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Speaker 1: You're right again, quarantined yourself from the rest of the team.

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Speaker 1: Though. It made it a point to not talk about

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Speaker 1: playoffs or home you know, division, all that stuff. Do

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Speaker 2: I mean, you talk about winning the division because it's

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Speaker 2: what that's what. We got an opportunity to do this

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Speaker 2: and it's one game. I mean, that's we're here. You know,

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Speaker 2: leading up to this point, we weren't here yet. We

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Speaker 2: had to win. I mean, obviously, look at what Houston

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Speaker 2: we had to win all those games to get this point,

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Speaker 2: to have the opportunity to continue to control the division

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Speaker 2: and keep it in our hands. And that's all we did,

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Speaker 2: and none bigger than this one. We're here to win

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Speaker 2: the division this week. It's a Titans team that's going

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Speaker 2: to come in here and obviously presented some challenges for

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Speaker 2: some things when need to get better at. And I'll

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Speaker 2: put together a good plan your preparation has continually evolved

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Speaker 2: throughout the season, just kind of what does that.

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Speaker 1: Mean, what does that look like for a year?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's uh, you know, with a with

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Speaker 2: there's gray and you play and you you know, you

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Speaker 2: I think it's there's a lot of factors, to be honest.

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Speaker 2: it seems a little bit counterintuitive, like scrambling. You see

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Speaker 1: Touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Journey to becoming an elite rushroom. You start to come

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Speaker 1: in the league, Urban Meyer wants you to run the ball.

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Speaker 1: The interception at the end of the first half the side.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot that goes into it, and that's myself obviously,

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Speaker 2: And you practiced so many things, and there's still things

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Speaker 2: it doesn't it doesn't work. And those guys have done

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Speaker 2: No, not really. I mean he's he's played great, I

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