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Speaker 1: The last couple of games here, Darius, what do you

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Speaker 1: make of your numbers kind of not being where they

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Speaker 1: traditionally are? Is this we've seen you on the injury report?

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Speaker 1: Is this Are you've been dealing with something for five

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Speaker 1: or six weeks that is slowing you down or teams

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Speaker 1: just playing you differently than they were earlier this season? Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think anybody's percent in week you know,

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Speaker 1: fifteen of the NFL, so, UM mean, you know everybody's

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Speaker 1: a little banged up, But UM, I wouldn't necessarily say

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Speaker 1: it has anything to do with that. Just uh for

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, you know, Uh, the numbers haven't been there.

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Speaker 1: But you know, over this past month or stretch, we

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Speaker 1: play some of the best ball we've played all season. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, I go

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Speaker 1: out there and I'm trying to win. So whether you

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Speaker 1: know I have a million yards or two yards, you know,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I'm trying to get

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Speaker 1: a win. So as long as our team comes away

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Speaker 1: with a w. UM I'm okay. Do you feel like

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Speaker 1: you've been finding other ways to contribute? I can't say

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Speaker 1: I'm an expert on wide receiver blocking, but do you

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Speaker 1: say you do you feel like you've been finding other

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Speaker 1: ways to contribute or has there been any you know,

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Speaker 1: frustration that you guys are winning and you know you're

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Speaker 1: not having as big a role. Um, I mean yeah, blocking,

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Speaker 1: you try to block if you have a route, and

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Speaker 1: you know not every route you run is you're the

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Speaker 1: primary receiver. So um, you know, sometimes you pull attention

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Speaker 1: away from other guys for them to get the ball.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, just just kind of taking my role.

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Speaker 1: You know as the weeks go, did you think that

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Speaker 1: the way you were putting up touch o? I think

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Speaker 1: it was crazy. It was like can in your first

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Speaker 1: twelve NFL games, did you think that was sustainable or

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Speaker 1: did you know something like this was gonna balance out?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know I didn't know, you know, some

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Speaker 1: in my second year, so you know obviously last year,

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Speaker 1: you know, I felt like, uh, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: those things like if you do it, I did it once,

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Speaker 1: so I can do it again. But um, you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously I'm not on that kind of pace this year.

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Speaker 1: But like I said, we I mean we also have

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Speaker 1: more wins this year. So um, at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, if you ask wol I'd rather have the

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Speaker 1: touchdowns of the wins. Um, you know, I'll go with

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Speaker 1: the winds and zero. Darius, can you talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about just as a you know, as as an

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Speaker 1: entire offense, not just yourself. Can you put your finger

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Speaker 1: on what's been missing in terms of putting the points up?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty extraordinary, you know. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think you've got eight out of your fourteen games. You

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Speaker 1: haven't scored twenty points in the last couple. Obviously, just

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Speaker 1: put thirteen up? Can you as you look at it,

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Speaker 1: can you point your finger on about Freddie Kitchen says

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Speaker 1: he feels like you're close right now. But yeah, but

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously the results aren't showing that. Um, I

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Speaker 1: mean I would echo what he said. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: are close. I mean, if you watch the games, it's

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Speaker 1: not like we're not getting like last game we got

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Speaker 1: down in the red area and um, you know the

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Speaker 1: reality of football is that sometimes you're you're right there

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Speaker 1: and just a couple inches here, a couple inches there

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Speaker 1: is the difference between us throwing for three or four

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Speaker 1: touchdowns and throwing for you know, zero or one. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I would definitely agree with with coach kitchen

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Speaker 1: and say we're close. We just got to execute a

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Speaker 1: little bit better. Hey Darius, Hey, UM, happy holidays. Um

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Speaker 1: you you came in with Daniel obviously, UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of work your way up together. UM, what do

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Speaker 1: you see from him? You know, you've seen a side

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Speaker 1: of him now not playing, struggling through injury, trying to

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Speaker 1: get back. Um. How much of a lift would it

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Speaker 1: be for this team if he gets to play. And

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Speaker 1: what are you seeing him, you know, through this very

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Speaker 1: difficult period for him. Um, I mean I definitely think

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Speaker 1: it's it's showing his toughness to you know, anybody who's

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Speaker 1: watching him. It's showed his toughness to us. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we know he's fighting his hardest to get back out there.

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Speaker 1: He's fighting his hardest to play. But you know, at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, when you go out there

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Speaker 1: on game day, you're trying to be as effective as possible. So, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's been unfortunate they've been banged up over

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Speaker 1: these last couple of weeks. But UM, you know, if

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Speaker 1: they they you know, put him out there Sunday, you know,

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Speaker 1: I look forward to playing with him. Well. The fact

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Speaker 1: that you know the last time he played, he really

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Speaker 1: did not run with the football. Um. Can you guys

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Speaker 1: win that way? Yeah, I mean I think we can win. However,

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Speaker 1: end of the day. That's that's kind of Um. You

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Speaker 1: know what in football, just in general, people say, you know,

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Speaker 1: the good teams find ways to win. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's no there's no magical one way to win every

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Speaker 1: single football game. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: if we go out there and we execute a high level,

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Speaker 1: then we'll have a chance to win the game. And UM,

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Speaker 1: one more if nowhere disrespect obviously to Colt McCoy, but

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Speaker 1: if he if Daniel can play this Sunday, Um, you

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Speaker 1: know he's looking better. Um do you think that can

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Speaker 1: give a lift to everybody? You know, he is your

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback. Um, I mean either way, I think Cole

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Speaker 1: or Daniel has both played full games this year and

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Speaker 1: in games that we have won this year. So UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, I know everybody on this team has a

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Speaker 1: tremendous amount of faith in both of them, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, either of them that they put out there

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, you know we'll be comfortable with and we

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Speaker 1: ready a role. Thank you last one here in Canada

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Speaker 1: and Terrius. Two weeks ago, you guys are in the

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Speaker 1: driver's sipt to win the division. And now this Sunday,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you guys don't beat Baltimore and Washington wins,

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Speaker 1: you're eliminated. Can you speak to that? Would that be

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Speaker 1: a kind of a would you would you view that

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Speaker 1: as a blown opportunity? Even though this is a young

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Speaker 1: and whatnot, maybe the expectations weren't what they were. But

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Speaker 1: given the fact that you were where you were two

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, how do you how would you view that

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Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out? Um, well, I can't see

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Speaker 1: the future, so I don't. I wouldn't say it was

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that we're still in a position

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Speaker 1: to win the division. All we have to do is

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Speaker 1: go out there and win our last two games and

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Speaker 1: take care of business. And in any scenario, as long

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Speaker 1: as you, you know, hold your um as long as

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Speaker 1: you hold the cards, you can control your own destiny.

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Speaker 1: That I think that's that's any situation you want to

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Speaker 1: be in because it's something that you can directly affect,