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Speaker 1: Thank you Stephanie, and thank you John for taking the

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Speaker 1: time to talk with us today. How are you doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm going well, as Mike doing all right.

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Speaker 1: You've been around for a while, just you know, not

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Speaker 1: experiencing a season like this. I'm curious how you're hanging

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Speaker 1: in with it.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's tough. It's been one of those years. Honestly.

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Speaker 3: You can't you can't make it up. You can't you know,

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Speaker 3: dodge it.

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Speaker 2: It is what it is.

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Speaker 3: Our record, you know, kind of is what it is

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Speaker 3: at this point, and we're just appointed just fighting, I

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Speaker 3: mean day after day and just fighting.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's honestly, you know, kind of as a

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Speaker 2: team where we're at right now.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's the defense obviously doing everything it can,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's obvious to many, John, you know, the

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Speaker 1: offense struggling a little bit. How do you balance you know,

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Speaker 1: the idea of less feeling you know that, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what more you can do. How do you balance

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Speaker 1: that feeling until the offense sort of gets itself back

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Speaker 1: in order?

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Speaker 3: I mean just simple, I mean simple as doing your

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Speaker 3: job and honestly knowing that that's the only thing you

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Speaker 3: can do.

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Speaker 2: You know, none of the guys on the defense are

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Speaker 2: going to go over there and play.

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Speaker 3: Offense at this point, so you know, our jobs to

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Speaker 3: show up and play defense and just do our job,

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Speaker 3: you know, day after day, no matter what the task is,

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Speaker 3: whether you know the offense scores is thirty points or

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Speaker 3: three points, you know, our job is to go out there,

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Speaker 3: you know, and to stop the other team.

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Speaker 1: And my last one, John, these Thursday games, how challenging

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Speaker 1: are they? And what do you do to get yourself

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Speaker 1: to be at your best with the quick turnaround?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I mean physically, you know, it's tough. I mean

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Speaker 2: it's a quick turnaround.

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Speaker 3: You try to double down on everything that you can

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Speaker 3: do as far as recovery, and then just mentally get

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Speaker 3: as much information on the team as you can and

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Speaker 3: know that they're going to probably keep it as simple

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Speaker 3: as they can, not having a long way to game

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Speaker 3: plan and try to go out there and usually those

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Speaker 3: games come down to fundamentals. You know what team can

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Speaker 3: can do the basic executions over and over.

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Speaker 4: And next question Chris Ryan, Hey, Jonathan, the adversity of

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Speaker 4: this season, what have you kind of learned about yourself

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Speaker 4: in terms of how you know you responded and to

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Speaker 4: the defensive responded to what's been It's some difficulty obviously

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Speaker 4: each week. O.

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Speaker 2: Man, it's it's life.

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Speaker 3: And you try to tell the younger guys, Uh, just

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Speaker 3: to stay focused.

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Speaker 2: I mean, adversity is a part of it.

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Speaker 3: You know, I appreach that and you just stay focused

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Speaker 3: because you know that it's not gonna last forever.

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Speaker 2: But while you're in it, when you're sitting in the storm,

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Speaker 2: sometimes the hardest, hardest place to be is sitting in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the storm.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 3: But just knowing that there's a lesson in it, there's

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Speaker 3: something you're gonna learn from it personally, uh and in

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Speaker 3: your career.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And that's just a player.

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Speaker 3: You know, you try to fight and fight and know

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Speaker 3: that when you do start winning, you don't forget the

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Speaker 3: times like this.

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Speaker 5: And when it comes to you know, some of the

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Speaker 5: criticism that will built bell checks faced and you know

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Speaker 5: the group as as a whole, is it difficult to

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Speaker 5: keep that out and uncertainty of what the futures going

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Speaker 5: to be.

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Speaker 2: Oh, honestly, you keep that same mentality as week by week.

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Speaker 3: You know, you can't get too half for praise and

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Speaker 3: you can't get to half criticism because they're both gonna

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Speaker 3: call them no matter how good you're playing or how

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Speaker 3: bad you're playing, and just stick together.

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Speaker 2: You know, at the end of the day.

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Speaker 3: Uh, the guys are out there on the field, the coaches,

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Speaker 3: this organization, we're the only people that can control it.

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Speaker 2: And to stick together and to buy in and continue

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Speaker 2: to fight. Thank you, no problem. And next question, Karen Gregian.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Jonathan, how are you? Hey Karen, how's it going good.

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Speaker 6: I'm just wondering if you guys collectively on the defense

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Speaker 6: can separate how well you've performed from the losing. You

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Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. I mean, you don't like to lose,

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Speaker 6: but can you take some good away from at least

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Speaker 6: how you guys are pulling up your end.

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Speaker 2: You can take some good place from it. You can say,

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Speaker 2: you know, we've done some good things.

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Speaker 3: And then also, you know there's some plays out there

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Speaker 3: that we probably have given up that we shouldn't have

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Speaker 3: with this game that you know, there's no moral victories, and.

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Speaker 2: To say, well, hey, we're playing well, but we still lost.

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Speaker 3: You know, at the end of the day, what we're

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Speaker 3: judged by this game is the scoreboard at the end

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Speaker 3: of the day, and that's kind of all that matters.

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Speaker 3: So taking more victories of saying hey, well we're playing good,

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Speaker 3: or the secondary is playing good, or the d lin

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Speaker 3: is playing good.

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Speaker 2: You know that doesn't win you games.

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Speaker 6: Great, Thanks trem Yes, ma'am.

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Speaker 2: That looks like all the questions for today.

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Speaker 6: So thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: John, thank you