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Speaker 1: Guys, good morning. Are you doing We're doing good? Another

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Speaker 1: AFC championship, another hat, another T shirt? Did you keep

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Speaker 1: these things? Is there a place where all these things

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Speaker 1: do you do? You've got quite a collection now here

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Speaker 1: them in. Every year is taking a little different, um,

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Speaker 1: capitalize on that and play, you know, a great game

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Speaker 1: even more. And and uh, you know, if we win,

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Speaker 1: obviously we get we get to buy it, but first

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Speaker 1: and empty the tank and try to play our best

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Speaker 1: best football to year? Does it? Does it mean more? Tom?

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Speaker 1: When you win the division when the year has not

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Speaker 1: gone according to plan with it has been something more

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Speaker 1: because it wasn't you know, necessarily the way the easiest

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Speaker 1: I don't. I think the reality from our perspective is

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Speaker 1: you know, you measure yourself after sixteen games, not after

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Speaker 1: eight games or four games or twelve games, and you

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Speaker 1: play them all and you see where you shake out.

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Speaker 1: Every team comes with a different challenge, and you know,

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Speaker 1: So there's no easier route. It's just a lot of

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just a lot of mental and physical toughness.

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Speaker 1: So Tom talk about that mental and physical toughness, especially

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Speaker 1: the toughness with this offense. You know things, you know,

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Speaker 1: you've been frustrated a team offensively struggling a little bit

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Speaker 1: but you've still been able to grind, You've still been

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Speaker 1: able to fight, and you've still been able to come

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Speaker 1: away with wins. Just talk about what it means to

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Speaker 1: and not get down when things ain't going right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: doesn't do that. So I don't think anybody would have

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Speaker 1: predicted at Atlanta Roberts will be playing fullback, you know,

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Speaker 1: put together a great plan this week and goal execute it.

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Speaker 1: But tom, isn't it guys like Landon Roberts giving up

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Speaker 1: Look at look at you Saturday. You played quarterback, fullback,

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Speaker 1: tom How about the crowd energy on Saturday from the pregame,

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