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AUDIO: Oklahoma Head Coach Brent Venables Temple Post Game Press Conference · Sooner or Later Sports

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  Speaker 1: All right, really good mature team win. Thought our guys
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  Speaker 1: had a great mindset when we showed up here to
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  Speaker 1: the stadium this morning. Coach did a great job having
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  Speaker 1: them ready to create and get their own energy and
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  Speaker 1: their own intensity, and without this first test talk, going
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  Speaker 1: on the road, you know, and having to be away
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  Speaker 1: from home for the first time. Thought the guys did
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  Speaker 1: a great job. Gotten a really good rhythm on offense
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  Speaker 1: and defense. Kicking game was for the most part, was
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  Speaker 1: really good all day again, Grace Miller over fifty yards
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  Speaker 1: punt or maybe right there right at fifty yards and
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  Speaker 1: Sandel hit too, fifty plus yard field goals. Offense again
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  Speaker 1: really got into a great rhythm. And then we had
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  Speaker 1: to turn over there late before half. I thought just
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  Speaker 1: that was probably my favorite part of the game, to
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  Speaker 1: watch the defense come out and knock them backwards, lost
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  Speaker 1: several yards and held them to a field goals. You know,
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  Speaker 1: at twenty five three, that's again it's it's a demoralizing
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  Speaker 1: thing that happened right there before half of them. And
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  Speaker 1: then our offense gets the ball ten plays sixty plus
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  Speaker 1: yards later. You know, we're able to milk out the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the clock. For the most part and take
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  Speaker 1: the field goal there to take a twenty eight to three,
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  Speaker 1: you know lead going in to halftime. Get Tory Blaylock
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  Speaker 1: was really good again. Isaiah Setanna just a really good
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  Speaker 1: football player, mechanic made some other really really good plays again.
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  Speaker 1: Offense rushed the ball for five and a half yards
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  Speaker 1: a carry and can still be better, But thought that
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  Speaker 1: they played that unit offensive line wise played really pretty
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  Speaker 1: good all day and defense gave up thirty eight yards
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, had eight three and outs and
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  Speaker 1: just really good command. It's an offense that puts a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pressure on you with a lot of their
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  Speaker 1: play action game and you know some of the option
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  Speaker 1: principles that they're doing out of the gun, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought our guys things pretty good. We got them to
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  Speaker 1: third down, third and long. It was going to be
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  Speaker 1: hard for him, but we had several guys have their
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  Speaker 1: first career sacks. We got a lot of good young
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  Speaker 1: players that are playing significant minutes, and you know that's
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  Speaker 1: going to bode well as we continue to build our
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  Speaker 1: team and just get incrementally better. A lot is revealed
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  Speaker 1: now when you go to game day and you find
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  Speaker 1: out some good and you find out some areas where
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  Speaker 1: you're not so good and where you got to improve,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of times that you don't know all
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  Speaker 1: of that until you get back and you get on
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  Speaker 1: the film and get a chance to look at it.
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  Speaker 1: But proud of the guys just for a good tough
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  Speaker 1: minding this I was. It's a fun group. They're very competitive.
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  Speaker 1: They were very good from the moment we got on
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  Speaker 1: the plane. Just a really passionate, high energy football team
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  Speaker 1: that believes in themselves and one another, and they like
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  Speaker 1: to play and compete. So that was cool to see. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't you know, I haven't seen him or whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully he'll recover quickly and you know, looking at you know,
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  Speaker 1: the replay is hard to tell, you know, really what
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  Speaker 1: it was. But he got his his bill run for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it. Yeah, you know, but you put
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  Speaker 1: your face to their face, you know, quarterback, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: call it most of the time. So so he'll be
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  Speaker 1: we'll be without him obviously, first after next week. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll go, we'll go, you know, the degree uh to
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  Speaker 1: do that, but we'll see. I'm sorry, toy, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just a tough guy. He's a little bit you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's one hundred percent healthy and he loves to compete.
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  Speaker 1: He's and we've been ragging on him. It's way back
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  Speaker 1: in the spring. He let the spring with the most
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  Speaker 1: explosive play and he runs straight trash. He's got great speed.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's got on the edge and you know
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  Speaker 1: that you just he saw that his burst. But he's
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  Speaker 1: got really good patience and pace to him too, as
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  Speaker 1: a running back, runs well behind his paths and runs
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  Speaker 1: through a lot of arm tackles. He did drop the
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  Speaker 1: one wide open, maybe it would have got us a first
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  Speaker 1: down in the first half, but Kendall Dolby, how cool
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  Speaker 1: was that for me? Man? I want to make a
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  Speaker 1: grown man cry, Just proud of him, everything that he's
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  Speaker 1: had to overcome, you know, a very significant injury. To
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  Speaker 1: see him back out there this week in practice and
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  Speaker 1: in pregame, I had to say, man, you need to
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  Speaker 1: pull back. My man was he was wide open and
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  Speaker 1: pregame and but it was great for him and gonna
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  Speaker 1: be good for us, you know, moving forward, to get
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  Speaker 1: him back. One of the best leaders that we have
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  Speaker 1: on the team, one of the most competitive players that
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  Speaker 1: we have on the team. Just a lot of passion
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  Speaker 1: and energy when Kendall Dolby's around. M hm yeah, Reggie,
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  Speaker 1: it's great. He had his first career sack him Boganowski
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  Speaker 1: and Wyatt Gilmore and uh, but Reggie, as you saw me,
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  Speaker 1: and he plays really fast, he's super physical, he plays
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  Speaker 1: good in coverage. He's just very serious all the time.
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  Speaker 1: He's a he's a mature guy. Likes to have fun,
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  Speaker 1: likes to compete, likes to be coached, likes to meet.
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  Speaker 1: Uh he's got a lot of great qualities. Uh that
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  Speaker 1: you know that's gonna take him a long way. M Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think you hit it. I think just efficient again,
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  Speaker 1: no badge of honor or anything like that, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: chest thumping. But that's not easy to do either. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to diminish the ability to execute, to
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  Speaker 1: to implement one another, to be ready to compete. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, it seemed like the game was six hours long.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it was like watching, but it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like it. It was a long game. And to
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  Speaker 1: see our guys continue to play with passion, energy, enthusiasm, physicality,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you want to see. Things don't get sloppy, man,
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  Speaker 1: how disgusting is that? I know, and we we've been
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. We start every practice with turnover circuit and
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  Speaker 1: they'll come, you know, and if we're getting our brains
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  Speaker 1: beat in and uh and we had no turnovers, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't like any of it. But we gotta you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had do a better job, you know, because that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a really important part. You know, as we
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  Speaker 1: jump into SEC play here next week. You know, that's
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  Speaker 1: going to have a big impact for us to be
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  Speaker 1: able to create turnovers. We've been really the last three
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  Speaker 1: years going into this year, a really efficient defense when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to creating turnovers, and we need to just
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  Speaker 1: continue to hang in there. They'll come because we're playing fast,
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  Speaker 1: we're playing sure of ourselves, we're being physical, we're doing
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  Speaker 1: all of the right things when it comes to drill
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  Speaker 1: work and finishing on the football. The teams are just
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  Speaker 1: had gone our way right now, got to react a
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  Speaker 1: little sooner and GotY that've been How did the TV
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  Speaker 1: copy look on the on the potential safety? Yeah? But
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  Speaker 1: uh so we're close. Yeah, just steady, consistent, tough, He's
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  Speaker 1: a great leader. Team really has latched onto his personality
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  Speaker 1: and his passion and again I think that you have
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to become great at what you do in
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  Speaker 1: this space when you can reproduce that passion and energy.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he brings out the best in people
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  Speaker 1: around him. I mean he looked good. Yeah, he looked good.
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  Speaker 1: He's having fun. And uh, proud of him for not
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  Speaker 1: pissing the moaning. You know, young freshman gets in there
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  Speaker 1: ahead of him a week ago or whatever that was.
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  Speaker 1: I can't seems like a month ago we played in
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  Speaker 1: Michigan and but but he didn't. And just proud of him.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's he's very mature and he's a big picture
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  Speaker 1: and he's that's what a great team that does. He
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  Speaker 1: stays prepared, he's emotionally and technically invested, and so when
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  Speaker 1: his opportunity comes, he's ready. No. I mean, look, look
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  Speaker 1: going in again, that super well coached players playing at
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  Speaker 1: a really high level coming into today. Everything is night
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  Speaker 1: and day from where it was a year ago. And
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  Speaker 1: that's not saying anything other than what you saw on tape.
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  Speaker 1: Well prepared, good schemes, very sound, playing with effort and toughness,
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  Speaker 1: making a lot of explosive plays, their ability to run
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  Speaker 1: and throw, and their ability to stop people. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna have a really good year. That's an elite
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff. They're gonna do a fantastic job. I like,
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  Speaker 1: I really liked all three levels. I think we have
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  Speaker 1: we don't have. We have. We have good depth at
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  Speaker 1: all three levels. Not amazing depth, but we have good depth.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know what that looks like is right
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  Speaker 1: now we have a rotation. It may not be a
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  Speaker 1: solid too deep at each position, you know, but maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's a one and a half or maybe it's not
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  Speaker 1: a three deep, but it's it's a solid two. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's some positions that could afford, you know, have a
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  Speaker 1: little more depth than others. But I do think that
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  Speaker 1: this is a very hungry, driven, humble, tough, high standard
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  Speaker 1: group of young men that they like to be pushed,
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  Speaker 1: like to be challenged, They like to practice, and when
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  Speaker 1: they go play together, it does it kind of looks
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  Speaker 1: it resembles recess. And say that respectfully. They have fun.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, when you're passionate about something, you have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to be great, and if you don't love it,
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  Speaker 1: you have no chance to be great, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: so this is a group of guys that love it
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  Speaker 1: and love each other. Yeah. Again, you wish he was
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  Speaker 1: a little further along in every way, But you get
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  Speaker 1: in there, whatever opportunities you have, you get in there
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  Speaker 1: and you're you're ready. You got good juice, energy, aggressiveness,
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  Speaker 1: you're have an attack mindset, all those things. Everything adds up,
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  Speaker 1: everything matters, and so we we would love to get
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  Speaker 1: him going. You know, he's a you know, if if
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  Speaker 1: all things are good in that regard that I just said,
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  Speaker 1: then man, the instincts, the speed, all of those things
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  Speaker 1: can be a real weapon. All right, Appreciate it, save travels.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.