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Speaker 1: What's the biggest challenge for you on a short beat

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Speaker 1: like this? Is the mental getting everything in cramming? Or

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Speaker 1: is it the physical? Get your body right? Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: just everything all together. Um. You know, physically, we gotta

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Speaker 1: get ourselves ready to go. Um, and we emptied the

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Speaker 1: tank yesterday. Um. You know it was a full sixty

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Speaker 1: minute game and we had to play to the final whistle.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, physically we gotta get ourselves meant

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Speaker 1: or physically, we got to get ourselves ready to go. Mentally,

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Speaker 1: you know, we gotta get on this team. Um. It's

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Speaker 1: a team that we don't know very well. But um,

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Speaker 1: you know, the preparation starts now. So you know, just physically, mentally,

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Speaker 1: you know, emotionally spiritually, however, you got to get yourself

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Speaker 1: ready to go. Um. You know that's what we got

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Speaker 1: to do this week because you know it's a big game. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know it's a tough opponent that we're playing. So

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Speaker 1: you know, we just all got to do everything we

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Speaker 1: can to get ourselves ready to go for Thursday. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: become any easier if you've had some experience with the

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Speaker 1: short week playing on a Thursday night game. What you

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Speaker 1: have to do how you have to compare. Um, I

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Speaker 1: mean I definitely think it gives you a little bit

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Speaker 1: of an idea of, you know, how to get yourself

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Speaker 1: prepared for a short week. Um, but you know you

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Speaker 1: still got to do it. So you know, like I said,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of guys. Um, it's gonna take

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Speaker 1: all of us, you know, coaches, players, support staff, you know,

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Speaker 1: everybody that's a part of this organization. You know, we

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Speaker 1: all got to come in Um. You know every day

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Speaker 1: this week, you know, every opportunity we get, we've got

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Speaker 1: to come in here with the right mindset and do

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Speaker 1: everything we can to be ready for this. Uh, this

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Speaker 1: tough team on a short week. And you mentioned it's

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Speaker 1: a tough team and now they're eight and two, but

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Speaker 1: they had had a good game yesterday four for fifty

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Speaker 1: eight yards giving up How do you stay in the

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Speaker 1: mindset of how this team has done well all season

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Speaker 1: except for that game against the Cowboys. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's the National Football League, Um, you know

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Speaker 1: sometimes you know there's a lot side of games. But

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Speaker 1: you know, make no mistakes, it's a great football team

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Speaker 1: we're playing on Thursday, So you know we're not going

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Speaker 1: to overlook that. You know, regardless of what the score

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Speaker 1: was at their game, you know last night, you know,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. Um, you know, we know what

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Speaker 1: type of team this is. We know what caliber players

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Speaker 1: they have. Um, they have great coaches. Um, they have

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Speaker 1: a great scheme, offense, defense, special teams. It really all

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Speaker 1: across the board. So you know, we know what we

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Speaker 1: know what challenges we're up against this weekend. UM, you

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Speaker 1: know it's just up to us, like I said, to

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Speaker 1: get ourselves ready to go. Duh. For you individually, yesterday,

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Speaker 1: did you feel like, you know, the week off the

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Speaker 1: buy and even the week before that game an opportunity

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Speaker 1: for recover? Did you have a first yesterday that you know?

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like yesterday the outset, you know you

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Speaker 1: were full speed? H I said that you weren't before.

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Speaker 1: Did you feel it seemed from watching the game. I

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Speaker 1: know it's you're asking. I know what you're asking. No,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it just feel great to be

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Speaker 1: back out there. Um, you're having an opportunity to go

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Speaker 1: out there and play with my team again. UM, you

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Speaker 1: know it was a great opportunity for me and all

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Speaker 1: the guys, you know, just to be out there and

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Speaker 1: be able to play. But you know I felt good yesterday. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, I just want to go out and be

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Speaker 1: you know, that's what I tried to do. So you

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Speaker 1: know it was unfortunate that I you know, I had

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Speaker 1: to miss some time, but you know I came back

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Speaker 1: yesterday and I just want to go out there and

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Speaker 1: be my best and played to the best of my

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Speaker 1: ability so I could help this team be successful. So

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Speaker 1: every opportunity I had to prepare, you know, leading up

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Speaker 1: to the game yesterday, I took every advantage of it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I practice hard all week and you know,

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Speaker 1: mentally prepared myself and you know, I think that that

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Speaker 1: So you know, but that game is over and we

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Speaker 1: returning the page. So you had to recreate that this

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Speaker 1: week on a short week that we've talked about, you know,

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Speaker 1: that way I can be ready to go on Thursday. Damian.

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Speaker 1: What has more value to you when you're you know,

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Speaker 1: looking at an opponent, looking at a game like Bears

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Speaker 1: on Sunday where they got blown out, or a game

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Speaker 1: like the previous one where it was you know, nipping

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Speaker 1: tough against the Bills, which one of us has more

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Speaker 1: value for you in terms of scouting all of them?

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Speaker 1: All of them. I mean, you know, a team is

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Speaker 1: not defined by one game. You know, players aren't defined

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Speaker 1: by one player. Um, you know, it's a long season.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're kind of past the halfway marketing. You know,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of film on these guys and

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Speaker 1: you know, a great opportunity to study and you know,

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Speaker 1: just just figure this team out, you know, figure out

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Speaker 1: their schemes, figure out their players, and know how the

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Speaker 1: guys play. Um, you know, how do they like to

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Speaker 1: do things in certain situations. So you got to take

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Speaker 1: all of it. You know, all all the games that

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Speaker 1: they've played. I think their record is by eating too.

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Speaker 1: So you gotta look at all team games and you know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta break it all down. And you know, as

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Speaker 1: a team, we have to see what can we do?

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Speaker 1: You know what challenges do they present? What do we

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Speaker 1: think that we can do well? You know, what do

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Speaker 1: we think that we have to handle? And you know,

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Speaker 1: just kind of put it all together and you know,

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Speaker 1: develop the best best game plan. That way on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: you know, we can play the best football I mean,

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Speaker 1: what have you seen back the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: you know, two straight games without a turnover by him.

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Speaker 1: He looks a little bit more comfortable coming back from

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Speaker 1: the ankle. What have you seen from him the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks? Knowing that you know him really well, when

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Speaker 1: he looks like when he's right, Just leadership, that's the

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Speaker 1: first word that comes to mind. Um. You know, with

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Speaker 1: what he's dealt with, Um, you know a little bit

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Speaker 1: of adversity. Um, you know, he still shows up every

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Speaker 1: day being the same guy, being that same leader that

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Speaker 1: you know, tries to be his best and tries to

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Speaker 1: make all the guys around him better. So you know,

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Speaker 1: it's something that's not going to change about Mac and

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Speaker 1: you know that makes him the great leader, the great quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you know, the great teammate that he is. So, Um,

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Speaker 1: leadership is what we need and that's what we're going

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Speaker 1: to depend on as an offense and as a team.

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Speaker 1: So you know, very fortunate for him to have him

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Speaker 1: out there and you know, to have him continue to

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Speaker 1: as long as he continues to do that, you know

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Speaker 1: we'll continue to follow suit. Thank you, Ju