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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Going back to January when you were when you change,

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Speaker 2: they had college perform.

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Speaker 1: Seeing could you even envisions happening and what did you take?

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Speaker 1: Did you meet today? Yeah? I mean I think that

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Speaker 1: that's why you have to do this. It's a every You.

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Speaker 2: Have to believe things sometimes before you can see 'em.

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Speaker 2: And you have to believe that what you're doing is

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Speaker 2: the right thing, and if it's not, you have to

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Speaker 2: recognize it and make adjustments and changes to the program

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Speaker 2: and everything else. And you know, we got a great

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Speaker 2: group of guys and they continue to again believe in

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Speaker 2: the things that we did, and they formed and created

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Speaker 2: an identity and they try to protect it. And then

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Speaker 2: today was just another example of as things kind of

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Speaker 2: change and unfold, our ability to adjust. And you know,

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Speaker 2: Josh and Zach and Jeremy did a great job leading

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Speaker 2: their units and the players executed when they had to.

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Speaker 2: I know that there's gonna be a lot of questions

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Speaker 2: about this and that and the other thing, and you know,

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Speaker 2: we did enough to win the football game and in

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Speaker 2: tough conditions, and you know, when we got that field goal,

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Speaker 2: you know the defense and talking to him is that

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Speaker 2: if they don't score, you know then it's gonna be

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Speaker 2: hard for them to win the football game, obviously, and

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Speaker 2: we took care of the ball and then the five

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Speaker 1: Itke how much you know?

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Speaker 2: Is this a kind of game of adjustments your quarterback

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Speaker 2: using his legs, you know, instead of his army critical situations.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a great thing about Drake.

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Speaker 2: And you know, the ability to you know, extend plays

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Speaker 2: and if it's not there, gain gain chunks.

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Speaker 1: And he's done that most of the year.

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Speaker 2: And uh, you know again, we'll have to get a

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Speaker 2: lot of things corrected and we'll have to play our

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Speaker 2: best football game and in two weeks if if we

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Speaker 2: want to finish champions obviously he gets betre in that

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Speaker 2: early past there.

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Speaker 1: You see them begin.

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Speaker 2: It just says that he's been playing really, really good

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Speaker 2: football and sometimes you get beat the best ones do.

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Speaker 2: And uh, you know again, I really just about six

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Speaker 2: or eight weeks ago, I can't remember when, but you know,

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Speaker 2: I saw a different Gonzo. I saw just something went

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Speaker 2: I just noticed just a different player and a different person.

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Speaker 2: And you know, he's so talented and I appreciate every

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Speaker 2: one of them, and he's he could certainly be elite.

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Speaker 2: And your best players have to make those types of

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Speaker 2: plays in championship games. The guys should bring off the

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Speaker 2: practice squad coming in and blocking that kit. Did you

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Speaker 2: even know that I did not any t Revenge game

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Speaker 2: week five. We just keep making this to be next

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Speaker 2: week will be or two weeks to be revenge game

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Speaker 2: week six.

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Speaker 1: So Clint McMillan.

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Speaker 2: Does a great job of getting those guys ready to go.

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Speaker 2: And you know, each and every one of them has

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Speaker 2: made plays to help us win, and you know they'll

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Speaker 2: have to continue to do that.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. So.

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Speaker 2: But I wanted to ask.

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Speaker 1: Just about this team had a close team. What was

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Speaker 1: it like when the club is zero.

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Speaker 2: And you know heinie that.

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Speaker 1: It's just uh, well, it's a group effort. It just

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Speaker 2: And again, I I I stand up in front of

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Speaker 2: you guys.

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Speaker 1: And I and I.

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Speaker 2: Am thankful of the people that are around us in

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Speaker 2: you have to you have to come together and you

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Speaker 2: have to do what's best for the team, and from

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Speaker 2: a personnel standpoint, from a coaching standpoint, and from the players,

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Speaker 2: And again there's that doesn't come without adversity. You have

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Speaker 2: to have adversity. But I'm just I do this for

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Speaker 1: I trust me. I'm I'm fine, like I'm I'll be okay.

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Speaker 2: I I do this for the for the players to

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Speaker 2: their families. How bad, how bad it might get as

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Speaker 2: the second half one along, how bad did it get?

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Speaker 1: And at what point did you realize it was going

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Speaker 2: Kind of game? And I mean, I would say halfway

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Speaker 2: you know, it just kept getting worse and worse and worse,

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Speaker 2: And you know, even even kicking the football and the

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Speaker 2: elements being as bad as they were, did they understand

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Speaker 2: it's just a reminder that you know, one play could

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Speaker 2: really well.

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Speaker 1: And you know.

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Speaker 2: About just taking care of the football and you know,

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Speaker 2: calling a game that doesn't put the ball in harm's way.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we forced them and again defensively, we adjusted.

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Speaker 1: They threw some things out there.

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Speaker 2: We were all over it, and you know, you saw

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Speaker 1: Your view of two cool plays the fourth and one

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Speaker 2: Seven nothing, and also Christianelli's backwards pass, it seemed like

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Speaker 2: you got from all over both plays. Yeah, and Ellis

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Speaker 2: continues to make plays. We talk about it just takes

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Speaker 2: mean just they blew it way too late, blew to

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Speaker 2: our ability to to get a you know a little

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Speaker 2: more questions, lockerros over Adam. Adam was up on the

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Speaker 2: I think that the position that I'm in, I've been

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Speaker 2: Tom Ashworth last night, a local resident, and having Adam

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Speaker 1: You know, he was probably licking his chops, he was.

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Speaker 2: Those conditions probably look pretty good to Adam to go

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Speaker 2: kick field goals in Mike.

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Speaker 1: How would you this group? What what is this group?

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Speaker 1: As you head to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: What how would you be buying them?

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Speaker 1: I meant no.

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Speaker 2: Fun to coach. Uh they're entertaining. You know, we get

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Speaker 2: another week for Will's weekend update. So UH, they've been resilient,

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Speaker 2: they've been very coachable. Uh there's a lot of connectivity

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Speaker 2: in them and UH I appreciate what they do.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys,