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  Speaker 1: No, I'd say there's not anything he cannot do. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and part of it is he's been
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  Speaker 1: around all season long since the day we put the
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  Speaker 1: offense in. Uh. We always try to tailor to the
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  Speaker 1: strength of our players, so that may be something if
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  Speaker 1: it were if we made that decision. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a late pivot we could get to if we needed
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  Speaker 1: to say, you know, this is we have this in
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  Speaker 1: the plan. We like it versus defense, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: based on c J vers Trevor, whatever that may be,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's let's stay away from that unless we needed
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  Speaker 1: or we kind of do that all the time every week,
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  Speaker 1: depending on who guys are and where they are and
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  Speaker 1: how we see things express themselves during practice and always
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  Speaker 1: has some ability. But does he completely recovered from that
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  Speaker 1: growing situation As far as I know, yes, he is.
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  Speaker 1: He has not shown any any effects from that at all. Sir. Yes, Well,
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  Speaker 1: what a quarterback has taken mostly from mental reps. How
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  Speaker 1: does that really kind of change your preparation with him
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  Speaker 1: during a week? Yeah, there, Well, you want to be
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  Speaker 1: conscious of anything new, so it's maybe you know, with
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  Speaker 1: Trevor's obviously day to day if he makes this thing late.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe there's something that was specific this week that we
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  Speaker 1: need to make sure we get on a Saturday afternoon potentially,
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  Speaker 1: of we need you to feel with this throw feels
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  Speaker 1: like in the timing of it because it is unique,
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  Speaker 1: or it's something Hey, we got enough players, we don't
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  Speaker 1: need it in that section. Um, you're conscious of that.
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  Speaker 1: You're conscious of that going into the week though, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we understand there's times when we travel to London. We
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  Speaker 1: know that our Friday red zone day as a travel
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  Speaker 1: day gets little. We try to be conscious of the
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  Speaker 1: install we have that week of knowing, you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: not getting the time on task that we normally do.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be conscious of new ideas things like that. So
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  Speaker 1: kind of the same thing here. It's maybe, uh, if
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  Speaker 1: there's a receiver, quarterback, whatever it may be, tight end
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to participate in practice full speed, then
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  Speaker 1: we're conscious of putting new things in the plan for
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  Speaker 1: those guys. Know when we may not be able to
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  Speaker 1: get it with the guy that's in there in the game,
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  Speaker 1: so we do everything we can to avoid those situations.
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  Speaker 1: And then Trevor coming back last week leading that drivet
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  Speaker 1: for a touchdown a second half did that gave you say,
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  Speaker 1: thinking maybe about his element of tough and that's that
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  Speaker 1: you guys maybe have to see before. Yeah, from my
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  Speaker 1: experience here with with Trevor, there's never been a question
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  Speaker 1: of his toughness and his availability for the team. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think uh. I think everybody feels very confident that
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  Speaker 1: Trevor is gonna play if Trevor has the ability to UH.
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  Speaker 1: And there's times so our decision to protect players from themselves,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the same thing with with Travis. There was
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  Speaker 1: a possibility of Travis playing who was that against uh
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore playing against Baltimore, and we decided to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: pull the plug on that just to protect him himself.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these guys are willing to play through
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things, but we needed to do it's
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  Speaker 1: best for the player as well as it was best
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  Speaker 1: for our team. So we'll continue to make those decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Drops were a bit of an issue last week. Are
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  Speaker 1: you confident that was like a one off kind of deal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: based on the way guys have played and the situations
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  Speaker 1: they've been and we're confident that that is a one
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  Speaker 1: off feel like you said, Um, obviously we just have
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  Speaker 1: to have great fundamentals. We gotta be able to get
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  Speaker 1: two hands on the football. When we get hands on
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  Speaker 1: the football, we get Bill to pull it in. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But that's just continue to emphasize our technique, our attention
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  Speaker 1: to detail throughout the week, the leading into Sunday. When
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  Speaker 1: you have your quarterback kind of gutting it out through
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  Speaker 1: an injury last week and maybe even this week, if
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  Speaker 1: he ends up playing on Sunday, what kind of message
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  Speaker 1: can that's them to the rest of the team. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean again, I don't think there's any question of
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  Speaker 1: Trevor's toughness, but I think it does show your guys
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  Speaker 1: of this guy is doing everything possible to get there
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  Speaker 1: and to make himself available on Sunday if that needs
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  Speaker 1: to be Um, you know, these guys live in the
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  Speaker 1: training room, and it's not just Trevor, it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of our guys. At this point in the season. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: got bumps and bruises. There's everybody dealing with something, pushing
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  Speaker 1: through something. So uh, I think teammates, I think coaches
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  Speaker 1: see other guys and their willingness to to put themselves
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  Speaker 1: in position to battle back from some sort of bump bruise, injury,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it may be, to make themselves available. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys on this team that are doing
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  Speaker 1: that too. Howell is the Titans defense, and then specifically
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons. You know how much of a threat does
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  Speaker 1: he pose? Albums? Yeah, they're they're really solid defense. I
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  Speaker 1: think their numbers would say the same thing. Um, they
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  Speaker 1: got I feel like a lot of play a lot
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  Speaker 1: of teams. They got good players at every single level,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whether that's Simmons, Nico Autry, Bud dupri back
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  Speaker 1: into David Long back into Kevin Buyer. They got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of players that have played a lot of football
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  Speaker 1: in this system. Um, They've had some injuries and they
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  Speaker 1: just keep plugging guys in. It seems like the system
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  Speaker 1: done change. They executed a high level. They're really really
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  Speaker 1: good in situations, the very smart team. You know, being
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  Speaker 1: in the division last year, I took an appreciation to
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  Speaker 1: just the way they every single situation, just the awareness
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  Speaker 1: all their players have of what's going on. Um. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they they definitely make the game very challenging for you.
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  Speaker 1: What's it gonna take to get Travisy team back on
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  Speaker 1: track and feel like he exploded for a little while there,
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  Speaker 1: but the past few weeks have been kind of quieted. Damn. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We we've certainly played some good defenses that that's been
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  Speaker 1: an effort of them to to stop our our run
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  Speaker 1: game and to get Travis from getting started. Um and
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  Speaker 1: so you know, obviously situations within games dictate that as well,
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  Speaker 1: you're down big in the second half of that game,
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna run the ball as often, uh at Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: So it's managing the game, the situation, all that type
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  Speaker 1: of thing, but continuing to just find ways to get
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  Speaker 1: them touches. Sometimes it may be in the past game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting him on the perimeter away from the interior,
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  Speaker 1: to get him some room in space, try to try
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  Speaker 1: to get him going that way. So it's a variety
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  Speaker 1: of different things to try to get him going that
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  Speaker 1: space where he needs to really kind of develop his
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  Speaker 1: game so he can be more involved in the passing game. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think a lot of it has just
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  Speaker 1: been in terms of the past game, the matchups were
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  Speaker 1: looking for in certain situations. You know, there's there hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been a huge need to feature the running back in
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  Speaker 1: the past game with the things we've done. We feel
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  Speaker 1: like we've been able to put Christian Evans a those
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  Speaker 1: guys in situations to feature matchups. Now, if the best
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  Speaker 1: matchup is Travis on a linebacker and we have ways
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  Speaker 1: to get to that that we feel pretty good about
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  Speaker 1: what we're gonna get from the defense. And that's something
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  Speaker 1: will certainly emphasize. David just jump off he does. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: He's a very instinctive player. You know, when he sees something,
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  Speaker 1: he is going. So it's a big point of emphasis
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  Speaker 1: for our guys. If he has a target, uh. In
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  Speaker 1: the run game, if he's identified as as you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the points of attack guys that we've got
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get there quickly. If he's on
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  Speaker 1: the back side of a run, you better run because
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  Speaker 1: he's running. Uh. He does a good job. He's a
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  Speaker 1: productive player for them. He has been for a while,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's certainly someone we're aware of. As Christian
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  Speaker 1: Kirkben everything you expected, uh, yeah, and more. I would say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not having known Christian directly, but knowing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that coached him in college, played with him,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it may be, always had a high opinion of him,
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  Speaker 1: watched him from afar Um spoke with people that coached
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  Speaker 1: him last year that we're sad to see him leave
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  Speaker 1: Arizona UM, but yeah, he's just he's been a pro
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  Speaker 1: through and through every single day, comes to work every
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  Speaker 1: single day, done, complain, will do anything ass of him,
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  Speaker 1: and has the ability to do a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've mostly featured in slot, but he's done
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  Speaker 1: a good job and we've put him outside of doing things.
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  Speaker 1: He's been available in the blocking game. You know, we've
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  Speaker 1: handed the ball a couple of times and he's able
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  Speaker 1: to do some things. So uh, as far as setting
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  Speaker 1: the standard impact in the game, we're very happy with
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  Speaker 1: what Christians brought to the table so far. Good. Thanks, good,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks guys, appreciate you get