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  Speaker 1: The games and all, then you've got the short week
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  Speaker 1: and then you get another away.
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  Speaker 2: Game after that.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, just embracing whatever's in front of us is taking
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  Speaker 3: it one week at a time. I mean we went
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  Speaker 3: over there to London. Uh, it's already a messed up
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  Speaker 3: schedule with the flight. The first flight played that first game,
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  Speaker 3: then the second week was hectic. Uh, just tryna navigate
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  Speaker 3: trying to get through practices and stuff without our all
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  Speaker 3: the training facilities that we have here being able to
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  Speaker 3: power through that. And we just came together as a team.
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  Speaker 3: Really whatever is in front of us. It's like we
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  Speaker 3: were able to embrace, you know. I we used to
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  Speaker 3: call it in college, like br embrace the suck whatever
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  Speaker 3: you know it was about to happen in front of us.
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  Speaker 3: It's usually as a unifying point and then get through
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  Speaker 3: it together.
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  Speaker 2: You got plenty enough.
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  Speaker 1: Travel experience as an NFL player to kind of understand
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  Speaker 1: what's harder to power through.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna give you the two choices.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the back to back London thing over a ten
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  Speaker 1: day period of turning around a short week this.
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  Speaker 3: Week, that London period was I I had never done
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  Speaker 3: it before. The whole stay overseas that long. I might've
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  Speaker 3: been the Longestide've been overseas since I was I was
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  Speaker 3: a little kid. So that was pretty tough, just because
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  Speaker 3: it was new. This Thursday, you know it. Whoever embraces
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  Speaker 3: this week, whoever handles this week the best, usually wins
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  Speaker 3: this game. Obviously with recovery and stuff, just trying to
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  Speaker 3: feel your best for Thursday, but really getting through that
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  Speaker 3: mental part of it, getting through the game plan and
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  Speaker 3: all that. Trying to execute your best on Thursdays is
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  Speaker 3: the name of the game. I know what the Falcons
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  Speaker 3: when you're with them, the Saints is a big time right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, do you carry any of those personal emotions over
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  Speaker 1: into this game.
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  Speaker 3: I'll see what happens when that when I get in
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  Speaker 3: the stadium. I'll see what happens when I getting in
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  Speaker 3: the stadium. I was really just trying to win every
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  Speaker 3: time I was over there. The rivalry that was the
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  Speaker 3: fans stuff. You feel it being a Falcon and them
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  Speaker 3: being Saints. But I feel what I feel when I'm
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  Speaker 3: in the stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Is it really as loud as Yes, I've been there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's cool. It's loud.
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  Speaker 3: Yes it is loud, but you I mean I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to relay that to the defense, how into really the
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  Speaker 3: whole team, how the atmosphere. I give them respect for
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  Speaker 3: their fan base and how they keep that thing packed
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  Speaker 3: and energize, but it's a cool atmosphere of playing. Like
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, embrace everything that we that we comes up
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  Speaker 3: to us and learn how to get through it.
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  Speaker 2: What is this Saints offense? Like?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously different quarterback than what you face, but in terms
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  Speaker 3: of Kamara, guys like that, Michael Thomas or what did
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  Speaker 3: they bring to the table. You know they got good
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  Speaker 3: skill at every position. Kamara, you can line up with
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  Speaker 3: different positions really depending on how they want to use them.
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  Speaker 3: They got Taysom Hill, a lot of personnel, different things
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  Speaker 3: that they can throw at you.
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  Speaker 2: So being able to handle that.
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  Speaker 3: But really just getting the guys who have the ball
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  Speaker 3: in their hands down is important because I know a
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  Speaker 3: lot of those guys can break tackles and run. You
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of skill on that side of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: So being able to handle that, make sure we stop
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  Speaker 3: the run first. That's what we pride ourselves on right now,
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  Speaker 3: stopping and run and handling the past game and keep
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  Speaker 3: creating turnovers.
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  Speaker 2: It's a number.
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys have a number in your mind that
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  Speaker 1: you want to get to this number of turnovers it's
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  Speaker 1: like fifty, you know what I'm talking about the end
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  Speaker 1: of the season.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even think we thought of a number. Get
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  Speaker 3: to just create turnovers. Right now, I think we're first,
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  Speaker 3: So keep creating turnovers to say first, however, may that's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be, but really just to win the game. Whenever
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  Speaker 3: the opportunities are presented. You know, you catch the ones
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  Speaker 3: they throw you. You have a lot of turnovers, so
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  Speaker 3: get pressure on the quarterback, you know, work on punching
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  Speaker 3: that ball out. Get the ball back to our offense
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  Speaker 3: for more possessions. What is it now officially contagious, it's
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  Speaker 3: really your thoughts, I mean, motivating everybody to We've.
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  Speaker 2: Been having that thought since last year.
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  Speaker 3: I think it helped us out throughout that seven game
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  Speaker 3: stretch that we had last year, starting to take the
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  Speaker 3: ball away.
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  Speaker 2: I think we finished fourth last year.
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  Speaker 3: Was it We saw how cool that was for our team,
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  Speaker 3: so had that thought all through training camp. Takeaways turnovers
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  Speaker 3: really help the game. So when you see that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: taking part in it working for you. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: that's what we prod ourselves on right now? For you,
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  Speaker 3: just from your perspective, how much is winning on first
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  Speaker 3: and second down and winning against the run kind of
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  Speaker 3: help spill? I mean you went on first down, it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of momentum for the rest of your the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the downs. Uh, hopefully it's a second along, second along,
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  Speaker 3: get to the past a little bit. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: you know nfls throwing the ball and second along, depending
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  Speaker 3: on who the coordinator is, they might run it. Shoot,
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  Speaker 3: they're running on second and law, let's get it the
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  Speaker 3: third along and then really turn our heads loose for
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  Speaker 3: the pass for us. And then you know, if they
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  Speaker 3: do loft the ball or tip patch with themthing, getting
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  Speaker 3: able to.
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  Speaker 2: Secure the ball and go the other way with it.
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  Speaker 3: So winning first down is the most important down one
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  Speaker 3: cause the first down, but it's just downward, playing in
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  Speaker 3: and then set the tone for the rest of the UH.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what they call it the f
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  Speaker 2: the series. Wait you talk about momentum? Can you talk
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  Speaker 2: about the momentum this team is on right now?
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  Speaker 3: It's just learning how to UH win and learning how
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  Speaker 3: to sustain energy. Uh, it's every it's a week's a
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  Speaker 3: week business. So whatever you did last year or last week.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, really pointless going forward, cause any team
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  Speaker 3: can beat you in the NFL. So if you don't
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  Speaker 3: bring the right mindset going forward to the next week,
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  Speaker 3: throughout the whole week of practice and stuff, a team
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  Speaker 3: can jump out on you. So it's really learning how
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  Speaker 3: to carry ourselves going into games, no matter who we're playing.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's where we talk about momentum.
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  Speaker 3: It's really learning how to carry yourselves as a as
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  Speaker 3: a professional, as a winning team in order to win games.
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  Speaker 1: I know everybody's different, but how does your body feel
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  Speaker 1: going into this short week?
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  Speaker 2: You know? I mean I don't think most bodies feel great.
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  Speaker 3: If you did feel great on Monday after a game, y'all,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what you gonna have a clean game
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  Speaker 3: or something.
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  Speaker 2: When do you start feeling good?
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  Speaker 3: Is it on a normal We usually start feeling better
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  Speaker 3: by Thursday, So it's just getting your m It's really
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  Speaker 3: a mental thing. Once the bosson app nobody cares about
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  Speaker 3: what you feel like on the TVs, on the Eyes
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  Speaker 3: and the Sky, you don't really cares what the product
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  Speaker 3: that you put on the field. So getting your body
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  Speaker 3: right is as much as possible. Maybe accelerating whatever you
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  Speaker 3: gotta do to get yourself able to go on Thursday
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  Speaker 3: and let that as really and take back over.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do extra to accelerate.
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  Speaker 2: That this week? Sleep? Sleep, I do some stuff, but uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: recoveries a is. Is this the most confident the defense
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  Speaker 2: has been since you've been here.
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  Speaker 3: You think, I think we always had communists ourselves. This
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  Speaker 3: is just knowing our personnel and knowing of the defense
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  Speaker 3: is being a second year. Uh, and it's seeing it
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  Speaker 3: coming to fruition. It's really cool for us. But uh,
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  Speaker 3: we had communists ourselves all the time. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: just being comfortable with who we got out there right now.
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  Speaker 2: Is it easy for.
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  Speaker 1: You and the defense to kind of block out the
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  Speaker 1: distraction of is the quarterback of the place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think we ever thinking about that. We
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  Speaker 2: gotta finish games.
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  Speaker 3: I think we start off these past few games really hot.
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  Speaker 3: We let 'em back in a little bit with explosives.
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  Speaker 3: So our whole meeting was learning to play all the
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  Speaker 3: way through the game, learning to take away those explosives.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure they drive the field on until they do score.
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  Speaker 3: Let's make them earn it the hard way. Uh, keep
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  Speaker 3: getting turnovers. Uh, if the quarterback doesn't play or if
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  Speaker 3: that offers is hindered at all, let's put it on
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  Speaker 3: us to win a game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: If that's the probably the next step that we can
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  Speaker 3: take as a defense. But continue to do what we
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  Speaker 3: do well, let's stop the run, create turnovers.
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  Speaker 1: Or your uh angela signed about ten days before the
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  Speaker 1: season started here then with four different organizations before this,
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  Speaker 1: never never an organization that was in your former NFC South.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have any idea who this guy was he
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  Speaker 1: when he came into the locker room.
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  Speaker 3: No, I just just trusted the the front office brought
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  Speaker 3: a good guy in. I don't really Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: see what he did on the field. He's given an effort,
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  Speaker 3: he's staying in his gap and all that, so we
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  Speaker 3: could work with that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. He jailed with the guys real quick. You know.
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  Speaker 3: He talked to me about uh, things that he's witnessed
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  Speaker 3: in the league and stuff. So we're pretty much on
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  Speaker 3: the same mindset. So I was, I had no problem
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  Speaker 3: with him. Let's let's go work.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's made the most of the set he's
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  Speaker 1: got gets about thirty percent of the snaps MM.
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  Speaker 2: But he's made the most of it. He leads the
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  Speaker 2: league fumble regovernor.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, that's that. That's all the effort. I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: knows what it takes to let me. Had a long
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  Speaker 3: career to stay in the league. So uh, I don't
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  Speaker 3: question his work ethic. And when I like a guy's
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  Speaker 3: work ethic, I know we can work with him. So uh,
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  Speaker 3: coaches see the same thing and just keep doing what
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  Speaker 3: he does and and being what useful for the team.
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  Speaker 1: How big it was the old putting the drive on
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  Speaker 1: defense was seventeen players, but still to hold up for
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  Speaker 1: a field.
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  Speaker 2: Goal there, yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Just the challenge of being him a field that long course.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, we were just kind of how they attacked
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  Speaker 3: us the second game last year. They came out a
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  Speaker 3: lot of quick throws, a lot of uh we kind
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  Speaker 3: of expecting more run with Taylor back and stuff, and
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  Speaker 3: they kind of came out with the quick game maybe
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  Speaker 3: the first fifteen and stuff. So to hold them to
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  Speaker 3: three little we could have done better though, but it
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  Speaker 3: wa it was good to not let them in the
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  Speaker 3: en zone there, and then offense went down and scored seven.
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  Speaker 3: Then we started rolling, so it was good to hold
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  Speaker 3: him out of the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: I think de yeah, for sure, for sure, yup?
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  Speaker 3: Just how good has he looked this season, even after
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  Speaker 3: having to take two games to not play.
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  Speaker 2: How good did he look? Really good?
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  Speaker 3: I think our linebacking corps as a whole is looking
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  Speaker 3: pretty pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Two younger guys or or growing. Uh been learning very rapidly. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Devin definitely put it on himself while we were in
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  Speaker 3: London to keep studying and and make sure he had
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  Speaker 3: the impact as soon as he came back. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he had all the competences in the world with his
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  Speaker 3: thumb like on wasn't playing hesitant at Also, I'd love
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  Speaker 3: to see it. Communication has been great. So when the
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  Speaker 3: communication is good, we know what to expect or know.
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  Speaker 2: What to call out. We both play faster. So it's
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  Speaker 2: been good to see.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when Chad came in, same type thing, even
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  Speaker 3: when Shack comes in, same type thing. So the linebacking
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  Speaker 3: corps is definitely growing. We can always keep growing, keep
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  Speaker 3: playing faster, become uh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, the best linebacking corn in the league. That's where
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  Speaker 2: that's our what our goal is. Appreciate, appreciate, Thank you guys.