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Speaker 1: all right, Yeah they did it. But how much confidence

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Speaker 1: is did that final drive that you guys had against

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Speaker 1: old line they've been they've been working hard, progressing every week.

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Speaker 1: So as long as they keep doing that, I think

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Speaker 1: we could keep finishing the games out beautiful. How much

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Speaker 1: the jolt of confidence that that gives you steel Its Nick,

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Speaker 1: We've talked about it during the course of the summer

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Speaker 1: and sun to have a game go better that way

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Speaker 1: and to finish that way. Can that's go lift you

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Speaker 1: as your head into this week? Of course, Uh, progression

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Speaker 1: it going. You know, last year for Mac and I

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Speaker 1: don't know how much you guys pay attention, you do

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Speaker 1: what you don't. But last year for Mac was a

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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of praise for him, Right, rookie

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks go ten wins you get into the playoffs. This

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Speaker 1: that's fair. Yeah, well, I mean last year, I remember

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Speaker 1: and he knows what we have to do to, you know,

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Speaker 1: steps we have to take. So I have all my

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Speaker 1: worried about him. How vocal does he get he doesn't

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Speaker 1: I mean, uh, you know, he puts his input in,

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Speaker 1: like I said, as a quarterback should just to know

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Speaker 1: So I think he puts he puts his input in. Mind,

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Speaker 1: do you feel like it's only been two games, but

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Speaker 1: you guys collectively is a running back room if only

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Speaker 1: kind of scratch the surface of what you might be

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's safe to say. I feel like me,

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Speaker 1: early early in the season. Still third game, so I

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Speaker 1: think we're just we're just gonna pound the pavement and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have that game, and we're gonna string him

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Speaker 1: along and we're gonna, I think, gonna produce. And that

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Speaker 1: lead to great things. How has Pierre been fitting in

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Speaker 1: You said you wanted to work all at this offseason

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Speaker 1: Sunday was kind of like your first big test in

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Speaker 1: Still a lot of progress to be made. U still

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Speaker 1: be the hammer, not the nail and just how important

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Speaker 1: physicality is each and every week, Like to some guys,

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Speaker 1: that's your identity as a running back and obviously someone

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Speaker 1: Like he said it best, we got to be the hammer.

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Speaker 1: Nothing new, you like finishing those rounds? Of course? What

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Speaker 1: But like I'm personally like I'm my self biggest critic.

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Speaker 1: So even like when people like my coaches, my teammates

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