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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The 23-20 Victory Over The Cardinals In Week 4 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, oh man, it's a great win. Really.
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  Speaker 2: Just look, I'm just really proud of our team and
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  Speaker 2: and how hard we're playing, how we're sticking together, the positivity,
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  Speaker 2: the fight. Just a really great, great win. I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's a short obviously, Look, it's a short week. You're
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  Speaker 2: on the road. Arizona played a good game. It's a
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  Speaker 2: good football team we played. We know that, and they
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  Speaker 2: did a good job of staying in the game and
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  Speaker 2: give themselves a chance to win. Having said that, we
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  Speaker 2: didn't play our best game and we had opportunities I
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  Speaker 2: think to put the game away, you know, throughout really
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  Speaker 2: the second half. And there's a lot of learning experiences
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  Speaker 2: too that we're gonna be able to take from this
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  Speaker 2: game so we can improve. But the good news is
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  Speaker 2: is we figure out a way to win the game,
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  Speaker 2: which you know, after week one, we felt like we
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  Speaker 2: had an opportunity to win that game.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like our team's growing, we're getting better,
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  Speaker 2: and just really proud of our guys in the fight
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  Speaker 2: and really the effort this week, you know, to get
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  Speaker 2: ready to go and go play their best football. So
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  Speaker 2: it'd be good to have a break and then uh,
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  Speaker 2: hit the ground running on money and get ready for
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay turned.
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  Speaker 1: So suddenly there and.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the positivity, who or what was the positivity? Guys? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, He've been I've been on teams where you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the sky's falling and whatever. And for us, it
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  Speaker 2: was just like, all right, hey, look we're in a
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're identifying the two minute situation, and Ad
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  Speaker 2: and the guys are talking to the guys on the
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  Speaker 2: bench and they're ready to go to overtime. They're talking
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  Speaker 2: about our overtime play. It was just kind of like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what's what's next? And uh, Clint called some great plays.
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  Speaker 2: We had a great protection that in that series. We
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  Speaker 2: were fortunate with the kick being you know, not in
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  Speaker 2: the landing zone. And then you know, Sam and Jacks
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  Speaker 2: were just lights out and just a great job overall.
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  Speaker 1: Brian did a great.
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  Speaker 2: Job of managing the managing the clock, and that's just
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  Speaker 2: this is how we roll.
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  Speaker 1: Like the new kickoff was right about now to the
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  Speaker 1: last I love it right now.
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  Speaker 2: On why Kobe wasn't down for.
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  Speaker 1: Getting himself up or on the penalty that hold penalty on.
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  Speaker 2: Jason, I did not get an explanation but I didn't
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  Speaker 2: ask for one.
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  Speaker 1: They just said that, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: They just said that he wasn't down by contact and
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  Speaker 2: the ball was out, so we'll get some clarification on it.
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  Speaker 2: He looked close, but it's got we gotta take care
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  Speaker 2: of the ball. And on Jacksons telling, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: They just said he said he had eyes on it
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  Speaker 2: and that's what he saw. And you gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 2: go live to fight another day.
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  Speaker 1: For Jason to miss the one and then come right
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  Speaker 1: back out and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just saw him coming in here and he's
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  Speaker 2: just I've seen this guy play golf of me. He's
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  Speaker 2: he's a stud bro. You can he just he's like
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  Speaker 2: ice in his veins. And Wen we knew, we knew
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  Speaker 2: he was gonna make that kick, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: whole sideline knew.
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  Speaker 1: The do you plays leading up to that miss field rule? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he was a young head coach.
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  Speaker 2: How you go through the process of evaluating the calculus
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  Speaker 2: that goes in, How aggressive, how conservative gonna be? Yeah, yeah, going, yeah, going,
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  Speaker 2: going into that drive. We wanted to be aggressive and
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  Speaker 2: we double moved him there. Jacks made a great catch
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  Speaker 2: and once we got into field goal range, we were
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  Speaker 2: basically we got back into four minute mode. We thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, going up multiple scores there, it would have
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  Speaker 2: done a great job. So look when we get into
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  Speaker 2: four minutes, this is this is one of those things
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be able to learn from. Is we gotta
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  Speaker 2: be a little bit more effective in those situations. In
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  Speaker 2: field goals, every yard matter, so it's not like you
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  Speaker 2: just hit this magical spot in the field and field
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  Speaker 2: goals are automatic, so you're trying to maximize, you know, gains.
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  Speaker 2: We have to be better in that fringe area overall
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  Speaker 2: as an offense. That kind of rear its head today
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  Speaker 2: throughout throughout the entire game. Those were some things that
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  Speaker 2: we need to be able to learn from and improve
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  Speaker 2: prove move forward. But that's that was our thought process.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get any points out of it. But the
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  Speaker 1: throw that Sam may Jackson, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: It's just Sam's Sam's playing out of his mind right now.
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  Speaker 2: And you see him, he's just like, just like such
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  Speaker 2: a cool customer, but he's he's a guy on a mission.
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  Speaker 2: He's just so determined for us to be a great
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  Speaker 2: team and a great offense, and he's doing a great
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  Speaker 2: job leading us. And let him confering down in the
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  Speaker 2: last play instead of running another little calling time out
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  Speaker 2: of letting for any other play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't get too cute. I mean we like that
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  Speaker 1: was a great run by by Sharps.
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  Speaker 2: Again, every yard matter, so you're trying to trying to maximize,
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  Speaker 2: you know, give to give Jami the best opportunity possibly
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  Speaker 2: can and I felt like it was that was the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to go into it. You talk, you like to
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  Speaker 2: talk about effort plays, the Charvin touchdown ERU and wear
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  Speaker 2: a cross. Yeah, I told yeah, I screwed it up.
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  Speaker 2: I should have gave Charles a game ball. That's one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite plays I've ever seen it. Just im
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  Speaker 2: just so proud of him. Man, this guy he's gone
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  Speaker 2: through a lot this year, was you know, with some
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  Speaker 2: personal things going on, and he's such a great person.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's such a great person. He's a great leader,
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  Speaker 2: he's a great football player. And uh he played. I
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  Speaker 2: mean we could be in a walkthrough in This guy
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  Speaker 2: is just one thousand percent attention to detail, takes the liner,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just all those things you asked for. So
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  Speaker 2: he set such a great example for our team doing
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  Speaker 2: those things right there. Like that was it's just it's
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  Speaker 2: probably my favorite play of the year, is uh. So
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  Speaker 2: he'll he'll be rewarded this week, I promise.
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  Speaker 1: Similar the fumble recovery to start the second half. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was big.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah we got there's some protection things we got to
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  Speaker 2: get cleaned up, which is has been good all year,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, we'll go to work on that. But
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  Speaker 2: just being heads up and attacking the football, that was
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  Speaker 2: a big time play for your edge.
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  Speaker 1: It's news to me, but I'm mad before him guys
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  Speaker 1: are rushing. We rushed him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we had the one where he got out there
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  Speaker 2: at the end, which is unfortunate. So there's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be some things we're gonna learn from with
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  Speaker 2: uh you know how we played this game, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll look forward to it. I mean, our
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  Speaker 2: guys are gonna attack it. But I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: many sacks we ended up with. But I thought we
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  Speaker 2: rushed effectively the penal.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see anything specific on any I didn't. It
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  Speaker 1: seem like it was on the other side of the field.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll look at it and see see what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Marcus Lawrence, Uh No, I mean, he's just he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: able to finish the game.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, I thought we took a strike year.
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  Speaker 2: I thought our coaches did a great job to get
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  Speaker 2: get the things as the game started to progress.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I know this.
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  Speaker 2: Our guys are guys are fighting up there, they're blocking,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel like we targeted things a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: We'll look at some of those things where those like
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  Speaker 2: negative yard runs. But look, you gotta give Arizona a
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  Speaker 2: lot of credit to I mean, that's a really good front,
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  Speaker 2: great scheme. They play hard, they got great players, so
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  Speaker 2: you know that some of those runs, some of those
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  Speaker 2: things are gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: O royal me and right at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: first half. What I guess just that's off probably an
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  Speaker 1: example what you guys on training camp in the yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: big time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Sam giving him a ball that he can
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  Speaker 2: make and can make the play on and extending plays
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  Speaker 2: and look, we're gonna need him. You know.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta be able to.
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  Speaker 2: Stretch the field with our tight end group, and uh
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  Speaker 2: we did that today.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, all right, thanks, say Shrowls.