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Speaker 1: Christian, just did you just kind of take us through

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Speaker 1: that that final drive and what was going through you

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Speaker 1: guys minds as you're trying to get off the field

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Speaker 1: there and then ultimately they end up scoring and getting

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Speaker 1: the two point conversion.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we were obviously trying to get the stop.

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Speaker 3: We weren't We weren't able to do it. You know,

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Speaker 3: we we gotta be better as a defense in times

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Speaker 3: like that. I mean, props to you know, the coach

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Speaker 3: they e to. Uh yeah, Christian, can you just take

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Speaker 3: us through the interception and what you saw in that play, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was. It was a main coverage. I mean I

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Speaker 3: was just man on man and he ran the same

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Speaker 3: went and went and made the play.

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Speaker 4: Chris ran on the left on that final drive. Obviously,

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Speaker 4: you guys made a ton of big plays, but not

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Speaker 4: enough at the goal line. How do you kind of

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Speaker 4: categorize that drive and kind of defense as a whole

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Speaker 4: today and what you were able to accomplish.

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Speaker 3: It just wasn't good enough. I mean, like you said,

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Speaker 3: we made plays, but you know they made more plays.

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Speaker 3: So I mean, we gotta we gotta be able. Like

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Speaker 3: I said earlier, we gotta be able to you know,

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Speaker 3: there with the game on our back, we gotta we

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Speaker 3: gotta be better. I mean, we'll get in the film room,

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Speaker 3: we'll get fixed, and you know, take this bye week,

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Speaker 3: you know, recover, get right mentally, and move on to Cardinals. Wow.

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Speaker 5: Question, Dan rode to the back.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you about the bye week. How important

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Speaker 1: catch your breath how's your arm as well? And it

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Speaker 1: looked like you guys were close many times in that

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Speaker 1: final drive when you kind of separate yourself from it.

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Speaker 1: How how much close do you think you guys are

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Speaker 1: getting it and making some plays just close enough, but

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Speaker 1: certainly not just getting it done.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 6: Bye week's big.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's it's big for everybody, you know, however

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Speaker 3: you choose to spend it, you know, be able to

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Speaker 3: mentally get back into the right head space. But then

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Speaker 3: I mean as a defense, we, like I said, we've

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Speaker 3: got to be better. You know, it's it's it's too

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Speaker 3: late in the season to be saying it's it.

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Speaker 5: We're close.

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Speaker 3: We we gotta we gotta be able to you know,

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Speaker 3: make them make those plays and finished out the game.

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Speaker 1: You appreciate it. Hunter, First off, how you feeling, uh

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Speaker 1: number one? You took a pretty good shot there and

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Speaker 1: and just how how frustrating was it? You know, the

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Speaker 1: game of football You've been around a long time. Just

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Speaker 1: the babble and then the interception down to the near

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm feeling on guy's just play I gotta make

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Speaker 7: Tell me, uh we there was a play against the

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Speaker 7: call flag, penalty wasn't called on that sort of a

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Speaker 7: similar play on you get hit in the helmet, crowned

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Speaker 7: in the head, bounce off another guy's helmet, no flag.

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Speaker 7: Do you feel like there's consistency on the way that

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Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, it's football, man, I'm gonna take hits.

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Speaker 6: Hunter, Just how would you describe the emotions of the

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Speaker 5: It's just hard put a lot into this and just

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Speaker 6: Just the red zone is obviously a story here. What

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Speaker 5: There's just I mean, I think I can look at

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Speaker 5: the game. We're having to move the football a lot,

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Speaker 1: You did to kind of follow that up up for

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Speaker 1: us rightning that, you guys, I think four point undred

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Speaker 1: You feel like you're making, you know, getting there as

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Speaker 1: Antonio. Kind of a bittersweet day. You guys had a

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Speaker 6: Sweet and sour?

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Speaker 8: You know, I feel like everybody on both sides of

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Speaker 8: You never want to hold your head down too long.

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Speaker 8: But we do continue to fight. We continue to practice hard.

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Speaker 9: Right we're you could argue this offensively is sort of

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Speaker 8: Just weekend and week out, just continue to take a

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Speaker 8: I feel like it's at the point where like we'll

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Speaker 7: Uh. You mentioned earlier the sort of like recurring theme

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Speaker 7: Do you feel like this team is getting closer to

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Speaker 8: I was about to say it's the back end of

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Speaker 8: the season. Yeah, you know, early in the season you

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Speaker 8: can you can kind of say that, but we're at

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Speaker 8: It's no more you know, where we almost got it's

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Speaker 8: I think we got four more games left, so you know,

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Speaker 8: of course we see the growth, we see the positive

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Speaker 6: Antonio, I know you weren't obviously in the field during

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Speaker 8: Shit, I mean, they wanted to win, you know, and

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Speaker 8: Everybody happy you go for it, you don't, it's your fasse. Uh,

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Speaker 8: that right there is a tough one. But that's what

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Speaker 9: Back on the offense, you can you talk about your

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Speaker 9: relationship with Romande and you're both different style backs, but

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Speaker 9: but when you guys are both going these styles can

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Speaker 8: Uh, Ramandre is a very good back. I've been learning

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Speaker 8: no fall off, and like I told some people, like

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Speaker 8: I feel like I sold myself short at the beginning

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Speaker 8: of the season, but it's finally coming together for me.

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Speaker 8: And you know, I'm just gonna keep continuing to be consistent,

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Speaker 8: do my part, just continue to play within a row.

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Speaker 7: For sure.

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Speaker 8: You have the Day.

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