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Press Pass | Doug Pederson on Injury Updates, Smith & Wingard Play in Week 16 · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hey, doug Hey, can we go over the injuries real
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  Speaker 1: quick from yesterday? Walker, Little, Anton, Harrison, Tyson, Ventre Miller.
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  Speaker 2: Walker.
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  Speaker 3: Walker looks like he's gonna he's gonna miss this week
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  Speaker 3: high ankle. Uh So, he'll probably be out Ventreil another
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  Speaker 3: one ankle, but he's gonna be more day to day.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see as the week progresses with him.
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  Speaker 3: I just say that Darnell Savage is in the concussion protocol.
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  Speaker 3: He got checked during the game, so he's in the protocol. Tyson, Campbell, Anton,
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  Speaker 3: Jari and Jones all came out with, you know, injuries
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  Speaker 3: during the game, but all went back in.
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  Speaker 2: Are gonna be They're gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: The stuff that you referenced last night when you said
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  Speaker 4: this is the most frustrating season. Few of the mistakes,
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  Speaker 4: the inability to get the turnovers, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Is it similar to what you guys went through at
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  Speaker 1: the end of last season during the final one in
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  Speaker 1: five stretch.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it's comparable. Yeah, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think it is comparable. You know, obviously we had we
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  Speaker 3: had trying to think back, you know, we had we
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  Speaker 3: did have some injuries at the end of the season
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  Speaker 3: last year. I know Trevor wasn't completely you know, one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent towards the end of the season last year.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously he's out this year, missing more weapons on offense,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And so it's just a it's it's a
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  Speaker 3: tough situation to be in. But at the same time, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna you know, I'm not gonna makes you know,
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  Speaker 3: excuses for it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we we we are who we are and in.
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  Speaker 3: Right now we're just haven't and and really for you know,
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  Speaker 3: the season, we haven't been consistent enough in our in
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  Speaker 3: our play, you know, on the field, and and and
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  Speaker 3: so we all take responsibility and it's something we got
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  Speaker 3: to look hard at and try to try to fix.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think you haven't been able to get
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  Speaker 4: through to the guys this year about that stuff you
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  Speaker 4: were talking about, the mistakes, the you know, one score
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  Speaker 4: game losses not you know, I think your reference mental
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  Speaker 4: toughness at one point last night too.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think you haven't been able to get
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  Speaker 1: through to them this year?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think I think I have been able
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  Speaker 3: to get through to them. I think what happens sometimes
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  Speaker 3: is players having been there before and being on on
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  Speaker 3: teams that you know, sometimes you know, and I haven't
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  Speaker 3: been on many teams or coach many teams that go
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  Speaker 3: through this, but I think sometimes you look.
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  Speaker 1: To do.
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  Speaker 3: More than than what we ask than what we ask
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  Speaker 3: you to do. Right, you do take things in your
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  Speaker 3: own hands from time to time.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying.
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  Speaker 3: Guys are going off the reservation or anything like that,
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  Speaker 3: but sometimes you know, it it adds to right, it
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  Speaker 3: adds to our situation.
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  Speaker 2: If you if you just we just asked them to
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  Speaker 2: do their job.
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  Speaker 3: If they try to cover for somebody, or they try
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  Speaker 3: to anticipate a play that's coming at them.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not there and so they're out of position.
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  Speaker 3: I just think sometimes you just they're trying to make
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  Speaker 3: plays right, and and and and trying.
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  Speaker 2: To spark your team, and and.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and it's it's obviously something that yeah, when
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  Speaker 3: it happens, it's a great play, and you know, great.
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  Speaker 2: Instincts and all that.
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  Speaker 3: But for us right now, we've just got to continue
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  Speaker 3: to just work on just doing what we're.
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  Speaker 2: Asked to do.
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  Speaker 3: And and you know, when we do, great things happen,
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  Speaker 3: good things happen, good plays happen, and and We've got
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  Speaker 3: to be able to get more of that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: out of our guys.
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  Speaker 1: So would you call this an undisciplined group.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: It's not an undisciplined group. If you if you were
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  Speaker 3: at practice during the week and the meetings and and
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  Speaker 3: all the things that go on, I mean, it's not
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  Speaker 3: an undisciplined group. I just think I just think sometimes
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  Speaker 3: where we are in our season, you know a player
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  Speaker 3: or two you know, and it's and it's and it's
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  Speaker 3: it's multi it's different guy, it's not the same guy,
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  Speaker 3: or you know, two guys, three guys, But you just
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  Speaker 3: sometimes you just try to do just do too much
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  Speaker 3: and and and it's all in good intention. It's not
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  Speaker 3: it's not in spite or not a lack of discipline.
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  Speaker 3: It's just they're trying to make a play and unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes when they do, they guess wrong or something and
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  Speaker 3: and then you know, something negative happens in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Doug, Yeah, dohn Shipley.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for doing this.
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  Speaker 1: What did you see from Mason yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: And just how encouraging was that for you to see
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  Speaker 3: a rookie like you know more or less starting to
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  Speaker 3: put things together. I Mason play played well. He had
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  Speaker 3: some he had some really good plays in the game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'd love to love to have him get
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback on the ground on the one on the
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  Speaker 3: one scrambled. It was a great play by Aiden and
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  Speaker 3: uh to get out of the out of the out
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  Speaker 3: of his grasp. But I thought overall, Mason played played well.
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  Speaker 3: He's improving each week and and uh probably you know,
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  Speaker 3: I would say probably his best, his best game, you
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  Speaker 3: know today thanks to yeap.
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  Speaker 1: Provis Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: And with the injury to Donnelle Savage on the Dewey
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  Speaker 5: winger came in, seemed to play moderately well in the
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  Speaker 5: second half with three pass passes defensed one tackle in
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  Speaker 5: the second half. How did you see his game? You
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  Speaker 5: know at the your review of the tape.
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  Speaker 3: I love Dewey played played well, came in filled in.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Uh, we all, first of all, we all
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  Speaker 3: think Dewey's a capable starter in his league, and he
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  Speaker 3: was trending that way, you know, before the injury, you know,
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  Speaker 3: way back in training camp, and he got his opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: He made the most of it yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: So great job by Dewey coming in and filling in
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  Speaker 3: in that in that role, and and uh, we'll see
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  Speaker 3: how sav does this week, but definitely could increase, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Dewey's playing potential these next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 5: M hmm, thanks coach, you bet.
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  Speaker 6: By Doug, Can you just walk walk us through, walk
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  Speaker 6: me through how how you end up throwing to a
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  Speaker 6: third string running back. That's twice with the game on
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  Speaker 6: the line this season where the ball ends up getting
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  Speaker 6: thrown to the earnest which does not doesn't appear to
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  Speaker 6: be your best option coming out of the backfield. Is
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  Speaker 6: that because other guys are checked out? Or is he
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  Speaker 6: in for that specific play or is that a mistake
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  Speaker 6: on sideline coaching whoever is responsible for getting guys in
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  Speaker 6: and out?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, look, you know we had we had a play
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  Speaker 3: called that was that was built for a specific defense
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  Speaker 3: and and and they defensed it.
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  Speaker 2: They they they sunk that it was fourth and eleven.
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  Speaker 3: They sunk the coverage back got underneath all our all
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  Speaker 3: our deep throws and and you know Mac, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Mac put the ball ball in play. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: dear listen, Dearness is not a Darness is.
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  Speaker 2: Not a fourth string a third string.
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  Speaker 3: Dearness is he's been a starter for us, he's been
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  Speaker 3: in the rotation for us, and and you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: just an opportunity at that point to to you know,
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  Speaker 3: uh that he was that he was in the football game,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in that situation. He's he's been our third
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  Speaker 3: and fourth down back, you know, for for the majority
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  Speaker 3: of the season because of the protection stuff. We've talked
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  Speaker 3: about this and and so it's it's nothing that uh.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously coming up short. I think it's more about what
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  Speaker 2: what the.
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  Speaker 3: Raiders did and how how their defense was able to
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  Speaker 3: you know, defend that play. And would we like to
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  Speaker 3: have the play over? Yeah, there's probably a handful of
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  Speaker 3: plays you'd like to have over. But but they they
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  Speaker 3: defensed it, and we put the ball in play and
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  Speaker 3: then came up a couple of yards short.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, coach, any adjustments to the schedule this week
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  Speaker 2: with a holiday coming up? But what do you guys
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  Speaker 2: have planned? Not not a whole lot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, today normal day, guys were in get their
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  Speaker 3: lift in treatment, all of that. Tomorrow's a day off
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  Speaker 3: and then we're gonna work Wednesday afternoon for a short
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  Speaker 3: period of time. Get our work in Wednesday, get them
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  Speaker 3: out of the building, have obviously spent Christmas morning you know,
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  Speaker 3: at home and be with their families, be with their
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  Speaker 3: children in the morning, and then coming here in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: knock at our Wednesday schedule and then and then be
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  Speaker 3: home you know, for for Christmas dinner. So and then
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  Speaker 3: Thursday and Friday are normal. Just you know, so done
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  Speaker 3: this in the past. When when when Christmas falls, you know,
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  Speaker 3: on on what we call our work workday, and it's
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  Speaker 3: worked really good. So we'll get him in here a
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  Speaker 3: short period of time, get the work done and get
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  Speaker 3: him out.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, docor Merry Christmas, appreciate it. Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Any other question?
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  Speaker 3: All right, you're all set, Coach Peterson, thank you.