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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "We're playing to stay alive." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Natural for the guys to get up for the game
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  Speaker 1: a f C side opponent and showed them the tape
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  Speaker 1: before on Saturday. So how do you sort of keep
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  Speaker 1: that energy up going into Sunday against the Cowboys? You know, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're playing for our lives. You know, we're playing
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  Speaker 1: to stay alive, you know, and and um, this is
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be a great atmosphere. I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I can't stress it enough. I mean, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: get up for these games, you know, um, against good opponents,
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  Speaker 1: you know, might might need to think about doing something else.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, as coaches and players. But these are these
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  Speaker 1: are great, great games to coach in, great games to
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  Speaker 1: play in. And I really don't think it's gonna take
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot to keep the energy up in this one.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen one sort of responding from the way? Great? Great?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they've they've been they've been focused,
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  Speaker 1: they've been uh, you know, very attentive, they've been energetic
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  Speaker 1: at practice. And you know, the biggest thing this time
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  Speaker 1: of year is the health of the team, right with
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  Speaker 1: everybody kind of being nicked up, and you know that's
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  Speaker 1: been my focus is just making sure everybody's ready to
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  Speaker 1: go that way, will you be able to go? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see today. You know, I'm still still day to
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  Speaker 1: day with him. Um, we'll try to We'll try to
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  Speaker 1: move him around a little bit and see how he feels.
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  Speaker 1: What he's been able to go to. You mall for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff or do you? Um well, I
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  Speaker 1: mean no, I mean yeah, yeah, I mean we do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of combinations of stuff, you know, And it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, the next man up mentality. I mean you
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  Speaker 1: look at Yeah, you know, Dwayne's been out there, ards
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  Speaker 1: out there, Casey might get a few more reps out there, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, um obviously Josh and Dwayne on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we got we've got options, you know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, we'll see today how he feels. Do
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  Speaker 1: you need to talk to your offensive line before this one?
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  Speaker 1: They get him, I mean, anymore motivated. They know this
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be a pretty Yeah. You know, we've been
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  Speaker 1: talking to him all week. I mean, this is a
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  Speaker 1: it's a really good front, you know, especially the Edge
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  Speaker 1: Edge guys, you know, Um, and they've been watching the
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  Speaker 1: tape and and you know, and studying these guys and
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know they'll they'll be ready to go there.
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  Speaker 1: There's really I don't think again, it doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of extra motivation because these are these
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  Speaker 1: are two good, you know players, and um, you know
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  Speaker 1: our guys will be ready and up for the for
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  Speaker 1: the challenge. Well, when to the decision to make Tyson
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  Speaker 1: Campbell the extra captain this week, I don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I just picked the extra one every week process. Again. No,
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  Speaker 1: he's uh, he's been deserving of being a captain and
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  Speaker 1: this was this was a perfect time for him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: opponent for the jobs, but you have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: familiarity with them. How much you lean on that and
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, did you tell the players anything you
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  Speaker 1: know about them? You know a little bit? I mean
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  Speaker 1: the you know, you can talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: the players obviously, the you know where I was at before.
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  Speaker 1: The rivalry is different and everything, and you know, but
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  Speaker 1: the but the game still means something right for both teams. Um,
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  Speaker 1: they're fighting obviously for you know, for playoffs and fighting
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  Speaker 1: for their division and we're doing the same thing. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a great matchup that way. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've gone and coached against Dan Quinn in the past
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  Speaker 1: and and Mike McCarthy in the past, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're well coached and all that. There there are
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  Speaker 1: some things that we can we can shed light on,
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  Speaker 1: but really at the end of the day, it just
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  Speaker 1: just comes down to execution, you know, and and either
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  Speaker 1: how well you know, um, you know, we we handle
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  Speaker 1: each each situation. He's playing the game and Christian Kirk's
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns seven receptions in the in the red zone? What
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  Speaker 1: is it about what happens when he gets into the
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  Speaker 1: red zone that you see on film? Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Christian has been a guy that's um, he's
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  Speaker 1: been a very good, very good receiver for us. He's
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  Speaker 1: been been a um, sort of a go to guy
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  Speaker 1: for for Trevor you know, Um, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: you know, Press and Jim Bob and the guys myself,
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  Speaker 1: the guys that you know do the red zone plan.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we try to put We think
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  Speaker 1: about the players, not so much the plays right and
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, he he's done. He does a
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  Speaker 1: nice job of getting himself open in separation. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's sometimes you get down there and the attention
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  Speaker 1: to detail just has to ramp up and and he's
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  Speaker 1: been focused that way. He's been great for us in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone this year, and you know, it's something
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  Speaker 1: that we can continue to to build upon. Do you
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  Speaker 1: challenge your running backs this week to to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get back on track. I think you have to challenge
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  Speaker 1: the entire offense, you know, Um, and not just the
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  Speaker 1: running backs. I think it's the old line, the tight ends,
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  Speaker 1: the receivers are a big part of the run game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I think it's everybody. And so you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we've got to do that. We've got to we've
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  Speaker 1: got to try to run the football, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, get get e t n back
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  Speaker 1: to what he was doing earlier in the season. Something day,
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  Speaker 1: you guys. I wish you guys would stand like you guys,
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  Speaker 1: you guys, don't take it away like do well the
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  Speaker 1: last four weeks. I mean that that's football. That's game planning, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's uh, that's scheming your opponents. So that's why it's
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  Speaker 1: the that's the fun part of the game, is the
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  Speaker 1: chess match, you know. And you know, we think we
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  Speaker 1: can do certain things. They think they can do certain
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  Speaker 1: things or take things away, and you just kind of
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  Speaker 1: go back and forth. It's the oub and flow of
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  Speaker 1: the football game. And um, you know, if you find
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  Speaker 1: something that works, you try to stick with it, or
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  Speaker 1: a scheme that works, you stick with it. And the
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  Speaker 1: same way, you know, as an opponent, if they find
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  Speaker 1: something that works, they're gonna they're gonna keep dialing up
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  Speaker 1: until they you know, you stop it. So, um, that's
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  Speaker 1: really that's really kind of what that boils down to.
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  Speaker 1: I think he said earlier this week, got Chad would
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  Speaker 1: get the start if he's able to go. What have
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  Speaker 1: you sort of seen from him that you know gives
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  Speaker 1: you that confidence to start him ahead of a guy
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  Speaker 1: like Kevin, who you said had a pretty good game
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  Speaker 1: last week. Well, I mean Chad, you know, the game's
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  Speaker 1: leading up to him getting hurt him he's played well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and so I just you know, if he's
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  Speaker 1: if he's healthy enough to go, I'll make that decision
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  Speaker 1: to keep him in there, you know, and not Devin
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  Speaker 1: understands that. And Devin also knows it. You know, his
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  Speaker 1: role is important that he could be in there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: after a play, after a snap, you know, you never know. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Chad's done done well, it's just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of him being healthy and and getting himself back on
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  Speaker 1: the field. Do you expect Darius and Brandon Shaff to
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  Speaker 1: go Darius Williams, Yeah, yeah I do. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: both guys were limited during the week. Um, again just
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  Speaker 1: making sure that again this time of year, guys get
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  Speaker 1: banged up. And you know, you're talking about two veteran
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  Speaker 1: players have played quite a few games and they know
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  Speaker 1: how to get themselves prepared and and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not concerned earned with with them not being out there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but um, yeah, well you know we'll get
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  Speaker 1: a good day in today and be ready to go back. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean experienced guy played a lot this year. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Gives you depth at that position. Um. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: allows do we too, you know, kind of who's played
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  Speaker 1: well in the in the in the absence of Cisco, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to get back to that that special team's role. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't take anything away because like I said,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's played well as a safety you know, and
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  Speaker 1: Cisco's absence. So but it's good. It's good to get
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  Speaker 1: him back out there when you move at your schedule
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  Speaker 1: and some of the close games you've been in, how
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  Speaker 1: much do you think your record reflects where this team is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're right where where it should be.
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  Speaker 1: Quite honestly. You know, we look at the I look
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  Speaker 1: at six of the eight games that we've lost, and
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  Speaker 1: and it's really what we've on. You know, we we've
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  Speaker 1: turned the ball over in the red zone, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: make a stop late in the game, you know, defensively, um,
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  Speaker 1: something of that nature, you know, or things like that
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  Speaker 1: have just kind of crept into those losses. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you look at it, yeah, you know, five wins
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  Speaker 1: is probably about right for where we you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: for what we've what we've come through.