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  Speaker 1: Was it helpful that you kind of did the same
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  Speaker 1: thing to Patrick earlier in the season, very similar. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we were able to, you know, talk through some of
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  Speaker 1: the formations motions a little bit to get a quicker onboarding.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously the relationship I mentioned yesterday with eb has
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  Speaker 1: definitely helped that out. Josh tying the record for franchise,
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  Speaker 1: for the career sets for the franchise, How special was
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  Speaker 1: that moment and how special would he want, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially a really cool moment not just for Josh but
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  Speaker 1: obviously all of us to be a part of it,
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  Speaker 1: the guys that in that room that have also worked
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  Speaker 1: really hard to help Josh to have the success that
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  Speaker 1: he's had over the course of his career. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's playing his tail off and knows that there is
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  Speaker 1: a huge opportunity this week for us to to to
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  Speaker 1: really take the next step, and he's been taking things personally,
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  Speaker 1: but also he's very i think appreciated above the moment
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  Speaker 1: of what he's been able to do here in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways, and I know that he's very focused
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  Speaker 1: on winning right now.
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  Speaker 2: Say he's about it.
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  Speaker 1: Of this of those player as you'll find just how
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  Speaker 1: coold we been to have a guy that's a leader
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  Speaker 1: of the team that doesn't even really care about what
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  Speaker 1: he does. Yeah, I think a guy that knows success,
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  Speaker 1: personal success and professional success in different times in his life.
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  Speaker 1: What's important to him. Now, there's definitely the record and
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  Speaker 1: all that is obviously on the horizon, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: we all want it for him, and I know he
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  Speaker 1: wants it bad too, but he also at the forefront
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  Speaker 1: of his mind is you know, continuing to take us
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  Speaker 1: to the next level as an organization, as a team
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  Speaker 1: and winning being the number one goal.
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  Speaker 2: We have about a sovereign of the Dallas canibal situation yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: how much was that not a reminder but at least
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  Speaker 2: said for you and your staff to say, if you
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  Speaker 2: see something, say something, but duels with just to check
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  Speaker 2: in with these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a number of guys in the building
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  Speaker 1: that that we're very close to him and it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: prayers are with him in his family in the in
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, but a number of guys in the
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  Speaker 1: building here had a relationship and so that's those are
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  Speaker 1: always difficult moments to to get through emotionally, and then
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  Speaker 1: the questions that you start to ask yourself when you
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  Speaker 1: know potential things like this happen and you start to
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  Speaker 1: ask a lot of questions and not all can be
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  Speaker 1: answered right now, and it takes a lot of time,
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  Speaker 1: and it does get better, you make the progress you
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  Speaker 1: want to see friends. Yeah, absolutely, just looking for this
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  Speaker 1: week to know that he was, you know, just consistent
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  Speaker 1: like not, you know, just the rep volume of reps
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  Speaker 1: not affecting the movements. That's really what it came down to,
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  Speaker 1: is just he's been looking great in Indie and then
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  Speaker 1: in the limited amount of reps he was getting kind
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  Speaker 1: of lead up to was just the volume, the every day,
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  Speaker 1: the every play, the every drill, going through it paying
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  Speaker 1: free and without any issues. How do you test them
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  Speaker 1: in practice?
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  Speaker 2: Do you throw him a protection maybe they haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: or a different rule with the see hey they've picked
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  Speaker 2: u up, now I can trust them in another situation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Leaquin definitely is probably at that point
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  Speaker 1: for sure where he could maybe just go see something
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  Speaker 1: different and go react in too, and has definitely improved
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  Speaker 1: on the protection piece. Absolutely, Leaquin has a different level
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  Speaker 1: of because he's in on so many more of those
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  Speaker 1: third down situations. He's a little bit more exposed to
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  Speaker 1: those different looks, different stunts, different twists, different pressures. So
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  Speaker 1: they've definitely improved both of those guys. Young backs. Figuring
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  Speaker 1: out the protection world is not an easy task, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, Chad's done a great job with him.
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  Speaker 2: They're at college, is it, guy?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you still have half man half slide
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  Speaker 1: protections in college right where you're Mike I ding And
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  Speaker 1: it might be O Lie is four down to the
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  Speaker 1: middle three. The back scans will the nickel. It may
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  Speaker 1: be they still have. You know, there's all pretty good
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  Speaker 1: protections in college football. It's more so just what you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing on a play in and play out basis. They
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  Speaker 1: also the speed in which those twists, stunts, pressures are occurring.
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  Speaker 1: That's the difference and how one mistake, obviously in protection,
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  Speaker 1: can really screw up a play.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever is his uh, Anton Harrison gotten better.
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  Speaker 1: As a player, you know, I think the consistent first
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  Speaker 1: and foremost, a consistent you know, strain in and out.
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  Speaker 1: When he's playing and straining to the best of his ability,
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  Speaker 1: good things are happening for Anton. I think he's really
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  Speaker 1: pass prode well at a high level. He's in one
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  Speaker 1: on one opportunities and you know, he's really strained and
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  Speaker 1: pulled some holes and pried some holes open for us
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  Speaker 1: as well in some of the gap schemes, and so
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  Speaker 1: he's uh man, when Anton's playing at that level, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's really fun to watch and it's great for our
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  Speaker 1: OFFENSEX Crosby, Yeah, realized he was backing, and it was
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  Speaker 1: very early on in the building seeing him and just
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  Speaker 1: the way he operated. But once we put the pads
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  Speaker 1: on in training camp, he and vent Treil had a
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  Speaker 1: pretty gnarly uh blitz in practice that you you were
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got to take a step back here,
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  Speaker 1: you know and say how we stepped up, how we
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  Speaker 1: met him. But it was just a great rep from
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  Speaker 1: both sides, honestly, and and you saw Quint his reaction
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  Speaker 1: after and you're like, Okay, this guy's got got something
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  Speaker 1: in you know, Camden New Jersey went up to Syracuse,
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  Speaker 1: helped get that program turned around in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 1: and so that is infectious, absolutely rely has no reason,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely love it. You know, it's uh yeah, it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: part of our wants wanting to be part of our
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  Speaker 1: DNA really closest you how can that kind of be advantageous?
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  Speaker 1: When Jaran has out of arne fination. Yeah, it's to
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  Speaker 1: lean in on you know, connection, communication, trust, Right, there's
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  Speaker 1: a trust level there. You know you're hearing it in
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  Speaker 1: the building from your coaches and from the assistant position coaches.
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  Speaker 1: But to also get the guy that you trust and respects.
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  Speaker 1: Perspective on splits, formations, motions, alignment, assignment, what could come
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  Speaker 1: up in these situations. All of those things really help
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  Speaker 1: a guy, you know like Jarn that is trying to
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  Speaker 1: soak up as much information as possible and go play
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  Speaker 1: fast and play better for us Again this week, the
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  Speaker 1: course of manufacter a faster start, I think you were
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  Speaker 1: going to hurt the year. Yeah, I mean I think
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  Speaker 1: if we didn't turn it over or down on the
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  Speaker 1: one two yard line last week, I think the start
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  Speaker 1: was probably where we were at obviously three and now
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  Speaker 1: on the first drive and then got it going a
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  Speaker 1: little bit there. So I think we were on our
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  Speaker 1: way to starting faster than we had been and so
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  Speaker 1: ended up not working that self out. But the ability
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  Speaker 1: to be balanced is what you're hunting up though, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: and just the accuracy within the second half and through overtime,
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  Speaker 1: the amount of guys making plays like we do need
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  Speaker 1: it earlier, We do need it to show up for
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  Speaker 1: all four quarters. That's all really it comes down. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just about the beginning or the end as we know.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, man, can we go out and play four
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  Speaker 1: quarters of our best ball that we have truly yet
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoyed the challenge as a head coach of a rematch
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  Speaker 2: against the divisional part I know you've had it before,
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  Speaker 2: but from the head coaching perspective and being in charge
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  Speaker 2: of all of it, how cool is it have been this week?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you just see, you know, I just watched the
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  Speaker 1: forty nine ers game again Houston Defense, and you see
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the game how much it went.
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  Speaker 1: Anywin means, you know, I mean, de Miko's on the
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  Speaker 1: side and those guys are hyped, and it's just winning
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  Speaker 1: football games is hard in this league. And so when
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  Speaker 1: you get these opportunities to compete against high level competition
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  Speaker 1: that you know is going to be a fight, probably
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  Speaker 1: a four quarter football game, and there's a lot that
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  Speaker 1: goes into that. There's a lot of emotion, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of focus detail that goes into it, and to
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  Speaker 1: get yourself into that place as well as a competitor.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is a great op for Uce Biger.
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  Speaker 1: Question real quick, when you and you guys had to grant.
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  Speaker 2: Him for a Thursday night start, when it goes back
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  Speaker 2: twenty two most four forty eight hours life before, how stressful?
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  Speaker 2: You know, how did you guys all that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? That was pretty cool. I mean it was he
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  Speaker 1: has such a unique studying system that he has personally,
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  Speaker 1: and so he dove in. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how much sleep he got in those forty eight hours
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  Speaker 1: himself personally, and then us either as coaches. We were
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  Speaker 1: up pretty late that first night when he arrived, you know,
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  Speaker 1: doing a cram session, and one of the first things
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  Speaker 1: we taught him was our two minute menu, which helped
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit as well. And but they're really
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  Speaker 1: the pressure of it was. It was not that high.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't feel. We knew we were gonna start John,
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  Speaker 1: but we also knew we're gonna play Bake at some
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  Speaker 1: point in the game, right And I vividly remember Sean
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  Speaker 1: saying to me before the game is like, man, whatever happens,
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  Speaker 1: let's just go get some great positive stuff for this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Moving forward. We got you know, hey, we got a
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity for the next five, six weeks, whatever it was,
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  Speaker 1: to go have some fun, let root, let it rip
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  Speaker 1: and see what happens. If we win, it could be
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  Speaker 1: a minor miracle. And so you know, that is kind
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  Speaker 1: of how it went down. And so it wasn't as
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  Speaker 1: it was just a lot of work and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time and then you walk out of it with
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  Speaker 1: a ton of respect for the person that went and
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  Speaker 1: performed it under a high pressure situation. Yeah, yeah, around
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  Speaker 1: that time one I would say, yeah, back in quick
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  Speaker 1: because Sean is a morning person. So yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: this first night went well past midnight. Absolutely mentioned Houston
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  Speaker 1: sts this morning is a play caller?
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  Speaker 2: Is the hey ever in the bar? Or are you
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  Speaker 2: printing your call sheet Sunday morning?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Sunday at the host time, for sure. But we
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  Speaker 1: do want we'll have some of our openers and stuff
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  Speaker 1: for the guys today. Things that we did do that
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  Speaker 1: last week were just kind of getting some of the
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  Speaker 1: priority thoughts to these guys a little bit earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the week, you know. But also we're still in stall
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  Speaker 1: in the red zone this morning too, minute things like
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  Speaker 1: that tomorrow, So it really doesn't stop all the way
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  Speaker 1: up until now. Nothing will change though. That is the
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  Speaker 1: I do believe in that we may say, let's take
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  Speaker 1: this out, but we're not really looking to try to
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  Speaker 1: add too much at this time. It may be refining, tweaking,
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  Speaker 1: but trying not to add too much to their plates
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  Speaker 1: later in the week. That's not something that's within the plan.
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  Speaker 1: It's not I'm not gonna walk in probably tomorrow morning
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  Speaker 1: with hey, guys, I find a new play action that
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  Speaker 1: I want to run within the first two drives of
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  Speaker 1: the game type of thing. But you're definitely looking for
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  Speaker 1: every possible angles.
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  Speaker 2: Really not having Brian Thomas this week, just what does
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  Speaker 2: that do to the offense in terms of not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: having that elite speed to threaten the top of the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think you can obviously still do
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  Speaker 1: it within schematically as well, And but it hurts. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: not VT's he can roll and he he rises to
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  Speaker 1: playing against these guys. He has in the past and
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  Speaker 1: had a huge moment for us in that game last
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  Speaker 1: time to seal that victory. So not having them is
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  Speaker 1: a big deal for us. And you know those guys
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  Speaker 1: are going to continue to have to step up again
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  Speaker 1: this week and go make some dirty, grimmy, contested plays,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the kind of game it's going to have
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  Speaker 1: to be.