1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: How are you good? Good John? What's the biggest thing 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: you try to get done on why week? Because you 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: get ready to the playoffs. We've had a good couple 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: of days of prize, very competitive, and it's going to 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,239 Speaker 1: be that way nine days from now, so we're trying 6 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 1: to stay sharp and guys are really locked in the 7 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: last two days. So it's good, you know, get a 8 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: chance to really evaluate ourselves and put our best out there. 9 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: It's an entirely new season and um, you know, we've 10 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: earned a chance to be at this moment. We got 11 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: to take advantage of it to continue to try to 12 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,279 Speaker 1: find that you know, that sixty four for the game 13 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: as you're trying to play your best ftballa FO. Yeah, 14 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: we talked a lot about, you know, just all of 15 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: us executing our job. I mean there's no one player, 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: there's no one unit that can carry a team in 17 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: the playoffs. I mean you can't do it during the 18 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,959 Speaker 1: season at all. Football it's ultimate team sport. But this 19 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: isn't about one player, one unit. Is about the whole team. 20 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: Everybody in the room, you know, coaches, players, practice squad, 21 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: everyone you know being at their best and it just 22 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 1: comes down to one game. And it's the highest level 23 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: of competition and uh, you know, it's not four out 24 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: of seven, three out of five, and it's one game 25 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: and that's what makes it so intense. So you're you're 26 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: not you're not strained by do you just I mean 27 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: in terms of preparation, not knowing you're gonna play, so 28 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: you just kind of concentrated on what you guys do 29 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: without knowing your own Absolutely, I mean this is about 30 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: you know, regardless of who we play, we need to 31 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: play well and you got to be sharp and be 32 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: alert and I think just doing some things that are um, 33 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: you know, we just got all got to stay on 34 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: top of what we're supposed to do. So, like I said, 35 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: it's been competitive and that's good and it's gonna need 36 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:50,559 Speaker 1: to be that way, and we got to take advantage 37 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: of the rest and mentally and physically be ready to 38 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: go next week. Tom Thomas, your offensive teammates, I was 39 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: wondering if you could give us your scattering port in 40 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmore year he's had and maybe what other quarterbacks 41 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: think when they see a guy like that has been 42 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: so locked down. Yeah, he's had a great year and 43 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: he's been a you know just so solid, and you know, 44 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: it's tough to complete the ball on him. We feel 45 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,959 Speaker 1: that way in practice. He's you know, he's just and 46 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: I played with a lot of good corners. I mean, 47 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: he's he's right up there with the best of them, 48 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: and it's just he knocks the ball away, intercepts the ball, 49 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: makes a quarterback pay. It's physical, coodn't run game, coodn't zone, 50 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: good in short, intermediate, deep. I mean, it's he's all around, 51 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: just been a great player for us. Um, You've said 52 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: you love playing football Story forty one, but is this 53 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: your favorite part of the season to get juiced up 54 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: for it a little bit? More? Playoffs? I think this 55 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: is a it's just naturally a level of intensity that 56 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: you know, you can't really emulate at any other point 57 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,679 Speaker 1: in the season, and really for us any other point 58 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: in our life. It's um, you know, we all work 59 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: hard to get to this point and to have an 60 00:02:57,919 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: opportunity like we have. I don't think you take them 61 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: for ended, and I think you just let you know. 62 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: There's been so many plays that I've seen in my 63 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: career that you know, had we not made that one play, 64 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: which could be just an extra effort, could be an 65 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 1: arm tackle, could be you know, just one extra push 66 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: of the pile that ends up being the difference in 67 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: an entire game and really an entire season. And that's 68 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: what it's all about. And you know, it's it's great 69 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: when it comes out for us, and I think you 70 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: just try to express that. I don't think you can compete, 71 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: you know, any less than what you're ultimately capable of 72 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: competing at that level. That's intense, and it's every play 73 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: and it's it's just you max out. You can't leave 74 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: anything you know behind. You just gotta give everything you got. 75 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: Both of the team's court Gators are going to be 76 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: a grood for head coaching jobs this weekend. Several players 77 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: like Chris Hogan, build or that are going to be 78 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: free agents after the season. We were talking about Robert 79 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: Cowski retiring after the year. Does this feel like this 80 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: playoff run is going to be the little the last 81 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: go around for this group that you guys have had 82 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: it for the last few years. I think that, you know, 83 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: every year things change in the NFL, and I really 84 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: this eighteen team won't be the same as the nineteen 85 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: and the seventeen team wasn't the same as this team, 86 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: and the sixteen team wasn't the same as seventeen. It's 87 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: just I think one thing that's certain, the NFL has 88 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 1: changed and coaches players. I don't think it's a big 89 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: secret that you know, people are just moving on, and 90 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: you know, different people leave for different reasons over the years. 91 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: I've seen it all nineteen years, and you just see 92 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: the best you can do. You just when you sign 93 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: up to be a part of the team, you give 94 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: everything you can't help the team win. And I think 95 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: that's what I've enjoyed most about this organization. So I 96 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: have a lot of guys say that during this time 97 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: we get this, we can try and rest. Is it 98 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: hard to rest because everything is the intensity is kind 99 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: of wrapped up and you're trying to make sure that 100 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 1: you're covering on your basis to make you still better. Yeah, 101 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: I think you're trying to. I think you're trying to 102 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: just stay sharp. And I think partner staying sharp is 103 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: is getting your body, you know, physically, to its to 104 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: it's peaks as it possibly can this time of year. 105 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: So um, you know, I think you know Friday, Saturday, 106 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: Sunday and Monday Tuesday, have no practice is you know, 107 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: five days that guys don't have to just be you know, 108 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: especially receivers, tight ends, running backs, you know, secondary guys 109 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: that are running a lot um. You know, it's a good, 110 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: good time of year to have it. So last one, 111 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: what stands out? You said, every year is different, the 112 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: fifteen from the sixteen, from the seventeen. You have to 113 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 1: put your finger on this eighteen team. What stands out 114 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: about it as opposed to some other team? You know, 115 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:35,720 Speaker 1: it's every team has its own unique identity, and this 116 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: team cares a lot about each other. And uh, you know, 117 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: we play for each other, and you know we're playing 118 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: to win. I think that's what we're here for. And uh, 119 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,039 Speaker 1: you know we've shown week and compete. We showed we 120 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: could overcome some adversity. We've been counted out a few 121 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: times and I'm showed back up with a lot of resolve. 122 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: And we have a great character on this team. And 123 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: you know, like I said, our our story is still 124 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: being written and for Optunity, we have an opportunity to 125 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 1: write it. And we gotta go out there and play 126 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: our best every team we play next week and you know, 127 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: beyond hopefully it's a great team. They've earned it. The 128 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: team we play will have won a playoff game, and 129 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: uh you know we're gonna have to play the best 130 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: game of the year. Thank you, guys.