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  Speaker 1: How's it going. Oh yeah, how'd you feel about the
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  Speaker 1: offensive performance? Obviously the first half seemed to go well
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  Speaker 1: and then kind of fell a little bit of part
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, or at least in the fourth quarter. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just didn't consistently make enough plays or executed the h
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  Speaker 1: high enough level throughout the course of the game. Really
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  Speaker 1: from the start, the first drive to not go the
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  Speaker 1: way we wanted it to go. Uh, same thing coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the half. So we got to find a
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  Speaker 1: way to make sure we're starting fast. Obviously we were
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  Speaker 1: able to put together drives within the game, but that's
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  Speaker 1: something you gotta do consistently. You gotta find a way
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  Speaker 1: to start fast, stay consistent throughout, and then finish strong.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just something we got to continue to improve on.
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  Speaker 1: How correctable are those mistakes that were made drops things
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  Speaker 1: like that, Yeah, I think very correctable, honestly. Well, some
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  Speaker 1: of the things we're just communication or maybe just little
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  Speaker 1: techniques here and there. As we go. You're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: plays that things don't go well throughout the course of
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  Speaker 1: a game, but it's managing and minimizing, like how bad
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  Speaker 1: things go at times, you know, you can't turn the
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  Speaker 1: ball over that's a big thing for us. And then
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  Speaker 1: just being on the same page with communication on offense
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  Speaker 1: running the football. It's eleven guys on the exact same
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  Speaker 1: page all the time, seen it the same way, and
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  Speaker 1: making sure we're we're just all on seeing communicated throughout.
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  Speaker 1: It was your first time being able to see the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line actually play together for a full game. How'd
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  Speaker 1: you feel that they played? I thought there's some encouraging things.
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  Speaker 1: I thought just overall is an entire offensive unit a
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  Speaker 1: lot to build on, but a lot that we need
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  Speaker 1: to improve on as we move forward throughout the week.
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  Speaker 1: I know it makes change from season to season. How
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  Speaker 1: much can you look back on against the Browns defense
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  Speaker 1: from last year just known as the same code, same
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  Speaker 1: side of players. Yeah, I think that's a big thing,
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that it is the same decordinator, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of very similar personnel. So that's something we'll definitely
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  Speaker 1: look at. You know, we haven't changed a whole lot,
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  Speaker 1: and if you look at us and who we are
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  Speaker 1: and how we deploy people and all that, so I
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  Speaker 1: would assume the way they felt going into that game
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  Speaker 1: is probably similar going into this game. So you're going
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  Speaker 1: to look at it. But you know, you want to
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  Speaker 1: look at any adjustments they made from that game on
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  Speaker 1: through their season Week one against Dallas. You'll take all
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  Speaker 1: information you can get. You'll take into account is you
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  Speaker 1: build your plan and prepare your guys after the momentum
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  Speaker 1: flipped in Sunday's game. What is your level of concern
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  Speaker 1: with how your offense reacted to the adversity. You know
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  Speaker 1: there was there was no conversions of a third down.
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  Speaker 1: I think you guys had something like four yards on
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  Speaker 1: eight plays and fourth quarter. I'm just I'm just wondering,
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  Speaker 1: is that the biggest concern for you coming out of
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  Speaker 1: that game. I don't know that I necessarily had to
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  Speaker 1: do with momentum or anything like that. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was just it came down to being able to execute.
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  Speaker 1: I think if we convert one of those third downs,
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  Speaker 1: we get a chance to run more plays, we get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to continue to move the football. I think
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  Speaker 1: you saw we had the backed up drive. We have
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  Speaker 1: six plays and we're all the way down to the
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  Speaker 1: three yard line out of our own two. I believe
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  Speaker 1: it was so you know, we're we know we're capable
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  Speaker 1: of that. We just have to do it consistently as
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  Speaker 1: we go. You know, our goal is just to improve
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  Speaker 1: every single week, So regardless of how big that jump is,
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  Speaker 1: what it is, we just want to be better each week.
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  Speaker 1: We get going better with communication, better with our tempo,
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  Speaker 1: better with our execution, every little aspect of it. So
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to build on, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things that we feel good about that we were
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  Speaker 1: able to do, a lot of things that we do
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  Speaker 1: feels correctable as we move forward, to be able to
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  Speaker 1: put our best foot forward each Sunday. An opponent that
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  Speaker 1: features a player like Miles Garrett, how much do you
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  Speaker 1: gain plan necessarily for that player. It's as opposed to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we trust our five offensive linemen, we can leave them
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  Speaker 1: on islands, versus saying we understand that there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be helped necessary. Yeah, there are certain guys in this
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  Speaker 1: league that we would just classify as game records, and
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  Speaker 1: he is certainly one of those. So you spa, you
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  Speaker 1: pay special attention to that guy, whether it's we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: provide help in the past game, we're gonna run away
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  Speaker 1: from him, We're gonna do this, We're gonna we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: run at him with certain schemes. We will do everything
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  Speaker 1: in our power to be very aware of where ninety
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  Speaker 1: five is at all times, and they do a great
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  Speaker 1: job of moving him. You know, he's on third down particularly,
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  Speaker 1: he could align anywhere at any time. He did that
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  Speaker 1: against us, He's done that in the past, So that's
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  Speaker 1: something we're certainly aware of with everything we do on
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  Speaker 1: our plan. I mean, I think it's I think special
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  Speaker 1: players require special focus, and he's definitely one of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have very many opportunities after the game got
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  Speaker 1: tight to drop back and throw the football. Is that
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  Speaker 1: something y'all have looked at it all this week? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of that's just the limited number
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  Speaker 1: of plays we were able to have in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we we moved the boat. We felt like
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  Speaker 1: we were getting started on a couple drives, and we
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  Speaker 1: get in a third and one scenario, we don't convert,
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  Speaker 1: fourth and one, don't convert. But that gives you an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity now to get a whole new set of downs,
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  Speaker 1: call more plays, getting that rhythm of things. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think what we were trying to do
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  Speaker 1: was the right thing. Did we get it done all
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  Speaker 1: the time? No, obviously not. You want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to consistently put things together. But we felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we were two yards away from potentially putting that game
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  Speaker 1: away and then all of a sudden, But you have
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  Speaker 1: to overcome that. That's that's the NFL. Every game is
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  Speaker 1: going to find a way to come down to one score.
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  Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of the games come down to one score.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to find a way to when you
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  Speaker 1: have an opportunity to put somebody away, put them away,
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  Speaker 1: but then respond and be resilient when things aren't going
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  Speaker 1: your way or you feel momentums flipped or whatever the
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  Speaker 1: challenges are. You got to be able to execute every
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  Speaker 1: single situation. It's a lot in the off season of
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  Speaker 1: the running game, revamping or whatever you would call it. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: where were your thoughts coming out of that? I think
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  Speaker 1: there were some positives to build on. Again, we just
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  Speaker 1: want to get better next week than we were this week.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot to build on with certain things,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was timing of you know, the backs being
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  Speaker 1: in synchronization with the combination block, the timing of combination blocks,
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  Speaker 1: the togetherness of some of those blocks at times, to
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  Speaker 1: even just the communication of making sure we're echoed across
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  Speaker 1: the line of how we see certain things and to
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  Speaker 1: even going back to our game planning process, our practice
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  Speaker 1: process of did we give them all the looks that
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  Speaker 1: we possibly saw, do we give them tools and then
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  Speaker 1: they use the tools at the right time and making
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  Speaker 1: sure that we're all on the same page and understanding
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  Speaker 1: the importance of all of that. Have a two part question,
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  Speaker 1: how much do you go back to last year's meeting
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  Speaker 1: with the brand? And secondly, what is your biggest memory
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  Speaker 1: or biggest regret from that game? We go back a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's certainly a game that we're gonna anytime
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  Speaker 1: we play an opponent again that has the same DNA
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  Speaker 1: as well as personnel, You're gonna spend a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time watching that because you want to look at how
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  Speaker 1: they treated you, how they thought of you, defended you,
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  Speaker 1: Where did that differ from what you planned going into
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  Speaker 1: the game, and then try to figure out why that happened,
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  Speaker 1: why that was what they feel like they could hang
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  Speaker 1: their hat on if they were successful with this and
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  Speaker 1: planned for that, and then learning from it moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think looking back on it, the personnel
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  Speaker 1: we had and the guys playing, I know Ezra was
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  Speaker 1: hurt going into the game and ended up playing left
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  Speaker 1: tackle for us. Right there, Blake Hans comes in and
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  Speaker 1: finishes it, and it felt like one of those games
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  Speaker 1: it was just nothing went well and then you look
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  Speaker 1: back and realize we had the ball, we're down one
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  Speaker 1: possession with the chance to win the game amid not
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  Speaker 1: playing well. And so that's one of those little things
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  Speaker 1: that you kind of gain some confidence of, Okay, if
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  Speaker 1: we can just get out of our own way, give
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  Speaker 1: ourselves a possibility to win this game, if we execute
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  Speaker 1: a high level, we stick together throughout, we'll be in
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  Speaker 1: these games. Same thing we were talking about the other
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  Speaker 1: way of We were never out of that game. We
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  Speaker 1: always had an opportunity to win. So now you've got
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  Speaker 1: to capitalize and make those plays. Frustrating, that's what keeps
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  Speaker 1: popping out. It is frustrating, Yes, it is any anytime
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  Speaker 1: you're looking back, you know, And a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: we'll tell our guys one of our big things is
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  Speaker 1: it's all about us and so us getting out of
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  Speaker 1: our own way and giving ourselves the best possibility to
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  Speaker 1: win the game. Thanks ring our game a little bit