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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 14 At Falcons · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm surely curious about the guys on I R.
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  Speaker 1: So Jay Reach should be good to go, which is exciting,
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  Speaker 1: and and Julian is planning on plan and we'll we're
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  Speaker 1: played accordingly, we have a plan and well we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how the game goes. But excited to have those guys back.
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  Speaker 1: Julian does play. Would it be on a pit count
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  Speaker 1: maybe rotation or something like that. Yeah, we have a
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  Speaker 1: we have a plan. We'll gonna gonna stick to our plan.
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  Speaker 1: If you have I can probably give you. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it'll just be in the rotation, you know. Yeah, how
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  Speaker 1: did we go. It's a good week, really good week, guys.
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  Speaker 1: We're on it defense. A little frustrated guys cut too
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  Speaker 1: many balls today, but but the intent was there and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get those things cleaned up. So they've done a
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  Speaker 1: great job, done a great job. So I'm really happy
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  Speaker 1: with our process right now. Out breaking down. It's really
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  Speaker 1: defensive times. Web guys playing leaders and wise people that
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  Speaker 1: they can't play well. I mean both are kind of
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  Speaker 1: different circumstances, both unfortunate and so to kind of be
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  Speaker 1: able to handle those things and stay optimistic and stay
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  Speaker 1: positive with the guys and keep the focus on the
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  Speaker 1: team is pretty awesome, you know, just we love them
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  Speaker 1: for it. You hate that that they have to go
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  Speaker 1: through those type of things, but but the team, the
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  Speaker 1: team is just, uh, we're you know, we're better because
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  Speaker 1: of how they handle the whole situation. So really appreciative
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  Speaker 1: of what they've done. You says times, Yeah, it's fitting, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, after all he's gone through. But all the
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  Speaker 1: stuff he's a part of in the community is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: He's obviously he's a great human being, and he's a
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  Speaker 1: great dad. He's a great football player, and so we're
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  Speaker 1: proud to have him be our nominee. And uh, We've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of guys that are deserving, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: really glad that Jay loves our guy this year.
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  Speaker 2: Love's experience playing all the spots in the secondary even
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  Speaker 2: before he got here. How does that show up for you?
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  Speaker 1: How's he Houston film? Well, he was kind of the original, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know safety nickel guy. You know, last year we're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to figure it out who could play where
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  Speaker 1: and who could do what, But he was He's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the first guy that says, well, Julian can do that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, But uh, I think it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: just seeing it from all the different perspectives. Probably. I
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  Speaker 1: know when he's in New York he played some played
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  Speaker 1: some lin mean and played a little bit of linebacker.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of did a bunch of everything in college's
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  Speaker 1: playing corner. So just a really good, really great all
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  Speaker 1: around football player. How do you feel about Toms, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's Harry Ryan's intellectually above or this year's defense to
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  Speaker 1: some of the past defenstance in stuff. I think we
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  Speaker 1: know the answer to that one, Like we don't. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really think. We don't really think about it. Like
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of I think that might be a time
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  Speaker 1: for like later, you know, like in terms of like
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  Speaker 1: what but our team is now and we're just we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to be the best team we can possibly be,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, to to kind of respect the
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  Speaker 1: game and respect our organization and the people who have
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  Speaker 1: played for us. Think that's that has to be your mentality,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like try to be try to become the
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  Speaker 1: best team we could be and let the chips fall
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  Speaker 1: where they go. Do you think things would be different
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  Speaker 1: if Lesley Frasier was not here. We wouldn't be sitting
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  Speaker 1: here at nine to three. Pretty simple. He's just as
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  Speaker 1: a critical part of what we've been able to build
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  Speaker 1: up to this point and great resource for me. I know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a great resource for a lot of our coaches,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of our players, a great guy to be around.
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  Speaker 1: Just I mean, we had him on the assault bike
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  Speaker 1: on on on Thursday. It's pretty impressive. But I mean
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  Speaker 1: he's he's just a just a great human being and
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  Speaker 1: great football coach and great leader and great man. So
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be sitting here if he wasn't here. Can swim
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  Speaker 1: through the captains this week man, well starting with Ken.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's really I think he's playing his best
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  Speaker 1: football right now. And he said he's had such a
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  Speaker 1: great attitude throughout the whole process, and he's a great teammate.
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  Speaker 1: He's been a great teammate. He's got a great, great
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  Speaker 1: outlook on like how the car you know, it's like
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  Speaker 1: you can spend a bunch of time on how the
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  Speaker 1: carries and the you know, it's like he's just he's
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  Speaker 1: just where I'm not playing great football and he's excited
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  Speaker 1: about where we're going. And you can see his personality,
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  Speaker 1: you know, shine through and so happy for Ken. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think Spoon's a bit of a layup.
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  Speaker 1: He's I mean, he's part of our part of the
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  Speaker 1: engine that makes the whole thing go. He's probably the
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  Speaker 1: spark plug behind the whole thing. So he could be
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  Speaker 1: a captain every week.
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  Speaker 2: That attitude with Walker, he's in the final year of
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  Speaker 2: this contract, you know, is that could you empathize or
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  Speaker 2: realize that he's up against it with women to blops
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  Speaker 2: until he's contract ends, Yet he's had the attitude.
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  Speaker 1: He's at Well, yeah, I mean we want we want
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  Speaker 1: our guys to play their best football for us, and
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  Speaker 1: take care of their families and make a ton of me.
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  Speaker 1: We want all those things for our guys. And Ken's
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  Speaker 1: doing a heck of a job to put himself in
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  Speaker 1: that position. And so I'm excited for him. I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: for his future. He's gonna he has a great future
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  Speaker 1: ahead of him and hopefully it's here. So we love
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  Speaker 1: we love having them. And I mean he's a great
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  Speaker 1: Seahawk man, he really is.
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  Speaker 2: It's December the managing him and the reps and all
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  Speaker 2: of that. How's that paying off of thing?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean you hate to lose George, but right
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  Speaker 1: now our top two backs are ready to go. So
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  Speaker 1: not saying this is this is like, this is why
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  Speaker 1: we handled it the whole way. We're trying to trying
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  Speaker 1: to maximize those guys talents and maximize our like our
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  Speaker 1: offensive opportunities. Is really and you want to you know,
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  Speaker 1: of course you want to take care of the guys
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  Speaker 1: as well, and so you have him for the long haul.
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  Speaker 1: But that was really the thought behind it. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: Devin being kind of the spark plug behind it all.
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  Speaker 2: It's another year where maybe he has have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of like interceptions or whatever, like.
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  Speaker 1: Highlights things like that, But what is it that he
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  Speaker 1: kind of does in your eye? It Well, man, he's
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  Speaker 1: playing great football right now, great football, and he's playing
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  Speaker 1: three positions and he is really the energy behind our
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  Speaker 1: defense on a daily basis, and he's playing high level
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  Speaker 1: cornerback play. And you can put the production or the
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  Speaker 1: lack of production on me like when we when we
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  Speaker 1: we have to find more ways to get him involved
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  Speaker 1: in the game plan. But you know, we got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of great players too, and so it's a great
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  Speaker 1: problem to have. But it's nothing that he's doing. He's
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  Speaker 1: playing really really high level football right now. For us.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's really helping us. Yeah, Ernest said he was
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  Speaker 1: happy to have been a Player of the Week.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't kind of mentioned being underrated a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Be nice to see and get some recolution. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's some of the best linebacker play I've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen in that game. He's just the way the
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  Speaker 1: way he played the run, the way he played the pass,
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  Speaker 1: all the all the all the all the things that
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  Speaker 1: you have to do at linebacker. He raised some big
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  Speaker 1: time plays and really happy for him. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 1: been working his tail off, But that's the EJ that
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  Speaker 1: that we know, whom we expect. You know, same guy,
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  Speaker 1: I know, we love him. He puts a switch on
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  Speaker 1: Sundays taking money, he said, I'm not earned its out.
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  Speaker 1: Does he seem different like Monday and Saturday than what
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  Speaker 1: you see on game Yeah, I think everybody has their
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  Speaker 1: own like that. Everybody has their own process, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and how you get to like where you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be at your best on Sunday is different
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  Speaker 1: for everybody. Like I think it sounds like Ernest kind
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  Speaker 1: of ramps it up going into Sunday. That's that's okay,
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  Speaker 1: You're you're getting to your you're getting your sweet spot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I probably need to come down a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So everybody, everybody's kind of unique in that in that way,
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  Speaker 1: But what's important is we all end up in the
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  Speaker 1: same spot where we can go attack and be at
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  Speaker 1: our best. But yeah, I mean it's cool if it's working.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever he's doing is working. What if he's seen our
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  Speaker 1: rivaling hills on his students doing a great job. He's
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  Speaker 1: working hard, he's he's so strong, and I think I
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  Speaker 1: think it's just like it's just a matter of just
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  Speaker 1: how many how many great reps can we bank before
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  Speaker 1: before it's time to come back. So but he's doing
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  Speaker 1: a great job. Excited for him. How big is the
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  Speaker 1: ask to try.
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  Speaker 2: To get him hup the speed in three weeks with.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's doable. I mean if you look at
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  Speaker 1: if you look at all the work that he's been doing,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like he's been sitting on the couch and
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  Speaker 1: now he's grabbing his helmet. It's like the guy's been
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  Speaker 1: working his tail off, you know. Now he's just now
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  Speaker 1: he's just doing all the pushing and shoving, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with pads on for real. So this week was big
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  Speaker 1: for him because we had some padded work and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see how it goes next week.
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  Speaker 2: Just a conditioning standpoint, has he been able to like
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  Speaker 2: with him coming off the knee injuries? You like, how
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  Speaker 2: big of a challenge is that in terms of potentially
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  Speaker 2: getting back on the field.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about his conditioning. He's he's in great shape. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's been. He's been working extremely hard. He's been doing
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  Speaker 1: a great job. Yeah, what happened to Anthony rep He's
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  Speaker 1: just working through some things, but he's he's okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna play Quandary is working through his thigh right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be probably week to week. What do you
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  Speaker 1: like on Sunday morning before you said you have to
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  Speaker 1: die with don No? Yeah, no, well, I say at
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  Speaker 1: the hotel, but go for a run which fields, which
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  Speaker 1: is good, And then I kind of have a process
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  Speaker 1: going through. We may or may not be still game
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  Speaker 1: planning when we get to the get to the game.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you get you get like, you get excited,
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  Speaker 1: you get in irt, you know, but you gotta take
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  Speaker 1: a deep breath and you get to come back down sometimes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're going for runs like in away cities like don't
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  Speaker 1: be don't be looking for me, but I'll be out
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  Speaker 1: there rain or shine. There you go. Thank you, all right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you,