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Speaker 1: All right, thanks for your patience. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: raise your hand, Karen. I think we come to you anyways.

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Speaker 2: How fair is it to say that Marcus Jones kind

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Speaker 2: of lit the fuse today for you guys.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean I think that that's what we've been

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Speaker 1: looking for we you know, I talked about that throughout

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Speaker 1: training camp and how those return units need to be,

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Speaker 1: you know, a weapon for us. We're still you know,

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Speaker 1: be able to do that on the punt return. Fantastic

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Speaker 1: effort by Marcus and everybody else out there. But I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of that was, you know, just his

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Speaker 1: again that that has to be a weapon. It was

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Speaker 1: something that we felt like could be through this season

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Speaker 1: and getting ready for this year. Mike, what is it

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Speaker 1: about Marcus that makes his skill set so superior? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think he's you know, he's not the biggest player,

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Speaker 1: again you have to be you know, fearless at some

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Speaker 1: make the first guy miss and we're confident in that.

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Speaker 2: And.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think you kind of just it's just

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Speaker 1: making great decisions with it back there. So that's a

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Speaker 1: lot of comfort with him back there, and we need

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Speaker 1: to continue to make it to make it a weapon.

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Speaker 1: Mic right in front of you, coming off of last

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Speaker 1: week's loss, how much did you need a performance like today?

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Speaker 1: And how good does it feel to be able to

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Speaker 1: put together a performance like this?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: You always, I mean, you only have so many opportunities,

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Speaker 1: So whatever you do in one week, it doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 2: It's it's about what you do the next week. Moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we take that same approach whether we win or

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Speaker 1: we lose. And I think that's what I've tried to do,

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Speaker 2: We have to be prepared here for.

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Speaker 1: A division opponent on the road, be a you know,

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Speaker 1: great environment, and hopefully we'll see you know, where we're at.

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Speaker 2: Coach talking about the defense. Obviously you give up that

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Speaker 2: opening score, but then you guys bounce back and pretty

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Speaker 2: much shut them down the rest of the game. Talk

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Speaker 2: just settled down, you know, just settled down a little bit.

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Speaker 1: They they did a nice job early on and moving

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Speaker 2: And you know, I guess.

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Speaker 1: If that's the trade off for playing great defense the

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Speaker 1: go through those growing pains early in the game. I

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Speaker 1: don't anticipate that we should, but it was good to

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Speaker 1: see us respond, you know, and we've done that, and

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Speaker 1: and I'm proud of our guys for not you know,

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Speaker 2: Mike, what you see from Drake today and the way

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Speaker 2: that you guys were able to spread the ball around

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Speaker 1: Just throw to the guy that's open in the progression

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Speaker 1: as soon as he's open, and then if not quickly

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Speaker 1: progressed through. Those are the things that that quarterbacks have

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Speaker 2: And we you know, we did that. And I think

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Speaker 2: the red zone.

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Speaker 1: Clearly is a big factor our ability to convert those

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Speaker 2: It was important.

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Speaker 1: I saw a lot of extra effort guys, guys blocking

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Speaker 2: Locker room is open in the front row, Mike. I

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Speaker 2: saw you with the T strong shirt. A lot of

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Speaker 1: What does it mean to get a W when he's

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Speaker 1: of him, you know, as as people and support you.

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Speaker 2: Know, that's the big thing there. And then the other

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Speaker 1: You know, we you know, we we understand how critical

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Speaker 2: Mike, when you mentioned moving on in reference Buffalo now week,

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Speaker 2: you said, hopefully we'll see where we're at. What did

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Speaker 1: Well, then when we don't beat ourselves and we take

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Speaker 1: get stops on third down, the return you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the special teams are a factor and we score touchdowns

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Speaker 2: Mike Marcus Jones has played some offense here at points before,

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Speaker 2: given how dynamic he's been with the football in his hands.

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Speaker 2: Is that are there Is that a possibility that you'd

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Speaker 1: I mean, we'd consider anything that would help us win

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Speaker 2: You know, certainly have you considered it? Well, there's we

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Speaker 1: And you know, again, we got a lot of guys

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Speaker 2: Oh, Mike, it looked like you had some starting defensive

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Speaker 2: And what was it that maybe led to that decision.

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Speaker 2: We like that great team, you know that great team

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Speaker 1: And you know, whether you're trying to think it's a

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Speaker 1: know you got two choices in punt return. You can

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Speaker 1: I want that on my desk by six o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Hey, my big game obviously from spun Diggs was in

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Speaker 1: That's just where the ball is going. And you know,

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Speaker 1: Steph and everybody's done a nice job. And if we

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Speaker 1: You we got plenty of plays down there, and if

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Speaker 1: that those plays are gonna come for them in the

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Speaker 1: red zone. It's just like the defensive line and they

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Speaker 1: want sacks and they want all this. But you know,

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Speaker 1: Barbar's disrupting the quarterback and it's getting holding calls, and

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Speaker 1: I know I don't want him to be frustrated, but

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Speaker 1: I see those things. Pop Douglas would have liked to

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Speaker 1: And nobody's gonna say that unless I say it. And

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Speaker 1: so those are the things that matter, Not the guy

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Speaker 1: catching a touchdown, that's the easy part. The hard parts

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Speaker 1: the guy that didn't get the ball thrown to him,

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Speaker 1: that turns immediately and blocks his guy and we.

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Speaker 2: Score from you know, the twenty five yard line. Thank you,