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Julian Love: "There Was A Lot Of Great Tackling By Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Your defense gets put in a couple of really tough
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  Speaker 1: spots in the first half with turnovers, could turnovers inside.
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  Speaker 2: The red zone.
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  Speaker 1: He gets readable holding the vehicles on both those instances.
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  Speaker 1: Just what kind of a statement is that in the
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  Speaker 1: first game for your defense to build to do that.
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  Speaker 2: It's huge.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry to cut you off, it's huge. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: just a mindset, you know. When that happened, there's so
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  Speaker 3: much energy and swagger as we were taking the field.
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  Speaker 3: We were excited for that challenge, it felt like, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that's just the mindset you want to have
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  Speaker 3: week one, just ready to play. Folks wanted to stay
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  Speaker 3: on the field all day. I felt like today on defense,
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  Speaker 3: and so yeah, that's what that was. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 3: a fringe area. We had a few verticals kind of
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  Speaker 3: in the same area. I was flowing over, saw the
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  Speaker 3: ball released, and you know, just jump ball.
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  Speaker 2: Try to get my feet in.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I would have got into the end zone
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  Speaker 3: a little bit or got a decent return going, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just ball in the air, just try to come down.
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  Speaker 1: With it, at least really on that was one of
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  Speaker 1: the few times that you really tried to push the
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  Speaker 1: ball down the field.
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  Speaker 2: It was mostly shorter throws.
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  Speaker 1: Did you kind of figure that would be the case
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  Speaker 1: or that catch you guys surprised.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we had a good plan, I think a
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  Speaker 3: d and our OURDB coaches obviously and Mike had a
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  Speaker 3: good plan that and we executed it. Play top down
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  Speaker 3: and tackle when they check it down. His rickide quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: He's very talented, obviously, bo Is, but it's looming. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: first game, first start, he's a rookie quarterback. He's gonna
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  Speaker 3: get the ball all quick, and so that's why you
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  Speaker 3: see a lot of checkdowns today and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: great tackling.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like bias.
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  Speaker 3: And then they tried to test the waters a few
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  Speaker 3: times deep and I think we defended well, and so
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  Speaker 3: that was kind of the makeup of how we want
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  Speaker 3: to play this game. Touch on this, but with the
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  Speaker 3: way they were playing offensively, how big was the way
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  Speaker 3: guys rally in the ball and they tackles. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: mean that's you know, that's how we wanted to go
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  Speaker 3: into this game, and I wanted to make it.
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  Speaker 2: I said it kind of earlier this week. This was
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  Speaker 2: a US first US game.
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  Speaker 3: Play top down, play, sound, communicate, don't let all the
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  Speaker 3: emotions of you know, you saw a lot of sloppy
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  Speaker 3: football around the league week one.
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  Speaker 2: You always that's just the nature of it.
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  Speaker 3: To try to play clean as we can on defense,
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  Speaker 3: try not to blow anything, break anything free in the secondary.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and just play ball.
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  Speaker 1: Jan on the interception, going back to it, Yeah, Porton
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  Speaker 1: was Devon's position in terms.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that he had too and didn't see you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he played with great death on that too.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he was not his man and he saw
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  Speaker 3: the ball sailing.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And on Tiland, he just was happy. He said to
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  Speaker 3: turn around and see me right there with him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a few guys were in the same area, and
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  Speaker 3: so I thought he played a job perfectly. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: good play in this that the same possession, No, probably
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  Speaker 3: I probably haven't. Yeah, that was a bad balance to
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  Speaker 3: guy bounce right to the guy. But same thing every
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  Speaker 3: time somebody hurdles that ball, and as we had to
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  Speaker 3: come out and just try to be quick and make
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  Speaker 3: a punch.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, that's a that's a good step game.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you think about the returns already with
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  Speaker 1: the three safety looks punching the ball. Yean lay some
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  Speaker 1: big hits today and the play as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously I told you guys months ago, I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: about this room. You know, selfish, the safety room, but
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  Speaker 3: DB's in general. I think I told the guys like
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  Speaker 3: we are the tip of the spear, you know this,
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  Speaker 3: and the energy of this team goes with us. We
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  Speaker 3: have to stay consistent, stay locked in and just let
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  Speaker 3: guys look to us as just a beacon of just
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  Speaker 3: playing football, playing Seahawks football. And yeah, Kvon, I mean
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  Speaker 3: his production rate is probably sky high with the forcet
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  Speaker 3: fumble uh there and whenever he was coming in and
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  Speaker 3: then Ray played a great game too, he was flying
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  Speaker 3: around and that's just I mean, that's a swagger, has energy,
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  Speaker 3: and that's who we want to be.
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  Speaker 2: Punch up all the time every position defensive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how much does that second nature you're going to
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  Speaker 3: do that? Yeah, I think like you said, when you
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  Speaker 3: you know you have that repetition of of punching the
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  Speaker 3: ball out in practice every day every week.
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  Speaker 2: You look for.
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  Speaker 3: Opportunities and that was just kind of my training for
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  Speaker 3: me falling back in on training and so yeah, shout
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  Speaker 3: out to UH coach CP and all the guys. A
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  Speaker 3: d we Yeah, we rep it because we want to
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  Speaker 3: envision making plays when it comes time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he's so fast basically, but is the
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  Speaker 2: defensive back and goes no.
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  Speaker 3: I mean if you're in man and your outside corner
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  Speaker 3: and Buddy.
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  Speaker 2: Runs a shallow over, Yeah, that's that's tough. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He has the leverage on you, he knows where he's
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  Speaker 3: going and you're kind of playing catchup. And on that play,
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  Speaker 3: I was breaking on the ball, like my eyes got
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  Speaker 3: big out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: Reek is there and makes the play. That's special.
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  Speaker 3: That's you can have any defensive back in the league.
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  Speaker 3: That's a one on one play, and that's what he
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  Speaker 3: needs to bring to the table for us. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he has pure speed. He's probably the fastest dB.
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  Speaker 2: In the league. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And to trail on the and make a play and
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  Speaker 3: a pick on that is huge. So yeah, man, love
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  Speaker 3: Reek and love the way he's been approaching each day.
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  Speaker 3: Aside from you know, just winning, is there anything that
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  Speaker 3: you've noticed or field that is just.
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  Speaker 2: Tangibly different than compar where you guys were last.
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  Speaker 1: Last year Week one?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously other than winning, I don't know. I would
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  Speaker 3: say our energy and our mindset is pretty clean. I
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  Speaker 3: think we expect to come into this game and no
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  Speaker 3: matter what happens, just continue playing the game. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we didn't get depleted. If I can remember last year,
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  Speaker 3: Week one, we just kind of just got depleted of energy,
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  Speaker 3: I swag of who we are, and we didn't do
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  Speaker 3: that today. Obviously, with a slow first half start, it
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  Speaker 3: could have been easy for that to happen again.
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  Speaker 2: But everybody was fired.
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  Speaker 3: Up in that locker room and just knew what the
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  Speaker 3: deal was and I was to come out in a
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  Speaker 3: second half and do what we do and be us.
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  Speaker 2: Multiple multiple players were at the point of content. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's somebody would would be there to tackle, they'd be
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  Speaker 2: another play. There is not a difference. It is just
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  Speaker 2: something you notice in terms of.
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  Speaker 3: That's you know, that's conditioning, that's you know, you try
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  Speaker 3: to rep it and practice as much as you can
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  Speaker 3: get her on the ball. Just you know, Mike's whole
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  Speaker 3: mantra for our team is twelve is one. You want
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  Speaker 3: to feel like there's whole guys on the field on defense.
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  Speaker 3: And so yeah, all those track downs, all those little
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  Speaker 3: tackle plays. It helps when your brothers coming next to you. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, you make just tackles and that's just a
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  Speaker 3: mindset that's just a swagger about us.
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  Speaker 1: Who was like, see Mike, get him his first win
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  Speaker 1: and then get a game ball after the game.
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  Speaker 2: It's good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously everybody's gassing it up and wants him
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  Speaker 3: to you know, you know, blush a little bit because
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  Speaker 3: we're you know, we're excited for his first win. But
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  Speaker 3: he quickly diverted it and made it all about us,
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  Speaker 3: our first win. That's just kind of the mindset or
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  Speaker 3: the guy he is, of course all of us. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure there will be a few bottles of wine or
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  Speaker 3: something on his desk, maybe a cigar or two for
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  Speaker 3: his first win. Uh, for his first win. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean we're happy for him his first win as
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  Speaker 3: the head coach. That's a huge accomplishment. And now we
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  Speaker 3: just stack we stacked wins.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else that
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys,