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Geno Smith: "The Win Is What Is Most Important" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Area.
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  Speaker 2: How you feel, uh, feeling better, feeling better? You know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously ugly situation, but uh, I feel a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think it's through that play? I guess,
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  Speaker 1: so what what you thought happened?
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  Speaker 2: Or uh, you know I was just running out of
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  Speaker 2: bounce and kind of got rolled up on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just an unfortunate situation.
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  Speaker 1: Did you think there should have been a flag?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, honestly, I you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I try not to uh think about those things,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, in the moment, UH was kind of heated.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, after the fact.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when the play initially happens, did you think
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  Speaker 3: the injury could have been worse than it was?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know initially I really just was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of in shock a little bit, just from being
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  Speaker 2: rolled up on and having my leg uh pretty much
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  Speaker 2: trapped under the guy, and so it w there was
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  Speaker 2: you know, some slight pain, but overall, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was just happy that I, you know, came out okay.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, whatever the case is, you know, God's good.
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  Speaker 1: How did you say good? Was it like soreness or
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  Speaker 1: my house braining? What they said? But uh, I really
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  Speaker 1: can't get into early or the what the jih same
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  Speaker 1: things that upset you about that play, is that life
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  Speaker 1: kind of kept going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the the coaches, the fans, Uh, you
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  Speaker 2: know it just you know, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, any time you're on the road, you know
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be like that. So we expected and you
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  Speaker 1: obviously have a history with this team and in met life.
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  Speaker 4: How was it?
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  Speaker 1: How did it feel to come back more importantly get
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  Speaker 1: a win though?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, the winners what's most important, you know obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being here for four years, five years, you know, was
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  Speaker 2: was felt like home to me.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, you know, now that I've been away, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's just another road game.
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  Speaker 3: I guess three and one now heading to nearby, three
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  Speaker 3: wins of earls. How you feel about this team overall?
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  Speaker 2: Where you're at, You know what, I think We're still
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  Speaker 2: getting better as a team. You know, I think overall
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  Speaker 2: we've got a lot of room for improvement. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think, Uh, a lot of guys battled. You know,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys stepped up. You know, we were
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  Speaker 2: you know, putting the offensive lineman in, you know, back
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  Speaker 2: in left and right, and you know guys are stepping
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  Speaker 2: up making plays Uh, the defense played a tremendous game,
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  Speaker 2: probably one of the best games I've seen them play. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: guys stepped up all around. I mean, Witherspoon had a
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  Speaker 2: tremendous day. Uh, the defensive line, linebackers, secondary, everybody played
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  Speaker 2: a great game, and I think it was a great
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  Speaker 2: win for the team.
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  Speaker 3: Mentioned that offensive line. You you're starting centers playing guard
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  Speaker 3: in the second half, you have the backups at every
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  Speaker 3: other spot. Just what kind of job has that gro
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  Speaker 3: done over the.
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  Speaker 1: Last few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I think Andy and all those guys have done a
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  Speaker 2: tremendous job. Is staying ready. You know obviously, you know
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  Speaker 2: you love to have your starting guys out there, but uh,
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  Speaker 2: in this league, you never know what can happen.
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  Speaker 1: So guy's gotta step up. And I thought that's what
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  Speaker 1: happened today.
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  Speaker 2: Not a perfect performance, not al n not over all
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  Speaker 2: our best performance. Like I said, We've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of room to improve, but uh, you know, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like the guys stepped up and they battled against a
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  Speaker 2: really good defensive line.
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  Speaker 1: You've You've mentioned Wherspid. You go up into the practice
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  Speaker 1: all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know what you can do in America, guind
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  Speaker 3: of got to see it tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Uh what are you thinking on the sideline when you
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  Speaker 1: watching watching leagus? You okay, you know exactly what we
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  Speaker 1: expected of him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I mean he's uh, he's such a competitive you
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  Speaker 2: know dude, and so talented, so smart.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's got all. He's got what it takes
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  Speaker 1: to be one of the best.
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  Speaker 2: And when he plays, uh the way he played tonight,
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  Speaker 2: you know, by just doing his assignment, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: ball will find him because he's a playmaker and so uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's just a great player who's only gonna
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  Speaker 2: get better.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about that first touchdown pass to Metcalf, what you
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  Speaker 3: were seeing and then the execution.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, just uh you know, scrambled drill. Uh we
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  Speaker 2: talk about it all the time. We practice it all
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  Speaker 2: the time. Uh off schedule plays and uh DK is
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  Speaker 2: a big target. He's a guy who has you know,
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  Speaker 2: just uh you can put the ball anywhere he'll catch it.
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  Speaker 2: And so really you know, just saw the dv's b
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  Speaker 2: dv's back turn. Uh you know dB uh DK sorry
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  Speaker 2: kind of gave me like a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: head and nod to throw it and you know, put
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  Speaker 2: in this a spot where he can get it and
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  Speaker 2: uh he made a great catch.
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  Speaker 3: I got a couple of those touchdowns to have more
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  Speaker 3: the d like you have the dv's right there, but
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  Speaker 3: you can throw it anyway. Just how much trust do
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  Speaker 3: you have in him in those situations?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, tremendous amount of trust.
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  Speaker 2: Uh you know, like I said, he's uh, he's such
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  Speaker 2: a big target with you know, a tremendous catch radius. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: so you just put the ball somewhere where he can
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  Speaker 2: get it, and uh, you know he usually makes those
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  Speaker 2: catches and so it was great to get that to
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  Speaker 2: get us started. Uh kind of get some momentum early,
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  Speaker 2: and you know we need more of that. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna work hard to to get better corners heading
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  Speaker 2: backs turned or are you throwing that pretty much every time?
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  Speaker 1: Cause that's gonna be a tough reaction for that hip.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's that's what we, uh you look for.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's hard for that guy to find the
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  Speaker 2: ball and make a play. And so if the guy's
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  Speaker 2: not looking, if he you know, if he can't find
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  Speaker 2: the ball, you know, you give your guys a chance.
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  Speaker 2: And uh y, you know, guys like DK Tyler and
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  Speaker 2: all the guys man, they usually come up with those.
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  Speaker 3: We talked a lot about the relationship that you've built
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  Speaker 3: with Drew since he got here. I know, you want
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  Speaker 3: to be out in the game and you obviously we're
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  Speaker 3: the injury ten at the time.
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  Speaker 4: But what was it like to see him be able
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  Speaker 4: to lead the team down to get that touchdown right
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  Speaker 4: before the half?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I was so excited for Drew And uh, like
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  Speaker 2: I always say, Man, he's a starter in this league
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  Speaker 2: and and he's a really really good quarterback and so
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  Speaker 2: uh kind of what I expected of him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I expect him to go out there and.
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  Speaker 1: Do his thing like he always does.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, the the great part about it
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  Speaker 2: is that you know we work together and you know the.
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  Speaker 1: Belief that he has in me.
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  Speaker 2: Uh had the same amount of belief in him, and
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  Speaker 2: I know that he's gonna do great things.
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  Speaker 1: When his opportunity to arise, which he did today. You
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  Speaker 1: wanna hear how you very one street here a you
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  Speaker 1: drove education and making me.
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  Speaker 2: Such doblent fashion as build Uh honestly, Uh, I don't
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  Speaker 2: you know. I was only here for one year with
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  Speaker 2: the with the Giants, and uh, you know my stretch
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  Speaker 2: with the Jets, Uh was kind of up and down,
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  Speaker 2: good and bad, and so I was always thankful for
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  Speaker 2: my opportunities here. You know, I have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: you know, great friends who are from New York and
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  Speaker 2: still live in New York, and a lot of fans
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  Speaker 2: still here. So uh it's a lot of love. I
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of love for New York and uh
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  Speaker 2: vice versa. So it's just another win, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: And I think the special part is that the way
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  Speaker 2: that we got this win and the way that everyone
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  Speaker 2: stepped up and all the things that we battled through
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  Speaker 2: to to get it done.
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  Speaker 4: Would you like to see growth in improvement on the
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  Speaker 4: offense coming out of my Yeah, I I would say consistency, Uh,
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  Speaker 4: down to down consistency, I would say being better on
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  Speaker 4: third downs Uh, still a still a area we need
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  Speaker 4: to improve on.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, for me personally, just overall accuracy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just being being better with my accuracy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: d doing things better, uh, you know, in and out
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  Speaker 2: of the huddle, you know e everything really everything's got
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  Speaker 2: to improved.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just looking forward to the next opportunity. Did
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  Speaker 1: did did the rest tell you? While you got the
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  Speaker 1: Tawny car.
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  Speaker 2: Uh probably was uh going overboard. You know, I should've
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh been talking to the sideline. Should've should
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  Speaker 2: have uh stayed in my place, so that that was deserving?
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  Speaker 1: Is that reacting to Paka getting tossed away out of
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  Speaker 1: mountains on that blood.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just feel like things were getting a little
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  Speaker 2: chippy out there, and uh it's my job not to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, take part in that, so I gotta rial
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  Speaker 2: my guys back in, and UH just kind of got
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  Speaker 2: over board with real appreciate it.