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#UNC quarterback Gio Lopez after he threw 2 TD passes and ran for another in win over Richmond
Sep 13, 2025
#UNC quarterback Gio Lopez after he threw 2 TD passes and ran for another in win over Richmond
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We know he's off target 24/7. Curious
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from your vantage point, how would you
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describe the way Dean runs and how hard
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is it for you to be able to watch him do
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that?
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I think it's really cool watching Dean
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run. You know, call him Juju cuz we're
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here in Dean. Uh I think Juju runs
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great. You know, it's fun watching him.
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You watch him grow. I, you know, I
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didn't get to see his spring, but I got
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to watch him throughout fall camp, watch
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him grow as a runner, as a player, just
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get more confident. And he just runs
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hard and, you know, got hawk down.
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That's something I'll give him something
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about. But I think he's he's doing
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really good developing. Let's go to Rob.
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Gio Rob actually failed observer. What
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have you seen the last two weeks from
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your guys? And do you feel like you you
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gained enough confidence since that TCU
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game to have a better performance down
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at central field?
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I think it's just chemistry and
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executing the offense. I mean, at the
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end of the day, we're a bunch of new
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guys still jelling together. And I think
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every day counts. Practice counts,
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meetings count, just everything we do
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together counts. So, I think as an
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offense, we're just jelling more and
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more. And defense are doing a great job
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already jelling. I think that's just
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kind of something we're still doing. And
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I I'm pretty I'm pretty confident in
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everything though.
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Andrew,
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looks like Jordan can run pretty much
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any route. Is I know the term possession
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receiver might not be fair, but can you
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be a possession receiver for you guys?
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Uh I think Jordan is That's a tough one.
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I think like possession receiver, I
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don't want to give him that cuz then he
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says,
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the point is you move the chains when
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you get you didn't show up last week a
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couple times. You know, you guys are
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moving the chains which hasn't always
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been a consistent thing.
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Yeah, I would say just Jordan's a
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complete receiver. That's the best way I
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can say. You know, he's going to do his
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job. Whatever, whatever role he needs to
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be. If he needs to be the outside, if he
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needs to be the slide, if he needs a
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crack block on a run, he's going to do
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it. So, I think just Jordan as a player
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is a complete receiver. I think get the
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ball in his hands is a good thing.
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Whatever it takes to give him the ball,
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it's going to be a good deal.
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16. Does he play more than 16?
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I would say he plays he plays pretty
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big. I'm like, you know, that's
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something we talked about, you know,
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when I first got here. He said he feels
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like he needs to play his size more, and
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I think he's actually done more than
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that.
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Let's go, Brian.
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Yeah, J. Coming off of that TCU loss,
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what did Bill say or or coaches say
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about like regaining the kind of stuff
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that you need to do to be prepared for
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for schedule that's coming up? Was there
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a sense in the team that hey, maybe
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we're not as good as we thought we were
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or maybe, you know, we we need to stop,
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you know, feeding any hype or stuff
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like,
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you know, I feel like as a team, we were
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never, you know, too into the hype. Of
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course, we have a lot of outside noise,
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but we try not to listen to it. I think
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offensively, I that's who I can speak on
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offensively. I think, you know, we just
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didn't show up for the TCU game. You
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know, the best thing that could happen
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for us though was we had a short week
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going to Charlotte, get some more
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confidence going and just overall I'm
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just happy how we're, you know, showing
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up every day.
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Did you get a feeling that things
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changed after that? Whether it was
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practice or meetings like, hey, we we've
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got to get
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I think funny enough, you know, you
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don't, you know, I hate the term I like
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we needed that, you know, you don't want
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to get, you know, killed in live
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television, something that we needed,
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you know, we didn't want to say need,
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but I think like just a wakeup call
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that, you know, we have a lot more we
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got to do better and just, you know,
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lock in on practice and just take every
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day and make the most of it.
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So Jeremiah,
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yeah, you already talked about the games
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that, you know, Deont had and should
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had. You talked about the offense kind
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of, you know, jelling. How would you at
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this point, I know it's only three games
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in, but if you had to, how would you
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kind of describe the, I guess, identity
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of this offense? Like how?
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I think the identity of the offense is
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we just want to be smart, tough, and
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dependable. I mean, at the end of the
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day, we just need to execute our plays,
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run them at the best that we can, and
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when we do that, we score and we move
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the ball. I think when we have mess ups
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or, you know, little things that we
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don't do right, that's when we don't
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play well. Well, so I think for us just
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being like simplifying everything, don't
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overthink everything and just, you know,
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do what you're supposed to do and we'll
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we'll be fine.
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Grant Gio Grand Turles on that side.
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Talk about the defensive performance
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today because they seem to beat you guys
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in a lot of great field position. A lot
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of you guys do fall the field within 30
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40 yards from now. That's that's pretty
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good defense right there.
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I think our defense is doing a great
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job. You know, something I said back in
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Charlotte was I feel like even the slack
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that our defense got against TCU, we put
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them in those situations. We had three
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and out after three and out and we put
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them in a tougher situation. And when
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you get put on defense that many times
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and only getting, you know, a minute or
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two minutes of rest, you get put, you
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get fatigued. So, I think our defense is
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doing a great job and they're doing a
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great job just with everything that got
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thrown at them so far.
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Jeremiah.
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Hey, Gio. Jerem shows on his side.
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Through the first three games, what is
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your personal assessment on yourself?
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for some things that you feel like you
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can do better and things that you feel
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like in the world.
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Uh, you know, for me, I just there's a
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lot I got to clean up. You know, there's
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reads I'm missing. There's stuff I just
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got to clean up. You know, everyone can
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be a lot better. I got to be better
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myself. And I think I say I guess a
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positive I would say just kind of
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commening the offense and being able to
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talk to everybody and help people when
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they don't know what they're doing. It's
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like kind of like a little bit of Guju,
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you know, when he's he's coming in there
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just kind of talking to him and being
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able to talk to everybody. But for me
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personally, there's a lot I want to
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clean up and I'm going to go watch that
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game and clean up some more stuff after
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this game. Shelby
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server. Going back to Juju, just what
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impressed you most maybe that you've
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seen in the offse just talking about his
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ability to really work all the way up
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the depth chart.
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Uh I would say for Juju just showing up
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every day for him, you know, just never,
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you know, if he was with the threes, if
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he was with the twos, he was with the
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ones, Juju was just showing up. He
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didn't care who he was going against. If
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it was basics, you know, it just didn't
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matter. He was going to run hard. He was
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going to execute what he was supposed to
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do. And I think it just kind of shows
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like what happens when you work hard.
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You're going to get a good situation and
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get what you deserve. And dude is doing
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a great job with that.
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Got time for two more. We're going to do
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it and then
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Associated Press
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early
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to
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turn that around second half.
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You know, just for like when we came in
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at halftime, we were kind of, you know,
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everybody was kind of like disappointed.
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Feel like we miss a lot left a lot of
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plays on the field. And I think just for
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us the second half coming in and
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scoring, defense doing a great job
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again. And I think it was a good offense
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booster, but we still, you know, a lot
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of stuff we need to clean up and we can
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do a lot better.
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And last one for let
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new obviously came out there and had
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that possession, but nominated once,
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man. We were one of the first people
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that came over and talk to him. What did
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you say?
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You know, Tori, I love Tori's off.
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You know, he forgot the motion. You
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know, didn't see the safety. It was one
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of those situations. It was big. The
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first thing I told him was I threw a
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pick. I think my like fourth throw of
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college football against Southern Miss.
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I remember it like it was yesterday and
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I told him like, "Dude, it happens. Like
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you just got to keep playing. Don't let
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that discourage you. You know, just
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showing up in practice every day.
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There's a reason you got put in, you
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know, there's a reason you got put in.
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Don't think like he's going to push you
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down the depth charts or you didn't do
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anything. Like you're good." I told him
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like, "Just keep being you. It's going
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to work out. Just keep playing."
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What safety when you were telling him
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that?
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When I told him, he was like, that's
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where he just said, you know, he's like,
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"I forgot to motion him. I forgot to
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motion him." I didn't see the safety. I
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was like, "Okay, we're naming stuff that
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we, you know, we need to fix." But I
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think, you know, he's he's a really good
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kid and I'm just I'm happy to be in the
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room with him and it's someone I want to
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kind of tangle under my wing. I feel
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like I have and I just love Tory. Tori's
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awesome.
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