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Speaker 1: Drake May, how are you doing today?

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Speaker 3: Let's go on. J I ing in there.

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Speaker 1: Doing great now. Congratulations on the win.

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Speaker 6: First and foremost, I want to start about what happened

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Speaker 6: earlier on in the week though, as we heard about

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Speaker 6: you being frustrated in practice, calling a team meeting.

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Speaker 1: What wasn't going right in practice? Let's start there.

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Speaker 6: What was what were you sort of what prompted the

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Speaker 6: meeting in the first place. What did you see out

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Speaker 6: in the practice field maybe that you didn't like.

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Speaker 3: I think what we're putting on the press, so I

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Speaker 3: think was testament to the guys having that in that

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Speaker 3: room and on the offense, you know, especially, I think

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Speaker 3: it was more often beside things to controlize the quarterback,

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Speaker 3: and I was trying to get the guys together and

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Speaker 5: And on Sunday you mentioned last night when you talked

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Speaker 5: think the general message got a cross. But were you

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Speaker 5: a little nervous to do it? I mean, you are

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Speaker 5: you know, only started half a season here, You're twenty

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Speaker 5: two years old. Some of these guys you're looking at

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Speaker 5: are men and been in the league for six, eight,

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Speaker 5: ten years. We were a little nervous to do it?

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Speaker 3: Exactly? Yeah, really first time getting up there, you you

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Speaker 3: you know, really that nervous, but uh, exactly, like Freds said,

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Speaker 3: it really the first time, and I think Kobe's done.

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Speaker 3: He did a great job during training camp of I'm

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Speaker 3: think the point got across us, the main thing.

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Speaker 5: Did you feel like it was well received? Like when

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Speaker 5: a good first step for my leadership. And then they

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Speaker 5: bought into it, saying, uh, yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think you know the more that more just you know, really,

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Speaker 6: All Right, so you get to Chicago. It's obviously a

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Speaker 6: very windy day, tough conditions out there. You have another

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Speaker 6: you gave a big pep talk to you get out

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, really that after that first drive,

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Speaker 6: So Andy and I were arguing over what your best

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Speaker 3: And then Booty made a great catch across the middle

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Speaker 6: The touchdown throw, was it good to get Jalen back

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Speaker 3: You, no doubt anytime you get an in zone, uh

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Speaker 5: On the throw to Hooper, he said something post came

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Speaker 5: of analysts, even coaches talk about there's college open versus

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Speaker 3: Uh my mindset. You know, back there is hey one

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Speaker 3: That's kind of what I thought, you know. And on

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Speaker 1: Grew up when you know it was open Drake.

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Speaker 1: They were like, oh, that's it, That's all you're getting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you leave you know, certain plays, you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know. I think the first thing

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Speaker 6: Kendrick Bourne wasn't gonna get a lot of snaps. I

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Speaker 6: a veteran receip in that room, someone that I don't

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Speaker 6: I guess do you have any sort of say, and

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think KB, you know, first, probably a great

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Speaker 6: New Hampshire, who asks Drake, did it feel better winning

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Speaker 6: Were you surprised to see him struggle so much? I

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Speaker 3: Thank you'll come back.

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