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Mike Macdonald: "We're Going To Show Our Football Character" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We're good. All right, good to see everybody. What do
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  Speaker 1: you who we got?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what were your thoughts? I guess I've kind of
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  Speaker 2: watching the weekend and seeing you guys that go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, uh was an optimum obviously, but it's just so
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  Speaker 3: we talked about it was, it's out of your control.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, it's disappointing, and but you got to make
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  Speaker 3: the best of it from you know, for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Your thoughts on the biggest controllable ranges, the why you
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  Speaker 2: get didn't get the playoffs this year?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, Brown, I really, I mean, right now
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  Speaker 3: is not the time to like diagnose all that type
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  Speaker 3: of stuff. Right now is the time to let's go
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  Speaker 3: to work this week.
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  Speaker 1: Let's make the best of this opportune.
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  Speaker 3: We got one more opportunity to keep taking the field
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  Speaker 3: as a team, put our best foot forward, get to
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  Speaker 3: ten wins. Let's focus on that, and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: once the season's over, which you know it's gonna happen
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  Speaker 3: olier than we want. Uh, we'll digest all that stuff
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  Speaker 3: and make the proper conclusions and all that type of thing.
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  Speaker 4: What's your message to the players this week on how
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  Speaker 4: do work out a game?
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  Speaker 1: Where they don't have the playoffs on the line anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Well for us, I mean, it's just like I said one,
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  Speaker 3: the first thing is it's an opportunity for us to
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  Speaker 3: go get ten wins, and that's what's important right now.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, there's a standard here of what we're trying
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  Speaker 3: to establish and show off our football character, of what
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  Speaker 3: type of team we are, what type of people we are,
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  Speaker 3: and how we're gonna play, and so you know, the
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  Speaker 3: situation has changed, but like the situation really hasn't changed
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  Speaker 3: a certain extent as well, Like we're going to play
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  Speaker 3: a good football team that want our division and we
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  Speaker 3: want to get to ten wins.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any I mean, just people will bring it
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  Speaker 2: up if it doesn't, you know matter, you can play
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  Speaker 2: young guys or whatever is your approach, just to kind
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  Speaker 2: of go to try to play to win it all that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going to We're gonna go play to win
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  Speaker 4: the game.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are eight to one this year. Any games
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  Speaker 2: where ay goold been in atral or positive it's run
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  Speaker 2: over ratio, YEP. A lot of talk about the aufensive giveaways,
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  Speaker 2: but you guys are twenty third and takeaways. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think that's posed by which you.
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  Speaker 4: Again I mean to to I don't know, I don't,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: The answer to that. We haven't taken The turnover margin
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  Speaker 3: is not where it needs to be moving forward. So
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  Speaker 3: again that's something we'll look at in the off season
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  Speaker 3: and go attack the heck out of it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that stat.
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  Speaker 3: Exists for a reason on you know, positive turnover margin,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, the best teams have a have a high
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  Speaker 3: turnover margin, and so that's something we're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Be chasing me with a couple of days and think
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  Speaker 1: about it. What did you kind of think of that,
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  Speaker 1: Chipiro Efford affective. Well, I think I think everybody played.
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  Speaker 3: I think we played hard, and you know, we talked
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  Speaker 3: about building a standard here of how we're going of
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  Speaker 3: how we're gonna play the game. Our football team played
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  Speaker 3: hard that game, so that's something to be proud of.
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  Speaker 1: We played tough and.
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  Speaker 3: It's not as productive as you wanted, but there are
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  Speaker 3: some good things that we can build off of. Just
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  Speaker 3: like the rest of the season, and in hour when
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  Speaker 3: we go it feels like forever ago. Frankly, I mean
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  Speaker 3: it feels like this. This is a long weekend to
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  Speaker 3: uh digest what was going on out there, But I
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  Speaker 3: played hard enough to win the game and ultimately, you know,
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  Speaker 3: not the standard, but excited about the new opportunity we got.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned he's proud of the way as.
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  Speaker 2: You've played or think you haven't some of the most
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  Speaker 2: just that kind of chara.
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  Speaker 1: This week they showed you how Yeah, it's a it's.
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  Speaker 3: It's not an optimum condition on how you're gonna play.
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  Speaker 3: But us as a football team and and UH an organization,
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  Speaker 3: we have a really high standard about how we want
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  Speaker 3: to play. And UH that's what we're chasing. So our
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  Speaker 3: football character hopefully gets shown to the world about who
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  Speaker 3: what we're about and how we operate and let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go be those guys that we've been in the
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  Speaker 4: whole season.
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  Speaker 2: Similar there's question when with us out with love. Defensively,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you've got to a quarterback in some pressure. What
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  Speaker 2: what's the next level the team between that Stato VIIs
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  Speaker 2: you so stat legis plays, what do you need to see?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think for us to take the
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  Speaker 3: next step as a defense, we need to affect the
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  Speaker 3: ball more, take the ball away.
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  Speaker 2: Coach where robetween Harrison John Paanagan has got a what
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  Speaker 2: fewer snaps last couple of games? Is that a function
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  Speaker 2: of a tennant coming back or matchups or something else.
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  Speaker 1: I think everything at play.
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  Speaker 3: It's not it's not that they're not playing good football
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  Speaker 3: for us, but we're pretty deep there and with Channa
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  Speaker 3: coming back and the types of offenses we're playing, just
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  Speaker 3: you know, those snap numbers will fluctuate. The bass have
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  Speaker 3: been played for some stuff like the or an eye
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  Speaker 3: on things.
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  Speaker 2: That take up to a coup of those guys in
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  Speaker 2: this game.
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  Speaker 4: At the cornea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Uh, normal game. Normal game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if someone is at risk of making something
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  Speaker 3: worse long term than then we'll definitely consider that.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, but guys are gonna want to play.
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  Speaker 3: So if they're gonna if it's healthy or say for
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  Speaker 3: them to be out there, they're gonna be out there.
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  Speaker 2: We've asked you about jo it's quite a bit but
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  Speaker 2: just homecoming for him in some respects.
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  Speaker 4: What have you? What are you continuing to learn about
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  Speaker 4: him as a player.
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  Speaker 1: As a person. We love him, We love him.
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  Speaker 3: He's a he's a great player, and uh there's a
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  Speaker 3: poise to how he operates.
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  Speaker 1: Which will respect. I think.
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  Speaker 3: Guy loves football, just you know, those are the guys
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  Speaker 3: that love that get that do really well here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he would do he.
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  Speaker 3: Would do great in a lot of organizations, probably every organization.
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  Speaker 3: But I think he's a great fit here. We love
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  Speaker 3: him and I think he loves it here too. So
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  Speaker 3: it's been great so far.
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  Speaker 2: You guys just struggled a little bit un of these
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  Speaker 2: this year. Last game against Chicago three kind of les
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  Speaker 2: pretty five yards obviously. Actually think you guys are working
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  Speaker 2: on to something specific that you felt like changed or
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  Speaker 2: some of your hope to continue to to.
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  Speaker 1: Stay in this last game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, if you just pulled up the list of
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  Speaker 3: penalties throughout the season, Like, I think Baltimore is a
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  Speaker 3: really heavily penalized team, and by all accounts, they're a
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  Speaker 3: really good football team. So I think we're a really
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  Speaker 3: good football team and we've been penalized sigh. So it's like,
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  Speaker 3: it's how what are the penalties and what are the
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  Speaker 3: circumstances going to I think you got to go into
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  Speaker 3: like a few layers down and by the same account,
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  Speaker 3: teams that aren't penalized, I'm not sure they're undefeated at
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  Speaker 3: this point either, So there's a balance there.
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  Speaker 1: It's about.
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  Speaker 3: Like a style of play and operationally, I can think
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  Speaker 3: of things that we can probably do better. We've probably
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  Speaker 3: had a couple We've had some on defense that we
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  Speaker 3: felt like we could have made smarter decisions in that moment.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, there's a line there that the guys
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  Speaker 3: are playing really hard and they're trying to do it
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  Speaker 3: the right way and they might end up committing penalty,
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  Speaker 3: and like you have to, you know, you have to
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  Speaker 3: take that into account to a certain extent. So I
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  Speaker 3: think there's some more things going on there just rather
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  Speaker 3: than where we where we rank penalized.
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  Speaker 1: Was how was Josh Yell doing.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing good. He's had a really good weekend. We'll
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  Speaker 3: take it day by day. Yeah, we'll take this thing
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  Speaker 3: throughout the week to kind of figure out what the plan.
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  Speaker 1: Is look like. Otherwise, you came out of the game
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  Speaker 1: pretty healthy, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: So
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  Speaker 1: Anything else okay, all right, thanks guys,