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Ernest Jones IV: "We Can Make A Run At This Thing" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello, good.
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  Speaker 2: Al Shanahan likes to make it really tough on linebackers.
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  Speaker 2: He talks about that a lot. You talk about what
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  Speaker 2: he does that makes it hard for linebackers and what
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  Speaker 2: he can do.
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  Speaker 3: To combat it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I think they just do a lot of you know, motioning,
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  Speaker 1: wanna kind of keep keep guys in your face. They
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  Speaker 1: don't want you to get on enough blocks. They want
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  Speaker 1: to do a got good job of getting up to
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  Speaker 1: the second level and not allowing you to know, make
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  Speaker 1: those players on the second level for us so well,
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  Speaker 1: so for us speaking on on the behalf of the
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  Speaker 1: linebackers here, we just got to get on enough blocks,
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  Speaker 1: run to the ball, fit the fit the ball right,
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  Speaker 1: don't go past the ball carriers, and feel like we'll
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  Speaker 1: be good.
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  Speaker 2: What changes with a.
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  Speaker 3: Rookie playing alongside of you and Tyrese?
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  Speaker 1: I just think, you know, just experience. He hasn't played
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  Speaker 1: that many games, He won't have that on on on
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  Speaker 1: his side. But I think, you know, he comes to
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  Speaker 1: work every day ever since I've been here. He could
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  Speaker 1: tell that he's a good player, that he that he
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  Speaker 1: uses his hands well, that he can flow and mimic
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  Speaker 1: the ball carriers like me. So you know, I feel
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  Speaker 1: confident in knowing that, you know, when we out there
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, he's going to execute his job.
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  Speaker 2: Do something else to help.
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  Speaker 1: Him out with that.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a different communication that.
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  Speaker 3: Needs to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's more so over communicate. You want to try
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  Speaker 1: to make it simple for him, so you know, before
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  Speaker 1: the play, like, hey, alert this this happens, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go do this, just you know, getting them ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the play and getting them ahead of some things that
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  Speaker 1: we'll do during the play.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen them a little bit everything in the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of months, but it just did it surprise you?
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  Speaker 2: The movie they made with Touching.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've been traded twice and nothing surprises me.
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  Speaker 1: So no, it's the business man, and you know I've
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  Speaker 1: I've had to learn it. We all have to learn it.
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  Speaker 1: That it's just the way it goes. Football is a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful game, but then when you add the business expect
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  Speaker 1: into it, it gets you know, pretty pretty nasty. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm excited about him. Talk to t Dot.
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  Speaker 1: He's excited about Miami, excited for his opportunity there. So
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  Speaker 1: that's that was my guy. He came in, showed me
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  Speaker 1: the rope. So I'm excited for him.
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  Speaker 2: How comfortable are you taking over the green dot and
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  Speaker 2: doing all that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's that's my thing. I mean I've done it.
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  Speaker 1: I've done it before all three three years in LA.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean it's it's not hard.
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  Speaker 3: Having played the forty nine ers of twenty or a
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  Speaker 3: LA What what kind of unique challenges does McCaffrey present
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  Speaker 3: for a defense?
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  Speaker 1: Just he's one of those jack of all trades, can
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  Speaker 1: do it all. You can line him up at receiver,
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  Speaker 1: he can go out there and make his plays there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you give him the ball in the backfield
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  Speaker 1: and he has a crease he can make you pay.
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  Speaker 1: So we gotta you know, got a great task ahead
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  Speaker 1: of us this week with their team and what they have.
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  Speaker 1: But I know what we have, So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: What's been your experience like facing Rock Purty and just
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  Speaker 3: how difficult it can be to bring him down sometimes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think this year he's taking that
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  Speaker 1: next step. He's a lot He's he's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more mobile moving, you know, getting in and out of
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  Speaker 1: pockets and reads aren't there. He's you know, taking taking
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  Speaker 1: it down and he's gonna get what he can. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, he asked that aspect to his game, and
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  Speaker 1: he's already all around players. So, you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: they got a good team and I'm excited about the
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  Speaker 1: challenge the way we stepped up two weeks ago, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to stepping up again to gets you know,
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 3: And that aspect that he brings. How much more difficult
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  Speaker 3: does it make that offense considering all the other weapons
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  Speaker 3: that they have.
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  Speaker 1: I'm as difficult if you allow if you allow them
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  Speaker 1: to step up in those you know, those escape lanes
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  Speaker 1: and he gets out, then that's when it becomes difficult.
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  Speaker 1: But for the most part, if we do our job
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  Speaker 1: and keep him contained in the pocket, you know, make
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  Speaker 1: him instead of stepping up, make him go around, we'll
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  Speaker 1: we'll be good.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the defense stepping up last last game.
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  Speaker 3: I know you've only been here a few weeks, but
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  Speaker 3: how have you seen the defense kind of progress the
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  Speaker 3: last three four weeks.
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  Speaker 1: No, I've been watching them all season. Like I'm a
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  Speaker 1: big football hit, so all I do is watch football.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been watching them, and I've seen the steps
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  Speaker 1: that they've taken as far as you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: run defense. Just an overall, I think we're out there
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  Speaker 1: communicating better. We all, you know, all on the same page,
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  Speaker 1: know what the purpose is, know what we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get done, and I think you know we're doing that.
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  Speaker 3: You sayers excel at creating explosive plays. Is stopping those
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  Speaker 3: players more of recognizing what's happening or making the tackle?
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  Speaker 1: Making the tackle? A lot of those times you miss
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  Speaker 1: two or three tackles and they go for seventy some
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  Speaker 1: of the yards. So big thing is, you know, making
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  Speaker 1: them check those balls down or whenever they do get
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  Speaker 1: the ball, you know you got to rally and go tackle.
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  Speaker 3: Did you get a chance to breathe during the bye week.
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  Speaker 2: And how did what did it do for you and
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  Speaker 2: this team to get that time? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think for the team aspect, de Wie losing a
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  Speaker 1: couple in the row, it gives you that aspect to
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  Speaker 1: step away from the game and reassess where you're at,
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  Speaker 1: what hasn't worked, what has worked, and then you come
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  Speaker 1: back and it's essentially it's clean slate. Gotta a lot
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  Speaker 1: more games left ahead of us, and we can still
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  Speaker 1: make a run of this thing. So we just gotta
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  Speaker 1: get that going for me, I just found, uh found
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  Speaker 1: somewhere to live at so finally getting out of the hotel.
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  Speaker 1: So now we're just waiting on our furniture to get here.
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  Speaker 1: So house, no furniture. That's where we're at right now.
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  Speaker 2: When the defense does hit its stride, What do you
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  Speaker 2: think this team's gonna be known for on that side
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  Speaker 2: of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Mmm, that's a good question. Definitely think we're gonna be physical.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what we y'all pride ourselves on in
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  Speaker 1: that locker room as being a physical group, a group
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  Speaker 1: that you know, we don't want We're not taking a mess.
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  Speaker 1: We're coming to play play football and play it the
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  Speaker 1: right way. But for me, I want to be a
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  Speaker 1: sound group. I want to be a group no matter
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  Speaker 1: what the circumstances are, whether we're down, whether we're up.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be a group that's resilient, group that fights,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe that's what we have here. We have
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  Speaker 1: the players, but you got to go out and do it.
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  Speaker 3: What do you know about the Seahawks forty nine ers
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  Speaker 3: rivalry and how it's gone the last few years.
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  Speaker 1: I think I don't know much. I know. I think
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  Speaker 1: we've lost a couple in a row. So that's about
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  Speaker 1: all I know. I know it's heck, it's the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers. So whether you play for the Rams Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: you're coming out there you want to beat them.
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  Speaker 2: So what are you going to learn about Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: and the butter or so you've been here?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I always new one from afar, but you
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  Speaker 1: definitely tell how smart he is defensively as a as
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  Speaker 1: a great great grip on how he wants us to
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  Speaker 1: run things, how he wants how he wants things done.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, you know, just me being here these
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  Speaker 1: past two three weeks, just trying to understand the culture
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  Speaker 1: that he's bringing, understand what he's trying to get accomplished
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  Speaker 1: here in his first year, I think he's doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job. And I've been learning a lot about linebacker play,
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  Speaker 1: how he wants things done, so he I mean, he's
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  Speaker 1: been helping me out a bunch.
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  Speaker 2: You got a lot of new faces on the ends
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  Speaker 2: in in the middle of the field, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: and and Tyrese and and maybe a third new safety
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  Speaker 2: Jack Reed could be there. Fornas like to tack the middle.
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  Speaker 2: How much of you guys, you know talking about that,
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  Speaker 2: communicating across part of your defense.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about. But we know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if we go out there and execute our calls and
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  Speaker 1: be in the right places, be where we need to be.
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  Speaker 1: I I do believe we we can go out there
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  Speaker 1: and hang and bang with anybody, regardless of what they
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  Speaker 1: want to do it, what they want to try to do.
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  Speaker 1: We can go out there and do it. Anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks you good, Thank y'all.