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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "We're going to grow from this..." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Other than you know, we we just had some communication
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  Speaker 1: issues up front, and um, you know, there's gotta be
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: a fine there's a fine line between the communication with
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  Speaker 1: the line and the backs, and um, we had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of instances tonight where we just missed on that
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  Speaker 1: communication and uh, you know, they were able to get
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  Speaker 1: a little pressure on on the quarterback. Your message. I
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  Speaker 1: just told him I was proud of him for the
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  Speaker 1: season that we put together. Nobody expected us, the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: to be in this football game from the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the season to today. And I just told him how
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  Speaker 1: proud I was of them for how they hung together
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  Speaker 1: all season long, how they how they battled, fought through
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  Speaker 1: a ton of adversity, Um, you know, and just proud
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  Speaker 1: of the way they kept battling all season to get
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  Speaker 1: to this spot and really battling this game to come
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  Speaker 1: down to the you know, an onside kick to potentially
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  Speaker 1: you know, seeing what happens, right, And UM told him
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  Speaker 1: we were gonna, you know, we're gonna learn from this,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna grow from this, and uh, you know, our
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  Speaker 1: expectation is to be in these games every year. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's where we're just you know, we're that's our expectation.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, um, you know this was a good, good
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  Speaker 1: first year for all of us. Interception as far as
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  Speaker 1: like moving on, like in the off season, Carrie or
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, I mean listen, he's Um, he's he's learned.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's learning how to just put those plays
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  Speaker 1: behind him. Um. Again, it was, you know, we had
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  Speaker 1: some protection issues there and and try to get the
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  Speaker 1: quick quick ball up to day and and Guy made
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  Speaker 1: a heck for play. You know we had him, but
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  Speaker 1: Guy made a great interception there and um, you know
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  Speaker 1: it's but he was able to shake it and and
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  Speaker 1: and come back from we got three points later and
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  Speaker 1: put us in a position obviously the point minutes ago
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be. But did you meet anyways, remember what
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  Speaker 1: was done for the course of this season in the
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  Speaker 1: off season instead of yeah, I mean it's not about obviously, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're all hurting because the loss, but we're all
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  Speaker 1: hurting too because it's this's the final game of this
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  Speaker 1: year and and that's the hard thing. Um. But like
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  Speaker 1: I told the guys, I mean, these are the games
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  Speaker 1: that we're gonna learn. We're gonna learn from and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be better because of and um, you know I
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  Speaker 1: told him, I said, hey, I said, just you know,
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  Speaker 1: plan on every year. Let's let's let's being in these
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  Speaker 1: meaningful games at the end of the season. We want
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  Speaker 1: to be one of the one of the four or
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  Speaker 1: five six teams you know in the a f C
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  Speaker 1: every year. And um, our guys are guys believe that.
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  Speaker 1: And um, you know, we still got work to do obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but uh um it's also time to to heal and
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  Speaker 1: to get away and and um, you know, get rejuvenated again.
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  Speaker 1: Are well, I mean they're they're disappointed. I mean they're
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  Speaker 1: they're disappointed. Um, you know, with this game, felt like
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  Speaker 1: we had an opportunity to to you know, at least
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  Speaker 1: hie the football game. They're they're late in the game,
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  Speaker 1: but um, I think they understand how good they can be.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some of the same ugly mistakes that showed
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  Speaker 1: up in this game were the things that showed up
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  Speaker 1: early in the season, and those are the things that
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  Speaker 1: we have to eliminate. Those are the things we have
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  Speaker 1: to you know, move on from in order to win
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  Speaker 1: against great football teams like the Chiefs are. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you you can't make those mistakes and so I think
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  Speaker 1: they're disappointed from that, um more than anything. And and um,
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  Speaker 1: just coming up a little short. I mean I feel
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  Speaker 1: like we're close. I mean, you know, obviously we got
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  Speaker 1: the right we got the right leader in Trevor. I
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  Speaker 1: feel really good about him obviously, Um, what he's done,
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  Speaker 1: how he's how he's played this this season, and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's just you know, what's a matter of
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  Speaker 1: with the youth of the team. You know, now, these
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  Speaker 1: guys played a lot of football, and and they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: learn from They're gonna learn from the good and the bad,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh it's something to really I think lean
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  Speaker 1: on as we head into the off season, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and as we approached the off season program, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of months, and which is kind of
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  Speaker 1: crazy to say, but um, you know we're gonna learn.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's I'm excited for for the future of Jacksonville. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, working with Trent getting the right players
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  Speaker 1: in here, whether it's free agency, whether it's the draft,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and continuing to build build our roster.
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  Speaker 1: He disappointed that guy, Yeah, I mean that was you know,
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  Speaker 1: that was obviously a turning kind of turning point or
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  Speaker 1: a momentum switch in the game. We had him at
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  Speaker 1: the two yard line and kind of let him off
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  Speaker 1: the hook a little bit. But again, those are you know,
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  Speaker 1: those are opportunities there where where we need to you know,
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  Speaker 1: we need to be better. We need to play better,
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  Speaker 1: coach better in those situations to try to um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get off the field at some point, um, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, credit them, they executed well and they
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  Speaker 1: ended up with a touchdown strategy. I didn't see all
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  Speaker 1: of them other than him being tackled from behind. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't really see the whole play. I'm sure he got
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  Speaker 1: something rolled one of the players probably rolled up on
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  Speaker 1: the back of his legs, you know, on that, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, I'm you know, hats off to him for
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  Speaker 1: for gutting it out there in the second half and
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  Speaker 1: and and sticking with it and and and play and hurt,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I mean, that's just a sign of a
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  Speaker 1: true leader and uh and and a winner and uh
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  Speaker 1: and that's what he is. Just the pressure, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's what he does, right, He he he eludes the pressure.
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  Speaker 1: He can he can step up, and he's got great
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  Speaker 1: vision down the field, and you know, he finds those
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  Speaker 1: guys and and you know, we talked about it all
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  Speaker 1: the time. You know, just uh, you get opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: to sack him or tackle him, you gotta try to
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  Speaker 1: do the best you can to get him on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And it's uh obviously easier easier said than done.
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  Speaker 1: But what's the disappointing alone with four team matches? What
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  Speaker 1: did you see in terms of trying to cover? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of them were short, you know, intermediate
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  Speaker 1: type catches. Some of them were off the scrambles. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. But he's great player. I mean it's again,
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  Speaker 1: he's a um, you know, big target for for Pat
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  Speaker 1: and for Patrick and and really um, you know, just um,
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  Speaker 1: you know you obviously gotta know where he's at right
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  Speaker 1: when he lines up in the formation, and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta we gotta do a better job moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Those are all things we can learn from. You feel
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  Speaker 1: like they gave us some opportunities. Um, there were some
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  Speaker 1: one warranted penalties in there too, right that they kept
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  Speaker 1: kept them on the field that that we got to eliminate.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there was a rough in the passer and
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  Speaker 1: you know we jumped offsides one time, and they're just
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  Speaker 1: things that showed up that we've got to try to eliminate. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but I thought that overall, the defense did
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  Speaker 1: a nice job of of really kind of keeping things down, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, second half especially, you know, forcing them to
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  Speaker 1: punt the football all and get the offense back on
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  Speaker 1: the field. And um, so you know it's again, it's
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  Speaker 1: just you know, football games are all about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: playing complimentary football and and um, you know we can
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  Speaker 1: we can learn from it and do a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: You feel like that that was something that you guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you know, yeah, I mean you listen, you
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  Speaker 1: try to you try the best you can to try
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  Speaker 1: to create some turnovers or some takeaways. You know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: there were a couple of chances, you know in this game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to get some some hands on on these footballs,
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  Speaker 1: and um, it would have been nice to have got
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  Speaker 1: at least one of those. When you talked about the
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  Speaker 1: confidence and expectations, I think it's everything. You know, I've
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  Speaker 1: said this before that you know the success of your
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  Speaker 1: football team it lies with your quarterback and um, you
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  Speaker 1: know you've got to get that piece and that player
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  Speaker 1: right and I feel personally that in Jacksonville we got
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  Speaker 1: that person right. And and he's he's just gonna get better.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna get better. UM, he's gonna learn from this. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna grow with the receiver's tight ends, the backs
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  Speaker 1: because they're all young, they're all you know, potentially you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're all gonna be there and and and keep working.
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  Speaker 1: So we're just we're just going to continue to get
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  Speaker 1: better and and um and grows a team. Okay, all right,
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  Speaker 1: thanks