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  Speaker 1: It feels good to win, it really does. And um,
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  Speaker 1: you can't really get caught up too much in the outcomes,
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  Speaker 1: but that feeling of winning, it's more of the feeling. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it really makes you want to dial in more the
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  Speaker 1: next week. So um, but just like you said, you
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  Speaker 1: can't let one team beat you twice. You can't get
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  Speaker 1: you can't get you know when drunk, you know, And
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  Speaker 1: we gotta we got a tough challenge this week, so
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  Speaker 1: we gotta enjoy it today and get back, get back
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  Speaker 1: on the horse next week. When the team was down
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  Speaker 1: seventeen to nothing, what were you doing on the sideline?
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  Speaker 1: And I guess some of the guys said, you were,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trying to kind of saying some things. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be honest. When we were down seventeen zero, I knew
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  Speaker 1: we were winning the game because I the weeks before
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  Speaker 1: it was we were up and it was kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, playing playing from behind I think is easier
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  Speaker 1: than playing from ahead in this league, I really do,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, every every player, every coach in this
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  Speaker 1: league has pride and performance, and you know, when you
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  Speaker 1: go down, it's like, Okay, we're gonna give him our
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  Speaker 1: best shot now and we knew, Um, I kind of knew,
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  Speaker 1: and I always try to just keep everyone up on
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  Speaker 1: the sideline because there's gonna be ebbs and flows. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you really gotta you can't ride the roller coaster every motion.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta stay level headed. And that's really just what
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  Speaker 1: I tried to convey to everybody, and um, and obviously
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  Speaker 1: paid off. Is there something you say during the five
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  Speaker 1: games before or what do you have to say during
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  Speaker 1: those five games where you guys are losing it is
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  Speaker 1: not going your way in order to sort of get
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  Speaker 1: those guys to get pumped up, get yourself pumped up,
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  Speaker 1: and things in that nature. Right, Um, you know it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you don't like to you don't you don't
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  Speaker 1: like motivational speaking. It's like, we don't need to come
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  Speaker 1: in here every week and try to find some some
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  Speaker 1: motivation of everyone saying you know, you find everyone. You know,
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  Speaker 1: words words really breed actions. When everyone comes in and
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  Speaker 1: it's like we need this, we need that, we need
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  Speaker 1: need need, it kind of gets redundant and it kind
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  Speaker 1: of it's just it's it's it's not a good feeling.
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  Speaker 1: But I know for sure this week we came out
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  Speaker 1: and it was just like everyone just kind of stopped
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  Speaker 1: talking and kind of really just started doing so. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's really what we tried to focus on throughout the
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  Speaker 1: course of the week. Really, what did you say about
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  Speaker 1: the team to be able to overcome that? Um, the
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  Speaker 1: resolve of the team, the defense, you know, from the
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  Speaker 1: first half to the second, things of that nature. Just
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  Speaker 1: what does it say about you guys? It says that
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  Speaker 1: we're a really good team at learning and and that's
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  Speaker 1: really what you gotta do with this. One of the
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  Speaker 1: best pieces of advice I got as a rookie was
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  Speaker 1: this league will humble you. And if you're not constantly learning,
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  Speaker 1: not not trying to get better, not being really disciplined
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  Speaker 1: on the on the days where you feel like, oh
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  Speaker 1: I just did my job today, I can there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: I need to go back and review. It's it's really
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  Speaker 1: those little sessions where you go back and review really
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  Speaker 1: really close look at yourself, um beer unworsh critic. And
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  Speaker 1: I think from having all these these really close losses,
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  Speaker 1: this team finally just said, you know what, screw this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like, let's let's go you know, like one
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  Speaker 1: of those things and you can see it and all
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  Speaker 1: the guys and when everyone gets that juice going, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the sky's the limit for this team. Just gotta just
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  Speaker 1: gotta dial in every week. Does this win feel a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different? I mean the second biggest comeback and
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  Speaker 1: franchise history. I know the team is kind have been
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  Speaker 1: looking for that spark to kind of get a string
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  Speaker 1: of wins going. Can this be that? You know, because
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  Speaker 1: you see you dug out of the whole, got the win,
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  Speaker 1: You've had all the close games, Can this be that
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  Speaker 1: kind of I guess spurring moment. It's it's definitely a
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  Speaker 1: good start, you know when you we really kind of
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  Speaker 1: clarified our intentions as a as a team in that
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  Speaker 1: team meeting after after that London game. It was like,
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  Speaker 1: this is where we want to go. And when you
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  Speaker 1: identify where you want to go, then you can start
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  Speaker 1: doing all the little stuff leading up to that. So
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  Speaker 1: you you know, you kind of work work backwards in
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  Speaker 1: a way to say, if we were to make the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: what would we do this? What would we do today?
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's really what we did this week
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  Speaker 1: and got a you know, a big, big win. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they were I believe two and five. We were two
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  Speaker 1: and six. It's like, we're not out of it. Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: lost last night. We're only two games back. We played
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  Speaker 1: them twice, so you can never give up in this league.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that Denver lost hurt. It did because
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  Speaker 1: we we we thought that could be one. But we
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  Speaker 1: really got back on track and got this one. And
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  Speaker 1: you know you can only get one at a time.
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  Speaker 1: So um, but back to your question, I think this
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  Speaker 1: one feels good at home for sure. Um. And like
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  Speaker 1: I said, good team next week, I can't get win drunk,
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  Speaker 1: gotta dial back in. Do you ever kind of look
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  Speaker 1: at a game as like a measuringstwo game? Chiefs are
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  Speaker 1: one of the top teams in the a f C.
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  Speaker 1: You go in there and kind of see where you
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  Speaker 1: guys match up with them. Um, you know, you don't
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  Speaker 1: really want to say, you know, they're they're obviously one
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  Speaker 1: of the best teams in the league, there's no question
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  Speaker 1: about that. But it's the NFL. Um, There's there's thirty
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  Speaker 1: two teams and there's fifty three players on every team
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  Speaker 1: that are the best of the best. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: any given Sunday, any team can win. But to go
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  Speaker 1: in they're a winning team. That's what they do. You
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  Speaker 1: saw that game last night, Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes. They
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  Speaker 1: just win. They get it done when they need to.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we're starting to trend in that direction.
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  Speaker 1: And like you said, it will be a good test.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna contend in the a f C,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go play Kansas City in January
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  Speaker 1: February when it's cold and stuff. So it'll be a
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  Speaker 1: great challenge. And if you don't love the challenge, get
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  Speaker 1: off the trains. And I know all these guys in
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  Speaker 1: that locker room, we're we're really a cohesive unit and
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  Speaker 1: we're really, you know, kind of tied together mentally, and
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  Speaker 1: we all think like that. So I'm fired up. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: What did it say about kind of the characters of
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  Speaker 1: the second are just the limit? Devon in the second
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  Speaker 1: half like they did. Yeah, it's it's awesome. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you have to have in this league as
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  Speaker 1: a defensive back. You know, Tyson, all those guys, Cisco,
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  Speaker 1: Ray Darius, they we all think the same way. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta want to be out there and you know
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna make their place. And DeVante made his plays
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  Speaker 1: in the first half, but it's a it's a four
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  Speaker 1: quarter game, and you know, we came out really, uh
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  Speaker 1: really had a good talk at halftime and kind of
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  Speaker 1: switch things up a little bit and did our thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just so proud of those guys. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Tys who's really trending in the right direction,
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  Speaker 1: but you see him learning and growing every day. He
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  Speaker 1: never gets down on himself after a play. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's his best quality because as an NFL corner, they're
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  Speaker 1: coming at you every play, no matter what, and you
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  Speaker 1: just gotta be really focused play after play. And he
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  Speaker 1: did that and it's it was awesome to see Buster
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  Speaker 1: getting his first in the fiddle action. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think about the rookie You know, there there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be some stuff, you know, tackling stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's it hits fast, but you know, I
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  Speaker 1: remember when I was a rookie. It does hit fast.
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  Speaker 1: But the guys who make it in this league, and
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  Speaker 1: Buster will be one of them. You see him work
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  Speaker 1: every day. Um experience is only gonna make him better
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  Speaker 1: and better. And uh, I really like where we're at. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's really bought in Everyone knows that when one of
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  Speaker 1: us makes a play, we all make a play. And
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta make the plays that come to us.
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  Speaker 1: So we're in a we're in a good spot. We're
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  Speaker 1: gett a strong performance this week, be heading into the
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  Speaker 1: bye week. It can be big. You know. We got that.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I hate to go back to last year,
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  Speaker 1: but we gotta win going into a bye week. Um,
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  Speaker 1: last year and it always just feels good. Get your
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  Speaker 1: mind right. But um, you know, we're trying not to
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  Speaker 1: really focus on a bye week. We're just trying to
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  Speaker 1: focus on the Chiefs. Thanks guys, I appreciate you.