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Speaker 1: Hey, Mac, just how much needed was this offensive explosion

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Speaker 1: I think we had a really good plan and Josh,

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Speaker 1: you know, outline that for us. And then the offensive

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Speaker 1: line obviously did a great job executing and keeping the

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Speaker 1: catches so and the running backs running. So that's kind

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Speaker 1: of how offensive football should should work. And obviously we'll

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Speaker 1: watch the tape and two we can get better at

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Speaker 1: but we finally kind of, you know, got some momentum

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Speaker 1: early and just played the game on our terms and

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Speaker 1: all that. So that's what we wanted to do. Not

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Speaker 1: to say that the no boat, sure it isn't a

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Speaker 1: good look, But on some of the handoffs, particularly at

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Speaker 1: the goal line, I noticed that you had a particular

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Speaker 1: habit on the four touchdown runs today. You were putting

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Speaker 1: were getting to the line of scrimmage. How how confident

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Speaker 1: are you in your running backs right now? And sort

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Speaker 1: of what sort of brings out about Yeah, I think, um,

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Speaker 1: every time we get close like that, It's always good

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Speaker 1: to celebrate when your teammate's going to score. You think

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Speaker 1: hard they run and how big the holes are for

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Speaker 1: the red area, which is something that we need to

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Speaker 1: get better at, and we've we're trying to do that. Mac.

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Speaker 1: We saw you work with Christian a lot during training camp.

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Speaker 1: How much was the dead foundation help now that he's

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Speaker 1: that's just a great example of someone being ready for

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Speaker 1: the week, so we get the game plan and those

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Speaker 1: get the extra work, get the timing, and all those

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Speaker 1: guys did a great job today and we'll just try

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Speaker 1: and continue to build off that playoff spot just one.

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Speaker 1: Just how exciting is that? In two? Does this just

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Speaker 1: reinforce the notion with how happy you are to be

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Speaker 1: drafted by the Patriots? Yeah, I think you know, any

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Speaker 1: you know, we have a big game next week and

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Speaker 1: that's what we're going to focus on and finishing strong

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Speaker 1: and all that. So we'll focus on that and be

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Speaker 1: we'll have a new plan and attack it. And like

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Speaker 1: a third quarter wing with squembole for the for the

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Speaker 1: think you know. We just talk about ball security, and

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Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks, my ball security hasn't been

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Speaker 1: all you gotta do. Mac if you had to pinpoint

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Speaker 1: We talked about how it's just it's us. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: the future, we'll deal with that when it comes. But

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Speaker 1: it's been a great privilege to play here so far,

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Speaker 1: so that's what it comes down to. Um yeah, I

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Speaker 1: Josh does a good job creating, you know, different platform

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Speaker 1: just go out there and be yourself and have fun.

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