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Speaker 1: Well, can you kind of take us through with what

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Speaker 2: It was just throughout the game and all that kind

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Speaker 2: of stuff. I'm not really sure when or what, but

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Speaker 2: with where I'm at now, I feel good. So going

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Speaker 1: So when did you turn the corner?

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Speaker 3: You thought we were out there earlier in the week.

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Speaker 3: It looks like you weren't doing much, and all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden today you were Was it yesterday or what?

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Speaker 2: Uh? I mean yeah, just throughout the week and stuff,

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Speaker 2: the different things that we did in terms of like

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Speaker 2: our Thanksgiving yesterday? So like that's when I practiced and

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Speaker 2: felt good about it. So and then today I felt

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Speaker 2: really good at practice too.

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Speaker 1: So was there to go.

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Speaker 4: Back for a second in I was like we missed

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Speaker 4: up there? I mean last week there's some are having

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Speaker 1: What's going on here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean anytime you go through injury and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that, you want to know what's going on with

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Speaker 2: So all those things definitely ran through my mind. And

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Speaker 2: but I'm glad everything was clean within the MRI, and uh,

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Speaker 2: knowing that we had a plan to get ready for

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Speaker 1: So yesterday practice reable to make all the throws.

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Speaker 1: That it's got to be a relief. I mean, when

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Speaker 1: the conditions win that you might have to deal with

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo's is how important is it for you to

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Speaker 1: have full arm strength ready to go.

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Speaker 2: Oh for sure, if I'm out there playing, which is

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Speaker 2: the plan, then I'll be able to make every throw

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Speaker 2: that we have drawn up. So I wouldn't go out

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Speaker 2: the confidence to make every throw. So that's the plan.

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Speaker 1: I don't think.

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Speaker 3: I think what fortyty eight games in college, I don't

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Speaker 3: know if you ever missed a game and then here

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Speaker 3: you played, including playoffs, I think thirty seven in a row.

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Speaker 1: What was it like to not be preparing to play

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, you know, it was tough going into

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Speaker 2: So for me mentally, it was like, all right, this

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Speaker 2: So last week was definitely new, you know, going into

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Speaker 2: We're healthy and ready for this one.

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Speaker 5: The last time that you were not able to start.

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Speaker 2: Up yeah, uh maybe my junior year of high school

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Speaker 2: to stay healthy going into the playoffs. But the last

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Speaker 1: So did you have an opportunity to kind of just

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Speaker 1: Did you afford yourself that opportunity at all to just

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, last week just you know, sitting on

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Speaker 2: you know, what I started reflecting on and where I

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Speaker 2: was trying to get my mind at So you dove.

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Speaker 5: For the touchdown against the Seahawks, and I think your

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, obviously I want to be smart and

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Speaker 2: But you know that's part of my game of you know,

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Speaker 2: it's my competitive nature. I want to make it happen

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Speaker 3: So go play. A team is daunting as Buffalo without

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, obviously you'd love to have your guys

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Speaker 2: So you know that's that's part of the part of

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Speaker 4: Similar question, but not when you're not diving for a

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Speaker 3: Heads maybe you know, second and eighteen.

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Speaker 4: In the game four, I mean, are those things that

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Speaker 2: For sure, you know it's a long game, it's four quarters,

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Speaker 2: second and eighteen, just like you said, instead of you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think it just comes down to the

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Speaker 2: guys around me. So definitely got to think about all

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Speaker 2: of those things and uh, just be smart. You know,

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Speaker 2: into a tight end or receiver's hands, running backs hands

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Speaker 2: So it's the NFL and and uh, you know, I

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Speaker 2: be smart and protect my body for sure. Thanks you guys,