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Sam Darnold: "That Was A Great All-Around Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, obviously, Uh, you know, a great all around game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from our defense, special teams, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: an offense, I feel like in the first half, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we just put good drives together. You know, we were
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  Speaker 1: a lot better on third down today than we had
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  Speaker 1: been the last couple of weeks. You know, I will
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  Speaker 1: say too, like just thinking about Jayden as well right now,
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  Speaker 1: that last play that he had didn't look too good,
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  Speaker 1: So you know, just thinking about him and and you
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  Speaker 1: know what he's going through right now, So I just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say that, but uh yeah, I felt like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we know how good of a team they have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the other side of the ball, and
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  Speaker 1: you know the way that we came out with a
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  Speaker 1: sense of urgency on offense defense specially, I mean you
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  Speaker 1: know you felt it right from the get and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're just excited to be able to get.
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  Speaker 2: That wint off like that.
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  Speaker 3: Are you even aware that you're, you know whatever, sixteen
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  Speaker 3: for sixteen without in the first half of having completion
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  Speaker 3: or you're just kind of in the flow of the game.
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  Speaker 1: No, you know, I was, uh, you know, obviously, I
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  Speaker 1: I can feel the flow of the game and understand
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  Speaker 1: that we're doing really good on offense. But no, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that I was hadn't thrown it in completion,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: You know, someone at halftime said to me, uh that
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't thrown in completion, So I think he's to
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  Speaker 1: blame for that, for throwing an incompletion in the second half. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say who was seventeenth?
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  Speaker 2: Three completions?
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  Speaker 4: Is that the most that you've ever had.
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  Speaker 2: At any of that hole? Uh, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I gotta go back to the archives
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  Speaker 2: for that.
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  Speaker 1: I think I had a similar game in high school,
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  Speaker 1: but college or pro that's probably the most consecutively.
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  Speaker 3: Locked in program.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean yeah, there's times where you know,
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  Speaker 1: you feel like, you know, as a play caller, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with Clinton, myself and just the whole offense, you can
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  Speaker 1: feel that kind of flow and feel like every single
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  Speaker 1: play that we're calling is for the exact defense that
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  Speaker 1: they're rolling out there. So yeah, sometimes you know that flow,
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  Speaker 1: it just happens, especially in football, So yeah, it feels
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  Speaker 1: good when it happens. But just got to take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of when you get those looks for the for those
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  Speaker 1: plays that are being called.
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  Speaker 3: Like talk about being proud of guys stepping up. You
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  Speaker 3: Cooper cup out Porton gets to start two touchdowns. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, depth wise, you're missing guys. Cody wants a
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  Speaker 3: six yard touchdown. Just how cool you have seen so
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  Speaker 3: many different guys making play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's huge, It's it's huge for our team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just you know we say it all the time, but
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  Speaker 1: to actually see it happen, like coach Mike says it
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  Speaker 1: all the time, like you know, it takes all seventy
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  Speaker 1: every single week, It takes all seventy to go out
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  Speaker 1: here and execute on Sundays, and you saw it come
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  Speaker 1: to life. You know, Cody White, you know Ricky White,
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  Speaker 1: all these guys on practice squad have been putting on
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  Speaker 1: really good tape out there and and you know it's
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  Speaker 1: not by mistake. You know, they're going up a great
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  Speaker 1: going up against a great defense every single week. And
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  Speaker 1: they proved, you know, especially you know Cody Tor all
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  Speaker 1: those guys, you know, they proved why they're here in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. And uh yeah, I thought Cody did really well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the entire week, just especially with everything kind
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  Speaker 1: of going down the way it did, just being ready
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  Speaker 1: when his number was called, and especially Tory and then
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  Speaker 1: Ricky as well.
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  Speaker 2: So the sudden change you guys work on, then the
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  Speaker 2: attack with how we're going for explosive plays after sudden change.
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  Speaker 2: How much is that coaching staff? Is that emblematic of
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  Speaker 2: what you guys are trying to do mentally for the
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  Speaker 2: whole team?
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  Speaker 1: Did you approach thinking yeah, I think again, it kind
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  Speaker 1: of depends on the flow of the game. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when you know sudden change happens, you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you want to call shot, sometimes you don't. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think just the way the game was going, I
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  Speaker 1: felt like that was a really good time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to to call the play that we did. And again
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  Speaker 1: it's not you know, just because we call that play
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean I have to throw it to Elijah, you
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  Speaker 1: know down the scene. You know, we had a great
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  Speaker 1: checkdown as well in that play, but you know, Elijah
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  Speaker 1: ran a great route and did a really good job
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  Speaker 1: of finishing the play.
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  Speaker 4: Coach Kolbec seen to have a really good game play
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  Speaker 4: coming in and how to attack them with the run
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  Speaker 4: game with that first drive. Did you feel that have
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  Speaker 4: a positive impact on some of the coverages that you
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  Speaker 4: were starting to see with the way that you guys
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  Speaker 4: are stretching them.
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  Speaker 2: The run game early. Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think just the way our offensive line
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  Speaker 1: has been playing, you know, the last few weeks, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, just the I say it all the time,
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  Speaker 1: but just the communication and you know, the way that
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  Speaker 1: they gel. You know, you can see it off the field,
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  Speaker 1: you see it on the field. You know, the run game,
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  Speaker 1: the protection, everything's coming together. So we're just going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to you know, do what we can every single
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  Speaker 1: every single day throughout our process, to to continue to
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  Speaker 1: communicate and do the things that we're doing, especially for
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: Dam But I know it's all about getting getting the win.
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  Speaker 2: But when you have an individual performance.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, does it mean anything more that the whole
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  Speaker 1: country is watching and maybe seeing you in the in
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  Speaker 1: the way that they haven't seen before. Uh, to be honest, No,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think, you know, it's great to play
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  Speaker 1: a good game. I think I'm more just excited about
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  Speaker 1: our offense executing and doing the things that we need
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  Speaker 1: to do to put the game away at the end,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to to have that, you know, obviously, I
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  Speaker 1: make a you know, I just made a bad throw
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  Speaker 1: in the interception, our defense got a great stop and
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  Speaker 1: then we went down there and scored on the next
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  Speaker 1: drive to put the game away. And that is just
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  Speaker 1: complimentary football, you know, to a te Obviously you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: like to turn the ball over in that situation, but
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  Speaker 1: for our defense to be able to come out there
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  Speaker 1: and get a stop and then you know, we we
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  Speaker 1: end up you know, towards the goal line, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: our offensive line does a great job of being able
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  Speaker 1: to punch that ball in.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, again, do what he does, what kind of
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  Speaker 3: confidence to give music quarterback throwing to him? Just the
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  Speaker 3: way he's playing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jackson is a really good player. You know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it forces the defense to to do certain
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  Speaker 1: things that they might not be super comfortable doing, and
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  Speaker 1: that leads guys like Tory Horton to to have you know,
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  Speaker 1: a really good game, which he did. So we know
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  Speaker 1: Jacks is a you know, he's gonna find a way
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  Speaker 1: to be able to catch the catch the rock and
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  Speaker 1: get yack the way he does. But again, everything that
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  Speaker 1: he does opens up other guys as well. And and
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have really good skill players that can
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 3: Winning helps, But what are you enjoying most about this
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  Speaker 3: environment locker room.
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  Speaker 1: M Yeah, I would think it's just the relationships that
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  Speaker 1: you build throughout the process. I've always said that that's
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  Speaker 1: why I play this game. You know, it's the relationships
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  Speaker 1: that you build along the way, you know, starting here
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  Speaker 1: in April. You know, I was so happy to to
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  Speaker 1: be able to sign here in March, and then to
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  Speaker 1: be able to work with the guys starting in April
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  Speaker 1: and O TAS and training camp. Like, the relationships that
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  Speaker 1: you build, you know, off the field obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you build relationships on the field as well, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: as people, it's just great to be able to get
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  Speaker 1: to know the guys in the locker room and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, go out there and compete with them, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, to be able to celebrate wins with those
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  Speaker 1: guys in the locker room after Like, that's that's why
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  Speaker 1: I play the game.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks guys,