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Speaker 1: Nice when yesterday. It's always good to get out of

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Speaker 1: special teams where I'm sure when you look at the

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Speaker 1: film today, things we're not going so well. Right. Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's start with the the fumble on the on the

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Speaker 1: way and in that sucker, what happened? And what do

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Speaker 1: you say to you a young guy like that who

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Speaker 1: has it knock off his face mask? You know that's

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Speaker 1: that's always a tough situation. I remember my first game

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Speaker 1: you just try to continue to encourage him. Um, he's

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Speaker 1: really done a great job for us all preseason. He's

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Speaker 1: a guy that we love in our locker room. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've got to do a better job of

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Speaker 1: we gotta go back to the drawing board and and

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Speaker 1: make sure that we do a better job of handling

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Speaker 1: the football this week. Is Uh, it seemed like he

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Speaker 1: I mean it seemed like bad Emosey took it away

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Speaker 1: know how it is at the bottom of those piles. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, Johnson did a good job, but getting on

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Speaker 1: what happened at the bottom of that pile. Was tough

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Speaker 1: to see on film. You just kind of see a

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Speaker 1: scrump for the ball. And like Coach always says, it's about,

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Speaker 1: you know, the guy who comes out of the pile

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Speaker 1: with the ball, and we got to do a better

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the bottom of the pile, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you've been at the bottom of some for whatever reason, tackles, fumbles, whatever,

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Speaker 1: craziest thing you have done? Try to get someone to

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Speaker 1: like go with the football. Now, I want you to

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Speaker 1: be honest. You're God fearing man, good father, good son.

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Speaker 1: But this is a different inside why lines, I know

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Speaker 1: there's a desperate situation's got to get that ball back. Man.

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Speaker 1: There there's been some stuff to go on at the

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Speaker 1: bottom of that pile. Uh, just give me. You don't

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Speaker 1: have to give me a you know, we're not gonna

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Speaker 1: look at you any differently. I know I've pulled some legs,

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Speaker 1: out of the pile of that ball. So yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: always gonna be above the belt. Now, I can't say

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Speaker 1: that for everyone. Now, I was gonna say that was

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Speaker 1: the one area. W No, someone would let go of

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Speaker 1: the ball. But there's only one area where you would

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Speaker 1: I'm not that guy. That guy. I don't know why,

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Speaker 1: but I think Lenna asked Bill the question was it

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Speaker 1: far as spacing everybody, is that still an adjustment for

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Speaker 1: better job with our voids and our spacing, and you know,

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Speaker 1: him in regards to you know, our responsibilities. We've gotta

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Speaker 1: play better with our hands getting off blocks, we gotta

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of correction today, and you know,

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Speaker 1: hopefully that's something that we can get cleaned up this league. Matthew,

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Speaker 1: we know how it works down here. If you're a

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Speaker 1: fifth round draft pick and you suddenly get an awful

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Speaker 1: staff loveship, and they're gonna play you one awful lot.

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Speaker 1: There's only one grad Mayo. Let's let's clear that up

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Speaker 1: for the record. But I think he shows some trades

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Speaker 1: most influential teammate I've ever had on my life personally

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Speaker 1: He was a captain our second year and you definitely

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Speaker 1: see some of those character rishis with Brother Bentley. So

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Speaker 1: you know, the quarterbacks throwing them all to him and

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Speaker 1: rest of us as a team so it's really great

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Speaker 1: to see Philip do such such a good job over

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Speaker 1: great kid. He's really worked his butt off to get

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Speaker 1: to where he's at. Now. You know, you've been in

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Speaker 1: it before. I think Ian Rapport had an NFL network

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Speaker 1: I mean that's every year you got to see something

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Speaker 1: I just put into this, The sacrifice that's required, um,

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Speaker 1: not only from themselves but from their families, the physical toil,

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Speaker 1: the mental toil, the time, and to have that happen,

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Speaker 1: for a guy like Jeremy who's really came in here

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Speaker 1: and bought into what we do. Coming from a different

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Speaker 1: a smooth transition, and we were really thankful to have him,

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Speaker 1: your heart breaks for him, but our our locker rooms

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Speaker 1: gonna support him whatever he needs. We're gonna have his back,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be praying for him and wishing nothing but

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Speaker 1: the best for him. All Right, Matthew, great seeing you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys on the first point. Good luckdown there in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: Matthews Slater