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DeMarcus Lawrence: "We're Making A Bond Out There On The Football Field" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How we doing today? Good? Good God?
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  Speaker 2: How did you hope to impact the team?
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  Speaker 1: Mm?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I didn't know, you know, in what way
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  Speaker 2: or fashion I could be an impact to the team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I just.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted to, you know, go in with a good group
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  Speaker 2: of guys talking about my d line and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I just seen from Afar what they was able to
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  Speaker 2: accomplish and the type of guys that they had in
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  Speaker 2: the room, and I just wanted to be a part
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have any doubt at all or any just
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  Speaker 3: kind of lack of confidence that you would be able
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  Speaker 3: to do that?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I trusted myself, my personality, my
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  Speaker 2: style of play. I mean, you know, who wouldn't want
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  Speaker 2: to play with a guy like me?
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  Speaker 1: You know? So, yeah, that's to it.
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  Speaker 3: Have you, uh put some more thought into touchdowns celebrations
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  Speaker 3: in case you need more?
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  Speaker 2: Nah, I think it's more of a unit thing. I
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  Speaker 2: think us as a collective need to put more thought into,
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  Speaker 2: you know, our touchdown celebrations, cause it's more to come.
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  Speaker 3: Why would a guy want to play with you?
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  Speaker 1: Just going back to.
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  Speaker 2: I'd just say about you know, my tenacity, the way
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  Speaker 2: I see the game. Also, you know, I'm a team player,
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  Speaker 2: you know. It's not no one guys show out there
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  Speaker 2: with me. It's all about the eleven on the field.
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  Speaker 4: When you win player of the week, congratulations by the way.
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  Speaker 4: But when you and player of the week off two
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  Speaker 4: forced fumbles by teammate, do you feel like you and
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  Speaker 4: Tiree's almost kind of share that one?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, man, we definitely making a bond out there
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  Speaker 2: on the football, feel and you know that's all that
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  Speaker 2: you want your team to do when y're all out
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  Speaker 2: there playing together, is you know, come together, make a bond.
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  Speaker 2: That camaraderie goes a long way, you know, and it
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  Speaker 2: hopefully can p uh take us to the Promised Land.
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  Speaker 1: And what ways is this defense? This environment? Is slock
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  Speaker 1: room different than Dallas?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man. You might have to go to
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  Speaker 2: Dallas and hear about yourself. That's not a question for me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean is you did it one way for eleven years, correct,
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  Speaker 2: and now you come here and you're excelling in a
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  Speaker 2: brand new way.
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  Speaker 1: How how different is it or was it pretty familiar?
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  Speaker 1: Cause for post football?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, locker rooms could be different wherever you at.
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  Speaker 2: It's really about the camaraderie and the you know, the
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  Speaker 2: fellers that you have in the locker room with you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that's the beautiful thing that we have
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  Speaker 2: going on here. We don't have a selfish bone in
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  Speaker 2: our body. We all play together as a team. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I see.
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  Speaker 3: You can please with how you bounce back from the
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  Speaker 3: foot injury last year.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that I try to you know, put on
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  Speaker 2: the back burners. Don't try to think about that at all.
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  Speaker 2: You know, loans my body healthy today? You know, I
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  Speaker 2: can go out and put the work in I need to.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think allows you to to do that?
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  Speaker 1: To still play at at this level twelve years in?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the right system, you know, the right training staff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, half guys around that's you know, helping me
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  Speaker 2: take care of my body. Nutrition, you know all those things.
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  Speaker 2: You know that people talk about. Sleep, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a big key factor in my recovery, you know, but
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  Speaker 2: it's it's really you know, playing the game one player
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  Speaker 2: at the time, not getting ahead of yourself. And you
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  Speaker 2: know that's how things happen. You know, when you get
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  Speaker 2: ahead of yourself.
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  Speaker 3: What do you see when you look at the Rams offense?
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  Speaker 1: You know, well put together offense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like they run game and past game,
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  Speaker 2: compliments each other pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I see. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Sleep being so key.
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  Speaker 1: What goal do you set each night trying to get sleep?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's tricky, you know, with all the babies
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  Speaker 2: I have in my household. Yeah, but I try to
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  Speaker 2: get at least eight nine hours to sleep, you know, dark,
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  Speaker 2: cold room and put the sleep number on about seventy
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  Speaker 2: sixty five, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, be out.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people are more people know might think
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  Speaker 3: Donald than Adam dirty? Uh obviously you've played with him
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  Speaker 3: now twice. Uh what you people know about ad Man?
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  Speaker 2: You know he's I look at him as our relentless
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  Speaker 2: figure head, you know he he the one that sets
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  Speaker 2: the tone for us, you know, week in and week out.
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  Speaker 2: You know about how we should just uh disrupt the game.
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  Speaker 2: You know how we're coming as a defense. But also
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  Speaker 2: you know where he sees us, you know, going you
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  Speaker 2: you've seen.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of football now through your career.
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  Speaker 2: What is it about mc mike McDonald's scheme and your
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  Speaker 2: guys as a unit that makes it as good as
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  Speaker 2: it is right now? I think it's a trust you know,
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  Speaker 2: like when I came in, a lot of the guys like, ah,
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  Speaker 2: br just just wait, just wait til uh he you
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  Speaker 2: see how Mike dows things up here, you know, And
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  Speaker 2: you know when I was going through my Harvard uh playbook,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the off season, you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: a little tough for me. But you know, now that
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm in the system, I understand the plays and
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  Speaker 2: you know how he's dialing him up.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, It's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 3: What was difficult about that?
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  Speaker 2: In Yofci's it was a Harvard playbook, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: had to have a hard Harvard education in order to
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  Speaker 2: you know, last in this system. But through the help
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  Speaker 2: of my guys, man, I made it through.
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  Speaker 3: So were you like diagramming them on your own? Were
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  Speaker 3: you trying to visualize what this looked like? How did
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  Speaker 3: you make any of it stick?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, at first, you know, listening to the calls,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of hard to match him up with each other.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of calls, you know, are similar, but if
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  Speaker 2: you don't know how to match him up, they can
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  Speaker 2: get all bunched up. And now you're doing something totally
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  Speaker 2: opposite that you're not supposed to be doing.
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  Speaker 4: So you were one veteran free agent sign in this
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  Speaker 4: off season, Cooper couples another. I know you guys are
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  Speaker 4: obviously different positions, different side of the ball, but just
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  Speaker 4: what have you see out of him, what he's brought
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  Speaker 4: to this him?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, I love you know the way Coop, you know,
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  Speaker 2: attack the game each and every day. You know his
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  Speaker 2: tenacity even though you know he's uh banged up and
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  Speaker 2: battling through some injuries right now, you know he still
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  Speaker 2: comes out, you know, puts his work in and you know,
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  Speaker 2: continue to get better each I.
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  Speaker 4: Think you were kind of mentioning in that last answer,
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  Speaker 4: but for people who have never opened an NFL playbook,
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  Speaker 4: can you help us understand what makes one more complicated than.
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  Speaker 1: The other one?
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  Speaker 2: What playbook more complicated? I mean our system you never
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  Speaker 2: know who's coming, you know, so I think that makes
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  Speaker 2: it more trickier when you know your edge that you
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  Speaker 2: know you think is going to be rushing. Ninety nine
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  Speaker 2: percent of the time you might be in a drop,
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  Speaker 2: So you know, just getting familiar with you know the drops,
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  Speaker 2: the coverages, your rush lanes, you know all that. You
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  Speaker 2: got to play a complete defense to playing Mike McDonald's defense.
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  Speaker 3: You guys talk about rushing as one and not having
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  Speaker 3: anyone freelance. And when you have got young guys like
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  Speaker 3: boy maf and Derek hollistre looking to earn their next contract,
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  Speaker 3: what do you see from them buying into that even
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  Speaker 3: in this situation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in our d line room, we have a saying.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you feed my family, I feed your family,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And you know that's how I feel like
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  Speaker 2: we have to approa teach in every game because you know,
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  Speaker 2: if if the offensive line are man in the games,
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  Speaker 2: then nobody will be free.
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  Speaker 1: You know. So when we work.
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  Speaker 2: Together, we're we're creating two on ones and you know,
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  Speaker 2: opening up, you know, opportunities for each other.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, stick together and we'll be all right.
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  Speaker 3: Long way to go, of course, but the team has
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  Speaker 3: played well enough to earn this opportunity to sound there.
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  Speaker 3: It's a game divisional implications even here in November. What
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  Speaker 3: does it mean that you have this type of game,
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  Speaker 3: of this magnet to release this early in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one and oh, that's what it means.
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  Speaker 2: Stick to the script, you know, don't try to get
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  Speaker 2: too high, get too low about it, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: go one and oh appreciate y'all