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Tyler Lockett: "We Are Really Starting To Build" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What up doing pretty good? Uh think I got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns over there in that corner of the
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  Speaker 1: end zone. But I mean I've also had some bad
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  Speaker 1: moments over there too, you know, like when I broke
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  Speaker 1: my leg. So I mean, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's good moments, there's bad moments.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: You just try to figure out how to thrive with
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  Speaker 1: the opportunities that's given. I wouldn't say that that's my
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  Speaker 1: corner of the end zone. I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people who could say that's that they're that's their
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  Speaker 1: corner of the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, good things have.
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  Speaker 1: Happened so far over there too.
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  Speaker 2: What did you what did.
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  Speaker 1: Your I just go back to backyard football, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like when we was kids, we go out there play
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  Speaker 1: in the grass and it's no rules.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: They try to be able to coach it in a
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  Speaker 1: way to where it's not chaotic, but really it's just
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  Speaker 1: about trying to be able to figure out how can
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  Speaker 1: you beat your man, how can you be able to
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  Speaker 1: get open, and then you try to make sure you're
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  Speaker 1: on the same page with the quarterback. Obviously it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: work out every time, cause I haven't been able to
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  Speaker 1: scramble as much as I used to back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: But that game, I was able to really like connect
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  Speaker 1: with Geno just with where his eyes was going, like
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  Speaker 1: as he was progressing through his reads, finding the open
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  Speaker 1: zone holes and just being able to understand it's my
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  Speaker 1: ball or it's nobody's ball, the way that Gino throws
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  Speaker 1: the ball, So he's gonna throw it only the world
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  Speaker 1: we could catch it, and if we can't catch it,
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  Speaker 1: then we're gonna at least have another down to play.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, he was spot on every single time
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  Speaker 1: that we was trying to run and get open in
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  Speaker 1: the scrambled drills players. I mean, it's really not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of type of ways to coordinate it, but like
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  Speaker 1: I said, they kind of have a specific type of
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  Speaker 1: design of how it would like to go whenever we're
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  Speaker 1: out there are running around and scrambling. So I think
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  Speaker 1: for us, it's also based off of what the play
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  Speaker 1: is and how many people are running routes and where
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  Speaker 1: are they going within the scheme of the offense. And
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  Speaker 1: some of them plays that we had, I was the
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  Speaker 1: only one on my side or you know, things were
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  Speaker 1: cleared out and so it was easier for me to
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  Speaker 1: find different ways to scramble, but there's other times where
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot more difficult. Because of the play design,
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  Speaker 1: you have to be able to also have an understanding
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  Speaker 1: of where a certain player is, and sometimes you play
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  Speaker 1: off of what you see they do. So if one
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  Speaker 1: person decides to make a move and try something, then
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  Speaker 1: it makes you want to do something different. Can't really
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  Speaker 1: go into detail because we've about to play another team
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  Speaker 1: and you can't be letting them.
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  Speaker 2: Know what you think and how you see stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I mean it's I mean it's almost like
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  Speaker 1: you driving on the highway somebody cut you off, like
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  Speaker 1: immediately you got to react. I mean that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: how it is on the scrambled drill. You're like, this
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  Speaker 1: is a play we want to do. Sometimes that play
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work, and after that another play goes on, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it just it's something that because I was
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  Speaker 1: here for so long, it's something that we always taught,
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  Speaker 1: that we always learned, So it's something that you always have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the back of your head.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime a play breaks down, it's.
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  Speaker 1: What would you add to that? I mean, I agree,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think that this is gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: very very grimy game. I think that the Ravens are
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  Speaker 1: really really physical. Their secondary is really good, their front
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  Speaker 1: seven is really good. I think it's just one of
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  Speaker 1: those times where you get a chance to really see, like,
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  Speaker 1: hey man, where are we at as a team? We
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  Speaker 1: just want to gainst another great team that's in their division.
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  Speaker 1: And it went all the way down to the wire
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  Speaker 1: where you know, we won the game at the end,
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  Speaker 1: and so I think for us, like like, there's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of games where there might be blowouts.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's gonna be a lot more close games
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL with any team because every everybody's good,
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  Speaker 1: and so we're playing caliber teams that have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to be a super Bowl contender, and so we just
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  Speaker 1: got to go out there. We just got to be
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  Speaker 1: able to play. But you know, you can't focus so
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  Speaker 1: much on who you're about to play. You gotta focus
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  Speaker 1: on everything that you're building each and every week and
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  Speaker 1: just understanding like what is it that we have to
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  Speaker 1: do to be able to attack what we see and
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  Speaker 1: just focus on that.
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  Speaker 2: Camp or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: When you can tell, oh yeah, I mean you could
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  Speaker 1: tell as soon as we got out there and played
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  Speaker 1: just coming from college and seeing his mentality, like the
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  Speaker 1: mindset of just he was really smart and understanding and
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  Speaker 1: route schemes and concepts already in college. And that's not
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  Speaker 1: something that's always a given because everybody has the talent,
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  Speaker 1: but it takes time for people to understand like the
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  Speaker 1: mental part of the game.
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  Speaker 2: He understood the mental part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously he just had to fight through some
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  Speaker 1: of the nagging injuries that was kind of whole them out.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean as soon as he got to hit
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  Speaker 1: the ground and running like he did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: He's been doing a phenomenal drive.
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  Speaker 1: We've moved him around in different spots, and I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's something that's difficult. You know, you're looking at corners
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, man, I can play on the outside,
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  Speaker 1: but then you put them in nickel and it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot different. Well, he's thriving regardless of whatever we put
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  Speaker 1: him at, and he is really a person that wants
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  Speaker 1: to be a competitor, and so every time he's out there,
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  Speaker 1: it's like you got to be able to be aware
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  Speaker 1: of what he's doing. What did you get WHOA.
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  Speaker 2: What's the.
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  Speaker 1: I just think the trick to stay in sharp is
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  Speaker 1: just I think it's it's all mental, Like the physical
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  Speaker 1: part is what keeps you playing because if you're if
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  Speaker 1: you're not able to stay physically in shape and physically
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  Speaker 1: be able to get open, that's the easiest way to
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  Speaker 1: be able, like to get out this league because I'm
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're looking at young guys now and I
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  Speaker 1: mean for to four is slow, like you know nowadays,
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  Speaker 1: as we're getting closer and closer to where this league
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  Speaker 1: is going, so people want four to threes. People are
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  Speaker 1: running more of high four twos, and so the game
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  Speaker 1: is getting a lot faster. The game is getting more physical,
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  Speaker 1: like people are becoming more quicker. So you got to
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  Speaker 1: be able to understand the game and the IQ of
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  Speaker 1: the game, I think is what allows a lot of
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  Speaker 1: older players to be able to play a lot longer
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  Speaker 1: because you know how to be able to utilize people's
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  Speaker 1: skills against themselves.
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  Speaker 2: And so for me, that's how I've always wanted to be.
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  Speaker 1: Like I played basketball, and I would understand the game
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  Speaker 1: of basketball. I understand my matchups, who I want to
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  Speaker 1: go to at certain times, what plays you want to call,
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  Speaker 1: when to hold the ball, when not to hold the ball,
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  Speaker 1: when to get a faust so I can go to
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  Speaker 1: the free throw line, like all these different things. It's
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  Speaker 1: like the game within the game. So yeah, there might
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  Speaker 1: be people that are better than me, but I'm smarter
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  Speaker 1: than you. Like that's how I mentally try to think
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  Speaker 1: about it. And so if I can use your strengths
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  Speaker 1: against yourself, or if I can use the weaknesses against yourself,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be able.
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  Speaker 2: To do that.
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  Speaker 1: I just pick and choose when do I want to
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  Speaker 1: do it and how do I want to do it.
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  Speaker 1: So to answer your question, I think that's what helps
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  Speaker 1: us as older guys stay in it, especially if we
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  Speaker 1: don't have a chance to be able to practice, because
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  Speaker 1: it's really the IQ of the game that really makes
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  Speaker 1: playing football a lot more easier. So I try to
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  Speaker 1: do that when I play golf, I try to do
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  Speaker 1: that when sometimes I play the video game is I
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  Speaker 1: always try to sharpen my mind and figure out how
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  Speaker 1: could I have been better? So, I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you play golf. Golf is a hard sport
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  Speaker 1: to play. But I hit the driver boom, great shot,
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  Speaker 1: hit my second my second shot, great shot, but then
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  Speaker 1: my chip. It might take me two chips, you know,
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  Speaker 1: cause it's like, dangn what did I do on the
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  Speaker 1: third one?
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  Speaker 2: And I tried to baby it.
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  Speaker 1: Then you know, then I get on and I go
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  Speaker 1: from having a chance to get a part to now
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  Speaker 1: I got a double bogie, And so mentally I don't
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  Speaker 1: care what I get, but I just tell myself, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: hitting a great drive shot is like winning at the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Hitting a great second shot is like
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  Speaker 1: being able to win at the top of your break.
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  Speaker 1: But not having that good chip shot that's almost like
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  Speaker 1: not finishing the play, like oh, you drop the ball,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's stuff like that
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  Speaker 1: where I try to I try to take my mind
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  Speaker 1: as far as I can mentally to sharpen it so
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  Speaker 1: that way when it's time for football, like I'm able to.
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  Speaker 2: Be at a better place in your career.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think, WHOA say again, how long could I
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  Speaker 1: play if I didn't practice that you could play? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I had to do it a good amount
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  Speaker 1: of times in my life.
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  Speaker 2: You know, where there was playing.
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  Speaker 1: Aau basketball and I didn't practice, whether it was me
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  Speaker 1: being hurt and I had to still go out there
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  Speaker 1: and play. In college, like there was times I was
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  Speaker 1: dealing with stuff and I couldn't play, And at that point,
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  Speaker 1: you just got to be able to tell yourself, like,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta focus on the things that make me me.
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  Speaker 1: Like sometimes when you go out here and practice, it's
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  Speaker 1: like you're always working to get better and you're able
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  Speaker 1: to like do certain things and try certain things. But
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  Speaker 1: when you don't have a chance to be able to practice,
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  Speaker 1: then you're like, I gotta be able to go to
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  Speaker 1: all of my go tos. I gotta be able to
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  Speaker 1: do the stuff that I know that I could be
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  Speaker 1: great at and I don't have to practice that. And
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  Speaker 1: so I think that's kind of the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: I could say. But mentally, even though I'm not practicing,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still practicing, like in my head, like I'm still
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  Speaker 1: working on all the things that I need to do
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  Speaker 1: that I think that I need to learn before we
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  Speaker 1: get ready to play. So it's not just like I'm
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  Speaker 1: sitting on my butt and I ain't doing nothing the
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  Speaker 1: whole entire time. It's like, nah, I'm doing something, but
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  Speaker 1: it's just not at a point where I can get
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  Speaker 1: put as full participant, you know what I'm saying, or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: The case is.
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  Speaker 1: Leg I already passed it. It wasn't the goal, but
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to play for eight years. Then eight years ending.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, dang, so I can still play. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, dang, but I'm thirty.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, well, I'm gonna just
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  Speaker 1: keep playing. I'm gonna play as long as you know,
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  Speaker 1: God let me play. I mean, I know they talk
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  Speaker 1: about all this is a young man's game, blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 1: like people will try to get you out of it,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the case is.
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  Speaker 2: But I just feel like.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I'm gonna just go out there, keep trying to
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  Speaker 1: be me, keep trying to play at a high level,
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  Speaker 1: try to be there for my teammates, you know, continue
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  Speaker 1: to create those relationships, because at one point, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the game is gonna end for me, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: a matter of when is it gonna end. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't want it to end too short to where I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I could have kept playing, you know, cause I can't
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  Speaker 1: go back and play again, so I might as well
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  Speaker 1: just try to see how far I could take it,
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  Speaker 1: how far I want to keep on playing, and then
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  Speaker 1: just let whatever happens happens.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It just sounded like a good number. It's like with
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  Speaker 1: my financial lady asked me, when are you want to retire?
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  Speaker 1: I said thirty. So it was like, alright, you thirty
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, ah, I'm gonna just keep on playing.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely not, absolutely not. I would not be playing when
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  Speaker 1: I'm forty years old.
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  Speaker 2: I could tell you that much. It is very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine him having to like really be physical
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  Speaker 1: with another person day in and day out, cause every
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  Speaker 1: single play like they're literally banging heads. Like for me,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I could pick and choose when to be physical.
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  Speaker 1: It depends on who's guarding me, you know, with when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to me being able to be physical. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean playing to forty, I mean I would probably
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  Speaker 1: literally have to not practice at all and just go play.
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  Speaker 1: If i'm'a be forty years old and playing, that's really
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  Speaker 1: great for him.
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  Speaker 2: Who's pep talk? Oh? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I was in my own head. I'm like, br we
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  Speaker 1: down three, we gotta figure this out. And then we
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  Speaker 1: had just I think it was twelve men on the field.
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  Speaker 1: We were like, yeah, some of us were spaced out
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  Speaker 1: just because of the previous play that was called. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hear it, But what did he say? I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't in on that one, probably cause I wouldn't pr
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  Speaker 1: I didn't practice all week. Man, I think we're really
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  Speaker 1: at a great place. It's just like, when you look
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  Speaker 1: at our record and you look at the things that
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  Speaker 1: we've done, it's like we haven't even gotten to the
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  Speaker 1: place where we can actually be. Like the first two
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  Speaker 1: drives it was outstanding. Then we became stagnant, and it's
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  Speaker 1: like we see glimpses of how great we can be,
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  Speaker 1: we see glimpses of how explosive we can be, but
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  Speaker 1: then we also see how we shoot ourselves in the foot.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think for us, we just gotta become
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  Speaker 1: more consistent. We're doing a great job on third downs now.
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  Speaker 1: I think Pete said we were all like in the
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  Speaker 1: top ten. Don't quote me, I'll just say middle of
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  Speaker 1: the pack. And you look at stuff like that, and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, man, like, we're really starting to build and
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  Speaker 1: we're starting to overcome some of the things that stopped
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  Speaker 1: us from being great, you know, from our previous times.
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  Speaker 1: And so we just gotta be able to keep playing
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  Speaker 1: and not have this mindset of like, heymen, we arrived
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  Speaker 1: because regardless, if you get to this place of all right,
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  Speaker 1: the record shows you know we're this well, every team
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be gunning for you. So regardless, if you're
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  Speaker 1: an underdog, you gonna have that mentality like we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: show you if we the underdog, and if you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be the top dog, you gotta be able to understand
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  Speaker 1: and show people while you're the top dog.
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  Speaker 2: Of the stuff. Oh yeah. I think Shane is very unique.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think he's different.
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  Speaker 1: But when you look at the coaching tree that he's
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  Speaker 1: been a part of, I mean, it doesn't surprise me,
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  Speaker 1: you know how how like creative he can be in
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  Speaker 1: a variety that he has within his offense of how
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  Speaker 1: he calls things, some of the things that we're doing
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  Speaker 1: before the plays, when we're running around.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very unique.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's very different, and I think it can
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  Speaker 1: always keep defenses kind of like from trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out what's going on, because what makes the game very,
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  Speaker 1: very easier for a lot of us is that when
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  Speaker 1: you have a group of people around you that can
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  Speaker 1: be able to make plays, then it's just it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: A defense can't say and we're going in to stop DK.
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  Speaker 1: Like they can't say we're gonna try and make sure
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  Speaker 1: Tyler don't do this because you got tight ends, you
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  Speaker 1: got other receivers, you got running backs, you got everybody
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  Speaker 1: who can make a crazy play if they get the
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  Speaker 1: ball in their hands. And so it just makes everything
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  Speaker 1: that much easier because teams can't just try to say,
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  Speaker 1: if we take this person out, it's an easy game
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  Speaker 1: for us.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody can get the ball at any given moment.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's why, you know, Shane's offense is
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  Speaker 1: really really helping us out a lot because teams can't
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  Speaker 1: stop just one person and say we're gonna win. It's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: you see Bobo making plays, you see Jack's making plays,
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  Speaker 1: You see Kobe, and Kobe does a phenomenal job with
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  Speaker 1: just burst the block that we talk about, making these
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  Speaker 1: crazy blocks to be able to make it from an
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  Speaker 1: eight yard.
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  Speaker 2: Catch to a twenty five to thirty yard catch.
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  Speaker 1: You see Noah, you see this, You see Zach, you
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  Speaker 1: see Ken, you see DJ. I mean, like I said, man,
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  Speaker 1: I I'm not about to name everybody on the team,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean you get my point.
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  Speaker 2: Like literally, the people that I'm naming you.
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  Speaker 1: Know we got Escritch back like you, give them a
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  Speaker 1: chance to get the ball in their hands and you'll
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  Speaker 1: be surprised what they can do.
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  Speaker 2: The Reek's coming back bright yep, see is it