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Speaker 1: You don't need a microphone. Let's go, Karen, Thank you?

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Speaker 1: How are you.

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Speaker 2: Better than you?

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Speaker 3: I took kmt be and their.

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Speaker 4: Eight the game.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm always excited for organization, excited for the players.

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Speaker 1: I am appreciative of their work and their efforts. You know, somebody,

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Speaker 1: everybody's stepping up or using everybody. Everybody's making plays, everybody's

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Speaker 1: helping us win. I'm excited for these guys, but they're also, uh,

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Speaker 1: they're not satisfied, and I can tell that. And uh,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't pretty. Defense kept us in there, and then

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Speaker 1: when we needed it, you know, our offense was able

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Speaker 1: to come through, uh late in the game there in

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Speaker 1: the second half with a touchdown give us a two

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Speaker 1: score lead. And then I felt like that drive uh

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Speaker 1: backed up there from the three yard line where we

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Speaker 1: ran the ball and took a lot of clock, was

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Speaker 1: was pretty classy. Like you, your defense is lowed nineteen

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Speaker 1: points foot if you look at it in two games, Uh,

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Speaker 1: what have what have they done well?

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Speaker 2: In your mind?

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Speaker 1: That they're playing well together? You know, I feel like

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Speaker 1: they're they're complimenting each other. And dark turnovers are created

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Speaker 1: by by more than one guy. You know, there's some

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Speaker 1: great efforts, but you know it's somebody tipping a pass,

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Speaker 1: or it's somebody that's putting pressure that's usually helping that dude,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, or Zax, you know, dialing something

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Speaker 1: up that kind of changes the look. And you know,

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Speaker 1: we're taking advantage of, you know, our opportunities. And that's

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Speaker 1: what it's gonna take in in the playoffs, is you

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Speaker 1: gotta gotta take care of the ball and turn it over. Coach, congratulations,

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Speaker 1: thank you. When how would you define the resiliency of

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Speaker 1: your football team? I mean, I think again, there's times

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Speaker 1: where it doesn't look great, and we know against you know,

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Speaker 1: going against the great defense, which you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what they are. It's hard, there's some tough sledding

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Speaker 1: and there's some plays that don't look great. It's a fast,

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Speaker 1: talent defense and we talked about that coming in, but

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Speaker 1: in the end it felt like, you know, we just

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Speaker 1: kind of stuck around. And we always talk about it

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Speaker 1: only takes one play, and early on that might have

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Speaker 1: been pop and Marcus, you know, Casey caused that touchdown

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Speaker 1: that Marcus took back, or you know, kay Shawan in

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Speaker 1: the second half and Drake giving him a ball, So

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Speaker 1: it just takes one play and I think that sparks

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Speaker 4: You mentioned the offense there in the fourth quarter, and

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Speaker 4: you know we've talked to you about Drake all season,

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Speaker 4: but you know, maybe not the best first three quarters.

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Speaker 4: Just talk a little bit about what he was able

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Speaker 4: to do and kind of stay resilient in that fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we talk about not going in the blender and

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Speaker 1: I think it's hard. I mean, they put pressure on

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Speaker 1: us and you know we we know we got to

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Speaker 1: take care of the ball. Drake knows that. But to

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Speaker 1: be able to stay the course and to trust Kayshawan

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Speaker 1: and give him a great ball all that, you know,

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Speaker 1: it was him or nobody, and those guys have kind

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Speaker 1: of done that all year. Is when we needed to play,

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Speaker 1: they've been able to do that for us.

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Speaker 2: You said up the beginning, uh I, Mike, that the

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Speaker 2: players aren't satisfied, and you can tell that. Can you

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Speaker 2: give me an example of what you saw that indicates

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Speaker 2: that also coaching job is always to tune out the noise.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a hack of a lot of

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Speaker 2: noise this week. Are you satisfied that you've got your

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Speaker 2: place to tune out that noise or is that a

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Speaker 2: work in progress.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's gonna you know, we want to

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Speaker 1: we know the stadium is going to be loud, So

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Speaker 1: louder the better. I mean, every opportunity, you know. I

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Speaker 1: think what they've done is we've asked them to embrace

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Speaker 1: the preparation, uh, embrace the the strain, and also enjoy

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Speaker 1: every minute of this. Enjoy walking into the stadium, you know,

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Speaker 1: coming in here, Enjoy putting your uniform on, Enjoy going

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Speaker 1: out there and warm ups, Enjoy seeing your family, but

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Speaker 1: most especially enjoy you know, the execution. So we'll we'll

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Speaker 1: keep doing that and we know we got to go

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Speaker 1: in the AFC and it's not going to be easy.

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Speaker 1: But what will come out and be ready to go.

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Speaker 5: Coach, congratulations on the victory here tonight. You talked about

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Speaker 5: a loud stadium potentially in store for next week. How

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Speaker 5: much do you feel that the home crowd played into

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Speaker 5: the victory tonight in the last home game of the season.

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Speaker 1: Well, they they help, you know, they they helped tremendously

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Speaker 1: and again there was you know, they ratcheted up there

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Speaker 1: they chose to punt, I mean, that was huge for us.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, they got a great punt and

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Speaker 1: then we took the ball. But you know, the harder

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Speaker 1: we play and the more plays that we make, the

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Speaker 1: louder they're going to get. I've said this since we've

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Speaker 1: been here. They're knowledgeable fans. They've seen a lot of

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Speaker 1: so they know what it looks like and they have

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Speaker 3: Hi, Mike, I so congratulations on the wind.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Curious what did you see from your defense as a

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Speaker 4: concern the take takeaways tonight and how they were able

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Speaker 4: to just generate so many of them.

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Speaker 1: Again, it was a group effort, and we talked about

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Speaker 1: it being a group effort, and you know, whether that's

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Speaker 1: understanding the call, understanding you know where each guy fits.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I felt like, especially on Marcus's you know,

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Speaker 1: tipped some passes, and again there's some other plays that

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Speaker 1: are close. You know what the quarterbacks arm I think

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Speaker 1: we kept, you know, changing the look up on them

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Speaker 1: a little bit. You'll give our guys credit, you know,

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Speaker 1: and certainly affecting the quarterback is a big part of

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Speaker 4: Mike, you mentioned at the outset, everybody's stepping up, everyone's

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Speaker 4: making plays. What does it mean to you as a

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot goes into it. We always give

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Speaker 1: the credit to the players, but I'm extremely lucky for

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Speaker 1: the staff that we have. Their knowledge, their alignment, their loyalty,

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Speaker 1: confidence in their job is something that I really appreciate.

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Speaker 1: So again, the results will always be for the players,

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Speaker 1: you know, and because of the players. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the staff and I can't thank them enough,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean again, I tell the players all

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Speaker 3: Hey, coach, you always do such a You always do

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Speaker 3: such a good job of complimenting your players, but in

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Speaker 3: terms of preparation, you take so much pride in getting

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Speaker 3: them ready. Was there something specific you did in preparation

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Speaker 3: for this game that you reflect on now that worked

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Speaker 1: It wasn't. I thought that. You know, we've tried to

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Speaker 1: add situations to the postseason. I think we've tried to

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Speaker 1: instead of doing it on Saturday, we've tried to maybe

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Speaker 1: add those situations during practice on Wednesdays and Thursdays and Fridays,

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Speaker 1: as opposed to doing them in the walkthrough, just because

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Speaker 1: we know how critical they are. But I don't you know, again,

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Speaker 1: we've tried to stay consistent and not make it. You know,

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Speaker 1: we understand how important these games are and how critical

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Speaker 1: each play is, but to to not, you know, just

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Speaker 1: change everything we've done. We practice on Thursdays fast, and

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Speaker 1: we put pads on and they embrace that. And you know,

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Speaker 1: we knew it would be a physical game. We knew

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Speaker 1: would be a tough game, and you know, again we

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Speaker 1: just have to keep getting better.

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Speaker 2: Last question, Mike, Congratulations.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of talk about the Texans defense this week.

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Speaker 2: Did you feel like your defense took that personally?

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Speaker 5: At all.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I'm sure they're going to tell

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Speaker 1: you that here in thirty seconds, and you guys go

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Speaker 1: rushing out of here. As soon as the cole leads

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Speaker 1: you guys out of here, you guys will go. And

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Speaker 1: now that again, they're really good for a reason. They've

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Speaker 1: shown it each and every week. But I you know,

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Speaker 1: our guys are prideful men, and you know they they

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Speaker 1: want to compete and they want to win, and again

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Speaker 1: they deserve the the recognition that they're gonna get. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they were top five defense for a reason as well.

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Speaker 1: And so again that's how some of these things go

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Speaker 1: and comes down to turnovers, and we've got them, and

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Speaker 1: you know, get back on track. We quit four second

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Speaker 1: and loong, so we stopped the run. And I'm proud

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Speaker 1: of each and every guy in there. Thanks, guys, have

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Speaker 1: a good night. I believe following Nicole one more, I

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Speaker 1: believe Drake is next.

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Speaker 2: We listed the