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Speaker 1: How excited you know, finally get a regular season game.

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Speaker 1: It's about time. It's about time. I had a great camp,

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Speaker 1: this team putting a lot of work, Um, a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun in preseason. Now it gets real the first

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Speaker 1: good day today. Um, just just really excited for it

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Speaker 1: to be real. And you're expecting to be counted on

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Speaker 1: more now since O'Dell's gone, and you know he was

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Speaker 1: a big yeah, along with a lot of guys in

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Speaker 1: this locker room. Yes, sir, um definitely a definitely I

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Speaker 1: got bigger responsibility and more of a leader as well. Um,

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Speaker 1: and Uh, a lot of guys gonna get a lot

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Speaker 1: of opportunities to make plays and we just gotta step

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Speaker 1: up and get it done. Knowing that some of your

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Speaker 1: high profile starters on the offensive coluding themselves, did not

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Speaker 1: get very many snaps during the preseason, how long is

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Speaker 1: it to protect exactly what you guys can be? Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't believe in that. We worked really

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Speaker 1: hard each and every day we come out and practice,

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Speaker 1: and obviously we're gonna protect each other and be smart.

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Speaker 1: But um, we're working on bus off each and every day,

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Speaker 1: and we're competing a lot. We we competed a lot

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Speaker 1: in camp, so we get that game f we put

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Speaker 1: ourselves in those situations, um when it when it really counts.

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Speaker 1: So UM, I think we've been preparing really well mentally,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's gonna I think that's gonna help

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Speaker 1: with the lack of preseason snaps. I think that's going

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Speaker 1: to translate when it comes. Sunday said, you feel like

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Speaker 1: this is a better team now and this time last

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Speaker 1: year he lost a good amount of big names from

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Speaker 1: last year. You agree with that hundred percent, hundred percent,

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Speaker 1: Like I said, the work we've been putting in, the

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Speaker 1: chemistry that we're building on, the foundation that we've built, um,

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Speaker 1: kind of like you said towards the end of last year,

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Speaker 1: and and we've been building on top of that since then.

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Speaker 1: So UM a hundred percent agree. A lot of guys

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Speaker 1: in this room. You might might not have a lot

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Speaker 1: of big names, but there's a lot of talent in here,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of guys are gonna show that, UM

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Speaker 1: this season and show y'all not a lot of expectations

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Speaker 1: for these teams. Why do you feel like you guys

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Speaker 1: can We don't care. We don't care what anybody else thinks.

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Speaker 1: Outside of this building. Um, we know what we're capable of.

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Speaker 1: We know our standards and our expectations. We know the

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Speaker 1: work we gotta do, and that's all that matters. You know.

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Speaker 1: He didn't play any practice pressure of this year past. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's credit so just the cool things that

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Speaker 1: they have around here to keep our bodies healthy and

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Speaker 1: the resources that we have. UM. On my part, taking

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Speaker 1: care of my body, getting better, getting better, sleep, eating better. Um, definitely,

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Speaker 1: and coach has been doing a great job of taking

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Speaker 1: care of us as well to take care of our body.

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Speaker 1: So UM, definitely feel fresh, feel ready to go. I

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Speaker 1: feel like a jack in the box is ready to

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Speaker 1: spring out and and and for things again. Brop like

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Speaker 1: us like, UM, yeah, I mean that that's that's any competitor.

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Speaker 1: Uh definitely when you when you when you hear that

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Speaker 1: doubt and you see it, Uh, it's nothing to address.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing to address but the But what's done on

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Speaker 1: the field, that's how you address that. So UM, it's

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Speaker 1: definitely puts a chip on our shoulder. We don't let

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Speaker 1: it affect us, but uh we definitely, uh, we definitely

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Speaker 1: feel it and we're gonna put it on the field.

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Speaker 1: And that's all that matters for two going to East

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Speaker 1: Week one by one and child to win every game

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Speaker 1: we can