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Press Pass | Heath Farwell: "All these games prepare you down the stretch come January." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You were around the Bills long enough to get a
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  Speaker 1: feel for a team that's ready to play a big game.
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  Speaker 1: Because you played in several big games with them. You
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  Speaker 1: feel like this team is ready for this cut caliber
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  Speaker 1: of a game, a big game early in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Do they have that big game mentality yet or is
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  Speaker 1: that still evolving.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the best part about games like this.
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  Speaker 3: All these games prepare you down the stretch come January.
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  Speaker 3: So just to feel that adrenaline, a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: nervous you know, nervousness about you, the little gut feeling
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  Speaker 3: to you pre game, all those little rituals kind of
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  Speaker 3: the fans, the crowd, that's what makes it special, that's
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  Speaker 3: what makes it cool.
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  Speaker 2: But all that stuff helps us.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, doing those couple Kansas City games
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  Speaker 3: for the last couple of years, I think that's also
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  Speaker 3: prepared us.
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  Speaker 2: This is another one.
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  Speaker 3: This is another great game, great matchup. Come playoff time,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna need these games just for experience. So I
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  Speaker 3: think our guys are ready, they're excited about it. We've
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  Speaker 3: had a good week of practice so far. Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: that's the challenge of let's see what we can do
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  Speaker 3: in a good, a good matchup, but it's a very
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  Speaker 3: good team.
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  Speaker 4: Brandon obviously a big game Sunday, not surprising to you,
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  Speaker 4: but bounces back from a difficult week the week before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not surprising at all.
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  Speaker 3: He's a pro, He's been a he's one of the
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  Speaker 3: ben been one of the best kickers in this league
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  Speaker 3: for a long time. Uh, And so I knew he'd
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  Speaker 3: get right back to what he does. He had a
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  Speaker 3: great week of practice last week, and so he's uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then it went out on the field. He did
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  Speaker 3: exactly what he does every day. So there's not shocking
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  Speaker 3: he he controls it completely with great kicks. And then
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  Speaker 3: also something that probably does gets overlooked probably are those
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  Speaker 3: touchbacks he hit. You know, it was just something we
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  Speaker 3: we potentially would have hung some kicks up and covered
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  Speaker 3: some kicks. But when you have that dynamic returner back
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  Speaker 3: there deep not all kickers can can guarantee touchbacks like
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  Speaker 3: he can do. Uh. And so be able to take
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  Speaker 3: that take that game completely out of it is is
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  Speaker 3: a big thing for a coach to say, Okay, you
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  Speaker 3: take that portion of the game out of it. As
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  Speaker 3: well as making all those kicks he did, and he
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  Speaker 3: did it he's a great player, so not surprised at.
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  Speaker 5: All on that point lining up for the fifty six
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  Speaker 5: yard Those of us who've been to Wembley a lot
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  Speaker 5: there were maybe a little bit nervous about that on
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  Speaker 5: what's normally a football field soccer field, so the decision
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  Speaker 5: to go for the long kick first and foremost ball.
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  Speaker 5: So you're quite excited to be back on a more
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  Speaker 5: familiar surface this week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think you know, we tried you know,
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  Speaker 3: the grass all week. We had a good feeling of
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  Speaker 3: what kind of turf, you know, we were gonna deal
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  Speaker 3: with there. Coming here as much as often as we do,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we were a good understanding of what
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  Speaker 3: cleats we were gonna wear that game. But just trusting
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  Speaker 3: you know, his leg strength, his ability kick to make
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  Speaker 3: those long kicks. Our confidence never wavered and we were
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  Speaker 3: sending him out there. You know, we talked about it
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  Speaker 3: on third down of sending him out there, so it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't a last second decision. There was no gray area
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  Speaker 3: with it. It's send him out there, do what he
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  Speaker 3: does best. That's why we got a kicker like that
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  Speaker 3: in the program. That was one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 3: we you know, we felt like we upgraded the offseason.
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  Speaker 3: We got a guy that can make that kick when
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  Speaker 3: we needed those three points.
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  Speaker 6: It's looking like Jamal Agnew is getting close to returning.
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  Speaker 6: Is the plan to have been returning straight away and
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  Speaker 6: just returning kick some punts straight away? And how much
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  Speaker 6: of a difference will he make in that department.
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  Speaker 3: If he's active, he is definitely returning. I will not
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  Speaker 3: hold him off of that. The guys last week did
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  Speaker 3: a really good job. They filled in perfectly, did exactly
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  Speaker 3: what we wanted him to, gave the ball back to
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  Speaker 3: the offense, got some yards.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 3: But Jamal Agnew special player. If he is active, he
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  Speaker 3: will be back deep. We'll see how he looks, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Today's another day to kind of see what he can
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  Speaker 3: run around and do. As the week goes on, we
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  Speaker 3: have a better idea what it looks like. But yes,
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  Speaker 3: he will be back deep. I'm hoping he is back.
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  Speaker 3: He is very, very good and he's a big part
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  Speaker 3: of our return game of really flipping the field for
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  Speaker 3: our return game.
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  Speaker 7: To piggyback on that point, how hard is it to
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  Speaker 7: do what Christian had to come in and do. Obviously,
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  Speaker 7: Jamal's usually there he's inactive right before the game. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: you guys probably knew a little earlier. But then Parker
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  Speaker 7: goes down the first one. I mean, practicing it and
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  Speaker 7: then doing it in a game when you haven't done
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  Speaker 7: it in a bit. How difficult is that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think normally as a coach, you get
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  Speaker 3: your third return or you're pretty nervous.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. Not the case with me. Christian Kirk is a pro.
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  Speaker 3: He's caught punts for a long time in this league,
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  Speaker 3: very consistent, catches the ball super clean. You trust him,
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  Speaker 3: you want the ball in his hands.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: So it was it was not a concern for me.
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  Speaker 3: It was just more the operation aspect of Now that's
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  Speaker 3: the guy who plays as much offense as he does.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's got a return punts for that's the biggest uh,
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  Speaker 3: I guess concern with it. But as far as him
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  Speaker 3: ability wise, not a concern at all. He's a pro.
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  Speaker 3: He's done it for a ton of you know, a
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  Speaker 3: ton of years, and he's done at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's just fortunate we have agnue that we
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  Speaker 3: don't necessarily need him. Most teams, he would be the
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  Speaker 3: pump return. I'm sure not to get way too much.
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  Speaker 4: But does krishnev full go when he's back there orre
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  Speaker 4: you just telling him to catch the ball and be
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  Speaker 4: safe because I know he's not your main guy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's a he's a ballplayer, so I think
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna want to return, you know, as much as
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  Speaker 3: we want to protect him, probably protect him from himself.
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  Speaker 3: He's a ballplayer that want that wants to help the team.
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  Speaker 2: And if he there's.
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  Speaker 3: Yards to be had, if they have a good space,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to try to score. Yes, yeah, no, he's
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  Speaker 3: not gonna fair catch every time he's going to return.
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  Speaker 7: That's what we do, that's what he does. Rindon mentioned
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  Speaker 7: on Sunday to us the operation. You know, Snaphold obviously kick.
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  Speaker 7: I'm from the outside looking in, it looks like Snaphold's
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  Speaker 7: kick anywhere in football. But what are the nuances of
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  Speaker 7: that operation when you do have a new guy who's
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  Speaker 7: been somewhere else for a long time, and and does
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  Speaker 7: that take some time and live action to kind of
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  Speaker 7: get under. I mean the obvious is the mechanics of it.
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  Speaker 7: You know, what is the trigger? Is it off your hand?
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  Speaker 7: Is that the face mask?
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  Speaker 3: Is that the the you know, the the hand coming
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  Speaker 3: off the ground. There's different triggers that they use, so
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  Speaker 3: it's all timing. You know, what are they going off?
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  Speaker 3: They changed the cadence all the time. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously to to to to get the field goal block
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  Speaker 3: team off you know, off a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But it's all the timing aspect.
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  Speaker 3: Where is the ball caught, where the laces because the
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  Speaker 3: reality is if those lasers are off this much, those
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  Speaker 3: kickers know that and see that and feel that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's real precise.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's down to you know, a quarter inch makes
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  Speaker 3: the difference in the kicking game.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And so that is a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: So the more reps they can get, the more consistent
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  Speaker 3: they can get, the operation gets cleaner, the better the
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  Speaker 3: ultimate result of him making kicks, you know. And and
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  Speaker 3: and that's part of the process we've been working through. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Logan was out for a couple of days
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  Speaker 3: in training camp, Ross missed a ton of time, so
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  Speaker 3: we were kind of making up for some of that time.
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  Speaker 3: But they've really just picked it up where they left
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  Speaker 3: off and really just I think they're starting to get
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  Speaker 3: in their own the last couple of weeks of practice,
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  Speaker 3: we've had some great sessions and this week is no different.
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  Speaker 3: We've had some great sessions, so I'm expecting good results
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  Speaker 3: come Sunday. You know, whatever you typically see in practice,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's typically what you see in a game.
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  Speaker 3: And that's kind of why I've come to realize. And
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  Speaker 3: when you're consistent like they have been the last few weeks,
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  Speaker 3: we're getting in the right stride. I think we're getting
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  Speaker 3: the right in the right mode.
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  Speaker 1: That is.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you guys.