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  Speaker 1: He's a great player. Um, and listen, you just you
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  Speaker 1: just you gotta go play, you know, and and just
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  Speaker 1: trust your instinct, trust your trust, your technique, trust how
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  Speaker 1: you've been coached during the week, you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: and try to try to corral the guy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a tremendous athlete, um, both with his legs and
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  Speaker 1: throwing the football. But um, you know, you just gotta
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  Speaker 1: go execute your game plan. How do you go? The
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  Speaker 1: players responded, coming back this week off the five and
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  Speaker 1: just getting through it good. You know, they came back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, energized, um, ready to go, you know, eager.
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  Speaker 1: We've had a couple of good days here and of
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  Speaker 1: practice and uh you know, finished up these next couple
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  Speaker 1: of days. But they came back ready to go. How
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  Speaker 1: much can that bye week going into a game help
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  Speaker 1: with I guess extra time to prep. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: don't spend a lot of time prepping for this game. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you spend more time looking at the first ten you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and really evaluating that and trying to come
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  Speaker 1: away with some um solutions, some answers, you know, some
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  Speaker 1: maybe some different different things that we we haven't shown
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  Speaker 1: or could possibly you know, show here in these next
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  Speaker 1: seven games. So um, it's more about that and sort
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  Speaker 1: of the self scout um than it is you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of prepping for your next opponent. Darryl Henderson. That
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  Speaker 1: met him somebody you guys wanted to go there again.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's a one of you know, he's veteran
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  Speaker 1: guy and you know it's been the league here a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years, and and um, you know he's a
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  Speaker 1: nice downhill guys, a little bit bigger guy and and um,
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  Speaker 1: just a great opportunity. You know, we remember looking at
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  Speaker 1: him when he was coming out, and um, you know
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  Speaker 1: liked him then and and anytime you can, you know,
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  Speaker 1: add these type of players to your to your roster,
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  Speaker 1: um and it's already listening. It's already a great room.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, comfortable with all the guys. You know. This
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  Speaker 1: is not anything against Snooper Jamaicael at all. Um. You
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  Speaker 1: know we started this season with four and and this
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  Speaker 1: will give us an opportunity to keep four in that
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  Speaker 1: room too. Shots in the ground there maybe Oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it'd be It'll be too soon. I mean he just
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  Speaker 1: got here, and you know, I'm sure I got a
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  Speaker 1: little jet leg from West coast, East coast, and and
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get caught up with this, you know
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  Speaker 1: some of the terminology. The best way you want to
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  Speaker 1: use with you guys just handing the ball running back
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  Speaker 1: to take more. Yeah, I mean yeah, you know it's ideal.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta get him, uh sort of indoctrinated in there
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  Speaker 1: and kind of see what he can do. I mean obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we know he's he's put on tape and
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  Speaker 1: and it's a little different running style, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: probably from what he's used to um here, and so
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  Speaker 1: we just got to get him going and see what
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  Speaker 1: he can do. But you know, love his physicality's downhill guy,
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  Speaker 1: kind of a one cut guy, and and um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta with seven games, you know, Um, we
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  Speaker 1: just want to make sure we can get him caught
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  Speaker 1: up to speed as fast as we can. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: if that means you know, him and Jamachael or Snoop
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  Speaker 1: and Jamaicael or whoever the combinations are, you know, taking
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  Speaker 1: reps off of or taking snaps off with t J,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and helping then we try to do that
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  Speaker 1: the middle three years and Philly, you guys are really good.
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving on yere two, three, and four especially, was there
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  Speaker 1: something a reason for that? You know, when teams are
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  Speaker 1: getting better and go on that kind of run, you
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  Speaker 1: feel that I mean, I think I think teams really
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  Speaker 1: begin to understand who they are from the middle season on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And I think that's what we're experiencing a
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  Speaker 1: little bit kind of who we are, the identity of
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  Speaker 1: the football team. And um, you know, the success is
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  Speaker 1: too is just continuing to work hard and and and
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  Speaker 1: practice practice good, and practice well and and play well.
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  Speaker 1: And um, you know, again coming out of the bye,
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  Speaker 1: some of the some of the things that you can
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  Speaker 1: do differently, I think moving forward help you, um, things
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  Speaker 1: that you know, the opponents probably haven't seen, you know
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  Speaker 1: obviously in the first few weeks of the season. And um,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a matter of you know, continuing to improve,
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  Speaker 1: playing your best football obviously towards the end of the
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  Speaker 1: year as you you know, um, if you're in a
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  Speaker 1: position to go to the postseason, you know, you want
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  Speaker 1: to be playing your best ball in the last month
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  Speaker 1: and a half or so the year. How have you
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  Speaker 1: seen Devin Lloyd respond this week? Really good? Really good? Um, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's he's done a nice job of just
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  Speaker 1: I think accepting where he is. Um. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, he continues to work and and um um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, special teams becomes a little more important, you
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  Speaker 1: know for him. They kind of flip with him, and
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  Speaker 1: Chad kind of flip roles just to touch. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's been in a great, uh great frame of mine,
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  Speaker 1: you know this week, and and uh that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: you want, you know, situations like this, and it kind
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  Speaker 1: of frees them up just a little bit. H