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Press Pass | Ryan Nielsen on Young Defender Development · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: How hard is it you got to prepare for two
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are like on separate sides of the spectrum.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a challenge. It's both really good players
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  Speaker 2: and both present a different challenge. You got a guy
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  Speaker 2: who's played a ton of football over his career and
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  Speaker 2: won a lot of football games, and get another guy
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  Speaker 2: is starting out who's a phenomenal athlete and can throw
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  Speaker 2: the ball a mile. So it's a it's a good test,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And so we've got to be sound and
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  Speaker 2: have a couple of different calls for both guys up
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  Speaker 2: and be able to execute those calls. And if we
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  Speaker 2: see both with possibility too that we're preparing for that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, may they both may play. So we have
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  Speaker 2: to adjust a game plan accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: When you went back and looked at the tape, just
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  Speaker 1: how well did Ventrum play? How much I get you
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  Speaker 1: excited knowing that was his first start, his first really extended.
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  Speaker 2: It was good, It was good. He made a lot
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  Speaker 2: of plays. He was all over the place, inside the box,
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  Speaker 2: outside the box, and pass game, a couple of disruption passes, passes,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of tackles like he was. He's a good tackler.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, when he sees the ball and he can go,
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  Speaker 2: he can get there quickly. Uh. He made the play
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  Speaker 2: on that stretch play in the third quarter. You know
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  Speaker 2: he's got it was like shot out of a cannon.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's awesome to see. So we'll just continue
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  Speaker 2: to build on that and and build this week and
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  Speaker 2: and hey, just take one more step forward and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, continue to do that and let's punch the
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  Speaker 2: ball out when we get there. Good a lot, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you see guys do things. And but but again,
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  Speaker 2: like he's been playing this, that's not his first game.
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, he started back in Miami and playing,
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  Speaker 2: so we knew that, you know, through the process of
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  Speaker 2: putting him out there and having confidence in him. Matt's
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  Speaker 2: done a great job with him. And you know those
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  Speaker 2: two guys work really good together. And and uh, you
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  Speaker 2: see him go out. He's made some plays before, so
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't even you know, we didn't bad and I
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  Speaker 2: knew he's gonna go out and play. Well. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: playing pretty good and pretty good. Uh, his confidence is
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  Speaker 2: is through the roof, you know, and he plays here's
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  Speaker 2: a guy you love the player. You know what he
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  Speaker 2: puts on tape is you know exactly what Chris cor
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  Speaker 2: coach them like, play press, use your hands, step kick,
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  Speaker 2: you know, challenge, you know, it's everything that you know,
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  Speaker 2: you watch him and he's a good tackler. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's making plays. He made the second play the game
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  Speaker 2: in the box, you know, on the tackle and it
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  Speaker 2: was you know, it's just it's really good to see
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  Speaker 2: you know, you see him all over the place, and
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  Speaker 2: you're you're you're excited that the guys out there playing
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  Speaker 2: football for us, and and just the progression of you know,
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  Speaker 2: game one, the game two, the game three, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and he went in there, you know, in the first
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  Speaker 2: game when he had to and had success and and
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  Speaker 2: continue to play like that and so and he's playing
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  Speaker 2: all the all of the coverages really well. He's playing zone,
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  Speaker 2: he's playing press man, you know everything. He's doing a
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  Speaker 2: really good job. So just got to keep it going,
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  Speaker 2: you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Punch it out. We're talking about trout turnovers. I know,
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  Speaker 1: it's always the theme, more the theme how.
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  Speaker 2: You approach it and game sure, that's it is. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's we have to start doing it. We have to.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's we're talking about it and we're practicing it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, our players are talking about it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: those type of things. And it's there's a fine balance
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  Speaker 2: of not pressing too hard, you know, and and but
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  Speaker 2: staying positive with it, and you know, stay in the course,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like that's the thing. You know, we need
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  Speaker 2: to stay positive, stay the course, you know, continue to
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  Speaker 2: build this the right way, you know, you know, year one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is our coming up on our fourth
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  Speaker 2: game together, you know, and just stay that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: build the foundation and and stay positive and stay the
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  Speaker 2: course of course with what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Again, and once one happens, and you know, then it
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  Speaker 2: leads to two. And sometimes they just come in bunches.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's not how you start, it's how you finish.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what the important thing is. So but we're
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  Speaker 2: we're staying positive with it and and uh we're working
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  Speaker 2: on getting on this week.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen some good things from the guys who have
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  Speaker 1: had to come in for the injured players. But just
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  Speaker 1: how difficult has it been not having Savage, Campbell, Voyer,
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  Speaker 1: Devin last week, maybe hind zwn this week?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how how challenging.
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  Speaker 1: Is that for you guys?
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  Speaker 2: You never want to lose a player you know, on
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  Speaker 2: your on your team. You want everybody to play. But
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  Speaker 2: it's the business that we're in. It's the game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and those things happen, and so we prepare for that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, way back from OTAs you know, and next
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  Speaker 2: man up mentality, But it doesn't make it any easier,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it does present a challenge, but we coach
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  Speaker 2: all those guys. There's no depth chart, you know, next
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  Speaker 2: man up mentality, Uh, same fundamentals, same technique. We don't
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  Speaker 2: change the calls or anything like that, and we just
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  Speaker 2: go out and play ball. We want all those guys
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  Speaker 2: to be out there, you know. Hopefully, you know, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get a few back this week and get them back
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  Speaker 2: in the fold of the plan and getting going to play.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we're just staying the course and and
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  Speaker 2: one day at a time and next Man up.
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  Speaker 1: Lad one down League two. What you've seen from him.
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  Speaker 2: Since then, a positive attitude, work practice is a lot better.
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  Speaker 2: He's been playing better, you know, rookie. You know it's
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  Speaker 2: that you know, first game, second game, third game, continue
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  Speaker 2: to keep them going. Yeah, we might.
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  Speaker 1: Before, but the the no depth chart and the in
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  Speaker 1: how you guys ran OTAs with the starters and the
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  Speaker 1: backups being mixed in. Was that something that you took
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  Speaker 1: from something else you know, in the past, or was
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  Speaker 1: that something new that you implemented here. And just obviously
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  Speaker 1: it's had some interesting returns where you got so far.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, it's it's just part of the game. You know it. Again,
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  Speaker 2: injuries happen, right, and so sometimes if you put something
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  Speaker 2: up and could be an undrafted free agent or a
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  Speaker 2: guy that you know is a late round pick, and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden he sees his name on fourth
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  Speaker 2: underneath and he's buried, and you know, it could create
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  Speaker 2: a negative image, you know, mindset type thing. And so
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  Speaker 2: we simply say that our guys are staff done great
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  Speaker 2: job of Hey, here's your reps. It's what you do
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  Speaker 2: with those reps that matter. We don't know when you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get in there. You know it. You could be
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  Speaker 2: on the field first, second, or third in the team period,
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  Speaker 2: but we evaluate what you do. It doesn't matter who
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  Speaker 2: it's against, it's just what It's just what that player
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  Speaker 2: does when he so he can take advantage of those reps.
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  Speaker 2: So if something like this happens and the same thing
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  Speaker 2: in the games, you know, they have to earn, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the right to play. You know, they have to show, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: they're doing the right things. You look at Chad and Ventrel.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they played ten snaps in Miami and now
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  Speaker 2: here they are they're starting, you know, and so you
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  Speaker 2: just you prepare for that. You never know when it's
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  Speaker 2: going to come, and it might not come, but you
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  Speaker 2: just stay the course. And we're doing the same thing
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  Speaker 2: with practice today. You know, hey, here's your reps. You know,
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  Speaker 2: are the guys are going to go out and play,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, let's let's do the make the most
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  Speaker 2: of it when we have our reps. You got enough, America,
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  Speaker 2: I'm said, well, yeah, I mean he's some of the
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  Speaker 2: things with Eric is that you don't the behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 2: the leadership, you know, things like that. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: obviously we all want to play better. You know, I've
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  Speaker 2: got a coach better, you know. But what he's doing
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  Speaker 2: for our team, you know again, is the foundation, the
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  Speaker 2: you know, the culture and the things like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's a huge part of that, you know. And so
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  Speaker 2: and then also when he comes, you know, he's playing
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  Speaker 2: some end, you know, and he hasn't played in in
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  Speaker 2: a while. So he's growing, you know, back into that role.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know we're gonna stay positive and stay
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  Speaker 2: of course, yes, everybody, every every player, every coach, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we all got to do more to get get this
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  Speaker 2: thing going in the right direction. I mean, and it is,
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  Speaker 2: it's going right. It's just getting us over the hump
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  Speaker 2: like that's you know, we've been in three of these games.
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  Speaker 2: We just got to get one. Awesome, Thanks guys, appreciate it.