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Speaker 1: Be cold to night being out there today. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty chilly. Uh to be cold Sunday night too, So um,

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Speaker 1: good to have a day to practice in it, for sure.

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Speaker 1: What did you take from last Commander's matchup and things

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Speaker 1: you took my personally? Um, well, I mean I think

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Speaker 1: we did. You know, some thing's well. Offensively. I think

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Speaker 1: there's a lot we need to improve on going into

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Speaker 1: this one. I think, um, you know, we need to

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Speaker 1: be better on third down. I think that's something that

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Speaker 1: we've seen. Um, you know watching the first matchup. We've

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Speaker 1: gotta be able to sustain drives and stay on the field. Um.

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Speaker 1: They're good defense, good pass rush, um you know, and

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Speaker 1: they're they're good, they're good defense. So um you know,

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Speaker 1: I think the most part, um you know, you have

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Speaker 1: that you have that game to study, so you expect

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Speaker 1: a lot of similarities. Um you know, we'll see what

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Speaker 1: kind of game plan they have and do this as

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest games of your career. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think it's a it's a really big game, um,

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Speaker 1: you know for for all of us and um you

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Speaker 1: know it's a big divisional game on the road, um

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Speaker 1: in December, so you know, Yeah, it's a it's a

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Speaker 1: big game, big game for how much do you think

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Speaker 1: that how you're performing games like this and down the

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Speaker 1: stretch is possibly going to determine your future? You know

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Speaker 1: how much? Whatever the next contract looks, like, where you land,

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Speaker 1: if you're here, all those things. Uh yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: I haven't spent a whole lot of time thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think I will. I think, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, my focus is I'm preparing to play as

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Speaker 1: well as I can and and you know that's been

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Speaker 1: my mindset the whole season. I don't think that changes

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Speaker 1: at this point in that building. H anything about it,

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Speaker 1: you know, memories, anything, sightline, something that you can figure on,

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Speaker 1: you know, why you've done love there? Um, I don't know, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if there's um, if there's

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Speaker 1: one thing I do, you know, I like to stay

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Speaker 1: to them like a good good few old and and

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Speaker 1: uh yeah I like the stadium, so um, yeah, it'll

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Speaker 1: be fun Sunday night football. Uh, Like I said, divisional

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Speaker 1: game in December, So um, it'll be a fun atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: What do you like about the stadium? In the architecture,

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Speaker 1: the locker room, spongeness. I feel what you like if

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Speaker 1: I touchdown pass, I don't know. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it'll be a fun atmosphere. I mean, is it does

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Speaker 1: it helps? I mean it's Kamma. I'm not gonna help

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Speaker 1: you with the game, but you're going into a place

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Speaker 1: you've had success because you know you could visualize that, sir.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I think so. But um, you know, every

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Speaker 1: game is different, every matchup is different. You know this

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Speaker 1: one will be different than um one a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago too, So um yeah, well we'll come out

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Speaker 1: and be ready to go. When you started digging into

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Speaker 1: the Commanders again, is it like I just put this

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Speaker 1: really quick. Yeah it does. Um, you know it's still

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Speaker 1: it's all still pretty fresh in your memory, watching watching

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Speaker 1: you know you still gotta go back through it. You

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Speaker 1: missing any any small detail. But um yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: that's helpful. But also that actual in person experience has

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Speaker 1: for sure. I think, um, there's a lot we can

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, you expect a lot of similarities,

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Speaker 1: their game play. When you're preparing for a game of

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Speaker 1: I mean I think everyone's no one's gonna have an

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Speaker 1: know you can't. You can't skip any steps this week.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's one day at a time in the

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Speaker 1: I mean I think, UM, I don't make a ton

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Speaker 1: Do you think that guys either you know, can put

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Speaker 1: in order in order for us to win on Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: In the two games where you've had positive results in

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Speaker 1: find a way to do that. I mean, you rush

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Speaker 1: there's just to fall up by a question Jordan asked

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Speaker 1: earlier about the contract. There was a report on a

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Speaker 1: newsday that said the team hadn't made a decision as

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Speaker 1: to what they want to do with you. Just curious

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Speaker 1: if you feel like the body of work you've done

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Speaker 1: when the season's over, um, you know, I'll look back

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Speaker 1: and and have a, um, have probably a more complete

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Speaker 1: look at it just game, when you look at where

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Speaker 1: you are career wise, how do you feel like you've

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Speaker 1: done through that set into that stretch? Um, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think I've improved. I think I'm I've improved every year.

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Speaker 1: I've improved, um, you know, a week to week and

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Speaker 1: and uh, I've learned a lot. I think there's still

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Speaker 1: and uh continue to work on. So that's what I'm

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Speaker 1: focused on. How much is this sort of the next

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Speaker 1: step though in that regard, right, like winning a big

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Speaker 1: game here, making the playoffs kind of making that next jump. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think it's uh, you know, it's big

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Speaker 1: for for all of us. It's not you know, it's

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Speaker 1: not about me, It's not about any one guy it's

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Speaker 1: not about UM, you know, it's it's about the team.

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Speaker 1: It's about an opportunity. We all have to UM to

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Speaker 1: play in the playoffs, and the only way we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do that is taking care of business one week at

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Speaker 1: a time. So that's where that's where we're focused. That's

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Speaker 1: where I'm focused, and we're excited for the opportunity