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Speaker 1: Sun alright, awow had Doug uh injury of a year

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Speaker 1: A conversation. Oh, you want to ask a question, Evan

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Speaker 1: Ingram's Darnel Savage? How they look for going into Monday?

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Speaker 2: Evan right now, he's he's, he's a little bit further away,

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Speaker 2: you know, so you know, we'll have to take it

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Speaker 2: kind of day by day, you know. Right now with him,

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Speaker 2: sav we're gonna we're gonna work back in uh to

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Speaker 2: get him progressed. So hopefully he hopefully he's available, he.

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Speaker 3: Said before the tenth Bixby could have came into the

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Speaker 3: game on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Is is he still on track to be fine to play?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? He he's uh, he he's he's doing well. He's

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Speaker 2: he's on track. Yes.

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Speaker 4: I think it's such Trevor's play for two two weeks.

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Speaker 4: I know there's been some good, some bad, but play

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Speaker 4: Where is he rank in the grand scheme of all

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Speaker 4: the issues on offense?

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Speaker 2: I guess, I guess to if you evaluate you know

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Speaker 2: Trevor and I know the quarterback position and and and

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Speaker 2: gets a lot of scrutiny, I think, but you know,

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Speaker 2: there's there's a lot of issues that we have to

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Speaker 2: I say a lot. There's there's there's a few issues

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Speaker 2: that we need just assignment errors that that need to

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Speaker 2: be fixed obviously. You know, I think I think he's

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Speaker 2: he's done a he's done, he's done a good job.

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Speaker 2: He can he be better, Yeah, he can be better,

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Speaker 2: you know, and and I think that's all part of

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Speaker 2: just the continuing, you know, to to grow. You know,

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Speaker 2: I think too you look at you know, we've had

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Speaker 2: we've had more you know, backed up drives. Two games

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Speaker 2: I think we've had in two years, you know, to start.

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Speaker 2: So our starting field position has been been tough. So

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Speaker 2: there's some challenges there too, right, so you know we

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Speaker 2: face we faced some certain you know situations there. But

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Speaker 2: you know, I think he's he's on track, he's doing

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Speaker 2: some doing some really good things. You know, the game

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Speaker 2: the other day, we just didn't have enough opportunities in

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Speaker 2: the first half. He's made some really good throws down

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Speaker 2: the field to Brian, and we continue to push the

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Speaker 2: ball down the field and you know, I think I

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Speaker 2: think two when it's not there, he's done a good

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Speaker 2: finding the back So I just got to keep keep working.

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Speaker 1: With with Evan, you know, working his way back on board.

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Speaker 4: Was it for Brenton to kind of get that experience

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Speaker 1: Just for his confidence?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I think it's I think it was big for

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Speaker 2: for Brenton. You know, he's he's the that's the type

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Speaker 2: of player we know that he is that he's capable

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Speaker 2: of being. And and he did. He did some really

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Speaker 2: good things. Played well, played played physical too in the

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Speaker 2: running game, which is which was good to see. And

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Speaker 2: he's done that, you know, since he's been here. So

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Speaker 2: it just adds adds more to to his confidence obviously,

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Speaker 2: and it just continues to I think grow with the

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Speaker 1: I know, you guys see that from him in practice.

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Speaker 1: What does it do for years of coach when do

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Speaker 2: That's why we drafted him, you know, and that's why

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Speaker 2: he's got that capability of not only running but running

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Speaker 2: routes and or I should say run blocking and running routes.

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Speaker 2: And he's physical. So it's it's good to see kind of.

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Speaker 1: Going back to the quarterback situation. But tangidentially, passing seems

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Speaker 2: Maybe I haven't really studied it right now, kind of

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Speaker 3: Nine touchdown passes? He was in seventy six seven point

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Speaker 3: one yards. Target's depth is the lowest it's it's been

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Speaker 2: gonna you're gonna run certain looks You're gonna throw versus

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Speaker 5: Buffalo Monday night. I mean, it's it's a daunting place

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Speaker 5: to play. Does this tea Do you need that challenge

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Speaker 5: right now, something really big in front of them to

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Speaker 2: For for Yeah, I think it's just good. I think

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Speaker 2: a it's a great opportunity to go on the road.

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Speaker 2: As you mentioned, it's a it's a really a a

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Speaker 2: great atmosphere for football. It's a Monday night game. The

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Speaker 2: And and this is a great opportunity for them.

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Speaker 1: And you stress not.

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Speaker 4: Paying a game, but we need personnel changes on the

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Speaker 2: All mm mm not right now.

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Speaker 1: Uh, both of 'em.

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Speaker 2: How don't they really, I guess looked different than when

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Speaker 2: you guys played it last.

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Speaker 1: Year just on the table.

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Speaker 2: it's just it's the it's very similar to what we

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Speaker 2: They're playing. They're playing good team football, you know, in

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Speaker 4: Can you even Midge going back, do you get a

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Speaker 4: sense that you know, these guys want to show that.

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Speaker 1: They got a little bit loud?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean that you know, it'd be exciting

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Speaker 2: for them, you know, to go back and and play

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Speaker 2: they they they they've played against or played in front

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Speaker 2: of for many years. But I know their focus now

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Speaker 2: and they get back on track, So it'll be it'll

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Speaker 2: be exciting, but at the same time, you know they've

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Speaker 2: got a job to do and they'll be ready for that.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: I mean the players that collectively said that, you know,

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Speaker 1: Accountability and how much we go to look.

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Speaker 5: Ourselves in the mirror, and you know all the buzzwords

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Speaker 5: that you hear when they're disappointment sent it.

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Speaker 1: Do you anticipate that this is the type of game

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Speaker 5: It upon themselves t to prove to people that they

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Speaker 5: are that what they put out the first two weeks is.

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Speaker 4: Not who they are.

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Speaker 2: I I I think so look, it's it's gosh, it's

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Speaker 2: a it's a player driven you know. You know, we

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Speaker 2: we as coaches, we we put you know, the best

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Speaker 2: hopefully the best game plans together that we can, but

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Speaker 2: it comes down to execution, and we've got to coach

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Speaker 2: I can appreciate what they're saying, right then it tells

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Speaker 2: I mean, but but we're not. And uh, we've got

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Speaker 2: they've seen it, We've shown it to them, and this

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