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Speaker 1: The Browns are back at the Cross Country Mortgage Campus

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and we'll begin prep for the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 1: this weekend. I'm Jake Mellinzik and welcome back to from

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Speaker 1: the podium. It's a pretty big show. Today. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: hear from general manager and executive vice president Andrew Berry,

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Speaker 1: three players, and then head coach Kevin Stefanski. Andrew Berry

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Speaker 1: let us off. He spoke to the media and he

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Speaker 1: addressed the Deshaun Watson injury and if the team has

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Speaker 1: any plans to change up this quarterback room.

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Speaker 2: Morning, everyone.

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Speaker 3: Okay, as you guys read in the statement that we

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Speaker 3: issue this morning, you know, DeShawn he sustained a new

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Speaker 3: injury in the second quarter of the Baltimore game this

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Speaker 3: to require season ending surgery.

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Speaker 2: The good news is, you know, we expect the surgery

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Speaker 3: Well and for him to be ready for the start

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Speaker 3: of the you know, the twenty twenty four season. You know,

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Speaker 3: obviously we are you know, very disappointed and devastated for DeShawn,

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Speaker 3: especially given all that he has battled and gone through.

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Speaker 3: You know, medically, you know, the season, and especially in

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Speaker 3: light of you know, how well he's played since you know,

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Speaker 3: since his you know most you most recent, most recent injury.

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Speaker 3: One of the things that I think about though with

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Speaker 3: testament to his physical and mental toughness. You know, he

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Speaker 3: was already playing with a high ankle sprain. And then

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Speaker 3: you know, one of the things that that we've learned

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Speaker 3: as we've talked to the docs over the past forty

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Speaker 3: eight hours is in the infrequent event that this injury

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Speaker 3: occurs with a thrower in their in their throwing shoulder,

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Speaker 3: you know, usually it's restricts the mobility, there's so much

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Speaker 3: to play, call it two and a half quarters at

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Speaker 3: you know, plus the high ankle, it really is an

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Speaker 2: On on on his part.

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Speaker 3: You know, moving forward, here's here's here's kind of what

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Speaker 3: I know, how how we are approaching you know, things

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Speaker 3: more forward, We really look at this as an incredible

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Speaker 3: obviously gone through a lot over the first nine weeks.

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Speaker 3: I think one of the things I talked about, you know,

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Speaker 3: the season. And that's probably one of the things I'm

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Speaker 3: And on Dali right, we have a you know, we're

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Speaker 2: Through the next you know, eight games of the season.

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Speaker 3: But because of those experiences, you know, we really do

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Speaker 2: That, you know, as we move forward.

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Speaker 3: But it really does present a fantastic opportunity for us

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Speaker 3: as we're at sit here at six and three, in

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Speaker 3: And lastly, before I open up for questions, you know,

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Speaker 3: undoubtedly the quarterback position is very important, but you know,

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Speaker 2: So with that, I'll open up for questions.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jake, I will let Kevin address address that when

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Speaker 2: This afternoon to add to the to the room. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So so, Tony, like as with any any part of

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Speaker 2: You know, what that looks like will be a little

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Speaker 3: Did the previous injury have make him any more susceptible

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Speaker 3: this is a completely new injury. This has nothing to

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Speaker 3: So this is this has nothing to do with the

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Speaker 4: Yes, did he fall on the shoulder or was it

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Speaker 3: You know, DeShawn told us that he took a hit.

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Speaker 3: It's a little bit unclear the exact you know, play

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Speaker 5: Knowing that he was already beat up, why not pursue

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know again, we we we feel good about

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Speaker 2: The room, you know, Deshaun.

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Speaker 3: You know obviously before this new new injury, he was,

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Speaker 3: And so, like I said, we're gonna move forward the

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Speaker 6: Andrew, I know, hindsight is twenty twenty, but serting what

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Speaker 6: Driving force behind them was that the pick? Was that

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Speaker 6: you have any regrets.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Darryl Kennley, I'm not really focused on that right now.

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Speaker 2: We're focused on the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: You know, there will be a time for you know,

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Speaker 3: reflection for you know, everything over the course of the year.

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Speaker 3: But that's really not that's really not top of mine

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Speaker 7: Dods recently at his agent.

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Speaker 4: But he might be traded back before the deadline?

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Speaker 8: Did Why didn't that happen?

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Speaker 2: To be honest, Tony, even though.

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Speaker 9: The trade deadline has passed, might there be creative ways

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Speaker 3: Do anything that you can't well, you know, honestly, Mary Kay,

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Speaker 10: And how do you feel about Dorian's progression this season?

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Speaker 11: And where do you How confident are you and him

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Speaker 3: We feel good with Dorian's progression, you know, obviously, you

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Speaker 3: We think he's a talented kid. He's very smart, very diligent,

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Speaker 3: certainly need all hands on deck as we move forward.

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Speaker 12: Can you make this specific injury that there's not a

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Speaker 2: Here, especially like in terms of recovery timelines and things

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Speaker 3: is is very clear to us, It's very clear to DeShawn,

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Speaker 13: Are there any other quarterbacks that you know of that

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know that's probably a better question for the docs.

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Speaker 3: So yes, it's not like Deshaun's the first, you know,

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Speaker 3: But actually, as actually did say, you know you usually

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Speaker 9: I know we've talked to surgeon before about the rotator

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Speaker 7: Is there anything procedure related to the previous injury that

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Speaker 14: No, With with your record and just the talent you

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Speaker 14: you feel compelled to do everything you can to find

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Speaker 14: out if there's a veteran free agent quarterback with an

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Speaker 14: extensive NFL resume who you could possibly end.

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll always be open minded, Nate.

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Speaker 3: But I think again, similar to why I just told

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Speaker 3: Mary Kay, really, our focus is with the guys in

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Speaker 3: We'll we'll never say no to an opportunity that we

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Speaker 2: The team, But our focus is on the guys in

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Speaker 15: Because you said Deshaun was fully healthy coming up to

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Speaker 2: That is true, Mary Kay.

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Speaker 9: You guys wanted to go. You know, you want to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Mary Kay again, it's the consummate team sport.

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Speaker 3: We understand that it's never great to see a player

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Speaker 3: One of the things that that you know, I think about,

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Speaker 3: And we've been through a lot, and you know, this

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Speaker 3: we're disappointed for DeShawn, but we're excited about what lays

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Speaker 5: Right one here, the rust that Deshaun displayed coming out

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Speaker 1: The players were next. They spoke in the locker room,

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Speaker 4: Jean, when did you realize that, yeah, there's something really

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Speaker 18: But you know, i'm'a make sure, you know, I keep

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Speaker 18: you know, make sure we focus on the ankle enough

442
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Speaker 18: so I can go out there and perform. But you know,

443
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Speaker 18: it took a took a different turn in.

444
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Speaker 4: The in the process. But what if they told you

445
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Speaker 4: about or were you have in recovery?

446
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Speaker 2: What what's your face is over for the next couple

447
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Speaker 2: of months?

448
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Speaker 18: Yeah, it's you know, it's gonna be a couple months,

449
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Speaker 18: and you know, the biggest things mobility and.

450
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Speaker 10: Just a range your most and then you know the

451
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Speaker 10: strength and stuff would work out.

452
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Speaker 18: But uh, you know, i'm'a be working with some some

453
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Speaker 18: great doctors and great staff that's dealt with this process before. Uh,

454
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Speaker 18: with a lot of professional baseball guys, and you know,

455
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Speaker 18: make sure that you know I come back, you know,

456
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Speaker 18: even better than before.

457
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Speaker 13: Are you wearing any uh quarterbacks who have gone through

458
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Speaker 13: this injury and come back?

459
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Speaker 10: Not right now, not not this particular injury. I I

460
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Speaker 10: have no idea. Maybe there's someone, but I'm not sure

461
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Speaker 10: you trying to help.

462
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Speaker 19: Frustrating me is that it seems like every time you

463
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Speaker 19: seem to be turning in the corner of the Tennessee

464
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Speaker 19: game the Baltimore game, you sort of kind of run

465
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Speaker 19: into one of these road blocks how how frustrated is

466
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Speaker 19: that is that fact?

467
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Speaker 18: You know, it's very frustrating, but hey, it's you know,

468
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Speaker 18: it's it's part of life, and uh, you know what

469
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Speaker 18: I've been able to deal with, you know, my twenty

470
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Speaker 18: eight years of of my life. You know, it's it's

471
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Speaker 18: just another stone that's that's in the way. And you

472
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Speaker 18: know I have faith in in myself and my Lord

473
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Speaker 18: that you know I'm overcoming. So you know, i'm'a be

474
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Speaker 18: i'm'a be sh i'm'a be straight, and i'm'a get through

475
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Speaker 18: it for sure.

476
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Speaker 12: Just the way you're talking to me, it sounds like

477
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Speaker 12: you're surprised that the senory is.

478
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Speaker 2: Do you accept that it is? Were you in disbelieve

479
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Speaker 2: when they told you?

480
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Speaker 10: And and even now I guess yeah, I'm I'm still

481
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Speaker 10: in disbelieve.

482
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Speaker 18: I'm still I said, just trying to process all the

483
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Speaker 18: information that I've I've been getting since last night. It's tough,

484
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Speaker 18: you know, I've you know, I felt like we were

485
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Speaker 18: turning the corner to really make a run. And you know,

486
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Speaker 18: I we I still believe, we still will, you know,

487
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Speaker 18: with the guys in this locker room. You know, I

488
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Speaker 18: just wanted to be physically a part of it, uh,

489
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Speaker 18: on the field with those guys, and you know, six

490
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Speaker 18: weeks I was down and try to come back and

491
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Speaker 18: and then two weeks later and you know, back out

492
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Speaker 18: of it again. So yeah, it's it's just it's tough

493
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Speaker 18: to try to, you know, wrap everything around.

494
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Speaker 10: My head right now.

495
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Speaker 5: Just you try to interest that that you tried really hard,

496
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Speaker 5: you know, after being diagnosed with a sure or that

497
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Speaker 5: you tried hard to kind of you know, wanting to

498
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Speaker 5: play through the rest of the season.

499
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Speaker 4: How hard did you push for the How disappoint was

500
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Speaker 4: that when you found.

501
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Speaker 10: Out you finna call? I mean I pushed very hard

502
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Speaker 10: for it.

503
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Speaker 18: To the point where it's you know, all the experts

504
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Speaker 18: and and doctors was the ones that told me that

505
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Speaker 18: it was it was now chance. So uh, you know,

506
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Speaker 18: I push as far as I probably possibly could to

507
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Speaker 18: you know, get back out there and just try to

508
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Speaker 18: play and and try to push it towards after the season.

509
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Speaker 18: But you know, I think the best situation for I

510
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Speaker 18: guess longevity in my career is is to be able

511
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Speaker 18: to get a media surgery. And that's what all the

512
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Speaker 18: experts said, So you know, I gotta I gotta follow

513
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Speaker 18: their their footsteps and and.

514
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Speaker 10: Go through that.

515
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Speaker 9: So how how important is it going to be for you?

516
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Speaker 9: How can you get through when you have process to

517
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Speaker 9: be back here with your teammates and around the team

518
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Speaker 9: that you kind of get yourself through.

519
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Speaker 10: It as well.

520
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Speaker 18: Yeah, it's gonna be very important, uh to get back

521
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Speaker 18: around here and be around the guys. But you know,

522
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Speaker 18: I've already had a lot of guys told me, uh,

523
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Speaker 18: you know, wherever I'm we have it and training out,

524
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Speaker 18: they'll they gonna come out there and spend some time

525
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Speaker 18: with me, so uh, which is pretty dope.

526
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Speaker 10: So you know, we we're gonna have that bond. You know,

527
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Speaker 10: the connection's gonna always be there.

528
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Speaker 18: You know, my phone is gonna always be on live

529
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Speaker 18: for those guys, and uh, they know they can call

530
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Speaker 18: me or you know, pull up on me anytime, you know,

531
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Speaker 18: they get free.

532
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Speaker 2: Six and three?

533
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Speaker 4: Where do you think is best suitor to take your place?

534
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Speaker 7: You said, do what the team is six and three

535
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Speaker 7: right in at who who do you think is the

536
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Speaker 7: best uh candidate to replace?

537
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Speaker 18: You know who else in that man up? And I

538
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Speaker 18: mean anybody that's gonna be able to you know, step

539
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Speaker 18: in and and perform. So you know, uh, Kevin and

540
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Speaker 18: those guys gonna make sure we're ready to go, and uh,

541
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Speaker 18: they gonna be ready to perform and and.

542
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Speaker 10: Take this team as far as we need to go.

543
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Speaker 15: But how confident are you that you'll be able to

544
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Speaker 15: come back and be the player? Do you think you

545
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Speaker 15: should be?

546
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Speaker 10: Well, I'm very confident, you know, I'm very confident.

547
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Speaker 18: I'm very c than the doctors that it's gonna be

548
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Speaker 18: doing the surgery and the rehab, and I'm very comfort

549
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Speaker 18: in my rehabing, my my mindset and and uh my

550
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Speaker 18: determination to get back.

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Speaker 4: M you know strong.

552
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Speaker 8: Do you have any idea where you're getta be able

553
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Speaker 8: to throw football again?

554
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Speaker 10: I I mean, I n it depends on you know, everything,

555
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Speaker 10: maybe both in two months, three months, So.

556
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Speaker 8: It's more of a full I'm sorry that than to

557
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Speaker 8: got you off.

558
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Speaker 10: Just the the pain of you're feeling.

559
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Speaker 15: Is it?

560
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Speaker 8: Is it more frustration like internally because you're not allowed.

561
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Speaker 2: To play, or are you physically feel like an idea?

562
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Speaker 2: If I had to throw football right now, I probably couldn't.

563
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Speaker 18: I mean, it's both. I mean it it's very painful.

564
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Speaker 18: The whole second half is painful to throw football. You know,

565
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Speaker 18: it's a you know a bone that's that's fracturing on

566
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Speaker 18: my shoulders. So no, no type of you know, medicine

567
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Speaker 18: or anything it's gonna stop the pain from that. But

568
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Speaker 18: it's just frustrating all just all around, just not being

569
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Speaker 18: able to play and just the injuries. But you know,

570
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Speaker 18: I can't control certain injuries, and you know from what

571
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Speaker 18: the experts told me that certain injury and in the

572
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Speaker 18: high God springs the things that you know happens, but

573
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Speaker 18: everybody in the game.

574
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Speaker 8: So what are you gonna take last one?

575
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Speaker 16: Here?

576
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Speaker 9: What do you think that you showed people Sunday against

577
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Speaker 9: the rain, coming out going fourteenth or fourteens and unfo

578
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Speaker 9: con stroulder, high aple spring, pulling out the biggest game

579
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Speaker 9: of the season in a place where you guys, you

580
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Speaker 9: never win.

581
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Speaker 18: I just wanna win, and that's that's that's all I

582
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Speaker 18: was focused on, was just winning. I mean, I didn't

583
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Speaker 18: care how we did it. Whatever we need to do

584
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Speaker 18: to to turn that game around to and and to win,

585
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Speaker 18: leave everything out there on the field, and that's that's

586
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Speaker 18: what I was focused on.

587
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Speaker 9: Do you are you comforted at all and knowledge that

588
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Speaker 9: you kind of went out like that on such a

589
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Speaker 9: joyous moment for your teammates and for fans.

590
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Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, it was, it was it was good,

591
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Speaker 10: it was cool. But the ultimate goal is is that

592
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Speaker 10: Super Bowl.

593
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Speaker 18: So I won't have the opportunity, but you know, my

594
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Speaker 18: teammates got the opportunity, and I pray and know that

595
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Speaker 18: they do whatever they can to get that.

596
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 10: That ultimate goal.

597
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 18: And you know I'm gonna be right there right there

598
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 18: supporting them and boost them up, hyping them up. And

599
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 18: so yeah, you know, the wind was was awesome, but

600
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Speaker 18: you know, the ultimate goal was to try to go

601
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Speaker 18: all the way.

602
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Speaker 1: Next up it was Captain Anthony Walker Junior, the linebacker,

603
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Speaker 1: talked about what Jalen Warren has added to this Steelers

604
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Speaker 1: offense and how the team plans to stay the course

605
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Speaker 1: after losing their starting quarterback.

606
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Speaker 4: I agree.

607
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Speaker 16: I mean, anytime you lose it's brother on the ball field,

608
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 16: you know it hurts, right, you know, franchise quarterback obviously

609
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 16: never ideal. But I feel like the moon in our

610
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 16: locker room is an opportunity. You know, we all understand that.

611
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Speaker 16: You know, it sucks losing, losing the sign, but you

612
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Speaker 16: know we have opportunity to keep this season going. We're

613
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Speaker 16: in a great position right now. We control our own

614
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Speaker 16: destiny and that's our mindset right now. So obviously we

615
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Speaker 16: we love our brother, you know, we want to be

616
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Speaker 16: with us, but you know, right now we gotta we

617
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Speaker 16: gotta focus on go on.

618
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Speaker 4: Wanna notice with him?

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Speaker 15: Is it art?

620
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Speaker 8: He had the goals scene, give such a big fee.

621
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Speaker 16: Not at all play the game and it's the greatest

622
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Speaker 16: team sport ever invented. Guys, go down, shoot I went

623
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Speaker 16: down last year. I I mean, I understand how it

624
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Speaker 16: feels for him, but I mean they don't say next

625
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Speaker 16: to it enough for no reason, you know, And uh,

626
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 16: we all have a job to do with professionals, and

627
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Speaker 16: uh that's.

628
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Speaker 4: What we gotta do.

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Speaker 9: When you think about the fact that he came out

630
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Speaker 9: in that Ravens game and went fourteenth to fourteen on

631
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Speaker 9: the high ankle spreading a broken shoulder, what does that

632
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Speaker 9: say to you about DeShawn?

633
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Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, I mean he's uh we we all know

634
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Speaker 16: he's a tough guy, you know, being able to play

635
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Speaker 16: throw days and the league quarterback.

636
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Speaker 4: So obviously that performance wasn't a shocker than me.

637
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Speaker 16: You know, it hurts some more day he's just not

638
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Speaker 16: able to continue the the the what the journey that

639
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 16: he was on, you know, just playing good football and

640
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 16: you know a lot helping us, helping our team wins.

641
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Speaker 4: So obviously praying for him and uh his his health

642
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:53,719
Speaker 4: and his recovery.

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Speaker 8: Really you your team seen job.

644
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Speaker 7: Mm see, Okay, thank you, thanks just you know, yeah,

645
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 7: no work guards, we got anything left to freak out?

646
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Speaker 16: K't dedicated the season of everybody that No, But I

647
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 16: mean he's a part of us. He knows that, you know,

648
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 16: just like Chubb is like all our injury guys. You

649
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 16: know that a lot of guys still be around and

650
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 16: you know, be he's gonna be a crucial part, you

651
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 16: know obviously in our success as we continue to move forward,

652
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Speaker 16: and he'll do everything he can to be back next year.

653
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Speaker 4: But yeah, it's just uh it it it sucks, right,

654
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Speaker 4: but we got a job to them.

655
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Speaker 6: Yeah.

656
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Speaker 4: Then you said, uh, goals do change.

657
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Speaker 13: What what makes you say that about this team that

658
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Speaker 13: you can still get to where you want to get to?

659
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Speaker 4: The ducts? Yeah, I think, uh, just the resilience of

660
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 4: this team.

661
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Speaker 15: Man.

662
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Speaker 16: You know, the the guys that we have in his

663
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Speaker 16: locker room. I I believe in everybody, but everybody believes

664
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 16: in one another. You know, shoot defensively, we gotta control life,

665
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 16: but we can control and that's us going out there.

666
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 16: It gets stops. Yeah, and you know how we feel

667
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 16: up a team doesn't score, they don't win the game.

668
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 16: So we gotta you know, we gotta play the league

669
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Speaker 16: defense like we you know, you know, try to do

670
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 16: every all every every game, no matter who's our quarterback.

671
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Speaker 16: And then we tryst whoever does not I that quarterback

672
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 16: for us that they're gonna put their best foot forward.

673
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 4: I mean, we got guys on the office now.

674
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 16: It's not like, uh, you know we we don't have guys,

675
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 16: so uh, we're excited for the opportunity for those guns.

676
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 17: And then when you had to go through that rehab

677
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 17: without a major injury you had last year, were there

678
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 17: times when you got discouraged and saw how did you

679
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 17: fight the street that much?

680
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 15: Yeah?

681
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 4: A lot of times.

682
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 16: Obviously, you know, you never wanna be injured, you know,

683
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 16: while your team's going through a season. I think what

684
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 16: helped me a lot was being around the guys last year,

685
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 16: coming back to Cleveland, you know, going to meetings, being

686
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 16: a part, still feeling like I was a part of

687
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 16: the team. Obviously, you know you're you're not you know,

688
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 16: they're not out there going through the ground with those guys,

689
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 16: but you know, you're still here and uh, and just

690
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 16: trying to understands that he's a leader, right, He's a

691
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 16: captain for a reason. And I know once he has surgery,

692
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 16: he'll still he'll still be around the guys and be

693
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 16: around us and like I said, be helping that quarterback

694
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 16: room a lot.

695
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 9: If GGR starts the game on Sunday against the Steelers, Uh.

696
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 15: How do you think he'll do?

697
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 9: And how much do you think he probably has grown

698
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 9: since when he started against the Raid?

699
00:30:58,600 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 2: Yeah?

700
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 4: Again, I think the game was a tough spot for him.

701
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 16: You know, anytime you're just throwing into the fire like

702
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 16: that against the defense like that, it's always tough, right,

703
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 16: But like you said, just the growth of maturity, I've

704
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 16: seen it, you know throughout his you know, preparation throughout

705
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 16: the weeks. You know, you Scott team player of the

706
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 16: Week last week, you know, giving us a great look

707
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 16: uh of Lamar Jackson. So again, the the growth and

708
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 16: maturity of you know, the preparation is what I've seen

709
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 16: the most. And that's what you know, I think, you know,

710
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 16: it's gonna help him take that next step forward.

711
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 4: What was Kevin's message as.

712
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 5: Soon with something like an injury like this gets in

713
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 5: front of the team and as.

714
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 16: It has a blessing train every much, what was yeah,

715
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,959
Speaker 16: just uh, you know, wanna know you know that's all

716
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 16: we can control, right and then you know, we gotta

717
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 16: be there for our brother DeShawn. Obviously he's hurting, he

718
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 16: wants to be out there, but again here and then

719
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 16: he's gonna lead and he's still gonna be a captain

720
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 16: for his team. Right, So I think that was the

721
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 16: most consistent message of it. And you know, again, we

722
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,479
Speaker 16: got a job to the professionals. We still have all

723
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 16: our goals in right in front of us, and we

724
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 16: gotta we gotta handle our business.

725
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 6: That you that like you just wanna super Bowl back

726
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 6: with quarterback forty nine ers work down there hit their

727
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 6: fifth or sixth quarterbacks and the hit as a championship game.

728
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 8: How much do you guys.

729
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 6: Lead on that knowledge of poking it for you some history?

730
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 6: What teams that have had a deal with these type

731
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 6: of situations still being able to have succession, How how

732
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 6: much does that help you business?

733
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 15: Uh?

734
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 16: Yeah, when you got the DC that was on that

735
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 16: Philly team and the starting safety on our team now,

736
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 16: Rob McLeod uh, they're both on that.

737
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 4: They were both on that team. And you gotta play

738
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 4: good defense. Man. It's which is what we wanna do

739
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 4: every week anyway. And just and just and breathe. It

740
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 4: breathes in encouragement and you know, just uh the feeling

741
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 4: that we got your back.

742
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 16: You know, a as the offense goes and as the

743
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 16: you know, quarterback situation plays itself out. But like I said, man,

744
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 16: crazy at things have happened, right, you know, I think

745
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 16: we're we're in a great spot. We believe in anybody

746
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 16: that gets back their quarterback that they're gonna get the

747
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 16: job done.

748
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 4: And I gotta tell 'em, man, we don't. They don't

749
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 4: have the pretty.

750
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 16: It wasn't always pretty with DeShawn you know, like you know,

751
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 16: he had to go through some times and you know,

752
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 16: we had to win games, I think, thirteen to three.

753
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 4: Whatever it is. You gotta do that sometimes in the NFL.

754
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 16: And as it gets to the December January, it's gonna

755
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 16: be about stopping and run and running the football.

756
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 4: And I think we do those two two things really well.

757
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 4: All good, Yeah, thank you Pagan. You can ask yourself

758
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 4: about Pitticbord. Oh yeah, I forgot. We haven't even talked

759
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 4: about that.

760
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 8: How have they changed since we too?

761
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 4: And it seems like Warren's getting.

762
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Speaker 15: Or run from them. What do you see that?

763
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 16: Yeah, offense getting healthy, a lot of guys coming back

764
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 16: for the for them, you know, like you said.

765
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 4: Jay One picking up. The run game is really picking up.

766
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Speaker 16: I think they had over the twohundred yards last week,

767
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 16: So we understand what type of game is it's gonna be. Yeah,

768
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 16: and they the uh like I said, they they've all

769
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 16: you know, the quarterback has gotten better, the they're they've

770
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 16: gotten healthier. So the offense overall has gotten better.

771
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Speaker 6: That's gonna happen to be pretty. It's pretty to be

772
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Speaker 6: the poster child, but it does happen pretty. And they've

773
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Speaker 6: had gry What do you see from them on film?

774
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Speaker 20: That uh A love to.

775
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Speaker 16: Uh yeah, same thing I just said, running the football

776
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 16: well and stopping and stopping a run and playing good

777
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 16: defense and then just find a way whatever it takes

778
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 16: to get the win.

779
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 4: That's what they do and that's what we have to do.

780
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: Rodney McLeod wrapped up the day in the locker room.

781
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: He talked about what it's like to lose your starting

782
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: quarterback and how the Eagles were able to win the

783
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 1: Super Bowl with a backup quarterback back when he was there.

784
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 11: What happened, of course, it's a shot. Uh, you know

785
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 11: that that would be alive. You said, you know, you

786
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 11: weren't shocked. We understand what type of leader, what type

787
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 11: of player that we've lost. Uh, you know you saw

788
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 11: that you winn sat on Sunday, somebody who you know

789
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 11: started out the game with a pig six, but rally,

790
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 11: you know, hard from start to finish and put together

791
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 11: an incredible second half.

792
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 8: And he shows he's a warrior, you know, for what

793
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 8: he had to endure ankle, his.

794
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 11: Shoulder and with the news today, Oh it's a shock,

795
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 11: but you know what today is is a workday and

796
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 11: what doesn't change is a mission to hand and us

797
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 11: to go one to know. We understand who's coming in

798
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 11: town and they don't care. You know who's heard on

799
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 11: our side.

800
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 8: So we're going to bring our best and I'm sure

801
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 8: we're we're gonna get their best.

802
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 2: Right this defense.

803
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 12: Obviously, you've been through a lot the season already and

804
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 12: you always seem to find a way to bounce back.

805
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 12: You don't seem to let things bother you externally, Like,

806
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 12: how equipped do you think that your side of the

807
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 12: ball is to kind of contend with something like this?

808
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 12: So so big on offense?

809
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think as a defense, you know, we've we've

810
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 11: definitely been tested this year.

811
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 8: But I think as a team, you know, we've been

812
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 8: battle tested.

813
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 11: Think about you know who we lost the first time

814
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 11: we played was Nick Chubb, and people who outside were like,

815
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 11: you know, what's the run game going.

816
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 4: To look like?

817
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 8: And there you go, you know, guys like Jerome Kareem Hunt.

818
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 11: Uh here you know, just running back by committee steps

819
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 11: up and they're playing big And that's the expectations that

820
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 11: we had, this next man up mentality. You know, the

821
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 11: standard stays the same regardless of you know who blinds

822
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 11: up on that field. And so uh that is that

823
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 11: is the message, And I think we're prepared for this moment.

824
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 8: As a team and as a defense. So how do

825
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 8: you get over that shock?

826
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 15: You know, the initial shock? How do you get is

827
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 15: your passing?

828
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 11: I think you just understand what's important and you know

829
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 11: you can't necessarily dwell or change what's happened.

830
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 8: All we can do is focus on.

831
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 11: You know, the outcome, right, and how we affect the

832
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 11: outcome is we show up each and every day ready

833
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 11: to work.

834
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 8: And so Wednesday is a workday for us. If God's

835
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 8: been at teended, have.

836
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 11: Been focused in meetings, got a great walkthrough, and then

837
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 11: we want to see a transition over into practice.

838
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 15: What was it about that? What was it about that?

839
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 21: Felly team allowed you guys.

840
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 11: To overcome faith, start faith and belief, you know, and

841
00:36:54,280 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 11: our mindset, attitude never shifted, our goals never shifted. And

842
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 11: so that's what is going to be the test for

843
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 11: this team is our mindset and our attitude, you know,

844
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 11: each and every day. But in building that confidence in

845
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 11: one another and the guys who you know now are

846
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:14,720
Speaker 11: going to step in and be asked the field.

847
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 21: You know, you shoot, I know you already have a

848
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 21: big leadership role on this. Do you feel like kind

849
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 21: of because you've been through this before, like your voice

850
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 21: is even more important.

851
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 8: I think, you know, my voice can can help because

852
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 8: I've experienced it.

853
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 11: But at the end of the day, Uh, you know,

854
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 11: I think we we have a lot of leaders and

855
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,479
Speaker 11: so it's not gonna be up to one, It's gonna

856
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 11: be up to to many who where to hat to

857
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 11: be able to, you know, make sure everybody's focused and

858
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 11: the mindset stays the same.

859
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 12: Do you think your guys as a defense maybe thrive

860
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 12: on when you're being counted out as a team. Does

861
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 12: that make sense?

862
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 11: I think as a whole, you know, nobody expected us

863
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 11: to be here in this position that we're in. I

864
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 11: believe and you know, I think you know, we have

865
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 11: to remain hungry, remain with a chip on our shoulder

866
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 11: each and every week.

867
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 8: You know, you got to prove yourself, improve that you

868
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 8: know who you are.

869
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,479
Speaker 11: And I think you know, last week was a great

870
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 11: demonstration of the team that we can be and we

871
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 11: want to be.

872
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 8: So it's gonna be important to continue on with that.

873
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 8: Do you tell each other that the Golds don't change?

874
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 16: Oh?

875
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 11: Absolutely? Uh that was that was Kevin's message early on.

876
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,439
Speaker 11: You just put want to know what you know after

877
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 11: the devastating news. You want to know because it doesn't change,

878
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 11: and that's what we're here to do.

879
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 16: Dishall mentioned that some of these teams have offered to

880
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 16: travel to him and work out with him as he rehabs.

881
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 4: What does that say about the closeness of this team

882
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 4: and the bonds you guys have been.

883
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 8: At the creating the season. That says everything. I think

884
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 8: that that deep connection and togethernes started in Greenbrier, you know,

885
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 8: when we had the time to remove ourselves from the

886
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 8: outside world and just come together and bond.

887
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 11: And you've seen that really continue to grow throughout the

888
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 11: course of the year, and it paid dividend for us

889
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 11: last week. You know, like there was nobody you know

890
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 11: on that team who who had any doubt of what

891
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 11: we were, you know, going to do as that game

892
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,959
Speaker 11: went on, and gods continue to uplift one of them encourage.

893
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 8: Each other because it wasn't perfect and that's what got.

894
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 11: Us through, and so one need to do the same

895
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 11: before Man he's uh, he's he's been through a lot,

896
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 11: but we know that he's given himself or given us everything,

897
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 11: uh and that's that that was demonstrated last week, and

898
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 11: we want to support him during this time.

899
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 20: Ronnie, how do you guys make sure yeah, you don't

900
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 20: you don't try and do too much on your side

901
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 20: before him, you know what I'm saying, like understanding that, Hey,

902
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 20: you guys have been good already, but it might have

903
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 20: to be even better in this situation.

904
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 2: So how do you guys not do too much.

905
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you just stick to who we are.

906
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 15: Just be us.

907
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 11: That's allowed us to uh be top defense in the

908
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 11: in the league, you know, and you just take it

909
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 11: one game at a time. If we do our job

910
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:02,479
Speaker 11: preventing points and creating turnovers, given offense more opportunities, that's

911
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 11: going to put us in a good position to win.

912
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 8: And at the end of the day, that's our that's

913
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 8: our ultimate go running.

914
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 17: If you I don't know what uh one Thorny Hill's

915
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 17: status is. Do you know what it is as if

916
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 17: you're playing more in this game? Yeah, I don't know

917
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 17: at this moment.

918
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 11: Of course, you know that's on the coach, you know,

919
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 11: for the information too to be released and yeah, we'll

920
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,439
Speaker 11: see how things go as over the course of the week.

921
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 11: So I mean, so obviously you're ready to yeah, always, always,

922
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 11: always ready. Uh you know, that's that's part of my job.

923
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,879
Speaker 11: But at the end of the day, Yeah, we're hoping

924
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 11: for the best.

925
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 21: For want you said, Kevin put the one and oh

926
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 21: up on the board. Have you seen him navigate this

927
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 21: season where it's just like one thing after another.

928
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 11: Yeah, Uh, he's he's had great poise and calmness, and

929
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 11: I think that sort of energy and emotion.

930
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 8: Helps the team, uh in a major way.

931
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 11: When you're your leader, is it's still calm and confident

932
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 11: and our abilities and has true us and every individual,

933
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 11: then that gives you great confidence as a as a

934
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 11: team to go out there and perform.

935
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 2: What was that Super Bowl year?

936
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 17: Doug Peterson's first year, second second year of ye, so,

937
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 17: I mean, so he's kind of a young leader to

938
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 17: get you guys through that, yeah situation.

939
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 2: What was that like, I mean, it was it was great.

940
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 8: It was the same.

941
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 15: Uh.

942
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 11: We really lived on the next man of uh you

943
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 11: know mantra that year because of countless guys that we lost,

944
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 11: uh and we're talking Hall of Famer but you know

945
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 11: future Hall of famers off ros uh, And it was

946
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 11: it was hard.

947
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 15: Who else did you guys lose in that year?

948
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:42,720
Speaker 11: Jason Peters, Jordan Higgs, Darrence bros Carson, you know who's having.

949
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 8: A m VP cover year late in the year, And

950
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 8: it may have been a couple other guys too, just

951
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 8: along the way.

952
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 11: So it was huge blows for us, but other guys

953
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 11: stepped up and were huge contributors.

954
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: The players were done in the locker room head coach

955
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: Defanski spoke to the media to preview this but also

956
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: give us the latest updates on the DeShawn Watson situation

957
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: and who would play quarterback on Sunday.

958
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 15: Okay, obviously, I know you guys got the DeShawn news.

959
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 15: You know, incredibly disappointed for the kid. You know, he

960
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 15: battled like crazy to get back out there, and then

961
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 15: for what he did with those injuries in the second

962
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 15: half or is even more remarkable. So disappointed for him.

963
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 15: But he'll get back, he'll get healthy. I know that

964
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 15: he'll attack his rehab. So for us, we're excited about

965
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 15: our opportunity this week. Got the six and three Steelers

966
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 15: coming to town, you know, six and three Browns down

967
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 15: there on the Lake. So we're very excited about that

968
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 15: and that's where our focus is. We're focusing on going

969
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 15: want to know this week any which way we can,

970
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 15: and that's the exciting part about life in the NFL.

971
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 15: You know that Steelers team that's coming in here, as

972
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:53,959
Speaker 15: we know, really well coached, good players. They're a tough,

973
00:42:54,520 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 15: tough matchup. Their defense is that front is stout, good

974
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 15: players in the back end, including you know Joey Porter,

975
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 15: who is playing more and more and playing at a

976
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 15: high level for them offensively create all sorts of issues

977
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 15: with their pre snap movement. Some new players on that

978
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 15: side of the ball as well. I think they'll get

979
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 15: their tight end back. So uh, a huge challenge and

980
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 15: not and special teams. You know, I think our special

981
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 15: teams made some plays to help us win last week,

982
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 15: and and that's gonna definitely be the case again this week.

983
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 15: So again excited for the challenge of playing at our

984
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 15: place in November. And with that, I'll take any questions. Yeah,

985
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 15: Dorian's gonna start.

986
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 10: Why the decision?

987
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 15: Yeah, I just felt like, you know, as you know,

988
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 15: every week, you're trying to just make the best decisions

989
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 15: he can for your team. I wanna give him a

990
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 15: week where he knows he's a starter, gets a full

991
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 15: week of preparation.

992
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 4: What do you think you've learned from that first starter?

993
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 4: How's main grow?

994
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 13: Yeah?

995
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 15: I would hope all of our players learn from every opportunity,

996
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 15: whether you start or don't. Uh, you know, whether you

997
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 15: get ten plays or sixty plays, I think you take it.

998
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 15: You take learning experiences from every rep you get practice

999
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 15: in games.

1000
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 20: Yeah.

1001
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 15: Uh again, young players, Uh needed exposure. Uh, you get

1002
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 15: better in practice. Sometimes you get better through games.

1003
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 2: Kevin, it feels like one thing from another.

1004
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 5: Where's informs the season?

1005
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 2: I mean this same latest. Do you feel like what

1006
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 2: you've been through already or crash you guys for what's that?

1007
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 15: Yeah, I've said to you guys before, I've I've said

1008
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 15: to the team, you can't predict anything in this league.

1009
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,919
Speaker 15: You can't predict what's gonna happen. Uh when you're sitting

1010
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 15: there back in August. Uh, y, you don't know what's

1011
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 15: what's coming your way. So you know, we keep a

1012
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 15: very very narrow focus in this building.

1013
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 4: Uh.

1014
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 15: What I know is we got a big one on Sunday. Yeah,

1015
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 15: young player, Uh works very hard. Gave him a scout

1016
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 15: team game ball last week with his uh work as

1017
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,280
Speaker 15: prepping our our defense for for the Ravens.

1018
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 16: Uh.

1019
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 15: So he's gotten better and better I think in practice.

1020
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 15: UH works very hard in the meeting room with all

1021
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,919
Speaker 15: those guys and a VP. So, Uh, he's working very hard.

1022
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1023
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 15: I did not.

1024
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 21: Just still this series and I mean just.

1025
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 2: Continued.

1026
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 15: Yeah. You know, I've talked to him a lot, obviously. Uh,

1027
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 15: he's disappointed. He's a competitor, you know, he's a leader

1028
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 15: of the football team. So it's tough. And we've all

1029
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 15: been around this game and we've seen guys have season

1030
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 15: ending injuries and it's no fun for anybody. You feel

1031
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 15: for those guys. We got guys in the in the

1032
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,720
Speaker 15: training room right now that are out for the season.

1033
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 15: We feel for them. Uh, But we got a game.

1034
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 15: We got a game on Sunday, We got a great

1035
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 15: opportunity in front of us.

1036
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 20: Uh.

1037
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 15: So we know he's gonna go heel up and get

1038
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 15: better and in the meantime he's gonna be teammates.

1039
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 4: Against Baltimore. He also played really well.

1040
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 13: Trading him and in these games and going back to

1041
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:10,879
Speaker 13: that time, where did you really like about him?

1042
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: What did you confidence that you?

1043
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think for us obviously did a ton of

1044
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 15: work on him coming out. Uh. So he's played a

1045
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 15: lot of football. He's very athletic and make plays. Uh

1046
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 15: has a very good understanding of of what we do,

1047
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 15: of our offense and those type of things. So, Uh,

1048
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 15: he's a young player that I think we'll just continue

1049
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 15: to get better games.

1050
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 19: You just feel.

1051
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 15: No, I mean, it's I would tell you with with

1052
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 15: PJ uh, he's still a guy that we're counting on.

1053
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 15: He he's done a great job in the meeting room,

1054
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 15: on the practice field. Uh, like you mentioned, has led

1055
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 15: us in these games. He has to be ready to

1056
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 15: go uh at a moment's notice. Just felt like this

1057
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 15: was the right decision for the team right now.

1058
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 4: You didn't reveal you about to tackle the last.

1059
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 15: Week because you found out, Jeff, that's why. Nice sweatshirt

1060
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 15: by the way.

1061
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 2: Okay, oh thanks, But.

1062
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 15: So why did you choose to announce and excite again

1063
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 15: cause you found out?

1064
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 3: But if you've had experience in having to get back

1065
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,439
Speaker 3: up quarterbacks ready throughout your career, what kind what are.

1066
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 2: The elements and doing like they may of the week?

1067
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, so much gets made of the quarterback position.

1068
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 15: I get it. Uh, but every one of our players

1069
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 15: has to do their job. And I think when whether

1070
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 15: it's the left tackle, whether it's the quarterback, you just

1071
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 15: have to do your job. So uh as a back up,

1072
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 15: and particularly in that back up in that room, as

1073
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 15: a backup quarterback, UH, you have to understand the offense

1074
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 15: in and out. You have to be ready to to

1075
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 15: l operate from the huddle, operate at the line of scrimmage.

1076
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 19: Uh.

1077
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 15: But those are all things that you prepare yourself for

1078
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 15: during the week, So nothing's gonna change from that perspective.

1079
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 15: We expect who's ever out there just to do their job.

1080
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 10: Where did it like this?

1081
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 4: It's a good employers to be. But do you feel

1082
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 4: the need to rally the team to be for the crow?

1083
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 15: I mean I obviously I talked to the team about

1084
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 15: it this morning. Uh. Not gonna get into specifics other

1085
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 15: than say, we have a job to do Sunday.

1086
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 9: You have a player like, uh, he's got somethings in

1087
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:21,439
Speaker 9: your mentality, you know, Uh, but what is you guys

1088
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 9: are stood in the nineteens? So if how do you

1089
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 9: strick at bailance with Perey.

1090
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 15: And like play aired out and A sure, yeah, I

1091
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 15: think you can. You can play uh y, you can

1092
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 15: play this game, uh a certain way where you are

1093
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 15: playing uh care free, but you're not being careless. You

1094
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 15: have to take care of the ball. We know that

1095
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 15: turnover stat is the most important thing that drives winning

1096
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 15: and losing. Uh. I know Pittsburgh is tied for the

1097
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 15: league and plus ten and turn over margin that they've

1098
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 15: taken care of the ball. They haven't uh they've done

1099
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 15: haven't given them away very much and they've t had

1100
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 15: a lot of takeaways, so we get that. We saying

1101
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Speaker 15: that that's part of this game and every game moving

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00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 15: forward is taking care of the ball.

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Speaker 4: Well know the drums and friends and they also.

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Speaker 15: Don't it inspres right. Yeah, we'll work through all those

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00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:14,280
Speaker 15: things this week.

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Speaker 20: But it's really works by your sid.

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Speaker 4: Does that goat to you?

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Speaker 15: Uh? I I don't know. I I just know we

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00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 15: we've talked about as a team again with with the

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Speaker 15: NFL season, there are ups and downs. There are wins

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00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 15: and losses. You lose guys do to injury. People step up,

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Speaker 15: but we don't. We as a team don't ride an

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00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 15: emotional roller coaster. It it does us no good. We uh,

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Speaker 15: we focus on the task at hand.

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Speaker 11: Might just help.

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Speaker 9: Remarkable was pretty to go out there in the second

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Speaker 9: hand for fourteen fourteen rocal shoulder.

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Speaker 15: And yeah, uh b I told you after the game

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Speaker 15: it was you know, he was a warrior and that

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Speaker 15: was without knowing about the shoulder injury.

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Speaker 13: Uh.

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Speaker 15: Just to that scramble late in the game on a

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Speaker 15: high ankle, uh was incredible. Now the throws that he

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Speaker 15: was able to make, uh, especially the one on second

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Speaker 15: down there to Amar I think about Uh, you know,

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Speaker 15: difference in the game. So, uh, incredible feat of toughness.

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Speaker 4: Anybody who's not right this today? Can you are you

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Speaker 4: ruling any.

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Speaker 15: Way? Yeah? Not rolling anybody out. No, we we'll see. Yeah.

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Speaker 11: When do you think that that Dorote his start like

1131
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 11: that he should be the guy the lead this game

1132
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Speaker 11: used to see?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I I think with Dorian in that game. Uh again, Uh,

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Speaker 15: that was a tough spot that he was in.

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Speaker 16: Uh.

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Speaker 15: So I think this week, having a full week of preparation,

1137
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 15: knowing that he's gonna be the starter, I think is important.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 15: Every backup will tell you, and it's the truth. They

1140
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 15: have to be ready to go at at after the

1141
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 15: first play, after the second play, if the starter needs

1142
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:04,839
Speaker 15: a shoelace, you have to be ready to go. So uh,

1143
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 15: he's prepared himself all season. Just felt like this was

1144
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 15: the right thing for the team. Yeah. I think that's

1145
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 15: a huge part of it. Cam And I think, uh,

1146
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,839
Speaker 15: you know, this team, as we've all seen, will fight

1147
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 15: like crazy, Uh sometimes in pregame, which I don't recommend, uh,

1148
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,919
Speaker 15: but that's what's required. And these guys they care about

1149
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 15: each other. They're gonna push each other, They're they're there

1150
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 15: for each other. Uh. We have the Shaun's back through

1151
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 15: all this as he gets better, and we know he's

1152
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 15: got our back, so uh, we'll continue to fight. That's

1153
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 15: just what we do. But out there, obviously that's something

1154
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 15: that Andrew and his in the care will always look

1155
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 15: at those type of things. But Uh, I feel really

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00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 15: confident with the guys. We got yes to.

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Speaker 9: You more.

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00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm I'm not even yeah. For me, it's just

1159
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 15: getting our guys ready to play.

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00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 18: Is on the sideline Sunday.

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00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 4: If he's not, how long is it gonna be the team?

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00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 15: Yeah, we're still working through all that Sunday. It it

1163
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 15: depends on when that surgery is scheduled.

1164
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Speaker 9: You know a lot of you say teams at university

1165
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 9: and your house.

1166
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 10: I said in pre season that you.

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Speaker 15: Second. Yeah. Uh again, that's why you tryna. You can't

1168
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 15: predict it cause you you know, you don't even try to.

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Speaker 16: Uh.

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Speaker 15: But I I've said it a thousand times greatest team

1171
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 15: sports there is. You know, That's what I love about

1172
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 15: this game. I love the challenge.

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Speaker 19: Uh.

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Speaker 15: We love those guys. Uh, but reality is that they're

1175
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 15: out for the season, and we trust the guys that

1176
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 15: are gonna be in their spots.

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Speaker 8: Jury first time.

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Speaker 10: How what do you tell those guys on that side.

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Speaker 2: Full as.

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Speaker 10: Too much?

1181
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:17,919
Speaker 11: Yeah?

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00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think our guys understand what good defense looks like.

1183
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 15: It really just comes down to doing your job. We

1184
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 15: have really good leadership on that side of the ball,

1185
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Speaker 15: so I trust that they'll continue to keep that their focus.

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Speaker 1: That'll wrap up today's From the Podium podcast. You can

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