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Clint Hurtt: "It's Going To Be A Chess Match" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Did you take part in the duck Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Uh no me after me replacement surgery. My jumping days
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  Speaker 2: are well behind me. It's the last few times. Ooh
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  Speaker 2: boy college, IL say college. So that's a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a old man. It was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: Did you play Hoopston High School?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I did? Okay, Yeah, I didn't played Hoopson High School.
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  Speaker 2: Wrestled in high school football, and then I did all
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  Speaker 2: the big man events in track too, so should I
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  Speaker 2: put discus all that kind of stuff. And then anytime
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  Speaker 2: we had a big man relay, I got out there.
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  Speaker 2: I did the second man the second leg of the
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  Speaker 2: fourth boy one relay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, little fowls. Uh now, No, I could play. I
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  Speaker 1: was good. I could play.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't like a twenty point per game store, but
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  Speaker 2: I could play. I wasn't not there just to beat
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  Speaker 2: people up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for big men, not out there with the little guys.
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  Speaker 1: But the second leg you gotta be a horse to
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  Speaker 1: do that one. So I was, Uh, that was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how. I don't know if there is a
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  Speaker 2: benefit of seeing these guys so close together, but when
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  Speaker 2: you know exactly what to expect. When Christian McCaffrey is
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  Speaker 2: on your mind from just.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: What does that help the defense do? Imprecation obviously, just
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  Speaker 2: familiar opponent obviously in division, and then when you play
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  Speaker 2: them so close by, you's got a good feel. If
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  Speaker 2: there's anything that's different from the previous year, generally speaking,
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  Speaker 2: not a lot of me. They may with them there's
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  Speaker 2: a different route concepts in some ways, but a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things are the same. They just get to it
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  Speaker 2: in a different manner, a different way, formationally and all that.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the stuff you're aware of. But they don't
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  Speaker 2: change a lot. But that's why they operate so efficiently.
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  Speaker 2: They're very good at what they do.
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  Speaker 1: What was some of those young guys that go in emotion?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I realized there was a game in between.
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  Speaker 1: But it must help with.
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  Speaker 2: Some of that pre called it does be able to
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  Speaker 2: identify with absolutely because they're they're unique in how all
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  Speaker 2: the motions and shifts that they have pre snap before
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  Speaker 2: the ball snap. Not everybody does that, so they make
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  Speaker 2: themselves unique in that manner. So for the young players
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  Speaker 2: to be able to see that and get familiar, then yeah,
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  Speaker 2: slowly second time around, it makes a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: What don't you figure of how Devin Bush player? And
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  Speaker 1: I thought Devin was solid.
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  Speaker 2: You know, obviously when you get into that role where
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  Speaker 2: you know you're getting to the second unit reps that
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  Speaker 2: you may not get as many reps there in the
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  Speaker 2: course of the week. So really mentally he has a
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  Speaker 2: HM sophomore, and I thought he was solid while he
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  Speaker 2: was out there and stepping in and kind of filling
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  Speaker 2: that void. And he has to dual training at a
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  Speaker 2: couple of positions for USAID, you know, nickel, spot and linebacker,
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  Speaker 2: So I thought he handled that well. Then the short
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  Speaker 2: pultion some past and what.
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  Speaker 1: Does that specifical stress mean?
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  Speaker 2: Really, any of their emotions, not just unique to one.
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  Speaker 2: Is just the creating leverages in the defense. So if
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  Speaker 2: you don't bump correctly and they see it upstairs in
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  Speaker 2: the box, and if you don't align correctly with the
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  Speaker 2: motions adjust correctly, they out leveraging the run game. And
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  Speaker 2: then if you're too fast with leveraging the motion, meaning
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to get out in front of it. They
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  Speaker 2: do a great job with the complement of the play
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  Speaker 2: atch and passes in the boots to get to the
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  Speaker 2: opposite side. Of the field, so they make you defend
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  Speaker 2: the entire field and play with great discipine, you know.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's that's what those motions create for them. From
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and they saw that that's one
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  Speaker 1: thing you'd like to see your defense do better.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest thing is it's obviously cut down on the
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  Speaker 2: explosive plays, you know, and just understanding what they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to do, kind of what I just spoke about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just understanding all the motions and what not to create
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  Speaker 2: the angles in the run game, but then obviously avoiding
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  Speaker 2: the zones when you end up chasing the ball as
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  Speaker 2: hard as you do with so many of their wide
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  Speaker 2: zone runs. Just having that understanding of that discipline and
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  Speaker 2: playing deep the short on stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So those are things that you're working on obviously in preparation.
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  Speaker 2: For the match up and understanding that discipline, which then
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  Speaker 2: do you have to do whether they're just motioning to
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  Speaker 2: get in for gather on your defense.
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  Speaker 1: Fat field studies that get game adjustments, I mean there's
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  Speaker 1: always in game adjustments.
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  Speaker 2: I believe you know they know already the structure and
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  Speaker 2: understanding like the call though game the way he does
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  Speaker 2: versus everybody. He has a good feeling you're understanding of
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  Speaker 2: the opponent's defense when he plays you. The thing that
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  Speaker 2: you have to do is you're playing the chess match
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  Speaker 2: throughout the game to kind of counteract and you know,
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  Speaker 2: change up where you're doing things act and kind of
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  Speaker 2: throw them off beat.
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  Speaker 1: But he does.
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  Speaker 2: It's a chess match throughout the game. He's a unbelievable play.
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  Speaker 1: Call because of great John Are you attack the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the field more than other quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: And generally with their offense that they do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of that. Everything kind of works back in between the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean a lot of these throws do that.
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  Speaker 2: And their style, whether it was Party, if it was Garoppolo,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's the nature of their system.
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  Speaker 1: It is stressing them in the turnovers kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a keeps them regard. Then if they're gonna put it
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  Speaker 1: over the middle of the field and you have to
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  Speaker 1: find a Waine tipping in and up the year to
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  Speaker 1: get a barrel, as that one teach you out.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean I would say that applies with any
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  Speaker 2: team that you play. You know, always win in the turnover.
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  Speaker 2: A battle is a big deal to give your offense
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  Speaker 2: No opportunities and obviously cutting down on the amount of
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  Speaker 2: time that year on the field, but they definitely stress
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  Speaker 2: you with that because a lot of their process is
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  Speaker 2: deeper over the field routes, and party can make those throws.
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  Speaker 1: You know, to his credit, the number of shitch of
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  Speaker 1: balls are being used quite as massive pass user as
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  Speaker 1: he was saying forty twenty when you have all those times,
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  Speaker 1: is there, I mean that's it's been hard to get
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  Speaker 1: to with kind of his injuries and stuff like that, or.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you just you kind of you're finding
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  Speaker 2: your spots and when you can go and you can that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if the thing is a compelect of him
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  Speaker 1: is when he.
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  Speaker 2: Is there, whether I'm blitzing him or not, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of protections that go his way because he brings
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  Speaker 2: a lot of attention to him because of his ability
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  Speaker 2: to blitz and winning one on ones and ends of
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  Speaker 2: that nature. But then in turn, that helps other guys
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  Speaker 2: come available to when you do send them. So somehow
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  Speaker 2: just finding the right opportunities in time to do that,
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  Speaker 2: and he can still have an impact on the game
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  Speaker 2: if he's not blitzing because of the attention that he
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  Speaker 2: can draw to himself because of his reputation and resume.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of the fourth quarter. Is there a
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  Speaker 1: similarities there are trade is from.
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  Speaker 2: Something that going to that it's been the same inspity. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I would just say just the finishing game startotte,
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  Speaker 2: which always is a big point for us. Is uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know this finished time when you get to that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you come out a couple of games where
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  Speaker 2: he has some slow starts in the first half, third,
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  Speaker 2: third quarter, came out well before the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Is always about finishing the game, you know. And that's
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  Speaker 1: obviously just keeping.
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  Speaker 2: Guy's rest rotation, you know, things of that nature, so
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  Speaker 2: that way guys don't get worn down.
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  Speaker 1: What is there for all you got to do to
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  Speaker 1: portion or that.
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  Speaker 2: A argue when you got five guys rotated on spots. See,
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  Speaker 2: just find your areas right now and that's the that's
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  Speaker 2: the big thing. So just find a way to get
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  Speaker 2: him out there when we can and keep the rotation
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  Speaker 2: going there.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, keep guys fresh. It's how much of
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  Speaker 1: the job to punch its stuff that you guys can
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  Speaker 1: actually control.
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  Speaker 2: Ris hopeould you go you try to get refined. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna touch that. I'm gonna let it be
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  Speaker 2: what it is. You know, they got a job to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough job. I respect you know what they
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  Speaker 2: gotta do, even as much as I may not like it.
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  Speaker 2: And they eat at the moment, but Christmas is coming out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to keep some change in my pocket and
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  Speaker 2: sand spots. Uh, thank you all right, making sure you
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  Speaker 2: guess