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Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin addresses the media following Penn State football's blowout 35-6 win over the Washington Huskies in the 2024 White Out game.
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always appreciate you guys coming out to
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cover Penn State football I want to
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start with the crowd uh awesome crowd
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again one of the best sporting events uh
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not just football one of the best
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sporting events that there are out there
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uh the white out is always
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fantastic and uh appreciate our athletic
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director Pat craft working with the big
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10 to give us a chance to play this game
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at night as well so um All Things
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Considered you know real positive you
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look at the game in my opinion the game
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was one on third down we were 77% on
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third down to their 30 I think we were
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seven of seven in the first half to
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start the game uh turnover battle was
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tied explosive play Battle we won not as
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explosive as we would normally like to
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be but we still won that battle I think
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it was 133% to
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5% uh sack battle that was a dominant uh
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aspect of the game I thought our o line
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we didn't give up any sacks in the game
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some of that was Drew extending plays uh
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but then our defense was able to get
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five sacks in the game um penalty battle
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I still think there's some things that
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we need to get cleaned up but overall
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that was a tossup and then I thought the
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end of the half was big in the middle
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eight we got 14 points to their zero so
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um got to give Washington credit I think
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that's a talented football team and a
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good football team uh coach fish will do
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a great job there but tonight our guys
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played exceptionally well and
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specifically in the first half um Tyler
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Warren continues to make plays a ton of
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different ways and I'm proud of him
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there um J Reed continues to make plays
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for us Abdul Carter continues to make
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big plays in critical moments uh so just
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just really cool and then the last thing
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I'd say is you know that defense was one
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of the top passing uh defenses in the
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country I think they were the number two
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pass defense in the country and we threw
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for over 220 yards they were given up
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142 uh this season and then obviously we
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were able to protect the football I
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think that's one of the things that Drew
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has done a phenomenal job in the last
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two years do get enough credit for that
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uh but being able to protect the
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football make great decisions and also
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be accurate so um I I got a list here of
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about 35 records that Tyler Warren is
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broken I'm not going to get into all of
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them but he's a really good football
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player
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um I don't see how the guy is not um
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what's the tight end award I can't see
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how this guy doesn't win the Macky award
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and the Paul Hing award I I I don't see
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how he doesn't um and they would they'd
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be proud of that guy representing their
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award because he does everything right
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both on and off the field he's done that
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way he's done it that way since the day
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he stepped on campus so he's just a
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great example of what a Penn State
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football player is so appreciate you
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guys again being here and open up to
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questions raise your hand we'll get a
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mic to you we'll start with Mark and
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then we'll go to Rich James can you
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speak to the resilience your entire
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program showed and you talked about it
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last week about this new college
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football landscape where there's still
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things to play for how important it is
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to to not let one game beat you twice
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can you speak to that resilience yeah
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again in our lock room and in the Lash
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facility and on our practice fields we
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we got a ton to be proud of and uh you
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know we we we focus on that we focus on
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making
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Corrections and I'm proud of my guys I'm
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proud of my staff and how we go about
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our business um we value winning and if
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you watch college football over all over
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the country um it's hard to win on a
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consistent basis you see you see it
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every single week uh upsets and things
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like that so we value winning we respect
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winning and what it takes and we get
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back to work on Sundays in the Lash
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building and on the Lash practice
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fields rich and then uh jar James T
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right James we didn't see Nick Singleton
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for the last quarter and a half didn't
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see him on the sideline can you shed up
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any light on what happened no as you
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guys know I I don't kind of get into
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those types of things um you know you'll
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find out when you come out to practice I
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don't have a whole lot more I haven't
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even typically I get in there after this
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I shower everybody's gone I get done to
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shower and Andy mutton is waiting for me
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and he goes through how we how we got
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out of the game and what the injuries
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were typically we don't have a whole lot
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of
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information um until the next morning uh
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but as you can imagine you know I don't
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usually get into sharing that
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information with you guys anyway at this
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stage Jared and then Johnny hey coach
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Franklin to your Lefty jar um a lot of
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guys saw the ball uh especially in that
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first half as you mentioned um can you
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talk about just the execution of the
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team today to make it possible for so
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many guys to be able to get touches yeah
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I think the biggest thing on offense and
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defense is we were able to control first
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down I think on offense we averaged
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seven yards per play in the first half
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uh defensively we're able to head stay
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ahead of the sticks uh all night long
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and that allows you to be in manageable
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third down situations that allows you to
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try to push the ball down the field that
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allows you to be aggressive on defense
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and going after the quarterback so I
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think you know first down was a big
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factor in that game and how it played
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out Johnny the pickle James C
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right in what ways have you seen Abdul
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you progress and grow as a complete Edge
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ressure from early in the season
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September uh to this point where he's at
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now yeah he's a disruptive football
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player he was that way when he played
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linebacker he's a disruptive football
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player for us at defensive ENT I still
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think there's been an evolution for him
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there in terms of uh playing to run on a
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consistent basis rushing the passer on a
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consistent basis um getting really good
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with his get off um he's just getting
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better and you know to me that's the
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exciting thing about Abdul he's got a
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ton of football left ahead of him hey
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guys if you could please if you guys
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want to talk it's fine but just kind of
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go away go
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back
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um but he's a he's a football player
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that's just getting better every single
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week uh and I'm proud of him and he
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continues to find a ton of different
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ways to disrupt the game pickle and then
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Andrew coach could you take us
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through could you take us through the
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sequence with Tyler Warren's incomplete
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pass you called the timeout chatter with
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the officials do you think they were
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going to review that just that whole SE
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TI of that playoff From perspective yeah
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so you know obviously we got to decide
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you know is it a first down or not is it
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a field goal or not 99% of the time
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they'll Buzz that down and review it um
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but they said Not only did they do it
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they did it in Chicago that quickly I
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haven't seen that done all year long so
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then we ended up burning the time out
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try to give them more time to review it
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but they said they had already reviewed
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it that's typically why I don't
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challenge things
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um
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so kind of unusual to me usually they'll
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buzz it down and stop there and take a
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second look at it it's a big play in the
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game obviously they they felt like it
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was it was clear enough not to buzz down
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and I I obviously shouldn't have called
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the timeout last two Andrew then Joe
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coach back here uh julan got his first
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touch down Trey had a really nice game
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how important was it for you to get the
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receivers really involved in the off
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yeah it's great to get lot of guys
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involved we want to do that every single
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week uh was really good to see Julian do
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some things and Trey do some things
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today we need more of that we'll
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continue to invest in that throughout
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the week uh but I'm I'm proud of our
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guys I really I really am I thought they
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played well tonight I thought Trey's
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Catch on the sideline was a huge catch
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um we need those guys so we'll we'll
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continue to invest in that um we're
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going to need more of that as the season
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goes
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on James that first half
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oh thank you thank it was Christmas gift
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last year very stylish thank you um but
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that first half uh with the offense
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scoring touchdowns on all four of his
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possessions with the defense pitching a
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shut out do you say that's the best half
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this team has played all season and how
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much of that would you attribute to
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playing coming out with a M streak
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coming coming up last week yeah I'm not
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sure about all that you you guys you
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guys make those determinations uh we'll
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we'll watch the film and grade it uh
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tomorrow um again I thought We we played
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very well in the first half um again
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like I mentioned third down we were
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seven for seven I think we AED seven
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yards on offense uh we started with a
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touchdown on offense we held them to no
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points on their opening drive so a lot
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of things the end of the half how that
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ended uh with the with the stop and then
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the two-minute drive that was big so a
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ton of good things but I'll let you guys
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decide what was the the best half and
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things like that we just we're going to
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grade the tape and we'll have a better
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idea after we grade the tape how our
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guys played uh for the entire game thank
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you coach thank you thank you
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