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Speaker 1: Hey, happy holiday, Sam. I haven't talked to him a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Likewise, brother, good to hear your voice. True. Um,

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Speaker 1: sometimes the special teams gods just so maybe we have

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Speaker 1: to give you a because you're supposed to get the

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Speaker 1: last week, but you get it this week. Just gunners

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Speaker 1: work today to get into the end zone and on

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Speaker 1: the amount of yards you have, how much as good becosition?

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Speaker 1: All right? You know what I mean. He's becoming a

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Speaker 1: really dependable, very confident player and he's a difference maker.

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Speaker 1: And we felt that way all season. You know. It's funny,

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Speaker 1: you know, had people asking what's wrong with the kicking game?

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Speaker 1: Why aren't we making the plays we normally would? And

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Speaker 1: the key is to just stick with it. You stick

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Speaker 1: with it long enough, you do things the right way

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Speaker 1: like Gunner has done since he's gotten here. Eventually the

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Speaker 1: play is going to come you away. And it was

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Speaker 1: really exciting to see him go out and make place

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Speaker 1: today and really helped his team with a fantastic effort today.

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Speaker 1: The team was able to get a goal line stop

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Speaker 1: right before halftime. Now you're able to get a punk

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Speaker 1: block or if you're goal block and running in for

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Speaker 1: a touchdown, just a boost of those schools at halftime,

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Speaker 1: especially now that you get one of our special teams

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Speaker 1: are good with that. Yeah, that was a huge play

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Speaker 1: in the game. Um, you know, Cody and Justin they

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Speaker 1: worked so hard to prepare on the little things like that,

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Speaker 1: something like field goal block, and you just never know

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Speaker 1: when to play is going to happen. You know, we

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Speaker 1: felt like we had a chance earlier in the game

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Speaker 1: with what we saw, and then it was great for

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Speaker 1: Cody to come out and execute mister Patriot to scoopid

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Speaker 1: and score. So it just a great play. You know,

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Speaker 1: it gave us a boost. I think we went up

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Speaker 1: twenty eight nothing a halftime, and that really gives you

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Speaker 1: a lot of confidence going in the locker room at halftime.

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Speaker 1: Next question, Bill Burt, followed by Hector Longo. Hey, Matthew,

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Speaker 1: So it wasn't long ago. I think it was after

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Speaker 1: the San Francisco game, were you guys were something like

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Speaker 1: lot of us were saying it's time to blow it up,

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Speaker 1: move on tank for Trevor or whatever the hell it's called.

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Speaker 1: Or we heard a lot of that stuff. A month later,

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Speaker 1: you guys have this. It feels like this is the

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Speaker 1: Patriots we saw in two thousand and seven, two thousand

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Speaker 1: and four, two thousand and eleven. There's a feeling here

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Speaker 1: with different names. You lost four or five key guys

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Speaker 1: on offense, you lost four or five key guys on defense,

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Speaker 1: a lot of leadership. What what's happening here? Is it

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Speaker 1: younger guys figuring out their new roles? Like what's happening?

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Speaker 1: Because it felt it's feeling different right now? Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think you know, football is such a funny thing

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Speaker 1: and that's why you can never really predict what's going

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Speaker 1: to happen. The game is very unpredict Well, I think

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Speaker 1: for us well and my belief, it's my belief that

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Speaker 1: we're starting to find out our identity and who we

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Speaker 1: are and how we're going to have to win. And

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Speaker 1: I think as a team, when you understand that, then

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Speaker 1: you can act decisively and go out and play the

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Speaker 1: game the way you need to play it. So I

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Speaker 1: think that was a process for us. There has been

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Speaker 1: a great deal of turnover. You lose some key guys,

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Speaker 1: and it's just been a process of us finding out

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Speaker 1: or maybe it took a little longer than we would

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Speaker 1: have liked, But you know, I still believe in the

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Speaker 1: culture that we have here. It starts with our head

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Speaker 1: coach and our ownership, and I think that's the culture

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Actual long ago, followed by Zach Cox and

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Speaker 1: then Eric Rude Mat. I'm just wondering on the punk

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Speaker 1: return they gunna have for a touchdown, you guys threatened

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Speaker 1: block and they bring the gunners inside to block you

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Speaker 1: guys on that is it tougher for them to cover

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Speaker 1: the pump because their gunners are outside? Does that make

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Speaker 1: it tougher as a guy who covers pumps? I don't

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Speaker 1: to take advantage of it. The guys executed fantastically. The

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Speaker 1: as an entire kind of all encompassing unit, your special

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Speaker 1: teams is back to the level that you guys expect

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Speaker 1: it and want it to be. I certainly think so.

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Speaker 1: I think today was a great example of who we

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Speaker 1: felt like we were all year. We have great players

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Speaker 1: here and we're finally putting it together. So I'm pleased

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Speaker 1: the effort, the preparation. You know, when you do all

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Speaker 1: up in the game. And we've been doing that the

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Speaker 1: a Matt Tour Matthew congrabs on the win today, thank you.

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Speaker 1: How hard was that catch that Bethel made, downing that

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Speaker 1: that's an NFL player making an apple of play. But

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Speaker 1: it feels like that's one of those plays that goes

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Speaker 1: beyond anything else. It's one of the hardest players of football.

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Speaker 1: are possible. But you know, you never, Justin ever ceases

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Speaker 1: to amaze me what the things he does on a

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Speaker 1: and that was just another example of that today And

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Speaker 1: then in the first quarter, I think there was a

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Speaker 1: you down it at the one there. Yeah, it'd be

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Speaker 1: it'd be illegal touching. I can't be the first person

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Speaker 1: just trying to communicate that to the guys. Unfortunately, we

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Speaker 1: weren't able to execute. Good point by Jake, you know, tough, tough.

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Speaker 1: guys know Cam Newton has started his press conference in

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Speaker 1: looked like when when Nikkil scored his touchdown that a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys were really kind of pumping him up

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Speaker 1: But the struggles he's gone through. Yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 1: you know, a young guy like Nikkil, who, for you know,

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Speaker 1: it is what it is. When you're drafted that high.

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Speaker 1: People have certain expectations of you and sometimes they're not fair.

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Speaker 1: They don't know what the process is like. So for

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Speaker 1: us to boost him up, I think is important. Um

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Speaker 1: so appreciative of the way he's continued to fight and

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think you can tell guys on

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