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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps Week 6, Gives Injury Updates · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Brian?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Coach, two quick ones. So obviously when there's players
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  Speaker 3: that are playing well or not playing well, changes at
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  Speaker 3: other positions don't really cause that much hubbub. But why
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  Speaker 3: maybe is it harder to make a change at the
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  Speaker 3: quarterback position? What goes into that decision?
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  Speaker 2: I think we have a lot of faith in Sam.
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  Speaker 2: Sam's played great football for us. He's done a lot
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  Speaker 2: of great things this year. We've obviously turned the ball
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  Speaker 2: over more than we want to. I feel like there's
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  Speaker 2: things on our end that can help him play better football,
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  Speaker 2: and I think he's definitely part of the solution rather
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  Speaker 2: than the opposite.
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  Speaker 3: And then you talked about when you hired Brian Fleury,
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  Speaker 3: part of the reason that you found it appealing was
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  Speaker 3: things that he could add to kind of the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: offense that you guys are building. Do you feel like
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  Speaker 3: he can add those things without necessarily calling plays?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I actually feel like one of the– I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if I actually felt like it was an add.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like it was going to be a great
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  Speaker 2: continuation of what of what our identity was on offense.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's what our focus is right now
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  Speaker 2: is making sure that we're playing the Seahawk style offense
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  Speaker 2: that we all envisioned when, when we decided all the
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  Speaker 2: work together. So I think that's, I think that's where
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  Speaker 2: our focus is right now.
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  Speaker 3: Great.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: John.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Mike defensively.
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  Speaker 4: What did you see in that kind of a change from,
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  Speaker 4: they got the two long touchdown drives and then really
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  Speaker 4: not much after that. What, what did you see improve
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  Speaker 4: for your defense? Was it, you know, schematic stuff or
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  Speaker 4: just guys kind of buckling down?
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  Speaker 2: I think, I think it's a great situation or like
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  Speaker 2: observation of let's not panic. You know, it's there's things
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  Speaker 2: that we like, if you look at how they got
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  Speaker 2: down there in some of those situations, it was like
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  Speaker 2: an explosive run. that we could have played better. It
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  Speaker 2: was a third down penalty. It's a couple third downs.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was on the, that we, frankly, I.
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  Speaker 6: Probably could have called better plays.
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  Speaker 2: So it felt like there were things that were then
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  Speaker 2: like our control of kind of settling down and just
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  Speaker 2: kind of sticking to the game plan, sticking to the process,
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  Speaker 2: staying together, finding some more solutions. I think our coaches
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  Speaker 2: deserve a lot of credit on, you know, the communication
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  Speaker 2: we've had between between me, AD, the guys upstairs, and
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  Speaker 2: then the guys on the sideline of really finding solutions
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  Speaker 2: in that moment and then trusting the work we put
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  Speaker 2: in and the preparation and then just sticking to it. Ian?
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  Speaker 7: Mike, on the last interception, what did you see looking
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  Speaker 7: back on it, and how would you just describe your
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  Speaker 7: performance confidence level right now and Sam and us also
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  Speaker 7: his confidence level because it feels like that's pretty important
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  Speaker 7: for that position.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah I think I think it's a similar answer to
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  Speaker 2: what I was what I told Brian was I think
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  Speaker 2: there's things that we can all do to help Sam
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  Speaker 2: play better football and we trust Sam we believe in
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  Speaker 2: him and we feel like we feel like he's definitely
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  Speaker 2: part of a solution you know in terms of us
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  Speaker 2: playing better football on offense and at quarterback.
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  Speaker 6: Seahawks style offense that uh we all envisioned when you
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  Speaker 6: guys get that.
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  Speaker 5: Hi mike excuse me um some of your biggest plays
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  Speaker 5: last year were like when sam would get out of
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  Speaker 5: the pocket and would find you know big chunk plays
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  Speaker 5: downfield he's getting out of the pocket more this season
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  Speaker 5: but you haven't had those as many of those big
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  Speaker 5: plays why do you think that is.
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  Speaker 2: That's something we definitely want to encourage Sam to continue doing. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: within the progression of the play and what's expected for
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  Speaker 2: you on a per-play basis, I think those plays will happen.
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  Speaker 2: How we play throughout the down without the ball in
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  Speaker 2: our hands, that's really important. That'll be something that we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be looking at. To me, that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the thorough investigations we want to be able to do
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  Speaker 2: over the next 24, 36 hours to really understand where
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  Speaker 2: we can take our game to another level.
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  Speaker 8: And then on Arroyo, do you have any further information
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  Speaker 8: on his shoulder injury?
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  Speaker 6: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's getting some imaging and testing as we speak, actually,
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  Speaker 2: so no update yet.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Andrew? Andrew?
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  Speaker 1: Forgive me, I'm on a phone here traveling through the airport,
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  Speaker 1: if you can't hear me.
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  Speaker 4: Well, but you've had a few games of rotating Christian
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  Speaker 4: Ains and Bo Stevens.
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  Speaker 2: At right guard.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just curious what you've thought of that rotation.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I haven't had a chance to talk to
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  Speaker 2: our office of staff yet about that specifically, but Anthony
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  Speaker 2: Bradford probably has a really good chance of being back
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  Speaker 2: this week, so that'll be part of our decision-making as
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  Speaker 2: we go forward. Greg? Hi, Mike.
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  Speaker 9: You say Sam's the best chance for the solution. You
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  Speaker 9: believe he's part of the solution. What about Sam's game
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  Speaker 9: makes him the solution? What are the traits that you're
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  Speaker 9: now trying to draw out and attack that you're not
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  Speaker 9: getting right now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you guys have been here over the
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  Speaker 2: last two years. We just won a world championship with them.
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  Speaker 2: We believe in the guy. We see him every day.
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  Speaker 2: We see what he does. We see the plays he's
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  Speaker 2: been able to make. We see the actual talent. All
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  Speaker 2: those things. So that's where my mind is.
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  Speaker 9: And you mentioned a half hour ago on the radio
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  Speaker 9: show that this was an opportunity to have a connection,
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  Speaker 9: more of a connection, the coaching staff and yourself with
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  Speaker 9: your quarterback. What would you like to connect on? What's
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  Speaker 9: the trigger you're trying to push on that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's more of like a doubling down
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  Speaker 2: on it. It's kind of like, hey, look, when you're
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  Speaker 2: going through adverse situations, you need to double down on
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  Speaker 2: your principles. And us being in line with Sam throughout
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  Speaker 2: the week and making sure that we're letting him be
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  Speaker 2: the best version of himself.
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  Speaker 6: Is definitely part of that. calculus, if you will. That's
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  Speaker 6: really what I meant.
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  Speaker 2: We're not reinventing anything, but double downing on those core
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  Speaker 2: fundamentals of how we operate is going to be important.
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  Speaker 9: Are you concerned or is it just still six games
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  Speaker 9: into a 17-game season and you're confident this will fix?
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  Speaker 6: I don't like using the word concerned. I think there's.
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  Speaker 2: A sense of urgency to get better in several areas
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  Speaker 2: of our football teams. A lot of those are on offense,
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  Speaker 2: on operationally, how we're protecting the quarterback, how we're running
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  Speaker 2: the ball. There's line items on defense. There's line items
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  Speaker 2: on special teams. I really do believe, Greg, that these
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  Speaker 2: things are within our control of things that are on
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  Speaker 2: the input side of of the equation of how we
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  Speaker 2: do things throughout the week, what we do throughout the game.
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  Speaker 2: And so to me, I wouldn't say it's exciting, but
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  Speaker 2: that does get you going knowing that, hey, there's a
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  Speaker 2: solution out there. And I believe in our people. I
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  Speaker 2: believe in our ability to solve problems and work through
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  Speaker 2: issues and go through, not around. That's a real thing
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  Speaker 2: that I really do believe in. So I think we're
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  Speaker 2: always optimistic that we're going to be able to find solutions. However,
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  Speaker 2: you have to do an honest process. You have to
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  Speaker 2: go through those things. You can't just kid yourself in
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  Speaker 2: times like this. I'm confident we're going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to do that. A big part of this weekend is
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  Speaker 2: going to be allocated to really continuing and making that
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  Speaker 2: process better.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: Hi, Mike.
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  Speaker 10: I believe you talked about all the turnovers not being
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  Speaker 10: on Sam. It's just like a whole team process that's
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  Speaker 10: on the offense. Yesterday, he addressed the team. I'm curious
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  Speaker 10: what you think about him stepping up to do that,
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  Speaker 10: to take ownership of the turnovers. What does that tell
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  Speaker 10: you about who he is?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm glad he did.
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  Speaker 2: He's the leader of our offense, and.
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  Speaker 5: If....
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  Speaker 2: If it's not where you want it to be, then
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  Speaker 2: it's the leader's job to take responsibility and go like,
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  Speaker 2: just as, you know, I stand before you saying, Hey, look,
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  Speaker 2: our football team's not where we want it to be
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  Speaker 2: right now. I'm responsible for the, you know, what happens
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  Speaker 2: on the, on the field for our team. And so, um,
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  Speaker 2: we kind of all take responsibility for our area of influence. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: and so like, that's a great example of how we
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  Speaker 2: want to operate is let's take, uh, let's own our
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  Speaker 2: part and let's figure out a way to find a
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  Speaker 2: solution and move forward. But, um, definitely, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: on the player side. It definitely starts with Sam and
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad he's the first one to say it. Brian.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, last year when you guys were playing some of
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  Speaker 3: your most explosive offense in the first part of the season,
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  Speaker 3: you were seeing mostly heavy boxes, A-plus guys in the box,
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  Speaker 3: and now teams seem to be playing a lot more
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  Speaker 3: light boxes and a lot more coverage. Anytime a defense
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  Speaker 3: does something, they're giving up something else. What are defenses
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  Speaker 3: challenging you guys to do that you can punish them?
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  Speaker 2: I think you know the answer to that one, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: We have to be able to control the ball more.
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  Speaker 2: That'll happen more through the run game. You know, shell
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  Speaker 2: boxes doesn't automatically mean more run. There's definitely ways, as
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  Speaker 2: we've seen against our defense, like we're a shell defense
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  Speaker 2: and teams try to attack us a certain way through
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  Speaker 2: the air.
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  Speaker 6: So again, there's trade-offs to how teams are playing it.
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  Speaker 2: That's something that we have to really find a better
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  Speaker 2: solution for of how do we want to keep moving
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  Speaker 2: the ball forward to really puncture these defenses so we
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  Speaker 2: can create more explosive passes.
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  Speaker 3: And then I think every sack you guys have had
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  Speaker 3: on third down this year, I think at least with Sam,
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  Speaker 3: have been on five yards or more. And how much
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  Speaker 3: of the conversation that you guys are going to be
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  Speaker 3: having is trying to get out of obvious pass situations
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  Speaker 3: to keep defenses a little bit more on their heels?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a great point. That's a huge part of
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  Speaker 6: the conversation of.
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  Speaker 2: Understanding how we play our best football and how Sam
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  Speaker 2: plays his best football and how we can protect them
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  Speaker 2: the best. It's very, it's very difficult to drop back
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  Speaker 2: in however many five man protection, six man protection, seven
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  Speaker 2: man protections and do that. I don't know X amount
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  Speaker 2: of times throughout a game. I don't care how good
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  Speaker 2: your offensive line is. I don't care how good your
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  Speaker 2: players are. Um, it's just too much of a tax on, uh,
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  Speaker 2: offenses right now in the NFL from, from the lens that,
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  Speaker 2: that we see it through. So, um, we have to
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  Speaker 2: do a better job of staying out of those situations.
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  Speaker 6: And that's going to be a part of our focus
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  Speaker 6: here moving forward.
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  Speaker 10: Thanks, John.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Mike, I know there's a fumble he would want back,
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  Speaker 4: but aside from that for Rashid, was that looking a
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  Speaker 4: little more like how you guys want to get him involved,
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  Speaker 4: just ball finding him more, got a big plate downfield,
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  Speaker 4: all that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. She's definitely, I mean, we've seen it last year.
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  Speaker 2: Seen it in spurts this year him you know getting
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  Speaker 2: over the top of defenses uh that's what we expect
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  Speaker 2: from him and I think something that we saw throughout
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  Speaker 2: the offseason that we want to make more come to
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  Speaker 2: life in games are some of those more intermediate cuts
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  Speaker 2: because I don't know if I was fighting Rashid Shaheed
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  Speaker 2: I'd be playing off too you know and so you
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  Speaker 2: know those those intermediate cuts um could I think we
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  Speaker 2: can expect more to come to life try to give
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  Speaker 2: him the ball but We've seen him in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen him on the perimeter run game, over the top,
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  Speaker 2: all those things. He's really his biggest impact on our
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  Speaker 2: football team.
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  Speaker 9: Brady?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Mike.
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  Speaker 5: Another one on the quarterback play.
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  Speaker 8: I realize there are different opponents, and there was maybe
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  Speaker 8: one or two players that were playing while Drew was
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  Speaker 8: starting or while Drew was playing. But what do you
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  Speaker 8: make of the fact that it was across the board,
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  Speaker 8: it was just so much cleaner when Drew was in there,
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  Speaker 8: no turnovers, I think only a couple sacks in those
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  Speaker 8: two games, despite largely the same players around him?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I respect the question. I think.
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  Speaker 2: To make it like a one-for-one, hey, this is the
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  Speaker 2: same and this is different and it's one person, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that's– I don't think that's doing the whole
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  Speaker 2: thing justice.
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  Speaker 6: There's definitely more to the equation. What we called, how
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  Speaker 6: we got to it, that.
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  Speaker 2: Certain thing, maybe the process for Drew, how he catered
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  Speaker 2: the game to his skill set, all those things are
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  Speaker 2: part of the conversation as well. I understand the question,
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  Speaker 2: but I think there's more to it than just who's
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  Speaker 2: playing quarterback. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Ian?
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  Speaker 7: Quarterback is getting it too much.
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  Speaker 1: Is that just cumulative? I mean, everyone looks at the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line at that point and says, well, it must
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  Speaker 1: be the offensive line that's outside of Anthony, the same
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  Speaker 1: guys as last year. Is that scheme related? Is that
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  Speaker 1: quarterback holding the ball too long related? Just kind of
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  Speaker 1: elaborate on that because it feels like all these things
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  Speaker 1: we're asking you is kind of coming back to that
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  Speaker 1: same issue.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I hope you understand when you have like.
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  Speaker 2: At least I believe this, when you have things that
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  Speaker 2: you want to improve on your team, so right now
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about takeaways, and we're talking about getting the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback hit, and we're talking about the run game, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about red zone defense, you know, we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: the return game on special teams, like these are areas
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  Speaker 2: that we want to improve, right? If you just point
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  Speaker 2: to a person or a position group, it's like, that's
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  Speaker 2: not how football works, man, it's a team game, and
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  Speaker 2: we spend a lot of time with a lot of resources, like, like,
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  Speaker 2: like investing in the process and how we make these
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  Speaker 2: things come to life on game day. And so it's not,
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  Speaker 2: it's never just like a one person or a one
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  Speaker 2: group thing. Now, could you say, Hey, look, this group
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  Speaker 2: or this person needs to perform better in their responsibility,
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  Speaker 2: head coach included.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And, um, that's how we operate here, but, uh, could
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line, can they, can they step their game up?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Um, but just to point it on the offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: I think, um, Again, same thing with the takeaways with Sam.
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  Speaker 2: Does Sam bear responsibility for taking care of the football?
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  Speaker 2: Do our runners take care of responsibility for fun with
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  Speaker 2: them all?
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a team game, and how we set our
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  Speaker 2: game plans up and how we execute.
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  Speaker 6: Falls on all of our shoulders. So that's how we
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  Speaker 6: choose to look through it.
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  Speaker 8: Last question, Jen.
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  Speaker 5: Jen?
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  Speaker 11: Coach, when you think big picture leadership question, how you
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  Speaker 11: message the teaching points, all of the things that will
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  Speaker 11: happen after this game, what are the past experiences that
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  Speaker 11: you go back to to kind of help guide your
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  Speaker 11: thought process and how you approach this with the team?
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  Speaker 2: I think I just think our philosophy of we're always
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  Speaker 2: trying to move forward and we're always trying to find solutions. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you worry on things that aren't within
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  Speaker 2: your control, then you're never going to find you're never
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  Speaker 2: going to get any better.
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  Speaker 6: You know, so.
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  Speaker 2: Let's identify the things that we can do on our end,
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  Speaker 2: like on a day-to-day, moment-to-moment basis that's actually real that
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  Speaker 2: will help us, you know, create better results. Otherwise, you're
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  Speaker 2: just going to be, you're going to drive yourself crazy
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  Speaker 2: just hoping for better results. And that doesn't do our team,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't do our fan base any justice, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So one thing that I'm proud of our people is
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  Speaker 2: we're problem solvers. We don't have an ego when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to, like, finding solutions it's just what's best for
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  Speaker 2: the team all the time and uh that's how we're
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  Speaker 2: going to choose to operate as as long as i
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  Speaker 2: get to be the head coach here so that's um
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  Speaker 2: that's what we plan to do in the next day
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  Speaker 2: or
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  Speaker 6: Two thank you everyone all right thank you have a
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  Speaker 6: good weekend