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Speaker 1: to make such an improvement better execution. Um, we gave

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Speaker 1: You can't give it to him in one play, and

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Speaker 1: then we had him in the red air, and then

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Speaker 1: we gave it up on that like the wildcat triple option.

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Speaker 1: So it's really two bad plays in the first half. UM,

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Speaker 1: I thought we just did a better job of eliminating that.

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Speaker 1: And when you play a good team, you can't have

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Speaker 1: those plays. And I thought in the second half we

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Speaker 1: of not you know, giving up the big play or

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Speaker 1: you know, a silly playing in a key situation third

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Speaker 1: down in the red air. We gotta play our best football,

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Speaker 1: so m after that, you know, second half it's kind

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Speaker 1: of winning time. You gotta play your best. So, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know sucks as a team, you play well enough

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Speaker 1: now to kind of out of your hands and makes

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Speaker 1: it tough. It was, I thought so because when I

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Speaker 1: leave his hand as we were going down, So um,

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Speaker 1: I'm probably by its though, so um, but then watching it,

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Speaker 1: you know you can tell it right away. So, Devin,

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Speaker 1: is it your understanding though, that on a close call

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Speaker 1: involving a fumble that the play should be allowed to continue.

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Speaker 1: We hear a lot of stuff. What's supposed to happen

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought we did a good job of

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Speaker 1: Um and games and games that's gonna come up. You know,

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Speaker 1: calls you think should go your way don't go your way.

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Speaker 1: You just got to play through it, Devin. Several weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: Tom said publicly the strength of this team defense and

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Speaker 1: special teams, and that's exactly what happened in the second

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Speaker 1: give us one turnover, have the special teams make one

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Speaker 1: play like they did, and you get back in it.

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Speaker 1: What we were talking about that on defense, we just

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Speaker 1: gotta I always tell about complimentary football, and you know

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Speaker 1: that's what we were thinking defense, like, we gotta we

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Speaker 1: we gotta get a turnover. We got to offense a

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Speaker 1: short field, and you know when we're able to do that,

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Speaker 1: they were able to put some points on the board.

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Speaker 1: And to meet that was just playing together. And I mean,

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Speaker 1: We don't get that. Then the keels close, So I

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Speaker 1: mean we it's just tough, man, But I thought I

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Speaker 1: just playing complimentary football of special teams stepping up and

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Speaker 1: good job of turning it into points. Devin, un please

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Speaker 1: where the calls didn't go the way that you guys

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Speaker 1: It's something that happens at every level. But how do

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Speaker 1: the high emotions from the call behind you. Oh, you

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Speaker 1: all we were thinking about. Devin's is along similar lines.

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Speaker 1: his effort, his leadership doesn't change whether we're scoring a

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Speaker 1: So what were some of those things and then how

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Speaker 1: just took away the shot. We kind of I think

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Speaker 1: you gotta do a good job tackling and not give

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Speaker 1: it up in one play. And I thought that's what

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Speaker 1: we did, a good job, But you played him like

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Speaker 1: they still made some play, still made some tough catches.

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Speaker 1: We put that play behind us and just try to

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Speaker 1: first three points and opened in the second half, and

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Speaker 1: we did a good job at are good offense. A

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. How are you