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Press Pass | Jaguars Players on Setting the Tone, Making a Statement · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: How did that touchdown feel? It was a good feeling.
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Great play. Great play design. We've been working that play
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: for a few weeks. The O-line settled the run really well,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: which kind of brought the linebackers down and allowed me
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: to kind of leak over top. Were you expecting to
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: be as open as you were on that play call? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Like I said, with a good run cell, it pulls
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: everybody down. And if Trevor kind of rolls to the
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: right a little bit, it usually works for a pretty
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: open play. Sometimes that makes it harder when you're so open.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: It feels like the ball's in the air for forever.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: But like I said, good ball by Trevor. Put it
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: where only I could get it, and then we score.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: What does it feel like to have those guys just
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: come around you then cheering you on while you do this?
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: It's such a brotherhood here. Everybody's excited for everybody. You
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: think about the tight end room, if anybody makes a play,
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: anybody makes a catch, we're all going crazy. And I
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: think that starts with the time we've spent together and
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: kind of the brotherhood we've built. Obviously, you guys lose,
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: then go into the bye.
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  Speaker 2: Just how big is this for the confidence and momentum
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  Speaker 2: of this.
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  Speaker 1: Team to come back and not just win, but do
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  Speaker 1: it in dominant fashion? It's everything. I'm proud of the
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: way that we responded. It was a really tough loss, obviously.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: And we came back and got back to work, and
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  Speaker 1: that's the most important thing. That's all you can do.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we obviously responded very well. How about
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: playing in front of the home crowd for the first
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: time in a month? It's been too long. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I wish we had more home games. I love this crowd.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: I love the stadium. It's a lot of fun. So
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to get back in here when we can.
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: What about the 98-yard drive to start the game?
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  Speaker 1: That kind of set the tone, didn't it? Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: was a tone setter. I think that kind of fueled
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  Speaker 1: us for the rest of the game. When you can
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  Speaker 1: go down a score from 98 yards at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the game, that really sets the tone and kind
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: of demoralizes the defense. And I think that, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: fueled us.
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  Speaker 4: Nate, can you walk us through the celebration on that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I grew up playing basketball. I spent, I swear,
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  Speaker 1: half my life in the gym growing up. Love the game. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I love basketball, man.
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  Speaker 5: How has it been.
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  Speaker 4: Getting touchdowns the last two weeks? You did a lot
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  Speaker 4: of block in the first few weeks. Being able to
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  Speaker 4: pay these off, what is that like for you?
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  Speaker 1: It's super cool, and it shows the coaches trust me
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  Speaker 1: to go make some plays. So, like I said, very cool.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed.
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  Speaker 3: Has the game started to kind of slow down for
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  Speaker 3: you in your rookie.
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  Speaker 1: Season, or is it still going pretty fast? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: would say so for sure. You know, we spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time at fall camp, and at fall camp
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty fast. You know, getting out here and
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: getting experience I think is the most important thing. And
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: like I said, yeah, I think it's been slowing down.
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  Speaker 1: The running back room.
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  Speaker 2: Is ranked as 32 heading into this season. Just what
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  Speaker 2: did you think of Chris Rodriguez and Basil Tootin coming
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  Speaker 2: out today?
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  Speaker 1: Absolute dogs. Love blocking for those guys. They set up
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  Speaker 1: blocks really well. It makes my job easy. They run
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  Speaker 1: through arm tackles, break tackles. It's great to watch them.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: It's super fun to watch those guys. What kind of
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: a mentor has Brenton been for you at this position?
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  Speaker 1: Brenton's been absolutely amazing. I come to him with anything
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  Speaker 1: I need, any questions I have. He's been absolutely great.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to see me succeed just as bad as
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  Speaker 1: I want to see him succeed. Like I said, very
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  Speaker 1: blessed to be in this situation. Tootin' and Amir Abdullah
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  Speaker 1: immediately sprint over to you.
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  Speaker 5: You get the Spider-Man, Shelly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Whose idea was it this week?
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  Speaker 5: It's always Amir.
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  Speaker 6: Whenever, like, anything's like that is not planned. By the way,
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  Speaker 6: it was not planned. Amir just comes out there and
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  Speaker 6: he's like, hey, we're going to do this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, cool.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, when he came out there, he said,
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  Speaker 6: let's do the Spider-Man. I had something completely different in
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  Speaker 6: my mind. Like, luckily that we, you know, I saw
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  Speaker 6: them do that, so.
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  Speaker 5: It's always Amir.
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  Speaker 3: How good does it feel to have a bounce-back win
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  Speaker 3: after the last outing?
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, it feels good, especially when we can go out
• 4:00
  Speaker 6: and do the things we did on offense. But at
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  Speaker 6: the end of the day, we know there's a lot
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  Speaker 6: of things that we've got to go out there and
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  Speaker 6: still correct. We've got a short week, but we'll hit practice,
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  Speaker 6: and hopefully we.
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  Speaker 5: Get those things cleaned up.
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  Speaker 3: You started looking at the rushing numbers and how dominant
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  Speaker 3: they were. Obviously, that's what you wanted to do, but
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  Speaker 3: are even you a little surprised at how well you
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  Speaker 3: guys rushed the ball today?
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  Speaker 6: Never surprised. We put the work in day in and
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  Speaker 6: day out. We expect to have big games. If they
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  Speaker 6: don't happen, then I think that's more of a surprise
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  Speaker 6: to us because we try to get every look we can.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't say it was a surprise.
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  Speaker 3: How about setting the tone early with a 98-yard drive
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  Speaker 3: to start the game?
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  Speaker 6: That's what we kind of harp on is you know,
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  Speaker 6: setting the tone early. And for that to happen, you know,
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  Speaker 6: we start backed up, which is, you know, one of
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  Speaker 6: those things that we don't want to happen.
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  Speaker 5: But, I mean, it's all right, you know.
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  Speaker 6: And for them to go out there and go 98, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 6: that's what we are going for.
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  Speaker 1: Chris, how happy were you with that drive into with
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  Speaker 1: Brian getting that touchdown? How much did that?
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  Speaker 5: BT, that's my dog, man. I was super excited for him,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 6: He's been through a lot, and he's one of those
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  Speaker 6: dudes who, man, he– Like I said, we don't listen
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  Speaker 6: to the outside noise, you know. But for my dog, BT,
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  Speaker 6: me and BT have grown close over the past few weeks.
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  Speaker 6: So to see that happen for him, man, super exciting.
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  Speaker 4: Chris, I know you guys have seen the stuff preseason,
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  Speaker 4: ranked you guys the 32nd running back room in the league.
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  Speaker 5: How has that.
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  Speaker 4: Motivated you guys, and what have you proven here?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, like I said, we don't really look at the outside.
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  Speaker 6: We know what we got in the room, you know.
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  Speaker 6: We're motivated regardless. There's a lot of different running back
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  Speaker 6: rooms who obviously get a lot of praise, but we're
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  Speaker 6: just going to keep doing us.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, we know what we're
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: capable of, and we know what we can do.
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  Speaker 4: How fun is it for you watching Basial do his
• 6:04
  Speaker 4: thing right now?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, man, it's fun.
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  Speaker 6: I'm excited for him because he got to show his
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  Speaker 6: speed a little bit today.
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  Speaker 5: Which I don't know what he hit.
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  Speaker 6: If he didn't hit 22, then he's still not faster
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  Speaker 6: than me, so y'all tell him that. But obviously it's
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  Speaker 6: good to see that. We kind of pride ourselves by
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  Speaker 6: running back by committee, but you've got a guy like
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  Speaker 6: Tootin who is only on his second year, but has
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  Speaker 6: proven himself.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, both you guys don't go down very often
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  Speaker 4: on the first tackle. You guys run hard. Is that
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  Speaker 4: something you pride yourselves on in that room?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 6: If you guys watch practice, you see us doing that
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  Speaker 6: little blaster.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 6: So for that to come to life, man, it's just
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  Speaker 6: obviously we're going to do it more. But, you know,
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  Speaker 6: that's just credit to the coaches, man.
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  Speaker 5: We do the blaster.
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  Speaker 6: They're throwing bags at our knees, so we got to
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  Speaker 6: pick them up.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big credit and shout out to the coaches
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: for that. Six, you had obviously one of the big
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  Speaker 1: players of the game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say, shoot, just out there making my communications.
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  Speaker 7: Obviously, number two, he kind of– Went shallow, so I
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  Speaker 7: was able to get my eyes back to the quarterback
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  Speaker 7: and just play off the quarterback, and then the ball
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  Speaker 7: went right through. I think it was Tyler Warren's hand,
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  Speaker 7: so just being able to see that, get it, and
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  Speaker 7: then just run.
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  Speaker 5: I just thought about running and scoring. It was huge.
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  Speaker 1: What did that mean to you?
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  Speaker 3: It was your first career interception, first career touchdown, like
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  Speaker 3: all on the same play.
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  Speaker 1: What did that mean to you personally?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's really cool, and I think it just
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  Speaker 7: enforces that next man up mentality. Obviously, on the first
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  Speaker 7: play of the game or something, we had somebody go down,
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  Speaker 7: so just being able to step up and be able
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  Speaker 7: to make the plays and help my team out.
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  Speaker 6: Continuing upon that point, obviously Antonio Johnson announces an active.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Murray goes down early.
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  Speaker 5: How important was it for you to come in and
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  Speaker 5: make a statement in this ballgame? Yeah, I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 5: that's something they do a good job of.
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  Speaker 7: Obviously Antonio and Eric, you know, but just making sure
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  Speaker 7: within our whole group, like you guys seen Jalen Husky
• 8:00
  Speaker 7: go out there and get a sack. Like just making
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  Speaker 7: sure our whole group is ready to go. So when
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  Speaker 7: it's our time, we can go make plays and help
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  Speaker 7: the team.
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  Speaker 4: How have you had to step up in the secondary
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  Speaker 4: with those injuries?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, just going hard in practice and communicating,
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  Speaker 7: taking practice seriously, and just all those things, just being ready,
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  Speaker 7: being ready when my name is called.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Were you running out of gas at all on the return?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was a little bit tired.
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  Speaker 7: If y'all noticed, I was also on punt, so I
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  Speaker 7: was running down there as a gunner on punt. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: I was a little bit tired, but it was cool.
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  Speaker 2: For yourself, no snaps against Houston to come out here
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  Speaker 2: and not only have a moment and a chance, but
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  Speaker 2: just how much mentally were you thinking going into this game,
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  Speaker 2: ready to take this opportunity with both hands?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's always just staying ready so you
• 8:42
  Speaker 7: don't have to get ready.
• 8:43
  Speaker 5: Obviously, we're playing the NFL, so your name could be
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  Speaker 5: called at any moment.
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  Speaker 7: That's why we prepare the way we do so that
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  Speaker 7: when our name is called, we can go out there
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  Speaker 7: and make the plays to help the team.
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  Speaker 1: How much is playing in front of this crowd? It's
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: been over a month since you've been here. Now you're 3-0.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's been a long time since we've
• 8:59
  Speaker 7: been here, but just being back and being able to
• 9:02
  Speaker 7: get the win and dominate and leave no doubt like
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  Speaker 7: Coach said, so that was very cool.