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Speaker 1: Long road up to the bye week by week kind

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Speaker 2: Or is it after a loss like that one where

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Speaker 2: come at the perfect time some not only just time

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Speaker 2: But I think the biggest thing is a mental and

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Speaker 2: put our foot in the gas. We have nothing to lose.

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Speaker 2: Be professionals and do that to the best of our ability.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you've ever experienced a coach and change

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Speaker 3: Had a coach on a hot seat.

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Speaker 4: What's that?

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Speaker 1: What does it feel different for you to have that

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Speaker 2: Well, to be honest, it's not something that I tend

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Speaker 2: to worry about. Those decisions I have no part of

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Speaker 1: Dog talk yesterday about how you guys, the players and

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Speaker 2: Well, I think, yeah, it's football is a war of

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Speaker 2: attrition at times, it feels like and our team has

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Speaker 2: But that's part of the gig.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: You go in and you got to battle with who

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Speaker 2: you got and right around guys, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think when you ask anyone in this locker room,

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Speaker 2: But you know, it's how you respond to that, and

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Speaker 5: I'm just praying for him, uh, praying that he gets better. Uh,

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Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, he was one of the veterans I

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Speaker 5: So I just uh, I mean, yeah, I'm missing for sure.

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Speaker 2: With the injuries he's had this season, we never never

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Speaker 3: Much he could contribute if he'd stayed healthy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, uh yeah, I mean he uh, he fought through

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Speaker 3: You're lostless many games in the season before. Uh No,

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Speaker 5: I mean it guess very frustrating when you feel like

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Speaker 5: I mean, I guess really frustrating. But you got to

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Speaker 4: You can bang up there towards the end.

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Speaker 5: What happened there, he just knocked the win me, caught

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Speaker 1: It was nothing been on teams when the coach got fired,

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Speaker 3: Yeah? What's that like?

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Speaker 4: Going through the uncertainty of not knowing what's gonna happen

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Speaker 3: Stuff to happen. I try not to leave and look

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Speaker 5: I try to just keep my head down, stay focused

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Speaker 5: each and every day, be one percent better each and

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Speaker 4: Bye, we coming up.

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Speaker 3: What do you planning on doing just to sort of

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Speaker 5: Maybe, Yeah, just getting away for a little bit, giving

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Speaker 3: I was strong.

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Speaker 5: Uh, just come back, come back more focused than ever,

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Speaker 3: I'm strong. Is it another point where the season starting

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 3: No, not really.

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Speaker 3: Uh, I'm ready. Uh it's been it's been good so far.

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Speaker 5: As just want to keep getting better each and every

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Speaker 4: Talking about this team needs a break right now. So

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Speaker 4: how tired physically do you think this team is? Eleven

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we all fighters.

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Speaker 5: Well, we're not gonna show that we tired, but I

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Speaker 3: So this break is coming in.

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Speaker 5: Uh, this by week is coming in, uh much needed time,

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Speaker 4: Way though after a loss like that, is it kind

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Speaker 3: At this point, I wouldn't say as a negative.

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Speaker 4: Doug said yesterday, this seems like a really tired team. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: H Yeah, it's tough.

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Speaker 6: Obviously, be tough for anybody eleven straight weeks. So what

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Speaker 6: So it's never real an excuse, but it's definitely something

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Speaker 3: Is a tough one.

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Speaker 1: There's uncertainty around the coaching staff in their futures.

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Speaker 6: For US players, we just try to do our job,

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Speaker 3: For me, it's pretty easy, Uh.

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Speaker 6: I everybody had their only own opinions. For me, I

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Speaker 3: Physically, it's important to recharge, but mentally, how do you

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Speaker 6: In the week, try to just get away a little

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Speaker 6: I said it was a tough eleven weeks. Definitely didn't

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Speaker 6: what didn't go out, we expected it. Both got six

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Speaker 3: Ever, He's gonna keep fighting for whatever happens. That way

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Speaker 6: Too, Yeah, definitely I'm fighting for my coach, my team

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Speaker 6: organization or whatever. So uh when I come back when

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Speaker 6: he's coached, I'm just fighting one hundred.

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Speaker 2: What do you need to show personally the last six

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Speaker 6: For me personally, I feel like this year so far

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Speaker 6: with the best of the best.

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Speaker 1: What do you feel like this team needs to do

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Speaker 1: and that was final six weeks. How do you sort

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Speaker 1: of put the mentality with the identity around and sort

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Speaker 6: So when I said we all gotta have that mindset, No,

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Speaker 6: matter the record, we gotta all go out there and play.

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Speaker 6: Be the most physical, most technical, most sound team out there.

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Speaker 6: Try to limit all mistakes. Like you said, we're coming in,

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Speaker 6: it's gonna be Week twelve. Were thirteen, so it shouldn't

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Speaker 6: really be. No, it made things like that, so you

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Speaker 6: got to go up there and try to go one

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Speaker 3: Okay, thanks, thanks, thanks