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Speaker 1: Hey, Mac, Um, I hope you don't mind me asking

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Speaker 1: a brady question to open, but I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: ask you about the end of the game, what that

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Speaker 1: was like for you, what he had to say to you,

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Speaker 1: anything you could share with us about that moment um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: after the game, just got a chance to congratulate him

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Speaker 1: on the win. And he's a great quarterback and yeah,

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Speaker 1: he played well at night and it's pretty much all

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Speaker 1: there was to it. He just told me to keep

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Speaker 1: my head up and keep working. Nick or mell in

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Speaker 1: the middle. Mac, we've seen the stretches, especially tonight, where

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Speaker 1: the offense is moving very well. You got motions going, Guys,

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Speaker 1: open your hidden receivers. Do you feel like this offense

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Speaker 1: is getting closer to the group that you want it

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Speaker 1: to be? Yeah? I do, Um. I think we moved

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Speaker 1: in the right direction. And you know, we made plays

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Speaker 1: and played hard the whole game. And I turned the

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Speaker 1: ball over. That's one of the problems. And you know

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Speaker 1: turnovers can kill you. And you know if you turn

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Speaker 1: the ball over, if you don't turn the ball over,

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Speaker 1: you have a ninety something percent chance to win. And

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Speaker 1: it's just statistics, but I thought we moved the ball

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Speaker 1: passing well, and the run game needs to improve, and

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Speaker 1: we'll come up with ways to do that. And I

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Speaker 1: thought everyone fought really hard and it sucks we lost,

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Speaker 1: but you gotta look at it like you said that,

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Speaker 1: we're making some progress, hey Mac. And obviously Tom's been

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Speaker 1: a big topic here for a while and especially leading

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Speaker 1: into this game. And you see the atmosphere, people obviously

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Speaker 1: cheering for me. He sets a record. How are you

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Speaker 1: able to stay composed and stay focused just throughout this

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Speaker 1: past week and throughout the game. I think, just focus

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Speaker 1: on what's important now. It's kind of what I tell myself.

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Speaker 1: And on Tuesday that was practice. On Wednesday it was practice,

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Speaker 1: Thursday practice, Friday practice. So I just try to focus

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Speaker 1: on how I can get better from the past week,

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Speaker 1: and everything else is a distraction. I just try to

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Speaker 1: block the noise, and everyone on our team try to

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Speaker 1: block the noise. And I wish I played a little

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Speaker 1: better so that we could have won, but it is

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Speaker 1: what it is, and hats off to the other football

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Speaker 1: team for getting to win. I don't see on your left, Matt,

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Speaker 1: you had trouble running the ball tonight. In fact, only

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Speaker 1: eight carries from matis one yards. How much difficult was

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Speaker 1: it for you in terms of what Tampa Bay was

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Speaker 1: doing because they knew you were going to run the ball,

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Speaker 1: in terms of what you had to adjust to to

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Speaker 1: keep the passing game going. Yeah, I think just where

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Speaker 1: we're at, you know, we just kind of had to

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Speaker 1: do what we had to do and try to throw

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Speaker 1: the ball more. And I'll have to look at the tape.

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Speaker 1: I don't really get a chance to look at every

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Speaker 1: detail of the running game, but obviously we're disappointed with that,

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Speaker 1: and I play a part in that and trying to

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Speaker 1: push everyone during practice and we can play better than that,

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Speaker 1: passing or running and we will. And I think it

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Speaker 1: just it's all about communication with the coach, is the players,

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Speaker 1: everybody just to find ways to fix the issue, and

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Speaker 1: we have to first identify the issue by watching the film.

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Speaker 1: So Hi, Mac, just to talk about the play the

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Speaker 1: tight Ends, JOHNU and uh I just um, you know,

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Speaker 1: look like both of them weren't sat tonight for the

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Speaker 1: first time this season. Yeah, I think the tight Ends

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Speaker 1: played well. You know, we just we got to keep

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Speaker 1: moving together as a team. It's not two people or

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Speaker 1: one person. It takes all eleven and we made strides

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Speaker 1: in that, but we just got to pick up the

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Speaker 1: consistency part, and that's skill players, offensive linemen, running backs, everybody.

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Speaker 1: So we will. And it just goes back to watching

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Speaker 1: the tape and I was proud of how those two

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Speaker 1: guys played, and a lot of guys on our team played.

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Speaker 1: They played hard, and it just wasn't our night and

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Speaker 1: it didn't go away. You Burton in the middle and Mack,

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Speaker 1: you know, you're going up against the best quarterback ever

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Speaker 1: and I thought you played extremely well tonight, a very

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Speaker 1: efficient moving the ball down the field. Talk about the

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Speaker 1: game plan Josh McDaniel has had, especially when it came

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Speaker 1: to throw on the ball and the trick plays. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think Josh did a great job this week preparing

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Speaker 1: everybody for what we wanted to do and how I

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Speaker 1: wanted to attack the game. And you know, I think

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Speaker 1: we executed well, but obviously not good enough to win.

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Speaker 1: But Josh did a great job, and I think that

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Speaker 1: it was good for us to learn that. You know,

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Speaker 1: we didn't put it all together, but we got close

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Speaker 1: to putting it all together and playing a full game together.

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Speaker 1: And when we can do that, I think positive things

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Speaker 1: will happen and we didn't. You know, we could be

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Speaker 1: ninety percent or eighty five percent and you lose. So

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Speaker 1: you know, we don't really do moral victories. Those those

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Speaker 1: are always forgotten, but you just kind of have to

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Speaker 1: take it for what it's worth and move on. Last question,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Callahan on the right Mac. We were just chatting

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Speaker 1: with Devin mccordy, who said to us that you've earned

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Speaker 1: the trust of everyone in that locker room. You're one

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Speaker 1: of the guys now, he doesn't see you as a

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Speaker 1: rookie at all. What does that mean to you? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think just you know, and coming in and learning

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Speaker 1: from a lot of the older guys. I have a

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Speaker 1: long way to go, and I just try to put

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Speaker 1: my best foot forward every day, and I think we

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Speaker 1: all want to win. So it sucks right now, but

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Speaker 1: I think we have to take it for a positive

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Speaker 1: and just trust our leaders. We have a great leadership

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Speaker 1: on the team, and I can do a better job

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Speaker 1: in practice just being vocal, getting everybody going, and I

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Speaker 1: think we made strides, but we just have to listen

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Speaker 1: to our leaders and not lose hope. We have a

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Speaker 1: long season ahead and there's a lot of work to

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Speaker 1: do and we have a lot of progress to make,

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Speaker 1: so we will. Thanks guys,