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Speaker 1: You talk about just ex playoffs. I mean the playoffs

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Speaker 1: is a whole whole new season. It's a fresh start.

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Speaker 1: The excitement levels from the fans to the players always

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Speaker 1: jumps up another notch, if not a few notches. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be good. I mean, it's gonna be rocking

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Speaker 1: when it comes Sunday one o'clock. And the excitement level,

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Speaker 1: I would just say, some players to the fans is

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Speaker 1: always up for you this year, any particular reason you

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Speaker 1: might be more thank you so ready to go for

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. I mean the playoffs. I mean it's always

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Speaker 1: a different field no matter what, every single uh, every

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Speaker 1: single time we make it. And just the excitement level,

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Speaker 1: definitely it turns up another notch. But you mean you

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Speaker 1: gotta stay in control. I mean it's definitely another football game.

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Speaker 1: You gotta go out there, you gotta play. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can't be you know, to to you know, too emotional,

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Speaker 1: to not emotional or whatever. I mean, it's another game

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Speaker 1: for sure. You gotta keep preparing how you got to prepare.

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Speaker 1: But I mean it's gonna be It's a new season.

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Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be exciting for sure. What was practice

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Speaker 1: like outside today, cold weather, snow coming now? Is that

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Speaker 1: like didn't feel like playoff of ball? You kind of did.

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Speaker 1: It was cool at first, you know, with that snow

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Speaker 1: coming down. I mean, you know it's that time of

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Speaker 1: the year in New England when you see snow. We

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Speaker 1: really haven't seen any you know, it's time to play

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Speaker 1: some football. So I mean we practice in it, you know,

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Speaker 1: many many times before, so that was really nothing new.

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Speaker 1: We've seen it many times before. It's always cold out

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Speaker 1: here in December January, so it's gotta practice in whatever

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Speaker 1: it is. You can't perform differently. I don't see you

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Speaker 1: guys perform differently in the playfferly do the regular season

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Speaker 1: you missile guys that they always called like playoff in

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Speaker 1: the goal like you know, they just performed. They bring

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Speaker 1: the level to a different level the playoffs. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's a one game season. Uh, you gotta put it

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Speaker 1: all on the line, no matter no matter what, no

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Speaker 1: matter what you got, what, whatever you're dealing it, you

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Speaker 1: got to just put it all on the line. And

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Speaker 1: you know, if you lose that game, you're going home.

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Speaker 1: So I would just say everyone's just leaving it all

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Speaker 1: out there. What is the vibe we do for you personally,

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Speaker 1: physically and mentally. Yeah, I mean bye week was nice.

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Speaker 1: I mean just to relax, watch some football, study up,

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Speaker 1: get some get some time away, get refreshed, and once

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Speaker 1: we get back here, once we got back here starting Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: it's just straight full go again. So it's good to

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Speaker 1: get away for just a few days, uh, freshen up,

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Speaker 1: and then when you get back, it's just like any

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Speaker 1: other week. We're full go. We're we're full throttle, and

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Speaker 1: we're practicing hard and preparing hard. Do you catch yourself?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes call them the Chargers, the San Diego Chargers. I

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Speaker 1: mean I would say, who doesn't. I mean I haven't been.

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Speaker 1: Half of my friends who've talked to me said, Yo,

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Speaker 1: you're playing San Diego and I'm just like, it's it's

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Speaker 1: La But I said if times too, But I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know it's the Charges. Have you seen a difference

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Speaker 1: in Tom Some of the guys said that he gets

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Speaker 1: like laser focused when the playoffs are Have you seen

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Speaker 1: a difference over the years when playoffs start changing him.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's always laser focused, but I mean he

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Speaker 1: knows he's been around for so long. Same with many

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Speaker 1: other guys in the team that it's you. If you lose,

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Speaker 1: you're out. We've had that feeling before of losing and

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Speaker 1: know that feeling. So that laser focus is huge, and

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Speaker 1: I mean he's always laser focused, but I mean definitely

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I mean you'll you'll never catch him

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Speaker 1: a time when he's not. Numbers say that Derwin James

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Speaker 1: covers tight ends perhaps the best in the league. He said,

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Speaker 1: I don't know the way you see it. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: a great player. He's a he's a real good player,

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Speaker 1: and uh, gotta be ready for him physically and mentally.

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Speaker 1: He brings it. He covers well, and uh, you gotta

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Speaker 1: be prepared. Rob. What is your mindset just where you

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Speaker 1: mentioned when for your seasons over, I mean for you

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Speaker 1: mindset is just all focused on on the Chargers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's the biggest game of the year Sunday one o'clock.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just the last few days he's putting the

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Speaker 1: whatever I can do to help out the team, whatever

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Speaker 1: the coaches asking me to do, I'm trying to do

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Speaker 1: it to the best of my ability during practice, and

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Speaker 1: I'm bringing out the game week on Sundays. Antonio Gates

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Speaker 1: a guy that you studied at any point game for him?

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Speaker 1: I mean he's been playing since I've been in high school,

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Speaker 1: and uh just always watched him, love his game. And

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Speaker 1: it's just unbelievable how he's still going. How is he

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Speaker 1: still going? He hows he do it? I mean I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure. I mean I never talk to him personally

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Speaker 1: he's still going at the AGAs and the way he's

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Speaker 1: still playing. Do you remember your first playoff game? You know,

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Speaker 1: I get what do you remember about that game? The atmosphere,

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Speaker 1: you're feeling, the emotion every even winn into I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's always another another game. Definitely, you got to prepare,

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Speaker 1: uh like you're always preparing it's another football game. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can't you can't lose vision. And I mean you

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Speaker 1: know that was my rookie year. I mean, being around

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Speaker 1: all the Vegian guys, hearing from them. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: just want to stay level headed going through the game.

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Speaker 1: You want to make sure you're prepared mentally and physically,

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Speaker 1: best football. That's what it is. It's another football game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can hype it up a lot. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you can just say it's just whatever of a game,

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Speaker 1: but it's a football game. Another football game. We played

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Speaker 1: twenty of them this year, including the preseason, so we

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Speaker 1: gotta go out there prepare mentally and physically and be

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Speaker 1: I said, I remember the feelings of losing and all that.

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Speaker 1: So you just got to go all out. That's all

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Speaker 1: every play. You know, it's a one and done season.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of their pass rush? I mean,

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Speaker 1: especially the bus You're seven sacks with that team last week.

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Speaker 1: they got a great pass rush on both sides of

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, it's gonna be a long day, no doubt

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Speaker 1: about that. So you gotta contain them, gotta gotta block them,

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Speaker 1: pass game, run game. They're really, really shifty, They're fast,

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Speaker 1: to drive. So you gotta be you gotta be aware

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Speaker 1: from a big time one or two more questions. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: a better deal wasn't injuries this year you felt you

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Speaker 1: deal with a limitations for injuries and you know, being

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Speaker 1: able to do the things you want to do fully. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a new season right now, playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So whatever I got going forward is what I'm going

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Speaker 1: to give for sure. Sometimes to walk back to the

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Speaker 1: huddle saying I could have had that if you know

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Speaker 1: it wasn't my angle, that ball would have been there

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Speaker 1: for me. I mean, been in situations like that before,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. I mean practice games, and you've dealt with

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Speaker 1: things like that before and have thought like that before,

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Speaker 1: Like dang, but it's a game of football. I mean

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Speaker 1: there's no room for excuses. Everyone's dealing with something and

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Speaker 1: you just gotta keep on moving forward. You got to

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Speaker 1: find a way. I mean, so what makes this game great.

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Speaker 1: You got to be mentally and physically prepared at all

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Speaker 1: times to keep on going. You feel like you're there

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Speaker 1: right now. I appociate pretty pretty healthy at this point

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Speaker 1: in time. Yeah, I mean, we're going into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: We just had a bye week, so practice is going well,

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Speaker 1: doing what the coaches asked me to do. So just

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Speaker 1: getting ready for the game Sunday. All right, you guys,

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Speaker 1: Thank you.