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Speaker 2: So could you walk us through any second guess and

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Speaker 2: Trevor got hurt.

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Speaker 1: No, I mean it was a four minute situation. We

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Speaker 1: looking hindsight at twenty twenty, wish it would have come

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Speaker 1: But now that's the call we haven't we carry in

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Speaker 1: the four minute situations right there to again extended job.

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Speaker 1: Get the first down, get the quarterback on the edge,

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Speaker 1: if it's clean. If it's not clean, we go down.

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Speaker 1: We'll lose five to six yards, and we continue to

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Speaker 1: milk the clock. Are you guys hesitant at all to

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Speaker 1: play Trevor given it's gonna be on turf, it's not

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Speaker 1: really good for joints and the ease things of that nature. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's where you just kind of trust your training staff.

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Speaker 1: So as long as Trevor's in a position where he

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Speaker 1: that's what we continue to do. And again that's just

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Speaker 2: CJ. What he's been able to do since he's been here, since.

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Speaker 1: You guys have been here, the conference is very high

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Speaker 1: that we can go out and run our offense and

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Speaker 1: he can function at a high level. He's got experience

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Speaker 1: in this league. He's got experience now in our system.

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Speaker 1: The guys around him trust him. We know we could

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Speaker 2: You have significant changes in the game play and at

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Speaker 1: They can run a lot of the same stuff we

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Speaker 1: You tailor your approach to what defense you're seeing and

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Speaker 1: how how they play and what puts everybody, not just

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Speaker 1: Are you with two different game sheets one and fits

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Speaker 1: Trevor one? If it's no, not really. There may be

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Speaker 2: How do you guys get prepared for the environment, the noise?

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Speaker 1: we always work on our silent kidence we're going on

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Speaker 1: We gotta be great with our with our nonverbal communication

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Speaker 2: Rest of the staff take into consideration the surface you're

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Speaker 1: Again, to reemphasize, everybody comes together on the process to

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Speaker 2: To give this level of carries because this level of

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Speaker 1: Cam Jordan's been a major problem for a long time,

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