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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "Too many missed opportunities..." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Obviously, it's tough to win, um games in general when
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  Speaker 1: you don't take advantage of those opportunities, and especially against
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  Speaker 1: a really good team, really good offense, uh, really good
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  Speaker 1: defense too over there. So you know, they did some
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  Speaker 1: stuff in the first half offensively where we didn't really
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  Speaker 1: play our best ball. They did some stuff defensively where
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  Speaker 1: offensively we didn't play our best ball, didn't execute well. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we kind of started getting a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rhythm at the end of that first half
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  Speaker 1: going into the second half, but you know, too many
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  Speaker 1: missed opportunities too early, and we still had our chance
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the game, and and and didn't
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  Speaker 1: make the place to to get back in it there.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's hard to overcome when you when
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  Speaker 1: you missed that many opportunities early in the game, and um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, against against a good team. So just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit a little bit too many of those. Yeah. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: that half to one pass to run ratio was that
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  Speaker 1: by design or game situation where they're taking a run? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the run game is something that we've
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  Speaker 1: we've been really good at, you know, this season, and
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  Speaker 1: that's that's always an emphasis for us and we got
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  Speaker 1: great backs and great guys up front and tight ends
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  Speaker 1: to to execute it. And you know, today I feel
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  Speaker 1: like they had they had a really good plan for
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  Speaker 1: for stopping the run. It's obviously something that we do well.
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  Speaker 1: And um, you know we still we still hit a few,
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  Speaker 1: but there was would be a lot of stuff to
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  Speaker 1: learn from on tape. You know, I thought there was
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  Speaker 1: times where they kind of beat us to the spot
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  Speaker 1: just because it felt like they had a good, good
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  Speaker 1: idea of where we were heading. So that's all stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're playing on the road, they time up
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  Speaker 1: your cadence, all that they brought, some pressures that they
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  Speaker 1: did a good job. So those are all things we'll
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  Speaker 1: learn from. And you know, we'll watch the tape and
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  Speaker 1: we gotta we got an extra week now so we
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  Speaker 1: can really dive into that even more so there'll be
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  Speaker 1: some a lot of stuff to learn from close to
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  Speaker 1: this this team, to having to being able to overcome
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  Speaker 1: those mistakes with the margin prayers, the first slim right
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  Speaker 1: now close. It's just great to maybe being able to
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  Speaker 1: expand that a little. Um, I mean we're right there
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  Speaker 1: of winning these games, and um, you know we've said
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  Speaker 1: that the whole season, and um, it's just a week
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  Speaker 1: no matter who you're playing, Like I said, especially when
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  Speaker 1: you're playing a great team like like Kansas City, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to overcome those And and right now with where
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  Speaker 1: we're at, we need to make those plays and keep
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  Speaker 1: that momentum. And and that's that's where we're at right now.
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  Speaker 1: And um, you know that's you look at the locker
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  Speaker 1: room after the game, and everybody believes in what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody believes where we're heading. We know that, but it's
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  Speaker 1: just still frustrating when you when you feel like you're
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  Speaker 1: in these games and you don't make all the plays
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  Speaker 1: that you have to make to win them. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the same story that we've talked about, and that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: always be. It's always our messages. It's about us. There's
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  Speaker 1: the things that we can control. We have to execute,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the defense, for just speaking offensive, the defense
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  Speaker 1: is gonna make some plays, but you know, as far
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  Speaker 1: as alignment, execution, hitting the easy throws, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta hit those, you know, And that's
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  Speaker 1: the and that's always gonna be the messages. Control what
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  Speaker 1: you can control. They're always gonna make some plays, but
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  Speaker 1: we gotta be better executing just you know, from our
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  Speaker 1: standpoint phecifically, how hard much moment that you feel like
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  Speaker 1: you had end that last four minutes the third quarter
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  Speaker 1: but you get the missfield goal and then a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: taken away? I mean, you're talking about the momentum we
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  Speaker 1: had at the end, or just go down to get
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  Speaker 1: the turnover. You gus the gig come up with a
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  Speaker 1: nine minute drive, you only get three out of it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean specifically, how mean is that summing up? Really mean?
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  Speaker 1: Where you guys were really grubing, but I couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: as much out of it maybe as you could. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And that's that just goes back into the missed opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: You know that obviously obviously, um that was one of them.
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  Speaker 1: And then you look at we talked about to field position.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had some some great opportunities to maximize
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  Speaker 1: that field position early on. I mean essentially stole a
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  Speaker 1: possession from them and had an opportunity to get you know,
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  Speaker 1: down to at least get some points, but score you know,
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. Obviously that's the ideal, but you know we
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  Speaker 1: come away, we have to pun it, don't get any points. There, um,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know later on, you know, we had
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  Speaker 1: we I think we had what two or three turnovers
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  Speaker 1: a day. It was huge, huge for us to be
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  Speaker 1: able to get those possessions and just didn't capitalize on them.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing is you gotta play
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  Speaker 1: complimentary football. And I thought at times, Um, there was
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  Speaker 1: moments where we all played played great in certain moments,
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  Speaker 1: But we have to do that more and we have
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  Speaker 1: to be on the same page and we got to
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  Speaker 1: complement each other. Defense gets a big stop, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: go score. You know, we have to punt, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: get a stop. Just back and forth, and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what great teams do. And we're close, and but we
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  Speaker 1: just gotta start doing more of that. I'm assuming you're
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  Speaker 1: probably not the special teams meetings, but were you aware
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  Speaker 1: of the on side kickers coming in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the games? That's something you guys are all kind of
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  Speaker 1: watching one's gonna happen. Yeah, I mean we we we
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  Speaker 1: kind of we knew there was a chance that was
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. You never know, you know, coach or whoever
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  Speaker 1: can change your mind right before. But I kind of
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  Speaker 1: had an idea of what was happening. But I'm sitting
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  Speaker 1: over there and just not want to You don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be over there with your helmet on, make it obvious,
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  Speaker 1: ready to go out there. So now we executed it great,
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  Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's where you're kicking yourself. You
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  Speaker 1: get the ball on the where we're on the forty
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  Speaker 1: forty five or so and just you know, didn't get
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  Speaker 1: any points out of it. So that's frustrating. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Patrick mahomes ability to just see me
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  Speaker 1: when you pull things out than air. It's tough. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're sitting over there and like you're you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: the play, got everybody covered up down field, the pockets
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  Speaker 1: closing in, and then he whirls out of there and
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  Speaker 1: makes a play. You know, it's it's part of what
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  Speaker 1: makes him great. He's a great player. And um, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's just gonna make our team better because obviously playing
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  Speaker 1: against guys like that is tough. And you know, I
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  Speaker 1: thought we did some really good things on defense. They
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  Speaker 1: just watching, created some turnovers, got the ball back for us. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, he's a he's a great player, and you
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  Speaker 1: can't you're never gonna completely stop those guys. But I
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  Speaker 1: thought our guys did a good job of taking advantage
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  Speaker 1: some opportunities and making a harder on him, and um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's a great player, and they did some some
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  Speaker 1: good things in offense, for sure. If you head into
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  Speaker 1: the bye week, are you as much control of your game,
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  Speaker 1: the offense, everything else as you felt as you came
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL, I mean these last two weeks specifically,
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  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I feel I feel really good with
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  Speaker 1: where we're at as far as just being on the
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  Speaker 1: same page, you know, especially myself and the receivers. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like we've taken some big steps the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks. And um, obviously, you know, our group up
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  Speaker 1: front has done a great job all year, so there's
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff to learn from those. Still,
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  Speaker 1: too many missed opportunities passing game run games just all
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  Speaker 1: all over the place, you know, that plays that we
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  Speaker 1: can make. Um, so we're gonna look at those. But
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  Speaker 1: I really, I really, I know we're heading in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction and I'm confident in that. And um, but
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  Speaker 1: to win these games, you you can't miss too many opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: And when we did that, today so valuable as Christian guys,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously today shows he's been he's been awesome. I
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  Speaker 1: think just the way we communicate, the way he communicates
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  Speaker 1: with me when he sees things, whether that's in practice
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  Speaker 1: during the week, prepping for the prepping for whoever we're playing,
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  Speaker 1: or that's during the game. You know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times, you know, some pressure stuff today where it's
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  Speaker 1: all about me and him be on the same page
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  Speaker 1: and you see a lot of those big conversions and
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  Speaker 1: those you know, whatever, those quick throws that we have.
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  Speaker 1: It's because I know where he's gonna be, I know
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  Speaker 1: how he's gonna react based on the look before it happens,
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  Speaker 1: and um, we're building that and it's I think it's
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  Speaker 1: really clicking right now. So that's something we gotta build on.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm getting there with with all
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  Speaker 1: of our guys too. So, um, I feel like in
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  Speaker 1: in that in that aspect, we're we're in a really
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  Speaker 1: good place. And we just gotta keep building on that
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  Speaker 1: and keep doing that because that's that's really important. Obviously. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thank you all you guys can say