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Jaxon Smith-Njigba On Winning NFC Offensive Player Of The Month · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Week. It was great.
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  Speaker 2: It was great relaxing, got to watch some football, chill,
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  Speaker 2: take a couple of days. It was good to replenish
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  Speaker 2: and get ready for Sunday night.
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  Speaker 3: There was a person who covers the commanders who said,
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  Speaker 3: this morning, you can't lose to Sam Darnold at home
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  Speaker 3: on national TV. How were you guys as the perception
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  Speaker 3: of Sam and and you know what he's doing this season.
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  Speaker 4: To tend toify that.
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  Speaker 2: All I can say, you know, in this building, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, for me, I think Sam is you know,
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  Speaker 2: a great quarterback. You know, I love I love playing
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  Speaker 2: with him. I love you know, his leadership, and you
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  Speaker 2: know the role that he has on his team and
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  Speaker 2: the confidence I have in him is at the absolute highest.
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  Speaker 2: You know, can get more confident in my quarterback going
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  Speaker 2: out there and doing his thing and us being together,
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  Speaker 2: you know, trying to win games. So yeah, player of
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  Speaker 2: the month was That's special, man, It's special. You know,
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  Speaker 2: football takes everyone, you know, so you know, I want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get that out to my team honestly, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, without you know, defense giving us opportunities and
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  Speaker 2: O line doing their things. Sam doing this thing like
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  Speaker 2: it's it's bigger than me. So I just appreciate. I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate my teammates, coaches, and and the fans.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what it means.
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  Speaker 5: And how aware are you of like just the significance
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  Speaker 5: of like the stats that you're putting up and the
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  Speaker 5: kind of pace that you're on and what.
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  Speaker 1: Could be Do you think about that stuff at all?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean anything can happen. Honestly, that's a mindset,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I have. So I'm just grateful for today,
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  Speaker 2: have the opportunity to come out here on Thursday and
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  Speaker 2: prepare for you know, Sunday night, And like I said,
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  Speaker 2: anything can happen. And that's kind of the mindset I
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  Speaker 2: have just to day to day get better.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how can we go?
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  Speaker 2: Want to know, how can I be there for my teammates,
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  Speaker 2: be there for Sam you know when that time comes.
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  Speaker 1: So that's really the mindset that I have had.
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  Speaker 3: You uh, pre pre planned that dunk on the most.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever done that before?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: I never, I never done that in the game. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It was just spur of the moment. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 2: just really spur of the moment. I felt like I
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  Speaker 2: had a dream a couple of days ago. I was
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  Speaker 2: doing pull ups on the goalpost. But so maybe that
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  Speaker 2: spiked spiked it the imagination a little bit and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but it was really spur of the moment.
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  Speaker 5: Did you know you might get fined for it?
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  Speaker 2: Or when I came down and landed, I was I
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  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I'm getting fined.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I knew what you uh you know? Yes? And no,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, low key, yeah, what do you think?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, just they find you for that, yet that
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  Speaker 5: that place everywhere, like the NFL's used it on their
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  Speaker 5: social media.
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  Speaker 1: And stuff like that.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know, do you the message they
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  Speaker 5: said that they find you for that, yet they seem
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  Speaker 5: to enjoy the fact that you did it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had conversations about that and you know, trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure it out. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: that's something that I can't do and I have to
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  Speaker 2: know And but yeah, I guess they can do whatever
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  Speaker 2: they want with that.
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  Speaker 3: You went up against Derek Singley and obviously you know
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  Speaker 3: how good of a cornerback he is. As you kind
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  Speaker 3: of keep crossing guys off the list that you're having
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  Speaker 3: good games against, how's that affecting your confidence about? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: what's the next step for me?
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  Speaker 1: As a player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean my confidence is definitely grown, grown, grown,
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, going against Josh Job and Devin
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  Speaker 2: Witherspoon and Riek wooland you know, I feel like I've
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  Speaker 2: seen every look. You know, those guys present a great
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  Speaker 2: challenge and I feel prepared, you know, honestly, So you know,
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  Speaker 2: whenever I'm out there, I'm not really thinking about you know,
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  Speaker 2: who's across from me, honestly, just really get the job
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  Speaker 2: done at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, you and.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of receiver he can do? Or I can
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  Speaker 2: do anything you asked? Honestly, you know, I can do
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  Speaker 2: any anything you asked. You know, I'm gonna get open.
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  Speaker 2: He's a receiver that's going to get open and catch
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  Speaker 2: the ball and do his job, whatever his job is.
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  Speaker 5: You and have been closed since he came to his kas.
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  Speaker 5: He's missed a lot of time this year. Have you
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  Speaker 5: seen him handle that? And then just getting to be
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  Speaker 5: out in Parksfield again going ahead with him this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great to see Spoon out there, you know, competing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got some good one on one reps.
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  Speaker 2: He's looking good. I'm happy for him. But he's the ultimate,
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  Speaker 2: He's the ultimate. Professional, you know when it comes to this,
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  Speaker 2: and I know he wants to be out there really bad,
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  Speaker 2: and but the way he supports his teammates and supports
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  Speaker 2: this building is you know, it's one of one types stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, to have him on the team is
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  Speaker 2: very special and it is a captain you know that
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  Speaker 2: we need. And I'm excited for him to get back.
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  Speaker 4: And what is this going against Josh and practice? Prepare
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  Speaker 4: you for what you see on say they made particular
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  Speaker 4: with how he plays at the line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he presents a lot. He's just you know,
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  Speaker 2: real patient and you know, real physical. He's a strong guy,
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  Speaker 2: athletic guy, and uh just his technique is very his
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  Speaker 2: fundamentals are very pure.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you know he does a great job.
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  Speaker 4: How does that how does that compare to the technique
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  Speaker 4: and the fundamentals of the guys you go against on Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody has their own style, you know, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: And and it just prepares me to get through you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the hard stuff, you know, honestly, to fight through
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  Speaker 2: it to really sell you know, routes and get the
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  Speaker 2: dB off balance. So, like I said, presents tough challenge
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  Speaker 2: and I've been seeing it since what May June, and uh.
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  Speaker 1: So, like I said, has prepared us greatly.
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  Speaker 5: There was an analyst who said he thought one of
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  Speaker 5: the things you do really well is you your route
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  Speaker 5: is hard for people to figure out what you're doing,
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  Speaker 5: like whether you're like you make it all of the
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  Speaker 5: same basis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Is that is that something you just kind of know
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  Speaker 5: how to do or yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean we as a receiver, I feel like you
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  Speaker 2: have to be a salesman. You have to sell something,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to get something, to get what you want,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So me me being able to marry up
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things and running sideline, the sideline vertical,
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  Speaker 2: it's just open up, you know, a palette for me
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  Speaker 2: to you know, sell sell something and right now you
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  Speaker 2: have to respect it. And uh that's where you see
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  Speaker 2: a lot of shifts and movement in that.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a Brian heartlinism? You could say that.
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  Speaker 2: You could say that development at the Ohio State you
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  Speaker 2: can say that going against those guys and just learning
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  Speaker 2: ball talk and ball all day long.
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  Speaker 1: You just said that, Yeah, said you guys spent by
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  Speaker 1: watching some ball. Yeah, definitely high school college NFL.
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  Speaker 4: When you look around the league, how do you feel
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  Speaker 4: about where you guys are.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we got a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 2: work to do. Like Coop said a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 2: you know, can't go to a playoffs with five wins.
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  Speaker 2: And that's something that you know, we all feel in
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  Speaker 2: this building and something we just want to build and grow,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we got we want to attack it week
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  Speaker 2: by week. We want to know and when we look up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get ready for the playoffs. So we feel good,
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  Speaker 2: We feel confident, we know who we are. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have to you know, change our identity. We can just
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  Speaker 2: keep stacking.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like the run game is getting closer
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  Speaker 3: to where you guys want it to be?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? I do? You know?
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  Speaker 2: Overall as an offense, honestly, we count on that and uh,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like in these next weeks you're gonna see
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  Speaker 2: us just get better and better in all aspects on offense.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else has appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you,