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Speaker 1: Welcome to this Tuesday edition of the From the Podium podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Gibbs. Brown's off today. Back in Berea on

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Speaker 1: Wednesday at the Cross Country Mortgage Campus to begin preparations

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Speaker 1: for the first AFC North game of the year against

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. On today's episode, you'll hear from head

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Speaker 1: coach Kevin Stefanski, running back Deiata Foreman, and linebacker Mahmoud Diabate.

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Speaker 1: We start with the head coach, Kevin Stefanski, who addressed

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Speaker 1: the media on Monday regarding the Eagles loss and the

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Speaker 1: week ahead.

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Speaker 2: Obviously watching the tape from yesterday. Look, we talked about frustrating,

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Speaker 2: got to close out football games and uh, you know

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Speaker 2: a ton of things that we can do better, that

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Speaker 2: I can do better. But we know where we are.

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Speaker 2: We understand that. Can't hide from that. But not going

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Speaker 2: to look in that rearview, marriages, focused on moving forward,

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Speaker 2: focused on a big one at home this week.

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Speaker 3: With that, I'll take any questions, Hey, Kevin, I want

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Speaker 3: to do some injuries for you. Got any updates on

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Speaker 3: the guys from yesterday?

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Speaker 2: I really don't. Scott Jerome Ford, I think will be

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Speaker 2: week to week we talked about Nick Harris. No update

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Speaker 2: really on the other guys.

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Speaker 3: Okay, is Grant still in the protocol?

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Speaker 4: Yes? Okay.

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Speaker 3: With the offensive struggles you guys have been having, and

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Speaker 3: you know, the playoff hopes kind of shrinking, just why

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Speaker 3: not try Jamis as a potential spark that you're looking for.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's just important that we continue to

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Speaker 2: do everything we can to play good sound football. I

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Speaker 2: think there were moments of that obviously yesterday. I think

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Speaker 2: Deshaun gives us the best chance to win, continues to

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Speaker 2: give us the best chance to win, and we need

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Speaker 2: to play really good offensive football at his position and

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Speaker 2: really at every position to be successful on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Kevin, just wondering, I don't know, in some ways,

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Speaker 5: did you guys go back to some basics in the

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Speaker 5: second half. I mean, Deshaun went eleven for twelve. It

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Speaker 5: seemed like he got into a little bit of a rhythm.

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Speaker 5: And what I'm kind of trying to get at here is,

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Speaker 5: are you guys trying to maybe straddle too worlds in

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Speaker 5: terms of what people call your offense and Ken's offense

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Speaker 5: and what can you do if that's the case to

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Speaker 5: sort of streamline that and fix it so everybody can

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Speaker 5: get on the same page with everything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as you know, Mary Kay, I think really big

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Speaker 2: thing for us is just running our offense at a

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Speaker 2: high efficiency, whether it's regardless of personnel, regardless really of

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Speaker 2: play type, run pass, and I think there's again there's

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Speaker 2: moments of that. We really hurt ourselves in some critical

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Speaker 2: third downs yesterday and that causes you to settle for

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Speaker 2: field goals or causes you to have to punt those

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Speaker 2: type of things. So focus for us will be to

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Speaker 2: get better and certainly always try and look at things

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Speaker 2: that that we can do better.

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Speaker 5: Quick follow up, Kevin, if you don't mind, and that

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Speaker 5: is what do you see on some of those early

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Speaker 5: deep misses from DeShawn? He was trying to explain it

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Speaker 5: a little bit yesterday just in terms of press coverage

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Speaker 5: versus soft coverage. But what are you seeing on what

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Speaker 5: looks like some just miscommunications between him and the receiver.

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Speaker 2: Is there a play in particular a Mary Kay, Well.

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Speaker 5: Like the Amari one down the left sideline. I mean

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Speaker 5: that's one that comes to mind.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously a miscommunication between those guys. It was a

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Speaker 2: little bit different technique, but that will happen every once

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Speaker 2: in a while.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Kevin, you still believe, obviously in Deshaun he gives

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Speaker 6: you the best chance to win. Do you feel like

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Speaker 6: there's any eroding confidence within the team behind Deshaun?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think we need to play better on offense.

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Speaker 4: Tom.

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Speaker 2: I really think this is a when you're playing good

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Speaker 2: on any side of the ball, it really is about

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Speaker 2: eleven guys doing their job and coaches doing our job

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Speaker 2: putting those eleven guys in position. So that's really where

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Speaker 2: our focus is. That's really where our teams focuses.

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Speaker 6: And piggybacking off Mary Kay, did anything change in terms

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Speaker 6: of the passing game in the second half? It seemed

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Speaker 6: like Deshaan did a better job of, you know, setting

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Speaker 6: if it was there.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say anything definitively changed. Orse maybe specifically changed.

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Speaker 2: I thought protection was held up for a buy and

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Speaker 2: large gave us time to find the guys down the field.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Kevin, I understand the hardest thing when times are

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Speaker 7: tough is to stay the course. But considering the volume

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Speaker 7: of the issues on offense and the length of the

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Speaker 7: issues on offense right now, just could you just maybe

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Speaker 7: expand a little bit of why you feel right now

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Speaker 7: staying the course when so much is not going right

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Speaker 7: is the actual best course of action.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's just my job, Daryl, to always

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Speaker 2: find ways to be successful as a team, obviously offense, defensive,

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Speaker 2: special teams, and we'll just focus on getting better. I

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Speaker 2: really think this is something where if we keep the

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Speaker 2: focus on our entire offense, on getting better at every position,

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Speaker 2: I think that's when you start having offensive success, which

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Speaker 2: is sustaining drives and obviously score points.

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Speaker 7: And then just within the locker roominal you're asked about

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Speaker 7: the team eroding confidence or whatever, but just how hard

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Speaker 7: is it to keep player frustrations in check and avoid

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Speaker 7: any type of finger pointing and things like that when

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Speaker 7: you're going through a stretch like this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going through it. That's your one and five.

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Speaker 2: You can't hide from that. You don't love that feeling.

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Speaker 2: But all we can do is get one this week.

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Speaker 2: It's all we can do.

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Speaker 8: Thank Kevin, you talk about everybody looking inward and looking

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Speaker 8: at themselves. For you, what have you you, as you

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Speaker 8: kind of guys have gone through this, what have you

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Speaker 8: looked in word? And said I need to specifically these

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Speaker 8: are areas need to to specifically improve on or maybe

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Speaker 8: you know, alter or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's important that we do that as coaches. Chris,

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Speaker 2: and that's conversations we have this morning. Things that you know,

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Speaker 2: we got to put our guys in position to succeed

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Speaker 2: any which way we can. Obviously, every player has strengths

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Speaker 2: and we need to work to those strengths.

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Speaker 8: The second thing kind of going back to, you know,

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Speaker 8: the question about second half yesterday, just how much you

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Speaker 8: know a lot of a couple of guys talked about

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Speaker 8: the running game and it's what it did to help

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Speaker 8: open up some things in the passing game. De Sean

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Speaker 8: mentioned the play action how much, I mean, how beneficial

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Speaker 8: can you be kind of build off of that going

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Speaker 8: into Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said, you know, we had some good moments.

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Speaker 2: Obviously not enough, didn't score enough points, but there's some

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Speaker 2: things that I feel like the guys took from the

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Speaker 2: prectice field to the game field and they're constantly trying

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Speaker 2: to build off of those type of things as you

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Speaker 2: move forward.

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Speaker 9: And Kevin, you know, we always ask you about the

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Speaker 9: quarterbacks and play calling on all that, but you've never

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Speaker 9: been one in five here, so how do you, as

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Speaker 9: a head coach keep them arale the guys up there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like we talked a lot about earlier, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: It's you own your record, you can't hide from it,

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Speaker 2: and doesn't mean we like it, but we also understand

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Speaker 2: there are things that you can control and things that

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Speaker 2: you can't control. So we'll focus on the things that

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Speaker 2: we can control. That's how we prepare, how we practice,

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Speaker 2: and then ultimately trying to get one this week.

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Speaker 10: And then I don't want to, you know, give away

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Speaker 10: a game plan or anything like that. But when you

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Speaker 10: are trying to clean things up, you guys are trying

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Speaker 10: to be better. What are some of the tangible things

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Speaker 10: that you guys are focusing on? Deontay Foreman mentioned you know,

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Speaker 10: some more physicality in the padded practice in terms of

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Speaker 10: past protection. So when you are working to clean these

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Speaker 10: things up offensively, what are those tangible things that you

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Speaker 10: maybe can focus on.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's it's really it always comes back

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Speaker 2: to the when when you're thinking tangibly, at least for

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Speaker 2: me to technique, uh, And it's it's footwork, it's hand placement,

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Speaker 2: all those things, and obviously, like fiance said, with past

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Speaker 2: for us, our ability to get better with our technique

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Speaker 2: as the season goes on is really really important.

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Speaker 11: Hei, Kevin, I always probably might sign a costume at

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Speaker 11: a time. But obviously you have captains on the team,

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Speaker 11: you have other leaders on the team throughout you know

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Speaker 11: this start, have you consulted with them about the decision

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Speaker 11: to stick with the Shawn this starting quarterback? And do

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Speaker 11: you get the sense that you know they will also

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Speaker 11: believe that he gives you the best chance to win?

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Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, I mean I consult with our players weekly,

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Speaker 2: talk to our guys daily. I also make decisions that

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Speaker 2: I feel our best for the fotball team. So it's

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Speaker 2: not there's some decisions, of course that you bring to

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Speaker 2: the team and that you talk through, but when it

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Speaker 2: comes to depth charts, starting lineups, that's not something that

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Speaker 2: ultimately the players get a lot of input in. Having

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Speaker 2: said that, we have very very good leadership on this

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Speaker 2: football team. We have guys that care, we have guys

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Speaker 2: that push each other, and we're gonna lean on those guys.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Kevin, I know that we asked you this last week,

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Speaker 5: but it seems to be that the prevailing narrative still

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Speaker 5: seems to be that everyone thinks that Jimmy Haslam is

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Speaker 5: forcing you to play Deshaun Watson. So I guess I

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Speaker 5: just want to throw it out there again and ask

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Speaker 5: how is this decision made and is there any truth

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Speaker 5: to that whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: Well, as you know, Mary Kay, I don't get caught

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Speaker 2: up in narratives, but we have a good dialogue with

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Speaker 2: myself Andrew ownership about all things that have to do

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Speaker 2: with this team. They've been nothing but supportive and any

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Speaker 2: decision when it comes to football is my decision. Thanks.

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Speaker 5: And if I can ask a quick follow up here,

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Speaker 5: what kind of a lift do you think it will

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Speaker 5: be for Nick Chubb to come back for you guys

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Speaker 5: this week?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You know, Neck's working very hard. Just spend some time

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Speaker 2: with him just now. He's going to take this thing

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Speaker 2: day by day and see where we go. But he's

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Speaker 2: a you know, this only comes with hard work.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, Kevin, I just wanted to talk about the penalties

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Speaker 12: down in the red zone there at the in the

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Speaker 12: second half. You know, Deshaun kind of paused a little

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Speaker 12: bit set up. I don't really know how we're going

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Speaker 12: to fix this, you know, in practice, how do you

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Speaker 12: really see that? And how can you get these guys

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Speaker 12: more discipline because it seems like every week these penalties

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Speaker 12: are kind of you know, sticking you guys and putting

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Speaker 12: you in bad position.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's frustrating because you know,

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Speaker 2: you want to beat the other team, you don't want

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Speaker 2: to beat yourself. And there's too many moments there, especially

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Speaker 2: on third down. We had two other conversions, not not

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Speaker 2: in the red zone, but we had two other conversions

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Speaker 2: that were called back for holding penalties. We have to

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Speaker 2: be better, We have to coach it better. We got

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Speaker 2: to play better with with better technique. And it's all

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Speaker 2: all those especially the ones the pre snap that you

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Speaker 2: could you really uh, it's nothing that they're doing.

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Speaker 13: Hey, Kevin, I guess entering this week, how is Ethan

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Speaker 13: Posik doing? And if Ethan can't go, would the plan

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike did a nice job. Obviously, played majority of

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Speaker 2: I'm not so concerned about that, Scott. I mean, I

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Speaker 3: And then on that DeVante Smith touchdown, is there anything

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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously, you know they ran a similar play earlier.

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Speaker 8: One of that asks you second half, like yesterday you

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Speaker 14: Yeah, it was great to kind of get it going,

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Speaker 8: Was it something that you saw in Philly's defense that

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Speaker 7: And just how tough have these losses been on you guys,

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Speaker 14: That's tough. It's tough, man. I'm who's just trying to

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Speaker 14: You know, we get into the rear zone and have penalties,

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Speaker 4: And we could clean those things up.

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Speaker 14: I mean we don't we take pride in you know,

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Speaker 10: Upright knowing you take that pride. Is that something that

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Speaker 3: Hey, I take it. There's so much conversation in the

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Speaker 14: Like I think personally from from my perspective, I just

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Speaker 4: It's not all on him. And I want to be the.

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Speaker 14: From what I see the way he's fighting each and

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Speaker 14: You know, this is something that we all been talking about.

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Speaker 4: Uh started started off right, and you know, just continue

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Speaker 14: Like I said, it's still hoping this season, So that's

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Speaker 13: for him right now?

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Speaker 14: Man, I feel definitely for him, like you, Like you said,

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Speaker 14: I've had my fast at injuries and you know, I

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Speaker 14: know how it can be and how it can go.

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Speaker 4: So I hate that for him.

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Speaker 14: And I actually was sitting by him on the plane

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Speaker 14: after we after we came back, so I was able

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Speaker 14: to talk to him and just kind of you know,

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Speaker 14: give give my you know, I guess my two cents

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Speaker 14: on you just know what I've been through, and you know,

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Speaker 14: just letting him know that, man, it's gonna be okay.

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Speaker 4: Just you know, I'm praying for you.

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Speaker 14: I'm here for you, you know, and just and just

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Speaker 14: try to come back even better and even stronger.

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Speaker 13: And then just another Nick question, I mean him coming

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Speaker 13: back from from the knee and everything you've experienced. Just

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Speaker 13: have you guys talked at all about that in your

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Speaker 13: time here and kind of shared stories and and things

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Speaker 13: like that.

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Speaker 14: Well slightly, you know, I you know, we had, you know,

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Speaker 14: some conversations about you know, my injuries over the years,

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Speaker 14: and you know some of the stuff he's dealt with.

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Speaker 14: But man, Nick is a is a tough, mighted guy.

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Speaker 14: Man He comes in here each and every day and

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Speaker 14: works and you know, he give his opinion on things

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Speaker 14: that we could do better, and.

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Speaker 4: So on and so forth.

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Speaker 14: So, like I said, I'm excited to see him roll

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Speaker 14: and you know, to get back going.

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Speaker 4: Uh. He's been a great guy to everybody, so you know,

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Speaker 4: I appreciate him.

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Speaker 5: Uh yeah, Deontay. I'm just wondering about, uh, sort of

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Speaker 5: drastic change in you guys from sort of the first

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Speaker 5: half of the game to the second half. The running

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Speaker 5: game got cranked up, and then also Deshaun went eleven

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Speaker 5: of twelve for one hundred and twenty two yards in

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Speaker 5: the second half. So was there some drastic halftime adjustment,

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Speaker 5: Did you guys go back to the basics, did you

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Speaker 5: go back to doing things the old way, or what

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Speaker 5: kind of happened there in the second half.

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Speaker 14: I just think we started to not shoot ourselves in

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Speaker 14: the foot for lack of a better term, you know,

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Speaker 14: we we we just started you know, trying to you know,

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Speaker 14: capitalize what our opportunities. The run game was hitting, which

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Speaker 14: I feel like was helping open up the passing game

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Speaker 14: to be able to you know, get him in position

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Speaker 14: to where you know, we can kind of catch defense,

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Speaker 14: our balance and you know spread it around. So yeah,

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Speaker 14: I just think we kind of got to stick with that,

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Speaker 14: and like I said, we got to eliminate you know,

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Speaker 14: doing doing you know, bad stuff to ourself. I think

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Speaker 14: that's really where the hindrance is coming from. I feel

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Speaker 14: like with his offenses is that we're out there and

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Speaker 14: we're just you.

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Speaker 4: Know, penalty here, penny there.

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Speaker 14: You know, we get explosive come back like just stuff

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Speaker 14: like that to where like, man, we can't afford to

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Speaker 14: have that.

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Speaker 4: You know, in this league.

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Speaker 14: You know, all these games gonna come down to be

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Speaker 14: pretty close at the end of the game, so you know,

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Speaker 14: we can't add those type of penalties.

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Speaker 1: Finally, linebacker Mamoud Diabate talked about the importance of eliminating

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Speaker 1: big plays against the defense.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, obviously one in five is not where you guys

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Speaker 7: want to be as a football team. Just how hard

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Speaker 7: is it right now behind the scenes not to point

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Speaker 7: fingers at any one individual or the slow start here.

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Speaker 15: I mean, I feel like we have a veteran team,

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Speaker 15: We have good leadership on our team, so we understand

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Speaker 15: that every single man on the team has a point

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Speaker 15: of finger inwards and do and figure out what they

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Speaker 15: can do best to help the team. You know, we're

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Speaker 15: not really looking at the other guy. We're looking at

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Speaker 15: ourselves and what we can personally do to get better

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Speaker 15: to help the team win.

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Speaker 7: And you know, for the most part, you guys have

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Speaker 7: done and a fairly good job on your side of

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Speaker 7: the ball. But the one I guess glaring stat that

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Speaker 7: does stick out is the explosive plays. We saw that

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Speaker 7: again yesterday in Philadelphia. Just what what's the conversation like

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Speaker 7: with Jim Schwartz behind the scenes and as you guys

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Speaker 7: trying to eliminate those explosives from being game changers.

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Speaker 15: You know, just like you said, you know we've met,

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Speaker 15: We've done a great job for the most part. We

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Speaker 15: just have to eliminate the big play. So it just

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Speaker 15: comes down to locking in on every single play, you know,

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Speaker 15: not letting the concentration slip, and uh, you know plays

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Speaker 15: happened to football. You know we're going against good opponents too.

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Speaker 15: We just have to do our best to eliminate those

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Speaker 15: explosive plays, you know, keep them keep them down as

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Speaker 15: best as we can, you know, and uh, not let

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Speaker 15: our focus last at any time of the game.

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Speaker 13: Hey mamerd On the block field goal and Rod's touchdown.

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Speaker 13: I mean, it looks like you had a key block.

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Speaker 13: Just just what did you see on that play from

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Speaker 13: the time Rod corralled the ball and started running down

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Speaker 13: that sideline.

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Speaker 15: I mean they gave they when when coach coach, when

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Speaker 15: Chunk gave the call actually told Rod, I said eighth

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Speaker 15: and the score I said eight, Flinn scoring by to

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Speaker 15: go block. So like it actually played out just exactly

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Speaker 15: as we envisioned it. So as soon as I saw

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Speaker 15: the ball blocked, I saw it went. I saw that

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Speaker 15: it went outside and me towards Rod. So my mind said, well, okay,

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Speaker 15: let me go make sure the way is clear. So

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Speaker 15: you get to the end zone. And you know, Devin

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Speaker 15: Bush and a lot of the other guys had the

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Speaker 15: same mindset, so we were able to execute that and

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Speaker 15: get it done.

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Speaker 13: Rod and Miles talked about this a little bit last night,

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Speaker 13: But it's kind of like that spark that ultimately wasn't

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Speaker 13: just like how disappointing is it to have that kind

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Speaker 13: of like game changing play happened and in the end

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Speaker 13: you still come up with the loss.

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Speaker 15: You know, in general, with it whether you have a

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Speaker 15: big game change of player or not losing his disappointing.

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Speaker 15: So you know, it's just part of the game of football.

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Speaker 15: You know, you have to look forward, correct, correct the

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Speaker 15: mistakes we can so we can enjoy those plays more

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Speaker 15: when you know, you can enjoy them a lot more

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Speaker 15: when you win. So in general, life is more enjoyable

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Speaker 15: when you win. So the whole Folcus is just winning.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: With Nick Chuck coming back, how much of a lift

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Speaker 5: do you think that he will give you, guys? And

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Speaker 5: what's it been like going up against Nick in practice

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Speaker 5: over the last how many ever weeks?

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Speaker 4: I think it'll be a great lift.

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Speaker 15: You know, he calls himself Batman, just just like when

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Speaker 15: Batman came back to Gotham. He's going, Hey, it brings

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Speaker 15: good energy to all the people. So we're excited for

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Speaker 15: him to get back. You know, hell of a player,

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Speaker 15: one of the best players I've ever you know, had

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Speaker 15: to honor the compete, againts and practice, and you know,

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Speaker 15: he makes me a better player. Every repide gets, you know,

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Speaker 15: give gives me things to give me better as a player.

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Speaker 15: So I love Nigga, respect him and I'm excited for him.

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Speaker 15: Have a big game on.

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Speaker 5: Sunday, and Jim Schwartz was saying the other day that

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Speaker 5: he finishes every play out there, so it really challenged you,

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Speaker 5: challenges you guys, uh to stop him. So has that

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Speaker 5: been helpful over the past year.

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Speaker 15: It's definitely been helpful, you know, when you've been able

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Speaker 15: to when you can practice against you know, one of

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Speaker 15: the if not the the best running back in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: You know, in practice every single day.

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Speaker 15: Just the way he carries himself, the way he works, Uh,

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Speaker 15: it increases everybody else's level. You know, that's not a

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Speaker 15: normal scout team running back to have Nick Chubb out

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Speaker 15: there telling the ball. So it's definitely been great to

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Speaker 15: get reps in with him and at this and he's

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Speaker 15: definitely got us all better and gave and gives.

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Speaker 4: Us good energy.

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Speaker 1: Hey my mood.

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Speaker 10: Over the past couple of weeks, we've seen Jeremiah make

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Speaker 10: a bunch of big plays for the defense and is

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Speaker 10: a guy working with him? What have you learned working

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Speaker 10: alongside of him and getting to play next to him?

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Speaker 15: You know, Six is my guy. You know, I love

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Speaker 15: six on love the field. We're tight. So just sitting

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Speaker 15: back and watching him, the way that he his instincts,

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Speaker 15: the way he plays the energy he brings to the defense.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of like a big brother to me.

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Speaker 15: So it's giving me good energy and good guidance on

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Speaker 15: how to carry myself, how to run through grats, how

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Speaker 15: to make it supposed to plays, and give energy to

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Speaker 15: my teammates. So I'm grateful for six. I love playing

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Speaker 15: beside him. I'm looking forward to continue doing it.

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Speaker 3: So how did you feel physically yesterday coming back in

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Speaker 3: your first game off ir?

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Speaker 15: I felt great, you know, body felt great, man felt great,

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Speaker 15: most of poorly, spirit felt great. So I was excited

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Speaker 15: to get out there and make some plays and look

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Speaker 15: forward to correcting the mistakes and getting better and having

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Speaker 15: even better performance next Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Were you in any kind of like count yesterday? How

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Speaker 3: many plays you could go?

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Speaker 4: Nah?

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Speaker 15: I felt good. I could, I could have went, I

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Speaker 15: could have went even more. Whatever, whatever's needed for me

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Speaker 15: from the team. You know, I'm ready to put down.

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Speaker 15: You know, once I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go.

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