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Press Pass: Mike Caldwell | "They're playing for one another." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Oh, definitely. Uh. In this division, you know you got
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  Speaker 1: the Colts that run the ball well. You got the
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  Speaker 1: texting to run the ball well, and Tennessee run the
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  Speaker 1: ball well. So you know, we're got some big guys
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  Speaker 1: up front and they know in our division you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to stand up up front. How tough is it
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  Speaker 1: to go against the quarterback? It's only been with the
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  Speaker 1: team or maybe two weeks now, played one games, only
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  Speaker 1: three fifty six passes and his career, how tough is
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  Speaker 1: that to go get stops? It's really Uh. You go
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  Speaker 1: back in this coaches, you always wanna turn over every stone.
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  Speaker 1: And we went back, watched preseason, We played him in
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  Speaker 1: the preseason, and just go back and you talk to
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  Speaker 1: you know, many people as you can, and you just
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  Speaker 1: study the film. You go back with our scouting department.
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  Speaker 1: He was here for a while, so we have a
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  Speaker 1: good feel of what the type of person is. You know,
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  Speaker 1: right off the bat, real smart kid, um handles their
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  Speaker 1: system well, athletic can make the throw. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: challenge for us. You go back to college at all
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  Speaker 1: with him or do you just stay could possibly well,
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  Speaker 1: my wife went to the University of Tennessee so I
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  Speaker 1: try to stay away from that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It might go back to the first type game. Um
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  Speaker 1: that started this whole four hay win streak or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: the hit that Shack put on Henry that popped the
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  Speaker 1: ball loose, that kind of turned the game a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Is that kind of you look at that one specific
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  Speaker 1: plays maybe a little bit of a turning point for
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  Speaker 1: this defense or a turning point for the season for
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  Speaker 1: the team. When when you look at it, Uh, in
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter, we didn't play the way we were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to play, and Shaq came in and it was
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for him to get on the field, and
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  Speaker 1: he got there and he made a huge play for us,
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  Speaker 1: momentum changing play, and I think that did spark us.
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  Speaker 1: And we've had guys like that all year step up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, do he steps up? You know, even thinking
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  Speaker 1: about Smoot and Key, just other guys step up in.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a team where everybody has to pitch
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  Speaker 1: in and do their part. And when guys get the chances, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've been lucky they're being able to play well.
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  Speaker 1: Is that usually kind of the way it goes sometimes too?
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  Speaker 1: When you a guy that doesn't really get a chance
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  Speaker 1: to play much makes a big play that it sort
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  Speaker 1: of energizes everybody. Well, the thing about it is, you
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  Speaker 1: know when you're a starter, you're a starter. When you're
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  Speaker 1: a backup, you want to be that starter and all
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  Speaker 1: the backup for a while in the league, and you
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  Speaker 1: understand that. When you get that opportunity, you know it's
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  Speaker 1: you're given everything you've got. And Shacks that type of player.
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  Speaker 1: He's the guy that come to work every day. He
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  Speaker 1: gets better and he works on his craft. He's improved
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  Speaker 1: playing special teams. He makes play when he's out there.
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  Speaker 1: So guys know that, and guys pull for guys that
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  Speaker 1: I want a chance, and he's one of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: And you can see that when it happened on the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: You can see the energy of everybody understanding that he
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  Speaker 1: made a play for So let's take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: The way you guys stop the run of the second
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  Speaker 1: half of that game in the last three quarters, does
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  Speaker 1: any of that carry over can carry over there? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you go back and you look at it and you
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  Speaker 1: understand when it didn't work in the first half, the
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  Speaker 1: mistakes you made, you correct those and you go out
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  Speaker 1: and just trust your technique. You go out there and
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  Speaker 1: understand you're supposed to be in the gap and it's
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  Speaker 1: your job of getting the gap. Understand your technique, getting
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  Speaker 1: the gap in. When you get there, everybody in their
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  Speaker 1: gaps and the defense will be successful. That was a
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  Speaker 1: big difference be in the first quarter was gap sounds.
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  Speaker 1: It's always you know it's a gap sound. This understanding
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  Speaker 1: the scheme and guys playing with emotion, playing with excitement.
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  Speaker 1: Now we do that, We play hard, and we just
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  Speaker 1: have to make sure that we're doing it all eleving
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  Speaker 1: on the same page at the same time. How does
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  Speaker 1: it change your approach if any Uh with the Titans
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  Speaker 1: playing jobs as opposed to Tannehill, who's sort of been
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  Speaker 1: a fixture there for a while. Now, Well, you go back,
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  Speaker 1: you look at it, Uh Tannehill, uh former receiver in college.
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  Speaker 1: He's a mobile quarterback. All three of them are mobile quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: So the same element of quarterback running game. You have
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  Speaker 1: to be prepared for it. But you just go back
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  Speaker 1: and you look arm strength. Tan Hill has it, Leek
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  Speaker 1: has it, Dobs has it. So their NFL quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 1: you just have to understand that they can make all
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  Speaker 1: the NFL throws and they can hurt you with their legs.
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  Speaker 1: So we understand that just have to have a good
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  Speaker 1: plan for it. Do you think it makes Derrick Henry
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  Speaker 1: less effective in play action or makes their play action
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit less affective with having a guy
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  Speaker 1: who's only had one NFL career start as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: somebody like Tannehill who's got plenty of them. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so. When you look at the game, like you see,
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  Speaker 1: they're still running their offense, and their offensive based off
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  Speaker 1: of Derrick Henry and he runs the ball, and off
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  Speaker 1: of that, you're geared up to stop the run. So
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  Speaker 1: play asking becomes uh something that you want to do.
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  Speaker 1: And I think they will continue to do it. But
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  Speaker 1: we have to understand that we have to have our
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  Speaker 1: eyes in the right place, read our keys and getting
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  Speaker 1: our gaps, but also understand see what gets us out
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  Speaker 1: of our gaps. Start. What did you learn from the
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  Speaker 1: scouting party any house about times? Really, I didn't go
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  Speaker 1: to them, they came to us. And that's that's the
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  Speaker 1: thing about in the NFL. There's we all worked us together,
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  Speaker 1: the scouting department. We went back and they did the
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  Speaker 1: research of when they scouted and coming out of college,
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  Speaker 1: and they just brought the information, whatever scores, whatever he
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  Speaker 1: did well in college. Now we put together the cut
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  Speaker 1: ups of him and to precede and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: so we have a good understanding of what he does.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, they'll have a plan.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have a plan, will make adjustments. They'll make adjustments,
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  Speaker 1: and you go out there, let's go, oh yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: looks like he's gonna leave the league in tackling for
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  Speaker 1: the second year in a row. How helpful is it
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  Speaker 1: to have a guy like that on defense? It's always good,
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  Speaker 1: just like uh, having a strong quarterback out there. It
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  Speaker 1: builds confidence with the team. We have a strong defensive
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  Speaker 1: leader and it just builds confidence. If I always called it, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's an e racer. If a guy makes a mistake
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  Speaker 1: or a guy is out of a certain gap, he
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  Speaker 1: can erase that mistake. And that's what linebackers are doing
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  Speaker 1: and he's one of the best. Do you think he
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  Speaker 1: gets the perspect around the NFL? No, mhm, No, it
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  Speaker 1: looks like that guys have been playing with a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more swag in the recent weeks. You guy Calevan
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  Speaker 1: dancing after the sack. He got Tyson righting. I guess
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  Speaker 1: it was a bull, It might have been a horse.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever he was doing, Just what do you think has
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  Speaker 1: kind of been the spark for that? I think guys
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  Speaker 1: are just enjoying being around each other, and they're growing
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  Speaker 1: closer together, and they're playing for one another. And when
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  Speaker 1: you play for your brother next to you, it just
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  Speaker 1: excitement just picks up. And this day and the age,
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  Speaker 1: everybody wants to celebrate. I don't know if Tyson was
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  Speaker 1: riding a bike or a horse or something. He might
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  Speaker 1: have been dancing, but we want to see him dancing more.
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  Speaker 1: I need to give him some dance dance lessons up
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  Speaker 1: Trevo Walker, you're playing him more with the hand in
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  Speaker 1: the dirt. Do you see some growth from him? There
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  Speaker 1: is that a comfort thing or do you just see
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  Speaker 1: that that's where he's at his best right now. I
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  Speaker 1: think when you look at it at the outside linebacker,
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  Speaker 1: you have the ability to stand up and the two
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  Speaker 1: point or go down to a three point wherever he's
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  Speaker 1: comfortable getting off the ball, that's what he's doing. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing just his overall growth of the player. He's
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  Speaker 1: continued to improve. Uh, it was good to get him
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  Speaker 1: back last week, and you know we're looking for a
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  Speaker 1: good things out of him this week. Can you get
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  Speaker 1: any thought who switching to four three through forward like
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  Speaker 1: not this week? Fortally and that potextual for getting your
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  Speaker 1: personality and alley of ball maybe even their strengths. Well,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you always put your
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  Speaker 1: personnel out there that's best suited to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: And right now we're happy with the guys we have
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  Speaker 1: playing in the role. Their plans. Who will continue to
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  Speaker 1: do that the next year is wait only Okay, thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much,