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Speaker 1: The Browns are back at the Cross Country Mortgage Campus

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Speaker 1: to start practice and begin preparations for the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: and the game on Christmas Eve. To preview those Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from three players today and from head

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Speaker 1: coach Kevin Stefanski on from the podium. The players started

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Speaker 1: the day off in the locker room, and quarterback Joe

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Speaker 1: Flacco was up first. He talked about his performance against

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Speaker 1: the Bears and how the locker room is preparing for

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Speaker 1: a potential postseason.

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Speaker 2: Bert, it almost seemed like you were.

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Speaker 3: A little bit after the game still thinking about those

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Speaker 3: a little bit where.

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Speaker 4: You could you didn't seem as.

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Speaker 5: Sort of before it as one ring.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, probably, but also just the way that that game ended.

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Speaker 6: I think everybody wants to be excited, like when you

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Speaker 6: kick the field goal, but I've I've lost a handful

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Speaker 6: of games when that happens, and then you still end

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Speaker 6: up losing, Like these games are never over until that

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Speaker 6: clock hits zero.

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Speaker 2: So I think it was more that.

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Speaker 6: I definitely there was probably a little bit of thinking

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Speaker 6: about those plays like ah, but it was more so

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Speaker 6: just you obviously want to be excited in the moment

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Speaker 6: but I've gotten high before and then got it taken away.

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Speaker 6: So I think, you know, just been a part of

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Speaker 6: enough of those that you don't want to get overly

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Speaker 2: I'm sure too, Joe, How excited are you about this?

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Speaker 7: What this next month might bring, next month or so

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Speaker 7: might bring in. Do you feel like the more reps,

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Speaker 7: the more time you have with this guys, this offense,

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Speaker 7: that you guys might find your stride at a like

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Speaker 7: a different level going into the playoffs.

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Speaker 6: Potentially, I think there's some confidence that that is going

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Speaker 6: to be the direction, but it really just takes us

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Speaker 6: being in the moment and coming in here and doing

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Speaker 6: out on game day and coming through. So, you know,

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Speaker 6: I think what we've done so far I think can

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Speaker 6: give us the confidence the field that's the way it

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Speaker 6: should go. But it's still up to us to kind of,

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Speaker 6: like I said, stay in the moment, look at what's

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Speaker 6: important now, and go do the job.

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Speaker 8: He isn't so good at home, but the road has

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Speaker 8: been a different story.

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Speaker 4: Is it just as symbol as being in a different.

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Speaker 6: I think it's always tough to put your finger on

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Speaker 6: those things. Obviously, you deal with some you know, variables

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Speaker 6: when you're on the road that you don't have to

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Speaker 6: and then the defense kind of deals with that one

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I think we've all played enough road

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Speaker 6: Can go into those situations and relate to where you've

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Speaker 6: been in the past, and you should be able to

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Speaker 6: play a very similar game.

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Speaker 2: I'm of the belief that it really.

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Speaker 6: Shouldn't matter too too much because we're so used to

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Speaker 2: Being the same for whatever that meant.

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Speaker 9: Did you have watched that because you're touchdown about ten

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Speaker 2: Is that about as tight a fit as you can

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Speaker 6: The safety I'm not worried about, you know that with

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Speaker 2: Them just enough to kind of happen perfectly for us.

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Speaker 6: It was just one of those random ones. You make

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Speaker 9: I think at the end that when you're not.

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Speaker 6: Exactly how much your best stay up each you just

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Speaker 2: He was open. I felt it through it. You don't.

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Speaker 2: You're not really thinking about that at the moment.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I had thirty two minutes and cons Yeah, I've.

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Speaker 2: Been a partisan guys that you know.

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Speaker 6: It adds a lot to the game when you have

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Speaker 10: Play action still so effective for you even when the

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Speaker 6: Well, I think people know that we can run the ball,

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Speaker 2: So that's why you have those things about.

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Speaker 6: What about playing at this time of the year.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to complain about it.

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Speaker 11: So it's like it's.

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Speaker 6: Probably going to be the thirty five and over club.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll see how it goes down there and whoever

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Speaker 6: a challenge either way.

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Speaker 10: I don't know about Joel just yet, but the job

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Speaker 9: Was able to do it last week, and yeah.

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Speaker 10: In spite of them being banged up up front, they've

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, it's been awesome, man. I mean we've talked

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Speaker 2: Game, and that's what they're doing.

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Speaker 8: Joe, you have this. You've been to the playoffs a

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Speaker 8: ton of times.

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Speaker 2: This locker room hasn't been a bunch. Is there any

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Speaker 4: It feels so close to being attainable but you.

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Speaker 8: Can still have.

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Speaker 2: I think these guys are doing.

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Speaker 6: You know, you look around and just the way Kevin's

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Speaker 2: Are focused on just today. I think that's what you do.

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Speaker 6: You know, obviously you know what's ahead, and we know

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Speaker 6: we know what's out there. Obviously you know we're not

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Speaker 8: Sure we're seeing the best version of that.

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Speaker 5: You would appreciate him from you.

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Speaker 12: What does make yourself?

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Speaker 6: It's tough, man, when you don't know, when you don't

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Speaker 2: And the teammate he is, and you know.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't think you get from the outside.

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Speaker 4: Just got.

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Speaker 2: You're actually made.

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Speaker 7: Up to this.

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Speaker 6: Who knows what constitutes as a comeback. I've only played

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Speaker 6: three games. I mean it's it's kind of crazy, yeah, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, who knows.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 12: Still, collectively, when you look at the Texans defense, what

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Speaker 12: sticks out as the biggest challenges for you guys.

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Speaker 2: As an offense?

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Speaker 6: and they got guys that play aggressive, and you know,

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Speaker 2: You know, I led the last couple of years in

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Speaker 6: I was with Robert Tala and he was in San

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Speaker 4: We need.

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Speaker 8: In the back end year, in.

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Speaker 2: Time at Iraica.

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Speaker 5: Can you tell me what happened to.

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Speaker 8: We saw you out there.

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Speaker 11: At earlier, Yeah, at a shock, not close enough.

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Speaker 2: I didn't played.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, we all know what Moles is in this building,

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Speaker 11: the most dominant player in the NFL. You gotta account

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Speaker 11: for him on every play and teams teams have done that.

449
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Speaker 11: He still recks to play, recks the game just by

450
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Speaker 11: being taken all the the attention away from the other guys,

451
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Speaker 11: and other guys have been able to step up and

452
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Speaker 11: make plays. So you know, when you have that type

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Speaker 11: of player like Myles, uh, it makes the game a

454
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Speaker 11: lot easier for that for everyone else.

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Speaker 4: Do you guys?

456
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Speaker 8: You have to do play better on the road.

457
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Speaker 11: When I mean a home Yeah what what I what

458
00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,199
Speaker 11: happens now? You just gotta uh go back to the

459
00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,280
Speaker 11: fundamentals and details. You know, you don't have that same

460
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Speaker 11: energy that you know the people bring at Cleveland Brown Stadium.

461
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Speaker 11: So you gotta go against the road and you gotta

462
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Speaker 11: take that Royal Warriors mindset where you know, it's all

463
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Speaker 11: of us in this building versus you know how many

464
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Speaker 11: people in the stands plus the team, and we gotta

465
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Speaker 11: take that mindset on the road and travel and defensively,

466
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Speaker 11: we you know, we've been talking about it for a while,

467
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Speaker 11: but we gotta pack our defense on the road.

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Speaker 9: Back to miles per second, What does it say about

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Speaker 9: him that despite the frustration, despite seemingly being ignored on

470
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Speaker 9: holding calls, that he's still giving that kind.

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Speaker 2: Of effort play after play.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I expect nothing less from him. That's the player

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Speaker 11: that he is, that's the person that he is. He's

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Speaker 11: gonna go a hundred and ten miles per hour every time,

475
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Speaker 11: and whether they make the call, it don't make it.

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Speaker 11: I feel bad for the player that lines up against

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Speaker 11: him after he doesn't get the call. It's like he

478
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Speaker 11: goesh even harder.

479
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Speaker 9: So, m you have any uh with the Stroud that

480
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Speaker 9: they're very vertical with k keenum.

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Speaker 5: The or not.

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Speaker 2: So how does that affect the linebackers?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 11: We still gotta be cleaning our jobs, cleaning our zones

485
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Speaker 11: and man's and eyes discipline. Case you know, we we

486
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Speaker 11: all know. Case you know, did a great job for

487
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Speaker 11: us here alway as always done a great job in

488
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Speaker 11: the NFL as a quarterback. So he's gonna test us. Obviously,

489
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Speaker 11: he's gonna make throws he's gonna you know, get them

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Speaker 11: in the right sets at all times, make the picture

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Speaker 11: clean for him. So we gotta make it you know,

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Speaker 11: dirty for him. And you know that's our job as

493
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Speaker 11: linebackers to kind of control the middle of the field.

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Speaker 11: I think that's one consistent you know thing that they

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Speaker 11: do is, you know, tech the middle of the field,

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Speaker 11: no matter who's that quarterback.

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Speaker 4: At Kevin made a big deal about it.

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Speaker 14: What a good teammate David is Njoku First, Like, it's

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Speaker 14: do you agree?

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Speaker 11: And if so, what makes him to Yeah, I've been

501
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,920
Speaker 11: calling him that every day since Kevin said, Nah, man,

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Speaker 11: you talk about a selfless person, you know, a guy

503
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Speaker 11: that just wants the best for his teammates, you know,

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Speaker 11: willing to go you know, burn himself, burn himself and

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Speaker 11: then go play in the game. You know, I had

506
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Speaker 11: to say emphasis on burning himself cause that was a

507
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Speaker 11: self inflicted injury. So for him to go do that

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Speaker 11: and uh, just play through everything, play through all the

509
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Speaker 11: injuries and you know, it's not all It hasn't always

510
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Speaker 11: been pretty form when I first got here. I I

511
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Speaker 11: mean I met him a while ago, him playing at Miami.

512
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Speaker 11: But it wasn't always pretty form in the NFL and

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Speaker 11: especially being in this building. So so for him to

514
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Speaker 11: you know, grow, learn, become that leader, become that uh

515
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Speaker 11: teammate that Kevin talks about takes a lot of maturity

516
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Speaker 11: for him. And uh, you know, the growth that I'm

517
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Speaker 11: pretty sure that's what Kevin was alluding to, the growth

518
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Speaker 11: that he's shown over the last few years as well.

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Speaker 4: Man, you haven't been here for all of his journey, right,

520
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Speaker 4: but even in the three years.

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Speaker 14: It happened, have you seen or what I guess what

522
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Speaker 14: way used to be seen him trying to continue to

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Speaker 14: mature develop.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's less about it's so funny. I

525
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Speaker 11: think it's less about him and more about the team obviously. Uh,

526
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Speaker 11: when you're when you're young and you you get you

527
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Speaker 11: your first round pick, you wanna make every player you want,

528
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Speaker 11: you know, to become that player that you know you

529
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Speaker 11: were drafted to be, you know, and I think when

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Speaker 11: you you're you're forcing it or whatever it is, and

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Speaker 11: you're not getting the results. Uh, it's kind of hard

532
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Speaker 11: to go through that, go through those ups and downs,

533
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Speaker 11: and just the maturity that he's shown since then. Obviously,

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Speaker 11: you know, you know, whether he gets the ball whether

535
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Speaker 11: he's blocking, whether whatever his job is acts to do,

536
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Speaker 11: he does it at a very high level.

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Speaker 14: Taking that energy that you talked about all on the

538
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Speaker 14: roads and that are may become a little easier when

539
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Speaker 14: you're in December and you're playing meaningful football.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, we understand that these are huge, huge

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Speaker 11: pivotal games. You know, when you play in December, when

542
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Speaker 11: you play in January with a shot to go to

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Speaker 11: the playoffs and put yourself in the tournament, you the

544
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Speaker 11: the awareness has to go up, and the energy, like

545
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Speaker 11: you said, has to go up. So I think that

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Speaker 11: takes care of it by itself. Like you said, Houston

547
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Speaker 11: team a year ago, huh yeah, for sure, for sure,

548
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Speaker 11: very well coached, very you know, fundamentally sound obviously cjb

549
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Speaker 11: in that quarterback, you know, case another veteran defense flying around. Yeah,

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Speaker 11: they're they're good. They're a really good team.

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Speaker 2: Why woud Court seen shows close in Houston.

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Speaker 4: Kind of having their backs?

553
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Speaker 2: How much kind of a extra layer pips?

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Speaker 11: Uh? I mean for them obviously, I mean us too.

555
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Speaker 11: We're fighting for our lives, you know, the playoff lives

556
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Speaker 11: for real, you know, we we wanna get in, We

557
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Speaker 11: wanna put ourselves in the best position. They wanna do

558
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Speaker 11: the same thing as well. They're you know, tied for

559
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Speaker 11: their division league. You anytime you put yourself in that position,

560
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 11: you've played good football and you wanna keep playing good football.

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Speaker 11: And you know, at this point of the season, it's

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Speaker 11: you know, one game, playoff season, playing in Ston.

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Speaker 3: And then play again next.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, we don't worry about Sunday right now. We're worry

565
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,360
Speaker 11: about you know, whoever we play whenever we play after that.

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Speaker 11: But yeah, we got one. We got a big one

567
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 11: this week, a really big game this week on Sunday,

568
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Speaker 11: And that's where our focus is at right now.

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Speaker 8: I know it's still won and over.

570
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 4: He's a ship.

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Speaker 14: His focus shifted to the fact that the playoffs so close.

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Speaker 11: I mean, I obviously you're a human. You you wanna

573
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Speaker 11: be in the playoffs, and you find yourself in good position.

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Speaker 11: And everybody in here has social media and all that stuff,

575
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 11: so we see everything. But that's when you gotta narrow

576
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Speaker 11: your focus to the one game season and one game

577
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 11: at a time, and uh, every game matters. You know,

578
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Speaker 11: we understand that we put ourselves in that position to

579
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Speaker 11: make it where every game matters, and where you play

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Speaker 11: meny m meaningful football in that December and January.

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Speaker 10: I mean, you knew we watched the Bengals and Steelers

582
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Speaker 10: wanted to play right down to Houston.

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Speaker 11: I didn't say that now we gonna watch football for sure,

584
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 11: it's on TV. But like I said, we got a

585
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:14,159
Speaker 11: big game to focus on ourselves. Uh, I didn't know

586
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Speaker 11: that was coming up.

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Speaker 8: You can't.

588
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Speaker 9: I think I've asked you about your flat or whatever week.

589
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,199
Speaker 9: But he was signed a month ago today, does it

590
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 9: still seem a little weird?

591
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Speaker 2: Weird that he's a quarterback here? And how impressed have

592
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Speaker 2: you been by what he's been able.

593
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Speaker 4: To accomplisht a month?

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Speaker 8: Pu?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, nah, I it doesn't feel surreal anymore. I'm tired

596
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 11: of seeing him actually now now you know, he's a

597
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Speaker 11: I mean, great, great leader for us, great veteran presence

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Speaker 11: at that quarterback position. Truly unique, right, you know, played

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Speaker 11: in the division, you know, as arrival for a long

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Speaker 11: time and then coming in here. I mean, shoot, I

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Speaker 11: woulda did the same thing. He's he's like kind of

602
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Speaker 11: undefeated in Cleveland, so I woulda did the exact same thing. Yeah,

603
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Speaker 11: but we're happy to have him. He you know, like

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Speaker 11: I said, that steady hand that we needed at that

605
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Speaker 11: quarterback position, and he's doing a great job for us. Anthony,

606
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Speaker 11: you guys.

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Speaker 10: Have I think six year wins have come against winning

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Speaker 10: teams in the league, and you've beaten some of the

609
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Speaker 10: top seeds or the you know, the current top seeds

610
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Speaker 10: and that. How much do you feel that that experience

611
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Speaker 10: has set you up for not only these next three weeks,

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Speaker 10: but what could potentially come after these three weeks.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think winning period breeds confidence. Anytime you're able

614
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Speaker 11: to win and you know, whoever you play, you know,

615
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 11: and a winning in the NFL is very very hard.

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Speaker 11: You know, we saw that on Sunday. You know, it's

617
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Speaker 11: very hard. No matter what the records are. There are

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Speaker 11: no bad football teams in the NFL. So anytime you're

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Speaker 11: able to win and stack wins, it's huge for your team.

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Speaker 11: And we've been able to do that. So, uh, you know,

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Speaker 11: hopefully that leads into more and like you said, when

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Speaker 11: we get to that you know next phase. Uh you know,

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Speaker 11: I I it does something for us.

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Speaker 2: Did you know show before he got here?

625
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,199
Speaker 8: No? I didn't. What did?

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Speaker 2: What is he kind of shown you or impressed house?

627
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 4: He impressed? Yeah?

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Speaker 11: His celebrations are very very old school, so to see

629
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 11: him do that is really awesome. But yeah, man, just

630
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 11: another veteran present. You can never you know, take away

631
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 11: good veterans out of out of the locker room. I

632
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 11: think that's huge for us. He's done. He's shown the

633
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 11: young guys how to play the game the right way,

634
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 11: how to study the right way, how to prepare the

635
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 11: right way. And you can never take that for granted.

636
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 11: And yeah, he's a guy that goes out every Sunday,

637
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 11: it makes plays. You know, he's been doing it for

638
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 11: a very long time, and uh, it's nothing new for him.

639
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 4: Anthony hok Good is the secondary being this season?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, lights out. Those guys are the tip of the spear.

641
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 11: They're you know, the backbone of our team, you know,

642
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 11: especially on defense. Uh, you know, we we put up

643
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 11: We ask a lot of those guys, you know, to

644
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 11: play a a lot of man coverage and you know,

645
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 11: go against the best athletes you know, probably you know

646
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 11: outside of DB's in in the NFL at receivers. You know,

647
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,719
Speaker 11: guys running at them full speed, straight ahead, and they

648
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 11: gotta make plays and we accidentally do a lot and

649
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 11: they rise to the challenge every week.

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00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 9: Do you do you think people a should to respect

651
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 9: kind of how good they are, whether they still.

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Speaker 12: Trying to run that a little bit.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think they all play with the tip on

654
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 11: their shoulder. You know, they all want to be labeled

655
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 11: as the number one in the NFL, so I guess

656
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 11: that's a good thing. But yeah, they're Yeah, they always

657
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 11: want to pay that trip on their shoulder.

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Speaker 1: Wrapping up the day at the podium was head coach

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00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: Kevin's de Vinski. He previewed the Houston Texans for the

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00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 1: first time and gave us a few injury updates, including

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00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: some news on Joel Botonio.

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Speaker 12: Okay, starting our work week, getting ready for Houston. Really

663
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 12: good football team at the top of their standings in

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Speaker 12: their division. I know, three way tie, but good football team.

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00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 12: I think coach Ryan's is doing an awesome job down there.

666
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 12: Really huge challenge on all three sides of ball. Good players, defense,

667
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 12: we all start, you know, I know Coach Ryan's heavily

668
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 12: involved with that side of the ball. Matt Burke their

669
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 12: defensive coordinator, great coach, a bunch of coaches that I know,

670
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 12: really good coaching staff that he put together down there.

671
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 12: Defensive run a very similar system to ours. It's an

672
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 12: attack front out of a four down lineup most of

673
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 12: the time, and they really get off the ball and

674
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 12: they're very good upfront, I mean really really good. Those

675
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 12: edge players, the defensive tackles outstanding.

676
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 11: Uh.

677
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 12: They can run at really all three levels of the defense.

678
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 12: Good corners, smart safeties, and they've uh.

679
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 8: Been very ball aware. Uh.

680
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 12: So gotta be about our business offensively. They're doing a

681
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 12: really nice job under coach Slowik. They're not giving the

682
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 12: ball away. Uh, that's where the where you start. They're

683
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 12: leading the league as a team uh in turn of

684
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 12: our margin, and they're taking good care of it on offense.

685
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 12: Really good playmakers uh, really all over the board.

686
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 8: Uh. They have a very good understanding of that scheme.

687
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 12: I think that's they've done a nice job there in

688
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 12: in their run game and their past game and and

689
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 12: all the things that they're doing uh in that scheme

690
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 12: and then special teams as you saw their kicker just

691
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 12: one uh player of the week, I believe. Uh it's

692
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 12: a talented group from top to bottom. Coach Smith does

693
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 12: a great job uh with that group. So uh we

694
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 12: need a great w week of work going down there

695
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 12: trying to find a way to win on the road,

696
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 12: uh against a really good football team.

697
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 8: And with that, I'll take any questions on Monday.

698
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 2: You're very compliment even the seasons player in U.

699
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 7: Did you notice a different resence of coming into training camp? I,

700
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 7: at least from our perspective, he was so dominant.

701
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 8: I don't think that you don't have to get mighty year.

702
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I think we We've talked a lot

703
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 12: about Miles over the years, and and I always say this,

704
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 12: and I think it's true.

705
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 8: There's there he can always get better. I think all

706
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 8: of us can get better.

707
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 4: Uh.

708
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 12: And I think there are things that are untapped with

709
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 12: Miles that he continues to work on. And some of

710
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 12: it's small details of fundamentals and techniques.

711
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 8: Uh.

712
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 12: Other things are are maybe m bigger picture for how

713
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 12: he leads his football team. So I've seen him mature

714
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 12: over the time that I've.

715
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 8: Been with him. Uh.

716
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 12: Obviously a very intelligent player and intelligent person. Uh, great

717
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 12: off the field, but I think in his leadership is

718
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 12: is where I've seen a huge jump as well.

719
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 8: And I think at his teammates would uh tell you

720
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 8: that as well.

721
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 2: With some months about private since.

722
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:51,959
Speaker 12: Yeah, well you know, late in the season, we had

723
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 12: an early buy. We have a a Thursday night game

724
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 12: next week, So just trying to account for all those things.

725
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 2: And you mentioned h Er you talked so likely of

726
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 2: field team.

727
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 8: I saw my interview.

728
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 14: He said that the RELI you kind of so you

729
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 14: buy it high school cause your first got here.

730
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 2: How how did you do that?

731
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 6: And how was your.

732
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 4: Relationship with.

733
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean with p any player, all players you

734
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 12: don't always see eyed eye.

735
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 8: Uh. I try to be as as.

736
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 12: Real with them and honest with them, and sometimes those

737
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,239
Speaker 12: are hard conversations and uh, not gonna get into all

738
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 12: the details of that, but uh, you know, I think

739
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 12: Dave in particular, if you look at him, he he

740
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 12: was very very young when he came into this league.

741
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 12: Uh you know, I was obviously not here when when

742
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 12: he was drafted, but the player he was and then

743
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 12: the person he has become. Uh, our our our different

744
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 12: versions than when I first got here. And the credit

745
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 12: goes to him.

746
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 8: Uh h.

747
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 12: He's been uh intentional about getting better as a player,

748
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 12: and I think he's been intentional about getting better as

749
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 12: a teammate.

750
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 8: And uh really that's that's where that come. Truthing like available,

751
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 8: So how does case change things?

752
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 11: Uh?

753
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 2: For if you stick in your.

754
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 12: Corporation to play what, Yeah, we prepare for all of

755
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 12: their quarterbacks. I think you have to do that in

756
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 12: in this league. So uh we'll monitor that like everybody

757
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 12: else does. But you have to prepare for all their

758
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 12: guys and and the truth is all their guys can

759
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 12: beat you.

760
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 8: That they've all won. I think CJ.

761
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 12: Stroud's having as good a year as as there is

762
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 12: at that position for rookies.

763
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 8: Doesn't not look like a rookie. Uh.

764
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 12: The way he plays, the decision making, the the physical

765
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 12: talent is off the charts, and then Case you know,

766
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 12: comes in last week, starts and wins.

767
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 8: That's what he does.

768
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 12: He's he's played a lot of football games in his career, Uh,

769
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 12: started a lot of football games in his career, has won.

770
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 8: Uh, So we know the type of talent that he

771
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 8: has as well.

772
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 4: So what do you guys have to do?

773
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 8: Uh?

774
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 15: Is such great success of what do you have to

775
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 15: do to tray now on the moves?

776
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 2: Probably be on the local friends.

777
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think for us it's it's always focusing on

778
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 12: the little things, Jeff, things that you, Uh, the little

779
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 12: things add up to the big things. So whether you're

780
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 12: at home or on the road, you have to be

781
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 12: clean in your assignments. You have to be great uh

782
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 12: as a as a staff and putting your guys in

783
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,239
Speaker 12: position to succeed. But big thing is always doing your

784
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 12: job and and that doesn't change. Homer road K, is

785
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 12: there some optimism with ovol that maybe he could have

786
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 12: returned before the sason or yeah?

787
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 8: Or you or can you.

788
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 12: Expect is there still still I'd still working through all

789
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 12: of it. Obviously we haven't put 'em on ir just yet,

790
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 12: so those are things that we're working through kind of

791
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 12: in one day, you.

792
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 15: Mentioned the way to say he stepped up something that

793
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 15: really chucked out of time, Like, what do you have

794
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 15: any in particular un mental path to gets me on

795
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 15: how how has he managed to not only main ross

796
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 15: for the last few years but to.

797
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 2: Kind of steps up with these people.

798
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's uh made plays for us Ashley really throughout

799
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 12: his career. Uh, think about the plays that he's made

800
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 12: on kickoff for us. And there's a lot of players

801
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 12: in this league to start out as special teams players

802
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 12: and that's their proving ground and and then they get

803
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 12: an opportunity on offense or defense and then they play well.

804
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 12: So Uh, I think he's a young player that you

805
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 12: continue to see what he has.

806
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 8: Uh.

807
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 12: He had really good moments for us in that football game,

808
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 12: and he's gonna we're gonna be counting on him again.

809
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 4: Just how important.

810
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 8: Yeah, it all goes hand in hand.

811
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 12: And I think I think Coach Schwartz has mentioned it

812
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 12: before that our d line is our engine. Uh and

813
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 12: and we certainly play off of them. Uh, but a

814
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 12: lot of the success also you have you can't help

815
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 12: but look at some of the plays that have been

816
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 12: made in the secondary.

817
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 8: So it all goes together.

818
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 12: But uh, I think the the playmaking that you see

819
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 12: from the secondary is the biggest thing.

820
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:57,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, No, real updates.

821
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 12: I think with all of our guys, you know, dated

822
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 12: they literally means you see how they walk in the

823
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 12: building and check in with them and how they do

824
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 12: through their treatment every single day, and and make it

825
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 12: a decision based on how that is each day.

826
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 8: That's kind of what we're doing with all.

827
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 9: That's the most impressive point that touchdown.

828
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 8: The flight with.

829
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,919
Speaker 12: What just kind of windows you can have. Yeah, uh

830
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 12: really well executed. I thought the protection was excellent on

831
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 12: that play. Joe saw it really clearly because he had

832
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 12: great lanes to see, uh, and and knew exactly where

833
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 12: he's gone with the ball once a marri cleared. Uh,

834
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 12: the linebacker there has he made a couple of throws

835
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 12: where like the old attitude and now he light and

836
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 12: over the middle.

837
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 4: And stuff, he still does that.

838
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 9: Is that just a the trust experience all those things

839
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 9: fifteen year Vetterment?

840
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 12: Yeah, yes, And you know there was one throw in

841
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 12: particular on a scramble drill to Elijah laid over the middle.

842
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 12: You have to be very careful, and I always tell

843
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 12: the quarterbacks you have to clear your vision, like you

844
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 12: have to be very very clear about what you see

845
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 12: when you make those throws.

846
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 8: Uh.

847
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 12: Joe's got great height, so that helps him see it

848
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 12: in the first place. But even then there are times

849
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 12: in the pocket where he doesn't have great vision and

850
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 12: you have to slide and and move.

851
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 8: Uh.

852
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 12: But yeah, that's that's a You have a lot of

853
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:08,479
Speaker 12: reps under your belt.

854
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 8: You have a lot of.

855
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 12: Turns at some of these things, and you know, uh

856
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 12: where you can get into trouble. But when you can

857
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 12: clear your vision and be confident what you see, then

858
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 12: you can pull the trigger.

859
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 3: This case, he two pains where something that you have

860
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 3: what is it about Case and you.

861
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 4: Can just do.

862
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,240
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean played a ton of football in college,

863
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 12: so he had a ton of experience coming in.

864
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 8: Uh.

865
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 12: He's played in multiple systems. Uh, you know since before

866
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 12: we had him and and since so has a very

867
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 12: very good understanding of offensive football defensive football.

868
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 8: Uh.

869
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 12: Son of a coach. So you know, Case knows the

870
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 12: x's and knows really really well.

871
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 8: Uh has always been.

872
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 12: A playmaker throughout his entire career. Uh, but a really

873
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 12: really good football player. A guy that would we have

874
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 12: to you know, study this week just like every week,

875
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 12: getting ready for multiple quarterbacks.

876
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 4: Since he's le Eve.

877
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 2: Been able to drop in the guard that's gonna mess

878
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 2: with the office.

879
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 4: Uh.

880
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 8: Yes, I have been able to do that. Uh. There's

881
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 8: still some guys that I'm on alert, uh for you.

882
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 2: Younest quarterback good with.

883
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 9: Good luck variety group.

884
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 8: I do.

885
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 12: And you know, Marquise is a guy that uh has

886
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 12: been through a lot this season and and continues to

887
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 12: to work really hard.

888
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 8: Uh.

889
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 12: You know, then with Joe being new, you have to

890
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 12: rhyth him up with all your new teammates, Marquise being

891
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 12: one of them. So I think Joe's getting a good

892
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Speaker 12: feel for him as well.

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Speaker 4: And give you said, you're you know, like.

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Speaker 14: The if he's on the wrong rode on that one

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Speaker 14: or act communication here you see, like Joe.

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Speaker 12: You know, all those receivers like they're still room for

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00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 12: them grow later for sure. And and that's that's the

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00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 12: part of practice. That's the part of getting to know

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Speaker 12: your teammates.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 12: It's not gonna always be perfect. Guys are gonna make

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00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 12: mistakes and that type of thing. But I think Joe,

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Speaker 12: now haven't been here forever, however long he's been here,

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Speaker 12: has a pretty good book on our guys, uh, in

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Speaker 12: terms of what they're good at, how they come out

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Speaker 12: of breaks, those.

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Speaker 8: Type of things.

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Speaker 4: Did you like kind of responded to.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, no, Yeah, I was proud of said, Uh,

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Speaker 12: he's a young player. Uh, obviously there's things that clean

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00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 12: up in every single game. But he he plays hard.

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Speaker 12: I mean he plays hard on balls in his hand.

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Speaker 12: He he's going, uh and and he's going to make plays,

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Speaker 12: and he he's playing aggressive, and.

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Speaker 8: He he's a tough guy guy to tackle.

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Speaker 12: Uh. And then in the run game, he he's a

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Speaker 12: he's for a young player, he's he's pretty good and

918
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 12: pretty physical out there. Yeah, getting closer, but uh, we'll

919
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Speaker 12: see how it goes this week.

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Speaker 3: How do you have you try keep these guys locked.

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Speaker 8: In and focused when you're going on.

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Speaker 1: The Christmas Christmas in there.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I I I think that's kind of the nature

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00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 12: of of this beast, Mary Kay. And you know everybody

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Speaker 12: in the league is dealing with that and where Christmas

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Speaker 12: is and that type of thing.

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Speaker 8: I know some people are playing on Christmas. So it's

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Speaker 8: just every year.

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Speaker 12: It's it's part of being a professional and making sure

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Speaker 12: that you are getting your work done and getting your

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Speaker 12: shopping done on your own time.

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Speaker 10: Conversation from one and oh to the playoffs.

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Speaker 12: Or right here if you do this, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 12: a little bit of it is that'll never change. It'll

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00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 12: always be a one game season for us. That that

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00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:28,720
Speaker 12: doesn't change.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 12: Obviously, you know that you can earn more. I think

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Speaker 12: everybody understands that, but in terms of how you do that,

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Speaker 12: you really have to focus.

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Speaker 4: On this week on Saturday.

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Speaker 8: And not much. Yeah.

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Speaker 12: I have no idea other than we have a big

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Speaker 12: one on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: Not a mathematician that wraps up today's from the Podium podcast.

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