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Pete Carroll: "That Was A Really Big Day For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Really big day force. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic illustration of hanging and staying in it and keeping
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  Speaker 2: the belief going, uh and giving us ourselves a chance
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  Speaker 2: to win football game. A beautiful illustration of that well
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, thirty seconds or something like that took
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  Speaker 2: to win a football game. To celebrate the throwbacks and
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  Speaker 2: all that.
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  Speaker 1: I hope the fans, you know, loved it. It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was fun for us, and it was a beautiful
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  Speaker 2: image you know, in the stadium and all it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was really cool to see that. We didn't talk
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot about it here after the game, but
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  Speaker 2: I know the guys really did appreciate the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: do that. And and uh, I keep going back to
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  Speaker 2: all of the memories that everybody had. That's why they
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  Speaker 2: liked it so much to see it and all that.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm glad we could be part of that.
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  Speaker 1: It was really.
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  Speaker 2: Fun, tough football game. These guys are really tough, man.
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  Speaker 2: They they have the formula playing great defense and running
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  Speaker 2: the football, and that's a formula that gives you a
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  Speaker 2: chance to win every time out.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought P. J.
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  Speaker 2: Walker did a really good job to keep the thing
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  Speaker 2: moving and keep them in position to win a game.
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  Speaker 2: They did some things that we needed to stop. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't stop as well. The screens were a big part
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  Speaker 2: of the game. Didn't play the running game as well
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  Speaker 2: as we wanted to. But pretty much average like for
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  Speaker 2: them kind of how they do it. But all in all, uh,
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  Speaker 2: genial leading that drive, the guy's keeping him clean up
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  Speaker 2: front so that we could throw the ball that to
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  Speaker 2: do what we need to do to finish the game.
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  Speaker 2: Guys coming through the catches. The touchdown play to win
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  Speaker 2: the game. It was a fantastic block by DK Clean.
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  Speaker 2: The guy was looking right at him, and that's whether that's.
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  Speaker 1: The call that they make sometimes. I thought I did
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  Speaker 1: it perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: And Jackson got every gech out of that play just
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  Speaker 2: in really championship fashion. So it's a lot of really cool,
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  Speaker 2: exciting things that happened to him.
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  Speaker 1: Fired up about it.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good example hanging in there for the offense.
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  Speaker 2: And we started so well, you know, we looked so
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  Speaker 2: good starting now, and we just we just couldn't quite
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  Speaker 2: find the rhythm of it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's because they're good.
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  Speaker 2: They're really good, and the fact that's the close game
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  Speaker 2: and they'll surprise.
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  Speaker 1: You know, to turn autumn drive again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's what we love about it because the
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  Speaker 2: finishing execution that gets you to win. We take great
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  Speaker 2: pride in that, and that's something that we're always talking
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  Speaker 2: about and always striving to do. And that's why I
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  Speaker 2: love that illustration that we can do that. So next
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  Speaker 2: time we get a chance, we know that we've been
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  Speaker 2: there before. And and uh so you.
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  Speaker 1: See the money that got you the ball back the interception.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great call for one.
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  Speaker 2: You know, at the time, Clemmy had a great call
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  Speaker 2: to give us a chance to send them all on
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  Speaker 2: the pressure and he had to figure out what to
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  Speaker 2: do with it because there was a I think that
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  Speaker 2: the guard or someone was tackles popping out on him
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  Speaker 2: and he had to do something. And he figured out
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  Speaker 2: how to leave his feet and and and get you know,
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  Speaker 2: get contacted on the ball. And then it was a
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  Speaker 2: spectacular uh tips and overthrows for us and and uh
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  Speaker 2: and for Julian to come up make a big play man.
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  Speaker 2: It was you know, we stole the opportunity away from
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  Speaker 2: them with that play and uh uh that was really
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  Speaker 2: the guys going forward.
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  Speaker 1: And I was thrilled about that. Over the last year
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  Speaker 1: or so to make a play like that, and what
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  Speaker 1: do you think, Man, this is what he lives for.
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  Speaker 2: He lives for these opportunities and to go for it.
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  Speaker 2: And when it when it was on the line, everything's
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  Speaker 2: at you know, right there. He came up with a
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  Speaker 2: way to figure it out and and did something that
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  Speaker 2: changes changed our our fortunes in this game. And fantasticos
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  Speaker 2: and all those jet motions making blocks out of the
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  Speaker 2: goal line.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think about him gaging the football down there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we kind of thought that if he handed
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  Speaker 2: to him, he's gonna fiure out how to get in there,
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  Speaker 2: and uh he did.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It wasn't perfect, but it was it was
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  Speaker 1: clean enough to get the score.
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  Speaker 2: And uh so, you know, we continue to to work
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  Speaker 2: him into everything that we're doing because he's.
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  Speaker 1: A good ball player.
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  Speaker 2: He used to be part of it, and so you'll
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  Speaker 2: see him continued more opportunities and different kinds of you know,
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  Speaker 2: different kinds of ways.
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  Speaker 1: The cast ball, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because when when the guy goes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: runs around the block, you see it on tight ends
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  Speaker 2: on the backside, in the front side as well, and
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  Speaker 2: he did it perfectly, kept his hands in really tight
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  Speaker 2: and then released it at the right time so that there
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  Speaker 2: was no penalty. There was nothing that was wrong with
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  Speaker 2: that was exactly the way you should do it, right
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  Speaker 2: when we needed it most. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you were.
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  Speaker 1: You were you know something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought we always been complaining about them in
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  Speaker 2: the neutral zone, and I thought I had one for sure,
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  Speaker 2: and and and so you know, when it didn't get
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  Speaker 2: called and then we turned them all over on that same.
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  Speaker 1: Play would switch that whole result around, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: and that's also just kind of competing the sacks week.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's on it. He's on his game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's just playing great physical football. He's a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic run backer. He runs and he hits and he
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  Speaker 2: can make things happen and all of that. We keep
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  Speaker 2: trying to put it in places to just accentuate the
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  Speaker 2: fact that he's, you know, he's that kind of a
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  Speaker 2: factor and he's doing great. Yeah, he just continues to
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  Speaker 2: just pl a really solid, consistent football. That's what he's
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  Speaker 2: kind of been doing it the whole time here for
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  Speaker 2: a month, you know, and it's it's great to see
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  Speaker 2: we're really relying on him, and he came through again
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  Speaker 2: totally a lot of free hits on gin one sack
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  Speaker 2: on thirty seven drop backs, saying, how.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel about that? Yao? I thought they did great.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they did great.
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  Speaker 2: This is the most vicious Russian football team in football,
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  Speaker 2: and uh they have had their way with a ton
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  Speaker 2: of teams with the diffront four and we were able
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  Speaker 2: to keep my bay. I don't know that we dominated anything.
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  Speaker 2: We just we held on and then we gave up
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  Speaker 2: one sack, you know. And and it was really exciting
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  Speaker 2: to see Jason Peters play today. I think he played
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  Speaker 2: about half the time. We just wanted to see what
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  Speaker 2: would happen when he went in there, and then we
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  Speaker 2: were going to decide that the game went. He did well,
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  Speaker 2: so we just kind of rotated them. And that's just
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  Speaker 2: another boost for us to have an experienced player like
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  Speaker 2: that available to us. And uh so, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what that means we're going forward all anyway, but I
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  Speaker 2: was really fired up for him. This is you know,
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  Speaker 2: he played in an NFL football game in his twentieth season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a remarkable accomplishment. I mean it's so remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody to go find George Landas and records, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, it goes back so far. That was finny,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I we uh we had a couple of
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  Speaker 2: big plays. Kenny had a big play Zacht that looked really.
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  Speaker 1: Good at the end. I thought, you know, when he
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  Speaker 1: had his opportunities, it's there. It's there.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't really found it where we can really rely
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  Speaker 2: on it yet, but it's there, and so we just
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  Speaker 2: gotta keep working, right.
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  Speaker 1: You guys only got thirteen running back carries out of
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  Speaker 1: the game. The way we're kind of fallowing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we only we eleven the first step we
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  Speaker 2: run the ball must you know after that, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we we took what they were given us and
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  Speaker 2: and that was and we were protecting the pastor better
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  Speaker 2: than we thought.
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  Speaker 1: So we just went with it. And and oh man, yeah, they.
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  Speaker 2: We were not surprised one that we practiced them all
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  Speaker 2: week and they did it anyway. Uh so I've really
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  Speaker 2: disappointed in that. And you know, they just they had great,
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  Speaker 2: great success with it, uh tighten with great in the
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  Speaker 2: back and they just we were talking about the whole game,
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  Speaker 2: we were on it, and uh they just had to
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  Speaker 2: execute us.
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  Speaker 1: And so we had to do a lot better there.
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  Speaker 1: The last four second halves, you guys a lot of
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  Speaker 1: half points. Yes, good, What do you think about that?
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  Speaker 1: I'm thrilled about that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thrilled about finishing halves like that. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: that's something that we can continue to.
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  Speaker 1: Call on and then rely on.
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  Speaker 2: And it makes you really hard to beat when you
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  Speaker 2: play like that second half finish games.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you guys have won five to six. That's
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  Speaker 1: the older in your first place. I know. But how
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  Speaker 1: do you were what you're in first place? Okay? Cheez,
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  Speaker 1: well do you what do you think about that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of were you guys? What week in the
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  Speaker 1: season is this week eight?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so we're not quite halfway through this seventeen game thing.
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  Speaker 2: I guess nobody can ever get the halftime here halfway through.
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  Speaker 1: We're in pretty shape. That's good. That's good, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and uh we're still growing. You know.
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  Speaker 2: We got out of this game I got I have
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  Speaker 2: no names for you as far as guys getting banged up,
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  Speaker 2: which is incredibly good, and uh, we just need to
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  Speaker 2: keep growing.
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  Speaker 1: It just felt like that. I know maybe that gets old.
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  Speaker 2: To you hearing it, but we're we when you do
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  Speaker 2: another one and then another one and then another one.
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  Speaker 2: You're getting better, you know, because it's hard. It's hard
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  Speaker 2: to stack games. And I'm thrilled that we've we played Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you got three wins in a row here at home.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: If you're going to have a good season, you've got to.
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  Speaker 1: Play well at home.
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  Speaker 2: And so we've been living with that and and uh
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  Speaker 2: and really trying to use it as a battle crowd
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  Speaker 2: that we kind of play well here.
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  Speaker 1: At Looming and uh, so we're rolling right now and
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  Speaker 1: halfway he's last two years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit of an old topic for
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  Speaker 2: us right now because we keep hitting it. But it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a beautiful topic, you know, for us to be
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  Speaker 2: on because it's it shows that the continuity of of
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  Speaker 2: you know, how we work and how we choose the
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  Speaker 2: players on the team and John all John's side of
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  Speaker 2: the world that you know, the eons, Uh, to have
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  Speaker 2: the obvious success last year, come back and topped off
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  Speaker 2: again and figure it out again.
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  Speaker 1: We're going again.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't having next time, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: is what's really exciting.
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  Speaker 1: So it's fantastic for us.
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  Speaker 2: You can see Brook's all over the place and that
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  Speaker 2: and the playing contributing and doing things that that is
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  Speaker 2: such a boost to us entering the second half of
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  Speaker 2: the season. Would this be the second half of the
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  Speaker 2: season now kind of? I mean it's still screwed up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it used to be kind of easy, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not easy anywhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Overall. The two things he missed the comple girls he
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  Speaker 1: usually had playing for him. Yeah, I mean, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: he's upset. He didn't like it. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I I thought he figured out a way that to
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  Speaker 2: get It started beautifully and we looked great, and then
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  Speaker 2: when when it came down to we had to have it,
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  Speaker 2: he pturns right down the field and the score you
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  Speaker 2: know when he so Uh, there's some.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff in between.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple of passes that look look kind of off.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. He threw one to Jackson. Jackson stopped on the route.
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  Speaker 1: He screwed it up. You know, it looked like we
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  Speaker 1: threw the ball right to the other guy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't that was a miskew otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: But he's got he's got places play better. Yeah, exype
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  Speaker 2: some stuff, yeah, uh, but I think he's gone. I
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  Speaker 2: I love the ways playing, I love the ways leading this.
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  Speaker 1: Taul Risley about the game where you guys just managing
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  Speaker 1: his step. Yes, yeah, yeah, we just managed his his
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  Speaker 1: steps exactly. Paul born next week. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know. I just know they're really good. Did
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  Speaker 1: they win the game today? They're Kurds, Yeah, they're they're
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  Speaker 1: they're really good. That's all I know. You're there out, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you