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#UNC players Beau Atkinson, Jacolby Criswell, Omarion Hampton and Amare Campbell after win at FSU
Nov 2, 2024
#UNC players Beau Atkinson, Jacolby Criswell, Omarion Hampton and Amare Campbell after win at FSU
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three and a
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half we we were we were kind of making
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jokes that it was a bow Flex day because
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you do the flex had four Flex out there
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yeah I got I got to work on the
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celebration
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game what what was it about the psycho
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package that you were able to take
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advantage and and get to the quarterback
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that many times I think just cuz we have
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so many great Edge guys like having Dez
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and Cayman and then also jaari out there
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kind of puts the stress all around so
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it's makes it really hard on the o lines
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and the offenses so I think just having
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those guys there with me makes it that
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helps a lot I'd say but what is the
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feeling of like it just seems like the
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momentum that you all have maybe as a
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front four front you know the guys up on
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the defensive line this seems like this
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is like a snowball sort of gathering
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steam watching it does it feel that way
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playing uh yeah I think I think the
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energy has been very good I I agree with
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that I think it's it's all a mentality
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and just trying to go in there and take
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over games as a front and as a defense
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and all I think it's been working pretty
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well yeah Max said that um and Jeff said
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this too Coach Collins that you guys
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went back to some of the basics during
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the by week and some things have been
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simplified and as a result you're
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quicker off the ball you kind of take us
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through how being things being
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simplified get you quicker off the snap
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yeah I mean I think just kind of like
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just like what we talked about like
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during fall camp like just letting us be
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able to play more has been it's been a
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big thing especially these past couple
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weeks and just trying to like being
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confident in ourselves and knowing that
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we can beat who we're up against and we
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don't have to do too much to do that
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like if we just let us play I think that
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that show has worked pretty well yeah
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well there was a drive in the second
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quarter you actually had backto back
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sacks on backto back plays if I remember
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correctly the first one you had dope at
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the guy's leg and the second one you
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just kind of beat the beat the defender
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and got through what do you remember
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about I guess I know you just got off
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the field but what do you remember about
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those two
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plays football moves fast
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uh uh I don't remember too much I mean I
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just know the energy was all super hype
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and I was happy that we could get off
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the field and get a stop um I don't know
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I I kind of like try to move forward in
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those times but yeah I don't know it was
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definitely very exciting you tripped the
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guy up and then the second one was a
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spin move on like the right tackle I'm
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pretty sure yeah we had like a break and
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then the guy started try to scram this I
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SP that's
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good I guess how uh for you guys
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obviously you know these last two games
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it seems like ma was obviously touching
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on it as well um you know the defense is
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kind of you know clicking in a different
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way than it was obviously um during the
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slide what aspects or what elements of
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what you guys have done these last
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couple weeks do you feel coming out of
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that buy you can kind of carry into
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those last three games yeah I think the
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buy was huge cuz uh we got to kind of
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get our bodies back right but more so
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like get our mentality back in check and
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like that's knowing that that's not who
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we were and like going back to our roots
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and just being able to truly dominate
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mentally and I think that was a big
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piece for us now that you found that how
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do you maintain that through another by
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week back two week yeah that's the
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question uh yeah consistency is the
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biggest thing so yeah we just got to
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keep working at practice like we have
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been and trus in God's plan for us and
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everything will work out they had one
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completion in the first half were you
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guys aware aware of that at all I was
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not I yeah that's pretty it's pretty
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good yeah it's not bad it's pretty good
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is there any Specific Instructions you
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all get when that Psycho Pack package is
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called or is it just basically like go
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get after them uh I mean there's a
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couple different ways we do that which
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I'm sure yall can see like when we're in
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like the 505 versus like the even front
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but probably shouldn't get two whatever
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want do understand
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yeah yeah um I don't know just I like
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being next to Dez a lot I think uh
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having both of us on the same side puts
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a lot of like I go at the three Tech I
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don't know if yall see that know that is
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so me and Dez will be on the same side a
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lot I think that's pretty cool cuz we
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can almost like work together a lot and
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I think that's really cool yeah and
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we'll have some like tails and stuff
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that we work on throughout the week and
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then we like actually do it in the game
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and it's pretty cool to see that
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actually work the first sack looked like
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you and Rucker were twisting inside at
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the same time maybe the first maybe it
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just worked out that way very first sa
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of the game the first one was that when
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I did the play action I did like the Up
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and Under thing yeah yeah uh you and Cay
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got there at the same time I think they
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I don't know they were just doing like a
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play action pass and then the guy
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charged his zone so I just went under I
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don't I don't know what c was doing I
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don't really remember what the play
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calls but yeah she all got there at the
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same time yeah okay yeah it's always
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good Coach Collins often tells us that
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Dez may not be putting up the numbers
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but he's doing so much to help the rest
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of you guys put up some of the numbers
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when you're next to him in that psycho
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package what is he doing that allows you
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to make the play how is he occupying
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more than one blocker is the way he
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occupies blocker what does he do exactly
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I I think for him just like he's he's a
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super high motor guy and like his
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efforts always there so I don't know I
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mean I wouldn't say it's like that as
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much as like it still works for him to
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make the play too it happens to go to me
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today but yeah I don't I don't know he's
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a super high motor guy and the effort I
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mean I think he had one and a half today
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too or one yeah something like that I
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missed a couple
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yeah he nearly killed Caleb C too in
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that one play B how would you how would
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you assess just The Vibes of this team
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right now you had obviously the four
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game losing streak these last two games
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seems like you poured out a lot of good
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stuff and have a lot of good good stuff
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going for you yeah it's been pretty cool
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to see the team Works cuz like this is
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kind of how it felt like all year like
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during practice for us but then like
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actually coming out here on game and
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like seeing it work out that way has
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been pretty cool like I feel like we're
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playing as a full team right now
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offensively and defensively and I don't
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know that's probably what I'd say like
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like the vibe wise like it's it's been
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awesome to see like the offense kind of
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Dominate and then we just pick up off
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each other and it just keeps getting
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better and better all right thanks Bob
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thanks B but he was kind of special
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today oh yeah running's one thing that
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shovel pass and he just took off it
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looked like some guys could close but he
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to put it into another gear just take us
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through that play and what it's like for
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you know when you just get him the ball
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a little bit in space and G just tells
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you how patient he is on that play it
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takes a lot of patience for it to open
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up and get get the right hold that we
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need for that play and they had two off
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the edge I'm sitting there with the ball
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and I'm like come on you got to look you
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got to look you got to look they're
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coming last second he looks gave him the
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ball and he takes to the house that's
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just the type of player he is you know I
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mean he's always going to do the right
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thing always going to be in the right
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place at the right time and it was a
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well executed play from both Olan and O
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I'm sure as a quarterback you want to
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throw throw throw a lot but you only
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threw a couple times in the second half
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because of the way the game was playing
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out and Amarin was doing what he did
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that is a positive how much a positive
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how much are you cool with the idea that
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hey if I don't have to throw we just
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give it to him we're going to Salt this
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thing away oh yeah 100% uh second half
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just kind of had a feeling like okay
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we're going to throw it a little bit but
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not as much I mean the oan was just
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doing a heck of a job just just getting
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pushed just pushing him down the field
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and just hammering it right down the
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throats and big go you already know what
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he's going to do once he finds a crease
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and he did exactly that so as we kept
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going in the second half I'm started I
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started to think I was like are we going
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to pass the ball or what and then we
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never did and I was like we won that's
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all that matters and so I mean it just
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tells you what type of type of team we
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have leading leading to this point right
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now everybody's just hungry from both
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offense defense and special teams and
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we're just want to keep rolling keep
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rolling the dice from here
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that what do you uh what do you remember
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about that play or I'm sorry that drive
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it was a seven play Drive am Marian got
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it all seven times he started off with
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the 43 yard just what do you remember
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about that play and how I guess special
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is it to have a running back that just
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gets in and goes every single play of a
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drive like that oh yeah I told I told oh
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after the drive after we we scored I go
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back and go you know that big that big
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one he had on sine he goes yeah I was
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like you made me look like a fool he was
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like what do you mean I was like you can
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see me right behind you running with my
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hands up thinking about the score he was
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like they took a good angle and but
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that's just all laughs right there and
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then we go down there in the goal line
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they're really good defense in the goal
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line like their defensive stands is
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really good and as we had a timeout
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we're coming off the field and then we
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have to go back everybody's just like we
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got to get this in like one play One
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play right here give it all you got and
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we did it was fourth down and we ended
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up getting it and just tells you what
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type of character we have from an o old
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line and offensive
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standpoint did you have one yeah um Matt
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kind of described the post game you know
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locker room scene and that amarian kind
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of gave a speech what did that scene
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look like can you describe that a little
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bit
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more actually I like to ask y'all a
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question how do y'all think that
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way actual words oh yeah he did he said
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good job he like thank you yeah that's
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it and that's all you got out of I mean
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not a guy that's going to talk too much
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but when he's on the football field you
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want you want to have him out there but
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if he's going to give you a word in
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front of everybody that good things
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happen right oh yeah if he's if he's
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talking then we're in good hands what's
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going on with his left eye I have no
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idea the thing is like almost all the
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way closed we got I mean it was like
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that this week we got photos of no idea
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no idea see like you're getting to uh
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more comfortable every week knowing that
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the pressure is going to come when to
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run when to scramble is that that it
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seems like plays you were able to make
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today maybe you couldn't make three four
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games ago oh yes sir I'm a I'm a guy all
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about
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when it I kind of relate this to my
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faith I'm a guy that I don't know what's
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going to happen but I believe Christ is
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going to put me in a great a great
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situation at at some point and in the
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beginning of the Season uh I had some
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had some rocks to kick and get things
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going in my way but at the end of the
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day I just knew what type of football
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player I was and what type of football
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player God made me out to be and I knew
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it was going to click and when it clicks
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when everything clicks with me then we
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can win football games and as we're
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seeing now I'm a lot comfortable I'm
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understanding a lot more and it's it's
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just going to keep getting better and
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better as we go how did you get away
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from 11 on the one the the ball you
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threw to Kobe on the run in the first
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late first half number 11 Patrick Payton
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I think is his name was he was coming
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off the left Edge looked like I'm had
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you well yeah I mean just just shout out
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to coach Christenson right there he has
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us have to practice his running Sprints
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just in case something like that happens
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and it's paying off and that's just
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something I really cherish him for for
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just making sure we're doing the right
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things cuz you never know what's going
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to happen and today it showed like today
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it showed his prep ation for us it
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showed in the game and I had to go make
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a play and Kobe made a heck of a play as
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well your second scoring Drive 16 plays
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last 16 plays 93 yards 8 minutes or
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something like that you had six first
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downs in a drive you converted three
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third Downs was that possession is that
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the offense you've seen for a while in
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practice that we've heard about that
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hasn't consistently been on the field is
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that what you guys really are and can be
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moving forward 100% this week was I
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think we probably this week was probably
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the best week of practice if I'm being h
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honest with you like we just executed as
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a offense and knew the game plan thick
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and thin and we just knew coming in here
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it's was going to be a dog fight and we
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had to make sure we had all cleats in
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the ground and kept moving forward and
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we knew it was going to take a team
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effort and it did and that's just
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something as we progress the offense is
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just going to get better and better as I
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get comfortable with everything then we
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can literally do anything we want did
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y'all give M the game ball he said he
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got a game ball for beating Florida
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State who was who was resp responsible
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for that coach Galloway was okay oh yeah
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his first time being his Al Almer Moder
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and that's just something for me coming
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into the game I didn't even know this
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but I mean after the game me knowing it
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I was
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like we needed that one and so just
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things like that the little things like
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that just not only plan for yourself but
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plan for the other people around you and
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that's what we did today all right
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thanks Char awesome
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thank so you gave a
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speech little speech Shout yeah I asked
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you the other day what would it take for
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you to give a speech I guess what 265
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allpurpose yards and and coming out here
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and getting a win was it was that like
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actually I'm G to go ahead and say
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something to these guys uh really just
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them having my back the whole game just
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I can't do it all by myself so it's
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definitely my old line they went crazy
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today I feel like I just definitely
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needed them giving them a shout out and
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everything what was the reaction to the
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guys when you actually did say something
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everybody just started cheering and
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everything this could become a thing
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this the postgame speeches I mean it
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seems like this is becoming a thing yeah
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yeah it could I might start seeing more
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and more you can you take me through the
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shovel cast and and how that progressed
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oh yeah uh it was just good good play
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call by uh chip Lindsay I feel like he
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had it set up uh directly like how the
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defense was align and everything so I
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feel like it was a perfect play call for
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him Mar what do you remember about there
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was a drive where you got the ball seven
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straight times it started with a 43 Y
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and then it ended with you getting a
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fourth and one touch down just what do
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you remember about that sequence and
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just how you know frequently you were
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able to get at that time uh I just knew
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I just knew I had uh if it's worth the
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one or we're close to the goal line I
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know I had to get it in I knew that's uh
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one of the main things I wanted to do so
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I just had to Monet that I wanted to
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finish it were you tired after that
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sequence you know getting it you know
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seven times in a row uh well I wasn't
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really thinking about TI I was just
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trying to get it in the end zone right
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now 35 touches y but yeah we their day
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about 47 if you get the 47 you just you
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don't your 35th touch looks the same as
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your first touch how take us through
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that take us through having a 35th touch
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and being able to continue playing at
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that same rate that same level uh it's
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really just a mindset just uh trying to
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get it each and every play and
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everything like that and then oine
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they're doing a good job blocking
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everything so if they can get me to the
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second level then I got to finish the
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rest
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one thing that M was saying to us is
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that the team that has you know taken
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the field the last two weeks is closer
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to the team that he's been seeing in
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practice things like that what do you
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think the last couple weeks has allowed
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you guys to you know allow what's taking
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place in practice to translate to the
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games uh I just think we all got the
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same goal same mindset everybody on the
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same page communication with each other
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everybody just wants it all and then I
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feel like we're just all putting all all
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into it to finish off the season right
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Mar you're numbers in high school were
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crazy obviously did is that the last
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time you had a five touchdown game did
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you have a five touchdown game in high
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school uh I'm not even sure I think I
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think I might have one time in high
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school before yeah I mean it's obviously
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the first time in college yeah yeah yes
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did they do anything special for you I
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mean I know they were kind of mugging
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for the camera when you scored on the
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screen pass like think JJ on those guys
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were holding up like five hands or
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whatever did anybody do anything special
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for you when you got the fifth uh no but
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uh me and nron we definitely like took a
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picture and everything after I beat his
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record and everything who's that on the
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sine one with your line oh yeah and I
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definitely took a picture online Lee Lee
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tweeted it out during the game Lee
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tweeted it out during the game the photo
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yeah Mak you and him and Aton oh yeah
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did you know that you're the fourth Tar
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Hill to do that five touchdowns in the
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game uh yeah they told me uh well
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actually not not the touchdowns they
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told me uh after I got the fifth one
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they told me about that you told us a
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few days ago you're going to wait till
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after the season's over to think about
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stuff like that but you're in the moment
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now five in one game four Tar Hill to do
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that what does that mean to you with all
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the other boxes that you checked
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today uh something I probably more I
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think about after the season right now
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I'm just focus on the next game trying
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to get ready for uh beat the next
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opponent Maran what's going on with your
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left eye did you get popped in the eye
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it's squinny these days uh I'm not sure
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probably I'm not sure I mean have you
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noticed it like we've noticed it no I
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didn't even notice it uh coach 4 he he
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said uh that my eyes was like a little
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down or something like that but uh I
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didn't even notice it okay so you're not
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your vision is not affected in any way
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by this no that's it all right Mar did
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uh n have a reaction to you uh passing
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this record or not just even a reaction
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but did he have any special words for
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you knowing that you pass him in your
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yeah yeah he's been joking with me all
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week about uh just slowing down so he
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keep the record and everything like that
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but uh yeah it's all love between me and
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everything like that so so when you're
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racing 43 yards you say take a knee take
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a KNE maybe well I mean he said uh he
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said if anybody uh the one to break it
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he would definitely want me to break it
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so it's all love between
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us all right we got a roll is the
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primary difference with the way the
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defense has played the last two weeks as
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opposed to previously I say the biggest
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difference is we all trust each other I
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feel like maybe during tough times we
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had dealt with adversity and I feel like
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maybe people didn't trust each other
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people are worried about other people
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but I feel like we're all just trusting
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each other's job and we're all doing our
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job so that's that's how things are
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working out the I would imagine guys
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make plays early in a game that quickly
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establishes that trust for that game
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especially since that was something that
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you guys were needing to kind of build
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on right yeah yes sir tell us about Bo
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ainson back I mean he was Unleashed yeah
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he was amazing I mean plays come every
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week is someone different last week Ruck
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had whoever had week before javar
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everybody everybody's just having a week
18:10
it's it's going to come the plays are
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going to come and both it was just b day
18:15
today Mario one thing that M was saying
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to us a few minutes ago was he feels
18:20
like the team that he's seen in practice
18:22
is starting to translate into games you
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know as far as the last two weeks what
18:26
do you think is starting to I know you
18:27
touched on you know defensive
18:29
but what do you kind of think is
18:30
allowing for the translation from
18:32
practice to you know take place on
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Saturdays yeah I feel like the the
18:35
having fun aspect is something we we
18:38
have fun and we all smiling and just
18:40
playing now and practice so we got to
18:41
translate that same thing to the game so
18:43
just relaxing and just but being focused
18:46
but also relaxing and not being too
18:47
tense in the game and just playing how
18:49
we practice does that make it easier to
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trust too because I would think if
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you're not trusting guys there's a
18:55
little stress involved but if you're
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relaxed and focused there's not as much
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stress so maybe it's easier to trust
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teammates that way yeah that makes sense
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yeah can you elaborate on that just kind
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of in your for you personally not saying
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you didn't trust guys but just kind of
19:10
take us through what it would be like
19:12
being relaxed and TR and confident and
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trusting yes it's more so like when
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certain plays happen there's a big play
19:19
is going to happen and it's more so
19:21
about trusting that we can fix whatever
19:23
happened and not trying to do someone
19:25
else's job that maybe they didn't
19:26
somebody didn't fit the play R somebody
19:28
didn't do their job that play but just
19:30
trusting each other that next time we
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see that play or next time that that
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happens we will make that play whoever
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whoever's responsibility that was will
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make that play so just trusting each
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other and keep doing our job every time
19:39
every time we do our job a play is going
19:41
to come to somebody so we just all got
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to do our job what as a defensive player
19:47
what impresses you the most about
19:49
Omarian
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Hampton just I feel like just his motor
19:54
his motor is crazy like I never I never
19:56
seen him get tired so I feel like that's
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that's just the biggest thing like he
20:00
don't show no you know how Mar he don't
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show no facial no nothing like he just
20:04
always on go so that's probably the they
20:06
that person me like a machine yeah he
20:09
like like a machine I guess I don't know
20:12
okay you don't have to agree
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yeah a word that you would use what you
20:20
say is there a word you would use other
20:21
than machine is there like one
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descriptive
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word prob soft probably
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one word one one word I say is is
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Relentless he he Relentless yeah 17
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sacks the last two weeks for this
20:39
defense I mean that's about as good as
20:41
it gets for a Defender I mean what what
20:44
what do this feeling like the way you
20:45
all are able to get after the passer and
20:48
I mean these are two offenses that
20:50
you've really sort of hounded the last
20:52
two weeks yeah we just all going back to
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what I said we all trusting each other
20:56
like the bond between all of us is we
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all we're all Brothers we're all playing
21:00
for each other so no matter what we just
21:01
got to make sure we do our job and the
21:03
play is going to come for everyone sacks
21:05
for everyone Pics F Force fumbles
21:08
everything everything going to come once
21:09
we do our job and they come to everybody
21:11
in different different different spots
21:13
different places what's it like as a
21:15
linebacker when you guys are in the
21:16
psycho package and when you got those
21:17
three dudes up there they can get to the
21:19
quarterback it's amazing we just sit
21:20
there and let them go free they run
21:22
their games they get sacks they flush
21:24
them mouth we go make plays they just
21:25
it's amazing rug B everybody on that
21:28
package this everybody can Rush the pass
21:30
it even Uh Kevin H like everybody can
21:32
Rush the pass it everybody can do their
21:33
job it's just it's amazing to see you
21:36
guys have another bye coming up
21:38
obviously the last one served you well
21:40
as far as you know resulting into into
21:41
the two wins I guess you know carrying
21:44
what you guys have done these last
21:46
couple games into that by week um just
21:48
how helpful do you anticipate you know
21:50
another open day kind of being for you
21:52
definitely great for our bodies the
21:54
people that have played a lot of snaps
21:55
to get rest and get see the younger
21:56
players that we have that steing up more
21:59
get more rep so they can feel more
22:00
comfortable in the defense by week's
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always a great week to just get back and
22:03
watch the younger players play all right
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good thanks Mar