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Pete Carroll: "We Really Have To Get Our Game Right" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Needless to say, we're really disappointed with with our our
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  Speaker 1: night last night. It's I say this to you, it's
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  Speaker 1: so hard when you have opportunities like that and you
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  Speaker 1: know it's clear and all so much to gain, and
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  Speaker 1: then you don't get get accomplished what you want to
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  Speaker 1: so you miss that shot, and uh, sometimes those shots
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  Speaker 1: don't come back. But we didn't play well in early
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  Speaker 1: in this football game, and you could see it on
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  Speaker 1: both sides. We were as clean as we needed to
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  Speaker 1: be against a really good club, and they took advantage
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  Speaker 1: of it and they got out ahead and it took
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  Speaker 1: us a while, and then we started moving it and
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  Speaker 1: we started stopping, and we got some plays done, some
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  Speaker 1: big plays happened, and there was the energy of the
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  Speaker 1: game showed up with a chance to come back and
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  Speaker 1: get in it. Then then the opportunities become so crucial
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  Speaker 1: that you maxim out and we missed our chance to
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  Speaker 1: score down everyone to put us within a touchdown, and
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  Speaker 1: that that part of it was just didn't know it
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  Speaker 1: at the time, kind of overlook the thought at the
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  Speaker 1: time that we still have our chance to come back,
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  Speaker 1: but we missed our up and so we're looking really
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  Speaker 1: hard at it. We have to maximize our people, and
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  Speaker 1: we've got to make sure that we're putting them in
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  Speaker 1: the best positions for them to contribute so that we
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  Speaker 1: can make our momentum felt earlier in the game. And
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  Speaker 1: we've had some really good game starts. This wasn't one
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  Speaker 1: of them. This was about as tough as we can
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  Speaker 1: make it on ourselves. So a lot to put back
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  Speaker 1: in the bottle here. Having a full week seems like
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  Speaker 1: a month compared to what we just went through, and
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  Speaker 1: we've got to have a great week in preparation. We're
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  Speaker 1: going against a crazy opponent that's doing great streaks and
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  Speaker 1: numbers and stats and all kinds of stuff supporting their success.
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  Speaker 2: So we got to really get our game right.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's what we're going after, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do it as aggressively as we can. And I
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  Speaker 1: gotta make sure that I I I get us on
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  Speaker 1: all cylinders better than we did. I I'm taking uh
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  Speaker 1: uh as always, I'm gonna take full account for this.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta make sure that we all are fired and
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  Speaker 1: better than we have. So well, that's what we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get done.
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  Speaker 2: On offense.
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  Speaker 1: Given the talent that you had, and maybe the help.
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  Speaker 2: Of some of these guys really want that house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we have to we have to be more
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  Speaker 1: efficient uh throwing football, Uh to compliment you know, our
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  Speaker 1: our third down opportunities. That just continues to be as
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  Speaker 1: a sad story. We're three of eleven. We need to
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  Speaker 1: be six of eleven, and then the whole game seems different,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So there's the it's it's a few plays
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  Speaker 1: of execution, and uh, I wanna make sure that we're
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  Speaker 1: maximizing the the personalities, you know, to and make sure
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  Speaker 1: that we're using our guys as well as we can
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  Speaker 1: use 'em. And that's that's uh a a focus for us.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure that we're we're choosing the best routes for
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  Speaker 1: the for the guys that they we have unique talents,
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  Speaker 1: and we got to make sure that we're maximizing that.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we're not. I feel like we're not
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  Speaker 2: seeing stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You saw, uh the playmaking of Jackson again last night,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and he continues to show stuff that's
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  Speaker 1: that that separates them from others, and we just need
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  Speaker 1: to give him more chances. We've got guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in different areas of our game that can do stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I think better. Our tight ends could be used better
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  Speaker 1: than we've used him in the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And so we need to get that going again. And
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  Speaker 1: we have some real positives. We just got to make
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  Speaker 1: them come to life.
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  Speaker 2: When you were evaluating that or you're talking specifically about
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  Speaker 2: last nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Or those enough, you know, I think that that has
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  Speaker 1: the the the best chance that in moving us ahead
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  Speaker 1: and making us go forward just looking at what's happened
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  Speaker 1: in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Here thinks last night talking about starting that we need
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  Speaker 2: to start more aggressively.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what kind of challenges that against maybe the Niners
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  Speaker 1: and their office and here that any other team that
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  Speaker 1: you're going to faith. Yeah, we want to after you know,
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  Speaker 1: right off the bat again, we've we've been pretty aggressive early.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what Spoon's talking about, but but it
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  Speaker 1: needs to feel more, you know, more impact. We need
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  Speaker 1: to feel the impact of the shots that we take
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  Speaker 1: and make sure that we're maximizing those because we we
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  Speaker 1: we made some fundamental mistakes that you're make in games.
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  Speaker 1: This team takes total advantage of it, and they did it.
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  Speaker 1: We missed a backside chased on the play. It goes
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  Speaker 1: for twenty three yards on honest or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just as fundamental as ball gets. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we flashed and saw thought we saw a bootleg coming back.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't. It was we just needed to play the
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  Speaker 2: run right.
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  Speaker 1: And so those little things allow you to show aggressiveness
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  Speaker 1: and show your attack and when they when they're not there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you give them, you give them momentum. So
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  Speaker 1: there's a big swing that happens there. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to I just want to emphasize in that direction because
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  Speaker 1: we're we're fighting to get it right, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to emphasize the guys as much as we can see
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  Speaker 1: if we can maximize uh, the players even more so.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty fourth in terms of the.
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  Speaker 2: Design runs or the success of the run game.
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  Speaker 1: As you are. I thought we did in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I thought we did better than the
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  Speaker 1: first half. We had fifteen plays or something, sixteen plays
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  Speaker 1: and I think it was five runs and ten eleven
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  Speaker 1: passes something like that. That's not the balance that we want.
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  Speaker 1: We got to make first downs. We gotta make first
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  Speaker 1: downs so that you get your chances. And that's continues
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  Speaker 1: to be the you know, it's a it's a bad
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  Speaker 1: it's a bad recurring theme, but I've got to get
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  Speaker 1: it right in.
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  Speaker 2: Like the season long Trand is that the reason for
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  Speaker 2: it enough?
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  Speaker 1: It's if it in the games when that happens. Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it continues to show up because that's an issue for us.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that that helps. Yeah, when what's the challenge
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  Speaker 2: the guy?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, making sure that we stay focused on the real
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  Speaker 1: the truth and what's going on, and so that we
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  Speaker 1: don't get distracted by what guys think this and think that,
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  Speaker 1: and they need to get to the issues and the
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  Speaker 1: truth of the issues. And so with the staff and
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  Speaker 1: and the players as well, we all have to try
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  Speaker 1: to make sure we see it clearly because sometimes your
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  Speaker 1: opinions and you your vision can get clouded because if
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  Speaker 1: it hurts, you know, and you're you're you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: you're feeling uncomfortable about it, you know. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: that's what's most important. That's why coming back togethers is
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  Speaker 1: always about, you know, getting to the truth of it.
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  Speaker 1: And that didn't mean that we weren't talking about him, right,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mean that we were We weren't talking about
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  Speaker 1: him at the expense of giving it to lock it
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  Speaker 1: Instead of what it was. That's just an example, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna be held to that one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's an example of how you could do it.
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  Speaker 1: You see a guy's special stuff, and so you try
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that it shows up as part of
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  Speaker 1: the game plan.
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  Speaker 2: We have.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler's got him, DK's got him. No fan has got
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of you know, they they have stuff that
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  Speaker 1: they can add to it. So I'm trying to keep
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  Speaker 1: it general as I can, to not directly tell you
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  Speaker 1: what's all what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Playing the season. I think it's been it's it's been hard.
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  Speaker 2: It's been harder on him.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was it was smoother last year for him,
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  Speaker 1: and he did a fantastic job of playing this week
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  Speaker 1: under the circumstances. And if he was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: offul you know here or there, which there may have
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  Speaker 1: been a couple of thrills, maybe the deep balls, you know,
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  Speaker 1: or whatever that might have been, I'm sure he was
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  Speaker 1: saying it wasn't it was understandable, you know what is
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  Speaker 1: what he overcame. I thought he did a great job
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  Speaker 1: to overcome and be out there and competing with us
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  Speaker 1: and for us.
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  Speaker 2: But we need to help him.
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  Speaker 1: Always say that because it's it's not just one guy,
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  Speaker 1: it's everybody working together being precise and on point and
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  Speaker 1: come through and make the play and make the block,
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  Speaker 1: and and and uh to help him out. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: as far as we can tell, it seems to be Okayers.
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  Speaker 2: How much of that is just not having the continuity
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  Speaker 2: on the offensive line that you anticipated versus because they
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  Speaker 2: are more familiar with what his skill set is. No,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's that at all.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the continuity of the guys up front, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's just been an ongoing issue for us. But for instance,
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  Speaker 1: uh Abe's coming back this week. He's going to practice
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  Speaker 1: to play this week and we'll see if if that works.
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  Speaker 1: The plan is he'll he'll be going with the ones
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  Speaker 1: and and getting his work and we'll see if he
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  Speaker 1: can get you know, if he can sustain uh through
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  Speaker 1: the week, we'll make the call later on in the
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  Speaker 1: week to see if he can go.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a real positive force.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he didn't have enough time to get We didn't
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  Speaker 1: have enough time in the week to show that he
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  Speaker 1: could go ahead and take the hits and do the
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  Speaker 1: things he needed to do. Had a shoulder and harness,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and all that. So I went into the
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  Speaker 1: game wanting to see if if he was feeling comfortable
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  Speaker 1: and all. We made the call that I thought would
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  Speaker 1: be better for him not to have to finish under
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  Speaker 1: the circumstances. And uh so Mike was ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Mike was a really good ball player, and we popped
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  Speaker 1: him in there and he did fine. Was he had
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  Speaker 1: a shoulder that was bothered him last week? That might
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  Speaker 1: have been, Yeah, I think it was last week when.
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  Speaker 2: It started that Jason.
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  Speaker 1: Much better, much improved. He had a stinger. I reported
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  Speaker 1: that wrong last night to you guys.
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  Speaker 2: It was a stinger that he had and apparently it's
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  Speaker 2: it's seeming like it's clear enough already.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a good sign. Are Yeah, he's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be able to do a lot this week. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: wait until the end of the week to see where
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  Speaker 1: he is, you know, keeping you know, hope that that
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  Speaker 1: he had a chance to play, but we won't know
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  Speaker 1: until the latter part of the week.
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  Speaker 2: When you see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, one of the things about tackling is always
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  Speaker 1: about more guys around the ball, you know, making sure
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  Speaker 1: that we're pursuing right and we give guys that so
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  Speaker 1: that you can take your shots and guys clean up
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  Speaker 1: for you. That's one of the issues that we always
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  Speaker 1: forever in football and on defense, you know. So that's
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  Speaker 1: that's one thing. And uh, it's always about taking one
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  Speaker 1: more step to in tackling, you know, and finishing your
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  Speaker 1: tackles as opposed to taking.
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  Speaker 2: A shot in luncheon. That's that's a really fundamental part
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  Speaker 2: of it. And you gotta be on it.
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  Speaker 1: We're you know, we It's always something that we emphasize
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  Speaker 1: and that's always usually the key that we come back to.
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  Speaker 2: What what do you feel were the defensive issues in
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  Speaker 2: the first half.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the first drive was was executed really well by them.
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  Speaker 1: They came out flying and as they often do, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: we weren't able to you know, get the play we
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  Speaker 1: needed to get off. Then we've had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: cruise plays. We had him stopped, you know, we get it.
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  Speaker 1: We had a crucial penalty in the an zone that
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  Speaker 1: was that was a big one for us. But they
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  Speaker 1: were able to keep get their rhythm going, you know, honest,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the run pass thing that they that they're
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  Speaker 1: really good at. And we didn't slow it down fast enough.
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  Speaker 1: They had a couple of big plays that made a
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  Speaker 1: difference change the field, you know, the the uh they play,
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  Speaker 1: the deebo, the crossing the route was a big play
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  Speaker 1: that change. We had a chance to stop that route,
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  Speaker 1: that concept. So really in the second half we had
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  Speaker 1: we played them really tough, and we had that the
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  Speaker 1: one touchdown pass which was a terrific throw and adjustment
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  Speaker 1: by the by the QB and the and the receiver
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  Speaker 1: on it to make the touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: But it was cutting down the exposive places. Really is
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  Speaker 2: the key for us against these guys under.
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  Speaker 1: Take that step? Yeah, it's it's yeah, it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: always about getting more guys to the football to clean
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  Speaker 1: up so that the guy that misses it isn't the
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  Speaker 1: glaring miss, you know. And so it's just flying to
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  Speaker 1: the ball more so, better, more consistently, to avoid the
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  Speaker 1: one on one situations as much as possible. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: that's nothing new. That's as old as you can get.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned, what would you do. I think he's more
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  Speaker 2: freed up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's more clear about about cutting loose and
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  Speaker 1: going for it. He has marvelous talent and he can
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  Speaker 1: really run and so when he's confident, he's clear and
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  Speaker 1: he knows he can take his shots, he's really he's
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  Speaker 1: a dangerous football player out there. It's great that he
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  Speaker 1: got his big play in all, but he had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of other plays in this game that were really
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  Speaker 1: really good too. Yeah, it wasn't it wasn't as formidable,
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  Speaker 1: you know as we would like. They're in the play
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  Speaker 1: action mode. It's harder to pressure those you know, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to drop back that much. You know, against
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  Speaker 1: this they don't through the ball twenty something times twenty
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  Speaker 1: one dimes or something like that, so they didn't throw
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  Speaker 1: the ball whole lot.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we're always trying to get better. We
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  Speaker 2: always need more, more effect on the queue. You did
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  Speaker 2: your past protection last night. Oh it was struggled. We
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  Speaker 2: struggled last night.
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  Speaker 1: Six acts a legit, you know, and uh, they got
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  Speaker 1: after pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: The ball has to come out faster against those guys.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get the ball out and that there's
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  Speaker 1: reasons why it's not always the quarterback not throwing it fast.
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  Speaker 1: We got to get open, we gotta get the clear
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  Speaker 1: lanes and all that. But yeah, we have to do better.
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  Speaker 1: They they were there, they had too much effectiveness for
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  Speaker 1: us to be happy.
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  Speaker 2: With that one. Why did not break quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: We need we did, not knowing how Geno was gonna respond,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we put the quarterback up instead.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have a set of your cheap ideas right now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're we're at a crucial point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think's crucial that we we make sure we're we're together. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: this is a uh a really challenging stretch coming and
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  Speaker 1: uh they're always hard, but we got to get get
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  Speaker 1: our minds right, make sure that we're focusing on, uh,
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  Speaker 1: doing the right thing and executing and playing ball really
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  Speaker 1: hard with great effort and intensity and all the kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff that we'd like to build this team around.
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  Speaker 2: What would you.
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  Speaker 1: Basically that, Yeah, what is team you've seen? I know
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  Speaker 1: these guys and I totally know these guys and trust
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  Speaker 1: these guys know where their heart is and the voice
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  Speaker 1: in in the locker room, the voice and the leader
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  Speaker 1: of the leadership of these guys, they they'll they'll hang tough.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that it's easy because they're you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna always turn something around is hard, and uh
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  Speaker 1: so it's it's good.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be good for us, It'll make us, it'll make
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  Speaker 2: us better. Yes you No, I didn't say that necessary.
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  Speaker 1: If I said that, That's not what I directly said
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  Speaker 1: me being more involved in a third down.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna continue to be in often.
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  Speaker 1: That is what I'm we do like I have been,
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  Speaker 1: and continue to just challenge our guys to keep looking
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  Speaker 1: for everything that we can look at and compete to
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  Speaker 1: get it right.
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  Speaker 2: Is that?
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  Speaker 1: Is that how I said that? Okay, generally, I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 1: I'm concern about club. I'm concerned about everything we're doing
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  Speaker 1: right now. That that night last night will make you
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  Speaker 1: challenge everything just while you're asking all the questions. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's questions to be asked and answers to be found.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, that's that's where we are right now. I
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't feel that as much as I would
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  Speaker 1: like to.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to feel it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that the mix was good and we were back
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  Speaker 1: to the play passes that have been so effective for us,
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  Speaker 1: and that that is a factor for you know that
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  Speaker 1: the accents the running game and it gives us kind
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  Speaker 1: of a nice feel to it.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to get back.
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 2: We thank you