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  Speaker 1: Uh No, Maryland just came in and came in each
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  Speaker 1: week like I do every weekend. Just work hard and
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  Speaker 1: I knew like it was a possibility. But you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I just came home, worked hard every
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  Speaker 1: every day through the week.
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  Speaker 2: You got your first strip sack.
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  Speaker 3: What did you kind of see on that play?
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  Speaker 2: How did that come about?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I felt the tackle down block and I
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  Speaker 1: looked at the running back and he didn't pick me up,
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  Speaker 1: So I knew I was gonna get home. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I in these games.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys just kind of knew with the
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  Speaker 2: so many injuries and people being out, is this something
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  Speaker 2: I know you're prepared for it, but did you feel
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  Speaker 2: kind of thrown into the fire a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, No, just being prepared to help you with
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  Speaker 1: in situations like that, So you just not really like
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  Speaker 1: a nerve wracking situation. You worked hard and you just
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  Speaker 1: wait for y'a number to get caught. That's wiped it
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  Speaker 1: to night.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it was a frustrating loss for you guys. What
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  Speaker 2: was kind of the message from Doug after.
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  Speaker 1: The game really just getting back to it and I
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  Speaker 1: putting our head down, keep my hair high, keep working
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  Speaker 1: and let let our process take us too. Would se
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  Speaker 1: just sacrifice? We got four more we got four more
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  Speaker 1: weeks to just give it all. And that's that's just
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  Speaker 1: been a message.
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  Speaker 3: Uh you just said it.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of the mistakes, a lot of turnovers. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just execute better, have to uh go watch them tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Put that to bed, and I find ways to just
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  Speaker 4: get out out of here. It was week fourteen, knowing
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  Speaker 4: we should be having the same mistakes we had this
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  Speaker 4: week one. And now we understand that. And I feel
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  Speaker 4: like everyone's gonna look look theirself in the mirror and
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  Speaker 4: the well, we're gonna get better.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you say, how do you.
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  Speaker 4: Say positive or not get frustrated with stuff like that
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  Speaker 4: when you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: It's repeated the seas.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just understanding it's a long season, and uh, if
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  Speaker 4: you get down on yourself, then uh, you not gonna
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  Speaker 4: be able to be your best self in the future.
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  Speaker 4: So you have to understand that everything happens for the reason.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, I mean, no one came in here today
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  Speaker 4: and was out there trying to lose, like we all
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  Speaker 4: out there of the one focus to win the game,
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  Speaker 4: and it didn't happen unfortunately, so we have to look
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  Speaker 4: ourselves in the mirror, go watch 'em. Uh try to
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  Speaker 4: put it to bed, and uh you use that as
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  Speaker 4: fire to just be better next Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: How much of that if it's happened, because you get
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  Speaker 2: so many new guys in and I know if you
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  Speaker 2: said some of the similar mistakes, but you.
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  Speaker 4: Got guys playing that happened fourteen win suits or wherever
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  Speaker 4: a baby. I mean, yeah, but we can't use to
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  Speaker 4: have an excuse.
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  Speaker 3: This is the NFL. Uh, it's football at the highest level. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: They pay us to play football, so that we have
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  Speaker 4: to be ready each and every play. And uh, there's
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  Speaker 4: no excuses. We can't look at it as an excuse.
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  Speaker 4: So we have to just be ready to uh go
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  Speaker 4: out there and be our best self. Are you at
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  Speaker 4: all frustrated with the just the running game can't break
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  Speaker 4: for you?
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  Speaker 3: It seems like the last month.
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  Speaker 4: I know you're sticking with it, but it doesn't seem
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  Speaker 4: like it's there.
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  Speaker 2: And and why do you think it's.
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  Speaker 1: Not there right now?
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  Speaker 3: I mean after five waused to get better.
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  Speaker 2: I have to.
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  Speaker 4: I have to be better. From my office the line,
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  Speaker 4: they're doing a great job out there. I have to
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  Speaker 4: uh just continue to hit it, continue to trust, to
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  Speaker 4: be disciplined, and just keep trusting them, and uh, they
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  Speaker 4: gonna continue to trust me. And I feel like we
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  Speaker 4: wanna get this Dean Rolland how weird was this football game?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it look like you might be out of
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  Speaker 2: it and then your defense comes up pick it's.
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  Speaker 3: A big player or two and you.
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  Speaker 2: And do you always feel like you and you were
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  Speaker 2: there to have a chance.
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, whenever I'm playing, whenever we're playing, Uh, we never
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  Speaker 4: feel like we're out the game. M uh used to the NFL. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: everyone's out here professionals, and we understand that it's it
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  Speaker 4: takes just one play. Our defense played amazing and they
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  Speaker 4: got turn over us for us turned out to turnover.
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  Speaker 4: We was able to capitalize on some. But we just
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  Speaker 4: gotta find ways to continue to execute and not get
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  Speaker 4: those stalls throughout the uh, throughout the game, and just
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  Speaker 4: come out there and just be fundling when the sound
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  Speaker 4: each and every your possession. How much did this offense
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  Speaker 4: miss Christian overday?
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  Speaker 2: You know, just on the leadership and the relationship and
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  Speaker 2: like communication has in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, I mean, uh, whenever you use a player like Christian.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, of course you gonna miss him, but I
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  Speaker 4: feel like we can't do all on that cushion is
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  Speaker 4: going and he's not gonna be here with us for
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  Speaker 4: the next three weeks, next four weeks, so next man
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  Speaker 4: step up. We had to have that next man mentality,
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  Speaker 4: So we couldn't do alone with Christian could have done
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  Speaker 4: for us cause he wasn't here.
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  Speaker 3: What such your urgent ship?
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  Speaker 2: The urgency now where you get us listened to in
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  Speaker 2: a row or you kind of obviously thoughts running out
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  Speaker 2: on this regular season?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, back against the wall. We have to uh just
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  Speaker 4: come out and fight, continue to click and just go
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  Speaker 4: together and to understand that it's us versus everybody and
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  Speaker 4: just come on, come in Jael together and just lock
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  Speaker 4: in for four weeks, lock in and see where we
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  Speaker 4: can go.
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  Speaker 3: And know we came up losing effort. What do they think
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  Speaker 3: of treasor performance? What mean for you guys to can
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  Speaker 3: have him out there battling.
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  Speaker 4: Towards uh, just the epitiment of our team just uh
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  Speaker 4: out there fighting for one purpose and that's to win
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  Speaker 4: finding for your brothers. And I feel like just seeing
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  Speaker 4: him out there just they're just gonna just bring so
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  Speaker 4: much energy and fire into the next game because we
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  Speaker 4: all seen what happened last weekend and uh seeing what happened,
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  Speaker 4: and I feel like for him to be out here
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  Speaker 4: with us, uh trying to get us as victory. I
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  Speaker 4: feel like that's all you can ask for out a carter.
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  Speaker 2: That I think it's just intent, uh with our work
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  Speaker 2: and our preparation. You know, we k you can never
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  Speaker 2: just show up and play and expect uh things you know,
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  Speaker 2: to go right. You have to earn that in our
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  Speaker 2: preparation and work. And honestly we wor we work ours
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  Speaker 2: off every single week. Guys in here work, they're out there.
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  Speaker 2: Just has to be more intent with the little things,
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  Speaker 2: you know, including myself. It starts with me as a
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  Speaker 2: leader and uh the rest of the leaders of this team.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta be more intentional with the little things to
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  Speaker 2: to stop those things happening. Uh when it counts, are
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  Speaker 2: you pitched surprise?
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  Speaker 4: So the operational stuff or or whether it's Trevor and receivers.
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  Speaker 2: Th th to the standard we hold ourselves to. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's unacceptable. Uh, it's unacceptable. Yeah, we can't have it.
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  Speaker 4: How tough is it for? When when you guys don't
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  Speaker 4: start past How tough is it for you sort of.
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  Speaker 3: Getting into overdrive?
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  Speaker 2: I mean really, you know it's uh, it's the NFL, man.
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  Speaker 2: You know you're gonna you're gonna start off slow like
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  Speaker 2: things are gonna happen. Uh. We were in position, we
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  Speaker 2: were in many positions to to to tie the game
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  Speaker 2: and then take over the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, you know, you gotta k you gotta kind
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  Speaker 2: of roll with the punches sometimes but finish in the end.
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  Speaker 2: We had most opportunities and just didn't get it done.
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  Speaker 4: You feel the loss of Christians.
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  Speaker 2: Today on IR but just both on.
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  Speaker 3: The sideline as a leader as well. Yeah, h he's irreplaceable.
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  Speaker 3: You know. She just been saying it all week.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, every every everybody's love has to go up another
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  Speaker 2: level losing a guy like black Christian cause you can't
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  Speaker 2: you can't replace that. So it's uh, it's tough not
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  Speaker 2: having him, his presence, his leadership, his play making ability,
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  Speaker 2: his uh reliability on the field. We have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work to do to try to throw that board
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  Speaker 2: a lot more than we did today.
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  Speaker 4: Do you do you know most of the I know
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  Speaker 4: you don't like to goes into a road but you
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  Speaker 4: like this team being tested in what you're all about
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  Speaker 4: in the EUROGC that night you have to bring Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we've been tested multiple times. So uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't doubt this team moving forward. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, we work really hard and we have the
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  Speaker 2: talent to not be in this position. So that's a
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  Speaker 2: frustrating thing. But at the end of the day, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: the the game goes on. There's there's work tomorrow, there's
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  Speaker 2: there's off day Tuesday, and then we start full prep
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday. So the work doesn't stop. The journey to
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  Speaker 2: figure the shout doesn't stop. St excuse my language, but
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  Speaker 2: it just doesn't stop.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, Is it hard to enjoy what you're doing right now?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? With eleven catchers, yeah, two more scores.
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  Speaker 3: Eighty five catches now in the season, there's no moral
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  Speaker 3: victories at all.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, with you know the r with the result we
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  Speaker 2: can with today, cause at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't enough to help my team within well.
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  Speaker 4: And was it more for the offense to kind of
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  Speaker 4: get into any kind of rhythm when it's the persfeek
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  Speaker 4: without Christians and.
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  Speaker 2: Crever not pro all the week.
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  Speaker 3: There's no excuses. There's no excuses. Uh. Obviously there is
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  Speaker 3: mental re work, there is mental prep. Uh. Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: you can't you can't replace a guy like one three.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, there's no excuses. We gotta find a
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  Speaker 2: way to do it. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And this is this is a team in this locker
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  Speaker 3: room to to figure
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  Speaker 2: It out and and get it done today with you know,
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  Speaker 2: against all that stuff.