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Speaker 2: That's how the offense needs to perform, so the quarterback

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Speaker 2: win the turnover ratio, you have a chance to score

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Speaker 1: What's it like walking into that locker room today. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Again, I'm just happy for the players, for the coaches.

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Speaker 1: Brian, this has got to be a belief for you too.

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Speaker 1: This has been a long season.

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Speaker 2: So I know everything's about the players and the organization

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Speaker 1: Those guys put a lot into it.

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Speaker 2: They come out, they grind every day, they have good attitudes,

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Speaker 2: it just hasn't been there that you know. I think

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Speaker 2: critical times. I think we were good on third down.

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Speaker 1: Deal that they got. Happy for those guys, but mostly.

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Speaker 1: Would have been easy for these guys. Just a couple

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Speaker 2: I mean it was a explosive It's another explosive play.

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Speaker 1: Again to Connor's question, I think you know, they're just they're.

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Speaker 1: about because of the pick sixes last week? Or yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: can't turn it over.

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Speaker 2: I mean teams are owing fifteen the last however many

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Speaker 2: years throwing two pick sixes for touchdowns, and the average

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Speaker 2: point differential is about twenty five points.

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Speaker 1: So it's not good play.

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Speaker 2: But to have a game like that and bounce back,

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Speaker 2: you know, when things weren't great and I'm yelling at

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Speaker 2: him and things like that, and again, I got a

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Speaker 2: lot of respect for Drew. I know he knows that,

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Speaker 2: but I'm proud of him for the way he competed

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Speaker 2: and came out and played