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Speaker 1: How are you feeling feeling good? Feeling good? Uh, just

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Speaker 1: getting getting better every day and trying to, um you know,

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Speaker 1: listen to what the trainers and doctors are telling me.

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Speaker 1: But I'm doing good. Were you were going a lot

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Speaker 1: of paint on Sunday after after that hitting early in

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Speaker 1: the game. Uh, I really I felt okay during the game,

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Speaker 1: just kind of after the game some soreness and um

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Speaker 1: you know, but like I said, I'm feeling better now.

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Speaker 1: Is there a chance to you good play Sunday? Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think, Um you know, I'm going through the week

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Speaker 1: to play, listening to the trainers and doctors, and my

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Speaker 1: job is to be ready to play. So I'll go

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Speaker 1: through the week and like I always do what needs

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Speaker 1: to happen in order for you to be able to play.

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Speaker 1: Um you know, I think there's a number of things

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Speaker 1: just the trainers and doctors want to see, but um,

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Speaker 1: you know that's not really Uh you know, my my

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Speaker 1: focus is to continue to improve and get better and

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Speaker 1: then uh you know, put that in their hands. Um

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Speaker 1: you know, come this week and so is there anything

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Speaker 1: you can do or is it just a matter of

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Speaker 1: the doctors, you know, going to get more tests and

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Speaker 1: actually getting clearance. I think it's just just sticking to that,

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Speaker 1: you know, their process, their rehab process, and the recovery

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Speaker 1: process to try to, Um yeah, show that I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: ready to play. Could you have done a better job

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Speaker 1: of sliding and giving yourself up there? Uh? Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think, um, you know, what exact what's the exact player?

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Speaker 1: You know? When it happened? I think you know, I'll

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not sure. I woke up and it

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Speaker 1: was sore. After the game, it was sore. So that's

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Speaker 1: something I've focused on all year. Are you what you

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Speaker 1: can do at the moment in covering? Uh yeah, just

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Speaker 1: kind of following the trainers instruction obviously, No, Uh there's

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Speaker 1: no contact and you know my practice doesn't have much

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Speaker 1: contact anyway, So I'm practicing and getting ready to play

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Speaker 1: right has always been one of your best tools. How

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Speaker 1: do you balance using that to your advantage but also

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Speaker 1: making sure you're protecting yourself at the same time. That

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Speaker 1: had a difficult thing to do. Um, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think it can be, but I can you know, definitely,

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Speaker 1: you know, something I've been focused on. I think this

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Speaker 1: season is to to do that and to be um,

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Speaker 1: you know, to to get down and to avoid some

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Speaker 1: of those hits. So I've just got to continue to

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Speaker 1: to do that, and UM, you know it can be

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Speaker 1: a tough, tough at times, but something you know you've

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Speaker 1: got to be able to do. Is there still some

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Speaker 1: unknown about what your injury is? Um, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think we have a pretty clear understanding what it is.

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Speaker 1: So it's just about treating it and and trusting the

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Speaker 1: process and the recovery process. He's UM, it's a big

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Speaker 1: problem side to side, Like you know, like when you're driving,

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Speaker 1: is it hard to look at one side and the other?

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Speaker 1: You know? What? What what's the main difficulty? Um? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think it's just sore and and uh

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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I'm feeling much better today

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, expect I'll continue to feel better

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Speaker 1: and better everything. How much concern was there when they

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Speaker 1: first looked at it that this could be something that

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Speaker 1: at least, UM, I don't know, I think, UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: we there was obviously a series of tests and conversations

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Speaker 1: get back out there. Strange right, Yeah, and anything beyond

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Speaker 1: that or is that just saying that's it? So if

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Speaker 1: you do miss a game this Sunday, what's your optimism level?

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Speaker 1: That will just be one miss game and then back

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Speaker 1: in l A. Uh yeah, I mean my focus is

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Speaker 1: can to prepare to play Sunday. So, um, you know

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Speaker 1: that's where my focus is right now. You're playing against

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Speaker 1: You're playing against a team that does like to throw

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Speaker 1: a lot of blitzes at quarterbacks. Um, when you see

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Speaker 1: dealing with that aggressive defense? Um? You know, I think, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, they do a good job pressure and quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: it's about having a plan to handle that, to get

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Speaker 1: make place behind that stuff. So I know we'll be

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Speaker 1: ready and prepared for that. Going in is a typical treatment.

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Speaker 1: I sed him heat and can you get a shot

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Speaker 1: to loosen up your neck if need big? Um? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a whole series of things you can do.

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Speaker 1: As far as a treatment process, you you mentioned a

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think that's been talked about. Your

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Speaker 1: predecessor Eli He he often talked about the responsibility of

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Speaker 1: being out there for your teammates and feeling the weight

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Speaker 1: of that responsibility. Is that's something that's important. You do

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Speaker 1: feel that same weight? Yeah, I certainly do. I think

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Speaker 1: um uh, you know, I feel that that responsibility to

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Speaker 1: Um as a quarterback, you never want to miss anytime.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know that's my my focus is to

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Speaker 1: get back and to be ready to play. When when

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Speaker 1: you look at the offense the other day, there was obviously,

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Speaker 1: like Guy said, wrinkles, but Joe said, there was a

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Speaker 1: lot of analysis on getting the ball two specific playmakers.

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Speaker 1: How much did you realize that and was it something

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Speaker 1: you were contnitant as you kind of went along there.

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Speaker 1: I think I realized it, Uh yeah, pretty early in

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Speaker 1: the week as far as the game plan and what

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Speaker 1: we were trying to do getting the ball to certain

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Speaker 1: uh to get the ball to them, so uh you know,

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Speaker 1: you're thinking about that throughout the game as plays are

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Speaker 1: But I'd say I was, you know, pretty cognisant of

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Speaker 1: what we were trying. How different is that what you

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Speaker 1: were doing before? And in that regard, I mean, is

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Speaker 1: just like pre planned saying hey, we have to get

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Speaker 1: You know, that's always going to be uh the deciding

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Speaker 1: factor and making those decisions. But um, you know, I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there were certainly an emphasis throughout the week and during

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Speaker 1: the game on on getting guys at Wall