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Ask Greg Cosell on Patreon: What Does The Next Eagles OC Need To Do First And Foremost? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The following is a shortened version of our Ask Greg
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  Speaker 1: Cosell live stream that we do every week during the
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  Speaker 1: NFL season for our Patreon Tier three members. Each week,
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  Speaker 1: our Tier three members get into a live chat room
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to ask you about the defense, Greg,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to ask you about it. He's an
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  Speaker 2: impending free agent Reblanketship, so I want to ask you this.
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  Speaker 2: I was pretty impressed with Marcus Epps the last you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: obviously six weeks of the season that he's played exclusively.
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  Speaker 2: If they lose re Blankenship, do you think it's just
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  Speaker 2: out of balance that Marcus EPs takes over his spot
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  Speaker 2: and pair him with Andrew mccouba next year, or do
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  Speaker 2: you think that that would maybe be stretching a little
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  Speaker 2: too much, Because you know what I mean, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: trying to find creative ways because we know they're going
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  Speaker 2: to turn the roster over, and I was just impressed
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  Speaker 2: with Apps, and I wanted to get your thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: him and Blankenship.
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  Speaker 3: I guess in particular, well, given what I know, and
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  Speaker 3: this comes from a coach, I think, Frank, that would
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  Speaker 3: be a little bit of a stretch because Blancanship is
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  Speaker 3: considered in their minds.
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  Speaker 4: To be one of the absolute keys to the defense
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  Speaker 4: because of his intelligence and his understanding of everything that
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  Speaker 4: vic Fangio wants done. So again, I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: Reid Blankenship on the open market would command big, big dollars.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if he's a function of vic Fangio,
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  Speaker 4: because clearly Blankenship in terms of pure physical traits would
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  Speaker 4: not be considered top five or six in the league.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, in a defense, in the vic Fango defense,
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  Speaker 4: where there's literally an adjustment on every single play based
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  Speaker 4: on what the offense is showing you, Blankenship is the conductor,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't think he'd be easy to replace. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I can't speak for Marcus Epps. You know, he hasn't
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  Speaker 4: played enough under vic Fango for me to have any
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  Speaker 4: sense of whether he could do something. He's another guy
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  Speaker 4: that's obviously not a high level athlete for the position.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, that's a hard question to answer. But
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  Speaker 4: I know that the staff and they don't make the
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  Speaker 4: decision obviously, and there could be many other factors. You know. Again,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not comparing him to Milton Williams. But if somebody
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  Speaker 4: is going to offer Red Blankenship a boatload of money,
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  Speaker 4: my guess is the Eagles wouldn't match that. But if
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  Speaker 4: people look at Blankenship and think, oh, nice player, but
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  Speaker 4: we're not paying him for four or five years for
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  Speaker 4: X amount of dollars, maybe he's back with the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: But I.
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  Speaker 4: Think that Blankenship is far more important to the defense.
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  Speaker 4: Then people probably are aware.
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  Speaker 5: I've seen probably five to six different plays that I
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  Speaker 5: didn't see all year in that game. So you tell
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  Speaker 5: me if that's anything different and what from what I've seen,
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  Speaker 5: it was totally different in the second half. Like I've
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  Speaker 5: seen a lot of different things in the in the
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  Speaker 5: first half and then I.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't in the second half, which is normal.
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  Speaker 5: No offense, I'm telling my offense I've seen them. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you guys tell me or you, greg you tell me
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  Speaker 5: I've seen at least five to six different plays that
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  Speaker 5: I've never seen all year, and then the second half
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  Speaker 5: its just I didn't normally do it just disappear? Am
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  Speaker 5: I crazy?
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  Speaker 4: Greg Or? Or? Did you see some different.
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  Speaker 5: Things that you haven't seen?
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  Speaker 4: And again I didn't. If they did that, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: notice it in that way where I went, oh, that's
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  Speaker 4: something I haven't seen. So I would say, Alic, that's
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  Speaker 4: probably not true. Again, I don't want to sit here
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  Speaker 4: and swear to it, but it's probably not true. I
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  Speaker 4: will say this guys, you know, and I joke about
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  Speaker 4: it with my guys in the matchup room here all
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  Speaker 4: the time. You know, so many people rip the Eagles,
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  Speaker 4: and that's been that was in vogue this particular week
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  Speaker 4: about how well they run the same plays over again.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody runs the same plays over again. That is not
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  Speaker 4: unique to the Eagles. I mean, I could show you
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  Speaker 4: Ben Johnson's offense. They run the same plays, you know,
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  Speaker 4: over and over again too. You know, when plays are successful,
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  Speaker 4: no one says anything. You know, when when plays are
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  Speaker 4: not successful, then people goh my god, they're running the
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  Speaker 4: same plays. You can't do that, So you know, you
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  Speaker 4: got to be careful with all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: We all know that the Eagle pass game is not expansive.
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  Speaker 4: We know that, so I'm not going to sit here
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  Speaker 4: and say it is. It's not. In fact, it's elementary
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  Speaker 4: and remedial. And we've discussed that all throughout the season,
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  Speaker 4: and maybe we'll find out with a new coordinator whoever
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  Speaker 4: they bring in. My personal feeling on that, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if anybody who's gonna ask me about it,
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  Speaker 4: but I'll just give you my very quick thought is
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  Speaker 4: I think you've got to bring someone in who challenges
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  Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts and the entire offense doesn't rely on, oh,
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  Speaker 4: this is what you're comfortable with, will do this? I
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  Speaker 4: think now that's a part of it, because obviously you're
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  Speaker 4: not going to treat Jailen Hurts like he's three years old.
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  Speaker 4: But the bottom line is you need someone at this
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  Speaker 4: moment in time that's going to challenge him. He's at
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  Speaker 4: that point in his career he needs to be challenged,
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  Speaker 4: and from everything you read about him, it seems he'd
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  Speaker 4: be open to that. You know, we're not there, but
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  Speaker 4: that seems to be the case, and you got to
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  Speaker 4: challenge everybody. You got to start from scratch and challenge everybody.
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  Speaker 8: Question on the last play of the game, Yeah, watching
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  Speaker 8: it on TV, it absolutely looked like Jaalen's when he
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  Speaker 8: was thrown a god or goddard was double loof not
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  Speaker 8: triple covered. Now, some of that may have been the
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  Speaker 8: third guy being led into it by Jalen's eyes. Was
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  Speaker 8: when you looked at the all twenty two? Was there
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  Speaker 8: another throw? Like was that the throw to make or
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  Speaker 8: was there another throw on that play?
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  Speaker 4: Talking about the fourth down play the last play of.
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  Speaker 8: The game, Yeah, last play of the game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna pull it up and look at it again.
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  Speaker 4: I know it well.
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  Speaker 5: But so.
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  Speaker 4: There was not another throw as I recall, and that
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  Speaker 4: that's a concern on a play call like that, you
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  Speaker 4: want to have more than one answer. So basically what
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  Speaker 4: happened was is they ended up up playing quarters and
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  Speaker 4: the ball is at the twenty one yard line, so
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  Speaker 4: it's just outside the red zone and quarters, which is
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  Speaker 4: four across. Basically, an umbrella coverage is a very common
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  Speaker 4: coverage at this part of the field for many NFL teams,
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  Speaker 4: and certainly the Niners, who are very much a quarters
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  Speaker 4: type team. So what they basically ran with was four
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  Speaker 4: verticals and then they had the two slot guys bend
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  Speaker 4: inside because you're not just going to run straight at
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  Speaker 4: the two quarter safeties. So what they teach is, if
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  Speaker 4: it's quarters, the two inside verticals become benders inside. Now
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  Speaker 4: what happens here is there's no there's really no other
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  Speaker 4: throw and like I said that to me, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you have to have another answer besides one. But based
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  Speaker 4: on this play call Mark, he made the right throw.
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  Speaker 4: The problem is what he has to do is he
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  Speaker 4: has to stare down Hendricks as he drops to keep
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  Speaker 4: Kendricks away from Goddard. Because what happens is is he
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  Speaker 4: stared it down and he was a beat late with
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  Speaker 4: the throw. So because ultimately you're making this throw off
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  Speaker 4: the underneath hook defender, you know, so you can't wait
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  Speaker 4: until Goddard is behind the hook defender. You have to
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  Speaker 4: throw it before Godard even begins his break. So two
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  Speaker 4: things happen here is Jalen is late and he stared
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  Speaker 4: it down too long, which brought Kendricks over. But the
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  Speaker 4: bottom line is there is no other throw and that
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  Speaker 4: was a flaw in the in the route concept itself.
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  Speaker 7: Great stuff, everybody. It has been a fantastic season. Greg,
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  Speaker 7: thanks so much for everything all year.
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  Speaker 4: Je we I hope we can do this as we
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  Speaker 4: start doing draft stuff, because I'll be I'll be starting
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  Speaker 4: that next week starting to.
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  Speaker 7: Live Absolutely, we will definitely do uh you know the
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  Speaker 7: intel with Greg Kossel probably only start probably a few
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  Speaker 7: weeks before we start that up, which will be free
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  Speaker 7: agency in draft, and you know, obviously we'll be doing
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  Speaker 7: a lot more live streams.
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  Speaker 4: So it sounds like you can just send the invoice
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  Speaker 4: right to yebo.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, yes, inside on Yebo. Yeah yeah, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody, have a great guys, really enjoyed it. Tough to
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  Speaker 4: see you guys soon.