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was great, Jim. It was great.

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Very relaxing. know A lot of good

0:43

football this weekend So college

0:45

pro, different conferences are having their games

0:47

this weekend A lot of those

0:49

got set. So exciting games You know,

0:51

hate to see all the fighting at

0:53

the end of these college games about the

0:55

flags. So maybe the NCAA all that. I

0:57

don't think we need that but otherwise

0:59

a lot of good football What's

1:01

going on with that? I I mean, I

1:03

remember back in the day, Terrell Owens out stomping

1:05

on the star now it's just kind of all,

1:08

all disintegrated all these guys planting flags

1:10

so forth. What do do

1:12

you make of this and And do you think

1:15

leads to this behavior that allows this? Yeah,

1:17

well, maybe if we just get rid of the the flags,

1:19

that'll take care of some of the problems. Is

1:23

it a coaching issue? Is it a discipline

1:25

issue? Is it just the times we live in

1:27

with these young men? What's going on? Yeah,

1:30

probably each situation was a little bit

1:32

different, but in the end, think if you

1:34

don't you know, you don't have flags being

1:36

planted there, that that a lot of

1:38

problems. Hopefully they eliminate

1:40

that. So coach, let's dive into

1:42

this because I know you and coach Parcells back

1:45

when you were with the Giants and

1:47

then coach by himself and then you by yourself

1:49

with both. the Browns

1:51

and the Patriots you're preparing for the end

1:53

of the game and these teams. the

1:56

Chicago Bears, We're not

1:58

prepared for the end of the game. Whether

2:00

it's a coaching issue, a quarterbacking issue, or

2:02

whatever's going on, how can

2:04

that happen? How does that happen?

2:06

And how can you have 25 assistant

2:08

coaches and all these people who

2:10

you're paying on these headsets nobody can

2:12

get this right? Yeah, Well, I

2:14

think in all those situations, Jim, it really comes

2:16

down to three people have to be on the

2:19

same page. The head coach, the

2:21

play caller, which is usually

2:23

the coordinator and the

2:26

person in charge the field, who's

2:28

probably usually the defensive segment caller the

2:30

offensive quarterback. Those three people

2:32

all need to be thinking the same

2:34

thing. And when they're not, for whatever reason,

2:36

then that's where the problems come in. One

2:38

guy's thinking one thing, other guy's thinking

2:40

another thing, and then you end up

2:43

somewhere either in the middle or

2:45

on one end of the other, and

2:47

then you can't, other person is surprised

2:49

by that decision. So it comes to

2:51

making decisions, you really want all three

2:53

to be together. That's why I always

2:55

felt it was so important as the head

2:57

coach to make sure that I

2:59

spent a lot of time with Tom,

3:01

with Brady, and make sure that we

3:03

were on the same page of situationally,

3:05

We knew what we wanted to

3:07

do in in hopefully situation. And

3:09

thought that was very important.

3:11

So when that doesn't happen, like

3:13

example, in the Chicago game, look

3:15

like the play got called and

3:17

quarterback maybe to change it and

3:19

the the clock's running down. so clearly

3:21

wasn't on the same page. And

3:23

and that's a problem, or probably a

3:26

similar situation in the Raider game where they're

3:28

trying to take time off the clock

3:30

and then they mess up the snap count, and the ball

3:32

gets snapped and the game. So are

3:35

bad communication situations. Whereas take the

3:37

Baltimore game, it really

3:39

comes down to three kicks Point-wise, what

3:41

made a difference in the game. mean, mean, a different way

3:43

to lose the game, but three kicks

3:45

by a kicker that missed too many in

3:47

his career. So all the losses hurt, but

3:49

I think the ones that are, as you

3:51

said, kind of miscommunicated on situations at

3:53

the end of the game are

3:55

tough. Jim Gray Bill Belichick, so coach

3:57

afterwards. Now we get into the

3:59

whole aftermath. Why are these guys defending

4:01

what they did? The whole country just

4:03

saw it. Everybody knows you're wrong, knows it

4:05

didn't go well. And then, Eberfluse comes

4:08

out and says he did everything right. uh,

4:10

Antonio says, nope, wouldn't change it,

4:12

you know? What's going on

4:14

here? You're defending the indefensible. Yeah.

4:18

Yeah, I'm not sure about that one. mean,

4:20

Certainly, there a lot of questions and you sit

4:22

there and and about them all day.

4:25

I think in some cases the head coach

4:27

may not want to into

4:30

let's call it blaming somebody else

4:32

in the organization it be offensive play

4:34

call or coordinator, quarterback, maybe somebody in

4:36

the press box whatever happened

4:38

to be that was you

4:40

know Maybe involved with the cause of

4:42

the problem that you know He just

4:45

kind of takes it himself and said, you

4:47

know, it's my fault or it's my fault. But isn't that

4:49

Bill Belichick 101? screwed it up I

4:51

do better. Yeah, but it's right. It's a

4:53

lot easier than trying to explain everything that

4:55

happened. And there also usually a variety of

4:57

each situation could be a little bit different.

4:59

So what you would do in this one

5:01

could be a little bit different from the

5:03

next one if you just add subtract a couple of

5:05

seconds. So it can get into

5:08

pretty long answer. Yeah, you should

5:10

try to keep it short and just

5:12

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what happened to Trevor Lawrence the end of that play, sliding

5:32

and Aziz Al-Shayir in

5:34

and takes out of

5:36

the game, a brawl ensues. justifiably

5:38

so the Jacksonville players

5:41

their quarterback. Looks like a

5:43

very dirty, nasty hit. He releases a

5:45

statement today saying that wasn't was in his heart.

5:48

And I probably I I believe that. I don't think that

5:50

he went out there with that intention. with

5:52

that to happen, even though in the

5:55

split second moment. it's bad decision that

5:57

he makes. Not judging his

5:59

heart, but just judging. judging what it

6:01

is that we saw, when the NFL

6:03

is trying to take away quarterback injuries

6:05

by allowing them to slide and then this

6:07

happens, what are your thoughts on

6:09

that? Well, I think it's a really tough situation,

6:11

Jim. You know, majority of the

6:13

the time, the the quarterback slides early

6:15

enough where the defender can pull off.

6:18

And so that's easy. if he slides early

6:20

and the defender goes in and hits on

6:22

them, then absolutely, that should be not only a

6:24

penalty, but I mean, really a borderline, you

6:26

know, probably ejection. I I mean, that's just uncalled

6:28

for. but the

6:30

quarterback slides at the very last second

6:32

and the defender is committed to trying

6:35

to go the tackle, it's not too

6:37

much he can do, really. And we've

6:39

all seen these quarterbacks who fake slide

6:41

and then they run over the guy

6:43

or they fake like they're going out

6:45

of bounds and they down the sideline

6:47

and the defender. And so

6:49

if the defender doesn't go to tackle the

6:51

quarterback, these quarterbacks can make them

6:53

look bad. And so you've got to

6:55

respect the quarterback's running ability. If he wants, if he

6:58

gets out there and runs, then, you

7:00

know, you gotta tackle him. I mean, that's all there

7:02

is to it. It It doesn't matter whether it's, you

7:04

know, the Mark Jackson or Josh Allen or Richardson

7:07

or the Amis guys are hard

7:09

to tackle. So the offender is going there

7:11

to tackle them in the quarterback

7:14

slides the very last second. There's

7:17

nowhere else that the defender really

7:19

can make contact with him because whole his old

7:21

is on the ground. but

7:24

head is, you know, call it a

7:26

a two off the ground, two two and

7:28

a half, three feet, whatever it is as

7:30

he slides on this particular play, though,

7:32

I think when brings his forearm up and

7:34

hits them in the head with the forearm,

7:37

that the problem. And I think that's really

7:39

the coaching point there is you can't hit him

7:41

in the head with a forearm and

7:43

lead with the forearm. But in trying to

7:45

tackle the runner who's aggressively running, trying to

7:47

get the first down, if there's contact

7:50

in the head when the quarterback slides late,

7:52

that's a tough situation for a defender to be put

7:54

in. I I don't want to put

7:56

words in your mouth, but I hear

7:58

you kind of saying that the disease had.

8:00

had no no here. And And so leads to

8:02

the next question is, Do you feel?

8:04

or or not feel a a suspension should

8:07

come from that. Well, I don't really

8:09

have a position on the suspension or not. I'm not

8:11

sure what all goes into the criteria for that. But

8:14

I do think the was unnecessary. Would

8:17

there have been contact to the head anyway? I

8:19

I think there probably would have been because

8:21

slide was so late. But I

8:23

think the forearm brings brings

8:25

this question for discipline, yes.

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champions for tomorrow. What

8:45

was it like to play in those snow games what we

8:47

saw last night in Buffalo? I think

8:49

it was very much like what

8:52

happen? Very hard to pass,

8:54

rush, very hard to tackle.

8:57

and get your arms around a runner, a

8:59

good runner has strength and

9:01

good contact balance. Not a

9:03

real slick nifty guy because the field kind

9:05

of slows that down, but you know, big

9:07

powerful runners are just hard to tackle. It's

9:09

just hard to get your arms around

9:11

them and wrap up. And And them if the

9:13

line of is soft and they can run

9:15

through those arm tackles at the line, then

9:17

they're they're to bring down. So pass

9:20

rush an issue. And, And I

9:22

would say tackling those are the two biggest issues. Obviously

9:24

the ball handling and all that is a little

9:26

bit Obviously a challenge in that ways. thought Buffalo, I see

9:28

teams did a pretty good job of of

9:30

the ball, kicking,

9:33

passing, catching. I mean, overall, I

9:35

thought it was not bad, but

9:37

even when you sell like those kickoff returns

9:39

that Debo had, once a guy

9:41

like that gets momentum and gets a little speed going,

9:43

they're just just to bring those

9:45

guys down. The tackling is the tackling stuff. You

9:47

can't control body it you just can't get them

9:49

down with you know, with with any

9:52

of arm tackle, got to, you got

9:54

really get in front of them and stop them. And

9:56

what is your feeling and what do you

9:58

make of of bills dominating the division clinching? you

10:00

know, still with five weeks left in the

10:02

season in the division that you you once owned.

10:05

Yeah, that's an interesting

10:07

situation. Sometimes it's Look,

10:09

the good thing about clinching early is, is

10:12

you can kind of get some of your,

10:14

get some of your backup players, some experience and give them

10:16

some playing time. And you don't want to do

10:18

though, is lose your edge. And I mean, obviously Buffalo

10:20

playing very well right now And you don't want

10:22

them to, you know, you want

10:24

to lose that, you know, that sharp edge that

10:26

you have. But at same time, you don't want to

10:28

go all out and end up, you know,

10:30

not having four or five key players play us

10:33

when you really need them. So you try to

10:35

figure out that balance there. But I'd say

10:37

with Buffalo's schedule, they have a couple of, you know, very.

10:39

competitive games coming up that are outside of the division,

10:41

which I think will help keep them sharp, I I

10:43

sharp. think they're in a pretty good position, you

10:45

know, and whether or not they can get the

10:47

home field in the first round by, they're still playing

10:50

for that. So I think they're going to keep, I

10:52

think they're gonna keep their foot on the pedal

10:55

and keep pushing through it. And And pedal got

10:57

Kansas City on the tiebreaker. So And if they

10:59

can catch them, you know, it'll make the playoffs go

11:01

through Buffalo again, which is, you know, not a

11:03

bad place for them to be. and they

11:05

get that week off. That's right. Well, honestly,

11:07

they've got five weeks off. if They want them. So,

11:10

you know, if if

11:12

they a guy that's got hamstring or a high ankle or

11:15

something like that, there's no need to rush

11:17

them back and try to, you know, put them

11:19

at risk and extend the injury. They have

11:21

plenty of time for that. But yeah, that that

11:23

week, I mean, that extra week can be a

11:25

good thing or it could be a bad thing. I

11:27

I can tell you you, sometimes it's, you know, you

11:29

just, you're not quite as sharp as as teams

11:31

who are, you know, the first team you're going

11:33

to play is usually the the bottom. ranked

11:35

team, right? And so that team has been in

11:37

playoff football for a couple of weeks. If they hadn't,

11:39

don't win the last couple of games of the

11:41

season, they're they're not going to be in the

11:43

playoffs. So usually need to win. They're usually,

11:45

you know, playing pretty well at the end. That's how

11:48

they got in. And, you know,

11:50

if the the first team or second seeded

11:52

team slips a little bit, then you

11:55

know, you get out your hands full so it's a

11:57

it's a little tricky. It really is It's a

11:59

little tricky don't want to keep the edge without without

12:02

burning your team out without

12:04

burning your, you know, without unnecessarily

12:06

guys who are maybe fighting

12:08

through injuries at further

12:10

risk. It's tricky. And

12:13

coaches, we're talking about the division. It's come

12:15

to this, another. 10 loss season

12:17

now, just three wins so far for the

12:19

Patriots. What's your feelings on what you've seen

12:21

with them so far this season? Yeah,

12:23

just haven't done enough to win very many games

12:25

on any level. You know, they

12:28

trouble on defense. One

12:30

of the last ranked teams on offense,

12:32

if not the bottom rank. Missed some key field

12:34

goals and some, you know, plays as well.

12:36

So So I'd say all three areas of

12:38

the game just haven't been know, enough to win.

12:41

I Still a couple games left

12:43

against Buffalo, right? So it's, they a a

12:45

bye this week, so maybe they They'll

12:48

get a few things straight out. but it's just been

12:50

a pretty inconsistent year. Just haven't been able to do

12:52

enough to win when they needed to. How did these guys

12:54

played for you? Do you feel for them in

12:56

this situation, or have you just moved on in your

12:58

head? No, there are a a lot

13:00

of people there that, you you know, very close to a lot of

13:02

them that I brought there. Especially

13:04

defensively, almost all those players

13:06

are re -signed, and and most

13:09

all offensive skill players, too. So

13:11

yeah, it's, you know, it's to see them, you

13:13

know, through that type of that

13:16

type of season. nothing to do about it. I mean,

13:18

just you know, back and watch it. But of course, yeah, I

13:20

feel bad for a lot of those guys. but

13:22

But you know, especially defensive players, I know those guys

13:24

work hard. They're tough, and they they care and

13:26

they put a lot into it. It's a national

13:28

football league. It's very competitive, You

13:30

gotta, you gotta a way to, to

13:33

stand up to the competition And that's,

13:35

a challenge for every team. Coach,

13:37

you've had these type of seasons before, where you're

13:39

winning games, you know you shouldn't be winning. and

13:42

you're a a defending champion and

13:44

and looking at you, but

13:46

you know it's not right. And

13:49

you're hoping, one week we're going to this, we're

13:51

gonna come together and we're gonna play

13:53

like the team that was that team. That

13:55

hasn't happened this year in Kansas city. It's

13:57

one thing after another. by the

13:59

way way. We didn't talk about

14:02

this earlier. How is a play blown dead? It's

14:04

either an illegal procedure or it's not, but the

14:06

rulebook says it's not an illegal procedure, it's an

14:08

illegal shift, so you snap a ball after

14:11

a whistle and it's a debacle. But

14:13

let's concentrate first on the Chiefs somehow

14:15

out how to win these games that

14:17

they shouldn't be winning you know, it's you

14:19

know it's not going well. Is

14:21

there enough time left to correct this

14:23

or is this just it is And you it.

14:25

to live with it? Well, I

14:27

think the Chiefs have played well in each area at

14:29

times throughout times throughout the course of the year.

14:31

It's not as consistent as what they wanted to

14:33

be, but but they've done enough

14:35

things, again things to win and you

14:37

look at other teams that kind of of find

14:39

ways to lose those games. The not have

14:41

found them. So you to lose them, so you

14:43

got to give them credit for that. And

14:46

so I think the fact that they

14:48

have done everything well at different points

14:50

of the season, just not putting too

14:52

many of those games together, that at some

14:54

point that, you know, they can just find a

14:56

little more consistency and do the things

14:58

they're capable of doing, that they know, that they

15:00

could be be all right. Now, some of

15:02

the issues they have, I'm not sure

15:04

how they're going to fix those. Obviously,

15:06

the tackle situation is an issue. you

15:09

know, getting the back, back and Pacheco back. back,

15:11

I think that will definitely help

15:13

them. I've got enough experience there and

15:15

good players. They obviously just

15:17

need to get it all working

15:19

together And I think that's certainly doable. We'll

15:22

see whether they can do it. Now the

15:24

officiating aspect. When nobody

15:26

at home understands what it is they saw

15:28

and everybody thinks they've seen something other

15:30

than what the officials have seen and it's

15:32

adjudicated in a different way after huddling up

15:34

and it's debacle.

15:36

What's going on here? How Either the

15:38

plays dead it's not. Your

15:41

response and thoughts on on it is that took

15:43

place out there with the officiating crew. Look,

15:45

everybody wants to get it right. The

15:47

officials to get it right. League wants

15:49

to get it right. Teams want to

15:51

get it right. So everybody's in alignment there.

15:54

in alignment there. a Football

15:56

can be a tough, complicated game. It's

15:58

a to fast moving game. during the six,

16:00

seconds of the play going on You

16:02

know there's plenty of time in between

16:05

plays but then when the when the ball's snapped, around

16:07

when it's being snapped until right at the

16:09

very end of the play, a lot of

16:11

things happening in a a short amount of time

16:13

with some tremendous athletes who have great

16:16

skill and can do things that are sometimes

16:18

you just don't think are possible so So

16:21

problem for me is when

16:23

a play as you

16:25

said is a play but

16:27

it isn't a play So

16:30

example we've seen plays

16:32

where the gets hit

16:34

and the ball goes

16:36

forward and it clearly

16:38

looks like an incomplete pass but

16:42

guys run over and they pick it

16:44

up like it's a fumble and other guys

16:46

have stopped playing. guys have stopped playing

16:48

some guys haven't and the are kind of

16:50

letting plays go and then they'll come

16:52

back and correct them on replay and

16:54

say well it was an incomplete pass, or you

16:57

know it or a fumble or it was

16:59

a fumble but when they let those

17:01

plays go and some guys play them some

17:03

don't I think that's a very dangerous

17:05

situation on the field where somebody's going a

17:07

hundred miles an hour and guy

17:09

has stopped because he thinks the

17:11

plays over and he doesn't want

17:14

to get a penalty for doing

17:16

something excessive on the play the

17:18

whistle itself doesn't really mean that

17:20

the is over, over and we've seen

17:22

that in multiple cases where the whistle

17:24

but the ball comes out it's

17:26

still a live ball, and we go back and

17:28

review it, and it's not where the

17:30

whistle blew or not it's whether or

17:33

not the player was actually down and

17:35

that makes it a very confusing situation

17:37

where the whistle now doesn't really have

17:39

any meaning So you coach the guys to play

17:41

to the whistle No.

17:44

we played to possession of the ball as

17:47

long as the ball's loose play

17:49

to possession of the ball

17:51

the whistle means nothing. That's a

17:53

great thought and that's instructive That's instructive

17:55

with just went on here yeah

17:57

the whistle doesn't mean anything Our

18:00

coaching point was very strongly

18:02

made, you play to possession

18:04

of the ball. You

18:06

don't care about the whistle if the

18:08

ball is loose. you play to

18:10

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have a good Thanksgiving? I sure did. I

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hope you did, Max. Yeah, I

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had I had a good Thanksgiving. I was on the

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road. Unfortunately, I on didn't get to be with my girls

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my dogs at the house. They had

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a big ol' spread, and they ate

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very well. was Still, I'm on it.

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like I I told 'all was before, even though Jim

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didn't believe me. I was on my meal

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prep, so. we'll Thanksgiving for

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after the season. But you got to

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hug Patrick Mahomes. What was that like? Yeah, we

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hugged him a lot. A lot of

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physical hugs. Yeah, good good time.

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So Max, how are you recovering from the

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latest debacle? I'm doing

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great. Honestly, Saturday, right after

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the game, got in the building, got my

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work in in Sunday well. today, again, So

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like I said, just controlling the controllables.

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mean, you can't even make. it up. Uh,

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really no words. We

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had them, You know what I mean? We had them. They knew we had

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them. I mean, I talked to Patrick,

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you know, after the game, he's like, y 'all had

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know what I mean? Like everybody, um, the

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board, but Doesn't matter, they

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won. We couldn't finish it

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onto the next game, so you know, focused on Tampa

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Bay now. Every every you come

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on, you're all magnanimous and Hey, I

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I can just control what

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I control. Don't you ever go

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pound the wall. Don't

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you ever throw something.

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Don't you ever just

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get supremely. ticked off.

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Of course. Of course. I'm competitive as

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they come. You know what I mean? I

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put all my time and

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effort and spirit and soul into this. you

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know, and to being the best version of myself.

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I about winning more than anything on the planet.

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So yeah, like were points in the season where I

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feel like I was losing my mind, You you

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know I I mean? I had to really reset

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and like the best version of me is being,

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you you know, not just a great player, but

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a great leader and being the best version

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of myself, bringing positivity. Cause if I can, I

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can sit around and be negative and be

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like everybody else in the world right now and

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be like, oh, it's a shit show. Is this is

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that, da, da, da. If I live in that,

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I'm just like everybody else and I'm not

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like everybody else. I like I'm... here for a reason

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and I could fall into that trap and be

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you know a part of the crowd or

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I can be a leader and that's that's what I

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choose to be You know what I mean it's

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a choice and yeah of course it sucks, I'm I'm

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be the best version of me every single

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day you know going forward. So Max, the

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question though, to be asked. Who's teaching

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you guys the concepts of situational football?

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Who's developing it? Who's going through

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these things? Who's repeating it and time

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and time again? So when

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this happens, it doesn't happen like it did. Who's

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doing that? We have

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somebody, you know, I don't know what the

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term is or the label, but yeah, there's

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situational or analytics or whatever you want to

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call it. We have people that do that.

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There's there's group of people that do that. You

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You know, it's coaching, it's everybody involved. So I

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really, I I can't even describe to you. what

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exactly happened because there's a lot of

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different versions of what transpired.

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I truly, I don't know. There's

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miscommunication. There's this, there's that. But like,

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like I said, like, what

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am I going to say? You You know what

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I mean? mean? What am I going to do? gotta... No,

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no, no, there's instinct. there's there's instinct. There's reaction. There's

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anticipation and a lot of that's on the players

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and a lot of that's on the coaches. And when

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it's, you know, two ships passing in the night.

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in those situations. you

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know, you take a victory away from yourself. I

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mean, it's everybody has a a hand in

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that. So from players, coaches,

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everybody. So that's on everybody's note. You You

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point fingers and do that, but at the

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end of the day, it's on everybody,

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so. you know, there's

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no no other words I could really say. you know what I mean?

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I I would just leave it at that. As

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we continue here on Let's Go, Let's Go

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is brought to you by by Casamigos Tequila. Casamigos

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Tequila brought to you. by those

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who drink it. it. Max, the

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last three times you've

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played Kansas City. the

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composite score. is

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Kansas City has outscored

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you by three points. If

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anybody could give a

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lesson in what it's like

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to play the Kansas City

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Chiefs, tough, it's

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the Vegas Raiders. What

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are some of the things

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you find without away state secrets? when

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you play Kansas City and why

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have you been able to play them

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so well over the last couple

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of years? Yeah, well, I feel like, You

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know, if Kansas City gets the run game it's

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very hard to stop. you know, it's

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hard to stop them because once,

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you know, you're setting, you're guessing it's 50 -50 and

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Pat can either run pass it. Like, it's,

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not predictable, You know what I know mean? If you

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shut the run down early, Andy

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wants to throw the ball and I know

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Pat wants to throw the ball and that's what

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they do at their best, but if you make

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them one -dimensional and you got rushers that can get

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out the quarterback and you can get

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matching and coverage, that's your best. best to win.

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So you to knock the run out early.

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You to be relentless. Like that's something you

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can't coach is is the way that play style, the

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way myself and Kayla Chase

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on and Adam Butler and Tyree Wilson, the guys are

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flying around hunting the quarterback every single play

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and that's that's what you got to do

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Like you can watch all the film in

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the world but you got to really be

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relentless and like that's what what that's what really

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came down to was us You know even

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the last few match is just you to get

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after the quarterback and you got to hit

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him all day and let him know

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that you're there and breathing down his neck

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and that's that's really what it comes down

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to So I like we always do

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a pretty damn good job of that we've

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been doing like that for a few years

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So yeah, it just shows us like even playing a

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team like that we know they're, they're a a

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dynasty like they're on their way to being dynasty

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if they keep winning and we're

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two and 10 ten right now and we're right there we

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had them, you know what I mean and we've had them

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earlier in the year and we had them last we

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beat them last year on road And it's

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like we, we know at our

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best we could be play with anybody We've proven

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that but at the same time we, we got

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to learn how to not beat ourselves. And that's why

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I feel like it's the biggest issue right now

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Jim Gray with Peter with Peter and Max Crosby.

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Max, we move on on, I detect

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a little bit just

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in your voice you

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Patrick Mahomes now. changed You

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this guy now. tell everybody I

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love Patrick You know know I mean that's why we're close

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to each other every, every time we see each

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other you know that's my guy I I respect hell

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out of him. You know what I mean I look

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at him as the best at his position and

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I look at myself at the best of what I

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do so it's like at the end of

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the day we see each other twice a year

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we know exactly how we like to play

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we know what we're about. about we know our energy

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so it it's a a match made in heaven

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so can't wait to see him. some of those

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conversations like you us inside and tell us?

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either like Pat looks at me and he's like

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that was a good rush. was good shit. like I make step

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up or throw the ball a little quick. He'd

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be like that would have been a a touchdown if you

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weren't there I'm like appreciate it. And then

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there's other times where I'm like, he's like, get

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up, man, get up. I'm I'm like, shut up. I

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mean, that's, that's our conversation sometimes. So, So, conversation you know,

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it gets a little rated from time to

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time, but it's, you know, at the end at

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day, it's all respect. Like we know he

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knows he's running for his life and to, trying

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to make his plays. And for me, my

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job is to literally kill him. So um,

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a match made in heaven. I said, well,

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let's switch the subject because we saw

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something at the end of a

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play yesterday with Trevor Lawrence and

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Aziz Alshair. What exactly can the

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defensive player do? Now, in this

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instance, there was a forearm

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up. It in it dirty. It looks

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nasty. But when guys are

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sliding, the point that coach

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makes, you don't know if they're going to

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slide, if they're going to sidestep slide, they

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go into it late. You've basically left

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the defense with, with no ability to do

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anything. And when a guy's that low and

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a a guy's already on the ground, these

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things can happen. Not speaking

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specifically of that instance

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where obviously the was up.

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But in other instances, you

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guys are in a real difficult

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position and the way that that

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formula works. A hundred percent, a hundred And and obviously

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Trevor, I hope Trevor gets better.

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And hope he's okay. Obviously, it's

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an unfortunate situation. But people perceive

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it as, you you know what I

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mean? He's a dirty player immediately. because

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way he hit Trevor Lawrence, obviously,

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it's unfortunate. You don't want to see

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that happen. But the game, it happens

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so fast, and everything happens so

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fast. and you got to make split

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second decisions. And when a

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quarterback is running, typically

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typically, they're going to be protected. And sometimes don't don't

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know if they're going to slide. Sometimes you don't

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know if they're going to try to run through

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you because sometimes they could tiptoe and then you see Pat

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Mahomes, like he'll run an extra 10 yards on the sideline.

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Cause are scared to hit them. So, you know, in

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that situation, like it did a little, you

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know, it looked a little egregious. But at

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the same time, if you're running a miles an hour,

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hour, you can't just stop on a dime like that

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when you already left your feet. So So don't

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know everybody's intentions. I've seen that he put

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out an apology and I know from afar

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and from you know hearing from You know former

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of his as these is like one

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of the hardest workers one of the like

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just watching his film Like he plays the

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game the right way. So obviously, you

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know, he's getting attacked right now, but I

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think Um, he's a hell of a

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player and I think it's, it's a a learning lesson for

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him. You You to just try your best to be smart,

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you know mean? At the end of the day, it's football.

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There's going to be stuff that happens. that's always,

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you're right here teetering the line at all

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times when you're playing such a fast combat sport.

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At the end of the day, I I just

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hope Trevor Lawrence is all good. You

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know, is going to move forward from this. So yeah,

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it's just an unfortunate situation. Should he

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be suspended? Um, I, you know,

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I'm, I'm a defensive guy. So like, I don't,

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I don't think so. I don't think if he has

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a huge track record, like I don't think he's

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been, you know, how to, has a bunch of

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personal files on his career. He's done a bunch

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of dirty stuff. I think it's just, you know,

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him playing fast and. And unfortunately, it

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You know, just happened to go that way. So no, I I don't

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think you should suspend them. but you never know. You

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never know what happens. You know what I mean? I've

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been fined a ton for like roughing the passers things like

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that. So So really is just going come down

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to. you know, you know, Roger Goodell in

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the league making you know, make an executive decision.

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And it being that public, I feel

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like they're gonna have pressure to like try

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to make to you know, make a statement

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for sure, especially with the quarterback. Max,

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appreciate it. Thanks so much for your time.

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