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Speaker 1: Yes, he's gonna be a short one. Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it all right, facing guy like Hopkins, what

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Speaker 1: kind of challenges he bring? Uh, he's a guy that

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Speaker 1: game pretty much catched the ball anywhere in his vicinity,

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Speaker 1: so you might have him covered at times, but they

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Speaker 1: are are crazy and he's getting targeted way more than

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Speaker 1: anybody in the league when he's playing, So you know

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Speaker 1: he's gonna get his his chances, and you know he's

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Speaker 1: Kyla safety blankets. So it's gonna be a tough challenge.

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Speaker 1: How do you guys navigate as a secondary just kind

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Speaker 1: of stretch that you're in right now where it's basically

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Speaker 1: elite wide out every single week from Minnesota all the

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Speaker 1: way through the end of the season. Yeah, it just

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Speaker 1: shows that we got to lock in that much more.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna go against the top guy for

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Speaker 1: the for the rest of the five weeks, so we

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Speaker 1: know where we're for. It just comes down to us

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Speaker 1: making those critical plays when we have those chances. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna have some fifty fifty balls and they're going to

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Speaker 1: be some chances when we might have to double them more.

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Speaker 1: You might be one on one. We just gotta go win.

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Speaker 1: So you just try to practice as much as you

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Speaker 1: can and just make sure that you're locked in like

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Speaker 1: every play. I know we've been talking for the last

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Speaker 1: several weeks about the importance of winning that next game,

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Speaker 1: but there we are. Twelve is over six and six

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Speaker 1: at this point, you guys feel that as a team

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Speaker 1: more than you had earlier in the season. Yeah, because

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Speaker 1: it's getting down the crunch time. You know, every game

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Speaker 1: matters in the season, but when you're in a position

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Speaker 1: that we're in right now, like these next five games

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Speaker 1: are pretty much going to decide our postseason facing not

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Speaker 1: so you can't look that far ahead of into that

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Speaker 1: far ahead, but you have to win in focus on

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Speaker 1: like the next game in front of you. So we

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Speaker 1: know we got a tough stretch. It's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: an easy, easy beat the next five games, starting with Arizona.

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Speaker 1: But with the season coming to the end, like it's crunchtime,

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Speaker 1: it's it's time to go the rhythms of the season.

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Speaker 1: And IM sure you guys would appreciate the extra rest

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Speaker 1: that you've gotten. You know, Thursday to Monday, but it's Thursday, Thursday,

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Speaker 1: and then it's Monday. Yeah, it's been an odd stretch

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Speaker 1: and and all of sudden, who we got with when

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Speaker 1: your suffering? Yeah, I didn't. I've never been a part

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Speaker 1: of a Thursday, Thursday to Monday type of stress, so

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Speaker 1: it's kind of odd. But you kind of got to

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Speaker 1: the weekend to recoup and and kind of rejuvenate yourself

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Speaker 1: and just chill with your family and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: So it was able to It was an opportunity for

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Speaker 1: everybody to like clear their mind. So this Monday game,

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Speaker 1: I think is coming right on time for us. With

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Speaker 1: the Thursday to Thursday stretch we had with three games

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Speaker 1: and twelve days or whatever. It was so for us

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Speaker 1: to be able to get those four days off and

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Speaker 1: then be able to just kind of resett scrap the

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Speaker 1: ward and just be able to lock back in. I

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Speaker 1: think hopefully other helpers will see we'll see on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Particularly back to backboard, Jameson's staying away from me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough, but if you win, it's all

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Speaker 1: worth it. If you lose this, like, dang, this sucks.

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Speaker 1: So you know, you just want to make sure that

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Speaker 1: the trip is a good trip and that when we

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Speaker 1: come back on the plane Sunday night or Monday night

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Speaker 1: from Sunday night from Vegas, that you're on the plane talking,

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Speaker 1: talking with your guy saying, hey, that trip was worth it.

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Speaker 1: We did what we needed to do. When you watch

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Speaker 1: James Connor on tape, what kind of stands up to you.

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Speaker 1: He's a guy that's able to hit it anywhere. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's physical. Even when he was back at Pittsburgh, you know,

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Speaker 1: he was a he's a pro bowler. He ran hard

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Speaker 1: and you know, one thing that I think he's really

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Speaker 1: developed over the years is his ability to catch out

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Speaker 1: of the backfield. You know, Uh, he's just a guy

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Speaker 1: back in If if he gets rolling, it's gonna be hard.

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Speaker 1: So he's one of the guys that you gotta get early,

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Speaker 1: get him at the line of scrimmage, because if you don't,

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Speaker 1: if he gets to that second level, that third level,

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Speaker 1: he's hard to bring down. And more times than not,

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Speaker 1: he's falling forward. So those extra yards like they add up.

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Speaker 1: Guys like Jack and Marcus. Have you seen them kind

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Speaker 1: of look more comfortable as the season has gone along

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Speaker 1: and they've kind of accumulated some more experience, definitely. I

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Speaker 1: mean Jack had been getting a lot of reps early

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Speaker 1: in the season, so you definitely see the growth there.

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Speaker 1: But with a guy like Marcus who's playtime even on

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Speaker 1: the offensive side, it's been growing much more. You kind

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Speaker 1: of see him settling in and you don't really look

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Speaker 1: at him as a rookie no more. You talk to

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Speaker 1: him and he's able to understand what you're saying. You're

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Speaker 1: able to get the input and see how he's thinking,

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Speaker 1: and you're able to speak the same lingo and basically

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Speaker 1: just move faster because you know how he's gonna play.

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Speaker 1: You know how both of those guys are going to

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Speaker 1: play certain things. You're not really figuring them out anymore.

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Speaker 1: They kind of they are who they are at this point,

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Speaker 1: and that's the great part about them being able to

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Speaker 1: get those endgame risks because you know the type of

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Speaker 1: player they are. Was that a cool moment for you,

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Speaker 1: is a fellow dB to see Marcus going and make

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Speaker 1: some offensive players every time, every time you get one

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Speaker 1: of your dvs to go in on the offensive side

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Speaker 1: or even get a chance to get it get in

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Speaker 1: the end zone, like, it's great to see and that

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Speaker 1: just shows how dynamic he is and we love that

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Speaker 1: form cool. Thank got