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Speaker 1: Doom Jack, can you talking about obviously, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: stuff goes on outside, when things like this happen, when

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Speaker 1: national people are talking about you guys, how does that

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Speaker 1: affect your preparation with you? How does it affect And

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Speaker 1: honestly doesn't. It's kind of tune out the noise, focus

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Speaker 1: I said, we haven't played our best football offensively the

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Speaker 1: past few weeks, so we're just trying to improve and

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Speaker 1: go out there and try and play a good football

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Speaker 1: game on Sunday. When things like this do happen and

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Speaker 1: people are just saying not friendly things about that, guys,

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Speaker 1: does that affect you guys at all? Not at all?

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Speaker 1: Like I said, just ignore the noise. I mean, everybody's

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Speaker 1: gonna have their opinions outside the building. Um, we know

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Speaker 1: and play football. Why are you guys so good at? It?

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Speaker 1: Seems like over the years there's been a number of

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Speaker 1: Maybe it is because there's so many of them about

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Speaker 1: number off the field issues. Why are you guys so

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Speaker 1: good at? Kind of ignoring the place. I think it's

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Speaker 1: emphasized when you step in the building on one of

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Speaker 1: the signs when you walk in, just ignore the noise.

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Speaker 1: Just do your job, focus on what you to do,

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Speaker 1: and be good teammates and work hard. And I said,

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Speaker 1: when you see that when you walk to the building

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Speaker 1: every day, it's it's kind of easy to come in here.

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Speaker 1: Just do your drive and work hard, just play through

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Speaker 1: a record. Bill mentioned in the press offers this morning

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Speaker 1: that things are better than their record. What are your

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Speaker 1: thoughts as you guys break them down. They're good football

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Speaker 1: teams the NFL. I mean, any given Sunday, you can

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Speaker 1: win or lose a game. Everybody has talent, everybody has

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Speaker 1: good coaching, everybody's good players. So you gotta be prepared

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Speaker 1: and gotta be ready to go. How much is wanted

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Speaker 1: to play well just you guys, regardless of your opponent

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Speaker 1: almost Sunday, Yeah, definitely. Um. Like I said, we haven't

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Speaker 1: everybody wants to improved in every aspect of it, from

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Speaker 1: running the football, to protecting times, running better routes to everything.

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Speaker 1: I think we all just trying to accept that burden

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Speaker 1: level of frustration, James, did you guys haven't been able

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Speaker 1: to consistently run the ball? M It's not necessarily frustration,

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Speaker 1: just the fact that we know we can play better

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Speaker 1: It's us just running backs, all of us, align everybody,

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Speaker 1: just everybody competing, making the right reads, blocking harder, finishing harder,

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Speaker 1: every several things that everybody can go out there and do.

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Speaker 1: There's an old especial that it's never as good as

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Speaker 1: it seems, never as bad as it seems. Do you

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Speaker 1: feel like there's this is a case of little things

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Speaker 1: two little things. Definitely, it's just the little things and

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Speaker 1: could be just one person on one play, and then

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Speaker 1: all of us are taking our turns on one play

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Speaker 1: just going out there each and every play, everybody being accountable,

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Speaker 1: doing our job to the best of our abilities. And

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Speaker 1: it's playing tough and physical you guys are close to

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Speaker 1: you things, playing the best of your abilities when it

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Speaker 1: that far off. It's like I said, it could be

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Speaker 1: just play better and be better. Jeeves are drawing any

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Speaker 1: confidence of just still the guys last year where obviously

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Speaker 1: And you just want to go out there and do that, Honestly,

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Speaker 1: this point for is there anything you learned from last year?

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Speaker 1: I said, just what I've been harbored on before. It's

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Speaker 1: he should. Everybody gonna get your opponent's best shot, and

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Speaker 1: you have to go out there and give our best efforts.

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Speaker 1: Last year, teacher, guys, it's never too late. It's never

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Speaker 1: too late. Like I said, we have playing football left

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Speaker 1: out and earn it. Anyone positive from last year in

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Speaker 1: training camp, you talked about going to be better on

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Speaker 1: some of things you guys have done better on the road?

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Speaker 1: This year, I think just trying to start fast, offensively, defensively,

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Speaker 1: special teams, complimenting each other. Like I said, defense has

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Speaker 1: creating turnover, special teams doing what they do, making plays,

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Speaker 1: making game changing plays. And I said, just trying to

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Speaker 1: and then it comes to slug fest. Imagine you faced

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Speaker 1: former teammates friends from South Florida, Wisconsin every week, but

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Speaker 1: relationship you guys. It's definitely cool. Um, you went to

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Speaker 1: How much time do you devote during the week leading

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Speaker 1: better make it work ulttately. Do you remember the Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: like I said, the coaches allow me do stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: I just want to make the right decision to make

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Speaker 1: a smart play. Julian didn't practice today. I think it's

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Speaker 1: the first time I'm going through my own city. Hasn't

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Speaker 1: practiced all year. We know he's been dealing with chess,

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Speaker 1: ribbed shoulder, knee. Now just his ability to be available

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Speaker 1: week in and week out. I know it's a tough league,

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Speaker 1: but he just seems it's just pretty amazing. Man. That

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Speaker 1: guy takes some hits. He's physical, he's tough plays most

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Speaker 1: is it's it's amazing to see what he's an ultimate

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