product on that field each and every Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Said today he's got a call war one place. It
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  Speaker 4: is assigns just so much better than their balance.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: What do you think about recommitting to the run?
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  Speaker 2: I guess I mean I love that. I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 2: I'm a running back. You know.
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  Speaker 6: I love when the balls in my hand. The one
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  Speaker 6: of the reason when I started playing a game, to
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  Speaker 6: go out there and make plays.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like I'm very special with the ball in
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  Speaker 6: my hand. But for me, it's more so just execute
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  Speaker 6: whatever coach call, you know, having the ability to do
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  Speaker 6: less and more just making myself more special. Just uh,
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  Speaker 6: just to go out there and make players. Whenever my
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  Speaker 6: name is called, you know, so that way I keep
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  Speaker 6: calling my name or it don't call my name, I'm still.
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  Speaker 2: Making things right, you know. It's just being great with
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  Speaker 2: and without the ball.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like that's why I want to focus on
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  Speaker 6: going forward, the taking one game at a time.
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  Speaker 2: What is the balance due though?
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  Speaker 4: For for trevoring the past games.
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  Speaker 2: Opens up every everything for trip.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like if you just go back and statism
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  Speaker 6: whenever the run game going, uh.
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  Speaker 2: We we do really well.
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  Speaker 6: So I feel like, just we gotta find that FORMU
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  Speaker 6: live winning and just kind of stick with it and uh,
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  Speaker 6: just just come out faster. I feel like, uh, we've
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  Speaker 6: been shooting ourselves in the foot. I feel like, first
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  Speaker 6: and foremost, we gotta control the controllables. If we don't
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  Speaker 6: ever con trouble lot, then us commit to the run
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  Speaker 6: game won't change anything.
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  Speaker 2: Now that you've been through it a few times. Why
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  Speaker 2: is the pie weeks so important to just kind of
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  Speaker 2: reset and getting your mind and body right. It just
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  Speaker 2: give you a chance to refocus.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like, uh, it gives you a chance to
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  Speaker 6: just just sit back.
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  Speaker 2: And reflect and just realize you have to fall in
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  Speaker 2: love with the mundane.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like we've been doing this for a very
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  Speaker 6: long time since Voluntary Ota, just going at it, going
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  Speaker 6: at it. So it's kind of just getting up every day.
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  Speaker 6: Guys just kind of just you can kind of get
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  Speaker 6: lost and just kind of just just start looking down
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  Speaker 6: at yourself. Are just not attacking like you should. And
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  Speaker 6: I feel like having that bible, we just give you
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  Speaker 6: a chance to reset. I feel like I know when
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  Speaker 6: I'm out there watching Sunday football, just watching guys do
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  Speaker 6: what they love to do, understand that this is a game.
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  Speaker 6: We signed up to play this and uh just not
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  Speaker 6: being just not playing, I feel like that kind of
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  Speaker 6: just makes me just wish I was out there playing.
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  Speaker 6: So why would I take Sundays for granted when that's
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  Speaker 6: all I'm guaranteed?
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  Speaker 2: So you watching football on your Sunday. I actually went
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  Speaker 2: to my brother.
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  Speaker 6: It wasn't a great game for him, but you know,
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  Speaker 6: I got to see James could go forward two hundred
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  Speaker 6: So just seeing it, I feel like in inspiring music,
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  Speaker 6: go out there and she let me he could do it,
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  Speaker 6: Why can't I?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 6: So just uh just being challenged by other people in
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  Speaker 6: the league and just watching how they run, and uh,
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  Speaker 6: just being inspired by others. I feel like, uh, that's
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  Speaker 6: the only way I could do, just how to grow
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  Speaker 6: mindset to get better and.
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  Speaker 2: Just worked to be better every day.
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  Speaker 5: What's it like for Crosby is coming up next to.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean just we can't at the game record
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  Speaker 6: be the game record. I mean, everybodyknew who mess Crabby is.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody know what he does. I thought, I love do
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  Speaker 6: a great job, but just chipping guys, just kind of
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  Speaker 6: taking him out of the game. I remember just him
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  Speaker 6: and Jeff versus going back and forth every game at
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  Speaker 6: it all game and you can't get to a point
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  Speaker 6: to where we line up outside and.
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  Speaker 2: Now learning for the chip.
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  Speaker 6: So were taking him out of the game because he
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  Speaker 6: worried about us, you know. So I feel like we
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  Speaker 6: gotta do a great job controlling and controller books. They
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  Speaker 6: know we're going a chip, so we just gotta do
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  Speaker 6: a great job executing the chip and uh not let
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  Speaker 6: him wreak the game. Were going from the team being
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  Speaker 6: accountable for that play call that clip that got out?
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  Speaker 2: What does that say to you guys? Just you know
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  Speaker 2: about him and how he coaches.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like, uh no, no, man's bigger than the program.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like, when you got a coach that's accountable,
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  Speaker 6: it's only right. Everybody else is accountable. You can't open
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  Speaker 6: them mistakes, no matter's when or lost.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Lim does a great job.
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  Speaker 6: Eve when we were winning, he was still being accountable,
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  Speaker 6: taking taking it on the chest. You know so Uh,
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  Speaker 6: being behind a coach like that, like there's no hiding
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  Speaker 6: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you can't hire from anything.
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  Speaker 6: Everything is on film yard what you put on in
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  Speaker 6: your resume, and he understands that from a coaching standpoint,
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  Speaker 6: and I feel it just trigged it down onto the
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  Speaker 6: players and that's when we were able to have their
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  Speaker 6: growth mindset and conceive to get better.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's only good bye week in yourself. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you guys have here sol a really good playoff attention
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  Speaker 3: and going into the buyo.
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  Speaker 5: How's that feel knowing that you give your guysself some
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  Speaker 5: wiggle room in this next second half of the season.
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  Speaker 6: I wanna say we gave ourself wigging room. Uh, there's
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  Speaker 6: no wiggle room in the NFL. I feel like, uh,
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  Speaker 6: you can't take anything your granted. And I feel like
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  Speaker 6: for us to get to where we want to be
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  Speaker 6: the ind the season, we just gotta take it one
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  Speaker 6: game at a time, So we can't look over this
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  Speaker 6: one try and look forward to the next one.
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  Speaker 2: We just gotta make the most epportunity.
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  Speaker 6: This Sunday cutches the next one and and then we
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  Speaker 6: worry about at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever that comes. We worry about that, that when we
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  Speaker 2: get there,