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Press Pass | Jaguars Players on Fast Start to the Season, Keeping Momentum · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Are short weeks different for you? Do you have to
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  Speaker 1: shift your schedule at all?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I feel like everybody have to adjust a
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  Speaker 2: little bit with a shorter week. You gotta take care
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  Speaker 2: of your body a lot more, just doing all the
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  Speaker 2: little things just so you can be out there and
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  Speaker 2: be able to go out there and play at one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent or to the best of your ability, the
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  Speaker 2: best of your feelings.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, since you got here just last year,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what was that kind of atmosphere like for
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  Speaker 1: you on Monday?
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  Speaker 2: And what could it mean for you guys? You keep
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  Speaker 2: saying that com Games, it was a great atmosphere. Just
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  Speaker 2: have everybody out supporting that's the game. Great game, great experience.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean I would be great for everybody
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  Speaker 2: to come out support us like that for the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the season. Yeah, it was a great atmosphere, a great,
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  Speaker 2: great experience.
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  Speaker 1: Four and one start to the year. Can you feel
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  Speaker 1: like the confidence kind of building in this group as
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  Speaker 1: you go because you, guys see what you can do.
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, definitely. I feel like we were very confident coming
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  Speaker 2: in and I feel like just getting off to a
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  Speaker 2: good start like we are, I feel like it's just
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  Speaker 2: helping us out more and more. But yeah, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's Lucia to us a lot, and I feel
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  Speaker 2: like we're gonna keep continues to.
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  Speaker 1: Grow from you all able to pop on a couple
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  Speaker 1: of downfield passes. You feel like that downfield passing game
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  Speaker 1: is starting to roll.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah for sure, and hopefully we can continue to
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  Speaker 2: continue to grow on that. Keep pushing, keep pushing forward
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  Speaker 2: each and every game as just going out there being
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  Speaker 2: the best that we can be and maximizing our opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: I was practiced.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, my god, did I cut you off?
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  Speaker 5: I thought?
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  Speaker 1: How was practice today?
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  Speaker 6: With everyone back? It was good.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we got good days of work out
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  Speaker 2: there today. I got to clean up a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Clean up, watch the film, clean up what we messed
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  Speaker 2: up on, clean up all the little things. Uh, just
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  Speaker 2: be better than be better than we're last game.
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  Speaker 1: Who was your reaction to seeing Travis catch you know,
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  Speaker 1: seeing the cash, but also seeing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, your teammate grow out there and make a
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  Speaker 2: big money like that, Travis. I think I was. I
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  Speaker 2: ran down seeing Trevors scramble, I see him go out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know I've seen Travers go up and get
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  Speaker 2: out first down. So I mean it was great just
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  Speaker 2: be able to see them out there and make those players.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's what he that's what he's doing, that's
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  Speaker 2: what he does, that's what he's used to doing. So
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  Speaker 2: because it was great to be ABCR going make those players.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like you guys really like have fun just
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  Speaker 1: playing together this group.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, Uh, I feel like that's how you
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  Speaker 2: gotta be. We gotta uh go out there, uh have
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  Speaker 2: fun with each other, go out there. I mean that's
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  Speaker 2: where the buying comes in at that we can go
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  Speaker 2: out there and have fun with each other, have trust,
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  Speaker 2: have trusting each other that were gonna be in the
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  Speaker 2: right spots and you know that. But he got each
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  Speaker 2: other's back. So yeah, I feel like that's that's where
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  Speaker 2: that comes in.
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  Speaker 4: At Ravin, should.
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  Speaker 2: You tell me what you think. I feel like he's
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  Speaker 2: a really great ball player. Uh, He's works really hard
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  Speaker 2: and it's I mean he's paying off his showing off
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, William said, you guys might be like just pissed.
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  Speaker 2: Off for one team because.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much stuff left out there for you guys
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  Speaker 3: to get a great way to describe it.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Yeah, for sure cause I feel like and we
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  Speaker 2: all feel like that we left a lot out there
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  Speaker 2: that we can be a lot cleaner on some of
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  Speaker 2: the things that were doing that we or that we
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  Speaker 2: even think. So yeah, I mean, uh, I mean we
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  Speaker 2: gonna continue to grow from it and just be better
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  Speaker 2: each and every week. So I mean, it's even if
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  Speaker 2: we're still for on one, so we still haven't been
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  Speaker 2: played a clean game yet. So uh, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: we can be. We'll be better hand, we can be.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna be.
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  Speaker 3: Better cleaned up a lot of the penalties there last
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  Speaker 3: week on G four twenty five yards or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 6: So that's a step in the right direction. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we wanna have as least as least as possible. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: but we gonna get keep continue to know our assignment. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: so we can go out there and play clean and
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  Speaker 2: have a have less spending. So I'll tell y'all what 'em.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, looking back at the wedding on Monday, what
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  Speaker 6: did I tell you about the way this team's put together.
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  Speaker 6: It's just just another example of how this team's put
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  Speaker 6: together with count of literary quick player.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, just to us we know what we got. We
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  Speaker 4: got here. Uh, yeah, we know. We just gotta continue
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  Speaker 4: to play job our football, continue to play physical and
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  Speaker 4: just go out there and take it one play out
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  Speaker 4: of time and continue to just do our job.
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  Speaker 6: What's the toughest part, at least for you personally of
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  Speaker 6: a short week? One day last back in the practice stool,
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  Speaker 6: yesterday in the apps, but today getting back on track. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: what's the most difficult part of the over week like this?
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  Speaker 4: And nothing really difficult for real, cause I I'm I'm
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  Speaker 4: excited every game day, So it's a fashion of the
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  Speaker 4: game day for me, the better for me. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: just super excited to just be able to play again.
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  Speaker 2: You know something I noticed.
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  Speaker 3: When you guys break the huddle before you guys got
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  Speaker 3: are Indeed you go and wrap up a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the offensive guys like you get to as many as
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  Speaker 3: you can.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you do that? Is there a reason behind it?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Just power of touch, you know, just try to roll
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  Speaker 4: off on everybody, you know, try to give them the
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  Speaker 4: energy that I bring every day. So uh, just a
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  Speaker 4: power of touch to make sure you know, I'll lift
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  Speaker 4: as many guys as I can.
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  Speaker 1: Liam, I said, like even with the four and one start,
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  Speaker 1: you guys aren't content with that standard.
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  Speaker 6: You wanna keep getting better.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that an important mindset for you guys to have?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, because it's a it's a long season. You know
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  Speaker 4: we can start four and one and we just gotta
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  Speaker 4: continue to take that mindset. Uh, just going one to
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  Speaker 4: know each week. You know that's our record right now.
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  Speaker 4: But we're really on and on right now. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we gotta go one and know this this Sunday, and
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  Speaker 4: we gotta continue to go one to know.
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  Speaker 2: I know, you just do what coaches are are telling
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  Speaker 2: you to do. But how does the Tyson trait kind
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  Speaker 2: of affect you?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: It was a brother, you know, he was a brother here.
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  Speaker 4: You know I could talk to him, aks him whatever
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  Speaker 4: I needed to. Uh, But it's all in God's playerformance
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  Speaker 4: and God's works for him. So I j you know,
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  Speaker 4: just God bless him and I hope he you know,
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  Speaker 4: get to a mindset of it's just another step.
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  Speaker 1: Are you did you think you'd have a touchdown at
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  Speaker 1: by at this point in the season?
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  Speaker 3: Are you starting to get like a little like anxious,
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  Speaker 3: like when's it gonna happen at all? Or not?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Those type of things you just gotta leave up to God,
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  Speaker 4: and you just gotta continue just be faithful, and you
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  Speaker 4: know the time is it's gonna be right when it's
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  Speaker 4: when it's time. So you just gotta continue to just
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  Speaker 4: go off for greatness every day and continue to just
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  Speaker 4: be blessed and continue to just go out there and work.
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  Speaker 3: They trap to just talk to VT about kind of
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  Speaker 3: getting that down bill passing game going. It seems like
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  Speaker 3: all you guys are making some of those explosive plays.
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  Speaker 3: Uh one, how great is it to finally kind of
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  Speaker 3: get that role a little bit more consistently into How
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  Speaker 3: infectious is it when you know you make a player
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  Speaker 3: kind of boost everybody else up?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: You know, we we gotta prove the coach that we
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  Speaker 4: can make those plays. So him giving those those us
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  Speaker 4: those shots and we capitalize all those shots and just
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  Speaker 4: give him more of a Okay we could do this,
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  Speaker 4: let's go do it. So you know, we just gotta
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  Speaker 4: continue to do our job when he call our memory
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  Speaker 4: answer what we having them?
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  Speaker 1: Though? Is there something too like it's winning those games
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  Speaker 1: when it's not perfect, Cause you still wanna like it's
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  Speaker 1: good to learn from the winning tape, right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I think that's really cool to be learning and wins
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  Speaker 5: right now, because uh, when you do put it together,
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  Speaker 5: you know it could look really special. But that's what
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  Speaker 5: we're striving for, having to look well, having looked real
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  Speaker 5: good and the winning as well.
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  Speaker 1: Is it tough to go from being the hunter to
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  Speaker 1: the hunter that you do that on Monday Night football?
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  Speaker 5: Me personally, I'm always a hunter. I don't even care like, uh,
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  Speaker 5: I got a lot to prove in my career, got
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  Speaker 5: a lot to prove every year, every game I'm out there.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: I think most people in the locker room kind of
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  Speaker 5: feel that same way. Coaching staff feels that same way
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  Speaker 5: being a uh a new coaching staff. So I'm always
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  Speaker 5: trying because I feel like I got a lot I
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  Speaker 5: wanna put out there for the season.
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  Speaker 6: You got a quartermaer Sam Darnold whose extends plays.
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  Speaker 5: What kind of stress can that put on a defense?
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  Speaker 5: You know, you got a plaster, but we got keep
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  Speaker 5: him in the pocket, really finish the rushes, make sure
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  Speaker 5: we bring them down when we get our hands on them,
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  Speaker 5: and then the in the coverage part, making sure that
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  Speaker 5: when they he does break, contain staying in the plaster.
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  Speaker 1: We call it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we experienced some of it. Last game, but we
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  Speaker 5: could do better at it for sure.
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  Speaker 1: New Spot. But y'all played him last year. How much
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  Speaker 1: can you take for maybe what you're.
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  Speaker 4: Able to do to frustrate him the year ago?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 5: No, I mean, for sure, watch a little bit of that.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he's in a new scheme himself somewhat. You know,
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  Speaker 5: he's grown as a player since then. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna tell our game plan and stuff, but
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  Speaker 5: definitely the things that we feel like he struggled with,
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  Speaker 5: maybe implement some of that to our game plan.