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Press Pass | Trevor Lawrence: "We're going to score as many points as it takes to win." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: It's been great.
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  Speaker 2: It's been great getting getting to work and compete a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. Obviously it's not as ramped up as it
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  Speaker 2: will be in camp, but just getting you know, that
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  Speaker 2: competitive spirit back, getting to go against each other, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's past scale or just you know, jog through
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  Speaker 2: tempo and team just being able to compete and see
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  Speaker 2: different looks from our defense. Uh, they do so many
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  Speaker 2: things that helps us prepare, you know, for whatever we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna see during the season. So it's been it's been
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  Speaker 2: good to see those guys and just to see how
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  Speaker 2: everybody's improved over the offseason.
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  Speaker 3: Where have you seen yourself sort of improvement?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I know you wanted to focus on the
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  Speaker 1: leadership aspect. Where have you seen yourself sort of you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, improved from Yeah, I think obviously that that's just
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  Speaker 2: a continual, you know, chase to be better and better
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  Speaker 2: and be a better leader and be that example for
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  Speaker 2: this team. But also I think just the little things,
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  Speaker 2: the details of the position, whether it's you know, different progressions,
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  Speaker 2: just being smarter with the ball in certain situations. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think you look at our season last year and
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of situations where he made a lot
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  Speaker 2: of crazy plays and a lot of things that.
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  Speaker 1: We needed to do to win games.
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  Speaker 2: But how do I just play in and play out,
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  Speaker 2: be more consistent, you know, take the take check down
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  Speaker 2: on certain plays. When do I trust my instincts, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just being smart.
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  Speaker 1: About all that.
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  Speaker 2: I think you know I do that well at times,
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  Speaker 2: but there's sometimes I could be a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: consistent and just make the easy plays, make the routine
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  Speaker 2: plays every time.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where I'm trying to improve more on your leader.
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  Speaker 3: You have changed based on whether it's the performance last
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  Speaker 3: year or comfort level for the guys.
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  Speaker 1: How has that changed this year? Yeah, I mean not
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  Speaker 1: a lot's changed to try.
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  Speaker 2: I try to try to be the same guy every day,
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  Speaker 2: but I think just being able to speak out one,
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  Speaker 2: just knowing everybody more. You have those relationships with guys
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  Speaker 2: that have been here since my rookie year and then
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  Speaker 2: guys that came in last year, and then now being
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  Speaker 2: a third year guy with the rookies coming in, I
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  Speaker 2: think you just had that experience where you feel more
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  Speaker 2: comfortable speaking up and being the leader in the room,
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  Speaker 2: leader of the offense. And then beyond that, I think
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  Speaker 2: obviously playing well and having a year we had last
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  Speaker 2: year gives you more confidence, and I mean that helps
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. But at the end of day, I
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  Speaker 2: try to be the same guy, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: change just because we had some success last year. Trying
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  Speaker 2: to be that same guy, lead by example, when use
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  Speaker 2: my voice when needed.
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  Speaker 3: I want those guys responding any differently.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Baket thing I've noticed is we have
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  Speaker 2: a lot more voices. We have a lot more guys
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  Speaker 2: leading because we have so many more guys that have
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  Speaker 2: carried over from last year, and the guys that were
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  Speaker 2: new last year, maybe they didn't speak up as much.
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  Speaker 2: They just kind of did their job and you know,
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  Speaker 2: earn that respect from the teammates. But now their second
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  Speaker 2: year on the team and having those relationships, I think
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  Speaker 2: we've got more guys that are willing to speak.
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  Speaker 1: Up and lead.
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  Speaker 3: So how well do you think the team will handle
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  Speaker 3: heightened expectations sort of being the hunted as opposed to
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  Speaker 3: being the hunter like you guys who were last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it doesn't change anything for us. I mean, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: if anything, it's got to work even harder. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't really change anything for us, regardless of the expectations.
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  Speaker 2: The game is played on Sunday. You got to go
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  Speaker 2: out there and play the game, regardless of people think
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna win, think you're gonna lose, doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 2: So and that's the mindset we had last year, being
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  Speaker 2: pretty much the underdog in every game, and we got
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  Speaker 2: to carry that over this year too. And we still
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  Speaker 2: have to have that chip on our shoulder and prepare
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  Speaker 2: the same way.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we didn't.
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  Speaker 2: We still didn't get to where we wanted to last year,
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  Speaker 2: so we have a lot more work to do.
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  Speaker 3: In your own mind, and I know they're going to
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  Speaker 3: actually tell us a number of do you sort of
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  Speaker 3: have a number in your own mind about how much
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  Speaker 3: more points per game you would like to see this
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  Speaker 3: out of the offense.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously you want.
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  Speaker 2: More, yeah, I mean obviously you're looking to improve in
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  Speaker 2: every category and every part of your personal game and
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  Speaker 2: as an offense. And at the end of the day, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna give you answer, because we're gonna score
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  Speaker 2: as many points it takes to win. And some weeks
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  Speaker 2: that'll be some weeks that might be thirty five, some
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  Speaker 2: weeks that.
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  Speaker 1: Might be seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows what it's going to be Obviously, we want
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  Speaker 2: to score as many points as we can, but the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, if we got one more point
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  Speaker 2: than the other team, that's what it's about.
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  Speaker 1: Tiger.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen anything from Calvin or learned about Calgary
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  Speaker 3: And he didn't know maybe three.
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  Speaker 1: Or four months ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just I never really I know
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  Speaker 2: some guys that played with him in Atlanta, I don't
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  Speaker 2: keep in touch with those guys as much anymore, so
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know much about him personally. Obviously I know
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  Speaker 2: the kind of player he is. I've watched in the
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  Speaker 2: last few years and was super excited about that aspect
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  Speaker 2: of him joined our team, But just to get to
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  Speaker 2: know him as a person and just to see his
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  Speaker 2: work ethic and how hungry he is to get back
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  Speaker 2: into play and how happy he is to be a
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  Speaker 2: part of our team. I think that's been the the
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  Speaker 2: coolest part of happening here.
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  Speaker 3: It's nice offseason, like you're not adjusting to the not adjusting.
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  Speaker 1: To a new new system.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, you know, to have to have the same staff,
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  Speaker 2: to have a lot of the same players, to have
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  Speaker 2: that carryover and the system especially you know, this is
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  Speaker 2: the first time in a while. I haven't been learning
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  Speaker 2: a new offense, so that feels good having that and
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  Speaker 2: being able to focus on little parts of my game
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  Speaker 2: instead of just making sure I got the installs and
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  Speaker 2: know the the plan coming into practice. You know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: you look over that too, but not having that stress
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  Speaker 2: of just learning the playbook, I can just really focus
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  Speaker 2: on my game and my mechanics.
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  Speaker 1: You're looking forward.
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  Speaker 2: To that once last season and then you got over that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, I'm going to finally be able to juno.
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  Speaker 2: For Definitely, there's definitely a different feel in this offseason,
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  Speaker 2: being able to unwind a little bit and then disconnect.
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  Speaker 2: I mean last year, well, obviously my rookie year didn't
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  Speaker 2: really have an off season.
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  Speaker 1: Going into the league.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pretty busy year, and then getting drafted and
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  Speaker 2: then you're trying to adjust. And then last year, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with the coaching change and all that, not sure what
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  Speaker 2: was going to happen, and then having coach hired and
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  Speaker 2: trying to learn the system and all that.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's really.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have much of an offseason because you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure out kind of what the next step is. And
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  Speaker 2: now we have our culture set, We have our staff,
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  Speaker 2: we have our system.
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  Speaker 1: It feels good having that in place.
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  Speaker 2: You're one, sorry, what does it mean to you to
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  Speaker 2: have a coach like Doug's played your position?
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  Speaker 1: How does that help you desolve as a quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: That helps a lot, just having having a coach that
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  Speaker 2: one played the position and has a huge say and
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  Speaker 2: hand in our offense, so he knows all the ins
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  Speaker 2: and outs. You can have those conversations with them. He can,
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  Speaker 2: you know, give me things that he's seen in his
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  Speaker 2: past of calling this play or whatever it is that
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  Speaker 2: he's seen, whatever it's progression or footwork or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: And then just I think just his mindset, the way
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  Speaker 2: he thinks and the way he communicates is the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 1: Because he's a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I think that that position is just a little different
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  Speaker 2: than the other ones, especially the way you interact, and
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  Speaker 2: just having a guy like Coach who's played it, who's
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  Speaker 2: done it before, it helps a ton.
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  Speaker 1: You go from a coach trip in your one small
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  Speaker 1: group to Bahamas in before year two?
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel the need to ramp it up every year?
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  Speaker 2: Now, we'll see, we got we got some plans. I
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  Speaker 2: like to keep it under wraps because people are people
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  Speaker 2: can be kind of weird sometimes and kind of get
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  Speaker 2: get there ahead of us. So but yeah, we got
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  Speaker 2: a we got a good trip planned. I will say,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna stay in the States this year. It makes
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  Speaker 2: it a little easier on logistically, So we're gonna stay
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  Speaker 2: in the States, and but we'll have we'll have we'll
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  Speaker 2: have the guys out there and it'll be it'll be fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's great just just bonding, getting to know guys. I
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  Speaker 2: think that helped us a lot, and just to build
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  Speaker 2: those relationships.