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  Speaker 1: Danton.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Anton's fine. Just tweaked his knee. Uh, they looked
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  Speaker 2: at it, taped it up, braced it. Uh during the game.
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  Speaker 2: He should be fine.
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  Speaker 3: Brandon Sheriff, same thing, cause he was coming out of
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  Speaker 3: the week before with his with.
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  Speaker 2: His knee injury.
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  Speaker 3: Played extremely tough, physical, But he he'll be He'll be fine.
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  Speaker 3: He's sore, kind of day to day. Should be fine.
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  Speaker 3: Cooper Hodges is the one that's we're gonna We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: miss him probably for the rest of the year. That
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  Speaker 3: was a significant leg injury during the game, so we'll
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  Speaker 3: miss him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously BT came out fine.
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  Speaker 2: Who else?
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  Speaker 1: How about he.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Ezra obviously was didn't wasn't active. So but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I don't we'd we'll find out wednesday. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Tank good, Yeah, both good. Yeah, he sore, played tough,
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  Speaker 3: played physical, you know, Scramble took the one shot you
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  Speaker 3: know there.
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  Speaker 2: I think in the second quarter. I think it was.
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  Speaker 3: You know obviously you know felt that one. But but uh,
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  Speaker 3: good came out fine.
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  Speaker 4: Doug he was the last one out of the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Did you think it there was.
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  Speaker 4: A time that he might not go in the second
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  Speaker 4: half at all?
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  Speaker 2: Trevor, No, I did. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: It was just uh just a precaution, just still with
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  Speaker 3: the medical team at that time, just to double check,
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  Speaker 3: triple check. And then uh, we knew coming out that
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  Speaker 3: he could be he could be coming out late. I
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  Speaker 3: told him, don't be too late, cause we get the
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  Speaker 3: ball start the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the way you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys are doug when the fans look at up stats
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  Speaker 3: like Brian only targeted.
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  Speaker 5: Four times and Brenton not targeted at all, is there
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  Speaker 5: a explanation for how the game unfolds for how that
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  Speaker 5: can occur?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: And Brian's yeah, I mean, look it, if you if
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  Speaker 3: you specifically watch the football game and not follow the ball,
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  Speaker 3: you will see what Philly did in in normal kind
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  Speaker 3: of a normal down situations. Someone third down as they
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  Speaker 3: they they had a corner and a safety, so they
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  Speaker 3: basically doubled bt okay, and it it's hard to throw
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  Speaker 3: the ball over there to a guy that's doubled, right,
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  Speaker 3: so you have to go other places with the ball.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, that's that was part of their That
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  Speaker 3: was part of their game plan. And you know what
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  Speaker 3: we had seen during the week and scouting and all
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  Speaker 3: of that in situations they didn't necessarily prevent those or
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  Speaker 3: present those coverages, and so you have to make adjustments
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  Speaker 3: throughout the game. And then in in Brenton's case, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's probably more on us to not to
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  Speaker 3: not get him more involved. But you know, I think two,
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  Speaker 3: when you look at this game, you know, some of
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  Speaker 3: the struggles of just staying a fishing on first down,
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  Speaker 3: some of the second down stuff just kind of takes
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  Speaker 3: you a little bit out of rhythm and in the
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  Speaker 3: flow of the game, just a little bit. We had opportunities,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we had I think four or five third
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  Speaker 3: and fours, you know, in this game.
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  Speaker 2: And and we don't we don't capitalize.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, those are those are things that that have
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  Speaker 3: haunted us, you know, this season. So it takes you
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  Speaker 3: away from getting to things in your game plan that
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  Speaker 3: can obviously help you. If you were ever thinking about this,
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  Speaker 3: or you will think about this.
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  Speaker 4: You probably won't clue us in.
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  Speaker 3: But Fraymon Walker looked like a pretty good running back
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  Speaker 3: that yesterday, didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He Yeah, yeah, he does a heck of a play.
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  Speaker 3: Heck of a play, great awareness one to get on
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  Speaker 3: that ball, which is something our defense preaches a lot,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and when balls r on the ground like
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  Speaker 3: that and broke a few tackles, got a nice block
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  Speaker 3: down the field and got me into them, So it
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  Speaker 3: looked looked pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Doug.
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  Speaker 4: You obviously got the game plan and have a bigger
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  Speaker 4: picture perspective of it than everybody on the outside. But
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  Speaker 4: how much second guessing do you guys do coming off
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  Speaker 4: a game like that on maybe usage your specific situations,
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  Speaker 4: whether there's some that jump out fourth and want or
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  Speaker 4: late in the game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, you know, on a Monday, you can
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  Speaker 3: sit in here and watch the tape and a little
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  Speaker 3: bit calmer eyes and.
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  Speaker 2: You know probably you know, should have, coulda, would have.
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  Speaker 3: Right, You play that game with yourself all the time,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what, trust me, that's what beats you up
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  Speaker 3: as a coach.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and and.
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  Speaker 3: You go back and you replay it and you're like, ah,
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  Speaker 3: we could have done that, or we could have done this,
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  Speaker 3: or we could have got to that, or you know,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of times too, you're in the heat
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  Speaker 3: of the moment. You're in there, you're trying to you know,
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the game, you're trying to score,
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  Speaker 3: but at the same time, you're trying to reduce the
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  Speaker 3: clock a little bit, right, take time off the clock.
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  Speaker 3: And so you look at those situations where could you
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  Speaker 3: have run the ball there? Certainly, certainly you know, but
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  Speaker 3: you know you also now you know, yeah, you're taking
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  Speaker 3: time off the clock, but now you're risking maybe a
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  Speaker 3: second ten, a second twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So it's I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You play mental gymnastics all day and as a coach,
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  Speaker 3: you can't.
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  Speaker 2: On a Monday.
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  Speaker 3: You can talk to your football team about situational football
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  Speaker 3: and situational awareness and say, you know, okay, we can't
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  Speaker 3: we can't do that. We can't do that as a
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  Speaker 3: football team, right in those situations and as coaches, you go,
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  Speaker 3: we could have done this, we could have done that,
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  Speaker 3: We should have done this, we should have done that.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the part that you know, beats you up
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  Speaker 3: all the time as you the longer you're in this business,
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  Speaker 3: the longer you coach it, the longer you play it.
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  Speaker 3: I think every coach goes through it. Every player is
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  Speaker 3: going to go through it. You know, it's it's not exact,
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  Speaker 3: it's not perfect. Guys battle extremely I mean you saw yesterday, guy,
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  Speaker 3: we had guys play tough, played hurt. You're trying to
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  Speaker 3: put them in the best situations possible. Sometimes guys play
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  Speaker 3: out a position because we need 'em to, we ask
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  Speaker 3: him to, you know, so we do the best we can,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in those moments to try to try to
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  Speaker 3: just win a game. Uh, when it comes to that
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  Speaker 3: final pass play, when you watch it on Monday, is
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  Speaker 3: there anything you can coach up on the have either
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  Speaker 3: one of those guys do something different execution wise or
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  Speaker 3: is it just an instance of their guy who just made.
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  Speaker 1: A great play and that's just how good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at the end of the day, it was a
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  Speaker 2: heck of a play. I mean heck of a play.
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  Speaker 3: Now the coaching side comes down and says, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we can we can detail the ra at a little
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  Speaker 3: bit better. You know, it is a route. It's been
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  Speaker 3: our offense for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Uh, we can coach the ernest on it.
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  Speaker 3: We can coach you know, ETN had similar routes during
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  Speaker 3: the game, and we we can just coach 'em better.
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  Speaker 2: Right, we can detail those better.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, Yah, yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: could tell Trevor to throw it away. If it's not there,
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  Speaker 3: just just throw it away live for a second down.
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  Speaker 3: You know all that, all those kinds of things, But
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  Speaker 3: you know, at the end of the day, I would
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  Speaker 3: say that, you know, uh, Nikobe Dean made a heck
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  Speaker 3: of a football player.
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  Speaker 1: When you when you have two games back to back
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  Speaker 1: against good teams and you lose in the final two minutes,
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  Speaker 1: do you feel like you're close cause.
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  Speaker 5: You're there or do you feel like you're miles away
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  Speaker 5: cause you haven't been able to get it done?
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  Speaker 2: Where?
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  Speaker 5: Why where is this team?
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  Speaker 3: Money?
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  Speaker 2: Where we go?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's it's exactly what I pointed out to him today.
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  Speaker 3: You know, two weeks ago, the Packers, I think we're
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  Speaker 3: in the NFC Championship game a year ago. Right, team
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  Speaker 3: we played yesterday was in the Super Bowl just recently.
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  Speaker 3: And then you point out the mistakes that coaches and
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  Speaker 3: players make on our side, and I it it it
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  Speaker 3: in encourages you because you're cl you're you're that close.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're just you're a play away, right and
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  Speaker 2: you're a.
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  Speaker 3: You just never know when those plays are gonna come,
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  Speaker 3: and you know those moments are gonna come in the game.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 3: Your awareness as a coach, your awareness is a player.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we gotta be on the same page. We
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  Speaker 3: gotta communicate all those things. But it does encourage you
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  Speaker 3: that you can play with these guys and quite frankly,
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  Speaker 3: you eliminate.
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  Speaker 2: A few mistakes.
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  Speaker 3: We don't give them thirteen points off of turnovers, and
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  Speaker 3: the week before we don't give them fourteen points off
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  Speaker 3: of turnovers. Things could be different, right, go back to Miami.
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  Speaker 3: I keep going back to that game. We don't we
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  Speaker 3: fumble on the two next play, it's eighty yards there
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  Speaker 3: in the end zone. So that's the that's the part
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  Speaker 3: that we have to as a team. We have to overcome.
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  Speaker 3: We have to eliminate, and I think it gives us
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  Speaker 3: a better chance.
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  Speaker 4: You hurt away in the post game, but he made
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  Speaker 4: the comment, he answered question he talked about that's what
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  Speaker 4: he signed up for.
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  Speaker 2: The pressure of the moment.
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  Speaker 5: Is there enough of that in the locker room of guys.
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  Speaker 4: Who are embracing the fact that that games in the
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  Speaker 4: NFL a decided in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: You've better be ready for that. I think you're number one.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's right from the standpoint of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the parody around the NFL right now, games are coming
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  Speaker 3: into the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: I mean look at look at just our just take us.
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  Speaker 3: You know we have five five games or the seven
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  Speaker 3: or one score six or points six points or less.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And it's those guys that.
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  Speaker 3: As as you say, you know, you coined the phrase
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  Speaker 3: they want the ball.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Michael Jordan's, it's the Kobe Bryants.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's those guys that say, hey, give me,
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  Speaker 3: give me the ball, whatever that looks like. Defensively, Foyer,
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  Speaker 3: put the ball in our hands right last second kick, quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: whoever it is, and and let me make the play
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  Speaker 3: to win the game. Right to what you grow up
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  Speaker 3: dreaming of as a kid, you know, playing this game,
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  Speaker 3: when when you run around with your buddies and you're
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  Speaker 3: making plays like, hey, one day, I want to see
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  Speaker 3: myself making that play on a big stage. So I
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  Speaker 3: do think we have guys in the locker room that
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  Speaker 3: that feel the same way. And you know, we just
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  Speaker 3: have to continue to give our and we've given ourselves opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: We just now have to capitalize on them.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was desperating.
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  Speaker 1: Has it been for you as a coach to see
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  Speaker 1: the offense consistently get off to these slow starts? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: can you I don't know, maybe try to go up
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  Speaker 1: tempo to start a game, and I know there's risks
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  Speaker 1: there too, because then you can put your defense back
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  Speaker 1: on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Really well, that's the thing about it, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: know we we we say it as coaches. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: let's go let's go tempo, right, I mean I hear
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  Speaker 3: it all the time. Why don't you go up tempo?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the downside is you were on
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  Speaker 3: the field for thirty seconds and you're putting the football.
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  Speaker 3: The upside is you get your quarterback in a rhythm,
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  Speaker 3: you get your offense in a rhythm, and you potentially
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  Speaker 3: end up with three or seven points.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing is first down. If you want to
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  Speaker 3: go tempo, you better get positive yards on first down. Right,
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  Speaker 3: if you try to run or throw, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: if it's incomplete at second ten or you run in
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  Speaker 3: your second twelve. I mean it's kind of hard to
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  Speaker 3: go tempo after that, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So we have to do a better job on that
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  Speaker 2: first huddle call of that execution and just getting positive it.
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  Speaker 3: Get the drive started, right, I think that's the key
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  Speaker 3: is just get the drive started and and then and
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  Speaker 3: then you can you can be on the ball from there.
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  Speaker 3: Did you get.
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  Speaker 5: Any sense of, particularly as the first half is moving along,
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  Speaker 5: a little bit of any kind of loss of copan
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  Speaker 5: Heavn has the ball right in his hands right on
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  Speaker 5: third and five.
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  Speaker 2: Austin had had a ball go off his hands on
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  Speaker 2: a third and six or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: But when when you're not moving the chains and you're
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  Speaker 5: coming off the field, that it's.
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  Speaker 1: So much harder to kind of get find that rhythm
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  Speaker 1: when you're not seeing results.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think in the game yesterday for us
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  Speaker 3: offensively and in you know three and outs or five
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  Speaker 3: and outs or you know, short short possessions where.
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  Speaker 2: That's the that's the part that's frustrating, too, right.
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  Speaker 3: You want to get into that, you want to get
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  Speaker 3: into that rhythm, but the guys don't. Some of that's
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  Speaker 3: part of football, too, right. I Mean, that's just your
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  Speaker 3: opponent making plays. That's what they get paid to do.
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  Speaker 3: So that's just the ebb and flow of a game.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't see our guys getting down. I don't
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  Speaker 3: see our guys being dejected on the sideline. There's a
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  Speaker 3: great communication on the sideline a lot of encouragement like hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we'll make that play the next time, or
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  Speaker 3: here's suggest this suggests that, and.
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  Speaker 2: And really I think.
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  Speaker 3: Just the feeling of like it's it's it's close to
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  Speaker 3: your point. I mean it's close, right, it's we just
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  Speaker 3: need that one play to get us, to get us going.
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  Speaker 4: If you had in your experience, I mean, this has
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  Speaker 4: been a few weeks in a row now of maybe
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  Speaker 4: the script not working. I mean, if you had, you've
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  Speaker 4: been around this thing a long time. Is it part
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  Speaker 4: of the script, is it part of the just the
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  Speaker 4: overall execution?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how do you view.
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  Speaker 4: It when you when you look back at what's been
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  Speaker 4: such slow starts.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I think the number one thing you look at you
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  Speaker 3: gotta look at the third downs, right, And we talked
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  Speaker 3: about first down, right, Yeah, you get positive, and we've
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  Speaker 3: had positive yards on front. We had a great first
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  Speaker 3: play yesterday. We just a fingertip away from being an
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  Speaker 3: explosive play. Right, fifty three makes the heck of a play.
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  Speaker 2: That's football.
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  Speaker 3: They get paid to make plays too. Right, Okay, if
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  Speaker 3: Trevor throws it six inches further to completion to evan
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  Speaker 3: twenty yard game and we're all we're feeling great, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So those things the plays are there, right, yeah, part
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  Speaker 3: of its execution, part of it's you know, okay, there's
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  Speaker 3: a little unknown too as to what how the defense
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  Speaker 3: is gonna look at us, because with the injury situation
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  Speaker 3: we had in different things, how are they gonna look
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  Speaker 3: at us?
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  Speaker 2: How are they gonna play us? But then we get
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  Speaker 2: to third down.
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  Speaker 3: We hit Parker on the first one, great execution, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he and Trevor. I mean it was a third and
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  Speaker 3: seven or eight and we got ten eleven yards or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But then on the next one it's third and four,
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  Speaker 3: same drive, and we get a little pressure on Trevor
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  Speaker 3: and then you know we.
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  Speaker 2: Have bt open.
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  Speaker 3: We just can't get 'em the full So you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So it's it's kind of that give
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  Speaker 3: and give and take. We gotta we gotta strain a
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  Speaker 3: little bit better as coaches. We gotta put our players
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  Speaker 3: in in situations where third and four is a good situation.
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  Speaker 3: But maybe if we're better on first and second down,
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  Speaker 3: maybe that's third and two and you can do.
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  Speaker 2: Some different things.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, I think we as a staff have
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  Speaker 3: to look at the third downs, quite honestly, and see
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  Speaker 3: if if there's something there differently that that we can
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  Speaker 3: do or move some guys around within the scheme of things,
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  Speaker 3: and and
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  Speaker 2: You know, try to stay on the field.