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Grey Zabel: "I'm Super Excited To Block For Our Running Backs" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's the assessment of your play after the first two
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  Speaker 1: weeks of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I thought we're doing well. Got lots of clean up,
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  Speaker 2: got to be able to move a guy from point
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  Speaker 2: at a point being the run game, and then at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, you got to keep your
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  Speaker 2: QB clean. So however you have to do that, you
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  Speaker 2: just got to win. And I think as we continue
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  Speaker 2: to go through a season, we get more reps. It's
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  Speaker 2: just going to continue to get better as.
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  Speaker 1: An offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: Where does it rank when it's third nineteen you run
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  Speaker 3: the ball and your guy goes untouched in the ends
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  Speaker 3: in Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was pretty fun. It's easy to have a play
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  Speaker 2: like that when you have a guy like K nine
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  Speaker 2: behind your running the ball so super excited for the
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  Speaker 2: week that he had last week. And I think it
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  Speaker 2: just goes to show like the type of back he
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  Speaker 2: is and how remarkable he is, how explosive he is,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm super excited to block for our running backs
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  Speaker 2: weekend and week out.
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  Speaker 3: Your coach said that great best company he can give
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  Speaker 3: it is it?
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  Speaker 4: You don't seem like you're playing like a rookie. What
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  Speaker 4: does that mean to you? What are you doing that
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  Speaker 4: has made you comfortable in that spot.
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  Speaker 2: I think it just you got to give credit to
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  Speaker 2: the guys around me. Then, Charles Cross is doing a
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  Speaker 2: remarkable job bringing me in, getting me up to speed.
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  Speaker 2: Playing next to him is so fun. He's such a
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  Speaker 2: great player, such a great person. I think we're enjoying it.
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  Speaker 2: And then obviously a guy like Jalen Is. I've been
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  Speaker 2: playing next to him since freshman year of college, so
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  Speaker 2: just having that cohesiveness right there is super nice. And
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  Speaker 2: then at the end of the day, like you can't
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  Speaker 2: be a rookie in this league because you get that
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  Speaker 2: pass for the first play of the season, then the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the time, you got to be a left
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  Speaker 2: guard that protects your QB.
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  Speaker 4: When the offensive line watched the film from the game,
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  Speaker 4: what was your maybe your favorite player the room's favorite
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  Speaker 4: play from that game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to say victory formation, but we couldn't
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  Speaker 2: finish it out in that four minutes, so we had
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  Speaker 2: to rely on our defense there. You got to think
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  Speaker 2: that third nineteen run by Cannine, just the speed that
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  Speaker 2: he gets to the edge and then finishes in the
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  Speaker 2: end zone, like that's just icing on the cake there,
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  Speaker 2: so I'd probably say that play for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Statistically the right game really was a lot better in
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  Speaker 4: the second half of the first half.
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  Speaker 3: On Sunday, did you feel like anything change with what
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  Speaker 3: you guys did up front?
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  Speaker 1: Turn and something?
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  Speaker 2: Really just continuing to lean on them. We're gonna kind
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  Speaker 2: of pride ourselves to be the best fourth quarter team
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL, and to do that you got to
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  Speaker 2: have an offensive line that moves people in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: So I think a lot of the times, especially in
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  Speaker 2: that second half, we put it on ourselves to move
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  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage and let our running backs do
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  Speaker 2: what they do best, and that's that's run the ball
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  Speaker 2: extremely hard. So I think it was just a It
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  Speaker 2: was a good showing point of what happens when you
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  Speaker 2: continue to lean on a team with.
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  Speaker 1: The outside zone and how much you know you get
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  Speaker 1: big defensive lineman moving from sideline to sideline. Is there
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  Speaker 1: a wearing out effect over the course or can there
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  Speaker 1: be a wearing out effect over the course of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, And I think you said it right there,
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  Speaker 2: Like first half, you might not have had the success
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  Speaker 2: that you want, but if you just continue to stick
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  Speaker 2: to your rules, principles and training. That kind of wearing
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  Speaker 2: down process is starting to show a little bit in
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  Speaker 2: the third quarter and then hopefully in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 2: you're able to run a ball successfully. Great.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Jalen there. Obviously as the first round pick,
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  Speaker 1: you were always going to get the opportunity to play
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  Speaker 1: like this at the NFL. To see him come from
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  Speaker 1: the undrafted side of things and get this chance to
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  Speaker 1: play alongside you. What does it mean to you to
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  Speaker 1: kind of see him taking a hold of this and
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  Speaker 1: creating this opportunity for himself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. I don't know if you guys
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  Speaker 2: know much about Jalen's story. He was a center throughout college,
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  Speaker 2: played left tackle his senior year, went through a foot
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  Speaker 2: injury during college, and then re injured his foot senior
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  Speaker 2: year of college, kind of in the draft process, was
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  Speaker 2: able to do Pro day, got medicaled by quite a
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  Speaker 2: few teams, just continued to battle that entire that entire
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  Speaker 2: year comes into fall camp last year, earns a spot
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  Speaker 2: on the fifty three plays a little bit last year,
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  Speaker 2: buses asked during OTAs the entire summer comes into fall camp,
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  Speaker 2: earns a starting spot, and then his playing in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL so I'm so proud of that guy and everything
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  Speaker 2: that he's done. The relentlessness that he has is just remarkable,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean, god, it makes me emotional talking about
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  Speaker 2: it because I lived with him for three years and
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  Speaker 2: I know how hard a worker he is, and so
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  Speaker 2: seeing this is success that he's had doesn't surprise me,
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  Speaker 2: but at the same time, it makes me happy. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a remarkable story. I love Jay, I love playing
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  Speaker 2: next to him, and hopefully we continue that for a
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  Speaker 2: really long time.
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  Speaker 4: Do all the North Dakota State guys around the NFL
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  Speaker 4: have a group chat? You guys take in touch?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, absolutely absolutely, So it's fun to check in
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  Speaker 2: on those guys, and it's kind of kind of funny
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  Speaker 2: we text in there almost, I want to say, every
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  Speaker 2: Thursday or Friday and just get a scouting report of
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  Speaker 2: other defensive linemens the league that they've already played, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what works, what doesn't work? So, I mean, my buddy
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  Speaker 2: Cordell Bolson was texting him all last week about Cam
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  Speaker 2: Hayward since he's gone against him six times, so you
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  Speaker 2: can kind of attribute Cordell to a little bit success
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  Speaker 2: that I had against Cam.
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  Speaker 4: How was this scouting Ford to turn out to be accurate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when he said he was one of the strongest
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  Speaker 2: players he's ever played against, I'm like, Okay, that carries
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  Speaker 2: some weight. And then you play him in game and
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  Speaker 2: you text him immediately afterwards, It's like, Wow, that guy
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  Speaker 2: is extremely strong. You were spot on.
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  Speaker 1: How many guys are on that text, Rade, I want.
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  Speaker 2: To say there's five or six of us, just kind
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  Speaker 2: of the offensive linemen that are still in the league
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Your offensive line coach, Sean Benton, I think, has been
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  Speaker 3: coaching in the NFL, but as long as you've been alive,
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  Speaker 3: Just like, how does that experience show up when you
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  Speaker 3: have a coach who's seen that much football and been
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  Speaker 3: around so much.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know Coach Benton was that old, So I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate that, but I think it just goes to show
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  Speaker 2: like he's an unbelievable coach. I love Coach Benton. Just
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  Speaker 2: the ability to understand kind of what I'm thinking or
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  Speaker 2: what questions I have, like before I even have him,
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  Speaker 2: just goes to show his experience, the type of coach
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  Speaker 2: he is, and then how easy it is to play
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  Speaker 2: your artist for him, because he wants the best from you.
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  Speaker 2: You want to do your best for him, and I
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  Speaker 2: think I couldn't have asked for a better coach this
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  Speaker 2: this rookie season, and hopefully I can continue to work
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  Speaker 2: with them down the road.
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  Speaker 4: What's it like going against Byron Murphy when you've gone
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  Speaker 4: against him as much as you have?
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  Speaker 2: Kind Yeah, he's he's really good. I'm not shocked by
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  Speaker 2: the production that he's having this year, just because I
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  Speaker 2: have to go against him every single day in practice.
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  Speaker 2: So I just I think what's most helpful is I
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  Speaker 2: can go against these guys Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then
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  Speaker 2: go out there on Saturday and understand, like, hey, I've
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  Speaker 2: gone against Byron Murphy, who is probably pound for pound,
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  Speaker 2: inch for inch, the strongest guy that is in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: And then you can go against guy like Leo who
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  Speaker 2: continues to dominate year after year, and it's more of
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  Speaker 2: that vet kind of savvy type d tackle. See you
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  Speaker 2: go out there on Sunday and you're like, Okay, what
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  Speaker 2: look could I possibly get that I haven't got already
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  Speaker 2: this week?
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  Speaker 1: Not a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you find success on that, and I
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  Speaker 2: think it's just iron strepending iron.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Thank you for thank you