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  Speaker 1: It's been a it's been a boring few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got some. These are sweet.
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  Speaker 1: These might be the coolest looking pair I've had so
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  Speaker 1: far doing this.
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  Speaker 2: But it's with so me and Marissa were.
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  Speaker 1: Partnered with Wolves and Children's Hospital and we try to
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  Speaker 1: go over there and visit, you know, with the kids
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  Speaker 1: and staff whenever we get the opportunities to during the
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  Speaker 1: season off season, just to you know, build that relationship
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  Speaker 1: and be a part of the community. Obviously, they do
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  Speaker 1: amazing work over there, and those kids are awesome, so
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  Speaker 1: that's what we just wanted to represent them, and we
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  Speaker 1: had so Kennedy we met a few months ago. She
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  Speaker 1: designed these herself, and then two brothers, Corbyn and Kai
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  Speaker 1: did these. So they look pretty sweet. So I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: about it, Excited to where them, and happy for the
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  Speaker 1: kids I got to design them. Hopefully see him on
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  Speaker 1: TV or you know, whatever it is. I'm sure they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be excited. Sures good question, figured out what's coming,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I'm feeling I'm feeling better. It's been obviously
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  Speaker 1: what three three weeks three something. I lose track of time,
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  Speaker 1: uh three a little over three weeks. So it's good
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  Speaker 1: for me uh to to be able to rest and
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  Speaker 1: try to heal up as much as possible. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've I've definitely made some progress, so I'm feeling better,
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  Speaker 1: been able to do a little bit more. It's taken
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  Speaker 1: longer than I wanted it to. You know, obviously, I
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  Speaker 1: want to be out there and I want to be playing,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's honestly just sucks watching and being there
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  Speaker 1: in the game, being the sideline, not even dressed out,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the last two games, so that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: been tough. But so I'm hoping I'm back out there
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  Speaker 1: this week.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be great.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's what I want, you and I want to
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  Speaker 1: be back on the field of playing with my teammates,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the plan.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of kind of a threshold day to determine about Sunday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean every day.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, Monday was a big day, just coming off the
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  Speaker 1: break and obviously taking some time off before that for myself,
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  Speaker 1: and so Monday was a big day and I was
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  Speaker 1: able to do some stuff on the field, which is
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  Speaker 1: the first time in a while that I was able
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  Speaker 1: to do really anything significant, So that was great. And
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  Speaker 1: then today will be the same thing, kind of ramp
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  Speaker 1: it up a little bit more and just move around
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  Speaker 1: and try to simulate some game tempo speed stuff for
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  Speaker 1: me and just see how I move.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I felt pretty good up to this point.
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  Speaker 2: You know I didn't. It's kind of a balance and act.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to push it too hard and set
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  Speaker 1: it back any but you also want to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get yourself ready to play. So that's what we're doing
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  Speaker 1: today and tomorrow and just gonna see how it responds
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  Speaker 1: and how I feel. And I feel like we have
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  Speaker 1: a great plan and just take it day by day.
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  Speaker 3: Which day, Friday or Saturday will be your day to
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  Speaker 3: either try to convince the court of stat hey I'm
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  Speaker 3: ready to go. And how you know how much you're
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  Speaker 3: willing to campaign to play on Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't know the answer to that,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think the sooner you can decide, the better,
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  Speaker 1: just for everybody, you know, if that's for my own
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  Speaker 1: I'm preparing to play and preparing like like I normally would,
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  Speaker 1: to play a full game and to go so that
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  Speaker 1: you know, if that happens or when that happens, I'm
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  Speaker 1: ready to go, but also if that's not gonna happen,
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  Speaker 1: you want to make sure that, you know, if Max's
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  Speaker 1: gonna play, that he gets some reps and is prepared
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  Speaker 1: as well. So I think it's, you know, something you
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  Speaker 1: have to assess every day. And yeah, I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things to consider, but definitely I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: factor it every day and then kind of see how
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  Speaker 1: I feel, and obviously talk to our staff and see
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  Speaker 1: how it's progressing. But you know, I feel feel the
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  Speaker 1: BESTUFF felt in the past few weeks, So I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh No, not really.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I knew, I kind of knew, we knew
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  Speaker 1: what happened because I've done it, you know, similar on
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  Speaker 1: my right shoulder last year. This one's just worse, so
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  Speaker 1: it's it felt a lot worse, but it was a
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  Speaker 1: similar type deal, so I was a little bit familiar
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  Speaker 1: and was able to finish that game. But overnight, and
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  Speaker 1: I guess in the second half might have got a
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  Speaker 1: little worse, and then overnight the next day. It's always
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  Speaker 1: kind of a rude awake, rude awakening when you wake
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  Speaker 1: up with an injury the next day, because it hurts
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  Speaker 1: a lot worse than get the adrenaline everything flowing in
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  Speaker 1: the game. So that was obviously kind of took a
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  Speaker 1: step back and talked to our doctors, talked through everything
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  Speaker 1: and just all the scenarios and just kind of trying
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  Speaker 1: to make the best decisions for I've started team myself.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many factors into it. And if I'm a.
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  Speaker 1: Play too, I want to be able to play my
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  Speaker 1: best and and be, you know, close to one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent and go out there and play well.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of factors that went into it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that I, like I said, I'm feeling feeling
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  Speaker 1: better now and progressing, which is positive.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was definitely a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit more, a little bit more than we initially thought.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's yeah, I think padwise, there's definitely some
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  Speaker 1: stuff you can do. You can add some some patting
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  Speaker 1: in there and you can protect a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, besides that, it's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: like you just get hit a certain way. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of funny how it happens. Usually you land on this one.
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  Speaker 1: I just got hit from the side, which is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different, But you gotta go. You gotta get
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  Speaker 1: hit the right way. So I'm hoping that it's not
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  Speaker 1: an issue. Just any hit, you know, hopefully that's not
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  Speaker 1: a that's not a problem. But obviously if you hit
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  Speaker 1: the right way, you know, it's it's not gonna feel great.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll just see how it goes the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the week.
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  Speaker 3: Is a pain tolerance thing, or you know, does it
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  Speaker 3: sort of limit you at all when you're thrilling? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I know it's I know it's a non thrown shoulder,
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  Speaker 3: but is it just a pain situation?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I mean it's a tough question. Yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and no, I think it's there is other effects, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in that area of having this injury of like especially
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  Speaker 1: the severity of where it's at, you know, it does
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  Speaker 1: it does affect other muscles, It affects kind of the
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  Speaker 1: whole that side, you know, And and that's why I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been able to do much until recently, which has been
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  Speaker 1: positive that I've been getting rid of some of the pain,
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  Speaker 1: which has been good, and being able to move and
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  Speaker 1: do more, and my strength is is pretty good. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean a lot of it is pain tolerance. As
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  Speaker 1: far as the actual ac goes, I mean, that's that
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  Speaker 1: injury is fairly common in football.
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  Speaker 2: But it just they're all different. You know.
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  Speaker 1: There's like I said, I had this one. It kept
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  Speaker 1: me out a week. It was throwing shoulders. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: throw with it. And then after the two weeks of rest,
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  Speaker 1: once we got to play Tennessee week eighteen, I felt
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  Speaker 1: a good bit better enough to play.
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  Speaker 2: This one's just taken longer. So it just they're all different.
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  Speaker 3: Anything out of being on the sideliner and watching other
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  Speaker 3: than aggravated that.
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  Speaker 2: You yeah, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you hear things and you see things just
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  Speaker 1: from a different perspective. Obviously, have the headset on, so
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  Speaker 1: you hear the way the game's called in a different light,
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  Speaker 1: all the conversations that go into it with the coaches
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. That's obviously stuff you don't hear when you're playing.
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  Speaker 1: You just hear the play call, so some of that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and it just gives you a different perpective.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how it is in the preseason games. I've
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  Speaker 2: heard it, but.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it's different in the season. So that I think
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  Speaker 1: just seeing the way guys respond, you just feeling the
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes when you're playing, you don't always feel the like
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  Speaker 1: momentum shifts, the energy, like you're just so focused on
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  Speaker 1: trying to do your job and trying to execute and
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  Speaker 1: do our job of going and scoring points, but being
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  Speaker 1: able to have like a wider view or whatever advantage
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  Speaker 1: point of everything kind of you see it all, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just if anything helps, just I think leading,
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  Speaker 1: leading the guys coming back and when there is those
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  Speaker 1: shifts in the games and you know, whether we lose
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  Speaker 1: some momentum, we gain some momentum, just kind of keeping
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  Speaker 1: everybody even keeled, you know. I think you see a
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  Speaker 1: lot more of that stuff when you're not playing, because
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  Speaker 1: you can just watch everything.
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  Speaker 3: Is the injury of something he envisioned, maybe happy to
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  Speaker 3: deal with when the season's over, you know whatever.
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  Speaker 2: That looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good question too. I think it's it's
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  Speaker 1: been a pretty difficult thing to gauge, honestly, of of
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  Speaker 1: what's the best path forward. Definitely something that I'm considering
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  Speaker 1: and not off the table at all. So uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's something that we're gonna have to just truly
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  Speaker 1: day by day, week by week. You know, hopefully I'm
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  Speaker 1: able to get back out there this week or as
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  Speaker 1: soon as possible and then and it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: just every week kind of evaluating it, seeing where it's at.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously, up until this point, I've been doing anything
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  Speaker 1: I can to avoid that and want to be back
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  Speaker 1: out there with my guys and finish the season.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's my goal.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I want to do with and beyond that,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really always had a better answer for you,
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  Speaker 1: but I just don't, right know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I figured that's what Donald's asking. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Texans defense, what are they doing well right now? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And their defense has been playing great, you know. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: the two guys on the edge, those guys have been
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  Speaker 1: big players for him. Obviously we played against Will a
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  Speaker 1: few times, just him being there the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: And then Denie on the other side, he's he's having
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  Speaker 1: a great year. He's been a great player for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. So those guys they make everything go. Not
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  Speaker 1: to take anything away from the other guys. They got
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  Speaker 1: a good defense, but they just fly around. They're they're
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  Speaker 1: well coached. You know, it's not the most complicated scheme,
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  Speaker 1: but it helps them play fast and and be on
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  Speaker 1: the same page and really anticipate and react and kind
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  Speaker 1: of play ahead of some offenses you see on tape.
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  Speaker 1: They just play really fast, so I think that helps them. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: and then obviously Petrie is a big player for him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I heard he's out this week, but he's a
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  Speaker 1: guy you know that that does a lot for him.
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  Speaker 2: So he's he's a huge part of that defense.
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  Speaker 1: And there's all the things you got to look at
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  Speaker 1: how they're gonna adjust and obviously there's gonna be some changes.
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  Speaker 1: So but yeah, this is it's a good defense. They're
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  Speaker 1: really good upfront, good on the back end. Steingley has
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  Speaker 1: been I mean, he's been playing great the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years. Every time we play against him, seems like
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  Speaker 1: he's making plays. And then the rookie last year on
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  Speaker 1: the other side, has been doing a good job. Seems
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  Speaker 1: like he's getting better every week. So all the way around,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good defense. It's challenging. Uh, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a challenge for us. You know, they're physical, they play
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  Speaker 1: with a certain attitude and and we're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: we have to bring it on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: You have four division games to end this season. How
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  Speaker 2: valuable are those?
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  Speaker 3: I mean an otherwise season, it didn't go the way
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  Speaker 3: you wanted it to.
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  Speaker 1: How important is at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 2: For this team, super important?
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're looking at this obviously the season hasn't
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  Speaker 1: gone like you said. The season hasn't gone how we
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  Speaker 1: wanted it to, and we got to regroup and kind
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  Speaker 1: of reflect a little bit over the over the bye week,
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  Speaker 1: and we got six weeks that's what we're guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: Beyond that, who knows what can happen.
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  Speaker 1: You see some crazy things, So we don't feel like
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  Speaker 1: we're necessarily out of anything. It's definitely a challenge. It's
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  Speaker 1: not uphill battle, but that's all we got in front
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  Speaker 1: of us. It's a situation we put ourselves in and
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  Speaker 1: four division games that also adds a wrinkle to a
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  Speaker 1: lot can happen at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 2: So we just have to take it one week at
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  Speaker 2: a time, though, And this is a big one.
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  Speaker 1: Houston, a team that we haven't beat here at home
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  Speaker 1: in a long time, a team that beat us earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the season in a game that we felt like
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  Speaker 1: we had every opportunity to win and came out shorthanded
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  Speaker 1: on that one. So there's a lot of motivation for us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we just want to go play our best
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  Speaker 1: football Sunday and find a way to win and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll move on after that. But one hundred percent, four
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  Speaker 1: out of six division games, that's really big for our team.
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  Speaker 1: And regardless of how this thing shapes up in the end,
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  Speaker 1: we got six games of football left and so it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really matter what the big picture is. You want
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  Speaker 1: to go out there and play your best and really
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  Speaker 1: play better than we have in the past.
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  Speaker 2: However, many games