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  Speaker 1: Obviously injury update on Trevor, and then Christian Walker little
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  Speaker 1: and Trey Herndon as well.
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  Speaker 2: So starting with Trevor, obviously, it's just a right high
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  Speaker 2: ankle sprain. Everything stable, everything looks good, and and we'll
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  Speaker 2: see where he is here in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: Christian has a has a core muscle injury, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: he'll obviously gonna miss miss some time.
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  Speaker 3: He'll be he'll be out.
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  Speaker 2: Walker has a left hamstring strain and you know it's
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  Speaker 2: in Uh again, we'll see where he's at, you know,
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  Speaker 2: strength wise, instability, in a couple of days on that,
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  Speaker 2: and then Trey obviously we'll be in the concussion protocol.
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  Speaker 4: And then with Walker his injury came on to play,
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  Speaker 4: Trevor got saxophone.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, Uh, no, it did not, It was earlier in
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, thank you, yep, go ahead, Jamal.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, coach, if Trevor Lawrence does have to miss some time,
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  Speaker 5: how helpful is it to have time to be able
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  Speaker 5: to get CJ ready?
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  Speaker 3: I say that again? Ask it again. Sorry, if Trevor.
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  Speaker 5: Has to miss some time, how helpful is it to
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  Speaker 5: have the full week to get CJ ready? Rather than Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: the backup in the game at a moment's notice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I understand. Yeah, I didn't understand the question
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  Speaker 3: first time. No, it's good. It's good to get CJ.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a full week of preparation obviously, you know
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  Speaker 2: Trevor will stay mentally, mentally sharp and obviously see where
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  Speaker 2: he's at. But uh, to give to give CJ, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the time this week with the offense with Luke Fortner,
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  Speaker 2: I mean not with Luke Partner with yeah, Luke Fortner,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the center quarterback stuff and working with
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  Speaker 2: the running backs.
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  Speaker 3: It'd be good, it'd be good for CJ. And and you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, otherwise I thought, you know, last night CJ filled in, filled.
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  Speaker 3: In nicely.
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  Speaker 5: And with Christian Sideline as the plan to give Parker
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  Speaker 5: Washington an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Parker.
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  Speaker 2: Parker did a nice job, you know last night, made
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  Speaker 2: some plays. Obviously the touchdown was was huge. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: he would he'd be the next guy up and then
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  Speaker 2: he'd get a full week of work as well.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks coach. All right, we're gonna go with Demetrius and
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  Speaker 4: then d Rock.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Doug.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously, when Trey went down, it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: Gregor Junior came in, and then it seemed like later
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  Speaker 1: on Antonio Johnson sort of mixed in there. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: just wondering what you saw from those two and is
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  Speaker 1: that sort of how you would like to play it,
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  Speaker 1: sort of rotating them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Antonio Johnson came in because Greg Junior was cramping
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  Speaker 2: during the game, so we had we had, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he was the next guy up there. But yeah, you'd
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  Speaker 2: still like to get Antonio some work, whether he's playing
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  Speaker 2: the nickel spot or possibly the safety spot, and and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with with Trey being in in protocol right now,
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  Speaker 2: this would be a great opportunity for for both those
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  Speaker 2: guys to continue to get work.
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  Speaker 1: How did you see him do? I mean it was
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  Speaker 1: obviously his first time getting extensive work, I guess Antonio Antonio.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he's he's a good player, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and he does some good things. He moves well,
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  Speaker 2: he's a good tackler, physical, you know, and just the
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  Speaker 2: more he plays, the more more confident he'll be in
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  Speaker 2: and what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Doug, is there a legitimate possibility that Trevor could
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  Speaker 7: play this week?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to put that timetable on Trevor not
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  Speaker 2: going to put him in a box like that, but
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  Speaker 2: we'll see how he is in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, are you guys going to bring in any other
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  Speaker 7: quarterbacks to work out?
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  Speaker 4: Specifically Nick Foles?
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  Speaker 7: Would he be one guy you would take a look
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  Speaker 7: at because of familiarity with you in the offense.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't had those discussions yet.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: On the play where Trevor got hurt, Parker was Parker
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  Speaker 7: Washington not in the right spot or not looking was that?
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  Speaker 7: Or was he was it Calvin Ridley on the left
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  Speaker 7: that Trevor was looking at and pulled the ball down
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  Speaker 7: because he didn't like what he saw. Just trying to
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  Speaker 7: get a fuller understanding of what happened on the play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just some uh miscommunication with with Parker and
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  Speaker 2: hit the decision he had with his route. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there was a there was a defender outside of him,
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  Speaker 2: defender inside of him, and he was he was kind
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  Speaker 2: of caught in between and and you know, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a young player that hasn't had a lot of time
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  Speaker 2: yet and a lot of reps out there, and just
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  Speaker 2: just an indecisive decision on Parker's part in that particular case,
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  Speaker 2: something that he'll learn from and and you know, get
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  Speaker 2: better and the unfortunately it ended up with you know,
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  Speaker 2: with Trevor being injured.
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  Speaker 7: Real quick fully thought of Cassi what ankle injury and
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  Speaker 7: and Cisco with the shoulder. Can we get an update
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  Speaker 7: on those two guys as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Foley's more left heel contusion and he'll be day
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  Speaker 2: to day.
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  Speaker 3: And then you said Cisco or Tyson Cisco? Was Tyson
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  Speaker 3: hurt too? No?
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, Cisco, Cisco just he just had his shoulder
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  Speaker 2: in the game, everything was fine, put a harness on
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  Speaker 2: him and went back in and played.
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  Speaker 3: He'll he'll be fine this week.
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  Speaker 7: And is Tyson hurt or no?
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  Speaker 4: Did you aggravate the hamstring or is he good? No?
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  Speaker 3: No hamstring.
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  Speaker 2: He just got a little bit of a right quad
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  Speaker 2: strain in the game in overtime.
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  Speaker 3: So again he'll be day today.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Okay, go ahead, Mia, And then Hayes.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Doug, I'm just curious how you would evaluate Devon Hamilton.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously a healthy scratch the last two weeks, and because
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  Speaker 8: of that, I'm assuming that's the reason that Angelo Blackson
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  Speaker 8: was inactive, And what you thought of Devon's performance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're absolutely right on that point. Devon played much
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  Speaker 2: better than he had the pre his times out there,
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  Speaker 2: and then he continues to improve and and really just
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  Speaker 2: you know, for him, it's about working the technique, the
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  Speaker 2: physicality of being double teamed a lot single blocks, things
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  Speaker 2: like that, using his arms extension and continuing to push
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  Speaker 2: the pocket. So uh, he played, he played better uh
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  Speaker 2: than than the previous couple of times, and then it
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  Speaker 2: was good to see him do that.
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  Speaker 8: And on the flip side, obviously Buster Brown a healthy
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  Speaker 8: scratch because of with the logjam and having Greg up
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  Speaker 8: and having Tyson active again. Do you try to find
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  Speaker 8: a way to keep both of those guys Greg and
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  Speaker 8: monterk active?
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  Speaker 2: You do, But really it comes down to the special
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  Speaker 2: teams and how we use them on special teams and
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it's just it's hard to have them
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  Speaker 2: all up, you know, obviously with when you go with
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  Speaker 2: forty eight like we do. But we'll see this week.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there'll be some some combinations, some guys that
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  Speaker 2: will probably be up, you know, than than previous weeks.
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  Speaker 8: Awesome, Thanks Doug.
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  Speaker 9: Doug, now that you've seen it, where do you think
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  Speaker 9: the defensive issues? What what were What can you attribute
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  Speaker 9: that to in terms of the struggles last night, now
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  Speaker 9: that you've watched the film.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I thought, I thought the way we started
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  Speaker 2: the game, we started the game extremely well, and.
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  Speaker 3: And we were we were.
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  Speaker 2: Making plays, We're tackling on the perimeter, and then things
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  Speaker 2: just kind of got away from us.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like we were not gap.
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  Speaker 2: Sound as the game went on, We missed tackles as
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  Speaker 2: the game went on, you know, and it just sort
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  Speaker 2: of it just sort of there were some there were
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  Speaker 2: some coverage issues, you know, just some some basic things
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  Speaker 2: that that the guys you know, should know. And it's
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  Speaker 2: something that we can coach this week. Obviously, gotta we
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  Speaker 2: got to show them and and and and continue to improve.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, even looking at it again, it we
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  Speaker 2: were right there at the end with an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: probably win the game, you know, with that last kick
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  Speaker 2: as opposed to to to getting into overtime. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: again there was enough enough issues to go around in
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  Speaker 2: all three phases, but things that we can clean up.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, all right, We're gonna go with Mark Long and
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  Speaker 4: then Cameron wolf.
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  Speaker 6: Hi.
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  Speaker 10: Doug is surgery a possible a possibility for Trevor we've
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  Speaker 10: seen guys with that do that that band surgery? Is
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  Speaker 10: that even in the has that even been discussed? Is
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  Speaker 10: it possibility for him?
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  Speaker 2: I have not had discussions with the docs you know
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  Speaker 2: about that. I don't I don't think that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that's a that's a you know, a necessary means
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  Speaker 2: at this point. I think I think just because it's
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  Speaker 2: uh where it is and the the in the ankle,
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  Speaker 2: that it's not necessarily something that surgery would would be
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  Speaker 2: uh would be anant it at this time.
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  Speaker 10: And then what was your take on the offensive line?
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  Speaker 10: I mean, four sacks, some of it late when you
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  Speaker 10: guys were chasing, But did you did you feel like
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  Speaker 10: they performed decent enough?
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  Speaker 2: There's always room for improvement, right, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I thought I thought there were some good things in
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  Speaker 2: the run game early and then and then we got
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  Speaker 2: sort of stimied as the game went on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we got to.
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  Speaker 2: Continue to try to to to push the line of
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  Speaker 2: scrimmage right, play on play on their side of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: We got we got stalemated a couple of times, and
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  Speaker 2: so you know, those are all things that we got
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  Speaker 2: to continue to work on.
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  Speaker 3: But but uh, you know, the sacks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the sacks came when we were kind of in
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  Speaker 2: those two minute modes and in trying to you know,
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  Speaker 2: trying to push the ball down the field and it's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen. But I thought, overall decent, but can
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  Speaker 2: definitely improve.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Doug, this is Trevor. I don't know if there's.
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  Speaker 3: Damn that's that was really I didn't understand that it
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  Speaker 3: was broken up your question? Can you ask it again? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, the question was Trevor is essentially avoided what it
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  Speaker 6: looked like a couple of Uh, he's curious if you
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  Speaker 6: had a certain ability that you've seen.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, okay, I understand.
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  Speaker 2: You know, look, sometimes it's just luck, luck just being
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  Speaker 2: in the right place at the right time, picking his
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  Speaker 2: feet up at.
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  Speaker 3: The right time. You know, he's obviously he's.
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  Speaker 2: He's very you know, he's long, he's tall, and and
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  Speaker 2: very flexible as you can as you imagine, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the one last night looked looked worse than than it
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  Speaker 2: really was. Very fortunate there, but you know, he he
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  Speaker 2: seems to have a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Of a knack.
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  Speaker 2: But I just think that uh, for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just been just been fortunate, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: to not have a serious injury than than what they
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  Speaker 2: are well more.
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  Speaker 4: On that is this an injury where you.
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  Speaker 6: Or you would be able to gauge maybe a lesser
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  Speaker 6: mobile Trevor.
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  Speaker 2: I think Cam to be honest, you know, it's h
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  Speaker 2: I want to make sure that Trevor is one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent you know, before I before I put him or
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  Speaker 2: any any player back on the field.
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  Speaker 3: And and you know, it's just.
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  Speaker 2: A matter of of there as a player to the
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  Speaker 2: tolerance that they can they can withstand with with any injury,
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  Speaker 2: and you just don't want to risk if if the
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  Speaker 2: player is not in any harm or could risk further
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  Speaker 2: damage to the area, then then then you have to
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  Speaker 2: consider it, but definitely don't want to don't want to
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  Speaker 2: risk further injury.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, all right, We're gonna go with Jamal and then Miyah.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Doug, when a quarterback goes down, team tends to react.
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  Speaker 5: When we were another how do you think the guy's
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  Speaker 5: handled that?
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  Speaker 2: I thought last night the guy's handled it fine. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of confidence in CJ. Obviously, he definitely
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  Speaker 2: commands the huddle. He's smart, he knows our offense and
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh so I think the guy's really handled
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  Speaker 2: it well because you know, we were we were in
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  Speaker 2: a close ball game, opportunity to win the football game.
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  Speaker 2: He did a nice job getting us down there for
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  Speaker 2: the for the tying field goal obviously, and and really
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  Speaker 2: you know, did some did some good things, you know
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  Speaker 2: while he was in there.
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  Speaker 3: So still a lot of confidence there.
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  Speaker 2: And didn't think the guys you know, waivered, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one bit.
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  Speaker 5: And I know there's always that next man up mentality.
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  Speaker 5: Team's been mostly healthy this season, short injury lists coming
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  Speaker 5: out of this when you have a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: a longer injury report, what can you learn about some
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  Speaker 5: of the guys in your roster that are going to
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  Speaker 5: get opportunities to maybe show what they can do on
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  Speaker 5: the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's something that you know, I preach
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit to the guys here, especially you get
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  Speaker 2: later in the season. You know, the guys that are
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  Speaker 2: in backup excuse me, backup roles or guys that are
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe those core special teams players that now
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  Speaker 2: get opportunities to play on offense or defense, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's there, it's their time to go.
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  Speaker 3: It is their time to play.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I think I think it's it's on
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  Speaker 2: the coaches to make sure these players are prepared, the
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  Speaker 2: coordinators making sure that the players that are in the
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  Speaker 2: game plan are ones that they can handle and they're
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  Speaker 2: familiar with. But it's always been, you know, a next
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  Speaker 2: man up mentality, regardless of position, and that that might
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  Speaker 2: be the case this week.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks Don, go ahead and you.
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  Speaker 8: One more on the injury front, Doug. Obviously we know
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  Speaker 8: Travis came into this game with the rib injury. How
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  Speaker 8: did he come out of this game? And what did
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  Speaker 8: you think in terms of number one, into the run game,
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  Speaker 8: which I know you kind of answered already, but number
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  Speaker 8: two the distribute distribution of carry's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, TJ he's sore today, which is expected,
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  Speaker 2: and but he came out, he came out okay, came
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  Speaker 2: out fine, you know, And and it was a it
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  Speaker 2: was a conscious effort to get the earnest.
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  Speaker 3: And and even Tank in there when possible.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I know, Dearnest had some opportunities last night as well.
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  Speaker 2: So that's gonna be probably the I think the mindset
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  Speaker 2: or the rotation as we go, you know, these these
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  Speaker 2: last five weeks of the season, we've got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that all all three of our backs are are
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  Speaker 2: involved each week, and it does take a load off
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  Speaker 2: of TJ, you know, having the earnest and tank, you know,
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  Speaker 2: take some more snaps, so you know. But but they're gonna,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're gonna be sore this time of year.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna be banged up a little bit like everybody is.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, but yet we still want to get those
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  Speaker 2: other two involved.
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  Speaker 4: We have time for one more go ahead.
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  Speaker 11: Cam, Yeah, I just lit my end up. I don't
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  Speaker 11: have ages, all right, no worries.
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  Speaker 10: Can I ask? Is is uh Christian Kirk surgery? Is
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  Speaker 10: that in surgery needed on the core for a muscle?
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  Speaker 3: I believe?
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we're gonna send the images off, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get get another look at it and make sure that
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  Speaker 2: uh that that we have the right you know, diagnosis
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  Speaker 2: and obviously the right plan of attack for Christian you know,
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  Speaker 2: moving forward.
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  Speaker 10: And then McManus now has missed I think he missed
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  Speaker 10: two of his last three kicks forty eight fifty five.
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  Speaker 10: But he's missing them all right. Is there anything mechanical
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  Speaker 10: or or you know, situational there that's happening or not?
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  Speaker 3: Really? I think the one last night that he missed.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at that ball, the way
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  Speaker 2: that ball, you know, flew in the air, it really
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  Speaker 2: slid hard right. I had that right up right, so
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  Speaker 2: it felt like he hit it good. Just kind of
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  Speaker 2: the mercy of the wind at that time. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's something that you know, he'll he'll he'll obviously be
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  Speaker 2: disappointed and and we're disappointed, but still got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of confidence in him and and continue
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  Speaker 2: to put him out there in no situations.