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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so my wife, you know, it's her battle. She
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: had her last chemo last Wednesday, and so you know
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  Speaker 1: that it's onto the radiation and the next next part
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  Speaker 1: of the treatment and everything. So strongest person. I know,
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  Speaker 1: she's doing good. And uh, it's it's a huge thing
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  Speaker 1: in our family and our lives and and uh, I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you one of the things just learning about the
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  Speaker 1: disease and what she has and everything is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the big thing to take away from is get checked.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like she had this for a little while
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  Speaker 1: and she didn't get checked soon enough. And so everybody
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  Speaker 1: we talked to is get checked, go see the doctor,
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  Speaker 1: do your your mammograms, and get get that taken care
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  Speaker 1: of because you could save your life. Like it's that important.
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  Speaker 1: So but yes, you know, she's doing good. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, something you go through that you never
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  Speaker 1: think you'd have to. But and uh tell you she's
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  Speaker 1: unbelievably strong and extremely proud of her and what she's done.
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  Speaker 1: And our family has been. You know, it's been it's tough,
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  Speaker 1: but it's it's we're doing good, and it's it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And and she's doing good and she got her poured
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  Speaker 1: out today, so she's all fired up and and onto radiation.
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  Speaker 1: So but yeah, all good. What was she dying, Gene?
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  Speaker 1: We thought she had something when we were in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to put the timeline together here, so that
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  Speaker 1: would have been last year sometime, and then when we
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  Speaker 1: got here to Jacksonville, it was January February ish, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So we saw the doctor. She saw the doctor here
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  Speaker 1: and the next thing, we've been seeing the doctors and
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  Speaker 1: going through all the stuff in the off season. So
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  Speaker 1: uh So she has a family history of cancer, so
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  Speaker 1: her grandmother and and some of the other people in
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  Speaker 1: her family. So this is she was hoping that wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be anything, but it kind of festive. And when she
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  Speaker 1: found the first time, she was pregnant, so she thought
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  Speaker 1: maybe it was something else. And so when she had
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  Speaker 1: our our last child, they found it and they said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: when you get when you have the baby, come back,
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  Speaker 1: and so the move happened and everything. So she came,
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  Speaker 1: she went to the doctor when she was here and
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  Speaker 1: and and it's going through it and found it and
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  Speaker 1: every had surgery and got it taken care of and
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  Speaker 1: everything like that. So yeah, gosh, she's gonna be two. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so it's we've known it for a little bit. Yeah. Ye,
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  Speaker 1: kind of hard to focus on football sometimes, right. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the thing that she's so strong and you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it brings you so close together. You know
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  Speaker 1: we're very close. But but something like this happens, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like man, uh, but you you learn a
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  Speaker 1: lot about each other. I'll tell you, Like, it's it's it's. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's very interesting when you when you go through with
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  Speaker 1: the loved one and some of they like somebody so
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  Speaker 1: dear to you, you know, your wife, you know, those
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  Speaker 1: type of things, and uh, yeah, it's but it puts
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  Speaker 1: everything into perspective, you know, the important things and and
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  Speaker 1: and and really really how important football is you know,
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  Speaker 1: and in your life and and uh the people in
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  Speaker 1: the building coach and and uh Trent and uh our
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  Speaker 1: players here have been unbelievable phenomenal, like couldn't be any better.
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  Speaker 1: And and you come to work and they you know,
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  Speaker 1: asking and positive and things like that, and so it
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  Speaker 1: uh it really helps right bye week, Where can you
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  Speaker 1: take the biggest strides on defense? What did you find themselves? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so when we looked at it, uh, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: you go back to the New England game, like we
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  Speaker 1: started playing better we did up until this last week,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And and so we were we felt like
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  Speaker 1: we were going the right direction. You know, We're starting
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  Speaker 1: to take the football away a little bit more, We're
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  Speaker 1: tackling a little bit a little bit better at some
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  Speaker 1: our TFLs things like this, and then last week happened,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and we feel like there's a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different reasons why it did. But we're we felt like
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  Speaker 1: we're trending going at you know, after Minnesota, going in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction. Uh. And then you find out your deficiencies,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where we need to pick it up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit in some certain areas and and so that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of where we focused on. And you'll see a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different wrinkle. Look, we can't change everything, and
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  Speaker 1: we are who we are, but there'll be a few
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  Speaker 1: different wrinkles. We're at the part of the season. You know,
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  Speaker 1: guys have done a good job with the volume and
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  Speaker 1: things like that, but moving some guys around and and
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  Speaker 1: and bringing some guys here, pressuring a little bit here,
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  Speaker 1: playing some more coverage in these you know your self scale,
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  Speaker 1: you know where are we pressuring a lot? Where are
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  Speaker 1: we playing coverage and things like that, and so I
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  Speaker 1: think that'll be the biggest change, you know. And then
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  Speaker 1: staying positive with the guys is really important because you know,
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  Speaker 1: like we've gone through stretches where we have played some
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  Speaker 1: pretty good defensive football here and and it's just putting
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  Speaker 1: it all together. That's that's where we're at. And and
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  Speaker 1: uh and stay in the course and staying positive, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like it's extremely important. So talking with the guys today
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  Speaker 1: and Monday like they were, they're in a good head
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  Speaker 1: space right now, and we'll be prepared for the game
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  Speaker 1: like they're fired up. You know, it felt last last
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  Speaker 1: time we played. There's a really good football team and
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  Speaker 1: we're right there toe to toe with them, had an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity at the end, so we just got to finish.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Can't imagine the guy who has attack on his hat
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  Speaker 1: is satisfied with Ben but don't break.
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  Speaker 2: But would you would you be.
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  Speaker 1: Satisfied if you could get back to where you were
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  Speaker 1: playing against the Packers, Eagles and Vikings, And yeah, for sure,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what we felt like we're going into the
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  Speaker 1: right direction, you know, and things like that. We got
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  Speaker 1: to get better on third down, we've got to get
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  Speaker 1: off the field a little bit better, and and there'll
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  Speaker 1: be some some little bit different things we we go
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  Speaker 1: with this game. But in the in the big scheme
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  Speaker 1: of thing, the most important thing is points and when
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  Speaker 1: we're on the field, and and you know, we've got
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate some of the points in the explosive place
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  Speaker 1: to to eliminate some of those points. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think overall you felt like, all right, hey man, we're
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  Speaker 1: going in the right direction. It wasn't it wasn't perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but we're getting there. And and uh, you know that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like when we got out out of the
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  Speaker 1: building last couple of days. You come back in and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, all right, well, let's focus on these things
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  Speaker 1: that we've been doing well. Fix these little bit of
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  Speaker 1: areas of improvement, eliminate some of the explosives, tackle a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better, and you know, we'll get this thing
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  Speaker 1: turned around. Reaching back to that Detroit game a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: that was a couple of weeks ago, you talk about
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  Speaker 1: right sure, after that sort of defensive performance, having a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of time away from it help. Yeah. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes you know, you get into the season.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're eleven eleven straight. You want to get
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  Speaker 1: right back on the field and go play again and
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  Speaker 1: get that that taste out. But where we were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and coach said it, you know, look, we need a
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  Speaker 1: little time and recharge and get back to it. So
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  Speaker 1: you never want anything like that to happen. But but
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think it was a it was a
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  Speaker 1: really good time to have the buy and now going
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  Speaker 1: forward to finish the season six games and go from there.
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  Speaker 1: During the bye week, the kind of self scout, did
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  Speaker 1: you decide on any changes defensive wise moving forward?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but you'll see like that we will, we'll have
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  Speaker 2: you'll they'll there'll be a few different things that you'll
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  Speaker 2: see like okay, you know, we'll do a couple of
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  Speaker 2: different things and personnel groupings and like you'll.
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  Speaker 1: See it, you know, and then we talk about it
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  Speaker 1: next week, but not until then. All good. But I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the question. How about that recently? And I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: really impressed with with this player, Like he's he's a
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  Speaker 1: very good quarterback. I mean, he is a really really
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  Speaker 1: and he's a competitor. And I think that when you
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  Speaker 1: watch the tape and you could feel as like his
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  Speaker 1: energy and with the offense and the way he can
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  Speaker 1: extend and get off break tackles and then get out
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  Speaker 1: of the pocket and it's extremely impressive and throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball down the fielding the guy makes every throw. He's
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  Speaker 1: got some really good targets and I can't say enough
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  Speaker 1: good things about how he sees the field and you
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  Speaker 1: know where he throws in the coverage and I mean
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  Speaker 1: arm talent, like no question about it, Like like this
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  Speaker 1: guy's a really really he's going to be a premier
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in our league for a long time, Like there's
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Like he's going to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the top guys. And he's there right now, like
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  Speaker 1: he's he's you know, they weren't a lot of football
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  Speaker 1: games with the guy and he's been there for a
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  Speaker 1: year and a half, right Like so I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: this though, the way Mixing is running the ball too,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's that combination is it's, uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't play him last time, you know, but now he's back,
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  Speaker 1: and so that'll be another good test. Our guys would
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  Speaker 1: be up to it, like they like he's a good back.
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  Speaker 1: So we got we gotta play a full we you know,
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  Speaker 1: can't just focus on you know, the past game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, they're not running the ball because I
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  Speaker 1: tell you what, now, a couple of runs he breaks
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  Speaker 1: and he's I mean, he's gone, you know. So it'll
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  Speaker 1: be a good test, really good test. We'll be ready
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  Speaker 1: for them. Awesome. Appreciate you guys,