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Publix Tailgate Show: Defensive line coach Jason Rebrovich · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: It's good to see you. What's going on. How you
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  Speaker 1: guys holding up? It's gonna be here, man, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's going well. The weather is, uh, definitely hitting a
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  Speaker 1: low kind of my type of weather, being up from
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  Speaker 1: an up north guy. And uh, shorts have been on
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  Speaker 1: all week and I've been joining it. How things with you.
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  Speaker 1: We're hanging in there. Three weeks ago, we're not shoveling snow,
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  Speaker 1: which is good news. Um, let's let's get into the
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  Speaker 1: challenge this week for this Jaguars defense. We know the
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  Speaker 1: running games the last few weeks that this Jaguars defense
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  Speaker 1: has seen Cleveland ran the ball well, Derrick Henry ran
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  Speaker 1: the ball well. This is a different field. This is
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  Speaker 1: a read option type of thing. And when you have
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback like Lamar Jackson that can go the distance
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  Speaker 1: from anywhere on the field, that adds just a different
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  Speaker 1: element to everything. Yeah, there's no doubt. I mean you
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  Speaker 1: taught you start. Um. You know with with Lamar everything
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  Speaker 1: goes through him. Um. You know, from a run game standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just a dynamic player. Um. Obviously from a
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  Speaker 1: running standpoint, you know, change the direction to speed on
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  Speaker 1: the elimeter, you know, and then obviously he has a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback that has dropped back capabilities, you know, where now
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  Speaker 1: you have that element of quarterback movement, whether it's bootlegs,
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  Speaker 1: sprint outs, you know, and everything that this guy possesses.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the guys are reigning, uh you know NFL
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  Speaker 1: m v P. So, I mean there's a reason why
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  Speaker 1: this guy is so dynamic, you know. And then you
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  Speaker 1: go into the run game with the three stable backs
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  Speaker 1: that they have, you know, you know, very big, physical,
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  Speaker 1: bruising running backs. They got a big hold old line. Um. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's very demanding on us up front. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: know that every single week. But we have a big challenge,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being a signment football. Um, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: all have an opportunity to go out there and you know,
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  Speaker 1: stick our hands and run our feet through somebody up
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  Speaker 1: front squeezing some gaps off and have an opportunity to uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, tackle one of the best quarterbacks, if not
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  Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the National Football League. If you're
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  Speaker 1: a defensive end and you're running free and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden he pulls it out, I mean, what do
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  Speaker 1: you look for in a read option? Yeah, you know
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  Speaker 1: you got you got different assignments like you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: right there. You know, our our defensive ents could be
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  Speaker 1: you know, responsible for different things and some of the
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  Speaker 1: option football that we are seeing, you know, and you've
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  Speaker 1: got to pursue that, you know, inside out. You know.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest things that you know, we've been
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  Speaker 1: telling our d line is that, you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: can pursue Lamar inside out, meaning that you're making him
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  Speaker 1: run lateral, you know, to the sideline. You know, that's
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  Speaker 1: the surest tackle in the National Football leagues, the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that that sidelines never missed a tackle, not
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  Speaker 1: in every game I've been and seen too. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're forcing that guy that way and and trying to
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  Speaker 1: pursue it and run it down, you know, so he
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  Speaker 1: can't get his shoulder square getting running down onto your
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  Speaker 1: second level or your safeties. You know what. That guy,
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  Speaker 1: you know obviously flashes and his dynamic ability definitely shows
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  Speaker 1: up in those situations. Jason with US Jaguars defensive line coach,
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into a few of your guys up front
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  Speaker 1: and calebon Chaison seems to be starting to get stronger
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  Speaker 1: and stronger as the last few weeks have gone what's
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  Speaker 1: clicking now for him? Yeah, you know, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and one thing, Jps, you know, I think you and
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  Speaker 1: I have had conversations, you know, earlier this year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in our in our you know, minimal camp that we
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  Speaker 1: had and O. T. A. S. You know, And and
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  Speaker 1: the thing is is, you know you need reps. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to understand that there's footwork involved in pass rush.
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  Speaker 1: There's you know, a comfort level with the guy next
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  Speaker 1: to you, and pass rush you got to analyze the
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  Speaker 1: tackle that you're going against. Is he a high puncher?
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  Speaker 1: Is or lower puncher? Where's this set point? There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of analyzation of what your pass rush moves are
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  Speaker 1: gonna be. And now he's getting a feel of how
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  Speaker 1: to break that down, how to see it, how to
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  Speaker 1: critique it. Where's my plant foot gotta be, where's my
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  Speaker 1: hands gotta be, where's my aiming point? And you're starting
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  Speaker 1: to see JP, You're exactly right. You know things are
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  Speaker 1: turning around. Um, he's getting more confident and everything you know,
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  Speaker 1: and more confident you are, and something the better and better.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna look to go pick on it more and
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  Speaker 1: get better at it and get better at it and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's click, it's working, you know, and uh and
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  Speaker 1: it's great to see you know. Calevon is one of
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  Speaker 1: those guys that wants to get better, loves to get better,
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  Speaker 1: always asking questions, constantly on my phone, constantly on email,
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  Speaker 1: sending me things, you know, and that's what you love
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  Speaker 1: about the young man, you know, the the guy wants
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  Speaker 1: to be one of the best players and premier players
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  Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Get love that when the
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  Speaker 1: when the phone never stops digging and it's your premier
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  Speaker 1: pass rushure. That's guy's right. You don't get those guys
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  Speaker 1: all the time. Jason Refuss with US Jaguars defensive line
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  Speaker 1: coach Dwan Smoot in a contract year and getting some
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  Speaker 1: playing time and taking advantage of that playing time. It's
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  Speaker 1: a big year obviously for Dwan Smoot. What have you
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  Speaker 1: seen out of him in the last month or so? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no question, I mean Smoots one of our leaders. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he comes out here on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's UH meeting time or obviously in the practice elements,
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  Speaker 1: and and he's obviously producing. You know, he's going out
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  Speaker 1: there not only in the UH pass game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the few statistical socks that he's had in the last
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  Speaker 1: you know, a few weeks, but obviously in the run game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it does a really good job of straining
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  Speaker 1: and setting the edges. You know, he's getting better at
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  Speaker 1: you know, his his movements and stunts, you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: vertical and getting t TFLs and you know, and stopping
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  Speaker 1: the run and owning his gap and all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So he is definitely a guy that's improved, you know,
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  Speaker 1: through the duration of the season and the duration of
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  Speaker 1: his career that he's been here in Jacksonville. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a pleasant you know, and I know that he's going
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  Speaker 1: through you know contract, nobody's shying away from it. We
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  Speaker 1: all know those situations too, and he's definitely showing out
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  Speaker 1: there and producing, which is great to see for him
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  Speaker 1: and great to see for us. One of the strange
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  Speaker 1: things about the National Football League is that you can
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  Speaker 1: have a year like twenty seventeen, or you have one
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  Speaker 1: of the great defenses of all time and franchise history,
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  Speaker 1: and only a few years later, a lot of those
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  Speaker 1: guys go different places. Well, Calais Campbell and Unique and
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  Speaker 1: Cockway have both been traded away. They both end up
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  Speaker 1: in Baltimore on the Ravens, the team the Jags are
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  Speaker 1: playing this week. How strange is it? I know you've
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  Speaker 1: been around this league for a while now and you've
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  Speaker 1: probably seen some of this kind of thing before, But
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  Speaker 1: how strange will it be to see Calais and John
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  Speaker 1: on the other side, you know, jp the world that
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  Speaker 1: you're using strange? You know that that that's not the
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  Speaker 1: first world that comes to me. You know, I feel
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  Speaker 1: it as a privilege and an honor, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: have that opportunity in the time that I was you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been here in Jacksonville to be able to coach
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  Speaker 1: those two young men who are not only good football
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  Speaker 1: players e League football players in National Football League, but
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  Speaker 1: they're great men. And I had the honor to be
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  Speaker 1: around them men. And uh um, it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: great time, you know. I mean, obviously that opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: go against these guys. You know. The one thing is
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  Speaker 1: is our players we always talk about is being competitive.
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  Speaker 1: Well some of us coaches are too, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna be competitive against John and Calais, And
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  Speaker 1: believe me, my competitive spirits gonna be out against them
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  Speaker 1: guys too. So that don't get me wrong, there'd be
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  Speaker 1: a few flashes of my eyes every once in a
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  Speaker 1: while looking out there, obviably seeing them playing a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of defense. But uh, you know, we're gonna treat
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  Speaker 1: this just like any other game. You know, we're going
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  Speaker 1: out there. You know, they're purple and black and we're
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  Speaker 1: tealing gold, and we're gonna go out there and do
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  Speaker 1: the things that we need to do necessary to go
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  Speaker 1: win a ballgame. Great stuff. I always get to visit
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  Speaker 1: with you. Let's get a w. I appreciate you, t P.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much.