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Mike Macdonald: "Beginning Of Something Really Special” · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Are we get everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I mean we talked about throughout the week that
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  Speaker 2: our goals changed, you know, coming out of the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought our guys did a tremendous job of
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  Speaker 2: staying focused on what our new goal was, finishing the
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  Speaker 2: year the right way, and it was a great team win.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we wasn't that wasn't necessarily pretty, but I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you what, like we we we bought. We fought
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  Speaker 2: through some injuries and some guys that we hadn't nessarily
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  Speaker 2: planned on playing a big role. I mean, we can
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  Speaker 2: rattle those guys off, but guys stepping in and playing
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  Speaker 2: good football for us and ultimately winning the game, guys
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  Speaker 2: like Already Burns and Kenny McIntosh, Mike Darrell at right tackle.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of guys in there that,
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  Speaker 2: uh that stepped up and did a great.
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  Speaker 1: Job for us. So it's great for us to it's
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  Speaker 1: great for us to close the he'sn't out the right way?
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  Speaker 1: What did you think of Gino's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean talk about one of the guys that
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  Speaker 2: that fought all the way to the very end for
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  Speaker 2: us and putting a drive I mean part of the
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  Speaker 2: course for Gino coming, you know, coming another fourth quarter comeback.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what number that is, but great drive
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  Speaker 2: this wrong together at the end, great great throat to Noah.
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  Speaker 1: I got to play a great.
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  Speaker 2: Game these guys this week in this situation. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: just we got we got we got, we got the
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  Speaker 2: right guys and they got the right mentality. Just just
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  Speaker 2: really proud of just the cohesiveness, the connection that we've
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  Speaker 2: built and having each other's backs, just kind of fighting
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  Speaker 2: like fighting through when it's not when things don't go
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  Speaker 2: your way and whether well you know, it's it's ultimately
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  Speaker 2: our responsibility to put ourselves in a better situation at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the season. But coming out of the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: just the resilience and uh, the positivity was just was
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  Speaker 2: really cool.
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  Speaker 1: So proud of our guys. Was Geno he heard all
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  Speaker 1: at the end or what you.
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  Speaker 2: Know he was he was he's fighting through at the end?
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, that was it was a hip yep.
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  Speaker 2: In the next season. But you guys did pretty strong
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  Speaker 2: second half going out on the way and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of carry out well, Frankly, I didn't I didn't feel
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  Speaker 2: like how this our our off season and next season
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  Speaker 2: was not predicated based off of how this game finished,
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  Speaker 2: but you're of course you want to you want to
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  Speaker 2: finish the season with a win and finish on a
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  Speaker 2: positive note. And the process that we put into it,
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  Speaker 2: it was was big for us. Just understanding who we
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  Speaker 2: have and the type of guys we have and the
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  Speaker 2: resilience that we have was Uh, was really cool to
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  Speaker 2: see Wan.
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  Speaker 1: Six your last eight. I think and do those things
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  Speaker 1: kind of matter to you? It means me a lot
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  Speaker 1: going forward.
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  Speaker 2: You finish the sea, Yeah, shows this we can grow
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  Speaker 2: and evolve and make make adjustments throughout the season that
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  Speaker 2: are necessary for us to win. And I mean you
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  Speaker 2: look at some of the splits we have which are positive.
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  Speaker 2: We can put meaning behind the season kind of you know,
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow or whenever we have our end of the year
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  Speaker 2: conference or whatever. But our road record is something that
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  Speaker 2: we're proud of. Our division record is something we're proud of.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we have to we have to do a better
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  Speaker 2: job at home. But there's a lot of things to
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  Speaker 2: be proud of. You coming out of this game. The
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  Speaker 2: most important thing you learn about what it takes to
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  Speaker 2: be a successful NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And where do you start? Where do you start? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just I think it's the mentality that you have
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  Speaker 1: to have if.
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  Speaker 2: You're always learning and you're always growing and you're always evolving.
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  Speaker 2: And that's when we talk about chasing edges, trying to
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  Speaker 2: stay ahead of things rather than being a reactionary.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's really important.
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  Speaker 2: And you got to balance that with being steadfast and
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  Speaker 2: what you believe, and doubling down and your principles when
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  Speaker 2: times get tough, and and trusting your people. There's there's
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  Speaker 2: so many lessons learned from the from the season, and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to grow from this. I really believe this
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning of something really special, and I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I kind of wish we could just kind
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  Speaker 1: of I want to want to go back. I want
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  Speaker 1: to go back to work. Man.
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  Speaker 2: We need we need to, we need to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: take a deep breath here and think about how we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna move forward.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm excited to get back to work.
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  Speaker 2: What happened, well, I gotta give Byron a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is really really tough and fought through.
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  Speaker 2: You know, his back was was hurting him throughout the week,
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  Speaker 2: and I decided to give it a go. So he's
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  Speaker 2: a he's a he's a tough dude. He's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: easna be fine. Just decided didn't didn't finish the game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh reek h x ray came back negative to my
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  Speaker 2: knowledge on his ribs, I'm pretty sure he's pretty sore,
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  Speaker 2: but he's gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: No long term injuries coming out of it. Trey had
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  Speaker 1: Trey had a knee. We'll see how long.
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  Speaker 2: Had especially considering.
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  Speaker 1: Moving parts at corner.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about Julian, Yeah, he's just such a just such
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  Speaker 2: a steadfast force for us back there. And then when
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  Speaker 2: you have all the moving parts to your point, John
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  Speaker 2: of backups and guys, you know, practice squad guys coming
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  Speaker 2: in and out, calming it down, and it's not like
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  Speaker 2: we're it's not like we're we're gonna adjust on how
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  Speaker 2: we call it and make the necessary adjustments. But there's
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  Speaker 2: still communication to be had and poised to be had,
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  Speaker 2: and he'd provides that for us. Gino had quarter a
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  Speaker 2: bit of money on the linets. Do you have to
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  Speaker 2: have a conversation with him not you know, going shoot,
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  Speaker 2: he's the one driving it.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I just want to go win. That's all
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  Speaker 1: he cared about. He was he was awesome all week.
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  Speaker 2: He may keep our conversations private, but he uh, he
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  Speaker 2: was great man.
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  Speaker 1: What just he was awesome? He was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: He all his focus all week was just about going
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  Speaker 2: out the right way and getting the tenth win.
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  Speaker 1: Just the way he finished the season. What did he
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  Speaker 1: show you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I wish you would have held onto the ball
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  Speaker 2: in that one we got bailed out on the off
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  Speaker 2: sidees call. But outside of that, I mean, it just
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  Speaker 2: feels like he's a talented runner, you know. So just
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  Speaker 2: he needs to have a great offseason and keep growing.
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  Speaker 2: But he's shown that he you know, he's a heck up.
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  Speaker 1: A football player.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, I love how he finished his runs and
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  Speaker 2: it seems like he breaks a lot of tackles.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Tough guy to bring down. So he's a talented runner.
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  Speaker 2: And round out his game, keep working and and try
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  Speaker 2: to take his game to the next level.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah did it again today. Yeah he did it again today.
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  Speaker 2: So far, for the course of jmaur specialists all year
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  Speaker 2: have been dynamite. So really all three guys have done
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  Speaker 2: a great job. Yeah. I just you know, if if
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  Speaker 2: you you know, he didn't he didn't need a punctuation
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  Speaker 2: exclamation point, but he sure added one today on the
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  Speaker 2: work that he's done.
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  Speaker 1: And I think our front just those in order for
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  Speaker 1: Leo to come alive, you.
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  Speaker 2: Have to rush is one. We've talked about this the
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  Speaker 2: whole season, but he's doing it within the lens of
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  Speaker 2: playing with each other and playing off one another. So
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  Speaker 2: just the defensive front of has just done a great
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  Speaker 2: job of playing together, playing off one another, growing together.
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  Speaker 2: So that that's that's the type of football team you
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  Speaker 2: want to create, guys that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, connected group that play play for one another.
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  Speaker 1: They hit some screens sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they look u You got to credit their
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  Speaker 2: game plan. They did a great job they had. They
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  Speaker 2: had a great plan and we had to make some
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  Speaker 2: adjustments as the game went on a lot of those plays.
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  Speaker 1: You know, good job by them.
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  Speaker 2: I will always rebuttal that we need to play those
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  Speaker 2: plays better and uh, those that will be something we'll
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  Speaker 2: look at, you know, throughout the off season. But we
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  Speaker 2: could have been better in those moments as well, helpful well,
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  Speaker 2: Like like I said, I mean, our our approach to
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  Speaker 2: the off season and what we feel about our team
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have changed based off of the win loss. But
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  Speaker 2: of course it's great to finish with it with a win,
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  Speaker 2: to get the ten wins. I mean, all those things
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  Speaker 2: are really important, But like the tone is just kind
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  Speaker 2: of similar to what I'm talking about right now. It's
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  Speaker 2: a're we're excited about our future and we love our guys.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was it was a it was a
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  Speaker 2: special group, man, and we we understand that it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be this same same group. It's just that's
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  Speaker 2: the way the NF the nature of the NFL. But
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody will look back at this team and
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  Speaker 2: be and be proud of our effort and the things
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  Speaker 2: we work through.
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  Speaker 1: Ultimately, we fell short.
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  Speaker 2: You know, only one team is going to come out
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  Speaker 2: of this thing, you know, feeling like they achieved what
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  Speaker 2: they what they could have.
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  Speaker 1: So fortunately ours ended too early.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm excited to get back to work. I think
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  Speaker 2: our guys are excited for our future.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else okay, all right, thanks guys,