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Speaker 1: This question is our biggest this win, to get on

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Speaker 1: the road and to get back to back bucker the end,

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Speaker 1: to play like you guys did, to not make the

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Speaker 1: mistakes when to put you guys behind. Um, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's obviously important. Um, it's the biggest game of the

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Speaker 1: year for us because the next game. And I've said

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Speaker 1: it at nauseam. I know a lot of other guys

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Speaker 1: have said it. You know, the whole team. You know,

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Speaker 1: we feel like if we just keep working hard weekend

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Speaker 1: and week out, we show up every day, we prepare

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Speaker 1: the right way, and we come out and play our

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Speaker 1: style of football. We think. We know we're a good team.

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Speaker 1: We know we can play with anybody. So you know,

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Speaker 1: having the opportunity to come out here today, um, all

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Speaker 1: the way out on the West Coast, Um, and play

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Speaker 1: a really good team, you know, got to give those

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Speaker 1: guys a lot of credit. They played hard, they never

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Speaker 1: laid down. They're a great team, great players, great coaches,

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Speaker 1: a great scheme. So you know, for us to be

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Speaker 1: able to come out here today and play well and

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Speaker 1: execute when it mattered, Um, obviously we left some players

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Speaker 1: out there. There's a lot of things that we can

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Speaker 1: improve on. Still but to execute when it mattered and

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Speaker 1: be able to come out with a win. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's incredible. How would you say this team has grown?

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Speaker 1: How do you feel Where do you see it? Um?

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Speaker 1: I mean everywhere? Uh, Like I said, UM, we just

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Speaker 1: keep building confidence. We keep we know what the formula is,

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Speaker 1: we know we have to do in order to play well.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, when we think, when we play well,

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Speaker 1: we can play with anybody, and we have an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to beat anybody. So I think if we just keep

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Speaker 1: doing the right things and we keep preparing the right way,

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Speaker 1: we show up, We put our head down, we grind.

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Speaker 1: You know, what's happened in the past is behind us.

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Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, the last two games

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Speaker 1: have showed we've come out, we've started fresh. Um, we've

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Speaker 1: been playing you know, better football week after week after week.

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Speaker 1: So we're just gotta keep doing what we're doing, keep improving. Um.

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Speaker 1: It starts in practice. It starts, you know, with our

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Speaker 1: preparation and our you know work week of work. Excuse me.

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Speaker 1: And if we can continue to do that, UM, I

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Speaker 1: think that I helped benefit us for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the season. The Church did a pretty good job of

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Speaker 1: maybe disrupting max timing a little bit, slowing you guys

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Speaker 1: down the second half. Then you put together seven minute

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Speaker 1: drive in the poard quarter. Mac hits six passes in

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Speaker 1: a row doesn't mean to put together a drive like

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Speaker 1: that when you needed it. It's huge. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: got to make the plays in order to make in

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Speaker 1: order to win the game. And you know it's a

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Speaker 1: critical drive that we needed to make those plays and

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Speaker 1: we did. And you know, situational football is something that

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Speaker 1: you know, it's obviously helped us win some games, and

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Speaker 1: it's also cost a couple of games. And we know

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Speaker 1: that if we can clean some of those things up,

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Speaker 1: continue to improve, continue to work hard, and move forward

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Speaker 1: a week in and week out, if we can put

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Speaker 1: it all together, we know we got a chance to

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Speaker 1: beat anybody. Do you feel the game and slowed down

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Speaker 1: for you in your third year now? Um? I mean

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I know that. You know every year

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Speaker 1: I've tried to improve. Obviously being here for three years now,

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Speaker 1: I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I have

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Speaker 1: more experience, clearly, and I just try to do what

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Speaker 1: I do. Um, you know, I work hard every day

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Speaker 1: to go out and be the best player that I

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Speaker 1: can be for this team to help this offense be successful,

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Speaker 1: help this team be successful. So UM, I rely on

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Speaker 1: my training, I rely on the coaching that I get. UM. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the guys that I play with make my job so

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Speaker 1: much easier because we've got so many great players all

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Speaker 1: do their jobs and you know, we got a lot

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Speaker 1: of good guys out there, so you know that combination. UM,

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Speaker 1: I think it helps all of us. I think it's

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Speaker 1: some of the ways your defense adjusted in the second

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Speaker 1: second half. UM, well, I mean I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: talk much about defense. That's not really my expertise. But

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Speaker 1: you know, it's all about making critical plays in the

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Speaker 1: game when they need to be made, and defense may plays,

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Speaker 1: offense may play special teams may plays, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you look at the results. So I think this this

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Speaker 1: game will build more confidence in us. And we know

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Speaker 1: that if we play well in all three phases of

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Speaker 1: the game and we take care of the details, we

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Speaker 1: play good situational football, we don't beat ourselves. We always

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Speaker 1: have a chance to win. As David, but when you

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Speaker 1: guys had the two plays from the one and they

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Speaker 1: were passes. Get to halftime, like how much a game

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Speaker 1: was it? At all? A conversation within the locker room

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Speaker 1: to get back to running the football in the second half. Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, whatever David said, I'll leave that answer. They play.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you another chance leading fullback with crimson hand. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: First of all, that's what happens when you bet against Bama.

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Speaker 1: I'll let you know that right now. But yak Is,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we got a lot of great guys to

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Speaker 1: do a lot of great things, and everybody sacrifices. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: you know, does everything they can to help make this

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Speaker 1: team successful. But you look at a guy like yak

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Speaker 1: who every play he's at the point of attack. Every

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Speaker 1: play he's blocking, he's hitting somebody's hitting big guys. You're

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Speaker 1: point of attack. He's always sacrificing his body for everybody

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Speaker 1: for just the play to work. So having a guy

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Speaker 1: that's that unselfish, that tough, that gritty, has that much determination,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a guy that's a real anchor of

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Speaker 1: our team. And you know when things aren't really going

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Speaker 1: our way or you know we're feeling kind of down.

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Speaker 1: We look at a guy like Yak and all that

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Speaker 1: he puts himself through in order to make a play work,

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Speaker 1: and that's a guy that you want to follow, so

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Speaker 1: you know, hats off to him. Um, he looks great

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Speaker 1: with his red hair and he's obviously a great player

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Speaker 1: for us. Thank you, guys,