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Geno Smith: "Every Opportunity Is Valuable" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon. We're doing big game. Shoot, I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: I love I enjoyed playing football every opportunity you get,
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  Speaker 1: man like, you know, for young guys or anybody listening,
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  Speaker 1: they're all valuable, you know, and you know for me, man,
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to the next opportunity. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: just this the next opportunity, and uh really looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to it. You've got some numbers that are approaching career
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  Speaker 1: and franchised numbers. What did you like to appreciate it
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  Speaker 1: about this system and about what Ryan Grub has done. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate uh Coach Grubb and you know, really just
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  Speaker 1: the way that you know, he's worked diligently throughout the season. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we had our fair fair share of ups
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  Speaker 1: and downs, and you know things haven't been all perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, Grub's been the same guy throughout the
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  Speaker 1: entire year. I feel like, you know, with the changes
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  Speaker 1: we've had up front, you know, guys in the in
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  Speaker 1: and out of the lineup, I thought, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Health did a great job and Nude did a great
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  Speaker 1: job of making sure guys are prepared. You know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: we know about our receivers and all our skill players
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  Speaker 1: but you know, when you talk about numbers and all that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously they speak, you know, to what's being done.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, I feel like there's a lot that I
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  Speaker 1: could have improved on. So I'm always gonna work focused
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  Speaker 1: on that more than the good stuff. You're a head
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  Speaker 1: coach of saying that he's gonna try with oh he
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  Speaker 1: can do for personal milestones and financial benchmarks this game.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you appreciate that and how much is
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  Speaker 1: it a factor in the situation. Yeah, I mean you
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  Speaker 1: gotta appreciate him saying that, you know, just being open
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  Speaker 1: and honest about it. You know, coach understands and and
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  Speaker 1: he's always been that way, and I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: makes him who he is. I think that's why gods
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  Speaker 1: respect him, because he's he's pretty honest in his assessment
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  Speaker 1: with everything, and so I appreciate him for that. You know.
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  Speaker 1: As far as milestones and stuff, I kind of let
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  Speaker 1: those things just take care of themselves. I gotta go
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  Speaker 1: out there and play football and do the right thing
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  Speaker 1: no matter what happens. Obviously, like I said, man like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you wanna you wanna hit those you wanna achieve all
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  Speaker 1: the things that you can achieve. But uh, well within
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  Speaker 1: the you know, respects of the game. So just going
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  Speaker 1: out there and playing football, you know, obviously it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be on your mind, you know about it, but you
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  Speaker 1: try not to think about it. You just go out
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  Speaker 1: there and do the right thing and you know, let
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  Speaker 1: the chips fallward than me. What about when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to moulestones for teammates, like Jackson's a perching record or
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  Speaker 1: is that anywhere in your head of like that'd be
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  Speaker 1: cool to get him the catches he needs to get that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're for sure gonna try and get guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the catches, yards, whatever it is. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, with the respects of the game obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean you want to at least go
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  Speaker 1: out with the bang, you know. I think the bigger
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  Speaker 1: thing is to get you know, another win, finish the
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  Speaker 1: season with ten wins, and uh, you know see where
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  Speaker 1: it goes from there. Do you do you know, like
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  Speaker 1: where you stand with some of those escalators and what
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  Speaker 1: you would need to do to hit some of them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it'd be hard to not think about like in the
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  Speaker 1: game at all. Yeah, it'll be definitely be a little hard.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you don't want to go out there. I
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  Speaker 1: was talking to someone earlier in the week, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm aware of where where those things are, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to go out there and be chasing it.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that, you know, really affects your decision making,
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  Speaker 1: and in a in a game that's you know, this
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  Speaker 1: decision makings everything, you want to make sure that you
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  Speaker 1: make the sound decisions and not just doing things to
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  Speaker 1: chasing centers. So yeah, I'm aware of it, but also,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, you know, with with respects to the game,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go out there and do the right things
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  Speaker 1: at all times when you put on the tape of
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  Speaker 1: the Rams last few games or defense has been very stingy.
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  Speaker 1: What are they doing well of l A Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: just think overall, man, it starts upfront with them. They drafted,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to really talented guys up front, and I
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  Speaker 1: felt like they did a you know, a good job
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  Speaker 1: of you know, trying to make up for some of
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  Speaker 1: the things they lost with with losing Aaron. You can
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  Speaker 1: see those guys are really getting after it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you speak on verse, you know, tough, physical guy at
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  Speaker 1: the point of attack, really good on the edge. I
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  Speaker 1: thought Fiskey did a good job in our game and
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  Speaker 1: has done a good job all season. And then Kobe Turner.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all those guys up front who they like to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get five man rushers they want to you know,
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  Speaker 1: send five, get everyone in one on ones and see
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  Speaker 1: who can win their matchup. And then when you look
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  Speaker 1: at the back end, man just a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 1: mixing personnel, a lot of dime coverage, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: nickel covers, so a lot of dbs on the field
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  Speaker 1: that would that would usually help with the past game.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, just I think the doing a good
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  Speaker 1: job in their system, and I think it's it's been
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  Speaker 1: showing up on tape. You know, some coaches might shut
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  Speaker 1: down their starters in a game like this. What did
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  Speaker 1: you think of Mike McDonald's decision to say we're going
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  Speaker 1: after it. Yeah, I mean that's the way he is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's always gonna go after it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's a one way type of guy, and we
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  Speaker 1: appreciate him for it. Ups and down to the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Is there one or two things you've kind of point to,
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  Speaker 1: is like, this is what's got to get better going
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  Speaker 1: forward in the next year. Yeah, I mean there's there's
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  Speaker 1: some things and uh, you know, I'll keep those internal obviously.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want to make sure that we're working
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  Speaker 1: on it and not just talking about it. So there's
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that I felt like we
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  Speaker 1: could we could have done a lot better. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, internally, we'll work on those things. But
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  Speaker 1: other than that, man, like you know, with all due respect,
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  Speaker 1: me telling you is not gonna fix the problem. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, I would rather keep it internal. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think of your cousin's game yesterday? A good game? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, ready for the next one. Devin Witherspoon is
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  Speaker 1: a pro bowler. How has he made you better in practice? Shoot? Man?
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  Speaker 1: You know, since the day we got young Spoon, he's
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  Speaker 1: just been that that fiery competitor that we you know,
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  Speaker 1: we saw coming out of college. And uh, to get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to be, you know, a teammate of his,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, big congrats on the Pro Bowl now,
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  Speaker 1: but to be a teammate of his and to compete
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  Speaker 1: against him every single day, I think he's one of
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  Speaker 1: the better corners in the league as well as you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the better nickels in the league. He's extremely smart,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to be you know, not the biggest guy
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  Speaker 1: in the world. He's extremely physical and and he's great
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  Speaker 1: in coverage, and so I think he's made me a
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  Speaker 1: much better quarterback from just practicing against him every day.
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  Speaker 1: What about well not making the Pro Yeah, I understand
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  Speaker 1: that one. Well, I do understand it. Man. You know
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  Speaker 1: it's I've been in Seattle long enough to know there's
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  Speaker 1: some type of a bias. I feel that way, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of players that have been
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  Speaker 1: snubbed from a lot of things here, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's unfortunate for guys like Leo, who has had a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous season. Guy had a pick six at d tackle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's got He's been wrecking games if you watch,
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  Speaker 1: if you turn on the tape, there's no way this
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  Speaker 1: guy is not an All Pro Pro bowler. So, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I don't really know what goes into that,
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  Speaker 1: but someone on the committee needs to, you know, be addressed.
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  Speaker 1: What do you uh those fixes? I ain't gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: us what they are for the offense? Are they simple fixes? Though?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anything in life is simple, man. I
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  Speaker 1: think you gotta you gotta focus on the process, and
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  Speaker 1: I think they can be as simple as we make them.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, this game is never easy, so I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't just say it's simple. If it was
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  Speaker 1: that simple, we'd have fixed it already, you know, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's some things that we gotta work on
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  Speaker 1: and we gotta get better at where do you follow
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  Speaker 1: just what and what needs to improve at the top
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  Speaker 1: of the top of the list, Man me, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: improve everything saying anything else, thank you, Thanks,