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Speaker 1: Tough game, sixty minute game came down on a few players.

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Speaker 1: Give Philly credit, but um that our guys competed all

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Speaker 1: the way to the end. And um, well it's tough game,

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Speaker 1: not easy being to prepare for because you want to honestly,

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Speaker 1: could you guys healthy but still in the competitive it's

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Speaker 1: talk about their overall what you guys con continue to

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Speaker 1: hang in there, hang in there and make runs at

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Speaker 1: them when you have to have visited. So yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's the NFL. So the guys

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Speaker 1: you have on your team, you have confidence, and I

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Speaker 1: certainly have confidence and all the guys that we have

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Speaker 1: it's you know, you're not playing walk ons and things

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Speaker 1: like that. You're playing people that earned the right to

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Speaker 1: so whoever we have out there, I have confidence and um,

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Speaker 1: they all know what to do. I thought they played

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Speaker 1: a very competitive game. There's a few things obviously we

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Speaker 1: could have done a little bit better. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: tried a few players to get us going there on

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Speaker 1: a fake field goal and on side kick, just to

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Speaker 1: try to generate some offense which were sawing a little

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Speaker 1: bit there for the first you know, half plus a

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Speaker 1: little bit. So, Um, you know, tough, competitive, smart guys

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Speaker 1: that we value on our roster. You decided to start

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Speaker 1: Davis obviously instead. Yeah, we just thought that was was

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Speaker 1: best for our team. What do you think of Davis? Um?

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Speaker 1: I thought he made some good plays, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I thought some plays we obviously could have done better.

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Speaker 1: But I thought he competed for sixty minutes and um,

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Speaker 1: you know gave us a chance at the end. Process

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Speaker 1: behind wrestling, not just even your top players, really all

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Speaker 1: your No, I understand the question. Um, I'll leave those

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Speaker 1: conversations that we have in the house. Um, but you know,

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Speaker 1: some of those guys who played a lot of football. Uh,

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Speaker 1: so we gave you know, we gave some other guys

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Speaker 1: some opportunities stand out particular. Yeah, I mean our defense

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Speaker 1: goals some short fields. Um, you know, I thought, look,

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Speaker 1: I thought everybody out there competed. I'm not gonna single

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Speaker 1: out any individual. I just thought they all compete it

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Speaker 1: right to the end. And um, you know ended up

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Speaker 1: being a one score game there try to get an

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Speaker 1: onside kick, but uh, you know, just came up a

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Speaker 1: little bit short, get another shot of the vikings? Now

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Speaker 1: is that you leave that Christmas Eve thinking hey, we

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Speaker 1: were good enough to beat that team and you like

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Speaker 1: the fact you're gonna get him again so quick. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's you. When you play a team close

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Speaker 1: that makes a few more plays wins the game. And

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Speaker 1: they did, so you know, all our preparation will be

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Speaker 1: geared towards that team. They're fantastic team, well coached, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to do you a good week of preparation.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about getting massive? In general? That's

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. You know, whatever the seeds are, the seeds are,

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Speaker 1: So we'll prepare as hard as we can to uh

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Speaker 1: go play a really good football team in a hosta environment.

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Speaker 1: You think you the way you guys played there a

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Speaker 1: month ago, because your guys, a lot of them who

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Speaker 1: can go there play another I think you'd have to

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Speaker 1: ask them. I think that, you know, every week's a

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Speaker 1: new week in the NFL. You know, we have obviously

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Speaker 1: m you know we're needing, we need our best week

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Speaker 1: of preparation. Does it give you more confidence, more confidence

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Speaker 1: a great job of preparing. Each week is a different week,

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Speaker 1: was the last time we played. I'm just like Washington

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Speaker 1: was different, just like Philly games that they're all different.

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Speaker 1: So we're just going to control the things we can control,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming after this game tonight the radular season, what

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Speaker 1: but season the first step and say we did enough

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Speaker 1: But I was proud of of our guys the way

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Speaker 1: you know the results weren't there. But all the process

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Speaker 1: You've coasted a lot in the postseason your careers and

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Speaker 1: assistant those experiences gotten ready for you. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: they're all a little bit different. You know. The first

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Speaker 1: so and all in between. There's about thirty of them. So, UM,

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Speaker 1: think you can definitely learn, Absolutely you can learn things

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Speaker 1: I've said it plenty of times. The results aren't always

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Speaker 1: what we want, But how we compete it? How we prepared? Um.

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Speaker 1: I give those guys in our locker room a lot

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Speaker 1: gotta we gotta go back home, you know, take these

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Speaker 1: Another word, how did you build one? Belton meet the interception?

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Speaker 1: When Belton meet then interception earlier? When he made it,

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Speaker 1: know Belton, who's you know, hasn't played a bunch, but

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Speaker 1: you know, Kenny made a great play there at the

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Speaker 1: has doesn't play a bunch, but when he had an

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Speaker 1: So you need everybody on your roster at this time

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Speaker 1: of the year, whether that's for five plays, sixty plays, practice. Look, team,

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Speaker 1: certainly starts with the players. People talk about do you

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Speaker 1: think the I think didn't play today, we're really your

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Speaker 1: game momentum of an effort like this today. Well, I

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Speaker 1: just know they were, you know, they were doing exactly

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Speaker 1: with their teammates. They were encouraging them, they were looking

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Speaker 1: at the pictures, they were into the game. And again, um,

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