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Speaker 1: What do you think you did better the last two

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Speaker 1: games for the buy and what are you trying to

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Speaker 1: carry over here down the stretch? Um you know, I think, um,

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Speaker 1: as an offense, there's you know a number of things

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Speaker 1: we we did better. I think, um, you know, we

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Speaker 1: we consistently moved the ball. I think we ran the

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Speaker 1: ball at an extremely high level, um you know, and

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Speaker 1: that kept us in front of the chains and ables

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Speaker 1: us to sustain drives. I think, um, you know, obviously

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Speaker 1: protecting the balls was a big part of that as well,

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Speaker 1: and UM you know, that gives us a much better

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Speaker 1: opportunity to win when we do that. So we keep

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Speaker 1: doing those things, and then uh, you know, scoring the

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Speaker 1: scoring touchdowns in the red zone. We've been uh you know,

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Speaker 1: more effective uh in that area as we've gone on

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Speaker 1: this year. So uh, we'll certainly look to continue to

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Speaker 1: do those things, uh through these last six games. UM. Okay,

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Speaker 1: just piggybacking off of that question, how much is it

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Speaker 1: a matter of you becoming more comfortable in the office.

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Speaker 1: It's not just you, but everybody as a whole, now

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Speaker 1: that you've been in you know, this system now for

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Speaker 1: several games. Yeah, I think that's certainly a piece of it.

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Speaker 1: I think just uh you know, playing together more, uh

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Speaker 1: you know, in this system and getting used to um,

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Speaker 1: you know, getting used to it, and and just getting

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Speaker 1: you know, more experience, uh you know, as a team,

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Speaker 1: more experience playing with one another, and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think that's that's certainly certainly been helpful. So uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, we feel like we've improved week to week.

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Speaker 1: We feel like we're you know, a much better team

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Speaker 1: than we were in the beginning of the season, and

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, the challenges to to continue to

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Speaker 1: do that uh through the through the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: Coach was saying the NFC East kind of starts to

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Speaker 1: starts this week, that the race kind of starts from

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Speaker 1: scratch this week. Do you guys feel about as players

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Speaker 1: and as a quarterback, what kind of opportunity is that

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Speaker 1: for you? Yeah, you know, I think, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's exciting for us and we're short only aware

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Speaker 1: of of where the division is and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: what what's left and what's out there for us, So uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's certainly exciting. But you know, I think

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Speaker 1: it is you know the truth, and you know, we

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Speaker 1: we do need to focus on what we're doing, uh

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Speaker 1: this week, and that only remains uh you know, exciting,

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Speaker 1: It only remains an opportunity if we take care of business,

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Speaker 1: uh you know, a weekend a week out, So our

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Speaker 1: focus is on uh you know, what we're doing and

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Speaker 1: preparing for for Cincinnati this week. And then obviously your

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Speaker 1: job kind of goes hand in hand with the offensive

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Speaker 1: lines job. So what was your reaction to the change there?

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Speaker 1: And do you expect the offensive line to play much

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Speaker 1: differently and you know, thus impact you here the rest

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Speaker 1: of the way. Uh no, I uh, you know, those

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Speaker 1: guys have been playing at a at a high level,

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Speaker 1: and uh you know, certainly have a lot of a

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Speaker 1: ton of respect for for coach Colombo and who he

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Speaker 1: and and uh you know, enjoyed, uh you know, working

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Speaker 1: we're we're excited and moving forward as a team. And

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Speaker 1: I know those guys up front we'll we'll keep playing

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Speaker 1: hard and and uh you know playing well, Tom Rock Danielous.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Giving is gonna be a lot different for a

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Speaker 1: lot of people. How is it gonna be different for

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Speaker 1: you and uh, have you made if your mind about

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Speaker 1: who you gonna were in Washington and Dallas? I don't

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Speaker 1: know who I'm gonna root for there, but um yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks Giving will be uh, we'll be working for a

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Speaker 1: for a large large part of it, but um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it'll be nice to have some time time off and

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Speaker 1: relax a little bit. Obviously with COVID this year, it's

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Speaker 1: a little bit harder um on everyone. But but uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: catch some of those games, and UM, I don't know

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Speaker 1: who I'm a route for yet. We'll see how the

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Speaker 1: game goes that Leonard Hey Daniel, UM, kind of a

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Speaker 1: random question. And but in your preseason game in Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: been Darius connected in any kind of game situation that

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Speaker 1: connect like that, um, to kind of set off you know,

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Speaker 1: that or not. You know, that was a big play

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Speaker 1: knocked the wind out of me and I was struggling

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Speaker 1: incredible play by Darius and and maybe kind of uh

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Speaker 1: you know, foreshadowed the things to come you know from

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Speaker 1: him and as many plays as he's made since then,

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Speaker 1: is it? Um? Is it rare to have a receiver

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Speaker 1: who can like that that deep kind of that deep

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Speaker 1: pass you through to him where he kind of tracks

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Speaker 1: it and finds it down the sideline and your guys

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Speaker 1: last game, Um, do you have to have an understanding

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Speaker 1: of the guy you're throwing to in a situation like

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Speaker 1: that and what his his talents are where I guess

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Speaker 1: at trust level, and what he's able to do when

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Speaker 1: you when you give him a chance like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think, Um, you know, that's a that's

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Speaker 1: a a big part of it. And he's shown he can,

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Speaker 1: uh you know, he's gonna make plays on on balls

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Speaker 1: down the field and and like you said, my job

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Speaker 1: is just to give him a chance. And uh, that

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Speaker 1: was an incredible play he made tracking that ball and

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Speaker 1: I just gotta gotta keep giving him a chance, and

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Speaker 1: he's shown, uh the ability to make those plays consistently.

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Speaker 1: With Joe Burrow, I'm not sure if you cross paths

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Speaker 1: with at all, um, but obviously so what he went

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Speaker 1: through this weekend, I'm just curious as a as an

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Speaker 1: opposing quarterback. It's not the first quarterback you've seen get

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Speaker 1: injured that way. Um, but you know the fraternity that

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Speaker 1: you're in, Um, did you have any emotions when you

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Speaker 1: guys have to deal with as reality, where you just

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Speaker 1: of have something like that happen, and you just put

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Speaker 1: it out of your mind. Uh, yeah, you know, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't uh know Joe personally, but obviously prayers, prayers

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Speaker 1: go out to him and his family, his team, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's a tough injury, a tough uh you know,

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Speaker 1: and his family. But um, you know that that's part

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Speaker 1: the risk of it of injury, and um, you know

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Speaker 1: we understand that when we play, but um, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know you can't play, Uh, I can't play, you know,

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