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Speaker 1: What I've said a lot this year, Um, I think

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Speaker 1: I think everybody's motivated. Everybody's still working hard, just trying

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Speaker 1: We all look ourselves in the mirror each and every

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Speaker 1: mean we check ourselves. I think it'll make us better

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Speaker 1: fought all yearlonging games within games as a team. Do

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Speaker 1: you think, Uh, because of what you said every single week,

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Speaker 1: you just seems follow this identity. Yet I think whether

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Speaker 1: out there. I think we just haven't played our best.

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Speaker 1: We know we're capable of know we need to do

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Speaker 1: each and every week. Our coaches have us prepared. We

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Speaker 1: just gotta go out there and do it. Got to

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Speaker 1: And I think having that motivation to do that, we

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Speaker 1: we should only be focused on this week at this point. James,

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Speaker 1: work for you? That that that game. The offensive line

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Speaker 1: They're gonna come in ready to stop the run. So

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Speaker 1: you gotta go out there and find out who's tougher

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Speaker 1: and kind of carved those yards out the overall improvement

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Speaker 1: in certain performance last week kind of unanticipated really at

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Speaker 1: So his team memfers not about just about the rhymeingbacks.

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Speaker 1: It takes everybody in order fresh at me success James.

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Speaker 1: We've seen Sony deal with a lot this year, from

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Speaker 1: you know, missing some time in trading camp with an

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Speaker 1: How mentally tough is he that you've noticed from working

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Speaker 1: They give it's their best effort each and every week.

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Speaker 1: the past game too. So we had some tough receivers.

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Speaker 1: You see, like to finish flying with the importance of

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Speaker 1: You finished with two hundred and seventy five yards Russian.

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Speaker 1: we still have good passing offense, have good receivers, tough

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Speaker 1: slug it out. You just gotta find different ways to win, James.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys,