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Mike Macdonald: "Kenneth Walker III Is Ready To Go" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You're good. Everybody good? How did we go up this
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  Speaker 1: extra day?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: What do you get out of the way you schedule?
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  Speaker 1: That's good that I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just where we're at in the in
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  Speaker 3: the year, getting the installs in getting our normal work
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  Speaker 3: weekend and then trying to get a day of recovery.
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  Speaker 3: Thinking forward, for one, you know what's going to best
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  Speaker 3: put us a position to be ready for Monday night.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know you've got a couple of games
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  Speaker 3: on top of each other after this as well. So
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  Speaker 3: combination of short and long term view.
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  Speaker 2: You ruled out for pretty important players up front on defense.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of challenge is that going to be for
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  Speaker 1: you guys to overcome those losses? Well, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it's any different than uh, when people
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  Speaker 3: are just there's got four guys that are down. That's
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  Speaker 3: four more guys are going to be up. Looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to seeing those guys play. You know, when you talk
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  Speaker 3: about having depth in your football team, you want the
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  Speaker 3: feeling to be like, Okay, I can't wait to see
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  Speaker 3: you know whoever's going to get that opportunity now. So
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  Speaker 3: that's that's our view, is that guys are gonna have
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  Speaker 3: more opportunities than usually than they've usually had and.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to seeing what they do. Walker, how did
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  Speaker 1: he look this week? He's look good. It's ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Is what kind of spark can that gave you?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I know Zach's dound a good job of
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  Speaker 3: just having that both those guys out there, well, it's uh,
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's it's kind of the duo that you've
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  Speaker 3: had all off season and how you've envisioned our offense operating.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, if one guy goes down, then
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  Speaker 3: you know, guys like Kenny McIntosh step up and can
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  Speaker 3: take those roles. But we're kind of back to business
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  Speaker 3: as usual that we've had, uh, you know before the
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  Speaker 3: last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: When you guys don't have a touchdown, when you don't
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  Speaker 2: have a penalty, you score a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: When I have every three drives, how much your penalty is?
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  Speaker 3: You tell our offense, you tell our everybody on offense
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  Speaker 3: that it's a good stat what how much.
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  Speaker 1: Is that have a focus for you guys this week?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we I mean everybody could see, hey, if we
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  Speaker 3: get the drive going, it's uh, it's a pretty good
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  Speaker 3: operation if you get behind the sticks. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: can have the best offense in the world, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be really hard to convert those things consistent.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, those are things that we've talked about as.
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  Speaker 3: A team and and the guys know, they know it's
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  Speaker 3: and it's obvious on tape, and it's great coaching points
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  Speaker 3: and and opportunities to learn from.
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  Speaker 1: So I expect us to grow and and.
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  Speaker 3: Uh school that that STA exists kind of should kind
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  Speaker 3: of what we're talking about all throughout the week is
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  Speaker 3: we have such an opportunity to grow as a team
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  Speaker 3: and take another jump, So hopefully we do that. Are
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  Speaker 3: any of the guys that were ruled out for long
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  Speaker 3: term concerns at all or.
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  Speaker 1: You know, uh, a couple a couple of guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we'll re evaluate later on next week, I
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  Speaker 3: would imagine. Not sure on actual timelines, but none are
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  Speaker 3: none are long term, I don't think unless something changes.
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  Speaker 1: I hark suggested and may didn't play this game regard.
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  Speaker 3: No, I just think I just think, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you guys know Channa, this guy works extremely hard. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: it was worth it was worth the shot, and then
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  Speaker 3: it have him out and doing all this stuff like
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  Speaker 3: on the field, you know, some of the walkthroughs and
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  Speaker 3: things and stand staying engaged. It was I think it
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  Speaker 3: was the right decision, even though it didn't work out
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  Speaker 3: in our favor.
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  Speaker 2: So how much just having three games in ten days
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  Speaker 2: kind of factor into decisions.
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  Speaker 1: About you play?
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  Speaker 3: The said.
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  Speaker 1: It is a factor on h.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say, you know, in certain guys, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's definitely a discussion point. It's early in the season,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, if we're playing in the super Bowl,
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  Speaker 3: then it'd be a different different conversation, probably.
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  Speaker 1: Like Gino's had a lot of success in Detroit.
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  Speaker 3: Really loud environment and in a lot of road games. General.
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  Speaker 3: I know you weren't coaching him then, but from what
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  Speaker 3: you've seen of him the last few months is what
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  Speaker 3: about him do you think allows him to thrive in
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  Speaker 3: a hostile environment. Well, I think he's an elite competitor
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  Speaker 3: and he's very, very poised, So I think that's a
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  Speaker 3: pretty good combination.
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  Speaker 1: Throws the heck out of the football too. That helps.
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  Speaker 1: What is it to speak him's dance can Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: truly through.
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  Speaker 3: It was actually through special teams and of the reps
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  Speaker 3: that he's been stacking on that front, So he's really
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  Speaker 3: our special Teams captain this week.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of an.
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  Speaker 1: Asset can Beryl Brown be for you guys as a blocker? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you got to the run game.
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  Speaker 3: The majority of the run game starts and stopping runs
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  Speaker 3: in the C area and in the run game, to
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  Speaker 3: get it going, you gotta be able to block the
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  Speaker 3: C gap.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh can do that with the best of them. And
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  Speaker 1: if he can do that, then we're off and running.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, some of the other movement type
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  Speaker 3: across the formation type blocks he's good at as well.
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  Speaker 3: And I think he actually has an underrated route tree
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  Speaker 3: to keep you honest in the past game.
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  Speaker 2: How did you feel like the right guard competition went
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  Speaker 2: this week?
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  Speaker 1: It's good. Yeah, you'll see both those guys, how much.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how the game plays out.
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  Speaker 2: You've always emphasized seats. We've known you just tackling and
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  Speaker 2: getting multiple plays to point of attack. Does any extra
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  Speaker 2: emphasis on this game with just your continued message of
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  Speaker 2: guys getting there hitting the lanes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they watched the tape and in Detroit falls forward
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  Speaker 3: a lot and there's a lot of space tackles that
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna have to make in this game, check downs
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  Speaker 3: and play action passes, screen game, quick game, getting hot guys,
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  Speaker 3: that getting guys to the football. So there's a there's
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  Speaker 3: a hidden yards battle going on out there that Detroit
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  Speaker 3: does a great job. And you know that's a point
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  Speaker 3: of emphasis this week as much as any week. But
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  Speaker 3: it's very, very obvious in this game.
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  Speaker 2: You had Aden Aiden for your Michigan has he he
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  Speaker 2: kind of become the player that you thought you thought
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  Speaker 2: he would or.
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  Speaker 3: I was right on Aidan, Okay, let the record show
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  Speaker 3: find my report in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: I was right. He called you out, he said you
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  Speaker 1: told him. I saw that. He texted me too. There
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  Speaker 1: have been text exchanges anything from what to make it.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say, yes, Yeah, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to like go into like specific plays and all that.
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  Speaker 3: But it's nothing major. It's just something kind of reoccurred
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  Speaker 3: in the Miami game that kept them out of this one.
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  Speaker 1: What's kind of a random one.
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  Speaker 2: But when you have these like eight thirty eight fifteen
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  Speaker 2: kickoffs on the East coast or East Coast time, what.
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys do all day before kicks? Nothing? We
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  Speaker 1: just stare at the wall.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, It's it's funny it's like, okay, it's not a
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  Speaker 3: night game for us because we're still five o'clock on
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  Speaker 3: our on our time, so it's at one of those
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  Speaker 3: it's like a late afternoon game. You know, we'll do
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  Speaker 3: some stuff, try to get the guys asleep in get
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  Speaker 3: some rest, but then we want to get them up
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  Speaker 3: engaged a little bit. It's probably probably too early for
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  Speaker 3: like a true walkthrough, but more of a review. Stay
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  Speaker 3: fresh mentally, get the body, like take a walk, get
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  Speaker 3: some sunlight, and then you know we're off.
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  Speaker 1: Games at five.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a buster are leaving around one thirty or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: so it's really not that long of a time to
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  Speaker 3: be sitting around tough ones or like when you're on
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  Speaker 3: the East coast in the game it's a Monday night.
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  Speaker 3: Then now you're really like twiddling your thumbs. So uh,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the coaches be working on next week
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  Speaker 3: and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But so you guys keep everything on the West coast
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  Speaker 2: time when you're back, Yeah, what's.
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  Speaker 3: Your game planning?
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  Speaker 1: How many of your insights come from data and how
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  Speaker 1: much comes from film study?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, great question. It's a it's a sliding kind
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  Speaker 3: of combo platter. A lot of the times. Uh well,
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  Speaker 3: I guess it works both ways. One, the data will
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  Speaker 3: tell you something and then you'll confirm or you know
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  Speaker 3: or not confirm off the tape or you're seeing something
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  Speaker 3: on tape and then you kind of run, you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of a separate numbers, you know, study or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: and that'll kind of confirm R night. But what when
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  Speaker 3: when you're when you're cooking, is when you have the
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's congruent and there's some power in that,
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  Speaker 3: and then you're saying, okay, now we might be onto
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  Speaker 3: something here
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, Okay, thank you guys,