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Speaker 1: for Sunday. Okay. And then secondly, Kyler Mary, the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: really forced you to defend horizontally like sideline to sideline.

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Speaker 1: How critical You're an important player every week for your defense.

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Speaker 1: But how important and is that middle linebacker against this

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Speaker 1: and contain a player like him? No? Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: any type of mobile player, especially him. Uh. He's dynamic,

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Speaker 1: he's extremely fast quick. Um. Like you said, he can

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Speaker 1: the field, Um, extremely fast. I think at the end

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Speaker 1: the field, though I can't. I don't think you kind

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Speaker 1: of put it as one person being the key point

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Speaker 1: for us. UM. I think it's gonna come down to

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Speaker 1: every single person covering their uh part of the fields, um,

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Speaker 1: doing their one eleven and making sure uh we contain

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Speaker 1: him as much as you can Obviously he's gonna make plays,

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Speaker 1: but when you get that opportunity, you make those plays

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Speaker 1: as well. Hey, like, uh, what happened on Sunday and

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Speaker 1: like the backup quarterback. How rare is that for a

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Speaker 1: I don't know too much. I've always had the dot

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Speaker 1: there'd be no other person that I would trust more

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Speaker 1: And what was it like coming out of the game

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Speaker 1: like a you know, that's something that was bothering you

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Speaker 1: all along? Uh, it just kind of happened, Um, it

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Speaker 1: was crappy situation. There hasn't been really many points in

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Speaker 1: my career that I've been one out of the game.

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Speaker 1: If I did go out, I wouldn't be out too long. UM.

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Speaker 1: So it's just it's definitely different for me and just

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Speaker 1: for Sunday. Like this defense has been playing at a

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Speaker 1: this feel like a defense that can carry a team

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Speaker 1: UM And I know when we could do that, we

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Speaker 1: can we can go against any team, whether it's a

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Speaker 1: think that's that's kind of the main focus, at least

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Speaker 1: for me moving forward. And I think we're we're moving

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Speaker 1: you go into those games, UM, I think every game

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Speaker 1: great offense, a really great dynamic quarterback. UM. To be

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Speaker 1: I think it's that classic coach thing where it's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: so now we need to go and do it every week. UM.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of the thing we hold ourselves to

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Speaker 1: But like you guys said that, when you're old five

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Speaker 1: awesome guy. He's able to adapt, he's he's young, young enough,

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Speaker 1: quite You're playing at a high level. Logan's playing at

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Speaker 1: right away as first year giants. And how how responsible

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Speaker 1: think there's there's a lot of components to that. UM.

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Speaker 1: I think to start with just the guys in the

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Speaker 1: locker room, every single person, UM, whether it's myself, Logan Bradberry,

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Speaker 1: that are in the locker room right now playing great ball.

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Speaker 1: They they make you want to be better every day. UM.

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Speaker 1: And if you have that person pushing you to be

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Speaker 1: at a higher level than you were yesterday, you're just

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Speaker 1: gonna keep getting better. Um. And then the coaches on

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Speaker 1: the same aspect, Uh, no matter what what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: whether it's doing warm ups or individual drills, team periods,

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Speaker 1: whatever ends up being. They're gonna point things out there

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Speaker 1: you're doing well, but also point things out that you

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Speaker 1: can improve on. UM. They're never gonna let it slide,

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Speaker 1: no matter if you are playing at high level or

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Speaker 1: not UM, and I think that's what It's also allowed

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Speaker 1: each and every one of us to continue that consistency

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Speaker 1: UM and like you said, performing that that high playing

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