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Speaker 1: Callahan on a winning Monday. We're always We're always pleased

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Speaker 1: pleasure to be joined by him each Monday.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys, You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're always a joy.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that this is better, much better.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations and welcome.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Good to be here on a victory Monday.

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Speaker 1: On a victory Monday, after going to Houston, after picking

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Speaker 1: up your first AFC South when in what was a

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Speaker 1: roller coaster ride game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was fun. It was fun, not necessarily mabe

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Speaker 2: for me, but if you're a fan of football, it

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Speaker 2: was just it was back and forth, it was competitive.

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Speaker 2: That's a really good football team down in Houston. And

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Speaker 2: for us to be able to go play the way

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Speaker 2: we did for stretches of the game and then to

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Speaker 2: find a way to win given all the things that

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Speaker 2: fun to be a part of.

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Speaker 1: We're watching your team practice last week and everybody just

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Speaker 1: popping around, I mean, lots of things going on, a

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Speaker 1: tremendous amount of energy, and it just felt like you

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Speaker 1: were due to get one. I was optimistic going into

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Speaker 1: the game. I told somebody on Sunday morning, I said,

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna go get this one today. I

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Speaker 1: feel really good about this football team. And it wasn't

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Speaker 1: I'm not a prognosticator, but it just there was just

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Speaker 1: a good vibe and there continues to be a good

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Speaker 1: vibe around this club. That's really what you've been trying

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Speaker 1: to tell people without having the results to back it up.

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Speaker 2: Fair Absolutely, that's exactly what I've been trying to you know,

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Speaker 2: you get you get the advantage of seeing the practice,

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Speaker 2: you know, which is what I see every day, and

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Speaker 2: I see how our guys. I see the energy in

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Speaker 2: the energy at practice, the focus, and you know, at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, we've we've played pretty good

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Speaker 2: football for about a month now, and and all of

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Speaker 2: the things that I've felt like was building. We finally

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Speaker 2: got a chance to see all of it on display.

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Speaker 2: And again, it's never going to be perfect, but but

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Speaker 2: we did enough to win the game. And a lot

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Speaker 2: of that's because of the way that our team works

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Speaker 2: and practices and energy they have and not any point

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Speaker 2: during the season, and in a season that's been challenging

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Speaker 2: for all of us, at any point have they ever

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Speaker 2: wavered from that. That's been how it's been at every

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Speaker 2: practice from the time we started in o Tas till

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Speaker 2: now has been like that. And that's what gives me

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Speaker 2: that that we have better days ahead. And we got

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Speaker 2: a chance to get one last week, and now we

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Speaker 2: gives us another one more step, one more you know,

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Speaker 3: Well, we can't talk about this team without talking about

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Speaker 3: Will Levis and the progress that he's made. What part

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Speaker 3: of his progress has pleased you the most.

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Speaker 2: He's he's really over the last since he's returned from

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Speaker 2: the injury. Over the last three games, I see I've

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Speaker 2: I've said it before that quarterback play most of the

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Speaker 2: time is relatively boring. It's taking a handful of completions,

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Speaker 2: it's managing, it's not turning it over. And he does

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Speaker 2: that for the most part. And then there's five to

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Speaker 1: What happened on the pick six.

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Speaker 2: We were we were in field goal range and I

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Speaker 2: single high. So the defender covering Will works. The two

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Speaker 2: we good rotation. They got us tricked. Will would have

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Speaker 2: loved to have been on the other side, but the

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Speaker 2: Really nothing that Will did other than maybe if you

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Speaker 2: down over the ball. But I don't fault him. I

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Speaker 3: But that's one of those things that just happens over

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is the professional the pros.

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Speaker 1: Like sometimes what did in the Green Bayking.

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Speaker 3: Right, Sometimes they're just going to make a play. And

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Speaker 3: the way that Will was able to recover from that moment,

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Speaker 3: I think is what's more indicative.

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Speaker 4: Of his progress.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was no he didn't really think too much

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Speaker 2: So he bounced back. He didn't have an he didn't

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Speaker 1: Is that where you being a quarterback guy, an offensive

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Speaker 2: I hope, So I hope that he feels that way.

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Speaker 2: I just think, as you just offensively, if you're an

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Speaker 2: the position. I understand what goes into it, and I

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Speaker 2: understand that it's always very easy to Monday morning quarterback

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Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of playing quarterback is just

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Speaker 2: about the confidence part of it. And I think Will's

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Speaker 2: with that confidence at a pretty high level.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: Aside from Will, Levis, what are some of the other

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Speaker 3: aspects of the offense that you've seen improvement in that

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I think we're running the ball. Outside

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Speaker 2: both schematically and and just guys doing good things with

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Speaker 2: and that part's been good to see too. I think

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Speaker 2: there's just a general growth on offense all the way around.

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Speaker 2: I think our sack numbers are what they are, but

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Speaker 2: I do feel a pretty significant improvement in our offensive line,

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Speaker 2: both in run in pass. Not all of those sacks

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Speaker 2: ton of improvement there. You know, I thought Nick Petite

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Speaker 2: Dylan and Peter played well. You know, Dan Brounskill just

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Speaker 2: You know, he just steady consistent. I just those guys

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Speaker 2: And then he comes back in and you see the

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Speaker 1: Let me jump to the sack thing for just a second.

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Speaker 1: So eight sacks in Houston, seven of them in the

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Speaker 1: first half, and those numbers are obviously alarming to the

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Speaker 1: head coach and everybody else. Yet all sacks are not

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Speaker 1: created equal. On three of them, Will Levis stepped up

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Speaker 1: and he suffered minor losses a yard or two. On one,

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Speaker 1: danil Hunter chased him down forty yards on the left side.

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Speaker 1: Four of them were more typical in the pocket type sacks.

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Speaker 1: A couple of them maybe Will heldong into the ball

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Speaker 1: too long. So with all of that being said, how

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's moments for Will where it's like, look, man,

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Speaker 2: it's first down, or it's a second, it's a second

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Speaker 2: avoid the negative place. A second third down, to me

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Speaker 2: got the completion that you don't. But the early down

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Speaker 2: sacks is what I think we can do better job eliminating.

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Speaker 2: You cut that number in half and it's much more manageable.

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Speaker 2: And there's there's definitely places to cut that number in half.

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Speaker 2: And he's he's understanding it better and better. But there's

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Speaker 2: just there's a time and a place to try to

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Speaker 2: ball to your hand, and then there's you know, guys

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Speaker 2: get beat. Sometimes you're gonna give up sacks. It's not

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Speaker 2: it's not the end of the world. To me, but

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Speaker 2: you'd like them to we'd like to have not have eight.

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Speaker 2: And really four of them came right the end of

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Speaker 2: the half when we're.

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Speaker 1: The last five places in the half, and.

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Speaker 2: So it was just this it was like this barrage

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden at the very end of the

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Speaker 2: half that really wasn't indicative of how we played. Didn't

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Speaker 2: feel like eight sacks, I guess if that's the best

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Speaker 2: way to put it, Like, it just didn't feel like

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Speaker 2: it just didn't We had played so well in other

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Speaker 4: Aby, okay, can I would start you go?

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Speaker 3: I want to start with Kenneth Murray. Do you think

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Speaker 2: I thought his performance in this game was outstanding. He

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Speaker 1: He caught the harder one that was.

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Speaker 1: I just that's what we're doing.

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Speaker 3: You said, no, you really didn't expect that play to

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Speaker 1: And could tell he was the fastest tight end in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he sure looked like it. I mean, he he

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Speaker 1: It's we would call it a Delaney Walker type play.

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Speaker 2: It was absolutely had some shades of that. There's no

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Speaker 1: thirty two to twenty seven win in Houston. I just wonder,

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Speaker 2: I thought we did a pretty good job of. And

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Speaker 2: but yeah, that's always a scramble. I've been a part

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Speaker 2: of those before. When one unfortunately it was against the

442
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Speaker 2: Titans for Titans fans, but when one year in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: we had five starters on the offensive line brand new,

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Speaker 2: one of them coming in on a Friday before a game,

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Speaker 2: and so we had five starters on the offensive line

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Speaker 2: and that weren't playing, and we found a way to

447
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Speaker 2: win that game. But that's what it is. That was

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Speaker 2: that was twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: As a weekend you got engaged in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 4: That is the weekend I got engaged in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: Good memories.

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Speaker 1: The memory.

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Speaker 4: It was a good Saturday. It got weird.

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Speaker 1: It got weird when we stopped at the McDonald's and

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Towns all the pickles instead of instead of giving

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Speaker 1: me McNuggets, they gave me a thing full of pickles,

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Speaker 1: full of pickles. I mean, you brought it up.

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Speaker 2: That's interesting again, let's go.

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Speaker 1: I mean the whole thing. It was literally just it

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Speaker 1: was the McDonald's and we drove through and they gave

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Speaker 1: me a container which is supposed to contain like ten

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Speaker 1: McNuggets or whatever.

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Speaker 2: And it was pickles.

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Speaker 1: It was just pickles. And I said, this is the

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Speaker 1: whole weekend we lost to what did you win four

466
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Speaker 1: games that year? Yeah? Yeah, that's really good. Bottom was us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so fun. I love that. I say that. I say

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Speaker 1: that to bring up bad memories. What I was yesterday

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Speaker 1: and we've been with you the whole year and now

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Speaker 1: you're doing this too wet.

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Speaker 4: Back in the rotation.

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Speaker 2: I walked into that one. That's my fault. But the

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Speaker 2: point I was trying to make is that I think

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Speaker 2: that there's there's that's that's coaching. That's that's the job

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Speaker 2: of a coaching staff is when things like that happened.

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Speaker 2: Adapt adjust, be flexible, know how to use the people

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Speaker 2: you have, and those guys uh at the you know,

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Speaker 2: at the last eleventh hour, did a great job of

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Speaker 2: getting those guys in position to play and play well.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, I ate the pickles. You have to.

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Speaker 1: I was hung hungry. There's nowhere else to stop, and

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Speaker 1: so I just that's what you have. So use that

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Speaker 1: with the team whatever you want. It's a great one. Yeah,

484
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Speaker 1: fellas sometime just got to eat the pickles, all right.

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Speaker 1: Turn to Washington. Uh, their rookie quarterback is something else,

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Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels. Yes, he's also their leading rusher. Has has

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Speaker 1: your defense faced a quarterback exactly like him this year

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Speaker 1: or anything like?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: Probably not not the way that not as productive as

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Speaker 2: he is right now. You know, they they designed some

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Speaker 2: of it for him. There's some r po quarterback runs

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Speaker 2: that are all a part of it. He does a

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Speaker 2: great job somehow of never really putting himself in harm's

495
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Speaker 2: way a little bit like Lamar does you know. Or

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Speaker 2: he can he can make runs and he scoots around

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Speaker 2: and he slides and gets out of bounds and it

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Speaker 2: doesn't ever take really big shots, which is pretty impressive.

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Speaker 2: And then the rest of it is is him making

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Speaker 2: plays when when things break down, he just he finds

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Speaker 2: lanes and he takes him. He's a really he's excellent

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Speaker 2: with the ball in his hands. He's a unique player,

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Speaker 2: and I think that we got to work cut.

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Speaker 1: Out for us.

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Speaker 2: Is a very different style out of anybody we've played yet.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I can't the only one that's close comparison

507
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Speaker 2: wise of just ability with the ball in his hand

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Speaker 2: was probably Drake May you know, I mean, just a

509
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Speaker 2: guy that can move and run. Another rookie. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's it's gonna be a challenge. He's he's playing really

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Speaker 2: pretty good football.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So Cliff Kingsbury is their offensive coordinator. What is

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Speaker 1: his passing game like for Jaden Daniels.

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Speaker 2: He makes it. It's it's it's well put together. He

515
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Speaker 2: makes it. The reds are are clear for him. He

516
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Speaker 2: completes the ball at a pretty high rate. There's there's

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Speaker 2: guys open. He does a good job of getting people open.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: It's a different style than than maybe the you know,

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Speaker 2: we sort of played this kind of Shanahan's family style

521
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Speaker 2: of offense the last couple of weeks, and it's that's

522
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Speaker 2: more kind of run run action movement. This is a

523
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Speaker 2: little more spread, spread out, let him pick spots. He's

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Speaker 2: he's very accurate, the ball gets out of his hand,

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Speaker 2: he finds completions, and it's it's just a different style.

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Speaker 2: And they've run the ball pretty well. He's a large

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Speaker 2: part of it. But yeah, it's a it's a it's

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Speaker 2: different than what we've seen the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: So it's a different style that they have to get

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Speaker 2: used to.

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Speaker 3: Dan Quinn is a defensive guru, so even though he's

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Speaker 3: the head coach, we know that this is his defense.

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Speaker 3: Any similarities to what you just saw in Houston, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's fair to say.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think structurally it's similarly designed. You know,

536
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Speaker 2: Dan's got his own spin. He's one of the guys

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Speaker 2: I have a tremendous amount of respect for him, both

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Speaker 2: as a defensive coach and a head coach. One of

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Speaker 2: the guys that I sort of admire from AFAR. Have

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Speaker 2: always enjoyed playing against him. It's always competitive, and we

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Speaker 2: played against them in Dallas, I think maybe two years ago.

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Speaker 2: I can't quite remember that. Two or three years ago,

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Speaker 2: not twenty twenty, Not twenty twenty. So well, you know,

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Speaker 2: I've just always felt like he's he's, he's They're just

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Speaker 2: always very well coached. It's it's a it's a good scheme.

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Speaker 2: It's not usually too complicated. They play fast, they know

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Speaker 2: what to do, very similar to you know, the structure

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Speaker 2: we just saw Houston.

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Speaker 1: Brian Callahan as always, thank you so much for the time.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for the pickle story.

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Speaker 3: We're joined by quarterback for the Tennessee Titans, Will Loves

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Speaker 3: Will thank you for taking the time to sit down

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Speaker 3: with us.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, great to be here. Feels good on a victory Monday. Absolutely,

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Speaker 5: boys had fun yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, and it was a great win over the

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Speaker 3: Houston Texans. Thirty two to twenty seven was the final

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Speaker 3: score of that game. You were eighteen to twenty four

576
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Speaker 3: pass completions, two hundred and seventy eight passing yards, two

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Speaker 3: touchdown passes, a passer rating of one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 3: three point three. Of those numbers, which one is your favorite?

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Speaker 4: Is there one that sticks out to you?

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Speaker 3: Ah?

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Speaker 6: No, I mean the W in the W in the

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Speaker 6: win column. So that's the number I'm most excited about.

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Speaker 6: But I gotta give credits everyone just stepping up and

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Speaker 6: doing their jobs, so allow that's to happen. Feels good

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Speaker 6: when you get the passing game going and you know,

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Speaker 6: put some cool throws out there.

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Speaker 5: So it was it was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: There were a lot of cool throws in this game.

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Speaker 3: We had a seventy yard touchdown pass to Chickakonquo. Calvin

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Speaker 3: Ridley had a sixty three yard catch that was pretty

591
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Speaker 3: impressive deep pass to Nick Westbrook a kine.

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Speaker 4: For a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: So we're starting to see a lot of those big

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Speaker 3: explosive plays that, of course fans and people watching the

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Speaker 3: game get so excited about. Are those the plays that

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Speaker 3: you will Levis get the most excited about.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I get most excited about, you know, operating

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Speaker 6: the offense and just continuing to make the right decisions

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Speaker 6: throughout a drive. And sometimes, you know, a drive can

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Speaker 6: can go without any of those types of plays, and

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Speaker 6: that's the right way to you know, operate and manage

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Speaker 6: the drive. But when they do show up, you got

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Speaker 6: to take advantage of them. So it was cool for

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Speaker 6: us to notice those opportunities and for you know, the

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Speaker 6: guys to be in the right spots at the right time,

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Speaker 6: for me to have the time to throw the ball and.

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Speaker 5: To put in the right spot. So it's cool when

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Speaker 5: we get those shots.

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Speaker 6: You don't you don't it's not often, so you got

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Speaker 6: to take advantage of them when you do.

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Speaker 4: Any win is a good win.

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Speaker 3: But this one was on the road against a division opponent,

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Speaker 3: against the Houston Texans. Was it a little bit sweeter

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Speaker 3: just because of all of those things?

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Speaker 6: For sure, It's my first divisional win, so that was

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Speaker 6: big for me, and to go down and to play,

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Speaker 6: you know, the team at the top of our division

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Speaker 6: right now, you know, to give us confidence going into

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Speaker 6: these this less stretch of games for the season with

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Speaker 6: a bunch of divisional games obviously, so it feels good,

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Speaker 6: you know, monkey off my back a little bit, so

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Speaker 6: you can just one day at a time from here

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Speaker 6: on out.

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Speaker 5: We're excited for Washington.

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Speaker 3: For this team. Did it feel like a breakthrough game?

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Speaker 6: Definitely, some things on all three phases of the ball

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Speaker 6: where we saw improvement and offensively at least operationally, some

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Speaker 6: stuff that we haven't been able to done, some routes

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Speaker 6: that we haven't been able to connect on, and just

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Speaker 6: you know, drives that we needed from you know, a

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Speaker 6: confidence standpoint, So it was good for us to build

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Speaker 6: on that. I think these last few weeks we're just

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Speaker 6: continuing to build on the week before, and I'm excited

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Speaker 6: to see how it's gonna.

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Speaker 5: Go the rest of the year.

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Speaker 3: For you personally, did it feel like a bit of

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Speaker 3: a breakthrough game?

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Speaker 6: Uh No, I mean, I just feel like I'm trying

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Speaker 6: to get better every week. Definitely feel like I improved

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Speaker 6: throughout practice this week. We had a great week of

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Speaker 6: practice and I think that propelled us into going into

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Speaker 6: Sunday and having a good performance. But I'm just trying

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Speaker 6: to keep doing my job, making the right decisions seeing

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Speaker 6: the field well, which I feel like I did and

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Speaker 6: definitely feel like I improved this past week.

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Speaker 3: Brian Callahan has said that it feels like you have

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Speaker 3: moved from being the guy that's responsible for throwing the

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Speaker 3: football to the guy that's playing quarterback.

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Speaker 5: Do you feel that, I think so, yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 6: When you're in a new offense and you're learning it,

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Speaker 6: like you need game reps to kind of feel that

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Speaker 6: comfort within the system. And I feel like I'm at

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Speaker 6: that point where I'm starting to get there and developing

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Speaker 6: a lot more confidence and just like with how I'm

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Speaker 6: seeing things, just feel really good about playing the quarterback position.

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Speaker 6: Like Brian said, I think there's a good way of

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Speaker 6: putting it. I definitely feel like I'm in more control

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Speaker 6: and in more command of the offense compared to the

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Speaker 6: beginning of the year.

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Speaker 3: At the NFL level, is playing quarterback a little bit

661
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 3: more nuanced and then you anticipated.

662
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,239
Speaker 6: For sure, I think just being hyper aware of the

663
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 6: different scenarios that every game brings to the table. You know,

664
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 6: there are certain situations in football that you you might

665
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 6: talk about just a couple times a year that might

666
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 6: show up in the middle of a game that you

667
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 6: might at least expect, and that could be the difference

668
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 6: between winning and losing. So there there's been opportunities for

669
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 6: us to take advantage and operate in those specific types

670
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 6: of scenarios, and you know, time and where we didn't,

671
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 6: And I feel like those were the learning experiences that

672
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 6: you know, have helped me the most this year, where

673
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 6: you know, maybe I didn't make the right decision with

674
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 6: the ball or just could have done something better to

675
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 6: put our team in a better position to win, and

676
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 6: it sucks in the moment, but you got to learn

677
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 6: from them, and I feel like because of that, we've

678
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 6: been able to just develop as an offense through there.

679
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 3: The position that you're in is so interesting because you've

680
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 3: been a quarterback for a very long time, and so

681
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 3: I would guess as somebody who's watching that the football

682
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 3: part of it is pretty much the same.

683
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Speaker 4: Throughout your career.

684
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 3: You go out, you do certain drills, you run a

685
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 3: certain style of offense.

686
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 4: You know, the football part.

687
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 3: You've kind of got under control. The mental aspect of

688
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 3: it has got to be a completely different animal at

689
00:30:58,640 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 3: the NFL level.

690
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Speaker 4: Have you found that to be true?

691
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think just from a prep standpoint and really

692
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 6: having to know the exact not the exact, cause you're

693
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 6: obviously gonna get unscouted looks and stuff that.

694
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 5: You're not prepared for.

695
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 6: But you know, the coaches do such a good job

696
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 6: throughout the week of giving you the looks or at

697
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 6: least making you think through what your thought process is

698
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 6: going to be based on what types of looks you

699
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,959
Speaker 6: could possibly get in different scenarios.

700
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 5: And I've done a good job. I think of just

701
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 5: locking in.

702
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 6: Week in and week out and preparing the best way

703
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 6: I can and being ready for those looks and to

704
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 6: execute and recognize, recognize and execute when when they show up.

705
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 3: It's like studying for a final exam every single week

706
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 3: for sure.

707
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 5: Every day. I mean, it's the progression of the week.

708
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 6: It's you know, it might may seem like groundhog day,

709
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 6: but you know that's that's what makes it special. And

710
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 6: it's a long season. You got to stay locked in

711
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 6: every single week. And I feel like the process that

712
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 6: I found for myself from a prep standpoint has put

713
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 6: me in a good spot, and I feel like every

714
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 6: game day so far, I've gone out there really confident

715
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 6: in my abilities and how I'm seeing things.

716
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 3: How long did it take you to find that special

717
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 3: mix of what really works for you from a preparation standpoint,

718
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,719
Speaker 3: because you can't know that going in.

719
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:11,719
Speaker 4: You have to find it.

720
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's there.

721
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 6: I mean I've I've tweaked some things just even over

722
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 6: the past few weeks. So it's definitely it's a forever refined,

723
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 6: refining process and something that I've improved since the beginning

724
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 6: of the year. And I feel like you just got

725
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 6: to recognize what works for you and what doesn't. You know,

726
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 6: you can stare at a screen and watch film for

727
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 6: three hours and get nothing out of it. So it

728
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 6: just depends on your intent with what you're doing when

729
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 6: you're studying and what exactly is going to help you

730
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 6: most of your position to put you in the best

731
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 6: position to succeed on the field.

732
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 3: How does Brian Callahan make you a better quarterback?

733
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 6: I think the trust he puts in me and his

734
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 6: ability to see my strengths and you know, call things

735
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 6: and see things that cater to those strengths. So we've

736
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 6: done a good job of developing alongside each other. I

737
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 6: think throughout this year and I think him as a

738
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 6: play caller and me as a quarterback, have you know,

739
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 6: gained a lot of confidence and feel a lot more

740
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 6: comfortable at this point in the season compared to the beginning.

741
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 3: How valuable is that relationship beyond just the trust factor,

742
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 3: but the actual understanding of like where this person's coming from,

743
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 3: where you're coming from, and what each other seeing. Maybe

744
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 3: that's got to be helpful on game.

745
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 5: Days, very valuable.

746
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 6: You know, you have to be upfront and honest about

747
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 6: everything with how you're seeing things, how you.

748
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 5: Feel about a play call, you know, what types of throws.

749
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 6: You're most comfortable with, or what you know, what type

750
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 6: of guys, talking about what type of guys we want

751
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,959
Speaker 6: and what spots on which plays. So those open communications

752
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 6: have been awesome. You know, we're spoiled as a quarterback

753
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 6: room to have a head coach you know that's so

754
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 6: offensive minded and that wants to spend time in the

755
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 6: room and you know, installs each you know, game plan

756
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 6: each week.

757
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 5: With the offense. It's pretty special.

758
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 6: So we recognize that and try to take advantage of

759
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 6: the coaching points that he brings to the.

760
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 3: Table in a season that's had some highs and some lows.

761
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 4: How does that make you a better leader?

762
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, you just got to be the same person every day.

763
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 6: And that's what I learned from the jump. You know,

764
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 6: regardless of whatever situation you're in, good, bad, you can't

765
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 6: let it affect your mindset and the type of person

766
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 6: that you are. And I feel like that's what I've

767
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 6: been most impressed with from this locker room throughout the year.

768
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 5: I feel like, despite you.

769
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 6: Know, the shortcomings and our inability to kind of show

770
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 6: what we're capable of as a team fully, while the

771
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 6: guys have still been able to come in every day

772
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 6: and just work their tails off. So it's it's been

773
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 6: impressive to see that and just acknowledge everybody on the

774
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 6: team and just got to give props to just everyone

775
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 6: being you know, professionals about how they're going about their

776
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 6: job and bringing the right energy and juice week in

777
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 6: week out.

778
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 3: It's a lot of work on one person to establish

779
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 3: a relationship with the coaching staff because you need that

780
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 3: relationship for.

781
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 4: Just orchestrating a game on Sundays.

782
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,240
Speaker 3: You need to establish a relationship with all the guys

783
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 3: in the locker room. Because you're one of the key

784
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 3: leaders on this team, you also have to learn the

785
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 3: position mentally. That is a tremendous load of just things

786
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 3: that you have to account for within a week. Is

787
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 3: being the guy all it's cracked up to be.

788
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 5: It's a lot.

789
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 6: I mean, I definitely feel like this is the hardest

790
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 6: position in sports, and it's you know, a lot having

791
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 6: to do with the off the field responsibilities, not necessarily

792
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,720
Speaker 6: on the field, even though I think they're on the field.

793
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 6: Ones are a lot in its own But everything that

794
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 6: you mentioned makes this position so unique, and you know,

795
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 6: I wouldn't want to have it any other way. I

796
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 6: never wanted to take the easy road in life. I

797
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 6: always wanted to be the guy and be front and

798
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 6: center and take command and take charge and had the

799
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 6: confidence in myself that I could undertake the responsibilities that

800
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 6: I feel like other people might not be able to.

801
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 5: So I always took it on as a challenge.

802
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 6: And when I decided to play quarterback in middle school,

803
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 6: I wanted to, you know, be that guy, and I

804
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:06,280
Speaker 6: knew that I had the personality and just the leadership

805
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 6: capabilities to be that guy at the highest level, and

806
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 6: that's been my goal ever since. And it's crazy to

807
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 6: think that I've gotten to the spot that I'm at now.

808
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 3: You have to be born with that drive, though.

809
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 5: Right, I think so a little bit.

810
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 6: I mean everyone's different, Like every quarterbacks have been able

811
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 6: to lead in so many different ways and be champions

812
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 6: and in so many different ways. There's no one right formula.

813
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 6: And I think that's the biggest thing, that is just

814
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 6: being yourself and not being afraid to change and improve

815
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 6: yourself too, because I feel like just even over the

816
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 6: past couple of years, I've been able to refine myself

817
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 6: as a leader and a person where at some points

818
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 6: I might have felt like, you know, I don't want

819
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,479
Speaker 6: to be a different guy. But what's so bad about

820
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 6: being better if you're different, you know?

821
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 5: Or different if you're better.

822
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 6: So I think that's just an important thing to take

823
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 6: a step back every once in a while, think about

824
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 6: the things that you've been doing good, think about the

825
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 6: things that you might be able to improve on, and

826
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 6: the different things that you can change in your life

827
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 6: to improve those things. So it's it's it's tough position

828
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 6: all the intangibles off the field, I think definitely makes

829
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 6: it that way, but like I said, I wouldn't want

830
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 6: to have it any other way.

831
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 3: I want to give you the opportunity to brag on

832
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 3: the defense a little bit because, and you mentioned it earlier,

833
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 3: this locker room has all been behind you one hundred

834
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 3: thick and thin all season long, and the defense especially,

835
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 3: they don't get to spend as much time with you

836
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 3: as the guys on the offensive side of the ball do,

837
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 3: and yet ride or die no matter what happens on

838
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 3: the field, off the field, they have been behind you

839
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 3: throughout this season. How much do you appreciate that that

840
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 3: entire side of the ball has bought into what this

841
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 3: team is doing now.

842
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 6: They've been balling their tails off from the jump, like

843
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 6: they They played well enough for us to.

844
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 5: Win a lot of those games in the beginning of

845
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 5: the season.

846
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 6: And I feel like, you know, it was on me

847
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 6: to you know, step my game up a little bit

848
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 6: and get the offense in the spot to where we

849
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 6: can help them out a little more. So, no an

850
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 6: awesome watching them play. A lot of guys have stepped

851
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 6: up for guys who have gotten injured, and you know,

852
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 6: Daryl Worley coming in yesterday and out of nowhere with

853
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 6: hook having to sit out right before the game and

854
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 6: playing a heck of a game. Just guys like that

855
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 6: who haven't really been with the team for that long

856
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 6: that I've already been able to make such an impact

857
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 6: and have bought into the culture here and understand, you know,

858
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 6: the Nard's defense and to run it really really well.

859
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 5: So credit to all those guys I know that they've made.

860
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 6: They've made a lot of offenses, have some long days

861
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 6: this year, and it's awesome watching them on the sideline.

862
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 3: Let's talk about momentum a little bit. How real is

863
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 3: momentum in the National Football League and how beneficial is

864
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 3: it in the later part of the season.

865
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 5: For sure, No, I think in a game too.

866
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,439
Speaker 6: Just momentum like when a big play happens, and being

867
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 6: able to feed off of the energy. You know, we

868
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 6: talk about going on the road and you know, only

869
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 6: having each other and feeding off our.

870
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 5: Own energy, bringing our own juice.

871
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 6: It's cool being at home and feeling the love from

872
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 6: the fans, but you know, you have to, you know,

873
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 6: have that mindset when you're away and you can create

874
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 6: your own juice in that way. So I feel like

875
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 6: we had a lot of that yesterday, just everyone on

876
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 6: the sideline pulling for each other. Regardless of how things

877
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 6: went or when something went wrong, the confidence was always up.

878
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 6: Guys always had each other's back. So hopefully we can

879
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 6: take this momentum in this win and bring it into

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Speaker 6: this week. But just got to take it one day

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Speaker 6: at a time. But you know, there's some cool opportunities

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Speaker 6: to win some divisional games here at the end of

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Speaker 6: the year, and we know they're all going to be

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Speaker 6: a battle, and we got to just battle throughout each

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Speaker 6: week and put out our best display every Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Well, Levis, thank you so much for taking some time

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Speaker 3: to talk with us.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much.