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Speaker 1: Last question, Yes, perfect, flat, perfect, last question, go ahead

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Speaker 1: right now. I think during the course of the season,

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Speaker 1: teams can prove to themselves how mentally tough they are

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Speaker 1: by doing certain things like winning on the road or

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Speaker 1: promising back from tough losses and things. Um, looking back

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Speaker 1: at your season, have you guys proven to yourselves if

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Speaker 1: you're mentally tough for the challenge ahead? Um, I mean

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Speaker 1: that's what we're coached to be mentally tough, you know,

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Speaker 1: since I've been here for ten years, So that's never

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Speaker 1: a question. You know, playing we had some rough games

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Speaker 1: at home, you know, we played stayed mentally tough, you know,

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Speaker 1: and just kept pushing and you know it worked out

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Speaker 1: for us. So you know, that's never really an issue

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Speaker 1: for us. You know, Bill, you know puts that on

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Speaker 1: our head, you know, from training camp, mini camp, you know.

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Speaker 1: So you're going to be mentally physically tough. So it's

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Speaker 1: something we don't worry about. We're taking a last question,

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Speaker 1: taking it or of the football is a physical game?

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Speaker 1: Say about the Chargers that they've gone toe to toe

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Speaker 1: with teams like Seattle, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and on the room

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Speaker 1: on their own stadium, you know, on the road. They're

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Speaker 1: a tough team, man. I mean, they wouldn't be in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, that wouldn't be have the record they have,

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Speaker 1: you know. And so they're good. They're good, they're physical,

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Speaker 1: they play good at home, played good away, you know,

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Speaker 1: and they're mentally tough also, you know, so definitely shows

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Speaker 1: how tough they are. I mean they're a good team period,

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Speaker 1: you know. So we have to be able to, you know,

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Speaker 1: bring our a game for this one over we go home,

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Speaker 1: you know, so get ready to go. What's your level

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Speaker 1: of excitement? I mean, you guys do a great job

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Speaker 1: of channeling in the right direction. But after all these years,

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Speaker 1: I mean there's only eight teams left tool going to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl and we're going to have a parade,

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Speaker 1: So it's got to be exciting. Yeah, it's exciting, but

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Speaker 1: you know it's it's just football, man. You know. I

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Speaker 1: just gotta keep it there, you know. Don't get too high,

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Speaker 1: I don't get too low. Just do the same things

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Speaker 1: we've been doing for twenty games. You know. I preached

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Speaker 1: that every day, every every year. You know. It's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a big game, you know, stakes are high, but

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Speaker 1: I mean it's just football, you know, And that that

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Speaker 1: kind of keeps me calm, help helps keep the get

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Speaker 1: the guy the guys calm. So let's go out there

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Speaker 1: and to play your game one play at one play

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Speaker 1: at a time, just like we've been doing and kind

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Speaker 1: of go from there. Harder did you do this time

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Speaker 1: of year or no? Um, if you make it, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's natural. It's the playoffs. You know, people are

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Speaker 1: gonna you know there the nerves gonna get going, but

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Speaker 1: you can settle down and realize it's just football. You know,

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Speaker 1: everything has to be a little better, but it's just football.

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Speaker 1: Be right. There was a stretch earlier in the game

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Speaker 1: this year where Philip rivers complete like there's twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: something passes in the road. Did you guys look at

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Speaker 1: that on the film at all. We're not looking at

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Speaker 1: just twenty plays, looking at the whole season, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, but Phil can do that, and he's a

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Speaker 1: good quarterback. He's been a good quarterback you know for

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Speaker 1: a majority of his career, you know. So um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we just we've been watching him and you know, see

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Speaker 1: see how we can handle him. So since you're watching

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Speaker 1: all of those plays, you know he goes two, has

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Speaker 1: a lot of options. How do you use a defense

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Speaker 1: to take away those options? I mean a little bit

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Speaker 1: of things we gotta work on, but yeah, just you know,

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Speaker 1: doing our job. I'll put it like that, just doing

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Speaker 1: our job and making sure we're all on the same page.

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Speaker 1: You know, we can play, you know, living guys playing

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Speaker 1: the right defense. Patrick, regarding those options, how would you

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Speaker 1: describe their backs? And they're involving the passing game and

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Speaker 1: their tight ends and a guy like Antonio Gates still

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Speaker 1: doing it, still savvy, still quick, still good hands, good

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Speaker 1: body control, and the running backs are good in the

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Speaker 1: running game and pass game. You know, they both can catch,

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Speaker 1: they both can get out there runner oute. So I

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Speaker 1: mean it's very you know, they're they're definitely not one dimensional.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're they're playmakers back there. You know, so

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Speaker 1: we gotta um, like I said, through our job and

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Speaker 1: try to take away, you know, all the threats that

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Speaker 1: they have that they you know, bos to us. Posted

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Speaker 1: out your season, Patrick, with two victories, how it forms

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Speaker 1: out for the team just to kind of get their

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Speaker 1: kind of mind right going into it. I didn't hear

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Speaker 1: the first part story about closing off the season with

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Speaker 1: two victories. Back backs how important is that? But just

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Speaker 1: the kind of the team to kind of um, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's important. It's important to have, you know, some momentum,

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Speaker 1: But momentum doesn't mean the damn thing when you get

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, you know what I mean. You can win

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Speaker 1: ten games in a row, you lose this one, you're done,

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Speaker 1: you know, So it's all about this game. Forget the

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Speaker 1: other two games. You know, when I come out here

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Speaker 1: and play some ball, you know, or you know we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be watching the rest of the playoffs, so you know,

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Speaker 1: just you know, taking the day by day playofy play

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Speaker 1: going from there. How big was the buying for you?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're on the field all the time,

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Speaker 1: maybe taking beating out there. How pard it was? It's

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Speaker 1: some good time to rest up, hang on my family,

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Speaker 1: chill out, mind off football. But you know we're locked

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Speaker 1: in now, you know. Yeah, body feels great. You know

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Speaker 1: we're in a week by week season now, so you know,

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Speaker 1: it's good to be back the same of year coach

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Speaker 1: was talking about the stays. Oh last question cool, perfect, yeah,

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Speaker 1: step on his femo comfortable this year do you see

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Speaker 1: that too? And minutes play this year? Um? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: see that, but that's something you got to ask Steph.

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Speaker 1: If he's more comfortable. I can't. I don't know, you know,

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Speaker 1: how comfortable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean he's been that way. Quiet,

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Speaker 1: work hard, go home. Quiet, work hard, go home. So

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Speaker 1: you know, that's that's what I've seen from him, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you know he's showing it, you know, and hopefully,

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Speaker 1: you know, we can do a couple more games and

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Speaker 1: you know, we get to smile, celebrate a little bit cool.

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Speaker 1: Thank