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Speaker 1: I mean I think that's what we talked about last

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Speaker 1: week after the game when I said that to you guys,

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Speaker 1: it's it's about finding a way to win. Like I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say this is the best game we've ever played

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Speaker 1: in UM, when I said there were there were times

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Speaker 1: the game. UM. I think those are the things that

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Speaker 1: games aren't perfect, but how you take advantage of situations

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Speaker 1: and make winning plays, um, And I thought we did

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Speaker 1: that today and the result is a win. And UM,

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Speaker 1: it's always better correcting the film with a win. And

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Speaker 1: we'll get to do that tomorrow. And I think it's

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Speaker 1: important that we understand we gotta keep getting better, we

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Speaker 1: gotta keep winning matchups, keep doing the small things, and

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Speaker 1: you know, it's fun doing it. After a win, at

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Speaker 1: least were able to kind of limit the bus And

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Speaker 1: just what about you're just letting them offense le Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's hard. In this league. You can ask

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Speaker 1: the guys on offense for us. You can act kind

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Speaker 1: it throughout the league. Um, And they're gonna be games

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Speaker 1: that we can't allow that, and we're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: make plays because you're gonna play some of these offices

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Speaker 1: who can't consistently drive down the field and put points

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Speaker 1: on the board. Um. But I mean that's what it

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Speaker 1: is in this league. Just don't give it up in

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Speaker 1: one play. Make a team, play after play after play,

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Speaker 1: make a make something happen. And then it's important to

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Speaker 1: trying to play good defense in the red area. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I think we'll all hate the touchdown we

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Speaker 1: gave up in the red area. Um, But sometimes they're

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Speaker 1: gonna make a good play, a good throw and catch, um.

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Speaker 1: But we have to make it tough. And I thought

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Speaker 1: we did a good job of that today throughout the game,

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Speaker 1: consistently just trying to make them drive the field, and

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Speaker 1: you know, we end up coming up with a couple

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Speaker 1: more plays than they did. Um. And that's the difference

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Speaker 1: in an in a three playing game. They want to

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Speaker 1: take today, how are you guys to tell? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean they had some things set up and I thought

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Speaker 1: we did a good job of taking it away. And Um.

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Speaker 1: The thing that's a balance is some of the checkdowns,

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Speaker 1: even the nag Harris. So, I mean teams even when

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Speaker 1: they say they want to throw the ball, they're never

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Speaker 1: they have some positive plays checking it down to Harrison

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Speaker 1: him making plays. But I thought we did a good

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Speaker 1: and you know, we did a good job of marrying

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Speaker 1: up pass rushing coverage of you know, they have a

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Speaker 1: shot call it's gonna take more time, and our guys

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Speaker 1: doing a good job getting to the quarterback and not

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Speaker 1: allowing it. So um, I think every team we played

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be an element of dangerous players. We got

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Speaker 1: end um and you know, I think our friend has

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Speaker 1: in on the first down. What did it mean that? Oh,

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Speaker 1: it is big, And you know, I think that's what

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Speaker 1: winning football is. It's understanding. You know, you obviously want

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Speaker 1: And you know, after we gave up that touchdown, we

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Speaker 1: to keep that field position. I think that kind of

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Speaker 1: set us up offensively to even end the game. I

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Speaker 1: think play calling wise, aggression the guys out there, like

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Speaker 1: So being able to go three and out, especially in

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Speaker 1: thought that was huge for us today. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I said it earlier last week. We're building that identity.

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Speaker 1: on the road. You know, two weeks in the road

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Speaker 1: You know you're starting to build who you are. And

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Speaker 1: you know we'll go back home and I know it'll

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Speaker 1: be a intense game and we'll have a really good

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Speaker 1: but looking forward to a huge challenge next week against

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Speaker 1: another you know AFC North team that's gonna come in

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Speaker 1: now I got a bot. Special school has got to

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Speaker 1: be the right time. What did you see training today?

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Speaker 1: He's gonna compete against anybody. He's gonna do it every week.

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Speaker 1: Claypool's in the slot, Miles Briant plays in the slot.

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Speaker 1: For us. They gotta do something like we're gonna go

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of trusting, not only to line

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Speaker 1: up and compete, but to get guys lined up to

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