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Press Pass | Doug Pederson on Defensive Lineup When Foye Oluokun Returns · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Well, do you recall any kind of epiphany
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  Speaker 1: or any moment maybe after the Houston game where you
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  Speaker 1: or Phil went to the offensive line and said, you
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  Speaker 1: guys got to play start playing better. Is it that
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  Speaker 1: simple or or was it just you know, said the
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  Speaker 1: other day they just started. There's a gradual process. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a gradual process.
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  Speaker 2: But I do I know myself as as the coach
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  Speaker 2: standing in front of the room, you know, I do
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  Speaker 2: tell the guys, hey, we have to coach better, we
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  Speaker 2: have to play better, and we're all in this together.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, you make those you make those sort
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  Speaker 2: of blanket statements to your team. But then at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, you know, once you hit the practice field,
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  Speaker 2: we detail things as coaches better for the guys, maybe
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  Speaker 2: we simplify some things, and then for them it's just repetition, right,
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  Speaker 2: It's it's uh, the same five guys playing together, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all season and getting getting more continuity.
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  Speaker 1: Does anything give you, I guess, more pleasure than having
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  Speaker 1: a couple of games where Trevor doesn't not only doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get sack, but doesn't get hit.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's the goal each week. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I tell you that the protection has been really good
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  Speaker 2: the last cup, bless you, the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, our guys take a lot of pride
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  Speaker 2: and we we work at it. We work at it hard.
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  Speaker 2: You know, our coaches study our opponent and the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the type of type of you know, blitzes and pressures
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  Speaker 2: that they're going to bring, and then we put our
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  Speaker 2: guys in it during the week. So it's just a
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  Speaker 2: credit to all the guys just working hard.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, And do we practice windows open?
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  Speaker 4: What are the chances of them playing this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Good? It's you know, it just means that we've opened
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  Speaker 2: their window and they can practice now with the team,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and and not on the side with
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  Speaker 2: the trainer. So we'll see each day how they do,
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  Speaker 2: how they you know, get back out there and and
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  Speaker 2: do more football you know, movement, and then if it
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  Speaker 2: looks good, great, If if not, we go another week
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  Speaker 2: and and see see you next week.
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  Speaker 5: In which Boy and Ben Trout could be on the
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  Speaker 5: field together. Yes, okay, like definitively like like like moving forward, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: moving forward to Canada the primary linebackers.
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  Speaker 2: Moving forward, I would say short answers, Yes, I think
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  Speaker 2: I think two you know, you want your best eleven
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  Speaker 2: on the field, whatever that looks like, and sometimes doesn't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily have to be the best football player, but the
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  Speaker 2: one that does things right the most the most. And
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  Speaker 2: but I do still think that there's there's enough of
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  Speaker 2: a rotational piece with those guys. I think that's one
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  Speaker 2: of the positions that's gotten better. You know, the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks, it has been the linebacker. I think
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  Speaker 2: Devin in the middle has gotten gotten better. Ben trel
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  Speaker 2: we know he's improved, and now with the additional Foyer
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  Speaker 2: coming back, if he's if he's ready to go, I
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  Speaker 2: think you got your combinations back that you want.
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  Speaker 4: You've won two of your last three games. Do you
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  Speaker 4: feel like this team's kind of turned in a corner?
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  Speaker 3: And how do you kind of keep it rolling?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I do feel like the team is coming
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  Speaker 2: together a little bit better. And that's the thing that
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  Speaker 2: that's the thing that we have to keep coming right.
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  Speaker 2: We got to keep keep building and and and and
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  Speaker 2: build off of, you know, build off of last week.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what what did we do? Focusing on what
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  Speaker 2: what did we do well during the week, How did
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  Speaker 2: we attack the week as coaches and players, and how
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  Speaker 2: did we practice and things of that nature, and then
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  Speaker 2: and then ultimately how did we play? And I think
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  Speaker 2: I think if we find some some pieces in there
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  Speaker 2: that that we can hang our hats on, that's what
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  Speaker 2: you build on. And uh but yeah, you know too
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  Speaker 2: out of the last three has been been very positive
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we got to find a way to
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  Speaker 2: do it again, obviously against a good team.
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  Speaker 1: Did make any tweeks during anything like game prep, during
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  Speaker 1: the week at all that that you're seeing dividends out
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  Speaker 1: on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Down not not really, I didn't, not not big wholesale changes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we kept the practice structure the same last week.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's something to just everybody together in the
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  Speaker 2: same you know, in the same spot. But really, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you just look a lot of times you just got
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  Speaker 2: to roll through sleeves and go to work and you know,
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  Speaker 2: take ownership where you can and move forward.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's not the same circumstances, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, you didn't mention that you
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  Speaker 3: sort of had it a little bit of an ink
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  Speaker 3: wing when when you were two and six, then you
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  Speaker 3: were three and seven, that you could still get back
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  Speaker 3: in this in in the race and maybe even pull
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  Speaker 3: it off and win the division. Any correlation with that now,
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  Speaker 3: I mean four game deficit then with seven games left
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  Speaker 3: versus a three game deficit now with ten games left.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I would say this, anything's possible. But you know, listen,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a one, one week at a time mentality,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, And it's a it's you just try
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  Speaker 2: to go one to oh you just try to you know,
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  Speaker 2: try to figure out how to win a game this week.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you can lean and look back on
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  Speaker 2: on that time and say, hey, you know, we've been
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  Speaker 2: here before, we know what this, we know what this
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  Speaker 2: looks like, and you know what did we do well
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  Speaker 2: then that that we can apply to today. Uh And
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  Speaker 2: and you know there's a lot of ball ahead of us,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And and yet I think each week, each
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  Speaker 2: week now becomes a little bit more important, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for us as a as a team.
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  Speaker 3: Does it make you does it make you feel a
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  Speaker 3: little bit better, a little bit more I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: not as worried, because you have a lot of core
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  Speaker 3: players on this team who are part of that come back.
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  Speaker 2: Two years ago as well, you know, I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 2: that's a positive. Guys, that have been there with us
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  Speaker 2: and and gone through that, you know, and and and listen,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have You're gonna have moments where you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have in this league. You know, you're gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of a lot of a lot of highs and
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have some some lows. And again it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's what you learn from each one and and and
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  Speaker 2: apply to this week and today, you know, and how
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  Speaker 2: you use that, I think, you know, moving forward, and
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  Speaker 2: lean on your leadership, lean on the guys that have
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  Speaker 2: kind of been there and done it, and and use
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  Speaker 2: use them as sort of you know, sending the message
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  Speaker 2: to the guys in the locker room.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they have been on the grass.
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  Speaker 6: The last two days. But sad is for Cam and
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  Speaker 6: Travis as far as how they're.
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  Speaker 2: Trending on their Cam's obviously in the protocol, so he
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  Speaker 2: won't be out there. TJ's doing fine again. Day to day.
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  Speaker 2: He'll get some work out there, not with the team
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  Speaker 2: per se, but but you know, a little maybe a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of individual and then work with the trainers
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  Speaker 2: after that.
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  Speaker 6: In the moment, and obviously a lot of this is
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  Speaker 6: on press, but I would think it's the collective. When
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  Speaker 6: you're calling seventeen straight run plays and now you look
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  Speaker 6: up against your next opponent or someone who the Texans
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  Speaker 6: were really able to run on last week, how difficult
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  Speaker 6: is it to stay disciplined and say, you know what,
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  Speaker 6: this is working. We have to just commit to the run.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think I think you one of the
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  Speaker 2: things you have to do, anybody that's making decisions, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in game you last week was last week. It's a
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  Speaker 2: different set of circumstances this this this week, right, It's
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  Speaker 2: it's a different team. It's a different structure, different players,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and a team that, look, you know, do
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  Speaker 2: you want to go in and establish your run game early?
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  Speaker 2: You know, like we have? Sure? You know that that's
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  Speaker 2: I think you know every team would say, and every
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  Speaker 2: coach would stand up here and say, oh, let's establish
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  Speaker 2: the run early.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that that's as much of a cliche, but
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  Speaker 2: that's the truth. Right. And so, you know, is our
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  Speaker 2: offensive line? Are they playing well right now? I do
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  Speaker 2: believe they are, And I think that's been a strength
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  Speaker 2: of us, you know, the last couple of weeks. And
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  Speaker 2: you lean on that just like you know, our quarterback's
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  Speaker 2: been clean throwing the football too, so you lean on
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  Speaker 2: that as well. But I think it's not until you
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  Speaker 2: get into the football game that you kind of figure
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  Speaker 2: out that, Okay, this is working or this is not working,
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  Speaker 2: and you switch gears, whatever it might be. And it
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  Speaker 2: just so happened this past week that the run game
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  Speaker 2: was was successful, and you just keep kind of riding
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  Speaker 2: that hot hand.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I don't want you to have to.
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  Speaker 6: Give it away, but on the headset, I mean, what
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  Speaker 6: is for as much as much as you can share,
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  Speaker 6: what's the conversation and like that situation where you was like,
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  Speaker 6: all right here, we gotta.
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  Speaker 4: Keep doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if as much of a conversation as
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  Speaker 2: it is just what we're seeing. You're seeing four yards,
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  Speaker 2: six yards, twelve yards, fifteen yards a run. There's not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of conversation that needs to take place, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, And you're feeling the excitement of
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  Speaker 2: the offense on the field, so quite frankly, there is
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  Speaker 2: no you know, there is no dialogue in those moments.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's just kind of what what you're seeing
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  Speaker 2: in game. Can takeaways, but how are they coming?
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  Speaker 3: What do they do well on the defense to make
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  Speaker 3: that work one same week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, opportunistic team. I mean right place, right right time.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're getting some batter at balls or getting some tips,
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  Speaker 2: or getting some timely interceptions. You know. I think early
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  Speaker 2: in the season, I think you know, Xavier was was
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  Speaker 2: all over the place. Ball was like finding him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and and that's that's how turnovers sort of come, right,
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  Speaker 2: they come in droves like that, and this team has
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  Speaker 2: capitalized on that, and they've been able to score even
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  Speaker 2: you know when when Love wasn't in there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they were still finding a way. So you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of the things we got to do is obviously take
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  Speaker 2: care of the football. And you know we've been we've
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  Speaker 2: been pretty good lately at that. But uh again, you
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  Speaker 2: know this is a good team, and you can't give
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  Speaker 2: good teams more opportunities. And and then you know, we
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  Speaker 2: just gotta we just gotta find a way to take
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  Speaker 2: care of the football.
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  Speaker 3: Some short Love, I mean after the naw injury, what's
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  Speaker 3: been different about him to be so elevated in his play.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's just you know, sometimes that injury kind
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  Speaker 2: of calms a quarterback down. So he's in the pockets,
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  Speaker 2: he's seeing the fields, getting the ball out little more
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  Speaker 2: quick passing, the screen game, things like that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: have have helped him. And of course they're run game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and getting the ball you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in Jacob's hands and and letting him go. And they
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  Speaker 2: do a great job with shifts motions and you know
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  Speaker 2: sort of the misdirection stuff too that you got to
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  Speaker 2: be prepared for. And then obviously the play action pass
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  Speaker 2: comes off that. So you're just seeing I think, uh,
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback that's kind of settled in quite frankly since
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  Speaker 2: the injury, and he's doing a good job.
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  Speaker 5: Brian and the rest receivers are played a lot of
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  Speaker 5: top cornerbacks this season.
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  Speaker 1: What is it about Alexander that really stands out and kind
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  Speaker 1: of sets.
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  Speaker 2: On the part obviously, you know, corners of this nature,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of confidence in their ability
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  Speaker 2: and and rightfully, so he's a he's a you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's a good corner and and you know they're they're
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  Speaker 2: got they're guys that that they love, they love competition,
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  Speaker 2: and they love the chippiness of what what the game brings, right,
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  Speaker 2: and the best ones I've been around are just that way,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and uh, they got a swagger about him,
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  Speaker 2: and and he's got that when you watch the film,
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's he's he's he's doing his part right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's you know, this is a zone scheme team,
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  Speaker 2: So I on the quarterback, and you've got to be
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  Speaker 2: smart as a quarterback. You can't stare down receivers otherwise
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  Speaker 2: he's he's that good. He's gonna pick the ball off
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  Speaker 2: and you know, you know, possibly return it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for a touchdown, which he's done. So yeah, just got
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  Speaker 2: to be smart as an offense. A lot of respect
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  Speaker 2: for him, you know, a lot of respect for that
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  Speaker 2: defense and what they're doing right now. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's really shaped himself into one of the one
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  Speaker 2: of the best corners that we've seen in this league.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you have a team that forces as many turnovers
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  Speaker 5: as the Packers do. Is there a heightened emphasis on
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  Speaker 5: that during the week or is it just you know,
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  Speaker 5: obviously you focus on everything.
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  Speaker 2: We focus on it every week. You know, we'll we'll
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  Speaker 2: we'll we spend Thursdays talking to our team offensively about it.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, here's the stats. This is who they are,
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  Speaker 2: and this is how they're creating him. And if we
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  Speaker 2: show our guys how they're getting them, I think it
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  Speaker 2: paints a brighter picture, right, And and then bottom line
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  Speaker 2: is we gotta we got to just take care of
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  Speaker 2: the football offensively.
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  Speaker 6: How do you account for all their different weapons, especially
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  Speaker 6: knowing that tight ends have at times been the Achilles
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  Speaker 6: heel for this defense and the fact that they have
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  Speaker 6: multiple tight ends in the receiving.
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  Speaker 2: Game, Yeah, they've got They've got quite a few guys
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  Speaker 2: on offense they can get the ball to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and it does make it, it does make it
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  Speaker 2: a challenge. You know, uh, which which group you're going
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  Speaker 2: to try to be going to try to take away
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  Speaker 2: you know, or at least minimize. And you know, this
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  Speaker 2: is something that you know, you got to trust the scheme.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this week you have to you have to
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  Speaker 2: put your players in situations to I think understand the
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  Speaker 2: scheme number one. And then and then try to be
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  Speaker 2: successful on game day where there's maybe not a lot
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  Speaker 2: of thinking involved, just I've got that guy you know
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  Speaker 2: type thing. And then and then you know your pass
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  Speaker 2: rush too, you get you gotta affect, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you want ball disruption and takeaways. You've got to affect
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  Speaker 2: it with with four five guys, and and you've got
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do that too.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: And Aaron Rodgers got sat for a while before they
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  Speaker 4: got on the field. How hard is it to remain
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  Speaker 4: committed to that as an organization? Help Rodgers and then going.
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  Speaker 2: To law Yeah, I mean, listen to Packers have been blessed.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he had like thirty plus years of two
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  Speaker 2: guys playing quarterback. I think, I mean it's they've been blessed.
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  Speaker 2: So you but as a as a as an organization too,
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  Speaker 2: you're always looking into the future. So they drafted Jordan
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  Speaker 2: Love knowing Aaron Rodgers was the starter and you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: learn from this guy, however long it takes. They were
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  Speaker 2: in no hurry to make a switch, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: and it's obviously paying off for him because he he
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  Speaker 2: got to sit and watch one of the better, if
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  Speaker 2: not one of the best quarterbacks in modern time play
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  Speaker 2: the game. And you know, so yeah, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you might complain and say, well, why are we taking
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  Speaker 2: this guy so high and why are we doing all that?
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  Speaker 2: But now you look at him and go, pretty good
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  Speaker 2: reason why you know, and and he's gonna sit for
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  Speaker 2: you know, however long. So you just got to be
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  Speaker 2: committed to it. If that if that's your plan, you
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  Speaker 2: got to stick to it. And and then there's going
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  Speaker 2: to come a day when when you have to make
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  Speaker 2: the switch and the move and and you know, Jordan
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  Speaker 2: was ready for it.
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  Speaker 4: If you're getting a quarterback of that game or most
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  Speaker 4: of the time, you're picking high in the draft generally,
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  Speaker 4: so there's the pressure to play the kid. There's the pressure,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And most of them don't have Rogers already
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  Speaker 4: in place, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what I mean, such a I think that was
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  Speaker 2: you know. Of course we weren't there, so we don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But I think from an organizational standpoint, you got Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 2: so we can take a little bit of a risk here,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and and take this guy and knowing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, probably knowing you're gonna have to answer a
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  Speaker 2: lot of questions why you know, instead of why aren't
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  Speaker 2: you taking a receiver? Why aren't you taking a pass rusher?
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  Speaker 2: Why you know? I mean, all the questions we hear
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  Speaker 2: every day, right, So it's just it's everybody has their plan.
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  Speaker 2: They go into the draft off season with that plan.
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  Speaker 2: Packers had it. You know, this is what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: They stuck to it and and you know it's it's
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  Speaker 2: pain awful.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thanks coat, Thanks your time,