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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 17 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yep, all right, good to see everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Uh had a great Christmas and great day today.
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  Speaker 1: So excited to get on the plane and get going.
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  Speaker 1: How'd you feel the pace of the leamok with throwing
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  Speaker 1: my day off on Thursday? And how'd you feel like
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  Speaker 1: guys kind of coming back?
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  Speaker 2: I thought the guys did a great job. It's a
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  Speaker 2: little different, you know, but when you come off a
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  Speaker 2: Thursday game, I don't think anything's kind of normal per se.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, guys did a good job.
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  Speaker 1: Tyle Cat and Josh Jones starting something. Uh yeah, Tyle
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  Speaker 1: play and Josh will play. And is there any more
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  Speaker 1: concern it's a longer term deal untilby.
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  Speaker 2: You're uh, it's just a process on getting him back,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just got to go through it. But it's
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  Speaker 2: working his tail off and hopefully we get him back
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  Speaker 2: soon with Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Getting that getting the full game on your palary like
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  Speaker 1: the top thought must happen. Man, feel like you did well?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the guys we're excited for for how he
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  Speaker 2: played and to see him on tape making plays for us.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, I wouldn't say our expectations change at all
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  Speaker 2: or uh confidence in what he can do. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think any of that changes.
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  Speaker 1: You had a Marti Titan elevated last week. He gets
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  Speaker 1: back and they're like, what have you seen having this season?
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  Speaker 1: Having given a position as you go, he toured to maybe.
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  Speaker 2: At Kachen John, it's just the same thing. It's part
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  Speaker 2: of the seventies on our team and continues to kind
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  Speaker 2: of be the same guy every day in terms of
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  Speaker 2: his approach. And I felt like he's really developed, you know,
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  Speaker 2: over the course of the season, including camp, so he's
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  Speaker 2: earned that opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Katie Charles and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're they're working, they're they're just uh, note
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  Speaker 2: of it will play for us right now.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't seen Jaylor Biller for for a while, but
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  Speaker 1: hell's he progressing and kind of what you're seeing from
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  Speaker 1: behind he's doing. He's doing a great job. He's doing
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  Speaker 1: a great job. He's doing his He does the.
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  Speaker 2: Uh does all the reps like virtual reality, and then
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  Speaker 2: he's you know, he works in with with scout team
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  Speaker 2: and then we do a we do like a young
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  Speaker 2: guy period once a week that he does and he's
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  Speaker 2: done a great job with that, moving the ball, handling
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  Speaker 2: different situations.
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  Speaker 1: So he's right there.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, obviously we we haven't had had we
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  Speaker 2: haven't had the ability to have him up in these
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  Speaker 2: games the way the roster's shaken out.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not out of their own possibility moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we'd we'd have no problem having him up
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  Speaker 2: and have him ready to play Sam second year in
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  Speaker 2: a row with a new team to something pretty ridiculous
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  Speaker 2: things distilates.
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  Speaker 1: All that which there's about his make up, you thick.
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  Speaker 2: That allows him to come to a new place and
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  Speaker 2: have the excess he has.
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  Speaker 1: To here in the world. Uh yeah, I mean well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I just speak to who he is. It's just.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the right answer is on that, Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I can't give you a good one. I just I
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  Speaker 2: know he's he's steady, and he's a great teammate, and
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  Speaker 2: he uh makes great plays as a quarterback and he
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  Speaker 2: does that a lot. And when you do that, you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna put yourself in position to win games. So I
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  Speaker 2: think that's I think it's really that simple.
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  Speaker 1: We could go doubt down Dallas. That's a pretty big,
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  Speaker 1: big games for them. What have they I guess when
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  Speaker 1: when they when he's been really successful on what have
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  Speaker 1: you kind of seen him that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh they're committed to the run game, and they find
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  Speaker 2: ways to get him to it. In the past game
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  Speaker 2: and he's a really good player I can catch out
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  Speaker 2: of the backfield.
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  Speaker 1: And then in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's decisive, he's heavy, he's elusive, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he wins after contact. I think he sees it really well.
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  Speaker 2: So overall, he's just just a.
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  Speaker 1: Really good player.
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  Speaker 2: They got a good scheme, they got a good they
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  Speaker 2: got a good offensive lines.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of all the above. Is the day normal Friday?
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  Speaker 1: Or did you a little more? Got Day's normal? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what do you thought of Camp Bighbers since it's been here?
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  Speaker 1: Della up that burble for you? Love to ye? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: both guys done a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Cam has been great and uh, you know both are
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  Speaker 2: kind of right there for the third for the third
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  Speaker 2: back based off of how the roster's going.
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  Speaker 1: So he's ready to go if needed, so excited to
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  Speaker 1: have him. Olani and Sat how are they doing? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Really really well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got to make some decisions based off
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  Speaker 2: of how many slots we have left.
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  Speaker 1: But those guys have.
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  Speaker 2: Done a tremendous job. They're there and working and they're
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  Speaker 2: coming right along.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're good many slots, meaning the number of guys
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  Speaker 1: you can bring back on the b R. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: still nothing more on the tory and the hurdles he's
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  Speaker 1: got to cross. Yeah, sorry, I don't really I have
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  Speaker 1: nothing on him. Is there ay expect I know something
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  Speaker 1: with him? Or is it just a truly a day
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  Speaker 1: to day thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I really think it's just it's like
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  Speaker 2: it's a matter of if we're going to get there
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  Speaker 2: or we're not going to get there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just if. As a coach, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, of course we want him back yesterday, but
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  Speaker 2: like it's just not the way it works. So the
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  Speaker 2: more time you spend worrying about it, you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to drive yourself crazy. So he's working really hard.
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  Speaker 2: Trainers are doing a great job. It's just it's the
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  Speaker 2: the nature of the beast.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a shin, what is it a fracture splint?
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  Speaker 1: It's shin splints, what.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a shin like not a shin experts,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a shin. Like you know, right right now
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  Speaker 2: he can't play full speed, so and the shin is
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  Speaker 2: the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Like Tyo Cutter's preparedness I know you're going to say,
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  Speaker 1: like all the other with all of your players, just
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  Speaker 1: hits to go. That's right. So if I said anything else,
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  Speaker 1: making it up, I'd be lying to you. So what's
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  Speaker 1: the question. So the question is can you speak to
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  Speaker 1: Cutter's prepared?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's uh, it's one of those
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  Speaker 2: things like, look, he wasn't playing when he first got here,
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  Speaker 2: and he acted the same, and then he's trying to
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  Speaker 2: make the team and he acts the same. Then he
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  Speaker 2: makes plays in preseason and he acts the same. Then
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  Speaker 2: he fills in and he acts the same, and he starts,
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  Speaker 2: he acts the same. Then he Kobe and Julian are
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  Speaker 2: healthy and he's not playing, he acts the same, and
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  Speaker 2: then Kobe's not playing, now he's playing again, he acts
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  Speaker 2: the same. So you love that, I mean you love
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  Speaker 2: that all our guy I mean a lot of our
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  Speaker 2: guys like that.
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  Speaker 1: But Ty has been in that, you know, been in
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  Speaker 1: that situation. He's been ready to go. How unchangeable the defenses.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any difference now for Rokada in this spot
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  Speaker 1: than when he was feeling after Julian?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, someone's got to play Kobe's position.
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  Speaker 2: So it'll either be tired, Julian, it is different, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not that it's not just like the same spot,
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  Speaker 2: so it'll be a little different.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, he can be in another game, Captain Nickett's have
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  Speaker 1: more of the same as why he was last week
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  Speaker 1: to get at of tude.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I thought, you know, obviously had a really
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  Speaker 2: good game against the Rams and just continues to be
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  Speaker 2: a great player for us and just a great teammate.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's really that simple. Yeah, I have a
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  Speaker 1: favorite president. Now. He had no idea what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: He was funny.
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  Speaker 2: He had a great day though. We had an awesome
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  Speaker 2: day and probably an all time great Christmas up to
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  Speaker 2: this point.
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  Speaker 1: So really blessed it was. It was, it was a
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  Speaker 1: great day. It sounds like you've got a new putter.
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  Speaker 2: I got a new putter from Julian and yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool. It's a fancy one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know the word behind it, but it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a fancy one. There you go, zero tour. That's
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  Speaker 1: the right word.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see how I can make some more putts, but
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  Speaker 2: hopefully I'm not doing that for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, all right, thank you, thank you,