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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "Focus on one game at a time." · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: This week's preparation. I know you've got good about last
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  Speaker 1: week's years. Yeah, the same. What about it? Was it
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  Speaker 1: the players that bought in or they're moving forward? Um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean look, they're they're they're bought in. Uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: there's there's no we. We've kind of got past that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with this team. Um, great energy, great focus,
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  Speaker 1: really good practices, Um, you know, and that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: you gotta have. You know, obviously we're still earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the year, but you know, right now guys are guys
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  Speaker 1: are doing things extremely well. UH, they're taking from the
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  Speaker 1: classroom to the practice field and executing the game plan,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the field. Are surprised that it's only
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  Speaker 1: three but sort of seeing your team grow already much
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  Speaker 1: surprised a little bit. And how quickly? Not Really, because honestly,
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  Speaker 1: you need to, you need to kind of grow up quickly.
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  Speaker 1: In this league. Things go fast, games happen. I mean
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  Speaker 1: here we are again, you know, Getting Ready Leave tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: and and Um, you know, we're right back into a game. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these guys don't have time to be young. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and they're they're growing up right and right in front
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  Speaker 1: of us. Where'd you borrow so what? Now what? From?
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  Speaker 1: I heard that. First Time I heard it was from
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  Speaker 1: Dr Kevin Elko, who I worked with in Philadelphia, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just resonated with you. It does. Um, it's so
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  Speaker 1: what now what? So it's doesn't. It doesn't matter what
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  Speaker 1: you've done in the past. It's win or lose. What
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna do now with it? You know, with
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  Speaker 1: that information? And how are you going to get better
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  Speaker 1: as a football team and and and move forward? You know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't live in the past and history's history and
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  Speaker 1: you learn from it, but you move on. You feel
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  Speaker 1: like guys kind of understand it. It's an easy phrase
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  Speaker 1: to kind of understand and figure out. Yeah, it's not complicated,
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  Speaker 1: very simple. Um, but, but, but it carries it mean,
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  Speaker 1: it carries a lot of weight, you know, when you
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  Speaker 1: really think about it. And Uh, it doesn't matter what
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  Speaker 1: we're faced, whether it's in life or in sport. You
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  Speaker 1: learned from it and move on. Just one game at
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  Speaker 1: a time and stuff like that. Kind of praise a
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  Speaker 1: little different. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: always trying to find different ways to grab their attention
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  Speaker 1: or to teach it a different way. You know, and
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  Speaker 1: then when I hear something I try to I try
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  Speaker 1: to test it on the team and see if it sticks.
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  Speaker 1: And some things do, some things don't, but this one does.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you get feel Wednesday day they're pretty locked in. Um,
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  Speaker 1: when you you sit back and look at that, say
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do a week for practice. Yeah, it's this, this,
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  Speaker 1: this geeme is funny. Um. I mean, obviously it practice.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you wish things were perfect and crisp and
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  Speaker 1: sharp and no mistakes are made, but I'd rather mistakes
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  Speaker 1: be made in practice so we can correct them in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon on tape and and then they come back
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  Speaker 1: the next day and if they learn from it right. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And we've seen that, you know. We've seen that and
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  Speaker 1: obviously from week one to week two we saw the
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  Speaker 1: corrections made. Um. But then there's times you go through
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  Speaker 1: a week and you think you've had the best week
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  Speaker 1: ever and and you go out and you don't play
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  Speaker 1: so well. Right, and it's gone both ways that way.
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  Speaker 1: But you just stay in the moment, stay present, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just focus on one day at times. Last
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night I go first how much forever have to
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  Speaker 1: play with some of that in space yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: you'll have to play the whole game that way. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a good front, it's a good good
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  Speaker 1: edge pressure, Um, and they can they can pressure with
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  Speaker 1: their backers inside and and and really, you know, put
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  Speaker 1: guys right in the lap of your quarterback, Um. So
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  Speaker 1: we've got to be we've got to be smart about it.
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  Speaker 1: We understand it, Um, and you know our offensive line
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  Speaker 1: is ready to go that they've had a good two
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  Speaker 1: days so far and you know it's gonna be it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch him play. The contracts from
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  Speaker 1: last week. It's different. It's different. I thought last week
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  Speaker 1: the interior guys, you know, are solid. They have two
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  Speaker 1: good edge rushers in Indie, but I thought the inside
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  Speaker 1: guys are pretty good. This week it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the opposite. It's the two outside guys Washington. It was
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  Speaker 1: kind of combination of both, with Montes and of course
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  Speaker 1: the inside guys. But you know, Um, yeah, these guys,
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  Speaker 1: they do a great job because they mix their fronts up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they'll give you five down, four down, odd
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  Speaker 1: they just mix it mix it up and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: challenging many different ways. How difficult do their receivers make
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  Speaker 1: it on a secondary since they almost specialize in trying
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  Speaker 1: to win those. Well, they're big and physical and and
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  Speaker 1: you know when you have that going against your going
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  Speaker 1: with you, Um, you're gonna come down with more of
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  Speaker 1: those balls. You know, Uh Williams is a that guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big, physical guy. That's what we've seen these
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  Speaker 1: first couple of weeks and Um, you know, having Keenan
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  Speaker 1: back obviously is is another another weapon for that offense.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's a challenge. You know, we've got to
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  Speaker 1: be physical with them, you know, just like they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be physical. Thus, do you think it will be kind
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  Speaker 1: of a blood in the water fill from the defense
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  Speaker 1: with Justin's injury? They'll try to get after? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think so, I really don't. I
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  Speaker 1: mean we've got to focus on our job right and
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  Speaker 1: focus on the on the details of the defense. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously each week you try to get hits
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  Speaker 1: on quarterbacks. I mean that's that's part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I don't think you go out of
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  Speaker 1: your way to do anything, because that's when you get beat,
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  Speaker 1: when you try to do something or take something into
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  Speaker 1: your own hands that way, her coached against a guy
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  Speaker 1: that he is aggressive as you like to be. I
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  Speaker 1: means days he seems like an analytics guy and he'll
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  Speaker 1: take a lot of Um. Obviously coaches are are all different.
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  Speaker 1: They use analytics differently, but that's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that I appreciate about coach Daley is how he how
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  Speaker 1: he utilizes it, you know, and and he's helped his
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  Speaker 1: football team, you know, win games because of it. So
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  Speaker 1: it'll be it'll be interesting, especially when it comes down
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  Speaker 1: to it, Um, not so much in the moment, but
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  Speaker 1: obviously leading up to it, you think about it and
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  Speaker 1: you know, how would he react in a certain situation,
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  Speaker 1: or how do I react in a certain situation, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's the you know, first half, second half, fourth quarter, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and making those decisions to help your team win.
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  Speaker 1: How difficult is it to defend a running back click
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  Speaker 1: also that clear you know, able to get out in
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  Speaker 1: the receiving game and then also run between the tackles?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's a challenge, you know. Um, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta stay disciplined, you know, within the scheme, Um, and
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  Speaker 1: and really when you can tackle him, tackle him and
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  Speaker 1: get him down, he's he's a little slippery and you
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  Speaker 1: know he's physical and strong and you can break some
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  Speaker 1: some arm tackles and guys like that can be can
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  Speaker 1: be HARDC is. You can also throw him the ball
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  Speaker 1: screen to him, you know, down the field stuff. Um,
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  Speaker 1: makes it a challenge. But you know, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a great opportunity for our young linebackers really
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  Speaker 1: to go against a good back like this, against a
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  Speaker 1: guy like that close network. Maybe having Devin and skill
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  Speaker 1: set could be be so for it's possible. You know, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know Devin's gotta stay disciplined to and what he's doing,
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  Speaker 1: to understand his role. But yeah, I think, uh, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a good matchup there. You know, obviously you
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  Speaker 1: know Devin's settled in. He played well last week and
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  Speaker 1: he just needs to show that improvement each week as
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  Speaker 1: he goes this will be a good test for him
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  Speaker 1: to six captains this week and guessing restaurant. Uh No,
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Jones, yeah, Sego on handling pay and doing as well.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a is that a tough thing to when
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  Speaker 1: you're so focused on coin play also be able to
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  Speaker 1: handle the games manager a part of it. Uh, it
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  Speaker 1: could be a challenge, especially if there's a call made
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  Speaker 1: in the game and you're you're trying to talk to
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  Speaker 1: an official or, you know, whatever the situation could be, um.
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  Speaker 1: But that's why you got you know, that's why press
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  Speaker 1: Taylor's there and and to lean on him a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And he's he's always he's always there with the play
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  Speaker 1: ready if I need it or if I'm late in account.
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  Speaker 1: You know that that we can get get a play in.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's not about me, it's uh, I got
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  Speaker 1: a great staff obviously helping me a lot of communication.
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  Speaker 1: You know, fills on the headset with runs, runs and
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  Speaker 1: you know, things of that nature. So it's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good combination, good work in progress there with
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  Speaker 1: with what we're doing and how we're handling it.