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Speaker 1: We're ready to welcome to Wednesday, January thirtieth edition of

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Speaker 1: Between the Horns, a special Wednesday edition of the podcast

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Speaker 1: where we're going to take you through the week as

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Speaker 1: the Rams start to get ready to take on the

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Speaker 1: New England Patriots for Super Bowl fifty three. And really

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Speaker 1: right now, the Rams so far have been going through

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Speaker 1: media and they've gotten their walkthrough on Wednesday, and so

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Speaker 1: they're trying to create this sense of normalcy. And so

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Speaker 1: Sean McVeagh, head coach, talked about that on Tuesday, how

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Speaker 1: the Rams are really going to start getting going and

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Speaker 1: what they need to do in order to be best

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Speaker 1: prepared to peak on Sunday. Getting up this morning really

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Speaker 1: kind of we're trying to put the final touches on

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Speaker 1: our game plan, and you know, the players will really

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Speaker 1: have the day off with the exception of the guys

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Speaker 1: that you're getting ready to talk to here in a

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Speaker 1: little bit and then and then we'll really get into

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Speaker 1: our normal rhythm on a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday week of

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Speaker 1: preparation and so feeling good, we're where we're at, very

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Speaker 1: appreciative to be here, and we know we got a

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Speaker 1: couple more days to get ourselves ready to peek at

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Speaker 1: the right time. Quarterback Jared Goff also talked about how

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Speaker 1: he's trying to keep that sense of normalcy despite the

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Speaker 1: craziness of the Super Bowl week on Tuesday. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think so. I think tomorrow we'll bring back some of that.

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Speaker 1: But today, outside of these thirty minutes, it's fairly normal.

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Speaker 1: Fairly normal. Tuesday, we have our same schedule and I'll

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Speaker 1: try to keep my same routine. Knowing that Tuesday media session,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the focus was on Jared Goff and

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Speaker 1: how he handles pressure and how that plays into his personality.

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Speaker 1: Sean mcfey talked about it in the context of the

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Speaker 1: way Jared Goff operated during that NFC title game where

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Speaker 1: the Rams were down thirteen to nothing, but Jared Goff

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Speaker 1: remains steady and was able to make a lot of

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Speaker 1: plays to get the Rams that victory. The biggest thing

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Speaker 1: with him is is I think last week is a

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Speaker 1: great representation of the mental toughness that he has. That

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Speaker 1: atmosphere was as loud as I've ever been a part of.

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Speaker 1: I know it was for him, and I thought the

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Speaker 1: way that he handled it, just staying even keeled, being

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Speaker 1: phased has been exactly what we've kind of seen from

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Speaker 1: him throughout in the two years that we've been together

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Speaker 1: with him with our staff, and that was one of

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Speaker 1: the things that when you look at Jared's just career trajectory,

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Speaker 1: even going back to high school, college and pro this

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Speaker 1: is a guy that's been able to be on phase

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Speaker 1: by some of the adversities that he's faced, whether that

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Speaker 1: be in a game or over the course of a season.

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Speaker 1: That's what you love, That's what you want for your

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Speaker 1: quarterback to demonstrate. I think you do want to do

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Speaker 1: a great job as a coaching staff finding a way

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Speaker 1: to give him things that are, you know, what he's

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Speaker 1: most comfortable with and what he feels good about. That's

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Speaker 1: our job as coaches every week. But in terms of

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Speaker 1: the magnitude of the game, you know, I don't really

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Speaker 1: feel like I think you know, you don't shy away

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Speaker 1: too big for this guy. If you've heard much about

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Speaker 1: heard about his sense of California cool, that presence that

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Speaker 1: he always seems to have. But he doesn't get too high,

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Speaker 1: too low, always really even Keel and Robert Woods talked

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Speaker 1: about this on Tuesday, how that really helped the Rams

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Speaker 1: in that NFC title game. Yeah, he's always too never

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Speaker 1: never seen him break a sweat. But that's what you

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Speaker 1: want to as your leader, as your quarterback. You want

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Speaker 1: to be calm, collected. You wanted to be poised throughout

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Speaker 1: the game, through ups and downs. And an example of

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Speaker 1: that was was New Orleans. Of his personality was New

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Speaker 1: Orleans game. Do you see, uh ritrel in thirteen? Nothing?

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Speaker 1: You don't see any expression from Jerry. You see the same,

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Speaker 1: the same same energy, able to bounce back and battle

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Speaker 1: and find a way to to win. And after we

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Speaker 1: win that kick, win that game with the kick still

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Speaker 1: the same and welster from Jarry. You know he's high,

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Speaker 1: but uh, it's still still and we got to win.

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Speaker 1: But it's it's all to the next We have to

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Speaker 1: focus on the super Bowl. I wonder what will happen now,

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Speaker 1: But uh, but up to this point, he's been poised

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Speaker 1: actually asked if he feels like quarterbacks need to be

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Speaker 1: was also interesting just the way he addressed it. I

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Speaker 1: don't think so. I think you are who you are.

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Speaker 1: I think there's plenty of different personalities around the league

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Speaker 1: different approach, and I think whatever works is what you

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Speaker 1: should do. Running back, Todd Gurley is having a many

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Speaker 1: homecoming of sorts since he played just up the road

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Speaker 1: in Athens at Georgia for his college ball. But he's

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Speaker 1: not the only Georgia running back in this game. You're

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Speaker 1: also going to have Sony Michelle on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the field for the New England Patriots, who's been

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Speaker 1: doing a really nice job as a first round pick.

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Speaker 1: So here's what Todd Gurley had to say about that matchup.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully everything got taught him. He don't do it so

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Speaker 1: and he just played like he used to play before

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Speaker 1: I taught him everything. Todd Gurley's performance against the Saints

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Speaker 1: has been well documented as not being one of the

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Speaker 1: best of his career, and really, when you look at it,

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Speaker 1: it's almost one of the worst of his career. But

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Speaker 1: he's still has been very clear that he's very happy

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Speaker 1: to beat in the Super Bowl, and Sean McVeagh has

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Speaker 1: taken it a lot upon himself, saying that he's got

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Speaker 1: to do a better job of getting Todd Gurley more

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Speaker 1: involved earlier in the game. How does Todd Gurley feel

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Speaker 1: about it? Oh, yeah, man, it's cool. It's cool to

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Speaker 1: me because, um, you know, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if I get a hundred touches or

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Speaker 1: three hundred touches. Playoff playoffs stats don't count at all.

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Speaker 1: All that matters is wins. So you know, we're just

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Speaker 1: trying to stack these wins and all we need is

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Speaker 1: three to get the ultimate goal. Now, let's talk a

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Speaker 1: bit about Aaron Donald, who actually has not had a

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Speaker 1: sack yet in the postseason, but he is still definitely

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Speaker 1: influencing and affecting the game, taking up all those extra

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Speaker 1: Dante followed the space to make the plays that those

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Speaker 1: guys have made. But pressure in the interior that is

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Speaker 1: his specialty. And here's what he said about trying to

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Speaker 1: get to Tom Brady from the inside. That's what any quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You're closer to the quarterback, so you got opportunity to

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Speaker 1: get to him closer, I mean a little faster. So um,

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Speaker 1: they'll be running the ball good. You know, first that opportunity.

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Speaker 1: The rest of the parison, we gotta you know, stuff

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Speaker 1: the him being that Donald is one of the highest

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Speaker 1: paid defensive players in the league, he was a if

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Speaker 1: there's maybe any extra pressure that he feels to get

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Speaker 1: to the quarterback, I'm just gonna do my job. You

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Speaker 1: don't want to put too much on it. Just you know,

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Speaker 1: do what you've been doing. Play at the high level,

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Speaker 1: fly around and when I'm playing, present their self, take

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Speaker 1: advantage of it and make them big play so we

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Speaker 1: canna win this game now. Also, Aaron Donald is the

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Speaker 1: presumptive AP Defensive Player of the Year that's going to

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Speaker 1: be handed out this Saturday at NFL Honors Now because

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Speaker 1: Donald's playing in the super Bowl. He's not going to

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Speaker 1: be there, but he did say this about the possibility

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Speaker 1: even if it is a strong likelihood of winning the award. Well,

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Speaker 1: anytime you accomplish something, you're gonna be happy, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be blessed. So um, pitting the body, pitting a hard

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Speaker 1: all pay off, you know, um type of stuff you're

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Speaker 1: you know, special years as far. Finally, let's get to

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Speaker 1: some of the craziness that was NFL Super Bowl Opening Night.

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Speaker 1: So this event basically has replaced NFL Media Day, which

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Speaker 1: is where all the different outlets and all of the

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Speaker 1: different you know, kind of late night shows things like that.

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Speaker 1: They used to be able to come in and they

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Speaker 1: would just ask players all these random questions. Now that

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Speaker 1: is a ticketed event now, so fans really have the

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Speaker 1: this is one scene that I saw. It was a

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Speaker 1: Spanish language reporter who came up to Michael Brockers and

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Speaker 1: offered him some let's call it interesting food options. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, everybody, that's going to do it. For this Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: January thirtieth edition of Between the Horns, mileson and saying

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for listening. Be sure to stay tuned

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Speaker 1: to the RAMS dot com and all the RAMS social

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Speaker 1: channels for all the latest news and updates surrounding Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty three. Every great one, everybody,