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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The Week 18 Win vs. 49ers, Earning NFC's Top Seed · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh Man.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, just incredibly proud of our team. All the things
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  Speaker 2: that we've been working at since we walked in the door,
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  Speaker 2: especially this year.
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  Speaker 1: Is uh is coming to life. You know, just just
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  Speaker 1: incredibly proud of them.
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  Speaker 2: They just they played incredibly hard, They played together, played
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  Speaker 2: compimentary football, each phase picked each other up. It was
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  Speaker 2: a great game. It was a great game. So really
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  Speaker 2: proud of our guys. Injury wise, everybody get out of
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  Speaker 2: the game. I think you know, Josh was able to return,
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  Speaker 2: Josh Jones and hopefully you know, we're optimistic about Kobe
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  Speaker 2: and Charles coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Having the extra week is gonna be really great for
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  Speaker 1: those guys.
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  Speaker 2: So I just told our team, you know, we've gotten
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  Speaker 2: this point because of our approach every day.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody wants to tag all this meaning.
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  Speaker 2: And all the all this stuff attached to the games,
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  Speaker 2: but our guys just worried about our process and UH
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  Speaker 2: attack what's right in front of us every play, and
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  Speaker 2: that's in my belief, that's why we're sitting right here.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna keep that same mentality UH over the
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  Speaker 2: next two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, I'm just sweating.
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  Speaker 2: Well it is I mean, we are our coaches put
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  Speaker 2: together a great plan.
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  Speaker 1: But our players made it come to life. They really did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we were in some bad calls sometimes and
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  Speaker 2: and uh and they had some good plays, you know
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  Speaker 2: that they had and and uh our guys, our guys
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  Speaker 2: did it.
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  Speaker 1: They they played incredibly well.
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  Speaker 2: They just they just were determined to win the game.
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  Speaker 2: They just resilient, resilient bunch. Well, I will say, I
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  Speaker 2: mean we played the first game a lot was spoon
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  Speaker 2: and Nickel and he did a great job. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we really did. I mean we didn't. We didn't lose
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  Speaker 2: that game because we didn't stop the run. I'm really
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  Speaker 2: proud of Nick and he had a great game. He
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  Speaker 2: had a bunch of tackles and he earns this man.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just he's he's a great player. And h.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's obviously it's great to have me. He definitely
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  Speaker 2: helps our defense for sure. Yeah, I screwed that up.
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  Speaker 2: I should have taken a time out. I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: about other stuff. But incredible, Yeah, how many it was?
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  Speaker 2: How many plays? Fifteen plays X amount of minutes. I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you, Like Sam, extending plays today really helped us
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  Speaker 2: win the game. And then the you know, the third
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  Speaker 2: and long run conversions are incredible. You know, think Bobo
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  Speaker 2: had a great block on that. I think Coop might
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  Speaker 2: have great run by Canine, So you know that that
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  Speaker 2: was a big time play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's just it's like, hey, look, we're gonna defeate
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  Speaker 2: defendive lad of Grass and they popped some some plays
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  Speaker 2: on that on that drive and our guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: ads telling me in the headset just you know, stay calm,
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  Speaker 2: keep playing. So team effort and boy I had an
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  Speaker 2: assist on that play. And then like, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a ball finds energy type thing. I mean, Drake just uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's been playing great football for us and he deserves
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  Speaker 2: a massive shout out. And you know mcaffi is obviously
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  Speaker 2: a great back, so he made a great play. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it felt it was great. I mean obviously, I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's he's it's it's great.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some of the counters that they had, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we got I think we got to do a better
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  Speaker 2: job countering their counters and we will. You know, we've
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  Speaker 2: done a great job throughout the season in the second
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  Speaker 2: half making adjustments to things. But it was great to
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  Speaker 2: start the game that we did, you know, and with
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  Speaker 2: the run game. So now let's shoot for a four
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  Speaker 2: quarter uh run game.
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  Speaker 1: Do I feel like it would have been capable? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just those gradual that gradual attack. It's
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  Speaker 2: just we know who we are, we know you know,
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  Speaker 2: what are kind of core competies they are, and.
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  Speaker 1: And we just keep attacking it. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Officer of coaches have to hear from me every once
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  Speaker 2: in a while, which and they've been great, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just solving problems and keep attacking it. Yeah, yeah, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: we were. It was it was an aggressive model and no, Wally,
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  Speaker 2: it's part for the course to be ready to go
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  Speaker 2: for it in that situation. So obviously the result wasn't great,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, their their average start field position was
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  Speaker 2: really high too, so you know, the value of field
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  Speaker 2: goals was kind of lower this game, and uh so
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  Speaker 2: it felt like, you know, having a bad start position
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  Speaker 2: was helpful for us. Yeah. I mean, well it ended
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  Speaker 2: up working up. You know, it's just like we drew
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  Speaker 2: it up, you know, but that that's why you do it, right.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you know, you know, the start is the
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  Speaker 2: expected points and then you're able to get the ball
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  Speaker 2: back in good field position. You're most likely to be
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  Speaker 2: able to get the field goal back and then we
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think we scored the touchdown, which which
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  Speaker 2: was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, yep. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Just one at a time, keep stacking them. It's just
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  Speaker 2: it's just like, look, this is what we've been saying
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  Speaker 2: for a while now, is if we want to go
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  Speaker 2: where we want to go, and we're a young team
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  Speaker 2: with a you know, an idiot head coach second year
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure it out, like that's that's that's our
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  Speaker 2: mentality is just like we're just gonna keep attacking day
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  Speaker 2: by day, one thing at a time, and.
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  Speaker 1: And worry about that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, let everybody else come up with all the
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  Speaker 2: stories and stuff, try to give you some good info,
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  Speaker 2: but we're not really worried.
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  Speaker 1: About all that stuff. That's glad you brought that up.
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  Speaker 2: I have all the things we've been thinking about over
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  Speaker 2: the last you know, thirty minutes or so. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's uh, definitely a point of pride, you know
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  Speaker 2: that we can we can have a home you know,
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  Speaker 2: at least one home playoff game in front of the twelves.
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  Speaker 2: They've been dynamite this year. They've been absolute, just incredible,
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  Speaker 2: so We're really excited to be able to stay home.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really proud of our team. I'm really proud of
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  Speaker 2: of I mean, you can hear them in there, and
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  Speaker 2: they just they just they love each other. Man, they
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  Speaker 2: just it is so much fun to go to work
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  Speaker 2: every day and to coach this team. It is an
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  Speaker 2: absolute honor to coach these guys. I just talked to
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  Speaker 2: Ad on the plane. I was like, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: this to end, like I just want to you know, ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: the season's is gonna end at some point, but I just
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  Speaker 2: want to keep going.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do whatever. I mean, it's just every
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  Speaker 1: day has just been a massive blessing. I just love
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  Speaker 1: these guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah h yeah, yeah, they're they're They're a tremendous offense
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  Speaker 2: probably you know, top whatever in the league.
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  Speaker 1: Been doing it for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: They got great players, they got great coaches, man numbers,
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  Speaker 2: pack it up.
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  Speaker 1: Our got, our got. Our guys played great, complimentary football today.
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  Speaker 1: They really did.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't say enough. I can't wait to watch
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  Speaker 2: the tape to see. You know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: assists going on in there. You know guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: guys rushing unselfishly to you know, to free somebody else up,
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  Speaker 2: or to let somebody else have a two way go
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  Speaker 2: so they can cover for them. You know how we
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  Speaker 2: played in the back end, you know, it felt like
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  Speaker 2: I felt like we were ahead of plays. These guys
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  Speaker 2: did a great job. So yeah, I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: watching it. I won't watch it on the plane, but
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  Speaker 2: i'll watch it tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have seen the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said I said earlier, but I love
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  Speaker 2: how we started the game. You know, it felt like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I felt we really set the tone I'd like us
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  Speaker 2: to finish. I felt like we kind of started the
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  Speaker 2: game the right way, finished the right way to find
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  Speaker 2: some more answers.
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  Speaker 1: I thought.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they did a good job of finding some
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  Speaker 2: counters to to slow us down a little bit, and
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  Speaker 2: so uh interesting to watch it and help with some
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  Speaker 2: solutions to that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, our guys did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: It goes back to like, hey, what do you know,
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  Speaker 2: what do you what do you say about the takeaways?
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  Speaker 1: Just just nail the process.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we talk about eat, let's let's just be
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  Speaker 2: let's just be us when it comes to finishing plays.
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  Speaker 1: And anybody that had the ball, I thought did a
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  Speaker 1: great job. Now I'm amateur when it comes to stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, thank you guys.