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Speaker 1: It's great. How unique is Top Grady as an opposing

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Speaker 1: them three times before, so um to you know, witness

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Speaker 1: for sure, you know, great to wash and great new

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Speaker 1: from him. What makes him great? Um? I mean from

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Speaker 1: the outside looking in and don't know him personally, I

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Speaker 1: guess his work ethic on the way he leaves, just

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Speaker 1: hearing different stories from different guys who probably play in

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Speaker 1: So I just think that that nature of the atmosphere

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Speaker 1: going out there and putting all on the line. Does

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Speaker 1: he see things that most quarterbacks don't see. I mean

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say yeah, just by speaking off of the

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Speaker 1: things that he's accomplished, you know, the numbers that he

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Speaker 1: So I feel like he sees the game at a

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Speaker 1: different level. I mean, that's why he's considered in the league.

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Speaker 1: And one of the great great quarterbacks. But again he's

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Speaker 1: this break coming to good time for this team. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you take it whenever you get it, UM, you're

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Speaker 1: coming off a win. Sometimes teams are want to play

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Speaker 1: we tend you know, where we're well set. This break.

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Speaker 1: To me, I think the break is good just mentally, UM.

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Speaker 1: You know, aside from physically obviously you want to get

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Speaker 1: your your body together, but I think mentally having UM

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Speaker 1: a time to reset and digest what you want to do,

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Speaker 1: So I think mentally about a week is always great,

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Speaker 1: no matter if you win or lose. UM, it's always

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Speaker 1: good to have to reset yourself and and find new

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Speaker 1: goals and keep pushing yourself. And you think this team

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Speaker 1: will change now or will it? I think just about

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Speaker 1: keep coming in competing, you know, every day, fighting and

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Speaker 1: working and understanding that even though we've got eight weeks left,

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Speaker 1: we really have one week. You know. We gotta take

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Speaker 1: it one week at a time, one day at a time,

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Speaker 1: and just focus on it now. UM, And that's what

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Speaker 1: through practice and how we approach each day. You can't

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Speaker 1: look at the bigger picture. You just gotta put the

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Speaker 1: little pieces together to get the ultimate picture. Do you

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Speaker 1: want three weeks ago, you guys obviously at the Rams

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Speaker 1: game when you struggle, and then three weeks the last

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Speaker 1: three games since then you've played real good defense. I'm curious.

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Speaker 1: Some people have said coach Graham simplified things. Some people

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Speaker 1: have said cook Gram took some things out of the playbook,

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Speaker 1: like teared it down a little. What do you point

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Speaker 1: you as the biggest change coaching wise that's helped the players.

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Speaker 1: I think us clicking UM together and being cohesive. And

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Speaker 1: I think us understanding the situation that we weren't selling

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Speaker 1: that's coming together, I understanding what we wanted to do

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Speaker 1: actually go home or did you hang around here? Because

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Speaker 1: it really wasn't a full week to get away. I

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Speaker 1: like I was saying and um, yeah, just be to myself,

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Speaker 1: eating good and playing some video games, which is you know,

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Speaker 1: much needed. What did the coaches challenge you to do

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Speaker 1: in different natures. You know, it's going out there and

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Speaker 1: playing fast. Other than that, you work on that throughout

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Speaker 1: You know, you take everything in you hear everything from

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Speaker 1: the compete. You look at this team and obviously the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: it's what stands out. Who's the biggest threat of receiver

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Speaker 1: not even gonna loe to you. Just watching them play,

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Speaker 1: you know, Tom gonna spread the ball out and spread

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Speaker 1: that makes them all, you know, go together and makes

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Speaker 1: did you give up shame for the for the offside,

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Speaker 1: nah Man? Because I feel like as a player, if

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Speaker 1: you've been there and you understand certain things I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I'll take it back to Diglebo like we used to play.

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Speaker 1: He should be like if somebody it did something to

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Speaker 1: get over the past, I gave up something. He always

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Speaker 1: I've been in your shoes before, I understand. So you

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Speaker 1: uplift them the end of the day, Like coach always says,

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Speaker 1: everybody in that room's gonna help us win games in

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Speaker 1: know what you're going through and you don't want to

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Speaker 1: like catching balls, I'm smoking as a receiver with one

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Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks. Is that something that used that they

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Speaker 1: we want you to work on, and then you've been

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Speaker 1: I don't know out here now. That was just me

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Speaker 1: So it's cool to had the quarterbacks. I had but

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