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Speaker 1: What is your mindset and your approach to these finals

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Speaker 1: six weeks after happen a week on Um, well, I

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Speaker 1: mean I think, uh you know, as a team, we're

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Speaker 1: uh you know, I feel like we we were able

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Speaker 1: to kind of um kind of recharged a little bit

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Speaker 1: and and um, you know, I think our mindset this

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Speaker 1: week is to to attack it and and to do

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Speaker 1: uh do what we've been doing, do it, do it

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Speaker 1: better and and uh you know, more consistently. So um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we had some good practices last week on

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Speaker 1: the bye week, and um a little time to um

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Speaker 1: you know, rest up and get ready for this this

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Speaker 1: uh last stretch. So um I think we're we're enthused

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Speaker 1: and ready to go. What did you do anything different

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Speaker 1: as far as you know, got preparation anything, you know,

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Speaker 1: being able to have that weekend off. Uh yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean I think, uh you know, I went home and

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Speaker 1: and uh so on my family for a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But um, you know it was you know, thinking about

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Speaker 1: what what we need to do, what I need to

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Speaker 1: do and and uh you know, using it, you know

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Speaker 1: as some time to get ahead for this week, some

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Speaker 1: time to get ahead for uh first Chicago. So UM,

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Speaker 1: I think it was a productive week Chicago defense Will

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Speaker 1: pal Mac not quite the player he has been so

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Speaker 1: far this season. But how are you preparing and what

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Speaker 1: are you expecting? Yeah, he's uh, he's a good player,

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Speaker 1: one of the you know, top past rushers in the league.

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Speaker 1: So we'll have a plan for that. And you know,

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Speaker 1: they're a good group on defense, and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I think we'll we'll have a good

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Speaker 1: plan for it. I think you know, we could start

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Speaker 1: to it today and and uh we'll keep building off

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Speaker 1: of it. But um, you know, it's about what we do.

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Speaker 1: It's about how we you know, execute that plan and

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Speaker 1: and uh you know us being ready to go. So, um,

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Speaker 1: they're a good defense, but we'll be we'll be ready

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Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, you're the way you hooked up with

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Speaker 1: Slate the other day, can catches over a hundred yards.

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Speaker 1: Is that something we realistically can expect to continue to

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Speaker 1: see as as the season for bloss Uh? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean I think so he's a he's a really good player,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know you're able to see all of

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Speaker 1: the different things he can do um on the field.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, I I think he'll you know,

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Speaker 1: continue stuff up and make plays and um, I just

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Speaker 1: gotta make sure you get in the ball. So, um

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Speaker 1: you know, I think he's done on He's done really

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Speaker 1: good jobs with him. Is it a good time for guy,

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Speaker 1: especially the offensive line, these guys coming back from injury

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Speaker 1: to have a full line out there for you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think, um, you know, we had guys

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Speaker 1: a lot of trust in all those guys. But um,

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Speaker 1: you know, bye week gave us a chance to to

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Speaker 1: get a little bit healthier and get some guys back

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Speaker 1: out there. So um yeah, I think we'll be we'll

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Speaker 1: be ready to go. Um I'm not sure. A while ago,

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Speaker 1: um probably, but um yeah, we played it pitt uh

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Speaker 1: in college was a snow tour in the game. But

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Speaker 1: I mean I think, uh, you know, usually don't didn't

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Speaker 1: get too cold and Durham, I mean I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's uh you know, it's ah,

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Speaker 1: we'll stay warm and have have ways to stay warm.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a huge factor in the wind though.

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, I mean that's something you know. Fortunately, we

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Speaker 1: we deal with it at practice, uh just about every

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Speaker 1: good practice with that, So, um, you know I've heard

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Speaker 1: that that's that'll be a factor in Chicago, and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think luckily we'll be we'll be ready

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Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, and we need with the benefit of

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Speaker 1: a week where you didn't have the game plan and

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Speaker 1: about the next corner yourself to kind of let things

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Speaker 1: wash over you and I just get a sense of okay,

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Speaker 1: and you thought through some things that time allowed you

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Speaker 1: you can't have some have some time to to look

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Speaker 1: back over the you know, ten games we've played and

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Speaker 1: you know what we've what we've done well, but we

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Speaker 1: did spend some time kind of trying to get ahead

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Speaker 1: this week and and focus on that. But but like

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Speaker 1: um necessarily anything you know, particularly like you know, really

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Speaker 1: what we've been focusing on. But um, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think you just do you get a little bit

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Speaker 1: more time to to see some of that stuff and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, revisiting some of the some of the mistakes,

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Speaker 1: some of the um you know, turnovers in particular, and

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Speaker 1: I mean I think that you know, bye week gave

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Speaker 1: us not to do that. The funnels and they're commit

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Speaker 1: are from those at all of not many of the

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Speaker 1: bit of different circular standards. Yeah, but as they've mounted

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Speaker 1: psychological thing? I mean, obviously the ball protection for the

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Speaker 1: first thing gets probably thinking about but can you get

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Speaker 1: bit too much about it as it gets into your

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Speaker 1: a little bit, right, I don't I mean I don't

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Speaker 1: think so. I think it's something that I need to

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Speaker 1: be mindful of, uh constantly. I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: uh it's not like a golf swing or something like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think it's just you know, it's about

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Speaker 1: all those things is important for me to stay mindful them.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel personally, opd that's the one thing that's

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Speaker 1: we're holding you back more than anything. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: I think, um, you know, there's certainly a number of

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Speaker 1: know probably probably is the you know, the most critical

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Speaker 1: Is there something technical but that you can kind of

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Speaker 1: narrow down if you've worked on as similar as just

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Speaker 1: making sure to talk to hand do Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: making sure I'm doing that and and uh me getting

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Speaker 1: love it. You know you've talked to work out all

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Speaker 1: our stuff that's about it. Maybe. I mean we've talked

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think I don't think it's a um

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Speaker 1: mean I think, um, you know, I definitely need to

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Speaker 1: There's maybe a little look on the box to try

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Speaker 1: to just try to help that at all. Uh not

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Speaker 1: really just just trying to stay mindful of it and

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Speaker 1: anything m drill base that you would have changed recently?

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Speaker 1: I haven't done that, and I'm not sure I will.

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Speaker 1: It was high and tight, right, yeah, I mean think

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Speaker 1: all that's I think you know, for me, it's it's

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Speaker 1: the pocket. So, um, you know, whether we're doing drills

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Speaker 1: I mean anything like that. I need to continue to

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Speaker 1: focus on the Daniel. What do you think is the

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Speaker 1: overall theme here was six games to go for you

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Speaker 1: and the team. UM, I mean I think, uh to

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Speaker 1: uh to keep pushing. I think you know, as a team,

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Speaker 1: we've we've done things well at times and and you

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Speaker 1: know obviously haven't been consistent enough with uh, consistent enough

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Speaker 1: um you know, avoid the negative plays, avoid um be

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Speaker 1: the mistakes, and and you know, do the things that

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