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Speaker 1: Hey, James, can you speak to the importance of Sonny

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Speaker 1: Michelle and Rex Burkheadson Oh man, he's in every week.

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Speaker 1: Those guys trying to run hard. No matter how many

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Speaker 1: guys are have in the box, putting safetans in the box,

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Speaker 1: those guys run tough, get those tough yards, and I

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Speaker 1: mean they're a big help for us today. James, there's

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Speaker 1: no bigger leader on the team obviously than Tom. The

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Speaker 1: way he came out and looked with laser sharp, razor focus,

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Speaker 1: whatever expression you want to use. He looked very sharp

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Speaker 1: to begin the game. How does that set the tone

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the offense. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: the whole team that was the mindset. You know, it

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Speaker 1: was gonna be a tough football game. They're gonna come in,

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Speaker 1: come out ready to go, and we had to be

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Speaker 1: the same. And we got the ball firsts in offense,

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Speaker 1: and I just want to have a great first drive,

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Speaker 1: and I think everybody just want to come out and

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Speaker 1: compete for four quarters. That's the type of game we

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Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be. Came down to the last possession,

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Speaker 1: so I was gonna take whatever it took out there

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Speaker 1: to go out there and get a win. James, it

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Speaker 1: looked like the run game looked too consistent. Try to

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Speaker 1: force the ball on the ground throughout the game and

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter got a consistent push, especially in

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Speaker 1: the red zone. What did it mean to have that

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Speaker 1: sort of success in the ground and to do so

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Speaker 1: in a quick situation at the end of the game.

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Speaker 1: At this time of year, you had to be able

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Speaker 1: to run the football. You can't be one dimensional. So

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Speaker 1: you're getting the red zone. You don't always hit to

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Speaker 1: throw it in. If you can run it in, that's

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Speaker 1: always a big bonus. So offensive line at a great

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Speaker 1: job blocking tight ends, e Rob receivers, and they opened

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Speaker 1: up lanes for Sony Rex myself, And like I said,

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Speaker 1: I think everybody tried to run hard. Hey, James, coach

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Speaker 1: talks about it a lot, said it a lot less

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Speaker 1: a couple of months. Mental toughness, physical toughness. But on

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Speaker 1: the mental toughness, what does mental toughness mean to you

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Speaker 1: in a night like this. I just going out there

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Speaker 1: and playing your best football. Everybody knows what was at

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Speaker 1: stake tonight, So I just wanted to try to go

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Speaker 1: out there and play turnover free. But I mean, we

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Speaker 1: had one turnover, But we made a correction from that,

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Speaker 1: and I think everybody want to go out there and

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Speaker 1: play a full fourth quarter football game that we hadn't

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Speaker 1: done yet, especially offensively. So still have room for improvement, obviously,

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Speaker 1: but so stepping the right to rection. You gotta have

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Speaker 1: a great week of practice next week and come out

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Speaker 1: ready to go. James, we saw Landing Roberts out with

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Speaker 1: you guys in the running game quite a bit today.

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Speaker 1: What was it like to have him such a consistent

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Speaker 1: part of the offense this time? I mean, he's a

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Speaker 1: big help. He's a physical guy, and he did a

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Speaker 1: great job blocking for us. He gets amped up about

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Speaker 1: it and he prior over host for Sony and Rex,

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Speaker 1: and I said, he's been a good help for us

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Speaker 1: out there, James. This team has demonstrated resiliency and mental

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Speaker 1: toughness in a lot of different ways. At the end

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Speaker 1: of the first half, you guys are in position it

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Speaker 1: seems to convert on the fourth and inches, and the

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Speaker 1: next thing you know, Buffalo is scoring on a tackle

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Speaker 1: eligible touchdown pass to tie the game at halftime. What

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Speaker 1: is it about this team that enables you guys to

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Speaker 1: put that behind you? Come back out and you regain

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Speaker 1: the lead in the second half, and then when Buffalo

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Speaker 1: searches ahead again, you have the ability to bounce back

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Speaker 1: can eventually overcome. That's the way the game of football works.

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Speaker 1: Everything's not going to be perfect and sometimes things aren't

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Speaker 1: going to go your way. You gotta find a way

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Speaker 1: to bounce back. And think, since we came into the

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Speaker 1: locker room at half time, I think guys like, the

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Speaker 1: game's not over, still in it. Just go out there compete.

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Speaker 1: And I said, they made their plays, but we just

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Speaker 1: had to make enough to go out there and win

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Speaker 1: the game. James