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Speaker 1: how you doing better than you getting into the playoffs?

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Speaker 1: The way that you get What does that say about

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Speaker 1: your coat? Well, I mean I think that it was

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Speaker 1: good to be in a game like this where we

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Speaker 1: battled and it was tied and we got down and

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Speaker 1: you know, momentum kind of shifted the other way and

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Speaker 1: our guys battled back, We got stops, offense continued to

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Speaker 1: uh to attack, and our quarterback you know, battled and

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Speaker 1: our receivers came through and their runners and it was

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Speaker 1: a great I felt like it was a ch big

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Speaker 1: team win. It was a huge team winners. You know,

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Speaker 1: Andy kicked the ball well you know, so again it

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Speaker 1: was just you we we lost a lot of guys,

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys went down, a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: stepped up, and we didn't have to get healthy. But

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Speaker 1: I I think that this was uh, this it was

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Speaker 1: a great win for us. Like you get them all

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Speaker 1: five nuts to go, you know, Drake in a single

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Speaker 1: situations last week it was together at nine play eating

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Speaker 1: on yard drive. What would you think of what they

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Speaker 1: big yeah, And I think that uh, you know, you

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Speaker 1: learn from that and again you still have opportunities. And

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Speaker 1: then they pressured us, and you know, we were able

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Speaker 1: thought we tried at times and we got you know,

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Speaker 1: you talk all season of that next man out mentality,

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Speaker 1: but today you kind of truly saw it forth. How

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Speaker 1: to kind of see that company? Well, that's that's a

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Speaker 1: group effort. One. It's on the players that go in there. Two,

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Speaker 1: it's on the you know, the train staff to work

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Speaker 1: hard to evaluate guys. And then on the on the

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Speaker 1: coaching side, just being able to figure out what packages

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Speaker 1: that we can still get into and what we're able

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Speaker 1: to do and some of the things we weren't able

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Speaker 1: to do. You know, I lost a lot of defensive linemen.

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Speaker 1: Give a guy like Anthony Jennings a lot of credit

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Speaker 1: So you appreciate what he did and everybody else that

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Speaker 1: was able to step in. And I'll get you guy.

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Speaker 1: You know, I just think that you know, we talk

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Speaker 1: somebody you know that receiving room, and I get the

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Speaker 1: nature of the receivers in this league. I understand it.

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Speaker 1: I've been around this league for a while and they

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Speaker 1: all want the ball, and I think that that's what

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Speaker 1: you know, they have to understand that. Uh you know,

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Speaker 1: they'll get it. And he took advantage of his opportunities,

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Speaker 1: came through contested catches, third down conversions. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: great to see. It's great to see, you know, Mac

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Speaker 1: make plays for us. Uh, Kyle, you know Kay Shawn,

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Speaker 1: I mean unfortunate for Kay Shawn. You know, the penalty

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Speaker 1: or whatever they called over there is you know completely,

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Speaker 1: then his ability to go down, which I thought he

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Speaker 1: help us out and every there, all the receivers are

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Speaker 1: gonna play roles throughout this year. No. No, here's what

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Speaker 1: the explanation I got. You have to survive the ground.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very aware of the of the catch rule.

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Speaker 1: But that's all I got. I just thought gritty. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he he got hit, he got hit. They they pressured

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Speaker 1: I didn't flinch, and uh again, I think it was

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Speaker 1: that that was something that we've been practicing and and

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Speaker 1: because we need him and he's you know, he's out

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Speaker 1: you know, I told him this isn't gonna be a shock.

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Speaker 1: But if you know, we those those are the efforts

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Speaker 1: that we need to to have, uh from him. Is

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Speaker 1: and every week for us to win Michael three seams

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Speaker 1: to get a better learning lessons every week. Do you

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Speaker 1: I mean again, this is this is the league that

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Speaker 1: So you know, hopefully you can learn from those things

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Speaker 1: and it was great for him to to have success.

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Speaker 1: I'm you know, happy for him, especially executing there at

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Speaker 1: the end of the game and you know, pulling it

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Speaker 1: How big a week was this, Mike? For what you

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Speaker 1: kind of want your team to be right? Identity? Well,

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Speaker 1: our identity. You know, I'm believing that under any circumstances

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Speaker 1: that we were gonna win the football game. And that's

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Speaker 1: what we talked about before we left. We said we

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Speaker 1: up most of the night. Well, I think as the snaps,

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Speaker 1: a tough environment on Sunday night, final plays like what

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Speaker 1: does it mean to you to be on the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and your in the first year, probably we got along.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're we're we're gonna try to win the division.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna focus on that, and you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever happens, we figure out what's the best thing for

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Speaker 1: the team. And I'm excited that it's it's all the

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Speaker 1: credit to the players, you know, So you know it's

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Speaker 1: when we win, it's it's cause of them. Who when

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Speaker 1: they lose Lamar and what changes about how you defending us?

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Speaker 1: What changes about the mindset of the game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're talented and they still got good players. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the offense really never changed. We were trying to get

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Speaker 1: didn't lose an MVP, but we lost plenty of guys

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Speaker 1: and we know how good Lamar is. And but still,

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Speaker 1: plays on us. And give Tyler a lot of credit.

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Speaker 1: He's a he's a great kid, he's a great quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Haven't spent some time with him in Cleveland, so you know,

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Speaker 1: it was it was obviously a challenge the entire game.

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Speaker 1: Thank you