explain that double vice so so you were the gunner i was the

And you got two guys blocking you.

Two guys blocking me.

And I got pushed to the outside.

So I'm going outside.

And I got a free release to get back onto the field of play.

Yeah.

What is it like when you don't have the record you want and things like that? What is the mood like, and how do you guys stick together and stay positive knowing that you've got a big challenge ahead and you're going to take it on and do the best you possibly can?

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[applause]Paul Tillich, a theologian and commentator [audience cheering] who altered my perspective on being, Pastor Chip, said in his book The Courage to Be, here's what he said, church, "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable." [audience cheering] In other words, what he was saying was that the courage to be isn't pretending that there aren't things about me that are unacceptable.

Pa- Dr. Yemi, the courage to be is knowing everything about me that could disqualify me, and still believing that God's made room for me.

[audience cheering] [laughs] I, I feel like preaching through here.

See, here's what some of you in this room, here's my issue with some of you in this room, and you didn't even know that I had a issue with you.

I gotta preach to some young people in here who, you are afraid to be who you are.

You are afraid to function as you are because you know too much about you.

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Uh, what, what went wrong in the second half for you guys, do you believe?

Man, um, you know, just not executing the, the simple things.

Um, also, you know, when you got a, a, a main guy like, uh, Dietrich go down, you know, it's hard to, to get the rotations in, you know.

So just things not going our way and, you know, um, just, just not doing our jobs.

That's, that's pretty much it.

You know, we had them, still close game.

Um, you know, we, we, we wanna finish the game on our end.

That, that first half, Jalen, do you feel like that's the best the defense has played this year?

How many Palmdale dudes are in this building? What is it about that city that's produced so many NFL guys?

Ah, man, tight-knit.

Tight-knit guys, man.

Guys that have, you know, grew up together, you know.

I mean, might not have been on the same team, but, you know, played against each other, you know, seven-on-seven circuits, you know.

So, learning each other early on and, um, knowing what it's like, you know what I'm saying? You know, these guys have had their different journeys, you know, um, among different schools, and made plays, you know.

That's what got them there ul- ultimately, so.

Yeah.