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Speaker 2: Yeah. So I am refreshed, I'm rejuvenated. I'm ready for

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Speaker 3: You do look fally today.

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Speaker 1: You've got your you got your fall colors on today,

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Speaker 1: It's been a lot of fun to do college and

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Speaker 1: I mean this past weekend to only do a college

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Speaker 3: Good to see a coach, Great to be here. Did

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Speaker 4: I did not? My wife and I we stayed around,

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Speaker 4: You know, you kind of you take it for granted.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes you look at it and understanding that you still

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Speaker 4: have eight games left. But so, you know, I think

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Speaker 4: it's a great opportunity though, because you have to get

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Speaker 4: away from it for a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you do, and the juices seem to flow after

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Speaker 1: you get away from that. Is it a time to

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Speaker 1: consider maybe making some changes in terms of installing a

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Speaker 1: game plan when you have extra time and you have

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Speaker 1: two weeks instead of one.

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Speaker 4: Well, no, you got to be careful sometimes as coaches,

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Speaker 4: when you have too much time to game plan, you

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Speaker 4: get too many ideas. That's always the thing you talk

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Speaker 4: about super Bowl teams and when you're playing, you have

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Speaker 4: that first week and then all of a sudden, now

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Speaker 4: there's that extra week. You got to be very careful.

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Speaker 4: It's the same thing coming off a bye week of

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Speaker 4: you know, trying to do too much. But the great

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Speaker 4: thing is you get to evaluate in a little more.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you're always doing self scout, that's every week.

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Speaker 4: You look at numbers, you look at what you're doing,

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Speaker 4: you look at efficiency. But this way you have more

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Speaker 4: time to go through and watch all the tape and

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Speaker 4: do certain things. There's a little tweak you can do here.

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Speaker 4: So it always helps to have a little extra time.

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Speaker 4: And you know, it's also great for the players because

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Speaker 4: when certain players are dinged up and doing certain once

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Speaker 4: you start the season, you never feel the same as

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Speaker 4: you did when you first or a training camp say that,

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Speaker 4: but it gives some guys to get their legs back

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Speaker 4: and feel a little fresher when they come back.

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Speaker 1: We're visiting with coach Mike McCoy on Monday Night Titans.

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Speaker 1: I'm Taylor's arzer all right through nine games of the season. Coach,

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Speaker 1: let's talk specifically about a few players, and let's start

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Speaker 1: with Chim dk, your terrific specialist on kicks and punts

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Speaker 1: and now a starting wide receiver. For you, you've been with

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Speaker 1: this guy since the Titans drafted him as you were

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Speaker 1: a part of the Titans staff and now the interim

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Speaker 1: head coach.

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Speaker 3: What makes this.

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Speaker 1: Guy so special? I know it's not just his performance

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Speaker 1: on the field. You can't just perform like that on

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Speaker 1: the field. You have to be committed all of the

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Speaker 1: time in order to perform like that. Can you give

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Speaker 1: everyone listening to us right now a sense of what

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Speaker 1: makes this guy tick and why he's having such a

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Speaker 1: terrific rookie year.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think not just Chim, but the entire rookie class.

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Speaker 4: And I tell people when I see friends, you know,

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Speaker 4: you play them, you know on Sundays and stuff, talk

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Speaker 4: about it. I think the entire rookie class has done

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Speaker 4: a phenomenal job, not just on the field, but off

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Speaker 4: the field. And with that the preparation, uh, their work ethic.

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Speaker 4: You know, we we've talked, We've been talking about him

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Speaker 4: every week and it's not shocking at all because of

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Speaker 4: just the way he works. You know, you as you

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Speaker 4: get to a certain point and you talk about, uh,

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Speaker 4: you know sometimes rookies hitting that rookie wall you didn't see.

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Speaker 4: I think because the way he practices every day. You

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Speaker 4: never saw that. It just he goes full speed. He

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Speaker 4: only knows one speed. And it's at times you're like, okay, hey, listen,

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Speaker 4: we said we're gonna, you know, go, He's like, this

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Speaker 4: way I do it. And I think it's just because

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Speaker 4: his work ethic, the way he prepares. I think Tyke's

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Speaker 4: done a great job with them offensively and obviously bones

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Speaker 4: and stew in the kicking game, but I just think

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Speaker 4: his love of the game and his passion and just

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Speaker 4: he's learning, you know, and the great thing when he

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Speaker 4: took you know, got the big return, it's this. It's

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Speaker 4: the players now they start to see the way he

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Speaker 4: returns it and they want to do their job better

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Speaker 4: because they know they don't want to be that guy

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Speaker 4: that didn't make the block. But I think it all

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Speaker 4: comes down to his work ethic and is he wants

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Speaker 4: to be great, and he's done a phenomenal job, no.

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Speaker 2: Now back to the OTP.

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Speaker 1: We went through Chim DK, who was drafted in the

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Speaker 1: fourth round out of Florida via Wisconsin. I'm sure that,

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Speaker 1: as you said, collectively, it's all the rookies you meant.

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Speaker 1: Gunner Helm, the tight end out of Texas. Elicio Manor

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Speaker 1: from Stanford also drafted in the fourth round. Now let's

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Speaker 1: go to the second round choice who had an unfortunate

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Speaker 1: injury against Las Vegas last month, Fami Oladejo. That guy's

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Speaker 1: motor is unbelievable, his confidence level, his personality is infectious,

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Speaker 1: and I know we really were seeing some improvement from

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Speaker 1: a HM coach before he had the injury. Givey, can

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Speaker 1: you give us an update on how he's doing right

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Speaker 1: now and just what is your evaluation of Femi as

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Speaker 1: he's a rookie.

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Speaker 4: Well, Femi did an outstanding job up until he got hurt.

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Speaker 4: And you love his energy. I mean, the guy has

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Speaker 4: always got a smile on his face. And I actually

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Speaker 4: that Sean Foster was with us in Carolina for a

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Speaker 4: long time, so we always got to talk about Deshaun

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Speaker 4: and this and that, and you just love the way

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Speaker 4: he approaches every day and it's not shocking to me

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Speaker 4: the way he's played before he got injured, and he's

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Speaker 4: he's doing everything he can. But it's like one of

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Speaker 4: those injuries. It's like you got to talk to him

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Speaker 4: all the time. Listen, just be patient with this. I

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Speaker 4: know there's the frustration that sets in because he wants

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Speaker 4: to be out there, just like all the other injured

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Speaker 4: guys on our team. That's like they want to be

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Speaker 4: out there to help the team. But it's like this

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Speaker 4: is something you can't you have no control over this

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Speaker 4: right now. You know this is going to take some

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Speaker 4: time to heal. Continue to learn, that's the big thing

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Speaker 4: is continue to be in all the meetings, study, do

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Speaker 4: all those things just like you're playing, because that's all

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Speaker 4: part about being a rookie is you're just going to

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Speaker 4: keep learning. And sometimes it's it's good. Sometimes it's good

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Speaker 4: for players that you all of a sudden you get

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Speaker 4: thrown in the mix and then you got to step

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Speaker 4: back for a little bit and you might you might

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Speaker 4: learn some things like, hey, maybe I took these things

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Speaker 4: for granted and that now I could do this a

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Speaker 4: little better. And you learn because now you have a

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Speaker 4: better understanding the system and you're watching from.

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Speaker 1: A Finally, the first round draft choice, the very first

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Speaker 1: pick in the NFL draft, is taking every snap at

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Speaker 1: quarterback this year. And cam Mood you were telling the

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Speaker 1: assembled media just a little while ago, you were telling

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Speaker 1: me before we started, you just love coaching this guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you love his work ethic. He wants to be great,

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Speaker 4: he wants to be coached hard, and you know he

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Speaker 4: has the moments where there's the frustration sets in. You say, listen,

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Speaker 4: that's okay. You're a young player. You play the toughest

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Speaker 4: position in the game. There's going to be the ups

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Speaker 4: and downs, and you just you're going to continue to

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Speaker 4: get better every week. That's that's the most important thing

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Speaker 4: from a quarterback position as a rookie. There's going to

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Speaker 4: be the ups and downs, and you just keep firing

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Speaker 4: away and you got to have play with conviction, trust

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Speaker 4: the system, do all the little things right, and I

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Speaker 4: think he's getting better every week.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's nothing more that he would like to do

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Speaker 1: than beat a team near where he's from, the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Of course, he's from West Columbia, Texas. Houston is coming

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Speaker 1: to Nashville this Sunday. They just had a crazy victory

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Speaker 1: over Jacksonville where they ended up scoring twenty six points

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Davis Mills playing quarterback at least

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Speaker 1: this past week. CJ Stroud at a concussion in the

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Speaker 1: previous game. They also have some injuries on the defensive

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Speaker 1: side that they had to deal with in that game.

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Speaker 1: I know that you think a lot of their team

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Speaker 1: as holistically, but especially on defense. They have one of

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Speaker 1: the best pass rushing teams in the NFL, but the

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Speaker 1: ground game has been very effective for them in recent

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Speaker 1: weeks as well. What do you think you're getting when

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Speaker 1: they come to Nashville on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's a well coached football team. I think in

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Speaker 4: all three phases. We've got to go out there and

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Speaker 4: play our best and play continentary football. But it says

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Speaker 4: a lot about the football team the way they played

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Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter yesterday and how they came back

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Speaker 4: and won that game. And it's just that's why you

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Speaker 4: just keep playing. You know, you can tell your team

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Speaker 4: these things all but it's a great example of why

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Speaker 4: you just keep playing and take it one play at

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Speaker 4: a time, live for the next play and anything can happen.

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Speaker 4: But it just says so much about them, about how

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Speaker 4: they came back and won the game, and that's just

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Speaker 4: they started feeding off each other and that's complementary football.

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Speaker 4: It's finest.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And as you said, you have to do it

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Speaker 1: in all the phases. I've heard you say this a

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Speaker 1: number of times, and you said it to the media

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Speaker 1: just a moment ago too. Really seems like it's important

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Speaker 1: coach to get your ground game going this week against

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Speaker 1: a team that has such a great pass rush.

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you got to neutralize the pass rush and

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Speaker 4: that's one way is to run the football. Obviously in

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Speaker 4: the passing and you have to you know, edge help

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Speaker 4: and this and that. But there's nothing like having a

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Speaker 4: good run game, yep.

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Speaker 1: And we'll see it on display on Sunday at twelve

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Speaker 1: o'clock as the Houston Texans play the Tennessee Titans, and

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Speaker 1: of course we'll be on the air at eleven to

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Speaker 1: get going for it.

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Speaker 3: Coach. It's good to have you back.

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Speaker 1: Great good to be here myself after this break and

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Speaker 1: look forward to being there in the stadium on Sunday

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Speaker 1: with you. I'm Taylor Azar, sir. This has been the

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Speaker 1: OTP