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Press Pass | Taylor: "These Guys Are Invaluable for Us." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 2: So could you walk us through any second guess and
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  Speaker 2: the regrets that you may have about the play which
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  Speaker 2: Trevor got hurt.
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  Speaker 1: No, I mean it was a four minute situation. We
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  Speaker 1: had a call on third down where we felt like
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  Speaker 1: we could potentially get the quarterback the edge. Never envisioned
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  Speaker 1: quarterback getting tackled in that situation. So, you know, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: looking hindsight at twenty twenty, wish it would have come
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  Speaker 1: down to a situation where we did not get tackled.
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  Speaker 1: But now that's the call we haven't we carry in
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  Speaker 1: the four minute situations right there to again extended job.
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  Speaker 1: Get the first down, get the quarterback on the edge,
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  Speaker 1: if it's clean. If it's not clean, we go down.
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  Speaker 1: We'll lose five to six yards, and we continue to
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  Speaker 1: milk the clock. Are you guys hesitant at all to
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  Speaker 1: play Trevor given it's gonna be on turf, it's not
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  Speaker 1: really good for joints and the ease things of that nature. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's where you just kind of trust your training staff.
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  Speaker 1: So as long as Trevor's in a position where he
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  Speaker 1: can't injure himself or you know, as long as he
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  Speaker 1: gives us the best chance to win the game and
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  Speaker 1: without risking himself or whatever that may be. Then that's
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  Speaker 1: that's what we continue to do. And again that's just
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  Speaker 1: conversation with everybody involved in the in the process.
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  Speaker 2: CJ. What he's been able to do since he's been here, since.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have been here, the conference is very high
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  Speaker 1: that we can go out and run our offense and
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  Speaker 1: he can function at a high level. He's got experience
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  Speaker 1: in this league. He's got experience now in our system.
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  Speaker 1: The guys around him trust him. We know we could
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  Speaker 1: go out and function in a solid way with the
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  Speaker 1: possibility to win the game if that was what we
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  Speaker 1: needed to do.
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  Speaker 2: You have significant changes in the game play and at
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  Speaker 2: the game versus Trevor Or can they pretty much run
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the same stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They can run a lot of the same stuff we
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  Speaker 1: feel like and again it you know, it's like any game.
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  Speaker 1: You tailor your approach to what defense you're seeing and
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  Speaker 1: how how they play and what puts everybody, not just
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback in the best possible position to have success.
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  Speaker 1: Are you with two different game sheets one and fits
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  Speaker 1: Trevor one? If it's no, not really. There may be
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  Speaker 1: some things that you feature more so if it's one
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  Speaker 1: quarterback versus the other. But no, we don't feel like
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  Speaker 1: it really affects our offense much.
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  Speaker 2: How do you guys get prepared for the environment, the noise?
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  Speaker 2: How can you kind of prep yourself for.
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  Speaker 1: That especially, Yeah, that's definitely a real thing. We always
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  Speaker 1: we always work on our silent kidence we're going on
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  Speaker 1: the road. You know, we've made a point to our
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  Speaker 1: guys that this is a very hostile place playing on
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  Speaker 1: a primetime nighttime game there on the road. They'll be
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  Speaker 1: fired up. We know it'll be loud, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: way you play the game trying to take the crowd
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  Speaker 1: out of it, but then not being affected by the noise.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta be great with our with our nonverbal communication
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  Speaker 1: as well as our verbal communication. There are times we
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  Speaker 1: have to talk to one another in the huddle, getting
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  Speaker 1: out of the huddle, out the line of scrimmage. There
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  Speaker 1: is communication that you just got to do a great
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  Speaker 1: job being dialed in on. You and the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of the staff take into consideration the surface you're
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  Speaker 2: playing on to determine I could go or not.
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  Speaker 1: Again, to reemphasize, everybody comes together on the process to
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  Speaker 1: determine what it looks like for everybody here. All good.
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  Speaker 2: To give this level of carries because this level of
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  Speaker 2: carries throughout seventeen years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he hasn't shown us he can't at
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  Speaker 1: this point in time. Obviously, we like to spread the wealth.
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  Speaker 1: We like to continue with the hot hand, whatever that
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  Speaker 1: may be, pass game, run game. He's been a guy
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  Speaker 1: that is obviously a game breaker for us, and he's
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  Speaker 1: been able to come through in those situations when we
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  Speaker 1: continue to give them the football and he has opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: he finds opportunities, he creates his own opportunities at times.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we want to continue to give the ball
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  Speaker 1: to our best players at all times. This is on
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  Speaker 1: the old line when it feels like injuries keep popping
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  Speaker 1: up so you keep having to shuffle guys. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think it is hard. I mean, you want to know
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  Speaker 1: the guy you're playing next to. You want to have
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  Speaker 1: worked next to that guy. And again, like I've always said,
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  Speaker 1: we do a good job of exposing to that them
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  Speaker 1: to that through Spring. I think their meeting room is
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  Speaker 1: a huge part of that. You know, they're all in communication,
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  Speaker 1: constant communication. It's a it's an interesting place to be
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  Speaker 1: an offensive line room. But those guys do a great
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  Speaker 1: job of creating that environment to where I think they
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  Speaker 1: do build a trust factor. There's some chemistry involved with
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  Speaker 1: those guys, and they trust them guy next to them
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  Speaker 1: that they'll do their job at the highlight's highest level.
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  Speaker 1: Blake Hansman forty two weeks ago, was that left to
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  Speaker 1: head the last week? Use that guard that versatility. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, you know, coming in here and talking to
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  Speaker 1: you guys, there's always been some guy. How do you
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  Speaker 1: how do you trust this guy to do this? And
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  Speaker 1: all that, and whether it be Walker, Little, Blake Hants,
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Shatley, like, these guys are invaluable for us. They're
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  Speaker 1: they're again, they're guys that their teammates trust, we as
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  Speaker 1: coaches trust them, but more importantly, the guys on the
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  Speaker 1: field trust the guy next to them to do their job.
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  Speaker 2: What's your what's your take on in the state of
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  Speaker 2: the running game, particularly the run blocking with the offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, had the great touchdown on the Wildcat, but
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  Speaker 2: other than that, it seemed like the running game didn't
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  Speaker 2: couldn't get into any kind of rhythm Vietnam at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the.
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  Speaker 1: Day, Yeah, I felt like we were we got a
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  Speaker 1: little stagnant times through that game. Now we did a
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  Speaker 1: good job. You know, we scored three of the first
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  Speaker 1: five possessions we had the ball. It really started with
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  Speaker 1: the first play of the drive. If we couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: the first play of the drive going, we were sledding
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  Speaker 1: uphill and that was tough. And there were a couple
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  Speaker 1: of different things. We tried some different things with perimeter
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  Speaker 1: roun that we maybe didn't block the right way on
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  Speaker 1: a couple of them, or just they had a better
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  Speaker 1: call than us at times. And you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: matter what that looks like. But I think each run
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  Speaker 1: is kind of its own case by case basis that
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  Speaker 1: we continue to study and what are we really good at,
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  Speaker 1: What are we really good at against the schemes that
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  Speaker 1: they play? Where are we winning matchups? Where are we
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  Speaker 1: losing matchups? We continue to evaluate all of that. Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night game make like prep more difficult. It's fast. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have a whole game plan in and less than
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  Speaker 1: forty eight hours from when we just finished the last game,
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  Speaker 1: So things happen very quickly. You kind of fall back on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, having a unit that's been together for a
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  Speaker 1: while for the most part. Uh So you've got some
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  Speaker 1: plays in your inventory that you've got banked reps on
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  Speaker 1: that you can lean into a little bit. Just trying
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  Speaker 1: to identify things that we do really well, that we
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence in without getting a physical rep.
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  Speaker 1: These these two days of practice essentially right here.
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  Speaker 2: What does New Orleans do well? What's their strength?
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're kind of like Buffalo, and that they've
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  Speaker 1: all been together for a long time. Coach Allng's been
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  Speaker 1: there nine years. It feels like Tomorrio Davis, Cam Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: Marshall and Latimore have been there the whole time. So
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  Speaker 1: that's one guy at each level. You know, you watch
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrio Davis, I think it's like the eighth play of
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  Speaker 1: the game against Houston, Houston has a check clear and
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  Speaker 1: obvious quarterback makes a check. He talks his safety, flips
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  Speaker 1: the whole coverage. You know, those guys just have the
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  Speaker 1: playbook at their fingertips and they can get it communicated
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  Speaker 1: really quickly, so they can always keep themselves in the
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  Speaker 1: right look or they can change the look they presented
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  Speaker 1: to you. Because he's basically calling plays out there on
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  Speaker 1: the fly. Cam Jordan's been a game record for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. I feel like those three guys, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like don't get the credit they deserve across the league.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan's been a major problem for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrio Davis is as good as any interior linebacker in
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  Speaker 1: the league, and Marshawn Lattimore is as tough a cover
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  Speaker 1: as anybody out there. So you know, they got really
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  Speaker 1: good players experiencing the system, playing at their place in
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  Speaker 1: a hostile environment. You know, it's it's a tough place
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  Speaker 1: to go in there and play. I think they've done
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  Speaker 1: a good job keeping people out of the ends on there. Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks