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Speaker 1: Last week of the year, getting a chance to kind

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Speaker 2: Get back to back wins.

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Speaker 1: What would it mean to close out the year with

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Speaker 1: two wins in a row. Yeah, that's a big thing

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Speaker 1: to do in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: If you can stack some good practices and games and

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Speaker 3: carry that momentum, you know wherever it may go.

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Speaker 1: So, uh, we're definitely working for that. You believe that

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Speaker 1: momentum kind of going to the off season in.

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Speaker 3: The next year. Yeah, you know, this is my fourth season,

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Speaker 3: so I know how this goes, and you definitely want

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Speaker 3: to put your best foot forward and control what you

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Speaker 1: And for me, just keep it simple this week.

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Speaker 3: A lot of distractions, a lot of this and that,

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Speaker 3: But a challenge for everybody and for me is to

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Speaker 3: focus on doing my part and then from there should

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Speaker 3: take care of itself. That could.

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Speaker 2: Could you make a case for Brian Thomas winning the

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Speaker 2: Rookie the Year Award?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I mean I don't.

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Speaker 3: I'm not a voter for that, but I definitely have

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Speaker 3: been a part of that award and obviously didn't win it,

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Speaker 3: and I think he definitely is deserving of it, and

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Speaker 3: he's a great player. He's meant a lot to the

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Speaker 3: team this year specifically, and to do it as a

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Speaker 3: rookies pretty much insane. So hopefully we can just finish

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Speaker 3: strong in this last week and he can also carry

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Speaker 3: that momentum into the next year and for his whole career.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited for him.

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Speaker 3: How are you.

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Speaker 1: To say yourself even in the midst of a game,

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Speaker 1: like bullets.

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Speaker 2: Are flying, prey just the same, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think the more jokes I tell in

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Speaker 3: the field, the better I play. So if I can

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Speaker 3: keep it loose with the refs, I think that gets

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Speaker 3: me in my zone. And you know when I when

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Speaker 3: think you can see, you know, the good stuff happens.

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Speaker 3: And I feel like we've done that as an offense

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Speaker 3: at times. You can see it the personality of the team,

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Speaker 3: Guys playing together, you know, when I'm out there, guys

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Speaker 3: playing hard. So got to continue that this week, and

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Speaker 3: that's a big challenge to to do it a few

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Speaker 3: weeks in a row. Think, Yeah, I mean the ref

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Speaker 3: on Filmy he grabbed his flag twice, but he never

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Speaker 3: never pulled it out. So I'll take two touches of

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Speaker 3: the flag but uh no, no penalty. But yeah, that

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Speaker 3: was that was funny.

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Speaker 2: Mitch was talking about you the other day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I hated him.

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Speaker 3: he's like I just I wanted to hate you, but

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Speaker 3: then I met you and you're just like such a normal,

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Speaker 3: somebody showed me the video of him talking about me,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, I mean I paid you

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Speaker 1: For saying that. So I'm glad. I'll venmo him his

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Speaker 1: money and we'll move on from that. It's obviously been

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Speaker 1: a long season.

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Speaker 3: How do you balance, you know, wanting it to be

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Speaker 3: left for you?

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Speaker 1: Guys? Yeah, play because you love the game and you

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Speaker 1: love the competitive like for you. Yeah, it's it's it's tough.

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Speaker 3: You're, like I said, trying to be where your feet are,

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Speaker 3: happen next day. It doesn't matter because at the end

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Speaker 3: both teams are gonna do that this week. It's a

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Speaker 3: great great defense we get to go against always is

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Speaker 3: and so it's it's an opportunity, really is.

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Speaker 1: How I look at it.

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Speaker 3: And I'm going to control what I can control and

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Speaker 3: let the chips fall start.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this last week a little bit, but

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Speaker 2: how weird is it to not know what is next

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean that's always the million dollar question for everybody

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Speaker 3: you you're either under contractor or not. And for me,

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Speaker 3: it's like I said, eliminating the distractions and taking it

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Speaker 3: and it'll take care of itself. And I've I've had

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Speaker 2: How tough do you think it'll be starting Monday? To

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Speaker 2: balance the joy that you have that you yourself have

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Speaker 2: said you have gotten from coming here versus probably your

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Speaker 2: priority next year of being in a situation where you

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Speaker 2: would like to compete.

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Speaker 1: For a job.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I got a chance, Like I said

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Speaker 3: this Sunday, So you don't know how many games you're

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Speaker 3: gonna get a chance to start and said the same

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Speaker 3: we can do that again this week. So it's tough,

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Speaker 3: like I said, every year, whether you're in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: And like I said, the.

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Speaker 3: Chips will fall how they fall, and I have confidence

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Speaker 2: It is it unrealistic that that Brian can get the

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Speaker 2: kind of touches he's been getting in the last month.

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Speaker 2: When you guys have your full compliment, I meant Ingram's

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Speaker 2: hurts hurt, you do that in an offensive game play

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Speaker 2: and get him fourteenth.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he looks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's tough. Those are like hypothetical right

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Speaker 3: think it definitely helps pull coverage, but from a football

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Speaker 1: So he does a great job just doing his part.

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Speaker 3: And we've done a good job moving around Press and

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Speaker 3: And that's where it all starts.

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Speaker 2: How much better you play now, maybe the last two

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean talked about this challenge myself to play

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Speaker 1: So that's the challenge for me.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at that way for this week as well,

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Speaker 3: So trying to stay turnover free and take those completions

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Speaker 3: and keep moving the offense and like I said, control

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Speaker 3: what I can control. Take it one play at a time,

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Speaker 3: and the chips will fall.

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Speaker 1: How they may get thrown it well though, I mean,

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Speaker 1: like you makes you throws, Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: throwing it well, but you gotta keep doing it each week.

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Speaker 2: Tape, not not not trying to count how many throws

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Speaker 2: you wish you had made better?

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Speaker 1: Whether we throw row, but how many plays do you

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Speaker 2: Truly thought yourself, I should have gone there?

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Speaker 3: I call it like the attempt, Like what was the

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Speaker 3: to go to the right guy. I just missed the throw.

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Speaker 3: But I can live with that when hey, it's one

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Speaker 3: on one, it's your best player, he's open. Maybe he's

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Speaker 3: not open, but you give him a chance. It's a

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Speaker 3: low risk throw. But yeah, I think it's a lot

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Speaker 3: about percentages, and really in the NFL, it's more about

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Speaker 3: play and taking what they give you. They can give

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Speaker 3: or the medium, but you just have to be real

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Speaker 3: discipline and I gotta continue to do that this week.

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Speaker 2: Is it really hard to go through a game tape

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Speaker 2: and not find at least one play where you you

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Speaker 2: you knew you shouldn't have gone there.

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Speaker 1: How hard is it to.

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Speaker 2: Make the right decision is not good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the right decision on every throw, Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 3: I mean coach McCoy obviously a quarterback. Coach talks about it,

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Speaker 3: just do the next best thing. So if that's throwing

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Speaker 3: Like they maybe take away the shorts, you have to

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Speaker 3: throw the deep. But that's kind of how I view

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Speaker 3: it as a quarterback. When you're reviewing things, you obviously

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Speaker 3: look at it very critically, but you don't wanna overanalyze

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Speaker 3: every little thing like, oh, my foot was six inches

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Speaker 3: inches to the right. You're kind of just not nitpicking

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Speaker 1: Cool, all right, thanks,