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Speaker 1: James, how would you describe the mood and atmosphere around

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Speaker 1: the players as you sort of recalibrate over the last

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Speaker 1: couple of days. I think everybody's excited for the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: I said, everything we wanted still out there in front

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Speaker 1: of us. I have a good opponent. The Titans played

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Speaker 1: these guys last year. They're well coached, tough football team,

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Speaker 1: physical team, so be a great challenge for So everybody's excited. Said,

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Speaker 1: still playoff football and this is what you should played

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Speaker 1: for from Ota training camp toil. Now is the moment

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Speaker 1: you play for. And as you've started to study the Titans,

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Speaker 1: what stands out to you about their defense? So they're physical,

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Speaker 1: they capitalize on your mistakes, have a very good secondary.

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Speaker 1: Everybody out back there can catch the football, so you

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Speaker 1: make a mistake, they're catching the ball. So they run

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Speaker 1: a couple of different looks, try and run some jat,

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Speaker 1: blitz and all that good stuff. And they're very well coached.

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Speaker 1: And we've played them a couple of times and it's

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Speaker 1: always a tough football game. So I had to bring

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Speaker 1: our a game. James, from your standpoint playing the Titans

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Speaker 1: last year, how they defended you and you mentioned the

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Speaker 1: physicality that was evident right from the start of the game.

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Speaker 1: What stands out to you the way they defended you

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Speaker 1: in particular last year. Oh well, I mean they switch

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Speaker 1: up the looks every now and then, be different people

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Speaker 1: coming you whatnot. They mix up their man man calls

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Speaker 1: in zone calls. So I mean, you never know what

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Speaker 1: they're gonna do. They can come out with a completely

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Speaker 1: different game plan and when we played them last year.

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Speaker 1: So you can watch the film for a personnel, but

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Speaker 1: you gotta be ready to adjust when the game bay

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Speaker 1: comes around. So I said, they're gonna come out here

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Speaker 1: with a lot of confidence. They've been playing well the

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Speaker 1: last few games, and I said, I play our basketball James.

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Speaker 1: Spending so much time with the Titans this preseason, spending

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Speaker 1: multiple practice with them, then playing against them, how much

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Speaker 1: can you draw from that time you spent with that

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Speaker 1: team as applied to this week. You can draw a

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Speaker 1: little bit from it. Obviously they could do things differently

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Speaker 1: than when we practice against them and whatnot in the

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Speaker 1: preseason game. But you can take the way that they

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Speaker 1: were coached from the practices, how physical they were, the

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Speaker 1: energy that they played with, and you can kind of

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Speaker 1: look at the one on ones that we had all

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Speaker 1: that good stuff some of the team drills, but I

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Speaker 1: gotta study in the game film as well. Got a

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Speaker 1: lot of game film to look at. I said, they're

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Speaker 1: a talented team. They've been playing well, especially this last

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Speaker 1: stretch of the season in order for them to make

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Speaker 1: it to the playoffs. So they're come here with a

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Speaker 1: lot of confidence. You guys play the Titans last year,

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Speaker 1: you spent training camp part of training camp there. They're

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Speaker 1: coached by a guy who understands this organization pretty well.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that familiarity sort of changes anything about

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Speaker 1: this game? Does it feel relevant? I don't think it

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Speaker 1: changes anything. I said, We've we've played them a couple

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Speaker 1: of times and we know they're well coached, going to

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Speaker 1: be coached. Similarly, we're a coach. And they said they're

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Speaker 1: gonna come out ready to play. Raybe will have those

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Speaker 1: guys fired up. They're gonna be excited. We're gonna be excited. Tom.

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Speaker 1: I said, you gotta go out there and play our

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Speaker 1: best football, obviously be having done that a couple of

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Speaker 1: games of the last stretch of the season. But I said,

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Speaker 1: the beauty of it that it's still out there that

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Speaker 1: we can't play our best fotball. I think that's everybody's

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Speaker 1: excited about. James. How much improvement have you guys made

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Speaker 1: in the screen game in your mind over the last

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Speaker 1: few weeks. I think we made a good improvement. Screenplays

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Speaker 1: or team players, it takes everybody for them to be executed.

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Speaker 1: From quarterbacks, running backs, receivers, offensive linement, tight ends. They

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Speaker 1: can create a huge play for us. And if coach

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Speaker 1: with Dames dials ed up, everybody has to be on

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Speaker 1: the same page to get it done and it usually

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Speaker 1: creates big games for us. So those plays are called

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Speaker 1: I just want to try and create a big play, James.

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Speaker 1: Last two weeks, when you guys, when your backs were

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Speaker 1: against the wall in the fourth quarter trailing, your offense

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Speaker 1: responded well with two touchdown drives. What's the level of

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Speaker 1: confidence in the offense right now that when your backs

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Speaker 1: are against the wall you can you can come through. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we always have confidence no matter what the situation is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, coach mcdan's is a great job of dialing

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Speaker 1: up good plays and those type of situations and we

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Speaker 1: all know that we have to execute when those situations arise,

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Speaker 1: and we practice those situations all year long and practice,

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Speaker 1: and when they come up in the game, I think

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Speaker 1: everybody's to go out there and get the job done.

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Speaker 1: So whenever our backs against the wall, you gotta be

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Speaker 1: an answer. Last week when we talked to you, a

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Speaker 1: lot of people guys said, hey, this is a playoff

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Speaker 1: game because we have a chance to skip around. Obviously

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Speaker 1: it didn't work out the way you were hoping. How

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Speaker 1: challenging is it to sort of recover from that and

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Speaker 1: get yourself reset, you know, to go. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's very challenging at all. Like I said, it's still

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Speaker 1: playoff football. Like I said before, everything we want is

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Speaker 1: still out there in front of us. So it's got

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Speaker 1: to recalibrate. I said, a short week, good opponent, it's

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Speaker 1: gotta be ready to go go out there, have fun,

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Speaker 1: play physical, know your job due to the best of

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Speaker 1: your abilities. You never know which play is gonna make

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Speaker 1: a difference. And specific to Tom Brady, he was hurt

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Speaker 1: on himself just from the last game. I'm curious what

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Speaker 1: you've noticed just from being around him this week, how

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Speaker 1: he's preparing for this game. I said, We're all preparing

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Speaker 1: for it to the best of our abilities. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: we all didn't play our best football last week, and

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Speaker 1: we all because we wanted to play better, but we didn't.

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Speaker 1: Can't sulk on that. Like I said, it's a playoff

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Speaker 1: game here. He played a play in these games right here.

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Speaker 1: We're all excited to get back out there. Ro