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Speaker 1: How are you guys doing all right? Good? Doing good?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing good? Now? What would you say

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Speaker 1: is the reason for the team. It's a great way

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Speaker 1: to start. Um, you know, well, I think you know

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Speaker 1: they played well and we don't. So but the realities,

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Speaker 1: none of that stuff matters this week. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's really this team against that team, and now we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to play well. They they play good at

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Speaker 1: home or five and one. Um, they got a good defense. Um,

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Speaker 1: so we got a big challenge. It should be fun.

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Speaker 1: Look about the difference in preparations, you know, it's thinking

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Speaker 1: about this week last year, same week. I think you

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Speaker 1: guys went inside and turn up the team. Yeah, this week,

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Speaker 1: you know, all outside for whatever the read seems I did.

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Speaker 1: How much is that factors sort of been getting you

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Speaker 1: guys ready for the conditions that you're going to be

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Speaker 1: playing in. Yeah, We've done a bunch of different things

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Speaker 1: over the years. We've gone down there on Friday Thursday

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Speaker 1: nights and practices on Friday, gone down there on Friday

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Speaker 1: night after practice, stayed there Saturday. It's just really about

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Speaker 1: playing good when it comes down to it, And it's

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Speaker 1: no magic formula for that. It's just gonna take us

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Speaker 1: playing a great, great, you know game of football, and

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Speaker 1: you know there's a lot on line for both teams.

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Speaker 1: So it's a tough place to play obviously, but that's

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Speaker 1: a good challenge for us to how long those lines.

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Speaker 1: In the immortal words Teddy Truski, it's a hat and

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Speaker 1: T shirt opportunity for you guys if you get a

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Speaker 1: victory down there, bringing them the division. I know that's

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Speaker 1: on the board kind of the first step for you guys.

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Speaker 1: Talk a little about that. Yeah, i'd be pretty sweet.

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Speaker 1: M that's you know, obviously trying to you know, when

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Speaker 1: the division is is, you know, a great step, and

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Speaker 1: this would really allow us to do that. And they're

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Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna really challenge us. Um, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a physical game. They've been talking about that, I know. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know we're prepared for just having the right mindset

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Speaker 1: to go down there and you know, play a real great,

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Speaker 1: complimentary game. You know, there's no one phase of our

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Speaker 1: team that's gonna win it. Uh. They got a good offense,

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Speaker 1: you know, they play well defensively down there, and you

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Speaker 1: know we're gonna do a good job taking care of

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Speaker 1: the ball. See if we can go make a bunch

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Speaker 1: of good plays, string together a bunch of those and

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Speaker 1: Is it harder for you to play there than it

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Speaker 1: is for them to play here because they have they

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Speaker 1: have a done well year either. Yeah, it's just you know,

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Speaker 1: it's when you when you look at those stats, it's

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Speaker 1: it is pretty interesting, you know, the way you know,

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Speaker 1: some of those teams from the South come up and

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Speaker 1: play in the North, and the North play in the South,

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Speaker 1: and there's gotta be something to it. But again, it

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Speaker 1: just comes down to playing good football. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: we had some great games down there too, and uh,

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Speaker 1: hopefully this is a great game for us all, but

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Speaker 1: we got to go earn it. That's that's certainly the

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Speaker 1: case here, Tom. Do you believe in the idea of

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Speaker 1: an offense finding its identity as the season goes on

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Speaker 1: or do you think if so, you're you're close to

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Speaker 1: that now the consistency you've had in terms of guys

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Speaker 1: being available and healthy. Yeah, I think that's always the case.

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Speaker 1: You know, as you go, you just learn more about

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Speaker 1: yourself and you'd really think that you knew everything in

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Speaker 1: August but you really don't, and you got to keep

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Speaker 1: working hard through September, October, November to get to this point.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I know, I know, we talked about

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Speaker 1: that a lot over the years. It's just trying to

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Speaker 1: get better as the season goes and establish a little

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Speaker 1: bit more your identity and the things we're good at,

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Speaker 1: things maybe we're not so good at because every year

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Speaker 1: changes and there's different players, different opponents, matchups, just a

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Speaker 1: the season. So it's just good to you know, be

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Speaker 1: at this point with a great opportunity for us. And

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Speaker 1: this is a big game for us, like I said,

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Speaker 1: because it's you know, going against a division opponent on

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Speaker 1: the road. It's you know, it's as big as they get. Tom,

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Speaker 1: do you have any memories from the first win in Miami?

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Speaker 1: The overtime pass de Troy Brown? Yeah, that was yeah,

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Speaker 1: intended receiver on the play. It was kind of a

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Speaker 1: and he celebrated. You know, it's just a great celebration.

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Speaker 1: So I remember the bus ride Leavin was pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: They were you know, we were flipping people off and

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Speaker 1: it was it was out of control. We hadn't won

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Speaker 1: super Bowls in a row. It was pretty It was

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Speaker 1: pretty fun. Which was pretty happy after that. I gave too.

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Speaker 1: He recall ever seeing him was happy as I remember

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Speaker 1: he was really celebrating. Yeah, he was. He was, We

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Speaker 1: all were. That was that was pretty special day. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there was a long history of us playing a lot

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Speaker 1: of bad football games down there, and that kind of

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Speaker 1: broke broke that a little bit. Not that that's been stellar,

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Speaker 1: but at least that one got us out of the basement.

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Speaker 1: One of the obvious storylines this week is just sort

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Speaker 1: of some of those struggles down there in Miami. I

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Speaker 1: know you were asked about it at the start here, Man,

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Speaker 1: how much have you guys talked about that or use

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Speaker 1: that at all as a motivation just to sharpen your

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Speaker 1: focus in preparations leading into the game. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it's just a it's got to be a mindset and

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Speaker 1: bit different for us always, and I think just playing

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Speaker 1: they play well at home. I think they use that

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Speaker 1: you know, And that's just the way it is. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure they do the same. So us going in there

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins and not the climate. And playing a good

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Speaker 1: football game is definitely you know what this week's about

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Speaker 1: for us, and we can't expect them out there and

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Speaker 1: we should be playing our best. Is that time of year,

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Speaker 1: how do you see rob influencing defensive coveragers. And if

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Speaker 1: Josh was talking earlier this week and he said no,

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Speaker 1: there maybe games is this last week he didn't get

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Speaker 1: is said, yes, there's a lot of times where he's

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Speaker 1: taking coverage elsewhere and opening things up for other players. Definitely,

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Speaker 1: you know, I have so much confidence and everything that

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Speaker 1: he does. So if they don't cover anym he gets

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Speaker 1: it that they cover him, you know, it gives other

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Speaker 1: people opportunity. And you know, that's been our offense. You

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Speaker 1: know the other night was you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: different guys getting it and that's a good way to

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Speaker 1: play offense. Run it, pass it inside, outside, deep, short,

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Speaker 1: middle perimeter. Um, you know, it's just that's that's a

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Speaker 1: good style for us. So hopefully, hopefully we can just

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Speaker 1: keep that going. Josh yesterday, his conditioning level is ninth

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Speaker 1: day better now than it was when you first got here.

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Speaker 1: What does that allow you guys to do as an offense,

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Speaker 1: whether it's hurry up or you know, just as simple

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Speaker 1: afterboning down the field on first down. How is that

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Speaker 1: helpful to you guys? Yeah, I think for you know,

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Speaker 1: that's an important part of football, and for that position,

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Speaker 1: especially the receiver position. They you know, they're tracking down

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Speaker 1: got a lot of down the field plays whether he's

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Speaker 1: getting it or not. So just that's a year round

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Speaker 1: you know, it sucks when you're not feeling is like

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Speaker 1: you'd like, um, but those guys worked hard. I think

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Speaker 1: they're all in great shape and hopefully we can use

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Speaker 1: that to our advantage. A handful of quarterbacks who've ever

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Speaker 1: played at an age forty one like you have. How

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Speaker 1: how are you feeling now that we're into December relative

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Speaker 1: to this point last year. I feel good. I feel great.

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Speaker 1: I got no complaints where you go. Thank you for