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Speaker 1: Hi, coach, How you doing doing all right?

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Speaker 2: So you focused this week, big focus in practice, starting

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Speaker 2: fast and you get over there and you started fast.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for starting us off on a positive note. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they did. You know, the guy started fast. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think defensive, we only had five plays in the

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Speaker 1: first first quarter. I thought Drake went out there and

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Speaker 1: you know, really ran the offense, ran the script the

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Speaker 1: right way and made plays and you know, we scored.

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Speaker 1: We scored a touchdown. So that was good to see.

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Speaker 2: When you your expectations for a rookie quarterback in his

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Speaker 2: second game is has he exceeded those? Is he right

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Speaker 2: where you thought he'd be?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it's kind of you know, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of where we thought he would be. He's progressing.

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Speaker 1: The last game he had what three turnovers? This game,

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Speaker 1: no turnovers, and that's progressing. So we look forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing that continue in the future.

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Speaker 3: Gerard, when you say after the game, because we've been

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Speaker 3: talking about this and we're trying to figure it out,

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Speaker 3: that your team is soft.

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Speaker 1: Playing soft playing soft, yeah, and let me just go

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Speaker 1: ahead and correct that we're playing soft, okay, because if

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Speaker 1: you look at the first you know, going back to

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Speaker 1: training camp, Like there was definitely some some toughness all

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Speaker 1: around the place and we still had the same players

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Speaker 1: and we just got to play that way.

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Speaker 3: So so like when you say playing soft, is that

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Speaker 3: like they're not rally into the football, they're making mental mistakes.

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Speaker 1: Like to me, I said it last night, we got

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Speaker 1: to be able to run the ball. We have to

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Speaker 1: stop the run and cover kicks, and we did none

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Speaker 1: of those. And that's what he was a tough football team.

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Speaker 4: Would you say that the team last year played soft

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Speaker 4: at times?

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Speaker 1: You know, at times last year we played soft at times.

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Speaker 1: There have always been games within each individual season where

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Speaker 1: you feel like, you know, you played soft that game.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, to correct what I said, it's

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Speaker 1: not that we have a soft football team. We are

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Speaker 1: just playing soft over the past few weeks.

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Speaker 5: When you look at the game yesterday, though Drake may

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Speaker 5: seems like he has no issue or or he's not

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Speaker 5: nervous about about throwing the ball and getting a downfield,

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Speaker 5: it seemed like there were points yesterday where that could

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Speaker 5: have been helpful for you guys. And I know you're

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Speaker 5: not a VP, but you talk about the script, Why

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Speaker 5: is he handing off the ball so often instead of

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Speaker 5: just you know, telling him, hey, open it up, do

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Speaker 1: I don't think it was so often. In my opinion.

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Speaker 1: It was two drives that were really talking about where

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Speaker 1: we got, you know, kind of away from the past.

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Speaker 1: And it was two three and out. So we're talking

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Speaker 1: about six plays and five of those being runs. But

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Speaker 1: after that, I mean, we did try to push the ball.

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Speaker 3: What do you think that you can do when the

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Speaker 3: coaching staff can do to get your guys back to

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Speaker 3: playing that tough mentality of football?

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Speaker 1: Is it?

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Speaker 3: What can you maybe do in practice something differently after

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Speaker 3: you're evaluating.

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Speaker 1: This, Yeah, look, we practice hard every Wednesday. We're in

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Speaker 1: full pads, and it's just about embracing the grind, embracing

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Speaker 1: the suck and just going out there and getting it done.

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Speaker 2: Your old teammate Devin mccordy said when last night said

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Speaker 2: when you hear about a team that's not tough, a

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Speaker 2: team that's soft, as you said, or playing soft, you

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Speaker 2: think about the head coach and you have to, you know,

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Speaker 2: ask that head coach what he's doing to get these

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Speaker 2: guys ready? You doing to get them ready?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I think I am, And then saying that look, Obviously,

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Speaker 1: our record does not reflect that. Where we are where

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Speaker 1: our record says we are. We're one and six football

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Speaker 1: team right now. You know, as far as practice and

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Speaker 1: really demanding a lot from the players, we all do

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Speaker 1: that from a coaching perspective, and you know, maybe we

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Speaker 2: Do you feel like you have the right leaders in

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Speaker 1: I feel like we do. And once again, let me correct,

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Speaker 1: it's not that we have a soft football team. We're

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Speaker 4: Would you say that the performance from Drake May we've

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Speaker 4: he's been over the course of the year.

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Speaker 1: I would say he's gotten better every single day, every

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Speaker 4: So do you look back on it at all and

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Speaker 4: regret not starting himself, regret.

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Speaker 1: Any of the way we handle the quarterback situation.

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Speaker 5: There have been questions, there have been arguments on both

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Speaker 1: Still I do, and what I would say is a

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Speaker 1: we would never even be talking about this, but that

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Speaker 2: Kendrick Bourne said that guys need to make different decisions

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Speaker 2: and referenced staying up all night and eating whatever. Quote

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Speaker 2: you feel like that you feel like guys are not prepared.

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Speaker 1: I would say no, I feel like guys are prepared.

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Speaker 1: He's talking about just the when you're outside of the building,

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Speaker 1: and that's part of being a professional football player. You

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Speaker 1: be ready to work every single day. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: whether it's the media, whether it's coaches, whoever it is,

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Speaker 1: everyone's looking for solutions because we are one and.

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Speaker 2: Six when it comes to looking for is it worrisome

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't look at it as pointing fingers. I

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Speaker 1: you can also say it to that man face to face,

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Speaker 5: What about using social media? We're all talking about Jalen

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Speaker 5: you think about that? Did he seem upset after that game?

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. And look, Jalen right now is frustrated.

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Speaker 1: No matter what player you're talking about, they've had runs

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Speaker 1: also an opportunity for us as a team to ignore

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Speaker 1: What I will say is we got to do a

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Speaker 1: better job playing complimentary football. Every game that we walk

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Speaker 2: Playing long flight back. I'm sure you looked at film.

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Speaker 2: What did you see on the punt return? Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: saw a punt that you know. Look, he's been Brice

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Speaker 2: far as flipping the field, one thing I would say is,

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Speaker 1: And that's what happened.

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Speaker 3: When you start to think of like when I complimentary football,

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Speaker 3: soft but being mentally tough during times that are adverse.

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Speaker 3: Do you look at your team and look at your

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Speaker 3: these guys understand mental toughness is going to get us

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Speaker 3: all three phases playing well. It's not the stupid pre

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Speaker 1: Just being mentally tough. These guys have bride and I

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Speaker 1: tell them all the time, hard work works, and that's

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Speaker 1: what we have to do well. Correct the film today.

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Speaker 1: The players will be off tomorrow and then Wednesday, you

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Speaker 4: There's a several powerful prognosticators out there. Michael Lombardi has

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Speaker 4: been very outspoken about this show, this team this year.

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Speaker 4: Last week, when you said I don't know about why

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Speaker 4: the team's roster was where it was, he took it

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Speaker 4: as Bill Belichick bashing, and he says that why are

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Speaker 1: This team is just making excuses I'm not making any excuse.

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Speaker 1: I think it all falls on me, and I'm okay

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Speaker 2: What you're the head coach this football team. Were you

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Speaker 2: did you think that you, as an organization, you had

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Speaker 1: As an organization, we're always trying to bring in good players,

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Speaker 1: whether it's through free agency, through the draft, do all

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Speaker 1: takes time to do that stuff, and there's no shot

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Speaker 5: When you say that after all these losses, you guys

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Speaker 5: the game played pretty well.

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Speaker 1: What was that yesterday?

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Speaker 5: Like, who do you think played well yesterday?

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Speaker 1: I thought the offense, especially to start the game, definitely

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Speaker 1: Now and saying that we couldn't run the ball, so

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Speaker 1: put all this stuff together. But again, that's what we're

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Speaker 1: going through, and you know, it's tough. It's tough to

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Speaker 3: One of the things that I know it's it would

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Speaker 3: be difficult for me. We all come from different generations

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Speaker 3: these guys to have the ability to have their own voice,

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Speaker 1: If you put that out there that you have the

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Speaker 2: I think some of this comes from Elliott Wolf in

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Speaker 5: I know, you don't want to control what your guys

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had those conversations with a couple of the

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Speaker 4: But I think the Jalen Polk thing is about accountability

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Speaker 3: For Wiggy, do you think Jalen Polk is maybe putting

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Speaker 1: Putting pressure on yourself is how we got here, even

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Speaker 2: Time for the Helman's Mayo question of the week, Ford Mayo.

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Speaker 2: You can purchase Helman's at your local Walmart or grocery

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Speaker 2: store to add extra deliciousness and creamy flavor to your

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Speaker 1: Season from a Texter.

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Speaker 2: They want to know. And you may not have an

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Speaker 1: That's the tough one. I don't care, that doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: And again, the attitude is any anytime, any place, anywhere,

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Speaker 3: Something that the surface looked good, the grass looked good

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Speaker 1: You know, with slippery you said it looked good. You

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Speaker 1: All the stories tell us everyone everybody's an expert. You

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