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Pete Carroll: "It Feels Like Playoff Time" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Mhm, okay, let's go. What do you got do this week?
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  Speaker 1: He did quite well today. We we arrested him for
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  Speaker 1: the most of the week, the short week in terms
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  Speaker 1: of throwing, he did really well today. I'm I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of thinking he is. Yeah, does he need to do
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  Speaker 1: any pregame tests? No other than just get warmed up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we'll be very judicial by how we do that.
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  Speaker 1: How about Kenneth Walker, what's that situation? Katy's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: make it. Yeah, he's he's unless something less. He We
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  Speaker 1: left it as doubtful because you never know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he wake up in the morning, he says, I can go.
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  Speaker 1: But he wasn't able to do anything during the week.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll see. We'll leave the door open that much. Ready.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Zach's ready to go. He's pumped up and ready.
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  Speaker 1: H Kenny Mack is ready to go to and UH
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  Speaker 1: and DJ. How about uh? Ape got his first on
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  Speaker 1: field work yesterday, full speed pads and the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: after practice and uh he did. He did quite well.
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  Speaker 1: So he won't make it for this game though, And
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  Speaker 1: with you know, just him being able to make every
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  Speaker 1: throw that you wanted to see, that's kind of what
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  Speaker 1: clear cleared him in your eyes or got him ready? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he looked good, felt good with Kevin Walker. Do you
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  Speaker 1: have a better sense of what was out look's going
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  Speaker 1: to be like, you know, get week. No, No, we're
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  Speaker 1: hoping that that's that's the case, but we don't know
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  Speaker 1: that until we get to Wednesday, you know, the Wednesday day.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what day that would be, but
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  Speaker 1: whenever that day shows up, we'll know more than pretty
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  Speaker 1: good special make a wish visitor today, Yeah, we sure did. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Davars Jackson's son TJ was here today and uh, it
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  Speaker 1: was really it was. It was lovely seeing him. He's
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful kid. When t jack was here, he meant
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  Speaker 1: so much to us in so many different ways. He
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  Speaker 1: was such a good teammate and competitor and athlete and
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  Speaker 1: all the rest. Everybody loved him and big smile, big,
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  Speaker 1: so much life about him. It's it's a shame, you
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  Speaker 1: know that we love him. But to see see this
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  Speaker 1: image of him, you know, show up today in the sun,
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was really fun. He's got a good
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  Speaker 1: hoes lefty and brings over the top pretty nice, got
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  Speaker 1: a good fastball and uh and he's got a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of other cool stuff about him. When he got
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the players got a chance to
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  Speaker 1: break him down, he showed him some real juice. He
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  Speaker 1: let him up, and he really was energetic and cool
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  Speaker 1: about it. And uh has a really good moment for us.
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  Speaker 1: You're I hope for him to see. Kyle Shanahan said
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  Speaker 1: that your guys' team is as as similar a play
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  Speaker 1: style as theirs that there is in the NFL. Do
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  Speaker 1: you kind of feel the same way about but there's
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  Speaker 1: there's similarities, Yeah, there's there's certainly similarities. There's some roots
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  Speaker 1: and some crossovers you know from days past. So he's
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. H Kochel Jared, Yes, yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's remarkable how he's getting around here. You would never
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  Speaker 1: know that he's hurt. I don't know what the deal
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  Speaker 1: is because he's being really freaky about it. But he
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  Speaker 1: they saw it on you know, on the scale and
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  Speaker 1: all that. But he's kind of bouncing around a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm afraid he's gonna have to have surgery. But
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  Speaker 1: you would never know about watching looking and looking at
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  Speaker 1: him around here. Kobe, How Kobe Bryant do well? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Kobe's ready to go. He has a chance to play
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  Speaker 1: in this game. I know it's hard to evaluate Abe
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  Speaker 1: on a week like this, but are you thinking he'll
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  Speaker 1: have a chance? Yes, yes, very much. So he needed
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  Speaker 1: to pass that test yesterday and uh to get that done,
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  Speaker 1: and so he took some real shots and delivered you know,
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  Speaker 1: some pass rush stuff, pull everything he did, got a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of everything done yesterday. It was a really
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  Speaker 1: good workout. That's what he needed to show that he
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  Speaker 1: could bounce back from that, which he did. So that's
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  Speaker 1: a really good sign for next week. Is Gina just
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  Speaker 1: kind of feeling better at this point too? Is his
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  Speaker 1: attitude about about his this what this was it was
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  Speaker 1: not going to bother him that he wasn't going to
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  Speaker 1: be a big factor. It looks bad, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: because it's it's you know, he's got a big bruise
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  Speaker 1: on the back of his tricep, but it his attitude
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  Speaker 1: has been right on it the whole time. He hasn't
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  Speaker 1: miss the snap as far as we didn't let him
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  Speaker 1: throw the first couple of days, but he didn't missed
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  Speaker 1: the snap and so he was doing everything. So he's
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. Would you need to elevate Brett Rippon
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  Speaker 1: for this game. That's the choice that we have. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of practice Canny back and Tasha just knowing
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  Speaker 1: that he's opportunity. It was fun watching him. Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: excited about it, you know, his first chance. He knows
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  Speaker 1: that he's got a chance to get in there. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's getting the rotation, he's playing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's in the game. So like, like I've been telling you,
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  Speaker 1: he's been practicing really well. He's looked like he's part
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  Speaker 1: of it without without any hesitation, I can tell you that,
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  Speaker 1: but you can see it's a little more excited because
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  Speaker 1: he knows he's got a shot to go this week.
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  Speaker 1: If if it's it's it's kind of leaning that way.
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  Speaker 1: So he's he's he's tuned in. Did up with his toe? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he had something. Yeah, I don't know, bunions or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. I don't know. I don't really I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what bunions are even but I've heard of him before.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure I for all those bunions suffers.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mean to make light of your I'm sure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he practiced today. Oh, I would hope so I would think, so, yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is it's it's just feels like playoff
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  Speaker 1: time for the rest of the season. If we're so
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  Speaker 1: fortunate to be rolling in that kind of area. It
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  Speaker 1: just feels like that every game coming up is crucial
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  Speaker 1: and this one is, you know, just kind of the
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  Speaker 1: you know this as obvious as it gets, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope the fans are juiced and ready to go,
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  Speaker 1: and we will be in and make it a great night.
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  Speaker 1: We'll look good in the unis and all that. It'll
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  Speaker 1: it'll be an exciting night. And playing tomorrow, I'm counting
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  Speaker 1: on playing them. And what is he provided you haven't had?
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  Speaker 1: He's really versatile. He's more of a scatback type of guy.
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  Speaker 1: Quickness and explosion. Uh real, Birsty catches the ball really well.
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  Speaker 1: So he's you know, he's you think he's gonna break
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  Speaker 1: it when he gets the ball in his hands. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you feel like with him. Is he pass Parker
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  Speaker 1: more than maybe you thought he was. Yeah, he is
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  Speaker 1: because he's a tough guy. He's got great attitude about it,
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  Speaker 1: and he hasn't missed any opportunities since he's been back
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  Speaker 1: with us. When we've done our live stuff and he's
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  Speaker 1: shown really well, what is the loss for Jered you
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  Speaker 1: guys on special team? See, yeah, he's been great. He's
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  Speaker 1: been great on special teams. He's really one of the
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  Speaker 1: leaders for us. Really have been a highlight. So we
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  Speaker 1: lose that the kind of the spark plays that he's made,
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  Speaker 1: you know, chasing ponts and kicks and so. But with
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  Speaker 1: if Kobe takes his place, you know, and and Kobe's
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  Speaker 1: ready to go, he wants to play so bad. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a long haul for him to wait to get
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  Speaker 1: back out there. And we know he's physical and he's
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  Speaker 1: aggressive and he makes things happen, and so, uh, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we don't lose much therebe he's the toe issues. Do
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you guys have to handle on that
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  Speaker 1: Now that he's kind of got that figured out, he
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  Speaker 1: still got him He's still got those toes, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Do we have a handle on Kobe's
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  Speaker 1: toes is the question. I don't know. He's in great
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  Speaker 1: shape now, he's ready to go. And once he got
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  Speaker 1: back last time he was he was ready to it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't And it's not a reoccurring injuries to the other side,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so, so I hope so, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that you you always just talking about
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  Speaker 1: every game there in the championship opportunity, but for how
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  Speaker 1: it went in l A. You the guys have been
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  Speaker 1: talking about this big opportunity too. You mentioned the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hitting on that maybe a little more this
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  Speaker 1: week because of you? I haven't, No, I haven't. It's
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  Speaker 1: it should be pretty clear. You know when we stated
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  Speaker 1: what the situation was going in when on Monday, you know,
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  Speaker 1: division opponent, and uh, you know, we need to get
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  Speaker 1: a win on these guys so that we we even
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  Speaker 1: up with them. So that's pretty clear. Oh, that's we
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  Speaker 1: understand the Rieke said the playoff game last year, on
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  Speaker 1: the mistakes he made, he was gonna use that as
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  Speaker 1: a learning opportunity. Over the course of this season. Have
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  Speaker 1: you seen him taking those steps just in terms of yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was one of the guys in the sophomores, you
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  Speaker 1: know coming back after that first year that things just
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  Speaker 1: seem so much clearer to him. And uh, and when
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  Speaker 1: you get back away from it, you can look back
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  Speaker 1: at the errors and you know that the plays that
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  Speaker 1: haunt you a little bit and you can make adjustments
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  Speaker 1: and work to find the awareness that you need to
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  Speaker 1: avoid that happening again. He's done all of that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: how'd boy and Marta handed your chips and extra attention
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  Speaker 1: and all the things you got. He's doing fine. He
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  Speaker 1: missed the sack last week. He had a wide open shot,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he missed one last week he'd had
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  Speaker 1: another one, you know. So he's doing he's doing fine,
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  Speaker 1: but he is he's learning, you know, and he's learning
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  Speaker 1: that he is getting more attention. We always work on
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, but he's getting more than he has in
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  Speaker 1: the past for sure, and so that's a sign of
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  Speaker 1: respect and and he needs to deal with it well.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you.